A/N : I've had this storyline in my head for a long time now so I thought it was about time I wrote it down. Hope you like.
It was eight o clock in the morning, in London, England, on the planet Earth when an alarm clock started beeping manically. Donna Noble groaned and shoved a pillow over her head but the ringing just would not stop. Eventually, she slammed her hand down on the button and the ringing died down. "Donna, get up it's time for work, you don't want to get fired yet again do you?" her mother's voice asked from outside her bedroom door. Donna rolled her eyes and forced herself out of her warm, comfortable bed to go to a job she hated with a passion. She got dressed into her black pants and a blue checked blouse, the uniform she wore at the store she worked at. She tied her long, thick, red hair back into a ponytail before grabbing a piece of toast, her mother had made her, on the way out.
"Bye sweetheart, be careful, theres been rumours about aliens running about out there!" her beloved grandad Wilfred called out to her as she made her way outside. Donna chuckled to herself and shook her head as she walked and slipped her arms into her black cotton coat. Her grandad was nuts. Aliens, as if!. Even though Donna herself did not understand Wilfred's obessesion with aliens, it's what she loved most about him. He had such an active imagination, he should of become a writer!. Donna sat down at the bus shelter as she waited for the red bus to pull up. When it did, she got on it and shortly after, arrived at Henricks, Donna's living nightmare. It wasn't that she hated the work, she found that bit quite easy but her boss was a complete horror. Blonde, leggy and thought she knew it all that stupid Neryis. And as usual, the work day went slowly, well except for lunch time when she went to meet up with her gorgeous boyfriend Lance. Then it was back to Henricks until finally the clock struck half five and the shop was closing. Just when she thought it was safe to leave, the security guard stopped her as she was about to exit the front doors and handed her some lottery numbers.
"What's this?" she demanded.
"Lottery numbers for Wilson, go take them him for me". Donna gllared at the guard.
"I'm not your flippin slave" she hissed but turned back around and headed towards the elevator. Well it did give her an excuse to avoid her mother for a few minutes longer and Neryis had gone home now. She walked out of the lift when it had reached the top floor and knocked on the blue door in the long hallway that was labelled technicians office. "Wilson, I have your numbers" Donna said feeling a bit impatient. After a few minutes, still nobody had answeared."Wilson, open the bloody door, I have your numbers!" she yelled. Donna sighed and decided to check the storage room. She opened the large red doors and slowly walked in. For some reason she felt a bit creeped out by the fact it was completely silent. She looked around but there didn't seem to be anyone in there."Wilson?" she called out again but still nobody answeared. Suddenly she heard a creak and it was then she noticed the plastic shop dummys dumped in the storage room were beginning to move."What the hell?" she nearly screamed. Donna's eyes widened and she took a few steps back. But they were still walking towards her."Okay, Derrick is this you? Derrick? this isn't funny and I swear when I find you, I'm gonna give you one hell of a slap mate" she shouted to no one. Donna took a deep intake of breath as they backed her against the wall. Oh this was so not the way she planned on dying, death by walking manniquins! she thought, feeling a bit indiginant. She watched in horror as they raised their plastic arms in the air and she shut her eyes tight. She waited for them to chop her head off but when she realised her head still seemed to be in place, she opened her eyes and saw a forty something man in a leather jacket with huge ears grinning at her.
"Run" he whispered and before she had chance to even register what just happened, she found herself running beside him, holding on tight to his hand until they managed to get into the lift. At first the man struggled as one of the manniquins popped it's arm through the closing doors but he pulled at it and it came right off.
"Who the flippin hell are you? " Donna gasped.
"That's not important" the man said cryptically as if he was some CIA agent.
"What happened to Wilson?"
"Wilson?"
"The technican" she explained.
"Wilson's dead" he replied grimly and there was silence for a few moments before she spoke again.
"What was all that then? was it a student thing?"
"Students? why would it be students?" he replied, frowning at her.
"Because for a joke like that, it has to be students" Donna told him as if it was obvious.
"Good thinking but no it's not students".
"You cannot be telling me that those plastic dummys are actually alive and they killed Wilson!". The man looked at her without a smile or a grin. He was serious.
"You are mad".
"What, don't you believe in aliens?". Donna barely looked at him for five seconds before bursting out in hysterics.
"You really should meet my grandad, I think you two would get along quite nicely". The lift doors slid open and Donna followed the man out through the fire escape. Donna grabbed hold of him just before he could escort her out into the cold night air.
"What now?" he sighed, impatiently.
"Say it is aliens....what can you do about them? there were half a million of them up there!" she said, pointing up at the ceiling.
"Half a millions a bit dramatic, more like a hundred but you see I have this thing" he said suddenly showing her a metal box thing she hadn't noticed had been in his free hand the entire time they were running.
"What's that? is that a...?"
"A bomb? yes" he nodded.
"Your just going to blow the entire building up?" Donna asked, alarmed.
"Yeah and I might well die in the process but don't mind me, you just run along, go home and eat your beans on toast" the man retorted as he pratically pushed Donna outside. She glared at him dangerously, a glare that usually scared even the toughest of men but he didn't seemed to be fazed that easily and gave her a quick grin before closing the doors on her. She was just about to turn away and forget about this obviously insane person before that said person re-opened the doors."Oh yeah, what was your name?".
"Donna" she replied slowly.
"Nice to meet you Donna, I'm the Doctor, now run for your life!" he smirked, waved the bomb at her and then went back inside. She stared at the doors for two seconds and then legged it as far away from the building as she possibly could. There was no way Donna Noble was dying tonight because of some stupid 'aliens' and some insane lunatic. When she made it to a busy street, she signalled for a taxi and fifteen minutes later walked back into her mother's house, in silence. She flung off her coat and when she walked into the living room she found her grandad, her mother and Lance all sat around the tv. On the news, they showed a viideo of Henricks being blown up. "Woah" Donna muttered and everybody suddenly noticed her presence in the room. Sylvia got up from where she was sitting and ran to give her daughter a hug,
"Donna, thank heavens, we couldn't reach your phone, we thought you were still in there....I've been so worried".
"Well, that's a first" Donna murmered to herself. After her mother let her go, Lance got up and gave her a kiss.
"Sit down, Donna, your obviously in shock". Donna didn't even bother putting up a fight and sunk back into the comfortable arm chair. She yawned tiredly as Slyvia placed a warm cup of tea infront of her daughter.
"Thanks" she said and took a sip before Lance sat down on the seat beside her.
"Donna, maybe you need something stronger than that. Fancy popping down to the pub?" Lance asked her, concerned. Donna raised an eyebrow at him.
"Football's on isn't it?". Lance blushed awkardly.
"Yeah but I don't want to leave you after what just happened".
"Go on, just go, I'll be alright" Donna insisted and then after he'd gone, she wondered what the hell it was with guys and their obession with kicking a ball around a muddy feild.
"So" Wilf said after he'd waited for Sylvia and Lance to leave the room."Was it really aliens behind it?". Donna raised her eyes to the ceiling before smiling at him.
"Grandad don't be daft of course there were no aliens".Wilfred didn't look to convinced though.
"I'm tellin you Donna, it was aliens, I bet my pension it was". Donna sighed before walking upstairs to take a nice relaxing bath. Her grandad was never going to let go of the idea of there being life on other planets. That was just plain ridiculous, even after seeing those manniquins earlier on, she still refused to believe in even the possibility of the existence of aliens.
The next morning her alarm went off but then she remembered that crazy man with the big ears had gone and blown up her job and effectively ruined her life in the process. Even though she hated working at Henricks, it was still the first permanent job position she'd had in a while and her mother had been so relieved when she had got it. She had actually stopped nagging her every single minute, instead she'd cut it down to just once an hour. Donna got dressed into some jeans and a blue jumper before walking into the kitchen to make herself a bowl of cereal. On the fridge her mother had stuck a note stating she was going to meet some friends for breakfast while Wilfred had left one saying he was going to the hills. What he meant by the hills was that he was going to his favourite spot to go stargaze and obsess about aliens. Donna sighed and sat at the kitchen table with a cup of tea in one hand and that day's newspaper in the other before she nearly had a heart attack at the sudden banging at the door. She got up and slowly walked through the hallway and to her suprise saw the catflap, they got for her old cat Mittens, shaking as if a cat had just left the house which was impossible since Mittens had been dead for five years. She frowned and bent down infront of the flap. Then it opened again and Donna nearly screamed as she saw the weirdo, that called himself 'the Doctor', from yesterday pop his head through. Donna jumped to her feet and swung open the front door."What are you doing here?" he asked, frowning at her. Donna stared at him in disbelief.
"I live here, moron. What about you?".
"I was just....your not made of plastic are you?" he replied and started tapping her forehead.
"No, what about you?" she snapped before punching him in his causing him to stumble backwards. Once he'd found his balance again, he glared at her annoyed.
"Obviously no living plastic here. I'll be off then" he said turning away but Donna grabbed hold of his arm and pulled him inside.
"Have a cup of tea and you can tell me what the heck is going on" she hissed and pratically forced him into the kitchen. As she made the tea, he started going through the mail that lay on the table.
"Donna Noble" he muttered, taking note of her name.
"So what is your name again?" Donna asked placing the coffee down on the table.
"The Doctor".
"Yeah....okay" Donna said, rolling her eyes before , out of nowhere, an arm came flying towards her face and started suffocating her. The Doctor quickly leapt onto his feet, pulled out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the arm which turned and attacked him, leaving Donna looking on in shook. How the heck had that arm got into her home? had it followed her or something?. The Doctor finally managed to rip the arm off his face and kill it before he got up and started making his way towards her front door. Donna quickly ran after him.
"Oi, what was that about? why did that thing try to kill me?". The Doctor looked at her and shook his head.
"It didn't try to kill you, it was after me, you only meet me so it traced you down and was in luck when I traced it here".
"What, so the whole world evolves around you?" Donna asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, more or less".
"You think your so impressive" Donna smirked following him out of her home and down the street without bothering to grab a jacket on her way out.
"I am so impressive" he replied without a hint of sarcasim in his voice.
"Seriously, who the heck are you? I mean, what kind of lunatic goes around nearly blowing himself up and pretending aliens exist?".
"Aliens do exist". Donna simply frowned at him.
"And who goes around calling himself the Doctor?".
"I do" he said simply. Donna stared at him like he was insane.
"Doctor who?" she asked, starting to get annoyed.
"Just the Doctor" he answeared her. She looked away iritated for a second and when she looked back he was gone. Was this man just entirely in her own head or something? she was starting to believe that maybe he was.
The next morning Donna met Lance for lunch at a cafe, just around the corner from her house. Yesterday after running into that Doctor bloke again, she'd done some research on the internet and ended up emailing this man called Clive, who apparently knew everything there was to know about him. She'd agreed to meet him at his house, so Lance had driven her there but she'd come straight out as soon as he had starting yapping on about aliens. "I think I need to get a new job and maybe a hobby. It's because I have nothing to do that I'm obsessing about this guy, I'm getting as bad as grandad for goodness sake.....Lance what do you think?" she asked her boyfriend, who was just sat there staring at her.
"Tell me about this Doctor" he said tonelessly. She frowned at him, confused.
"Sorry I thought I was talking about me for a second".
"Babe, you can tell me, I'll protect you from him, babe, sweetheart, babe" Lance said in a robotic voice, ignoring her previous comment.
"What the hell's wrong with you?".
"Champagne?" A waiter asked from beside them. Donna shook her head.
"No, thanks".
"Sir, champagne?".
"We didn't order any champagne" Lance snapped.
"Madam, champagne?". Donna was just about to tell him to get lost, they'd said no about five times already when she realised it was him. It was the Doctor. Lance started to smile when he noticed him and that's when Donna realised something was wrong. Had Lance had botex recently and just forgot to tell her about it?.
"Aw, got you" Lance smirked and stood up. Then to Donna's alarm, his hand changed shape into some sort of human saw.
"Run!" the Doctor shouted at her and she didn't have to be told twice. All around her people started running around manically. Donna made a dash for the kitchen and the Doctor followed on behind her after putting Lance into a headlock and pulling his head off. Hold on.....
"You've pulled my boyfriends head off?!" she screamed.
"He's not your boyfriend" the Doctor yelled back and they ran out of the back of the building with Lance's body chasing after them.
"Damn it, it's a dead end. Quick, pull that thingy majig of yours out and open the gates!" Donna said pointing to the red gates with the padlock on them. But the Doctor ignored her and stood by a small blue box.
"Or get in here" he suggested but Donna wasn't listening.
"He's coming, he'll get us!".
"Get inside, come on!" the Doctor yelled, losing patience. Donna, realising that Lance's body was about to break out, didn't bother argueing with him anymore and slipped inside the box. When she got inside, she gasped as she saw how much bigger it was then how it appeared on the outside.
"It's bigger on the inside!" she gawped.
"Really? I hadn't noticed" he said, rolling his eyes.
"Aliens really do exist don't they? your an alien!" Donna cried, putting her hands over her mouth.
"Yes, well done" he clapped mockingly.
"Oi space-boy, anymore of that and I'll slap you" she warned but the Doctor just smirked.
"I've travelled through time and space and fought off aliens. You think I'm scared of a stupid ape?". Donna didn't hesitate before walking right up to him and slapping him. Hard.
"Ow!, okay, I'm sorry for calling you a stupid ape!" he moaned, rubbing his head. Donna grinned but then the grin quickly faded as she remembered her boyfriend. She looked over at the console and his head was melting!.
"Lance!" she screamed and the Doctor noticed what she was screaming at.
"Oh no no no no no". The Doctor quickly ran up to the console and picked up the head but it was too late and the Doctor's hands were just covered in plastic goo.
"That's gross" Donna remarked before remembering Lance again."Lance, oh what am I going to tell his parents?". Donna glared at the Doctor who was pressing some buttons."What are you doing? what's happened to Lance?"
"I'm just tracing down a signal.....who's Lance again?" he frowned.
"My boyfriend, for goodness sake, you've forgot about my flippin boyfriend already?!".
"I'm sort of busy trying to save the world".
"Forget it, your just useless" she snapped before the Doctor pulled down on a levar and the box started to shake."What now?".
"The tardis is taking us to where the signal's come out and then we'll find whatever is causing the plastic to come alive". The box stopped and the Doctor walked out with Donna following him. He leant against the wall and scrunched up his face, trying to think.
"What are we suppose to do here?" Donna asked noticing they were next to the River Thames.
"I need to find a transmitter...something big enough to sound a signal like the one I traced....it's big and round like a wheel or....." he trailed off when he saw Donna smirking at him."What?". She pointed behind him, he turned around and saw nothing."What?" he asked again and she rolled her eyes to the sky. He wasn't a very bright alien was he?. He turned around and then noticed what she was looking at. The London eye. "Oh...." he said before smiling."Fantastic!". He grabbed her hand and they began to run. He told her that the source behind all of this was probably somewhere underground and then Donna noticed a grid nearby. They ran to it, opened the lid and climbed down some ladders. As soon as they'd got into the main part of what looked like a factory, Donna spotted her boyfriend sat on the floor with his arms wrapped his knees. He was shaking and clearly was scared to death.
"Asking permission to approach the nestene conciousness" the Doctor called out but Donna didn't hear him. Instead all of her attention was on Lance.
"Lance!" she cried out before climbing down another pair of ladders and running to him. The Doctor rolled his eyes, those stupid apes never listened to a single thing he said. Then Donna looked at what the Doctor was looking at and saw what looked like a pit of lava except it had a mouth and eyes. It was roaring something to the Doctor and then two plastic manniquins grabbed hold of him. Then they pointed at the blue box that they had captured and brought down into their layer.
"No, it's not like that" the Doctor pleaded."I swear I don't want to harm you, I just want to help". Then one of the manniquins pulled out a blue bottle of liquid he had stored somewhere in his leather jacket."I never planned on using it, it was just for protection". The nestene then shouted something back to him and he looked at the tardis, panicked."Donna" he yelled to her."Run, get out of here, go on!". Lance didn't hesitate, he pulled himself up and hurried up the ladders. Donna followed but stopped and looked back at the Doctor. Lance frowned at her.
"Donna, that things dangerous, it was going to kill me, let''s just leave him, c'mon!". Donna looked at her boyfriend, appalled. She couldn't just leave the man here. He'd saved her life and even though he'd destroyed her job, he'd done it to save millions of people. Her eye caught sight of a chain hanging off the wall nearby. She was going to have do it even though she had always hated heights. Donna gave Lance a quick kiss before grabbing hold of the chain and swinging towards the Doctor and the two dummys. On her way past, she'd sucessfully managed to knock them over, sending the blue liquid flying straight into the nestene conciousness and ended up nearly knocking herself out by flying straight into the wall.
"Ow, you were suppose to catch me you prune!" she snapped angrily at the Doctor, who shrugged.
"Sorry". She picked herself up off the ground, walked straiight towards him, raised out her arm and then slapped him across the face in reply.
The Doctor gave Donna and Lance a lift in his ship back home to Donna's house. Donna had rung her mother earlier and she'd been screaming about how a load of shop window dummys had come alive and started to chase after her while she was doing her Christmas shopping. Donna had grinned and rolled her eyes. Now she stood outside of her home with Lance clinging to her like a needy little five year old. "Thanks for the lift" Donna smiled.
"Nah, it was nothing".
"Yeah I guess especially since I saved your life earlier" Donna couldn't help but gloat."What would you have done without me?".
"You did save my life" he agreed."Thanks, for that by the way. And I suppose....if you want....you could come with me". Donna stared at him as if he'd grown another head.
"Come with you? in that ship?".
"Yeah". Donna thought about it for a moment and was seriously tempted to say no for her grandads sake until Lance tapped her on the leg and reminded her of what she would have to put up with.
"Oh what the hell, okay!" she laughed and ran into the tardis leaving her needy and completely useless boyfriend behind to go feel sorry for himself. Besides Donna's grandad would just love to hear about how she'd run off with an alien and now she wouldn't have to sit at home and listen to her mother tell her what a disappointment she was. Lance watched as the blue box disappeared with his girlfriend inside. What the hell was he suppose to tell Slyvia?.