Donna Noble walked into her house after finishing a long hard day's work at the current job she had been temping at.
"Is that you, sweetheart?" Sylvia Noble, her mother, called from the kitchen, "How was it today?"
"Same old, same old," Donna replied, "Why do you ask me that every single day? You know it's going to be the same answer, geez!"
"Now, don't get strappy at me, young lady" Sylvia scowled her daughter, "Can't a mother be concerned about her daughter? I mean, if you do well at this job, they might actually offer you a permanent job..."
Sylvia trailed off as Donna got out her laptop and opened up her browser. She logged onto a website she had recently joined. "Mysteries Out There". It was a site for the unexplained. It even had a forum where users could post unexplained things they had seen. The reason Donna had joined this site was because she was sick of her current life. Awhile back, she had met an alien. He called himself The Doctor. During her meeting with The Doctor, she had found out her husband-to-be was working with an evil alien. Both the evil alien and her fiance ended up dying. But that wasn't it. After all those events, The Doctor-Alien ended up asking her to travel with him. And she was stupid enough to say no. She wasn't ready. And she thought she could still live a normal life despite knowing all that she knew. But lately, that was turning out to be wrong. She now wished she had of said yes. That's why she joined this website. Because she had no way of knowing how to find The Doctor again. But since he was an alien, she gathered if she researched about stuff that are otherworldly, she could find him. Unfortunately for Donna, none of the topics in the forum at this time were of any use to her. Heaps about the bees starting to disappear. She had no clue why that was strange. Wasn't it bee migration season or something? She gave a sigh, and closed her laptop. It looked like finding The Doctor wasn't going to be as easy as she thought. Donna got up off the sofa and headed for her room.
"What are you doing?" Sylvia asked her.
"Bed, where do you think?!" Donna retorted.
"Bed? What for?" Sylvia queried, "You haven't even had dinner"
"Busy day," Donna lied, "I'll skip it tonight"
And with that, Donna gave a yawn and headed into her bedroom.
The next day, Donna put on her fancy suit and got in her car. She sat at the steering wheel, not even thinking about any projects she had at work. But about what else she could look into to find The Doctor. Then as she stopped at some traffic lights, she overheard a group of teenagers talking.
"I know," said the girl, "It's creepy"
"That's what makes it so awesome!" The dark skinned boy was saying.
"I wanna go explore it!" The boy with blonde hair said, "But my parents won't let me"
The boy gave a frown.
"Aw, why not?" The dark skinned boy asked.
"They say I need an adult with me, but they're too scared to take me themselves, in case the house really is haunted by ghosts" The blonde kid replied.
This grabbed Donna's attention. Ghosts?, she thought to herself, Maybe...No. He's an alien. He wouldn't be interested in ghosts. Unless, a thought crept up on her, the ghosts aren't ghosts, but aliens themselves. She gave a little grin. Oh, this is brilliant, she thought. She has to check out this house. Donna turned her head and saw the three kids continue walking down the street. She squinted at the blonde boy. Hey, isn't that little Jesse, the Winchester's kid from a few doors down. Alright, Donna told herself, it was settled. She was going to explore that haunted house with Jesse Winchester.
During her breaks, Donna had called up the Winchester's and offered to accompany Jesse on his exploration of the house. The kid's parents agreed to it. Of course they would. They were good friends of her grandfather, Wilfred's. So they knew he would be in safe hands.
That night, Donna picked up Jesse in her mum's blue car and the two set off for the haunted house.