AN: Just saw the series four finale - Journey's End. I was almost in tears at the end of the episode and so I wrote this.
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who.
Be warned, this contains spoilers for the end of series four and brief mentions of other episodes from other serieses . You have been warned as the Doctor takes centre stage.
Donna Noble - My Friend
All it took was a single moment for it all to become clear and for me to understand. It was just a single moment in time, the most insignificant instant in the whole of time and space that brought me to this clarity – the moment that I met you, Donna Noble, just another ordinary human from planet Earth.
You had entered my life so abruptly that day when I was still reeling from the loss of Rose. You had yelled at me like a child, demanding to know whom I was, demanding to know where you were and demanding me to take you back. Yet, I somehow I knew even then, you was just as lost and lonely as I was. I knew the emptiness all too well, almost too well to recognise it in another, and so I invited you to travel with me to see the stars.
But you said no. You said no to travelling with me, so I travelled on alone to another companion and new adventures. I saw William Shakespeare and the end of the Universe. I saw the moon landing in 1969 and the farewell of another companion; I even crossed paths with your grandfather, but at the end of all of it, there you were waiting for me.
You found me again. You had grown up. You were no longer the lost child you once were, but one willing to see the world for what it truly was.
We travelled the stars, you and I, Donna, to fires of Pompeii to the silence in the Library and to the heart of the Shadow Proclamation and the Medusa Cascade. You were thrown into a completely different world and you found the courage to walk away from it and save yourself. I'm proud of you. You saved all those stolen plants; the Universe now exists only because you saved it. You saved the Universe. Rose was right, Donna: 'You are the most important woman in the whole of creation,' and I'm glad I saw it if only for a short time.
I know that the Universe will sing of your story across galaxies and nebula for the rest of eternity. I know you will never remember all the good times we had or the bad, but your name will burn forever in the stars that you saved.
I will never forget you, Donna. You will not be forgotten, Donna Noble, my best friend.
A/N: So sayth the Doctor, the lonely traveller once more. I really am going to miss Donna. I've grown attached to her over the course of the series.