They had gone to see the Titanic set off; even stopped a family going on board, apparently, according to the Doctor the son of the family had a big part in history. Also it was to satisfy Donna's need to save at least one person, something she apparently set off to do, though he did have to tell her that the love story of Jack and Rose wasn't true and was just made up by Hollywood. They then went to see the assassination of J.F Kennedy where Donna had to stop him from jumping in front of a bullet, calling him an Insane, Suicidal, Space-Man, she then lectured him and told him she couldn't give three bags fall if his planet and people were gone because of him, it gives him no right to kill himself.
He had decided that along with pushy and gets herself easily attached, that Donna Noble was a bossy little know-it-all that didn't really know anything.
But for some reason the TARDIS won't let him get rid off of her. Instead of taking them to Earth she took them to too many alien planets that needed saving.
Seeing Donna Noble hold an injured child, refusing to let it go until it was in the safety of its parents showed him there was a soft side to the irritating woman.
Seeing Donna Noble knock a guard out to save his life showed him that she wasn't squeamish about violence like most companions. He actually hadn't seen such bluntness since Ace.
Seeing her glare, tell him off, pull him away from almost death situations just plain told him there was no way he can get rid off this irritating redheaded, hot-tempered woman.
When he finally admitted it out loud to the TARDIS, she landed him on Earth, Donna's present time with a little bleep showing something is trying to invade.
He looked up to see Donna's smirk and knew that after this invasion he'll be helping her pack her bags and load them onto the TARDIS.
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"Wilson!"
They both lifted their heads from the bomb they were working on.
"Did you hear something?" the Doctor hissed.
"Apart from my heart racing a million miles per an hour because we could all die? Let me think..." Donna said sarcastically raising an eyebrow. "Of course I haven't heard something Dumbo!"
The Doctor rolled his eyes but didn't comment, he kept an ear out (rather easy now since according to Donna his ears are gigantic but honestly he wouldn't know since he had avoided all mirrors).
"Wilson I got the lottery money" a female voice shouted. "Wilson!"
"I definitely hear someone" the Doctor said frowning.
Donna merely rolled her eyes.
"You're there?" the sound of a door being rattled can be heard. "Look I can't hang about, they're about to close the shop. Wilson!"
Donna sat up making a scarping sound with her heels. "Someone is here!" she whispered.
"Really? I wouldn't have guessed" the Doctor whispered sarcastically.
"Hello? Someone there? Wilson it's Rose, hello?"
"Doctor, the living plastic" Donna hissed. "It's going to kill her like it killed that Wilson bloke!"
"Come on quick before the plastic get her then" the Doctor said taking her hand and pulling her away.
"But what about the bomb?" Donna asked. "We can't leave it here willy nilly the plastic might use it!"
"S'all right I finished it ages ago" the Doctor said picking it up and pocketing it. Donna whacked the back of his head. "Ow, what's that for?" he grunted while rubbing the back of his head.
"For making me think I was going to get blown to bits!" Donna hissed.
"Shh!" the Doctor hissed back.
The two crept in silence. They can hear the girl yelling, telling the living plastic that this wasn't funny as it cornered her into the back of the basement. Suddenly the Doctor leaned forward and took the girl's hand.
"Run!" he said.
Donna found herself running behind the couple, who she had to admit looked rather good with their hands linked together like that. They rushed into the lift and the Doctor kept pressing on the button in hastily when suddenly an arm went into block the door from closing, the Doctor tried to pull it off while the girl whimpered in fear, pressing herself into the back of the lift. Donna wrapped the girl into her arms to comfort her.
The Doctor managed to pull the living plastic's arm off and the door shut.
"You pulled his arm off" the girl said in awe.
"Jeeze whizz what an amazing event" Donna said sarcastically letting the girl go as she caught the arm. No matter how impressive the Doctor was, he wasn't that impressive.
"Nice trick, is it students or something?" the girl asked smiling nervously. "Well is it students?"
"Why would it be students?" both the Doctor and Donna asked confused.
"I don't know!"
"Well you said it" the Doctor pointed out.
"Well to get that many people to dress up and act stupid it's got to be students" the girl said shrugging.
"That actually makes sense, well done" the Doctor said giving the girl a grin before turning his back from Donna and the girl with his arms crossed.
"Thanks" the girl mumbled.
"They're not students" Donna said softly, wondering how to tell this girl that they're aliens.
"Well whoever they're are Wilson will call the police on them" the girl said warningly.
"Who's Wilson?" the Doctor asked confused.
"The dead guy, numb skull!" Donna snapped rolling her eyes.
The doors opened and the Doctor ran out, playing with the controls with his sonic screwdriver.
"But that's not funny!" the girl cried out. "That's sick!"
"I know sweetheart, this is why this isn't a joke" Donna said softly, pitying this young girl. The Doctor grabbed hold of Donna's elbow and began to drag her away, the girl followed them.
"Well who are they then? What were they doing?"
"They're called living plastic" the Doctor said continuing to march along, his fingers digging into Donna's elbow. "They're being controlled by a relay device in the group, which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this" he pulled out the bomb, letting Donna go, who glared up at him. "So I'm going to go upstairs and blow it up" he opened the fire escape and practically pushed Donna out, the girl followed Donna. "And I might die in the process but don't you worry about me, go on, go, go and enjoy your lovely beans on toast" he then slammed the door.
Donna ran to it and banged loudly. "IF YOU DIE I'M GOING TO FLIPPING KILL YOU SPACE-MAN!" She shrieked.
The door opened again and Donna stepped back.
"I'm the Doctor by the way and this is Donna she'll look after you. Who are you?"
"Rose" the girl answered.
"Nice to meet you Rose, run for your life"
Before he could shut the door Donna slapped him. "Don't you dare die, Space-Man" she hissed.
"Ow!" he protested rubbing his cheek before slamming the door shut.
"Urgh, that man!" Donna muttered darkly before herding Rose away. "Come on dear, best get out of the way."
Donna barely got the girl across the street when the building exploded. Rose ran off while Donna sighed and slipped into the TARDIS that was parked in the shadows of a building.
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When the Doctor got back into the TARDIS he was met by a furious Donna in her fluffy dressing gown and hair put in rollers, the epitome of a domestic woman in his opinion, something he shys away from.
"You stupid half-wit alien" she snarled. "You could have died!"
"You sound like a henpecked mother" the Doctor shot back shrugging his leather jacket off.
"Am I not allowed to worry about my friend?" Donna asked.
"I don't need mothering Donna Marie Noble!" the Doctor shouted.
"Oh no, you didn't" Donna said quietly, her eyes blazing with fury. "You did not just use my middle name"
The Doctor was sure that this woman would have killed him or worse slap him again when a beeping sound distracted them.
"Has she found the signal?" Donna asked tightening the belt of her dressing gown as she peered over his shoulder.
"No she found another one" the Doctor said groaning. "Just my luck to find a killer mannequin"
"And you rescued the girl" Donna said smirking. "You liked her"
"She seemed to be a nice girl" the Doctor mumbled.
Donna snorted. "You were impressed, she made a logical, reasonable, smart point and it impressed you. I bet you'll invite her to join us before this little adventure is over"
"Would you put your money where your mouth is" the Doctor said smirking, Donna was tight fisted, there was no way she would bet on something like this.
"Yeah, ten quid says Rose will be in this TARDIS travelling with us before this adventure is over" Donna said confidently.
Damn, no such luck! Donna was too confident that he would invite this little girl.
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"I don't like this" Donna sniffed wrapping her arms round herself tighter. "We could be walking straight into a trap or we could be mugged before we get back. If I get a knife in my chest I'll kill you"
"Would you just shut up for a moment?" the Doctor groused as he got on his knees and peered through a cat flap on a door. Donna rolled her eyes and tried her hardest to resist temptation of beating the man within an inch of his life.
Suddenly there was a gasp and the door opened to reveal Rose, the sweet blonde girl from the night before.
"What are you doing here?" the Doctor asked getting up on his feet.
"She obviously lives here you dingbat" Donna said rolling her eyes. "Ignore him Rose, he's always rude"
"Must have gotten the wrong signal" the Doctor said fiddling with his sonic screwdriver.
"Wouldn't have been the first time you done that" Donna said snickering.
"OI!" the Doctor protested, he knocked is fist on Rose's forehead. "You're not made of plastic are you?"
Donna rapped her fist on his forehead. "Yep it's empty, not a brain cell in sight" she said winking at Rose who grinned back.
The Doctor just shot Donna a withering glare. "Well then I guess this is good bye" he said trying to walk past.
"You inside now" Rose growled pulling the Doctor back in. Donna was rather impressed with the girl's strength and strolled in with a smirk.
"Who is it?" an older woman's voice called.
"It's about last night" Rose said leaning against a bedroom door. "Part of the inquiry, give us ten minutes" she walked away into the living room and Donna followed with a glint of amusement in her eyes. Rose was going to be someone she got on with, she can tell.
"She deserves compensation" the older blonde woman in a pink silk dressing gown said staring at the Doctor and Donna with a suspicious eye.
"Oh we're talking millions" the Doctor said dismissively.
"Ah, I'm in my dressing gown" Rose's mother said flirtatiously.
"Yes you are" the Doctor said nodding; Donna was trying to not laugh.
"There's a strange man in my bedroom"
"Yes there is"
Oh god if he was going to keep this up Donna will be breaking a rib by suppressing her laughter.
"Well anything could happen" the woman whispered.
"No!" the Doctor whispered back shaking his head before walking away quickly.
Donna was now laughing her head off.
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Donna sat watching the pair with amusement, the Doctor had just flipped through the magazine, read a book, found out Rose's last name (Tyler) and was admiring his reflection, while Rose was making them coffee and talking about the night before with complete and utter seriousness. If he wasn't an alien and looked so old and if she wasn't so young, Donna would have said the pair were a couple. The Doctor was now playing with a deck of cards and he dropped them everywhere on the floor.
"Pick them up" Donna ordered giving him her best 'general' stare. He glared back before doing as she said. Suddenly she heard a noise behind her and she turned over to peer over the sofa. "Rose have you got a cat?"
"No" Rose called back.
Suddenly a plastic arm shot out and began to strangle Donna. The Doctor ran to her side and began to try and pull it off of her.
"I'm...going...to...flipping...kill...you...Space...Man" Donna gasped between chokes as the Doctor struggled to rip the arm off of her.
Rose was still talking about cats in the kitchen. She came in with the cups of coffee; she saw the scene and rolled her eyes.
"I thought I told Mickey to chuck that out" she said. "I don't know all the men are the same give them a plastic arm and...Didn't think you would play along though Donna. What is your name anyway, Doctor who?"
The Doctor managed to get the arm off of Donna's throat when it when flying off and grabbed hold of Rose's face trying to suffocate her. The Doctor leaped up and tried to pull it off, Donna holding onto his waist tightly as she helped with the pulling. Suddenly the three fell into the coffee table smashing it and Rose rolled off of the Doctor (who was still crushing Donna) and sat back up on the sofa trying to pull off the arm her self. The Doctor sat up and was pushed by an angry Donna who yanked out the sonic screwdriver from his pocket.
"What setting was it?" she asked.
"Oh give it here you stupid ape" the Doctor snapped snatching the sonic screwdriver back.
"Stupid ape why I ought ta-"
"Donna not now!" the Doctor used the sonic screwdriver on the arm until it no longer moved. "There we go I stopped it now, harmless" he threw it at Rose who caught it.
"D'you think?" Rose asked glaring as she used the arm to hit him.
"OW!"
"Oh I really like her" Donna said nodding.
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"The Doctor fancies Rose, the Doctor fancies Rose, the Doctor fancies Rose, the Doctor fancies Rose, the Doctor fan-"
"DONNA WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP?"
Donna stopped singing her little irritating song and glared at him. "Well you do" she said sternly. "Never before have I seen you so impressed by a human woman"
"I was impressed by you" the Doctor argued.
"Yeah after I pushed you, argued with you and fought for every little bit respect you now give me" Donna pointed out. "This girl comes out of no where and you're impressed! She asks the right questions, she's compassionate and she's not overly impressed by you. Hell even I like her."
"So I'm impressed by her doesn't mean I fancy her" the Doctor said defensively.
"Oh yeah, so why did I see you checking out her breasts when you went to pick up that flipping arm?" Donna shot back.
There was a moment's silence.
"Oh my god you pervert!" Donna shrieked.
The Doctor had to run as fast as he could to avoid being slapped.
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"Are you sure this is where the signal was coming from?" Donna asked raising her eyebrow at the kitchen of Pizza Express.
"Yes Donna I am sure" the Doctor said rolling his eyes. "Now let's go before you find an excuse to slap the chief"
"I wouldn't!" Donna protested peering out of the kitchen door, her eyes landed on a familiar blonde. "Hey Doctor, your girlfriend is over there"
"What?!" the Doctor peered out and spotted Rose sitting with a plastic looking black boy. "I'm beginning to think that girl is right. That the living plastic is after her. Come on then lets rescue her" he ducked back in to the kitchen and came back with a bottle of champagne. "And she's not my girlfriend" he added before strolling towards the table.
Donna snorted. "Could have fooled me" she mumbled.
"Babe-babe-sugar-sweetheart" the plastic boy said moving his head in an awkward movement. Now either the living plastic is having a fault or the guy really is that retarded that he moves his head like that.
"What are you doing that for?" Rose asked looking rather creeped out. Damn that meant that the living plastic was having a fault.
"Champagne" he said.
"We didn't order any" the living plastic said dismissively. He grabbed hold of Rose's hand. "Where's the Doctor?"
The Doctor suppressed a laugh and moved to Rose's side. "Ma'am your champagne" he said.
"Sorry it's not ours" Rose said not looking at him. "Mickey what's wrong?"
"I need to find out what you know, so where is he?" the living plastic demanded.
"Does anybody want some champagne?"
"We didn't order any..." the living plastic trailed off and attempted a smile. "Ah got ya" Rose turned to look at him in surprise.
"Yeah don't mind me, just toasting the happy couple" he shook the bottle before let the corkscrew loose. The corkscrew shot out and was absorbed into the living plastic's skin. The living plastic chewed on it before spitting it out.
"Anyway" the living plastic said standing up, his had transformed into a flat board like thing as he held it up to hit them. People began to scream and Rose ran to the side, the Doctor grabbed the living plastic into a headlock and he began to try and pull the head off.
"Come on put some backbone into it!" Donna shouted from the kitchen. "You're not going to win any wrestling matches the way you're going sunshine!"
"Donna just shut up!" the Doctor shouted as he pulled off the living plastic's head. People began to scream even more.
"Don't think that's going to stop me" the living plastic hissed.
His body got up and began to attack the tables; Rose slammed her hand against the fire alarm getting everyone's attention. "Everyone get out, get out, everyone get out, get out!" she said running to the kitchen.
Donna grabbed hold of her hand and pulled her through the kitchen and out in the alley towards the TARDIS, the Doctor hot on their heels. They slammed the door shut and the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver on the door, Rose ran to the metal gates and began to pull at them as Donna unlocked the TARDIS.
"Use your transmitter thingy to unlock the gates" she called to the Doctor.
"Sonic screwdriver" the Doctor corrected her waving it as he went to the TARDIS.
"Well use it!" Rose shouted.
"Nah tell you what lets go in here, Donna can make us a cup of tea" the Doctor said following Donna into the TARDIS.
"Make your own blooming tea!" Donna shouted over her shoulder. After a lot of shouting Rose came in and stared in shock. She ran out again. "Was I ever like that?" Donna asked.
"Nah you were worse, slapped me at least three times" the Doctor said putting wires into the living plastic.
Rose came back in. "it can still get us" she said sounding terrified.
"The men of Ghangis Khan couldn't get through those doors, trust me they tried, now shut up" the Doctor said walking round the console playing with his sonic screwdriver.
"Why was Ghangis Khan trying to get through these doors?" Rose asked.
"Donna's fault, didn't I tell you to shut up?" Donna slapped the back of his head. "OW!"
"Manners go and find them Space-Man" Donna said glaring at him.
"Now you see the arm was useless" the Doctor said putting the head down on the console. "But the head, well that can help us trace the signal straight to the source" he turned round to Rose and put his hands in his pocket. "Now where shall we start?"
"Erm the inside is bigger than the outside" Rose said nervously.
"Yes" the Doctor nodded.
"Almost gave me a heart attack when I first saw it" Donna said grinning.
"It's alien" Rose said calmly.
"Yeah"
"Are you alien?" Rose asked.
"I am, Donna isn't she's human. Is that all right?"
"Yeah" Rose answered before the Doctor could even finish his question.
"It's called the TARDIS, T, A, R, D, I, S. Stands for Time and Relative Dimensions in Space" the Doctor explained. Rose began to cry; Donna rushed to her side and held her. "That's all right, culture shock, Donna didn't cry though, she slapped and yelled but no tears..."
"Oh don't be such a big dumb dumbo!" Donna spat. "She's crying for her boyfriend!"
"Did they kill him? Mickey, did they kill Mickey?" Rose asked.
"Oh I didn't think of that" the Doctor said.
"You didn't think!" Donna shrieked before Rose couldn't open her mouth. "This poor girl's boyfriend has been taken, probably killed just so they could copy him, you ripped his head off and you didn't think?"
The Doctor took a step back from Donna in case she would slap him.
"And now you're going to let him melt?" Rose cried out.
"What?" both Donna and the Doctor blinked before turning round to see the head melting.
"Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no" the Doctor ran round the console. "Signal still there, faint but I got it" he started the sequence and the TARDIS began to move. "No, no, no, no, no, no, here we go, off we go!"
The TARDIS landed and both the Doctor and Donna ran out, Rose shouting after them.
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Donna leaned against the TARDIS watching in amusement as Rose and the Doctor argued about Mickey. She bit her lip to stop laughing when Rose placed a few good questions and the two were admiring the anti-plastic while grinning like idiots at each other. People thought she and the Doctor acted like a married couple, well they haven't seen anything till now, if anything Rose and the Doctor acted more like a married couple.
The Doctor was now babbling about the transmitter, describing it to Rose when he stopped before the millennium eye, his back to it. Donna and Rose exchanged looks of mirth before turning to face the Doctor.
"What?" the Doctor asked.
The pair nodded at the millennium eye.
The Doctor looked at it and then back to them. "What is it?" they nodded to it and he looked back. "What?"
"Flipping heck, how stupid are you?" Donna squawked.
The Doctor looked back. "Oh" he said quietly taking another peek at the millennium eye before looking back at them. "Fantastic!" he said running.
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Donna was very, very impressed with Rose. The girl had found them an entrance to underneath the eye so they could find the conscience. As they three quietly walked down the boiling tunnel, the Doctor leaned over the railings.
"The Nestene Conscience. That's it over there in the vat, a living plastic creature" he pointed out to what looked like moulting lava in a hole to Donna.
"Well then tip in your anti-plastic and lets go" Rose said calmly.
"I'm not here to kill it" the Doctor snapped. "I'm here to talk to it, I got to give it at chance" he went down the ramp with Rose and Donna lagging behind him. "I'm here to seek audience with the Nestene Conscience under peaceful contract according to the convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation"
The thing made a bubbling noise.
"Thank you, may I have permission to approach?" the Doctor asked.
Rose spotted Mickey and ran to hug him. The Doctor and she argued briefly over him and how the Doctor never said that Mickey could be alive. Donna rolled her eyes as she heard the Doctor say "can we leave the domestics outside?" and decided to wait till later to lecture him. She stood by his side as he tried to convince the Nestene Conscience to leave, every single thing he said that insulted her, humans or anything else she made a note of, the way he was going she was going to spend hours yelling at him.
"DOCTOR, DONNA!" Rose shouted before the pair got restrained by plastic dummies.
The Nestene Conscience found the TARDIS and went ballistic, it started the final attack and the Doctor who looked distraught was trying to get Rose to go, Rose who was calling her mother didn't seem to be going anywhere. Donna closed her eyes and only hoped her family was safe.
Suddenly Rose came flying down on a chain like Tarzan or something, kicking the dummy that was restraining the Doctor, so the Doctor could flip it in the Nestene Conscience and then she kicked the one restraining Donna, also the one that had the anti-plastic into the Nestene Conscience...killing it.
Rose swung back. The Doctor shouted her name before catching her and Donna really thought that, that would be the perfect moment for a kiss. The two looked like some sort of adventure romance couple together.
"Now we're in trouble" the Doctor said grinning before running off with Rose and Donna trailing after them.
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Mickey ran out of the TARDIS as quickly as possible while Rose walked out coolly trying phone her mother.
"Wimp" Donna mumbled causing the Doctor to snigger. She then pulled out her own phone and dialled her mother's number. "Mum? Are you all right?"
"Of course I'm all right Donna I've been sitting in the house reading this good book while your twat of a grandfather is raving on about aliens"
Donna sighed in relieve. Thank god, her mother had been no where near the living plastic or her Grandfather. "All right then, just checking in. I got to go, bye Mum"
"Bye Donna, really you should call more often"
"I'll try" Donna promised while crossing her fingers. She then hung up and looked over to see the Doctor leaning against the door frame of the TARDIS.
"Nestene Conscience, easy!" the Doctor snapped his fingers.
"You and Donna were useless in there. The pair of you would have been dead if it weren't for me" Rose pointed out.
"Yes I would" the Doctor admitted, Donna's jaw dropped open, it took five rescues for him to finally admit that without Donna Noble the Doctor would be dead and for Rose it only took one...oh the man has got it bad. "Thank you, right then, guess I better be off...unless...you...well want to come with me. This box doesn't go round London you know, all round the universe, free of charge."
"He's an alien, he's a thing" Mickey shouted hysterically.
"He's not allowed" the Doctor said nodding to him.
"Can I slap some sense into him?" Donna asked the Doctor while glaring at Mickey, aliens have feelings as well!
"No Donna, you can't" the Doctor said pushing her back into the TARDIS. "So what do you think?" he asked Rose. "You can stay here and fill your life with work, food and sleep or you can go...anywhere"
"Is it always this dangerous?" Rose asked.
"Yeah" the Doctor said nodding.
Mickey clung tightly to Rose's waist. "Cling on" Donna coughed. She was rather disappointed as Rose told the Doctor no. She was even more disappointed when the Doctor accepted it and took the TARDIS into the vortex. She voiced those thoughts to him.
"The girl didn't want to go, I can't force her" the Doctor said gruffly.
"The thing is she was so tempted. I think if Mickey never clung to her like that she would have gone with you" Donna carried on.
"Doesn't matter" the Doctor muttered not looking up from the console. "Now you owe me a tenner"
"Oh no, I don't because you're going back and this time I'll ask her"
"What?"
"Well you obviously didn't do it right, so it's my turn" Donna said crossing her arms. "Take me back"
The Doctor took one look at Donna's determined face and sighed. "Can't we just adopt a puppy or something" he asked. "Because it feels like you're trying to fill every room in the TARDIS up with life"
"JUST TAKE US BACK!"
The Doctor moved quickly. "There we go should only be a minute since we left" he said. "All yours"
"Good now watch the human expert do her job" Donna said winking, she strolled down the ramp and opened the door and stuck her head out. "OI! Rose did the idiot tell you that it travels in time?"
She stepped away from the door giving room for Rose to run in, her hand out stretched to the Doctor.
"Don't have any money" the Doctor grumbled.
"Don't worry I'll just add it to account of money you owe me" Donna said smirking. "The rate you're going you'll owe me a million pounds before Christmas"
