Name: Have a good life.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Journey's End SPOILERS. A few years on, its Donna's wedding, and a strange man appears. (500 word ramble)
Warning: Journey's End (s04e13) spoilers.
Author's Note: This bunny just jumped into my head and I had to write it. Enjoy.
It's her special day and she's all dressed in white, a veil hanging over her face. She feels like she's done this before, but the memory eludes her. She spins around in front of the mirror, chatting on to her friends about the stupidest of things and then about how she's wondering what her honeymoon will be like. They're going to Alaska for two weeks. She loves snow and she's looking forward to spending time in it, although she doubts she'll see the outside of a hotel room. She wonders when she started liking snow. It was the day after her friend started going on about the Earth moving, that was it. She wants to spend time in the snow, with a big furry coat wrapped around her, listening to singing. Beautiful singing.
She shakes her head to clear it of the strange and wonderful thoughts she's thinking and steps away from the mirror, grinning like a madwoman as her bridesmaids squeal and tell her that they're so very happy for her and that she's a lucky woman for marrying Kevin. They're right, she knows that. Kevin is wonderful and she loves him with all her heart ... but there's something not quite right about life anymore. It's like there is something missing. Someone.
The sun is shining brightly as she walks across the grass. They had decided early one that they wouldn't have a church wedding as neither was religious, opting instead to have it in spring, in the park, with trees dropping blossom on their heads from above. By the time she reaches her fiancé, her hair is full of little pale pink petals and he smiles, reaching out brushing them away, making her smile.
She looks at the assembled people. There are so many of them, and they're all her friends or Kevin's. Were they really that popular? She smiles to herself as she says her vows.
And then she looks up. Stood a long way off, underneath a blossoming tree, is a tall, thin man with unruly dark hair. He's watching her intently, a small smile gracing his face. She's completely happy for the first time in months as she kisses her groom and they walk, arm in arm, to join the guests getting refreshments and cake.
She sees him again as she bites into the wedding cake and notices he's grinning, laughing at the way she is eating. She feels she's seen him somewhere before, did she dream about him sometimes? Was that it? The strange man in the blue box, taking her to exciting places in the far reaches of the universe. But the harder she tries to remember, the easier the memory slips away, leaving her with merely the nagging feeling that she knows him. A name enters her mind as she makes the toast and instead of making the toast to her husband, she says something else.
To the DonnaDoctor, who saved the universe.
But she can't remember why she said it and she looks up, confused, just to see the man locking his eyes with hers. She can't hear him, but she can read his lips when he speaks.
I'm proud of you, Donna Noble. Have a good life.
She glances at her new husband, who is looking at her with confusion, and when she looks back he's gone, vanished without a trace.
And she never dreamt of the strange man in the blue box again.