Hello again :) Sorry for the prologues but I didn't know how else to set everything up that needed to be set up. Anyway, this is the last of them and the story will start properly next Wednesday. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy!


Approximately one year later —

"Do you know what's happening?"

"Yeah."

"There's never been a human-Time Lord meta-crisis before now. And you know why."

"Because there can't be."

There was silence as Donna moved around the console, trying to hide from the Time Lord in front of her and the terrible thoughts he was thinking. "I want to stay."

"Look at me. Donna, look at me."

"I was gonna be with you forever."

"I know."

"Rest of my life. Travelling in the TARDIS. The Doctor-Donna. Oh! Oh my g- I can't go back. Don't make me go back. Doctor, please. Please don't make me go back."

"Donna. Ah," the Doctor sighed as he put his hands on her shoulders and looked into her eyes filled with tears, "Donna Noble I am so sorry-

No!" The Doctor jumped away from Donna like he'd been stung. He ran his hands through his hair as his mind whirred through the possibilities. There was something, something he had forgotten about. Donna wasn't sure what was going on. Thirty seconds ago, she was sure he'd been about to erase her memories of her entire time travelling with him, but now she didn't know if she should cry or not.

"Doctor?"

"Oh, Donna I've been so slow. I've been thick, Donna. So incredibly thick. The Chameleon Arch. Oh, this is brilliant!" he hollered, spinning around to the other side of the console and pulling a lever. A headset dropped down, big and bulky, that had cables running up into the ceiling of the control room.

"Doctor, what's that?"

He stopped fiddling with the controls abruptly and stared at her, as if he couldn't believe she didn't understand. "Just told you: Chameleon Arch."

"Yeah, okay I know that bit but what does it do?" Donna said, crossing her arms. She hated when the Doctor went off about some alien thing and just expected her to keep up.

"Rewrites your biology. I used it once, a while ago, turned myself human, nearly forgot who I was. I almost didn't change back," he explained as he went back to fiddling and tinkering with switches and levers and wires.

Donna gasped as the Time Lord part of her brain caught up with the Doctor. "And you're going to use it to take away the Time Lord part of me; make me fully human again."

"That's the idea," the Doctor answered, not looking at her. "Oh, but a fob watch. I don't have mine anymore. Gave it away. Have to do without it," he decided as a bit of the machine flew past Donna's head. "But we need something…something to hold what we're taking away. Donna," he said, whipping around to face her again, "do you have something - anything - that could be a container of sorts. A necklace pendent or a watch, maybe or-"

"A ring?" Donna asked, holding up her hand. The stone shone dark and mysterious.

"Oh yes! Give it me, quickly."

"But Doctor, why the rush?" she asked as he took the ring and began wrapping the exposed wires around it.

"Because, Donna, your brain is burning up right now. Overheating. The faster we get the Time Lord part out, the safer you'll be."

"This is going to hurt, isn't it." Not a question.

"Yes, it is. And I am so, so sorry about that but it's the only thing I can think of that doesn't involved taking away all of your memories since we met," the Doctor explained as he twisted dials and flicked switches.

"Okay." The tears were back but Donna let herself be positioned with the strange headset over her ears, her ring dangling in front of her nose.

The Doctor flipped a switch and her world shrunk to pain and burning inside her head.

When Donna opened her eyes, she was lying on the metal mesh floor of the TARDIS with a pounding in her head, right behind her eyes. The Doctor was sitting beside her with a steaming cup of tea.

"Donna?"

"Doctor? Why am I laying on the floor? Where is everyone?"

The Doctor smiled but she couldn't figure out why. "You're lying on the floor because you, um, well, you sort of fainted after hugging Jack. Maybe you don't remember. You went down pretty hard."

Everything felt too fuzzy in her head for her to be embarrassed, but she did vaguely remember something about the handsome captain. "Okay, but that doesn't explain where everyone is."

"Oh, they had to go home. Sarah Jane has Luke to look after and Martha and Mickey are joining up with Jack's Torchwood team. Jackie and Rose had to," he swallowed hard, "had to go home. Anyway, we've got things to see, you and me."

"B-but wasn't there someone else? Ugh, this headache's no fun. Haven't got any aspirin here, have you…Space Man?"

"No, sorry. None on board. But drink this, it'll help. Good old-fashioned tea," the Doctor beamed at her. "So, Donna Noble, where do you want to go first?"