Prologue

It had been a few months after the Doctor had erased Donna Noble's memory of ever having traveled with him. It had been a hard thing to do, but it was something that needed to be done. If she kept that knowledge for any longer, it definitely would have killed her. That would've been even harder to deal with. The Doctor moved on, as he always did, and eventually ran into Donna's grandfather Wilfred, saved the world (as he was wont to do), and regenerated in the process. But before he did regenerate, he wanted to say a final goodbye to his companions. He saved Mickey and Martha from a Sontarion, saw Rose for a final time in 2005, and watched Donna get married. He gave her a winning lottery ticket as a wedding present and said goodbye to Wilfred, and he thought that that would be the last time he would see her. And for a while, it was. He redecorated the TARDIS console, got a new sonic screwdriver, prevented the Atraxi from roasting the earth, met Amy Pond and her fiancee Rory Williams, and even started wearing a bow tie, because, as he pointed out constantly, 'Bow ties are cool.' Everything was great. Until he ran into Donna again.

Chapter One

Donna's life had been great too. She had gotten married to a great guy, won the bloody lottery, moved to New York and had a great job interview lined up for her today. The only problem was that ever since the Christmas past had a nagging feeling that she was forgetting something, something that shouldn't be remembered. Of course, that just made her want to remember it more. She had dreams about them too, but she could barely remember them in them in the morning. Although, she did remember one , thing: In the dreams. she ran. She ran a lot, sometimes from something, sometimes to something, but one thing stayed consistant: She was having the best time of her life with her best friend, a crazy wonderful man who always had a plan, even if it was made at the last minute.

But for the time being, she was focused on her getting to her job interview. She had time to spare, so she cut through Central Park to enjoy the scenery. Suddenly, she heard a strange vwoorp vwoorp vwoorp noise. "That's odd." She muttered to herself. The sound reminded her of something, but the memory scampered before she could fully remember. It was so familiar. She ran into the woods and arrived just in time to see the blue police box appear in front of her. "That's impossible." she murmured. Suddenly, she saw images pass in front of her eyes.

Her in a wedding dress as she is almost killed by a giant talking spider...

Pompeii on fire as she watched the volcano erupt, only it was her fault...

A giant wasp attacking her and Agatha Christie...

The vast empty library inside a little girl's head and shadows that ate you...

There was a something on her back and a blonde who told her to turn her car left...

Running... lots of running with a tall thin man in a blue suit and brown coat... he had crazy hair that seemed to go everywhere and red converse shoes...

Her head started getting hotter and hotter with each flash of memory. She clutched her head in pain and before she could even say a word, she passed out just as the doors of the blue police box opened and someone stepped out.

Chapter Two

Amy walked out of the TARDIS just in time to see a red head fall to the ground. "Rory!" she shouted back into the TARDIS before going to check on the woman. Rory ran out and saw the woman on the ground. He checked her wrist and opened her eyelids before announcing, "She's okay, she just fainted."

They hear the door to the TARDIS close and turned to see the Doctor walk out. "What is going on Ponds? We're here barely five minutes and already we got people yelling and screaming. Who's that?" He said, finally noticing the woman on the ground.

Amy said, "I don't know. We found her like this- Doctor, what's wrong?" She had noticed the look of dread on the Doctor's face.

"D-Donna," he stammered, "It can't be. That's impossible. Amy, Rory, we have to go before she wakes up." Before Amy or Rory could ask what was going, on the woman, whom the Doctor knew apparently as Donna, started to stir. The Doctor quickly ran back into the TARDIS and flipped some switches, making the it invisible before running back. 'Okay,' he thought to himself, 'I've regenerated, she won't recognize me, so she won't remember. I just can't let her see the TARDIS.' He managed to get back to Donna just as she woke up.

Rory gently sat her up, telling her, "Easy there, slowly."

Donna held her head and asked, "What happened? There was a blue police box..." She looked behind the Doctor and saw that it was gone. She quickly stood up and said, "Where is it? Where is the police box?"

The Doctor quickly stepped in with, "Ma'am, you probably just hit your head and imagined it."

Donna stood up angrily and said defiantly, "I most certainly did not imagine it. Who are you people anyway?" The Doctor couldn't help but grin. Donna hadn't changed a bit. She had the same fiery personality and short temper that she had when he knew her. Donna caught his grin and demanded, "Oi! What are you smiling at bow tie boy?"

The Doctor touched his bow tie saying in mock offense, "Hey, bow ties are cool." Donna rolled her eyes before she got a really good look at the strange guy in front of her. There was something familiar about him. His face was young, but his eyes had an oldness about them that she had seen before. There was something else as well: Sadness, but also a strange sort of... hope? How did she know all this?

Donna asked curiously, "Have we met before? You look so familiar."

The Doctor sputtered and said, not too convincingly, "I don't think so. Nope, never seen you before in my life. Amy, Rory, I think it's time we let, um, what was your name again?"

As if in a trance, Donna managed to say, "Donna Noble." She was still trapped in the strange man's eyes. There was so much in those eyes, flickers of loss and pain, and excitement and eagerness. But again, it was the familiarity about them that was the most prominant. She HAD seen them before.

Meanwhile, the Doctor had continued talking, "Yes, nice to meet you. Amy, Rory, let's leave Ms. Noble to her business." Amy and Rory looked at the Doctor with confusion and was about to ask what was going on, but stopped when they saw the look on his face. The three started walking off, the Doctor telling them the story of pig men and something called Daleks that tried to destroy the world using the Empire State building. The Doctor hated leaving her there as if they had never met, but it was better than the alternative should she remember. Suddenly, though, more images ran through Donna's mind, less invasive this time though.

Strange robot things with lasers who continued to shriek in horrible robotic voices: EXTERMINATE! ...

A hand in a jar, but as she touched it, another person appeared and she suddenly knew everything in the universe, except it was too much for her...

The same man with the crazy hair and melonchaly eyes holding her as she realized that she couldn't stay with him and she had to forget...

Donna didn't realized that she had started crying until the images stopped and she noticed that the trio she had just met weren't in sight. She couldn't totally recall everything of those images and flashes, but she did catch one word, and although she didn't understand why it seemed so right and safe, yet so very very sad, she whispered it with as much as sorrow as there could be in a human voice:

"Doctor..."