I don't own Doctor Who nor do I intend to make any money off of this, it is all for our entertainment. So please enjoy and if you try to sue me you will get nothing, because I have nothing. I'd say you might get a fat cat, but well I don't think she is accepting anymore subjects to rule over.

Rating: MA because it will have a lot of sex scenes I am afraid, and because we're talking about me here there will also be angst. However I am trying to make this more adventure/drama and romance than anything else.

Pairing/s: Donna/Doctor (9th) Donna/Doctor (10th) and Donna/Doctor (11th)

Warnings: It's likely going to be very confusing to read I won't lie. I blame bas_math_girl as you should for this, it's all her fault [blame happily taken! :D]. Also you should probably thank her as well because she is my beta and has done an awesome job on trying to keep it straight and to the point. I don't think there will be any major problems with reading this unless you don't like sex scenes. Then you should probably be warned now that this will contain at the very least some sex scenes. How many and how detailed hasn't been decided yet. There will be a lot of romance and adventure, and drama. There might be some angst but come on this is me were talking about so there kind of has to be some in it. I think that's all for the warnings, if not I will add it as a note.

Summary: Donna keeps disappearing on the Doctor! Now he is curious as to why, and after the big fight he is more determined than ever, not only to save his not-even-there-yet relationship with her, but to know what has made her so happy. On Donna's end, she is just trying to run fast enough to stay ahead of it all. Come see how long she can keep running for.

Keep Running

Chapter one: The fight

Doctor's POV

"Donna, I am going to bring us a cup a tea into the library. Can you grab some of the banana cake you're hiding in your room?" Biting down on my lower lip I growl at myself for backing down from what I really want to ask her. This is getting a bit pathetic. I am 903 years old! I am a grown Time Lord, for Rassilon's sake! I just have to march right in there and demand answers! Donna is my companion, and she will answer me when I have questions! Yeah right, you keep telling yourself that! You know who is in charge here and ever since she came on board you know it isn't you. I would laugh at that if it weren't for the problem of her having started keeping secrets from me. I do laugh out at that, me upset that someone is keeping secrets? How ridiculous is that?!

"Sure Spaceman, meet you there in a moment." I hear her call out to me from the pool room where she had been taking a dip after we had supper. She sounds completely normal, like she isn't hiding something from me.

Well she is, and if she thinks I haven't noticed then she is a bigger fool than I am. I'm just not sure what to do to get her to open up to me. Sighing, I quickly grab the two teas, a bowl of sugar, and a little jug of milk; and put them on a tray before walking to the library to wait for her to get there with the banana cake. The smile that stretched across my face must have reached my eyes as well when I saw that fiery red hair flowing freely over bare shoulders. However it was quickly replaced with a slight frown when I noticed the bruise on her shoulder near her neck. I hadn't thought she got hurt earlier, well at least not when she had been with me. Must have happened while she was out doing whatever it was she has been doing lately, and that just pisses me off enough to make me decide I was going to ask her what she has been up to lately.

"You ok?" I ask first as she sits down across from me and puts the banana cake on the table next to us. She smiles up at me before reaching over me to grab her book from the table beside my chair before plopping down in her own big overstuffed chair next to the fire place.

"Course I am, Spaceman. Thank you for finally taking me to the beach, even if we did have to run away from angry local crab people for trespassing on their sacred beaches." She says sternly but is smiling at me nonetheless to let me know that she doesn't mean it, not really.

I smile slightly and then stand up and move to kneel next to her chair. I let my fingers brush her hair back and she is staring at me with a slight smile but a confused look in her eyes. I let my fingers trail back over her shoulder before gently petting at the bruise I see there.

"You sure you're ok? I don't remember you getting hurt, at least not when you were with me. You did disappear for a while though. In fact, you have been doing that more and more lately. Disappearing on me only to pop back up like nothing happened. Normally I wouldn't mind but you've been hurt. You've been hurt and you didn't tell me. What happened?" I ask gently, trying to show her she could trust me with anything. That I would always protect her for as long as I lived and she would allow me to. She gave me a smile, this one more forced than the last few ones I had gotten.

"It's nothing, Spaceman. Don't worry, it doesn't hurt at all." She tells me before tugging some hair over the side of her shoulder the cover the mark up. As if hiding it would make it go away.

She doesn't turn to look at me as she pretends to focus back in on her book. I am not willing to let it go this time.

"Well then, where did you go? We were together and having fun, than when I turned back around from building a sandcastle you were just gone. What happened?" I ask her pointedly after I slipped to sit in front of her chair so she would see me. I see her frown before glancing at me with a sigh.

"I just got up to take a walk." She says while not making eye contact.

She is a great poker player; still I know she lies to me. I searched around the area for her, just as I have every other time she has 'gone for a walk', as she likes to say. Now I am getting annoyed. I take her to see all of time and space, and I simply ask for her to explain to me what she has been up to and she lies to me? Who does she think she is?

"You were not taking a walk! I looked for you! I walked for a mile in each direction and I couldn't find you! Stop lying to me! Where have you been going? What have you been doing? How did you get hurt?!" I yell at her, angrier that she is hurt and lying to me than anything.

How am I supposed to protect her when she lies to me about being hurt and where she is?! Doesn't she get it yet? Why I have been trying to take her to every place she has asked for? She has to have realized just what I was doing by now. Did she simply not feel the same way I did about her? Was that why she keep running off to wherever she went? I panic slightly at that thought; I don't want her to leave me, I would rather we just remained friends than her leave me.

"Are you tired of hanging around an alien and seeing time and space with an old man already?" I ask quietly when she hasn't answered. I see a slight frown pull at her face before she looked me straight in the eyes.

"You know that's not true at all, I told you when I first came aboard that I was going to stay until you got bored of me and kicked me out." She says to me while watching me for a reaction; trying to figure out if I had grown tired of her. It was the most ridiculous thing I had heard yet. I will never get tired of her, ever.

"That will never happen, Donna. I will never make you leave." I am quick to reassure her, don't want her to think I don't want her around, quite the opposite in fact; I want her closer, much closer. She smiles at me again and it's not forced this time.

"Then I will stay with you forever, Spaceman! For as long as my forever is, it is yours." She tells me happily, while reaching over to grab the cake and hands me a piece of it.

I take it while sitting back on one hand to look at her face. She is truly beautiful. I have tried to tell her so many times now, but each and every time she has refused to believe it, and sometimes won't even stand to hear me speak it. When I do, she is quick to put herself down. I will figure out how to make her believe me one day. I swallow the cake in three large mouthfuls before deciding to get back to the task at hand. I slide forward and let my hand rest gently upon her knee and let my fingers play back and forth there to comfort her.

"Please tell me where you have been running off to, Donna. I'm worried, is all." I ask again, trying to get her to open up to me.

It would be easier to bring my own people back then get Donna Noble to do something she obviously doesn't want to do. She is glaring again and smacks my hand off her knee before jumping up. I follow her up to try and calm her but she has already started yelling.

"What is wrong with you today?! Is it annoy Donna day and you forgot to tell me or something? I said I was walking; now get off my back would you?!" She yells at me, annoyed; and it starts to irritate me.

Really, it wasn't much to ask for when I am taking her through time and space to simply let me know when she wants to 'take a walk!'

"I am flying you through time and space, Donna! You can't just go taking off whenever you feel like it! You have to tell me where you are going, and what you're doing!" I yell back at her, truly fed up now myself. I was the one in charge of my ship, and she could damn well tell me before she went to take a hike or whatever she did when she took off.

"What am I; three? I am an adult, Doctor, I don't need your permission to do anything, thank you very much! If I want to stay out all night then I damn well will and when I come in in the morning I don't want to get the third degree from you! I don't go getting into your business when you say you don't want to talk about it, do I?" She snarled at me before turning on her heel and storming towards the door.

"Where are you going?!" I shout at her as she walks out the door.

"I am going to bed! Without you!" She snaps at me and I growl!

She is fighting dirty and she knows it! That's just not fair, damn it! I wasn't about to back down now though.

"Fine! See if I care!" I yell at her, retreating back; and plopped myself down into her chair and glared at the fire place.

"Good, see you in the morning!" I hear her call before stomping away.

I continued to glare at the fire place ignoring the burn I feel in my eyes. I was not going to cry just because she kicked me out of her room and bed! I feel the TARDIS trying to soothe me. My lips started to quiver and I looked up to the ceiling.

"I just want to protect her. What's wrong with that, huh?" I whimper to my TARDIS.

'Nothing, my Doctor, though perhaps you shouldn't have demanded answers from her when she is obviously not in the mood to share.' My ship tells me as she continues to try to soothe me.

"All I wanted to know was where she had been and how she got that bruise. I know she didn't get it when she was with me. I was worried when I couldn't find her! I mean one minute she was there and the next she was missing for over an hour. I looked for her everywhere and I couldn't find a single trace of her! I got panicky, and even went into the city to ask the locals if they had seen her, but then they asked me where we had been, and well, they weren't very happy after that. I was being chased and I couldn't find her, and what if they had found her first?!" I ask my ship as a few tears finally slip passed my blinking lashes to fall down my cheeks.

'Where did you find her?' My ship encourages me to tell her what happened trying to distract me when we both know she could simply absorb my memories to see what had happened. My TARDIS is always watching out for me.

"One minute I was running through the village hoping to catch a glimpse of her fiery hair, while running away from a group of really unhappy lobsters. The next I felt a hand slip into mine, and when I glanced to see who it was, she was just there in all her ginger glory, laughing and running with me to come home." I let her know how Donna had found me, not the other way around while I curled up miserably in the chair. Well of course she found me, she always finds me when she wants to.

'Then perhaps, my Doctor, it is not something that needs to be worried over any longer. Simply be happy that all is well. It probably won't happen again now that you have showed her how distressed it makes you. Why don't you go get some sleep?' She asks me gently, and I just shake my head unhappily.

"She kicked me out of bed. Got used to sleeping with her, won't be able to fall asleep alone." I mumble and press my face into my knees.

I feel my ship's exasperation and insistence that I get up and go to her. I don't want to simply keep arguing with her though, and I wasn't going to beg anyway! I feel something like a slap from my ship mentally and then the fire and the lights go out in the library. I glare at the ceiling but she just opens the door for me to the hall.

"Fine, but when she kicks me out, angry, you're making the banana milk shakes!" I tell my ship and can practically feel her eye roll; well, if she had eyes.

I walk out into the hall and into my own room and slip my jimjams on before walking silently to her door. I can see the light shine underneath it. I feel the burn come back to my eyes as I think about turning away and going into my own room to sleep. She had never kicked me out before. Maybe the TARDIS was right and she would be calmer by now. I knock quickly to stop myself chickening out. I hear her as she gets up and shuffles to the door. When she opens it, I see her in her pajamas and my eyes water again. I look down when I see her glaring at me. I don't like it when she is upset with me; well, upset at all but especially when it's because of something I have done.

"What?" She growls out the question and I flinch before reminding myself she growls and yells when she is upset or hurt. That it is just the way she deals with things. I fidget for a few minutes trying to figure out what to say. I sigh before deciding to be honest.

"I came to say sorry. That, and to see if you were really going to force me to sleep alone tonight." I mumble to her but keeping my head down so she doesn't see me crying.

It's foolish; I am a 903 year old Time Lord, I can sleep in my own bed alone if she says no. She doesn't let me off the hook so easily though. Why I thought she would I have no idea. She reached a hand out and tilted my face up to meet hers. I quickly try to blink back any tears but we had never fought before, not really. Oh we sniped and moaned and groaned, but never rowed. So when she had kicked me out of her room, out of her bed, and out of her arms, I couldn't help it; big fat tears slid down my eyes. I could see her softening slightly and then she pulled me forward into her waiting arms. I whimper slightly and then bury my head in her neck. She just holds me and rubs soothing circles on my back.

"Oh Doctor, I'm the one who is sorry. I shouldn't have said that, of course you can stay with me. You know you're always welcome with me. I was just a bit upset, ok. Come, where is that megawatt smile of yours, huh?" She asks me, as she tries to get me to calm down now that I had started to cry into her shoulder.

"I shouldn't have pressed you; I was just so worried when I couldn't find you. Don't be upset please." I whimper, and she just pulls me to her tighter for a minute before pulling away and tugging me into her room.

"I know you were and I am sorry I worried you. It's just that sometimes a girl needs some breathing room, ok. I promise I wasn't doing much of anything and I really wasn't hurt. I'm sorry I worried you so much, honest. Why don't you go get cleaned up in my bathroom real quick than come to bed, ok?" She says as she gently shoves me towards the bathroom suite connected to her room.

I nod even though it doesn't fail to escape me that she still hasn't told me what she had gotten up to, but still she is right, I have my own secrets that I ask her not to dig in, and she usually listens to me. When she doesn't she turns out to have been the one in the right. So she has every right to ask me to leave this one be, and I will try to but I can still feel that dread creeping up on me when I was being chased and didn't know where she was. Well, at the very least I was going to let it go for now. Didn't need to get into another row when we just got finished making up from the last one. I quickly wash up and do what I need to for the night before padding back out into the room. She is already waiting in bed for me with my side of the blankets turned down so I could easily slip under the covers. Once under them I hesitate, not sure how upset she is, and how close she is willing to allow me. She seems to notice my dilemma because in the next moment she is tucking me into her side. I press my face into her neck, and circle my hands around her while curling my body as tightly as I could into her. I breathe in deeply as she in turn wraps her arms around me.

"Night, Spaceman." She murmurs into my ear before kissing my temple sweetly.

I smile into her neck and cheekily kiss all the neck I could reach without moving from my curled up position.

"Night earth girl!" I call back to her before placing one last quick kiss to her neck and settling down into her embrace.

It doesn't take long for me to feel sleep's embrace pull me under, much quicker than normal actually. Still, throughout the night she keeps me warm in her embrace and keeps the nightmares at bay. The rest I will simply deal with tomorrow.

END OF CHAPTER:

Well that's it for chapter one, stay tuned for chapter to coming eventually! It will skip back and forth from the Doctor to Donna's POV and the other doctors will be in it as well. I know there wasn't much action in this chapter but it's just the ground work. Lol, and be sure to check out bas_math_girl she is awesome and is taking care of all my work. Hopefully if you all ask nicely (I already tried) she will have her own version of this fiction up soon enough. Reviews keep the authors alive long enough to write you another chapter!