Donna POV
He was still cooking breakfast when I walked in, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, and sat down at the table. After a couple of minutes, he joined me at the table with a fry-up in each hand, he passed one to me and we began to eat.
I was just finished up my eggs as I asked him what our plans for the day were, hoping it would be something exciting, though it always ended up that way wherever we went. After finishing off his breakfast, he looked up at me with thoughtful eyes.
"Well, I fancy a trip in to the past, haven't been backwards in a while actually. But you can choose when, what's your favourite era in history, and remember we have the psychic paper so we can meet just about anyone you want to." He said it with such excitement and looked at me like a child waiting to go on a day trip to the beach, but I was trying to think of what I wanted to see, then it came to me.
"Oh! I know! I love Shakespeare, could we meet him? Or at least go and see one of his plays?" A smile spread across the Doctor's face as he hopped up and began to do the dishes cheerfully.
"I'm so excited Donna, he's one of the few famous people in history I haven't met. Today is going to be brilliant, wait. What year do you want to go, roughly I mean because we don't want to change history or anything?" Now here's an easy question to answer. I thought.
"Can we go around the debut of Much Ado About Nothing? That's my favourite one of his plays and I'd love to see it!" I asked, hoping he would say yes and when he agreed, I went to change, this was an opportunity to raid the wardrobe, I could dress up like a lady. I hurried off towards the wardrobe and started looking through all of the outfits the Doctor had over the years, trying on dress after dress. Eventually I found the perfect one - an Elizabethan-era gown that was blue and covered in lace - and tried it on, it looked as good on me as it had on the hanger and I was delighted with it.
Doctor POV
I was just setting the controls to the right date when she walked in to the control room, she always looked lovely but this was a whole new level, she looked beautiful! Donna was stood there wearing a gown that he had last seen on Romana, a very long time ago, and it hadn't even looked this good on her.
"How do I look?" She asked genuinely, doubting she looked as brilliant as she did.
"You look gorgeous! And with hair like that you could start the Queen Vic trend a few hundred years early." I stated honestly, she's curled her hair and it hung over her shoulders and contrasted with the dress to make the locks look even brighter than usual. She walked towards me and I couldn't help but smile at her, the TARDIS shook vigorously sideways - I'd almost forgotten we were in flight - and Donna almost fell over, I ran to catch her before she lost her balance completely. And with an almighty thud, the TARDIS landed, sending us both of balance, I had to grab on to the console to stay upright. "Outside that door, it's 1598 and Shakespeare has just announced his new play 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Let's go!"
As she stepped out of the TARDIS and into the cobbled street of Elizabethan London, she gasped and fell back against the blue box in shock. She looked back at me and smiled, reaching out her hand to mine, I grabbed on to it and we started down the street in what I hoped was the right direction. We watched the people going about their daily business and continued through the busy town. Then the globe theatre came in to view and Donna practically squealed in excitement, I couldn't help but giggle at her.
"There it is, the globe theatre, though technically it's not a globe it's a tetra-decagon, containing the man himself." She squeezed my hand tighter in anticipation as we continued walking up the street.
When we got there we headed straight inside, psychic paper on hand, when I saw the date on the flyer I couldn't help but feel guilty.
"Donna...I'm really sorry but I might have got here a bit late, we're seeing Love's Labours Lost...not Much Ado About Nothing. I'm sorry Donna, I know you really wanted to see it and we can always go back to the TARDIS and try and get the date right but we might as well stick around and watch this first, yeah?" I hoped she wouldn't mind too much, even though I felt really bad, I still wanted it to be a nice day for the both of us.
"I don't mind really, I love all of Shakespeare's plays! We don't have to come back again, I'd love to see this one just as much. Now let's get inside ey?" She said, I was pleased to see she was still in a good mood about it anyway.
After seeing the play, Donna still looked really happy to be there, and I did too. Shakespeare made his appearance and announced that the sequel would be performed tomorrow night - the non-existent sequel - so we were going to be sticking around. Why can't I go anywhere without something back happening? I thought.