The Runaway Bride- Donna
A very, very nervous Donna Noble and her father were ready to walk down the aisle.
Much to her dismay, Donna noticed that her father Geroff had his arm linked through hers rather than the other way round.
Donna hurriedly swapped their positions with a slight cough.
Geroff muttered sorry so that only Donna could hear it and looked a little embarrassed.
The organ began to play and Donna sighed happily. This was it. The congregation of the church stood up.
Donna's fiancé, Lance, caught her eye from the front of the church and they smiled at one another in happy anticipation.
Donna and Geoff began to walk slowly down the aisle, which elicited sounds of appreciation from her friends and family.
Everyone that is, except from one blonde woman, Nerys, who looked Donna up and down with a look of pure contempt.
They were only about halfway down the aisle when Donna started to glow gold. Lance's eyes widened in shock.
It took Donna a moment to notice, but when she did, she screamed long and loud.
The congregation muttered excitedly as Donna disappeared in a puff of golden dust, which zoomed upwards and through the ceiling.
The golden dust flew straight through the walls and reassembled itself in the form of Donna in the console room.
Rose Tyler looked at Donna in alarm, not knowing who she was.
"Doctor." said Rose in shock, thinking that she was hallucinating.
"Where to next? Somewhere you've never been before! A fresh start is we we need!" said the Doctor, pushing some buttons and pulling a lever to bring them to their
next destination.
The bride let out a sort of squeak of surprise.
"Doctor." Rose said again, trying harder to get his attention this time. Finally, the Doctor turned around.
"What?" he said in complete shock.
"Who are you?" asked the bride, trying to keep calm.
"But-" the Doctor began but was cut of.
"Where am I?" asked the bride.
"What!?"
"Doctor, who is that?" asked Rose incredulously.
"What the hell is this place?!" asked the bride loudly, who was now angry.
"What?" said the Doctor, now thoroughly confused.
~oOo~
The Doctor still looked really confused. " You can't do that, I wasn't... we're in flight! That is- that is physically impossible! How did-?"
"Doctor obviously it's possible. She's right here." said Rose, every bit as confused as the Doctor.
"Tell me where I am. I demand you tell me right now - where am I?" Donna said commandingly.
The Doctor stared at Donna a little bit before answering. "Inside the Tardis."
"Doctor she's not going to know what that is." said Rose, who had unconsciously gone to stand by the Doctor's side.
Much as Rose expected, Donna answered with a question. "The what?"
The Doctor replied promptly. "The Tardis."
'The what?"
"The Tardis!"
The Doctor turned back to the controls.
"The what?"
The Doctor was now frustrated. "It's called the Tardis ."
Donna replied angrily. "That's not even a proper word. You're just saying things."
"No he's right. It's called the Tardis. Time and Relative Dimension In Space." said Rose, trying to explain.
"Stop saying nonsense. Has he kidnapped you to?" Asked Donna, just noticing Rose for the first time.
"No he didn't kidnap me." said Rose, trying to keep from laughing, and finding Donna very amusing.
"Well how come you're on board?" asked Donna, gesturing for emphasis.
"I chose to travel with him. I have no idea how you ended up on board." Rose said, moments away from losing it.
The Doctor sensed this and took over asking questions from Rose. "How did you get in here?"
Donna was downright rigid with rage. "Well, obviously, when you kidnapped me. Who was it? Who's paying you? Is it Nerys? Oh, my God, she's finally got me back. This
has got Nerys written all over it."
The Doctor watched her rant, looking her up and down with utter confusion.
"Weren't you listening to me at all? We didn't kidnap you! Something brought you here!" said Rose.
"Yeah something brought me here alright! Him!" Said Donna, pointing at the Doctor.
"All this accusation and bickering and you haven't even told us your name." said Rose, who, in spite of herself was now smiling.
"Donna. Donna Noble. What's is to you?" asked Donna suspiciously.
"Alright who is this Nerys?" asked the Doctor, trying to put the puzzle pieces together.
"Your best friend." said Donna sassily.
"Isn't it obvious Doctor?" said Rose, "Nerys is some ex- lady friend of the guy she was going to marry, am I right Donna?"
The Doctor processed this. "Could be. Probably is. Hold on, wait a minute - what're you dressed like that for?"
Donna looked like she couldn't believe her ears. "I'm going ten pin bowling. What do you think, Dumbo? I was halfway up the aisle!"
The Doctor began to fiddle with the controls while Rose watched Donna walk around, ranting.
"I've been waiting all my life for this. I was just seconds away! And then you- I dunno, you drugged me or something!" Said Donna hotly.
"I haven't done anything! And neither has Rose!" protested the Doctor.
"Rose eh? Looks like she's brainwashed. I know her type. Falls madly in love with their captor and then suddenly BAM! they turn up dead in an alleyway!"
For some reason this time Rose stayed silent.
Donna didn't like this. "We'll have the police on you! Me and my husband - as soon as he is my husband - we're gonna sue the living backside off ya!"
"Oh yeah?" Rose asked, "Who's your lawyer?"
"Does it really matter?" said Donna.
The Doctor didn't reply to any of this.
He was too engrossed in operating the controls. Donna finally noticed the doors and rushed over to them. The Doctor looked up in alarm, hurrying after her.
"I wouldn't do that If I were you." called Rose warningly.
"No, wait a minute! Wait a minute! Don't-!" said the Doctor as well, but it was too late.
Donna had already thrown open the doors and was now looking upon the super nova. Her mouth fell open slightly.
The Doctor went to stand next to her. Rose noticed this and didn't particularly like it.
"You're in space. Outer Space. This is my... space-ship. It's called the 'Tardis." The Doctor explained kindly.
"Like I was saying earlier." Rose added.
"How am I breathing?" Donna asked, still in awe and still not quite believing.
"The Tardis is protecting us." said Rose in answer.
"Who are you two?" asked Donna, looking at them like they were aliens.
" I'm the Doctor, and this is Rose Tyler." answered the Doctor.
After a quick glance at the Doctor, Rose spoke. "Are you human?"
Donna looked offended. "Yeah. Is that optional?"
Rose thought about this for a second. "I suppose it is for the Doctor and me."
"You're an alien." said Donna accusingly to Rose.
"It's not that I'm alien, I'm human. It's more like theres still a part of the time vortex still in me from Bad Wolf, so I guess that might make me part Time Lady?" Rose
sounded unsure, and a little afraid.
"That would help explain how you were able to find that one hole in the universe about to close. We'll have to talk more about that later." The Doctor said softly,
pondering.
"Look you lot, I don't care if you are lords and ladies of time, get me back to my wedding!" Donna was upset.
The three of them stood in silence for a second before Donna spoke again. "It's freezing with these doors open."
The Doctor slammed the doors shut and darted back to the console.
He seemed frustrated. "But I don't understand it and I understand everything! This- this can't happen! There is no way a Human Being can lock itself onto the Tardis and transport itself inside. It must be...
Suddenly he was all energy - he grabbed an ophthalmoscope and used it to look into Donna's eyes. Donna was stuck silent with confusion.
"Impossible. Some sort of subatomic connection? Something in the temporal field? Maybe something pulling you into alignment with the Chronon shell. Maybe
something macro mining your DNA within the interior matrix. Maybe a genetic-"
"Doctor, could you please explain it so that Donna and I know what's going on?" asked Rose tentatively.
Donna, who must have been thinking along the same lines as Rose, slapped the Doctor.
"What was that for?" the Doctor said, taken aback.
"Get me to the church!" Donna yelled in fury.
"Doctor you better listen to her." said Rose, who was slightly wary of Donna now.
"You're right he better." said Donna in a deathly calm voice, glaring a hole into the Doctor.
"He's trying his best. Give him a break." said Rose.
"Yeah right. You're just sticking up for you boyfriend aren't you Rose!" said Donna, not thinking before she spoke.
Right away Donna could tell that she had hit a sore point between the two. It was almost like they both liked each other, and they knew that the other one liked
them but neither one of them really wanted to say anything to avoid the awkwardness.
Instinctively Donna backtracked."Just get me to the church." said Donna weakly.
The Doctor dropped his instruments and going back to the controls "Right! Fine! I don't want you here anyway! Where is this wedding?"
"Saint Mary's, Hayden Road, Chiswick, London, England, Earth, the Solar System." said Donna snarkily.
The Doctor looked just about through with Donna. "Right! Chiswick it is!"
~oOo~
There was much commotion and a large crowd of confused friends and families inside Saint Mary's church. Donna's mother, Sylvia, pushed her way through the throngs
whilst talking to someone on her mobile.
"No, she didn't run away. We're not talking jitters. She literally vanished. Now, go and check the house and see if she's there." said Sylvia.
She hung up her phone and looked out into the crowd to see a woman named Angelica crying.
"Oh, Angelica, that's not helping, is it? Now, smarten up." she said.
"Sorry." said Angelica, still looking ready to cry.
Donna's fiancé, Lance, came towards Sylvia.
"Lance - any sign?" asked Sylvia, hoping that there was one.
Lance shook his head no. "I've looked all around and I can't find her. Where the hell did she go?"
He disappeared back into the crowd.
Sylvia turned to Gerroff "Showing off, that's what she is! First day at school, she was sent home for biting."
Geroff pondered this. "Well, it's a bit more serious than that. She's never disappeared before!"
"She didn't disappear, it's a trick! It's one of her silly little 'look at me' party pieces. What if she's dead?" said Sylvia suddenly.
"Oh, don't say that!" protested Geroff.
~oOo~
Donna stepped out of the Tardis - it was the right time, and the right planet, but unfamiliar surroundings.
"I said 'Saint Mary's'. What sort of Martians are you people? Where's this?" said Donna angrily.
"Were not from Mars." said Rose disbelievingly, "Actually, I'm from Earth."
"Where's he from then?" asked Donna, pointing a finger at the Doctor.
"Gallifrey." replied the Doctor with finality, declaring the subject closed.
The Doctor stroked the Tardis with concern, examining the blue box.
"Something's wrong with her..."he said, still examining.
"What's wrong with the Tardis Doctor?" asked Rose, who was a little concerned now.
Donna rolled her eyes.
"It's like she's... recalibrating!" said the Doctor, as if such a thing were very strange.
He rushed back into the Tardis and over to the console.
"But what does that mean Doctor?" asked Rose, confused.
"She's digesting." The Doctor said simply.
"Excuse me?" said Rose and Donna together.
Donna stood outside with her mouth open - she had finally noticed what she stepped out of and how small it was in comparison to it's interior.
"But what could make the Tardis recalibrate?" asked Rose, still not getting the full picture.
The Doctor put one hand on the rotor. "What have you eaten? What's wrong? Donna? You've really gotta think. Is there anything that might've caused this?"
"Maybe her snarkiness is giving it indigestion?" suggested Rose with a straight face.
"Alright c'mon Rose stop it. Now really Donna. Anything you might've done? Any sort of alien contacts? I can't let you go wandering off in case you're dangerous.
I mean, have you... have you seen lights in the sky? Or... did you touch something? Something- something different? Something strange? Something made out of a sort
of metal or... who're you getting married to?"
But Donna wasn't listening - she was pacing around the outside of the Tardis, feeling the walls in utter bewilderment.
After a moment of silence, Donna had completed her circuit of the Tardis and popped her head back inside, as if to check whether she wasn't just imagining how big it
was.
Having confirmed this, she stumbled backwards, hands over her mouth.
"Are you sure he's human? He's not a bit overweight with a zip around his forehead, is he?" asked the Doctor.
The strangeness of the Tardis was too much for Donna - she ran. The Doctor and Rose ran after her.
"Donna!" the Doctor called out.
"Doctor, I think that we might have scared her off." said Rose.
"Oh please Rose, you much more scary than me." joked the Doctor, giving Rose one of his goofy grins.
"Whatever you say space man." said Rose, giving the Doctor one of her signature tongue perched at the top of her mouth smile.
"You know, we should probably go and get her." said the Doctor, and he began running after Donna with Rose not far behind.
~oOo~
"Donna." the Doctor said when he had caught up to the ginger woman.
"Leave me alone. I just want to get married." said Donna, clearly wishing that she had never been transported onto the Tardis in the first place.
"We'll get you to your wedding Donna, I promise." said Rose, not unkindly.
"Come back to the Tardis." said the Doctor coaxingly.
"Please. We can help you." promised Rose.
" Thanks, Rose but no way. That box is too... weird." said Donna, almost apologetically.
"It's... bigger on the inside, that's all." said the Doctor, needing to know why Donna had been transported on board in the first place.
"Oh! That's all?" Donna had gotten her snark back.
She sighed exaggeratedly and checked her watch. "Ten past three. I'm gonna miss it." Donna said, suppressing tears.
"You can phone them. Tell them where you are." suggested Rose.
"How do I do that?" asked Donna.
"Haven't you got a mobile?" asked the Doctor, confused.
"Doctor-" Rose began, but it was to late.
Donna stopped and stared at him.
"I'm in my wedding dress. It doesn't have pockets. Who has pockets? Have you ever seen a bride with pockets?
When I went to my fitting, do you think I said "Alison, the one thing I forgot to say is give me pockets?!"
"This man you're marrying - what's his name?" said the Doctor, choosing to ignore the rant.
"Lance." said Donna, and her voice was definitely softer and kinder.
"Gotta like Lance." said the Doctor hurriedly.
She couldn't help it. Rose faceplamed herself.
Donna changed manner with terrifying abruptness. "Oi! No stupid Martians are gonna stop me from getting married. To hell with you two!" She ran off.
"I'm- I'm not... I'm not... I'm not from Mars." said the Doctor feebly.
"I tried to tell he earlier, but she just doesn't listen." said Rose, amused.
"We have to go chase her again don't we?" asked the Doctor.
"Yes, yes we do." said Rose, and the pair ran after her.
~oOo~
Donna was running down a busy street.
"Taxi!" called Donna, wanting to get out of this place and too her wedding.
The Doctor and Rose joined her. The taxi rudely ignored them.
"Why's his light on?" Donna asked, confused.
"There's another one!" said Rose. She and the Doctor ran to try and catch it.
"Taxi!" called Donna.
She stumbled into the road in her effort to catch the drivers attention - but again, it drove straight past.
"Oi!" called Donna, felling a little mad now.
"There's one!" Called the Doctor suddenly. He ran, waving for their attention. And again, it ignored him.
"Oi!" said Rose this time.
The Doctor turned to Donna. "Do you have this effect on everyone? Why aren't they stopping?"
"They think I'm in fancy dress." said Donna as another taxi drives past, the driver hooting his horn.
The Taxi Driver smirked. "Stay off the scotch darlin'!" he called.
"Ignore him." said Rose, not wanting Donna to make a scene.
"They think I'm drunk." said Donna incredulously. Two guys in their car yelled out of the window as they drove past.
"Ignore them." Rose said again.
The driver and passenger of the car called to Donna. "You're fooling no-one, mate!"
"They think I'm in drag!" said Donna, offended.
The Doctor looked Donna up and down appraisingly.
"Hold on, hold on." he said, as if an idea had just occurred to him.
He put his fingers between his lips and whistled, long and piercing.
Donna winced and covered her ears. So did Rose. However, it attracted the attention of a taxi, which grinded to a halt before them.
The Doctor, Rose, and Donna clamber in the back seat.
"Saint Mary's in Chiswick, just off Hayden Road. It's an emergency, I'm getting married! Just... hurry up!" said Donna irritably.
"You know it'll cost you, sweetheart? Double rates today." said the Taxi Driver.
"Oh, my God! Have you got any money? Donna said to the Doctor.
"Um... no. And you?" Donna shook her head.
"What about you Rose?" asked the Doctor, keeping calm.
"Nope." said Rose, popping the 'p'.
Donna gestured her dress violently "Pockets!"
The taxi screeched to a halt and they all got out. The Doctor slammed the door.
"And that goes double for your mother!" Donna yelled at the driver.
The taxi drove off.
"I'll have him. I've got his number. I'll have him. Talk about the Christmas Spirit." sneered Donna.
The Doctor and Rose look around, vaguely surprised "Is it Christmas?" asked Rose.
"Well, duh. Maybe not on Mars, but here it's Christmas Eve."said Donna. She hit the Doctor, having spotted something in the distance.
"Phone box!" called Donna, and they all rushed towards it.
"We can reverse the charges!" said Donna.
"How come you're getting married on Christmas Eve?" asked the Doctor.
"Can't bear it. I hate Christmas. Honeymoon in Morocco. Sunshine - lovely." said Donna.
"Sounds like a fun time." said Rose.
"Oh it will be." said Donna approvingly.
They reached the phone box - the Doctor held the door open for Donna.
"What's the operator? I've not done this in years. What do you dial? 100?" asked Donna.
"I think so." called Rose.
The Doctor put his sonic screwdriver to the phone "Just- just call the direct." The dial tone buzzed on the end of the receiver.
"What did you do?" Donna asked demanding.
"Something- Martian. Now, phone. I'll get money!" said the Doctor.
He sprinted to the nearest cash machine. The man currently using it in front of him was being aggravatingly slow - the Doctor hopped from foot to foot impatiently.
"Is he always this impossible?" asked Donna.
"Nearly always, you get used to it after a while.'" said Rose, smiling.
Donna cracked a smile back in return. "How long have you been traveling with him?"
"About two whole years now." said Rose, not quite believing that that much time had passed.
"Do you ever get bored of traveling?" asked Donna.
"No, and I don't think I ever will either." said Rose.
"Ohh, answer the phone!" said Donna, growing impatient.
She punched the numbers out.
~oOo~
At the church, Sylvia's phone rang.
"Hello? Oh, no! The battery's gone! Has anyone got a charger?" she called urgently.
"Have you tried the hotel? Hello? Hello?" said Lance on his own mobile.
Lance's phone battery ran out.
"Vicar, is your phone working? Mine's run out!" said Lance.
"I've got one wedding about to arrive and another wedding refusing to leave, so yes, I do think it's a police matter." said the Vicar.
~oOo~
"Mum, get off the phone and listen. I'm in- Oh, my God- I dunno where I am! It's... it's a street. And there's WH Smith... but it's definitely Earth." said Donna.
The Doctor was still waiting to use the cash machine, and he was growing more agitated by the second.
Finally the man in front of him left. The Doctor darted forwards, casting a furtive look about him before using his sonic screwdriver to retrieve cash from the machine.
Donna left the phone box, out of breath. She approached a woman at random on the street.
"Excuse me... I'm begging you. I'm getting married, I really am and I'm late and I just need to borrow a tenner and I'll pay you back I promise and it's Christmas."
The Doctor took the cash and met up with Rose.
"Shes completely mad." said Rose shaking her head and looking at Donna.
"Yeah. But we have to help her. We are the ones who ruined her wedding." said the Doctor.
"We didn't do anything." Rose protested.
"I know, but it's the right thing to do. Help people. now cum'on. Allons-y!"
The Doctor's eye is caught by a row of masked Santa's playing trumpets a short distance away.
He watches them, remembering his last encounter with similar Santa's, suspicions aroused.
"Rose, do those Santas over there look suspicious to you?" asked the Doctor, trying top confirm that he wasn't being paranoid.
"Yeah actually, there all.. funny looking." said Rose, agreeing with him.
~oOo~
"Taxi!" called Donna again.
A taxi pulled up beside her - she conversed with the driver for a few seconds before shouting back to the Doctor.
"Thanks for nothing, spaceman! I'll see you in Court."
"Donna!" called Rose, noticing that the driver was one of the Santas.
"Doctor, Donna's cab driver is a Santa." said Rose, stating to panic a little.
"Perfect. Just what we need." said the Doctor. The Doctor and Rose ran back to the Tardis to try and save that runaway bride.
A/N: I am so exited about this story! Honestly, I don't know if I've even been this exited about one of my stories! I can say that we are going to see some conflict with that whole Time Lady Rose thing, and wait until we get to Human Nature/ Family of Blood! I have a big plot twist planned, I'm not quite sure If I want to go through with it though. Oh well. You guys will know it when you see it! I'm also planning a huge twist for the season finale. Yes already. I can quite honestly say that probably no one will be able to figure it out, but you guys are really smart so I have lots of hope! LOL. I cant wait for Series 4. I just really like the dynamic Donna, Rose ,and the Doctor have together. It's really fun to write! I would like your guys opinions on a few things. Would you prefer a little bit shorter chapters but ore chapters per story line ex- 3 to 4, or longer chapters and only two or 3 chapters per story line. And would you like me to update everyday or every other day?