A\N Donna is my favourite companion so I had to write a story with her in it! Partially inspired by my first time ice skating. I had some very nice friends who tried to stop me from falling over. I managed to anyway, and I could imagine Donna laughing at the Doctor doing a similar thing. I challenged myself to include that in a fic and here is that fic. The title comes from my favourite line in the first chapter. Enjoy and please review to tell me what you think. Oh, and takes place at the beginning of series 4.

Disclaimer: Don't be daft, I don't own Doctor Who. If I did, Donna would have a happy ending.

My name is Donna Noble and I am travelling with the Doctor, who is an alien. If I keep saying it, maybe I can actually believe it. This is real, this is really happening. I am standing in a spaceship that is bigger on the inside. Oh. My. God.

I love travelling with the Doctor in the TARDIS. It's exciting, it's incredible, no-one could ever make it up. So when he tells me he's taking me ice skating, that's far too normal and uneventful for me. I've developed a taste for adventure and you can't really have one at an ice rink. We've got the whole wide universe, the whole of space and time and he wants to take me to an ice rink. An ice rink!

"I just want to do something normal for a change, Donna. And anyway, this isn't just any ice rink. It's a super duper ice maze built 50 years into your future. In Antarctica."

"Do I look like a penguin Doctor? Or a polar bear?"

"Well, you'd be a penguin. Polar bears don't live in the Antarctic. Funny story actually, it's something to do with the..."

Blah, blah, blah. He goes on and on about polar bears and temperature and even evolution is thrown in there somewhere. At least we're going somewhere a little exotic, I suppose. Antarctica is better than London. Don't get me wrong, I love London. But I can go to London any time.

He finally runs out of steam. I smile sweetly.

"That's great, Doctor. But why do you want to do something normal? Normal's boring. I like weird."

"Because I need to recover from yesterday. For once in my life I just want to go somewhere where I won't find trouble. But don't worry, I've got the perfect place we can go tomorrow. I'm sure we'll find some trouble there."

He grins as he says the last bit. I know he enjoys trouble really. It's just the consequences that get him down. Our perfect day is when nobody dies. But I want excitement. What's exciting about a pair of ice skates, even if I'm wearing them in Antarctica?

"I want today to be harmless fun," he declares, booting up the TARDIS.

"O.K, O.K," I say, finally giving in. "Why is there an ice maze in Antarctica anyway?"

It's exactly the right thing to say to him. He lights up as he throws switches about on the TARDIS. He starts chattering happily.

"Well, you humans can always make something out of even the most hostile of environments. And Antarctica's sitting there with nothing on it, doing nothing. A great big slab of ice just waiting to be built on. And so they built the Ice Palace Maze. It's run by the Leisure Palace Company. They're only just starting out, but they'll go on to become one of the most innovative and popular companies ever. Sort of like Butlins or Centerparcs of the future."

The TARDIS jerks to life and tosses us around for a bit. If the TARDIS is alive, like the Doctor says, I bet it just throws us around for a good laugh. It can be quite fun, actually. I quite enjoy it. Adds to the whole travelling with an alien experience.

The minute it calms down, I'm off out the door. I'm in my giant winter coat again. It reminds me of the happily ever after on the Ood Sphere. In front of me is the most massive building I've ever seen. It's made of opaque black glass- very fancy. You can't see inside, but the 5 foot letters saying "ICE PALACE MAZE" give its identity. Unless you can't read.

"After you," says the Doctor.

I push open the massive black doors. I can hardly believe what's inside.