PLOT: Donna´s memory is gone, The Doctor can´t contact her anymore or she´ll die, Donna Noble in the parallel universe fades away, leaving the real Donna to take the identity of Nellie Bertram.
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CHAPTER ONE.- The most important woman in the universe who never existed.
According to the events on Turn Left: on 25 June 2007, Donna had to make a choice between two jobs. The moment she chose between the jobs was at a junction. Her agency had offered her a contract with H.C. Clements, which while temporary, was posh and in the center of London, which Donna enjoyed. Her mother, Sylvia Noble, had got her a job opportunity to become the personal secretary of Jival Chowdry, owner of a photocopying business. Although this would be a permanent job, Donna found it less interesting. While driving and in discussing the dilemma, Sylvia pressured her into turning right to stop by Jival Chowdry for a chat. While in the regular timeline Donna ignored her mother and turned left, in this timeline she turned right, resulting in her taking the PA job. , however, in this alternate universe, she has to choose between Jival Chowdry and Wernham Hogg, a regular office on Berkshire for a paper company, that´s got a branch on the USA called Dunder Mifflin, a really normal place with good salaries and the stability she needs and that can also give her an opportunity to live somewhere else, over seas, somewhere EXCITING where she can have adventures.
In this timeline, she turns left and things go as they are supposed to go until "Journey´s end", and thus, our story begins:
Having absorbed the Time Lord knowledge, the Doctor is forced to wipe out Donna´s memory… but not only that, she´s got to forget COMPLETELY, not only about the Doctor, but about the entire existence of any type of alien life form, and also… her personality, for Donna Noble´s life was devoted to having adventures.
He couldn´t do that… wiping her memory could hurt but he could do even worse, he knew, he had taken harder choices before, but leaving his best friend without a soul, without who she was. He wasn´t that evil: "never cruel or cowardly" he remembered… and this was downright cruel.
-"I just want you to know, there are worlds out there, safe in the sky because of her. That there are people living in the light, and singing songs of Donna Noble. A thousand, million light years away. They will never forget her, while she can never remember. But for one moment, one shining moment, she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe."
-"She still 's my daughter!"
-"Then maybe you should tell her that once in a while!... well… you should´ve, you should have told her when you had the chance! You can´t anymore!"
-"is that the only way?" – Wilf asked:- "Doctor… she can´t be our Donna anymore?"
-"I´m so so sorry Wilf… she has to forget everything, from now on, she´ll be someone else. From now on, she´ll be… uhh" – The Doctor hesitated… was this the type of woman he wanted Donna to become?... of course he didn´t , but this woman, the woman that the TARDIS chose Donna to become was the very opposite of Donna and after all, it was the only way of saving her. – "Nellie Bertram"
The TARDIS took care of it, as it usually does… You see, a chameleon arch is easily created, the beauty of that was how the TARDIS made you fit on the changes: If you became another species, a simpler one, it was just a matter of fitting you properly on that species … but humans, creating a story around a human was a really complex art, and the TARDIS just took care of it, this time, he had to do some changes on the chameleon arch creator, something that allowed turning a human into another human. For Donna, all it had to do was creating a new personality and saving the other one on a watch-like device… he could literally keep Donna safe now, the essence of Donna on the palm of his hand.
The rest was extremely easy, he made some calls to important people, since Harriet Jones was no longer able to help him, he turned to UNIT and they did a few legal things with the British government so that Donna Noble had never existed and instead, every document that once said the name: Donna Noble, now said the name: Nellie Bertram.
Nellie Bertram, a woman who lived in poverty and at an early age was taken in by the Bertram family… Of course Wilf and Sylvia had to change their last names too, but again, The Doctor´s friends took care of it, the Noble family was now the Bertram family and all was supposed to be right from now on.
He walked away slowly, Donna/ Nellie, was quietly asleep in her old bedroom, held by her mother, the most important woman in the universe was gone, and all she had was this stranger, this woman who had a completely different story. Her mother was the same, and her grandfather, and her house, and her friends, except of course, nobody but Sylvia, Wilfred and the Doctor would remember the woman once named Donna Noble. For everyone else she was Nellie Bertram and in the morning, she would go to her job.
Donna Noble had been working on Wernham Hogg for a while now, of course they had their memory erased overnight too, Donna Noble had never existed and for the last couple of months, they had been working with Nellie Bertram. That morning, lazy Nellie went to work as usual.
-Good morning Nellie – Dawn Tinsley said with her usual self – what do you think about my new illustration?
-Dawn, you are never going to be an children´s books illustrator if you are the receptionist here…- Nellie said – don´t you want some adventure?, see the world?.. well, you can´t if you work here.
-Well, someone is having a bad day today Nellie… and it´s about to get worse. David wants to talk to you.
-what?! What did I do now? I know I´m not a suck up as Gareth but… hey at least I came to work today and with a hangover!
Nellie walked into David´s office with her usual sass…Even if it was just a shade of the personality she used to have when she was Donna.
-Did you want to talk to me David?
-Oh yes, Nellie, you see, I went to the US to check up on our sister company: Dunder Mifflin and turns out that their regional manager, Michael Scott, great guy, I like him, anyway, I asked if there was any available position for working there and there was no answer, however, he is leaving and even if I intend to apply for the job, and I´m of course going to get it, well, I need my own element there, therefore, you are leaving to the US. Remember Jo Bennett? A little fat, gray hair, looks a lot like the woman from the movie "Misery"? well, she considers you her friend, and since she´s the CEO of Sabre, she´s also in control of Dunder Mifflin and this little piece of hell, so she´s putting up the committee to decide who´s going to get the job and I need someone like you to be there. I trust that you are voting for me and rooting for me even if I don´t need it, so pack your bags, you are leaving in a few hours.
Little did Nellie, David or anyone at Dunder Mifflin or Wernham Hogg knew that the Doctor had advanced Michael Scott´s flight from Scranton to Colorado for one day because he needed to get Nellie away from England as soon as possible.
Since Donna didn´t know about alien life before meeting the Doctor and hadn't seen any of the alien-related events happening on England due to random events (she missed the sycorax invasion of Earth because she had a hangover and she missed the cybermen invasion because she was scuba-diving in Spain), the Doctor could use that to his advantage, but he couldn´t take the risk of leaving everything to fate… he had to get her away from England, and causing a chain reaction starting from the airline´s computers was the easiest way to do so.