The Doctor's Donna
By: The Glorious Cheshire Cat
Chapter 1: Undoing a Paradox
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or Torchwood. I'm just going to play with the characters. Please enjoy.
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The Doctor leaned against the TARDIS console, mind oddly blank for once.
The only thing he saw was Donna's face as she lay sleeping.
There came a loud crunch from behind him, sounding very much like someone taking a large bite out of a ripe apple.
He turned and saw a teenage girl sitting on the jump seat.
She had curly red hair and looked strangely familiar.
He couldn't tell what color her eyes were as they were firmly hidden behind dark green tinted lenses of a pair of glasses that were identical to the pair he'd worn when he'd been on the spaceship that had been stalking Madame de Pompadour.
She took another loud bite of the bright green apple she held in her hand and chewed it as she looked him over. "Ya know, there is a way to get her back."
He stood up straight, an expression of confusion on his face. "What?!"
The girl stood up and crossed over to him. She poked him in the chest with the pointer finger of the hand holding the apple. "You, oh great Doctor, Last of the Time Lords, etcetera, etcetera, can get one Donna Noble, the most important woman, the most special woman in the universe, back."
He took half a step back. "No. No, no, no. It can't be done. If she ever remembers anything about me or the TARDIS or anything we've done, it'll kill her. I had to wipe her memories. There was no other way."
The half-eaten apple hit the top of his head.
"Of course there was another way! How stupid are you?! There's always more than one way to do something if you think about it!" the girl raged.
He rubbed the top of his head. "You hit me with an apple. Hard."
She put her hands on her hips. "You were being an idiot. And if you must know, I've always been told I take after my mother. She's not someone you cross. Anyway, we were discussing you getting Donna Noble back."
He turned to walk farther into the TARDIS. "There wasn't another way. I did what had to be done."
A large bolt hit the back of his head.
"Oi, you! Don't you walk away from me just yet! I'm not done talking."
He whirled around, getting angry with the teenager.
She wasn't cowed by the power that shined in his deep brown eyes.
"There wasn't anything else I could do! I would have done it if there was! Anything to keep her with me!" he yelled.
"You could have turned her into a Time Lord." the girl stated softly, hands held out to him palms up. "You can still do it. You have time."
He stared at her in shock. "Wha…How…But that's impossible! It can't be done!"
She smiled softly and shook her head. "You're all the same, every last one of you. Why is it that all male Time Lords are so stubborn and idiotic? You just can't see it."
He was instantly on his guard. "What do you know about Time Lords?"
She grinned. "Absolutely everything. And I should very well know all there is to know seeing as I'm one of them."
He took out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at her.
The readings were conclusive; the girl was 100% Time Lord.
He stared at her in utter shock. "Who are you?"
Her smile turned wistful.
"That's not important. What is important is that I fix the paradox that is taking place right now. You need Donna Noble. And she needs you."
"Where are you from?" He had to know.
"The future. I won't tell you when or where or who's future I come from, just know that if the two of you don't get together again…my future and perhaps the future of the universes won't exist. Everything could collapse and be destroyed." She sat back down on the jump seat. "I can help you. I can show you what you need; can tell you how to put it together. But I can't do much more. You are the one who has to undo and fix what has been done. You have to undo the paradox."
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