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This is just an idea I've had swimming around in my head. What if one of the Doctor's companions was like Donna and wasn't allowed to remember her adventures in the TARDIS? How would it affect her daily life? Would she feel something missing?
The nostalgic feeling washes over her body again and she grasps the bench for support. Her head aches and her limbs burn with fire, her vision blurs and she feels the bile rising in her throat. Images flash across the inside of her eyelids, snapshots so vibrant, so real she can almost reach out and touch them. Image after image tears through her mind.
Her workmate is worried and asks if she is alright. She flinches away.
He has brown eyes. There is something about them. Something familiar. She can't seem to place it in her memory.
It happens again, stronger this time. She feels someone watching her and turns to see a man standing on the street. It's a busy day and people bustle past her trying to escape the wet weather. The man doesn't move. He watches her, standing in the rain, his trench coat billowing in the breeze. He is a stranger and yet she can't tear her gaze from him. The moment is shattered when a car horn pierces her daydream.
Faltering she scrambles across the street and by the time she reaches the place where he had been standing, there is only a mother and her child waiting for the bus.
At home she curls up in front of the TV with a blanket. She flicks through the channels. Someone on a medical programme says 'Doctor' and the nostalgia begins again. It's happened since she returned from her year travelling. She can't remember any of it, but her mother reassures her it was an amazing time.
The slightest thing will trigger it. A word or smell, even the gentle touch of someone. Medical professionals can't help her, nor can alternative therapists. Her mother begs her to leave it alone but she can't. She knows something is wrong, something is missing, something has happened and she isn't allowed to remember.
One day she meets a man, he smiles a lot. He introduces himself, in his American accent, as Jack. He is familiar too. He also wears a coat but this one is blue. She tells him something is wrong with her life. She finds herself trusting him. He smiles again and unclasps a chain from around his neck. He holds it in front of her. There are two keys on the chain, one is old and tarnished, the other is silver and still new. She glances at him, her eyes full of questions. He lowers the chain into her hand. It coils perfectly and the keys catch the light. The nostalgia begins again but this time she doesn't mind. Something is different. Instead of panic, she finds peace. She holds the tarnished key between her thumb and finger.
She speaks in a soft voice, "Doctor."
Yes that was Captain Jack Harkness at the end :)
Hope you enjoyed it!