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The TARDIS materialized around the three humanoids, and Rose was reminded of the time that the Doctor materialized around her on the Gamestation. Except that time, the TARDIS had faded in and out like she was used to, and this time, the TARDIS materialized like a smoke cloud.
"Off we go," the Doctor announced as soon as the TARDIS was solid around them. "Oh, do you know what Rose said before about this being a time machine? Well, now we're going to use it. We need to find out what the Empress of the Racnoss is digging up. If something's buried at the planet's core, it must've been there since the beginning. That's just brilliant. Molto bene. I've always wanted to see this. Rose, Donna, we're going further back than I've ever been before," the Doctor babbled, a bit excitedly as he moved around the console
As he did that, Rose went over to Donna, who looked like she was going to be sick, and wrapped her arms around the woman she'd taken a liking to in order to offer her comfort. Donna buried her face in the younger woman's shoulder and sniffed. She noticed the Doctor watching them for a few seconds with a look of sadness.
"We've arrived. Want to see?" the Doctor asked in an effort to not only get things moving, but to keep Donna's mind off of things.
"I suppose," Donna replied in a dejected voice.
"Oh, that scanner's a bit small," the Doctor declared. "Maybe your way's best." He went to the doors and put his hand on the handle. "Come on. No human's ever seen this. You two will be the first," he called out.
"All I want to see is my bed," Donna replied as Rose steered her toward the door.
"Rose Tyler, Donna Noble, welcome to the creation of the Earth," he announced as he dramatically threw open the doors. Outside, there were rocks and dust, and the sun looked weaker than in her time, as it was surrounded by dust.
"We've gone back four point six billion years. There's no solar system, not yet. Only dust and rocks and gas. That's the Sun, over there. Brand new. Just beginning to burn," the Doctor informed both of them.
Rose looked in awe. She'd seen both the end of the Earth, and the beginning of the Earth now. The planet where she was born looked exactly the same before its formation as it did after its destruction. The only difference was the sun, small and new now, Gigantic and ancient then.
"Where's the Earth?" Donna wondered.
"All these rocks floating about will become our planet," Rose replied, "and in about nine point six billion years, the planet will be rocks and dust again."
"Puts the wedding in perspective. Lance was right. We're just tiny," Donna stated sadly.
"No, but that's what you do. The human race makes sense out of chaos. Marking it out with weddings and Christmas and calendars. This whole process is beautiful, but only if it's being observed," the Doctor assured her.
"So I came out of all this?" Donna asked, incredulously.
"And when you're gone, you'll be part of it again," Rose stated.
"Isn't that brilliant?" the Doctor asked enthusiastically.
The three of them stood in reverent silence for a moment, until a gigantic rock passed the doors of the TARDIS.
"I think that's the Isle of Wight," Donna joked. Oh, Rose liked her. She sort of reminded her of her mother, with all the shouting, and Doctor slapping, and jokes made- especially the Mars jokes. Once they were finished with this Racnoss thing, maybe she could come along for a trip or two, to take her mind off of Lance. Running was good for that.
"Eventually, gravity takes hold," the Doctor lectured. "Say, one big rock, heavier than the others, starts to pull other rocks towards it. All the dust and gas and elements get pulled in. Everything, piling in until you get-" he gestured out the doors.
"The Earth," Donna finished.
"I wonder what that first rock was," Rose commented just before a seven pointed star showed up, slowly maneuvering among the rocks.
"Look," Donna pointed out.
"The Racnoss," The Doctor confirmed. He ran back to the controls and ran a few scans. "Hold on. The Racnoss are hiding from the war. What's it doing?" he asked the women still watching the ship outside.
"Exactly what you said," Donna realized as the rocks and dust slowly started to move toward the ship, then sped up, swirling around it and hiding it from view.
"So, the first rock wasn't a rock at all?" Rose queried.
"Yeah, they didn't just bury something at the centre of the Earth. They became the centre of the Earth," the Doctor acknowledged grimly.
A loud bang sounded, and the TARDIS shook. Rose took a big step back from the doors. The Doctor ran back to their sides to take a look.
"What was that?" Donna asked, scared.
"Did one of the rocks hit us?" Rose wondered.
"Trouble," the Doctor answered. He closed the doors quickly and strode up to the console. The TARDIS started shaking harder, bad enough to start throwing them about, but the rotor remained still.
"What the hell's it doing?" Donna shouted, trying to hold on.
"Remember that little trick of mine, particles pulling particles. Well, it works in reverse. They're pulling us back!" the Doctor yelled.
"Shit!" Rose exclaimed. Anything that could mess with the TARDIS like this wasn't good.
"Well, can't you stop it? Hasn't it got a handbrake? Can't you reverse or warp or beam or something?" Donna asked, trying to come up with an idea that the alien would understand.
"Backseat driver," the Doctor muttered. Then his face cleared, and Rose could tell he had an idea. "Oh! Wait a minute! The extrapolator!" He pulled out a very familiar looking object from under the console that Rose hadn't seen in over a year: the surfboard thing from Margaret the Slitheen. Last she'd seen of it, Jack had used it and the TARDIS to power a forcefield around the Gamestation.
"Wow, I haven't seen that in forever!" Rose exclaimed. The Doctor grinned at her.
"It can't stop us, but it should give us a good bump!" he yelled excitedly as he grabbed his rubber mallet. He told Rose to press a little, yellow button when he gave the signal and watched the scanner intently. After a moment, he shouted, "Now!"
Rose smacked the button at the same time the Doctor hit the extrapolator, and they were all thrown to the floor in a violent jolt. She picked herself back up off the floor immediately, and both of them went over to Donna and grabbed a hand to help her upright.
"Blimey, that was rough," Donna complained when she was standing again. She rubbed her arm and grimaced. "What was that?" she asked.
"A forcefield generator," Rose replied. 'It's designed for a single person, but a while back, it was made compatible with the TARDIS and we use it as a shield," Rose replied, confident of that much.
"We're about two hundred yards to the right. Come on!" the Doctor called from the entrance. The human women followed the Doctor down the corridor in the basement.
"But what do we do?" Donna asked Rose.
"I don't know. I make it up as I go along. But trust me, I've got a history," the Doctor replied reassuringly, having thought that the question was directed at him.
"He's really, really good at it," Rose added.
The Doctor pulled out a stethoscope from one of his pockets and put it to the door, as if he were breaking in. Rose idly wondered if it was the same one she'd used on him before when he first regenerated. .
"But I still don't understand. I'm full of particles, but what for?" Dona asked.
"There's a Racnoss web at the centre of the Earth, but my people unravelled their power source. The Huon particles ceased to exist but the Racnoss were stuck," the Doctor explained. "They've just taken hibernation for billions of years. Frozen, dead, kaput. So you're the new key. Brand new particles, living particles! They need you to open it and you have never been so quiet," he finished.
Rose, who had been paying attention to the Doctor and what he was doing, spun around and realized that the Ginger woman was gone.
"No, no, no, where is she?" Rose asked, knowing the Doctor didn't have an answer for her.
The Doctor opened the door he had been trying to get open, and behind it, confirming what Rose had been expecting, was a robot.
"Okay," the Doctor said and went to shut the door again, but the robot kept him from doing so. The Doctor backed up quickly, and the force that the roboform was using made the door slam open all the way. It destabilized the robot's balance a bit, and Rose kicked out at it, sending it crashing to the floor. She winced at the noise, and the bit of pain in her foot.
As soon as it was down, the Doctor shorted it out with his sonic. Then he removed the robe and mask of the robot.
"You've got a plan. What are we doing?" Rose asked the Doctor as he put on the robe. She hopped around and shook her foot.
"Are you okay?" he asked, immediately trying to scan her foot.
"Same sorta pain as if I stubbed my toe. I'm fine," Rose assured him, hissing.
"Hold still," he commanded her.
"I'm fine, we need to get to Donna. Pain's already goin' away," Rose told him.
"Prove it, stand on that foot," the Doctor challenged. Rose did so for a second. When the Doctor couldn't see any sign of extra pain on her face, he nodded and pulled the mask over his face.
Just then, another robot showed up, and they took it down, without kicking it this time.
"Look, a costume for you," the Doctor said, as he pulled the coverings off of the new robot.
"Let's go reenact 'the Nightmare Before Christmas,'" Rose joked.
A few seconds later, they were on their way to the room where they were sure Donna had been taken: the room with the giant hole to the center of the Earth.
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The Doctor and Rose turned a corner, and the conversation that the Empress, Donna, and Lance had been having for sometime became less echoey.
"How thick are you?" the sneering voice of Lance came. The Doctor actually had to hold Rose back from rushing into the room. The man made his blood boil as well, but they needed to stay safe.
"My children, the long lost Racnoss, now reborn to feast on flesh! The web star shall come to me!" they heard the Empress of the Racnoss call out.
"Children?" Rose breathed out. The Doctor hoped that meant like the leader of a group calling the other members 'my children.'
"My babies will be hungry. They need sustenance. Perish the web!" the Racnoss ordered.
"Babies?" Rose asked, with a little squeak in her voice. So much for his hope. They were hatching.
"Use her, not me! Use her!" came the panicked voice of the coward. They slowly walked along the walkway, trying to get closer to the action.
"Oh, my funny little Lance! But you are quite impolite to your lady friend. The Empress does not approve," she spoke, and with that, the web holding him let go, and he fell into the depths of the Earth.
"Lance!" Donna screamed. Even though she had been hurt so badly by him, it was obvious that she didn't want Lance to die. The Doctor felt a sort of grim pleasure at the demise of the coward who sold out his own race and treated someone as compassionate as Donna had proven to be the way he had-anyone, really.
Beside him, Rose gasped as the Racnoss woman ordered the death of humans. "Is there any way to save the babies?" she asked.
"I'll try. Maybe I can do something with the huon energy," he responded, not wanting the death of a race on his hands yet again. They started walking up some steps slowly.
"My children are climbing towards me and none shall stop them. So you might as well unmask, my clever little doctor man and his woman," the Empress bragged.
They'd been caught. There was nothing to do now but take off the robes and masks.
"Oh well. Nice try. I've got you, Donna!" the Doctor shouted. He pointed his sonic at the web and activated it, cutting through the silk.
"I'm going to fall!" Donna screamed.
"You're going to swing! It's OK, I've got you!" the Doctor called back, just as the Racnoss webbing came undone. Donna swung from the web she had been tied to, over the center of the hole, and towards the Doctor, who had his arms out ready to catch her. He'd apparently made a miscalculation on the likely length or stretchiness of the web, though, because Donna was about a metre and a half too low to be caught. She hit the railing on the level below and fell to the ground.
"Donna!" Rose called out and ran down the stairs towards the woman who laid on the floor with her leg twisted under her.
"Oh. Sorry," the Doctor apologized sheepishly.
"Thanks for nothing," Donna replied, still laying on the floor.
"The doctor man amuses me" the Empress hissed.
"Empress of the Racnoss, I give you one last chance. I can find you a planet. I can find you and your children a place in the universe to co-exist. Take that offer and end this now," the Doctor called out.
"These men are so funny," the Empress laughed, assured of her victory.
"What's your answer?" he asked. The Doctor noticed that Rose had gotten down to Donna and was helping her up from the floor.
"Oh I'm afraid I have to decline," the spiderish woman replied confidently.
"What happens next is your own doing," he told her in a cold voice as he readied himself. He looked down at Rose, who mouthed the word 'babies.'
"I'll show you what happens next," the Empress threatened. "At arms! Take aim! And-"
"Relax," the Doctor said calmly and all of the robots slumped.
"What did you do?" Donna yelled.
"Guess what I've got, Donna?" the Doctor asked rhetorically as he held out the remote for the robots. "Pockets!" .
"How did that fit in there?" Donna questioned him in shock.
"All his pockets are bigger on the inside," Rose answered. "'S really useful."
"Roboforms are not necessary. My children may feast on the Martian couple's flesh," the Racnoss Empress boasted.
"Oh, but we're not from Mars," the Doctor replied in a dark voice.
"Then where?" the Empress asked.
"I'm from Earth," Rose answered.
"My home planet is far away and long since gone. But its name lives on," the Doctor responded. He drew himself to his full height and spoke the name of his planet. "Gallifrey." Rose was shocked. He had only ever spoke the name of the place where he was born once before in her presence, as part of the answer to her question about his language.
"They murdered the Racnoss!" the Empress shouted.
"I warned you. I gave you a chance. You did this," the Doctor spoke. He reached into another pocket and pulled some of the baubles from the trees at the reception out of it.
"No! No! Don't! No!" the Empress screamed.
The Doctor's eyes met Rose's briefly before he threw the baubles into the air and used the remote to direct them. The little festive looking explosives surrounded the Empress of the Racnoss, and a few went down the hole. Explosives in place, he looked right at Rose then and gave her a tiny nod. Rose tried not to show her relief. From the way he was acting, Rose was sure that he wanted the red, spider-like woman to think that he was going to kill them all.
"No! No! My children! No! My children! My children!" the Empress screamed in terror as another bauble went down the hole. Rose heard it go off right after it went in the hole.
"Doctor! You can stop now!" Donna yelled up at the Time Lord.
"It's okay, Donna. He's just putting on a show right now. I've got him," Rose whispered in Donna's ear.
"My children!" yelled the Empress as one of the baubles dived at one of her legs. "Transport me!" she ordered, disappearing a second later.
When she left, Rose could hear the rest of the Racnoss climbing up the sides of the giant hole and the legs of one of the-not quite as little as she had hoped-spider people came up over the edge of the hole, with the rest of it following quickly. Blimey, they could move. That's when the flaw in her plan hit her. There was no way they had time to get back to the TARDIS and stop the Racnoss before they killed. Maybe before they killed them.
"MOVE IT BLONDIE!" Donna shouted and shoved Rose towards the stairs. Her shout broke the spell Rose had been under and she instantly complied. The Doctor met them at the bottom of the stairs and helped Donna move up them faster with her hurt ankle.
"Run!" the Doctor yelled when they got to the top of the stairs. They moved as fast as they could, Rose and the Doctor helping Donna along. They got back to the TARDIS as quickly as possible, and the Doctor pulled them out of Time.
"But what about the Empress?" Donna asked, breathless.
"Oh, she'll be no problem," the Doctor replied. "She's used up all her Huon energy. She's defenceless. Here, let me take a look at that," the Doctor said, gesturing to Donna's ankle.
"The babies?" Rose squeaked.
"Will be just fine, Rose. I've pulled us out of time so we're able to get everything set up and back before they can get free," the Doctor assured her as he examined Donna's ankle.
Rose relaxed. There for a moment, she was sure she'd just doomed everyone on Earth to being eaten. She wasn't sure what would have happened if Donna hadn't broken her out of her fear. That wasn't the first time she'd stared down an oncoming monster and had to be pulled back, but it was extremely rare.
"Good news, it's not broken. I'll have ya good as new in no time," he told Donna. He adjusted his sonic and used it on her ankle. "Setting 3457. Very special setting. I made it for the jeopardy friendly woman over there," he joked. When he was done, he wrapped her foot up.
"Keep that wrapped for a day, to restrict movement," he instructed as he stood back up.
"Doctor's order's," Rose added cheekily.
"I guess you are that kind of Doctor," Donna said, looking down at her, now wrapped, foot. She slid it back into her shoe.
"I have my moments," the Doctor replied as he walked back to the console. He moved the scanner around and started hitting buttons and twisting dials. He typed on the keyboard, then moved a few levers. The entire time, he murmured to himself.
"What's he doing?" Donna asked.
"He's doing something that will save both the newborn Racnoss and Earth," Rose told her.
"How?" Donna wondered.
"I don't really know," Rose admitted. "I asked him if it were possible before we came to get you, and he told me he might be able to work something out with the huon energy. Best I can figure, he's gonna use it to pull them into the TARDIS like you were pulled."
"Oh, that is good!" the Doctor enthused. "You are brilliant, and you are brilliant!" he shouted, pointing at each woman.
Rose immediately got up and looked at the screen, as if she could read it. "Got it figured out then?" she asked.
"Oh, yes," he said happily, still typing.
"What are you going to do with them?" Rose asked.
"There's this planet in the Kinchona system, it's massive and has got the perfect environment for them. There's no sentient life, and is heavily populated by these giant bugs that are a menace anywhere else. This small group can live their lives!"
"But the spider thing, she said the Time Lords killed all the Racnoss," Donna argued. "Wasn't there a reason?"
The Doctor hung his head and fiddled with a knob on the console. Rose knew he needed a moment to gather himself.
"It was the Dark Times, before the Reformation. The Racnoss were killed because they devoured planets. The last nail in the coffin was when the Time Lords got rid of huon particles," he answered after a few seconds.
"Should we be letting them loose on the universe?" Donna asked.
"Everything deserves a chance at life," Rose softly spoke. The Doctor shot her a look of pride. "But how do we keep them from doing it again?" she queried.
"With so few particles, low numbers, and no elders to pass on their technology, the Racnoss won't be able to spread like they had before, at least not for a very long time. This group will likely stay primitive and low in number," the Doctor told the women, who both relaxed at that.
"Okay then, Donna you get to see another planet!" Rose said excitedly. She then stopped herself. "If you want," she added.
"Um, actually, we can't take Donna home yet," the Doctor informed them apologetically. "Once we land-"
"We're part of events," Rose and the Doctor said together. She'd heard that lecture before. He nodded at her with a small smile.
"I'm sorry, Donna, but we can't risk taking you home until we know the Racnoss are dealt with," the Doctor finished. The ginger woman merely nodded at him in acknowledgement.
"Hold on, wait," Donna spoke up suddenly. "If these spider things-"
"Racnoss," the Doctor interjected immediately.
"Rac-noss," Donna enunciated sarcastically, "Are being pulled in here, won't they just wind up in here with us, like I did?"
"Oh, you are good!" Rose praised, earning a smile from the woman.
"Nah, I've got it set up so that they go to a special room and are held in stasis until it's time for them to leave," the Doctor replied confidently.
"Hold on," Rose instructed Donna when the Doctor motioned for Rose to go to her usual spot at the console.
The flight was bumpy, but not as bumpy as it usually was. With a lot of shouting out directions, the Doctor and Rose pulled the TARDIS out of the Vortex and materialized back in the corridor under the Thames. The Doctor ran to the scanner as soon as he wasn't needed anymore for piloting the ship and started typing furiously. He called out the names of a few buttons and levers, and this time, Rose knew them all.
Suddenly the ship shuddered violently, and a flashing light came on. The Doctor glanced at it and rubbed the coral part of the console. "It's okay, Old Girl," he whispered.
The shaking stopped, and everything was quiet.
"Is that it?" Donna asked.
"You've got 'em all, yeah?" Rose added.
"Yes. I've got them all," the Doctor replied, looking at the scanner to be sure. "No, we're not finished yet," he added. "We're still on Earth."
After flicking a few more switches, the TARDIS began to dematerialize once more, sending them on their way to another planet. Rose watched Donna's face carefully to make sure their new passenger wasn't panicking and found that she seemed to be a bit excited about all of it now. Maybe they could ask her along after this was over?
The TARDIS landed with a hard bump, knocking Rose back from the console where she had been holding on, and making Donna stand up from the jump seat where she had been perched. The Doctor immediately went back to the keyboard, typing so fast that Rose couldn't make out what he was doing, if she had understood it in the first place.
The ship make a loud groaning noise, and a shower of sparks flew from the console. The floor vibrated fiercely for a moment, and then all was silent.
"Okay, NOW is it done?" Donna wondered once the silence hit.
"Oh, we have to go take a look, Donna!" Rose shouted excitedly, running towards the doors.
"Wait!" the Doctor called after her, but it was too late. Rose had already thrown open the doors and stepped outside. What greeted her was a beautiful, lush rainforest. Thick, wide leaves hung from towering trees. They had landed next to a small stream.
Just as Donna took a step outside, a giant dragonfly buzzed past them loudly, making the ginger jump nearly into the Doctor's arms.
"What the bloody hell was that?!" she shrieked.
"Looked like a Megamiidae," the Doctor said mildly, with his hands in his pockets.
Rose had jumped as well, but landed farther from the TARDIS, in the edge of the stream. She stepped back out, kicking water from her one, very wet shoe.
"That was a new pair, too," she despaired, looking down at her sodden foot. She took the wet shoe off and dumped the water out of it. Just as she popped it back on, one of the Racnoss, about knee high, popped out of the dense jungle on the other side of the stream.
"Beautiful place, but it looks like it's time to go," the Doctor said. Rose didn't have to be told that, she was already on her way to the TARDIS.
The spider started racing towards them. Before they could get the doors closed, they watched as a huge fish leapt from the stream and crunched it whole. Donna grimaced in disgust at the sight and edged deeper into the ship. Without another word, the Doctor began to pilot them back to Earth.
"Okay then, Chiswick, London, Earth, Solar System, December 24th," the Doctor announced as he set the dials to take Donna back home.
The TARDIS parked across the road from Donna's house. The trio emerged, Donna first. She hesitated at the door and looked around to be sure of where she was before she stepped out.
"Here you are, home sweet home," the Doctor said, "safe and sound." He stuck his hands into his pockets as he regarded the cookie cutter houses along the street.
"Am I safe now? From those particle things?" Donna wondered.
The Doctor pulled out his sonic and scanned her. "All the Huon particles have gone. No damage, you're fine."
"Yeah, but apart from that, I missed my wedding, lost my job and became a widow on the same day. Sort of," she lamented.
"I couldn't save him," the Doctor replied apologetically.
"He deserved it," Donna declared, automatically. Rose and the Doctor both gave her an 'are you sure?' look.. "No, he didn't," she amended. "I'd better get inside. They'll be worried."
"After the day you had, I'm sure they are," Rose agreed.
"Best Christmas present they could have," the Doctor said.
"Family," Rose finished. She watched Donna's parents hug each other inside with sadness, remembering how she'd never hug her mother again.
"Oh, no. I forgot you hate Christmas," the Doctor remembered.
"Yes, I do," Donna agreed..
"Even if it snows?" the Time Lord questioned, as if he had some treat.
It turned out he did. The Doctor reached inside the doorway to press some hidden control. A small burst of energy shot from the top of the time machine into the sky and little white flakes began to fall all around them.
"Oh my god!" Rose gasped as she danced around happily.
"I can't believe you did that!" Donna added disbelievingly.
"Oh, basic atmospheric excitation," the Doctor told them smugly, as if he did that sort of thing all the time.
"Merry Christmas," Donna said as she tried to warm herself in the cold night air.
"And you. So, what will you do with yourself now?" the Doctor asked curiously.
"Not getting married, for starters. And I'm not going to temp anymore. I don't know. Travel. See a bit more of planet Earth. Walk in the dust. Just go out there and do something," she replied thoughtfully.
The Doctor and Rose looked at each other questioningly and came to a decision.
"Well, you could always…" the Doctor began.
"What?" Donna wondered.
"Come with us!" Rose finished excitedly, taking the Doctor's hand and bouncing beside him.
"No," she responded quickly.
"Okay," the Doctor told her, trying to hide the pain of rejection that he felt whenever someone turned him down. Rose had been the only one that he went back to ask a second time, not having been able to get her off of his mind.
"I can't," Donna insisted.
"No, that's fine," he told her, kicking at the ground absently with his trainers, making dark streaks on the snow covered street.
"But why, Donna?" Rose asked her.
"No, but really. Everything we did today. Do you live your life like that?" she questioned pointedly.
"Not all the time," the Doctor denied.
"Trouble's just the bits in between," Rose quoted.
"I think you do. And I couldn't," Donna said, calling them both out on their bluff. Trouble wasn't every trip, but the bits in between were big bits.
"You've seen it out there, stood on another planet, and it was beautiful, yeah?" Rose tried to get her to come once more. She liked Donna.
"And it's terrible. Those huge alien bugs and things were flying everywhere and you just strolled away like it was nothing. And then you made it snow. I mean, you scare me to death," Donna explained.
"Right," the Doctor admitted, knowing that his lifestyle wasn't for everyone.
"Tell you what I will do, though. Christmas dinner. Oh, come on," she waved them in.
"I don't do that sort of thing," the Doctor said.
At the same time, Rose also declined. "I can't, not yet," she explained.
"You might as well, because Mum always cooks enough for twenty," Donna goaded.
The Doctor looked at Rose with a question in his eyes. She answered with the tiniest head shake.
"Sorry, Donna. It's just. I think we could use a quiet evening for now," Rose told her regretfully.
Donna nodded and the pair walked back into the TARDIS, closing the doors behind them. The sound of the engines began to echo through the dark, snowy street.
"Doctor! Rose!" Donna shouted.
The engines stopped, and the Doctor poked his head out of the doors. Rose following a second later.
"Blimey, you can shout," the Doctor complained.
"Nice lungs," Rose complimented.
"Am I ever going to see you again?" she wondered.
"If we're lucky," he replied cheekily.
"You never know," Rose added.
"Yeah. Thanks then, Donna. Good luck. And just be magnificent," the Doctor advised, knowing that she had potential to spare.
"I think I will, yeah," she replied and walked back towards her house.
Once the doors of the TARDIS closed, the Doctor asked Rose, "You wanna give her a surprise?"
"She's already seen materialization, Doctor," Rose reminded him.
"Well, then, I'll have to do one better, won't I?" he replied.
Outside the TARDIS, Donna watched as the blue police box shaped ship rose into the sky, leaving a streak of sparkling energy behind it.
"Oh, you think you're so impressive," Rose told the Doctor, smirking.
"I am so impressive, Rose Tyler," he insisted. "Now, how about some hot chocolate and a movie?"