Author's Notes: This is a collection of all the 100 word drabbles I've written for the dw100 community on LJ that don't fit into my 'Doctor and Rose Tyler Drabbles' collection that's already posted here. These drabbles are all individual, self-contained stories and do not necessarily relate to each other in any way. The collection contains drabbles featuring assorted characters (including everything from pure gen through to multi-partner), ratings and genres. Please take note of the ratings and warnings in each individual header, as some of these drabbles touch on dark subject matter.
Doctor and Donna Relationship Drabbles (everything focused on the Doctor and Donna as a pair, including both het and gen)
Title: Beyond What She Was Looking For
Rating: G
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 266: Stickle. Set during Season 4.
Donna was constantly sniping at the Doctor. Sometimes it was friendly banter, which he'd bat aside with a joke. Sometimes, though, it was during situations when she really didn't agree with him. In those cases, no matter how much shouting was involved or how annoyed her words made him, the Doctor never just ignored her angry jibes or her heartfelt rants. Instead, he actually considered her point.
She'd been looking for a relationship like that forever.
She'd never consider him as a husband, of course, but she was still going to spend the rest of her life with that man.
Title: Not Your Colour
Rating: G
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 237: Hedge. Set during Season 4.
"That top is ruined, I'll have you know. Next time we go somewhere there's shops, you're buying me a new one."
The Doctor sighed. "Donna, you got that out of the TARDIS wardrobe room, so technically the shirt was mine, anyway."
Donna sniffed. "Yeah, well, it wasn't exactly your colour, so I found it a better home."
"I'm sorry, all right?"
"You yanked me into a hedge!" Donna accused, still pulling sticks out of her tangled hair.
"Would you rather have been caught?"
"Compared to ruining a perfectly good mohair sweater? Yeah, I think I would've."
"Humans," the Doctor muttered.
Title: Hugger-Mugger
Rating: G
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 224: Hugger-Mugger. Set after 'Journey's End'.
"Oi!" Donna Noble squawked when someone grabbed her on the street. She whacked at the stranger's shoulder. "Get off!"
The man let her go and backed away, holding his hands up entreatingly. Donna grabbed for her bag to make sure it was still there, and still closed so that nothing could have been taken.
He hadn't robbed her. So what...
"I'm so sorry," the man said. "You just looked like you needed a hug."
Donna blinked as the man grinned at her and just walked away, his long brown coat flapping.
Nutter, she thought.
She wondered why he looked familiar.
Title: Part-Time Lord, Part-Human
Rating: G
Character/s: Ten II/Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 205: Footwear. Goes AU from 'Journey's End'.
They're practically the same person now. It should be incredibly wrong. Somehow, though, it's not. They both understand each other more than anyone else in the universe could. She's part-Time Lord, and he's part-human. They fit. It makes sense.
It's a discussion about shoe shopping that tips him off that something's different. He doesn't mind the idea of it anymore, and he realises that that's her influence.
He's different because of her. He's more suited to her.
He's always loved Donna, but this is different. Now he looks at her and sees her for what she is.
Perfect for him.
Title: A Special Brand of Boredom
Rating: G
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 186: Ennui. Set during in Season 4.
"We could go watch the rain of asteroids through the atmospheric shell of Jufessa. Or stop by the revolution of Ethiogeria in the year 90,807. Or we could change the console room lighting, and even that would be a better, more interesting way to spend our time than this."
Donna was surprised the Doctor didn't just plonk himself down in a sulk and whine, "I'm bored!" like a five year old. He seemed the type.
But this was a first time she'd had a chance to go shoe-shopping in months, and she wasn't letting some hyperactive Time Lord ruin it.
Title: Not the Sort to Dwell on Things
Rating: G
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 170: Familiar. Set during 'Journey's End'.
Donna isn't the sort to dwell on things. So she misses some big crisis because she's off having her nails done or something. Big deal. She just figures that everyone's making it up anyway. Like now. She would've noticed planets in the sky, thanks. She was only having a nap.
When a man called John Smith introduces himself and she glances up, she could pause and wonder why he seems familiar. But she doesn't overthink it. She just figures her Mum's probably had him 'round before.
Once he's left, it takes her less than twenty seconds to completely forget him.
Title: When She Says Never Ever
Rating: G
Character/s: Ten/Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 166: Bluster. Set during Season 4.
She's said she'll never ever consider him that way so many times that he wonders what's wrong with him. He knows he's attractive, and he's not so alien that they're incompatible.
He doesn't always understand humans. One thing he does understand, though, is pure bluster. He's been known to spout a bit of that himself.
When she says never ever, he recognises that she really means she's too worried it will ruin what they have to ever try. She doesn't want to risk not staying with him forever.
Either way, she can't, so he doesn't try to change her mind.
Title: A Losing Battle
Rating: G
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 164: Confabulate. Set during Season 4.
"Tell me about your people," Donna said.
The Doctor was quick to brush her off. "We're going to see the Singing Hills of Mount Catabora," he said, fake cheer filling his voice. "Much more interesting than chatting about stuffy old Time Lords."
"Doctor," Donna said in a warning tone.
"What?" he snapped.
"You talk and talk all the time. But I want to talk."
"I never look back."
"Maybe you should."
He'd been through this before with a woman who was far less stubborn. He knew a losing battle when he saw one.
"My planet was called Gallifrey," he began.
Title: An Icy Grave
Rating: PG
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 147: Ice and Snow. Set during 'Planet of the Ood'.
A creature lies dying, and all Donna can think is that no one and nothing should have to spend its last moments in the cold and snow, with complete strangers the only ones to note its passing.
She wants to give it a proper burial at least. Or a cremation. Whatever's appropriate. The Doctor tells her the snow will do its work, building an icy grave of its own accord.
It isn't enough, Donna thinks. Every creature deserves better than dying like this. But when she sees the crimes perpetrated on its kin, she begins to wonder whether 'better' exists.
Title: Not to Be Discouraged
Rating: G
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 138: Welcome Aboard. Set during 'Partners in Crime'.
The Doctor has invited Donna to come along once before, so it doesn't even occur to her that the offer might have been rescinded. She's been waiting for the Doctor to reappear for over a year now, her life pretty much on hold, and it didn't even occur to her that it might all have been for nothing. He could have said no.
But then, Donna Noble's always been the sort to get her way no matter what. If he hadn't wanted her along, then tough. She would have just pushed him out of the way and made herself welcome.
Title: Driven Over the Edge
Rating: PG
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 125: Nuts. Set during 'The Runaway Bride'.
Donna's decided, after careful consideration and lots of yelling, that he isn't intentionally trying to kidnap or kill her. He's trying to help her, even if he's not particularly good at it.
That doesn't mean that he still might not be the death of her, though.
He's completely barmy. She's never met anyone that insane. Perhaps it's the loss of his friend, or maybe there's something else going on, but he's been driven over the edge.
He asks her to go with him. She can't. His insanity is going to get himself killed. She doesn't want to die with him.
Title: Atlantis
Rating: G
Character/s: Ten, Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 122: Under the Sea.
"Atlantis does not exist!" Donna laughed.
The Doctor raised his eyebrows. "After everything you've seen, you don't believe there could be a complete civilisation under the ocean's surface?"
"Well, maybe," Donna said. "But not on Earth."
"No, not on Earth," the Doctor agreed. "You lot won't be able to create an underwater atmosphere for, oh, twenty-six thousand more years? No, Atlantis is a whole water-based planet light-years from Earth."
"Should I grab a bikini, then?"
The Doctor grinned. "No need for swimming! They've got lifts going down from the surface. Sunscreen would be an idea, though, with your skin."
"Oi!"
Title: Taking All of the Fun Out of It
Rating: G
Character/s: Donna, Ten
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 119: Open and Closed. Set during Season 4.
"Come on, back to the TARDIS!" the Doctor announced suddenly.
"What? That's it?" Donna asked, nonplussed. "You just figured out what was wrong barely two minutes after we stepped out of the TARDIS? We haven't even talked to anyone. We haven't looked around or anything."
"Sorry, don't need to. The answer's obvious," the Doctor shrugged.
"So what?" Donna asked. "No running for our lives?"
"Nope," he assured her. "I can fix the atmospheric disturbance from inside the TARDIS."
Donna was silent for a long moment. Then she grumbled, "The next place you take me better be more exciting than this."
Title: All Locked Up With Nowhere to Go (Again)
Rating: G
Character/s: Ten, Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 112: Here We Go Again.
"This," Donna says, "is the thirty-first time we've been imprisoned or sentenced to execution."
The Doctor raises his eyebrows. "You've kept count?"
"I didn't think the count would go so high!" she defends. "I thought it was something funny to tell Grandad. 'I've been to prison six times'. Then it was seven. Then double-digits. Now I'm starting to wonder how high I can count."
"We always get out," the Doctor offers.
Donna scowls. "Next time I'm just going to point the finger at you so you're the only one imprisoned. And don't expect me to save you, either. Crazy alien."
Title: Drinking Challenge
Rating: PG
Character/s: Ten, Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 99: 99 Bottles of Beer. Set during Season 4.
The Doctor claims that he doesn't get drunk. He babbles on about superior Time Lord physiology and the inherent weaknesses in the human digestion and circulatory systems for ages before Donna finally shuts him up by issuing a drinking challenge.
The Doctor scoffs, asking her if she's missed all those things he just said. She can't possibly win.
Four hours later he's literally under the table, rolling about slurring drinking songs. Donna empties the water out of her leftover vodka bottle and throws out the empty whiskey bottles the Doctor had favoured.
That would shut him up for a while.
Title: The Species That is Woman
Rating: G
Character/s: Ten, Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 83: Sherlock Holmes. Set during 'The Unicorn and the Wasp'.
"You think you're so Sherlock Holmes, figuring out how all the clues fit together when the average person can't findthe clues in the first place. But here you are, being shown up by a woman."
"I might think I'm like Holmes in a lot of ways, but unlike him I don't see women as some foreign species." The Doctor paused for a moment, then added. "Well, except when they areanother species."
Donna rolled her eyes. "Come on then, you ladies' man, don't want to keep Agatha Christie waiting. I can't waituntil she solves the mystery before you!"
Title: The Meaning of Silence
Rating: PG
Character/s: Ten, Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 73: Silence. Set during 'Silence in the Library'.
Perhaps it's just because this incarnation likes to fill every moment with talking (he's admitted before that he's got a gob, and that hasn't changed). But there's something unsettling about the concept that in an entire planet, filled with ideas and recorded memories, his is the only voice that can be heard. It's a library, yes, and libraries are quiet. But there's a difference between quiet and silence.
Donna doesn't seem worried, but the Doctor knows before he even checks on the computers that they're the only ones on the planet. Because silence, to him, always seems to mean death.
Title: Things Better Not Remembered
Author: Queen of the Castle
Rating: PG-13
Character/s: Ten/Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 30: Something That Never Happened. Set during Season 4.
The Doctor wants to bury himself under his bedcovers and never come out. The problem is that Donna's still under there as well, and it's her he's currently trying to avoid.
Instead, he swipes his trousers from the floor beside the bed and awkwardly shuffles them on without exposing himself.
It's a little late for that, but still.
"So..." he begins.
"We're never talking about this again," Donna says firmly. "It didn't happen. Now get gone so I can get dressed already."
The Doctor's never been so glad to have his sexual prowess dismissed out of hand in his life.
Title: Someone To Talk To
Author: Queen of the Castle
Rating: G
Character/s: Ten, Donna, Wilf
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 7: Confessions. Set during 'The Sontaran Stratagem'.
Donna loves travelling with the Doctor. She'd fiercely regretted her decision to tell him 'no' the first time she met him for a number of reasons.
He's very much an alien, though, and the things they see together are sometimes even more so. He can't always understand how they affect Donna, and there's been no one else to tell. It's not just because they're alone in the TARDIS; even on Earth she doesn't think anyone would believe her.
Then she sees her Grandad down the street, waving and teary, and Donna smiles. Maybe there issomeone she can talk to.
Title: Unexpected Distractions From Grief
Author: Queen of the Castle
Rating: G
Character/s: Ten, Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 8: Unexpected. Set during 'The Runaway Bride'.
He would appreciate it, he really would, if random people didn't show up unexpectedly in the middle of his grief and rant at him like he'd done something wrong. The pain of losing Rose was too fresh for him to deal with that.
Donna Noble gave him little choice, though. She wasn't the sort of woman one could just ignore.
He didn't expect to like her any more than he'd expected her to show up. Nevertheless, for short minutes at a time, he thought of something outside his own pain. For that, he couldn't help but love her a little.
Title: Kisses Across Time and Space
Author: Queen of the Castle
Rating: PG
Character/s: Ten, Donna
Author's Notes: Written for Challenge 11: Companions. Set during 'The Unicorn and the Wasp'.
The Doctor has somehow let himself fall into the habit, in recent years, of kissing his companions, and even his not-yet companions. Up until this very moment, those kisses have always unfortunately come to define those relationships.
Kissing Rose on the Game Station led to the making of this body, perfectly tailored to her and always longing for her. Reinette's kiss gave her power over him. Kissing Martha made her fall for him, a doomed relationship. Kissing Astrid seemed to seal her fate.
Donna kisses him to save his life. Nothing changes. He finds he likes that about their relationship.