She was in a pub holding a tray of drinks. It was crowded as everyone was celebrating Christmas, the decorations above looked tacky but at the same time Christmassy.

"Come on then. Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Donna shouted through the crowd as she made her way to her table. She put down the tray grinning down at her family. "Here we are! Feed at the trough!"

"Rose says let's go to the boardwalk, it's two for the price of one!" Gwen said taking her drink.

"Christmas Eve, it'll be heaving!" Donna complained.

"Well exactly, get in and grab them!" Jack said smiling slyly.

Everyone groaned loudly.

"Honestly Jack think with the head that's not in your pants" Rose said rolling her eyes. "Anyway, isn't this the second round you brought Donna?"

"Yeah so?"

"Unusual for you buying more than one round" Ianto commented. "Usually we have to pay"

"Yeah well now I can afford it. Promotion. You are talking to Jival Chowdry's Personal Assistant, I'll have you know, capital P, capital a, £23,000 per annum, merci beaucoup!" Donna bragged.

"Here's to Mr Chowdry!" JJ said raising his glass.

"Mr Chowdry!" everyone chanted clinking their glasses. Everyone but Alex Rose who looked haunted, she turned to look at Donna, her eyes trained on Donna's back.

"What's up sweetheart?" Ianto asked squeezing Alex Rose's shoulder.

"The end of everything" Alex Rose whispered, Ianto closed his eyes and took a deep breath ever since the day he found her in the kitchen having a fit due to a vision she had been more closed off than ever.

"Did someone spill a drink on me?" Donna asked suddenly.

"Why?" Ianto asked confused.

"Why do you Alex Rose keep looking at my shoulder? What's wrong?" Donna persisted getting annoyed.

"I don't know..." Alex Rose lied.

"Oh, don't tell me you're getting all spooky again, something bad always happens when you go spooky. What are you looking at? What is it?" Donna rambled.

"Death" Alex Rose whispered everyone on the table paled.

"Now, shut up! All of you come and see! Just look at the sky! It's a star! It's a Christmas star!" A man shouted from the door.

"...well, come on then!" Gwen said getting up trying to look excited.

They ran out to see a huge silver webbed star flying over London, it suddenly started to shoot out bolts of electricity out. Everyone screamed but Donna who was staring at it in wonder. Alex Rose was still staring at Donna's back.

"There is something on your back!" she said flatly before the seven of them marched off towards the star.

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They reached the barrier when Jack pulled out his ID. "Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood Three. This is my team, what have we got here?"

The soldier saluted him and let him through as he began to explain. "Some sort of red spider sir. The star was its ship"

"Is the spider alive?" JJ asked curiously.

"No sir, there...it was the Doctor that stopped it" the soldier said uneasily.

"Is he still here?" Rose asked alarmed, she has the feeling that Christmas Eve would not be the best time to tell someone that he has two adult children.

"The Doctor is dead. Must have happened too fast for him to regenerate Ma'am" the soldier replied.

Rose's breath caught in her throat. "Wha...?" she managed to get out. The Doctor couldn't be dead, he must have regenerated. The man was always able to get out of tight spots.

"He had a companion with him, we found her body first but we have no identification" the soldier continued.

Rose prayed silently that it wasn't someone she knew, Sarah Jane or Mickey or someone else that she had met over the years. She must have replied to the soldier because he led her towards the second body and unzipped the bag for her. The sight caused her to burst into tears immediately.

"M-M-Mum" she got out.

The soldier looked at her with sympathy. "I'm so sorry Ma'am"

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Donna stood away from the others, Jack was talking to the senior officer at the scene convincing him to allow Torchwood and the Tylers to assist UNIT while JJ and Gwen were comforting Rose and Alex Rose stood away from it all with such an empty look in her eyes. She knew what was to come and Donna expected it wasn't good at all.

"Donna" Jack called her over; she walked quickly and looked up at him questioningly. "Me, Gwen and Ianto are going to be helping out with the cleanup. Rose and the twins are going with the...the bodies and I was wondering what you wou-"

"I'll go home Jack" Donna interrupted him swiftly. "I'm no good at this alien stuff and I think Rose and the twins need a moment alone"

"Ok love, you take care" Jack said softly bending down and pressing a kiss on Donna's forehead. While they haven't got back together since the messy breakup not so long ago, they were easing into some sort of strange understanding. Donna secretly hoped it would develop into what they had long before.

She waited until everyone was settled in the large UNIT trucks before she made her way down the road. A man was running towards her, he looked young no older than twenty seven and he wore dark clothes. If she walked past him on a busy street she would have never noticed him.

"What happened, what did they find? I'm sorry, did they find someone?" he asked babbling slightly.

"Yeah...yeah a bloke and this woman" Donna mumbled distractedly.

"Who? Who was it?" the man persisted.

"Someone called the Doctor and my friend's mum...Jackie I think she's called" the man turned slightly with a grieved look in his eye. "I'm sorry...did you know them?"

"I came so far" the man said quietly. He turned round to face her. "Are you sure it was a Jackie and not a Rose?"

Donna narrowed her eyes at him but decided not to shout and accuse him of things. "Yeah I'm sure" she said. "Wh-"

"That must mean that she never came back to him, oh Rose why? The Doctor needed you" the man whispered to himself, he looked up to see Donna eyeing him with suspicion. "What's your name?" he asked quickly.

"Donna. And you?" she asked.

"Oh, I was just passing by, I shouldn't even be here. This is... wrong. It's wrong. This is so wrong" he looked at her back, eyeing it with curiosity. "Sorry, what was it? Donna what?"

"Why do you keep looking at my back?" Donna demanded.

"I'm not!" the man protested, his voice squeaking slightly.

"Yes you are. You keep looking behind me. You're doing it now!" she turned trying to see her own back, to see what the hell has had Alex Rose spooked and now this boy. "What is it, what's there? Did someone put something on my back?"

She turned back to find the young man gone.