THE PHYSICIAN AND THE
FLOWER
Runaway Bride- Donna
The Doctor eyed her from head to toe. She was a woman, a real human being- well, as far as he could tell- standing, uninvited, in the TARDIS. She looked at the Doctor with emotions both confused and angry.
"Who are you?!" She yelled with a rather high volume to her voice. After a while when no response emanated from the Doctor, she screamed, "What the Hell is this place?!"
His thoughts ran through his head thinking about every situation in which this could have been possible, but it was all blank! He had never had this happen before. This was all new territory for the Doctor. First Rose, and now this... Two impossible women in the course of a few hours.
"You can't do that!" The Doctor stammered, his mind still trying to make sense of everything. "We were in flight. That's physically impossible! How did-"
"Tell me where I am!" She interrupted him with a stomp of her foot from beneath her dress. "I demand you tell me right now; where am I?!"
It was clear to him that this woman had no intentions of being on the TARDIS and might have been more shocked than him. Also, she was not amused, for some reason she was filled more with anger and disappointment compared to surprise. This wasn't an ordinary woman. She was also making a lot of noise...
"Sh! Sh! Shhh... Stop yelling. You'll wake Rose." He whispered while walking around the console pushing some buttons and repositioning a leaver or two.
"Ro- what are you talking about!?" Still speaking rather loud. "Where am I?!"
"Inside the TARDIS..." Said the Doctor, still getting over his bafflement.
"The what?"
"The TARDIS." He was getting tired of explaining things to the surprise visitor. He was exhausted, mostly mentally, because for a few seconds I his life- his long, weary life- he thought he had lost the most important thing to him. Also, that thing of precious importance, was somehow in danger because of Bad Wolf; and that made this occasion rare because, unusually, he had no idea why.
"What?" She said again, very impatiently.
"It's called a TARDIS."
"That's not even a proper word! You're just saying things!" She yelled again.
"I said Rose is sleeping. Quiet down a little." He held his finger up to her. She just looked confused and agitated. "Now, how did you get in here?"
"Well, obviously you kidnapped me." She rolled her eyes at the Doctor. "Who was it? Who's payin' ya? Was it Nerys? Oh my gosh, she finally got me! This has got Nerys written all over it!"
"Who the Hell is Nerys?" Asked the Doctor.
"You're best friend!" She pointed at him accusingly.
Although he had been staring at the woman for quite some time he had failed to soak in what he was looking at. "Hold on. Wait a minute. What are you dressed up like that for?"
"I'm going 10-pin bowling!" she said very sarcastically. "What do you think, dumbo?! I was halfway up the aisle! I waited al my life for this and I was just seconds away and you- drugged me or something!"
"I haven't done anything." The Doctor tried to reason with her but she, obviously, was not up for listening to him.
"I'll have the police on you! Me and my husband- as soon as he is my husband- are gonna sue the livin' backside off ya'!" She started to run to the- recently noticed by her- TARDIS doors.
Realizing what she was doing the Doctor shouted, "No! Wait! Don't!" But it was too late. She had opened the doors revealing a glistening world not too far away from them suspended in space; that was not Earth. There were plenty of stars far off in the distance and a beautiful scenery, that was space, shone on her. She just stood there ,trying to take it in.
The Doctor placed his hands inside the pockets of the pants of his pinstripe suit and walked over to her.
"You're in space..." He started to explain. "Outer space... This is my... spaceship. It's called the TARDIS."
She still was very surprised, but did her best to remain calm. "And how exactly am I breathing?"
"The TARDIS protects us." He looked out into space as well; his all familiar universe.
"WHO are you?" She asked, now much quieter since her bewilderment.
"I'm the Doctor; you?"
"Donna..." She gave a dignified nod kept looking out the doors.
"Human?" The Doctor asked; he had to make sure.
"Yeah. Is that optional?" Her voice had again become a little terse.
"It is for me."
"Alien?" She asked; she was not sure what else would shock her by this point.
"Yeah." He said, in a normal voice but with sorrow on the inside. An alien to the humans... He didn't like that. He didn't like being an alien to Rose.
"Is freezing with these doors open." She said as casually she could in a situation like this.
The Doctor was done pondering Rose and finally snapped back into himself.
"I don't understand this! And I understand everything." He said running back up to the console. "This cannot happen. A human being cannot lock itself onto the TARDIS an transport them self inside!"
He pulled out a small black magnifying glass-looking thing and began to look at her through it.
"Some sort of subatomic connection? Something in the temporal field?..." He continued to do his techno babble but was interrupted by a-
*SLAP*
"What was that for?!" He rubbed his stinging cheek- reminding him of Jackie Tyler- and looked at her astonished and confused, more so than he already was.
"Get me to the church!" She demanded very loudly and vigorously.
"For goodness sakes Donna, hush!" He looked at her and shook his head. He thought of Rose sleeping in her room. His lovely Rose. He had her, his companion. He didn't need Donna... "Fine, I don't want you here anyway! Where is this wedding?"
"Saint Mary's, Hayden Road, Chiswick, London, England, Earth, the Solar System!" She yelled looking around the TARDIS until she saw something that caught her attention. It was a purple girls shirt hanging over some railing. She picked it up and waved the air. "I knew it! Actin' all innocent! I'm not the first! How man women have you abducted?!"
"That's my friends, Roses, and if you don't hush up then you- ahh, too late. Here she is."
Rose stumbled up to them, looking rather tired. Donna had woken her up from her room with all the screaming and Rose was very confused as to what was happening.
"Was' goin' on?" She mumbled as she looked from the Doctor, to Donna, and then back to the Doctor.
"We have a new passenger..." The Doctor pointed to Donna. "Don't ask me how she got on because I have no idea and I'm still trying to figure it out."
"Hello." Rose waved a small smile but was still confused. "I'm Rose."
"So I have heard." Said Donna. She looked Rose up and down. "What about you? Are you like him? Alien or whatever?"
"Ha, no." Rose smiled. She changed her attention to the Doctor."You just met her and you're already talking 'bout me?"
The Doctor rubbed the back of his neck and gave a small smile to the ground.
"Yeah, but no." She looked back at Donna, reassuring her."Completely human."
"We'll I dunno about completely..." Began the Doctor thinking about Bad Wolf.
"Watchya mean, Doctor?" She asked, puzzled.
"Ah, we'll discuss it later." He wasn't sure how much exactly this Donna should hear. It was going to be a delicate subject to speak about and it looked like Rose hadn't exactly realized what had happened. But there was something crazy happening and, even though it was manageable, he wanted to settle on one mystery at time. He didn't want to juggle this around in his large mind when it came to Rose's safety. Rose just nodded and he started working the console.
"Right, Chiswick!"
Sorry if it's a tad short! I have been rather busy... It might not be that original yet but that is because these things had to happen. Rose gets more involved soon, so don't worry if that's what you are looking for ;)
