Yo,

So life is awesome. This is the last chapter for Turn Left, then we'll get onto Stolen Earth and Journey's End. While this chapter isn't all that different, the next few will be, especially when it comes to the Doctor and Rose. :)

Fly On...

Heart of Diamond

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The Time Experiment

Turn Left – Part 3

"I've only given them enough of the TARDIS's technology to be able to show us the creature," The woman said stepping into the circle of mirrors and lights.

Donna stared at her. "You know how to work the TARDIS?"

The woman snorted, a smile appearing on her face. "Of course I know, but if these guys have too much of the technology, there would certainly be chaos. Now just stand here." Donna followed the woman's instructions, standing in the center of the circle.

"Out of the circle please," Captain Magambo ordered.

"Yes, mam," The woman muttered mockingly.

Donna tensed slightly. "Can't… Can't you stay with me?"

"It's ok, Donna," The woman said softly. "I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere, ok?"

Donna nodded tensely. She wouldn't ever admit it, but she was frightened. Frightened of something she couldn't see.

"Ready?" Captain Magambo called out through the warehouse. "And… activate!"

Donna swallowed thickly as there was a whirl of an engine staring up. One by one, there was a small boom as each light switched on. Donna shut her eyes when the final light switched itself on.

"Donna, its ok," The woman called out kindly. "Open your eyes."

"It's it there?" She asked her voice shaking.

"Open your eyes. Look at it."

Donna gave a quick shake of her head. "I-I can't!"

The woman's voice softened. "It's a part of you Donna, look."

Donna slowly opened her eyes. She psyched herself up and took the courage to look into one of the mirrors.

Upon her back was a giant black beetle. Donna couldn't feel it, but now that she could see it, she could definitely hear it. A soft clicking sound that sudden seemed as loud as a scream.

Donna tried to reach her hands behind her, but she couldn't touch the bug. She could see it, but she couldn't touch it. She started to panic, spinning around in circles as she desperately tried to get the bug off.

"Donna? Donna," The woman said softly, moving to stand at the edge of the circle. "It's ok. You're alright."

"What… is it?" Donna asked tensely, freezing as if the bug was going to bite her.

The woman frowned. "We don't know… well, when I say we I mean the TARDIS and I." She turned back to look at Captain Magambo. "You guys don't know what it is, yeah?"

Captain Magambo gave the woman a raised eyebrow, clearly expressing that she wasn't impressed. The woman shrugged. "Thought not. (She rolled her eyes at the Captain's expression) Gees, just asking."

"Oh. Thanks," Donna spat.

"It feeds of time," The woman in the hospital gown said simply. "By changing time. By making someone's life take a different turn, potential energy. A bit like a weeping Angel… oh, wait (Her eyes drifted again and Donna instantly got the feeling that she was talking to the TARDIS again)… right, you don't know what they are. Ok, well, it's like, ah, meetings never made, children never born, a life never loved, but with you it's…"

"But I never did anything important!" Donna cried desperately. Tears started to whelm in her eyes. She didn't want this. She just didn't want to be here."

"Yeah you did," The woman said softly. Kindly, like a mother talking to a child. "One day that thing made you turn right instead of left."

"When was that?!"

The blonde woman shrugged. "Oh you wouldn't remember, it was the most ordinary day in the world." Her expression turned serious again. "But by turning right you never met The Doctor and the whole world just changed around you."

Donna resisted the urge to burst into tears. She was stronger than this. "Can… Can you get rid of it?"

The woman's eyes turned sad. "I can't even touch it. It seems to be in a state of flux."

"What does that mean?" Donna asked.

The woman seemed puzzled for a second. "Well, I don't know… The TARDIS' words, not mine."

"Great?!" Donna cried. "I have this thing on my back and the only person who can tell me anything about it talks to a machine dressed in a HOSPITAL GOWN! Turn it off! Get me out of here!"

"Deactivate," Captain Magambo said quickly.

The moment the lights switched off, Donna shut her eyes. She heard the woman approach her. The woman who could travel through time. The woman who had knowledge beyond this world. Who could fly and speak to a time machine. Who could see the past, present and all possible futures. An invisible, unstoppable woman who would do anything to get to The Doctor.

That same woman thinks I'm the most important person in the world, Donna thought. Normal nothing-special Donna.

"Don't you understand Donna?" The woman said softly. "This world. This entire universe is centered on you."

Donna opened her eyes, swallowing thickly. "That's because I have this thing on my back."

The woman shook her head. "Nonono. The Space-Time Vortex in this universe is bending around you, I can feel it. Whatever happens to you, it's you who causes this universe to change." The woman looked away for a second, frowning slightly. "I thought… I thought it was just The Doctor we needed, but it's the both of you. (The woman looked back at Donna) The Doctor and Donna Noble. Together. To stop the stars from going out."

Donna closed her eyes. "Is there any way… how can I get it off me?"

When Donna opened her eyes again, the woman was grinning. "Oh, Donna. You're going to travel through time."

"The TARDIS has recorded the moment of intervention, at Monday the 25th, 1 minute past 10," The woman in the hospital gown said to Donna informatively as two scientists helps Donna into a wired coat. "Your car was on Little Suntan Street leaving to Evening Road, but you turned right heading towards Griffins Bridge, you need to turn left."

"Ok," Donna said, taking in everything she was saying.

The woman stared at her intently. "The most important thing, you've got to go back, turn left, have you got that Donna? One minute past ten, you got to make yourself turn left, heading for the Bridge Highway."

"Keep the jacket on at all times," Captain Magambo said sternly walking up to the two of them with a glass of water. "It's insulation against temporal feedback." She gestured to the watch that a scientist was attaching to Donna's hand. "This will correspond to local time where ever you land."

She hand Donna glass of water, before pointing to it. "That's your combat dehydration."

Donna and the woman walked up to the circle, well, Donna walked; the woman sorta stumbled. Of course, she refused help proclaiming it didn't hurt.

Poppy cock, Donna thought to herself. Just by looking at her, it was clear she was in pain just standing.

They stopped at the edge of the circle. The woman turned to Donna. "This is where we leave you… Oh… The TARDIS says 'Good Luck'."

Donna gave a laugh, turning to the TARDIS and giving a slight bow. "Thank you, TARDIS." She turned back to the blonde woman. "Thank you… (She paused when she realized she didn't know the woman's name) well…yeah, thanks."

The woman laughed weakly, coughing slightly.

Donna glanced at the mirror circle, tensing up slightly. "I don't want to see that thing on my back again."

"Nonono, it's ok, you won't," The woman reassured; placing her hand on Donna's shoulder (Donna tried to ignore the goo on her hand). "The mirrors are just incidental. They reflect chrome energy back into the center which we control… well, (she gestured back to the UNIT officials) those guys control and help decide the destination."

"It's a time machine," Donna said in awe.

The woman grinned. "It's a time machine."

Donna wrapped her arms around the woman, hugging her warmly. "I have no idea who you are, but I just was to say… you're amazing."

The woman laughed, but Donna knew it meant something to her. She pulled back groaning as she realized she had forgotten that the woman before her was covered in goo.

"Don't worry," The blonde woman said brightly. "It will evaporate in the Space-Time vortex. That substance can only exist if I'm in the same time stream."

"If you could," Captain Magambo said sharply.

"Spoil sport," Donna mumbled. The woman snuffled a feeble laugh.

Donna stepped into the circle of mirrors, turning and facing the woman in the hospital gown. She found than rather be nervous, she was actually excited. All the things the woman had said about the Doctor. All those amazing things, they were going to happen again. They weren't just going to be a dream, they were going to be real.

"Powering up!" Captain Magambo called.

One by one, the lights boomed on. Donna took a deep breathe, centering herself. "How do you know it's going to work?"

"Hm?" The woman said, obviously bringing herself down to earth. "Oh yeah. We don't… The TARDIS and I are just guessing."

Donna shook her head, giving a small laugh. "Right. Brilliant!"

"Just remember," The woman instructed seriously. "When you get to the junction, change the car's direction by one minute past ten."

Donna frowned. "How do I do that?"

The woman shrugged with a small smile. "It's up to you."

"Well I just have to…" Donna laughed. "Run up to myself and… and have a good argument!"

The woman gave a laugh. "I'd like to see that!"

"Activate Lodestone," Captain Magambo commanded.

There was another whirl and Donna felt the air shift around her. She gave a laugh. The sensation was incredible. It honestly felt like she was the centre of the world.

"I'm ready!" Donna cried happily.

"One minute past 10!" The woman instructed again.

"'Cause I understand now," Donna shouted over the whirl of the engines. "You said I was gonna die, but you mean this whole world is gonna blink out of existence, but that's not dying! 'Cause a better world takes its place. The Doctor's world! And I'm still alive!"

The woman's expression saddened slightly.

Donna frowned, determined that she was right. "That's right, isn't it?! I don't die. If-if I change things, I don't die. That's..."

The woman just stared at her. Donna felt a sick feeling rise up within her. "That's right, isn't it?!

The blonde woman bit her lip. "I'm sorry."

Donna felt as if she had taken a blow to the chest. The world around her started to brighten, the warehouse was disappearing. "But I can't die! I've got a future! With the Doctor! You told me!"

The woman was gone. Donna briefly saw the TARDIS spark before she closed her eyes. There was a faint boom and Donna was gone.

Donna ran.

3 minutes to find herself, her younger self, and change her mind. She could do it.

Donna dodged the kids on skateboards. The mothers with prams. She accidently kicked a garbage can, but all that didn't matter. She had to turn left. She just had to.

She stopped, catching her breathe. She took the opportunity to look down at the watch. 2 minutes.

"No!" She cried looking down the road, where it made a bend. She wasn't going to make it and she knew it.

That was when a truck turned into view.

Donna straightened up.

"You have to be sure, because when you come with me… you are going to die."

That's what the woman said. She knew this was going to happen. She knew everything. Her and The TARDIS. They knew.

"Please," Donna whispered, stepping out into the traffic.

She didn't feel anything. She heard the screech of brakes, but she didn't feel anything. It just all went black.

Donna felt her presence though. She lifted her lids to see the woman kneel beside her. The military jacket was gone, the hospital gown in full view. Goo covered her body from head to toe.

"Tell him this," She whispered. "Two words."

She knelt down to Donna's ear.

The Doctor turned the massive beetle over, studying it belly up. He took a stick of incense and poked at the thick black legs.

"I can't really remember," Donna said softly, looking down at the bug on the table. "It's almost like when you have a dream and then it slips away from you."

The Doctor hummed. "Just got lucky, this thing. It's one of the Trickster's Brigade. Changes a life in tiny little ways. Most times the universe just compensates around it, but with you... (He grinned at her) great big parallel world!"

Donna frowned. "Hold on. You said parallel worlds are sealed off."

The Doctor's smile died and he dropped his gaze to the bug before him not wanting Donna to see the pain in his eyes. "They are." He took a deep breathe, steadying the rolling emotions within him. "But you had one created around you. Funny thing is, (He frowned) it seems to be happening a lot. To you."

"How d'you mean?"

The Doctor gave a half-hearted shrug. "Well… the Library. Then this."

Donna didn't seem to think much of it. "Just goes with the job, I s'pose."

The Doctor on the other hand looked up at Donna, frowning slightly. "Sometimes I think there's way too much coincidence around you, Donna. I met you once. Then I met your grandfather. Then I met you again. In the whole wide universe, I met you for a second time. It's like something's binding us together."

Donna snorted. "Don't be so daft. I'm nothing special."

The Doctor grinned at his best friend. "Yes you are. You're brilliant."

He turned back to the bug before him, not noticing Donna's expression become startled.

"She said he thought you were brilliant."

"She said that."

The Doctor glance up again. "Who did?"

"That… woman. The woman in the hospital gown," Donna whispered. She shook her head. "I can't remember."

The Doctor shrugged again. "Well… she never existed."

Donna frowned slightly. "No, but she said… the stars. (She nodded as she felt that small string of memory appear clearly in her mind) She said the stars are going out."

"Yeah, but that world's gone."

"No, but she said it was all worlds," Donna persisted. "Every world. She said… the Darkness is coming. Even here."

The Doctor dropped the incense, taking in Donna's words carefully. The Darkness? "Who was she?"

Donna sighed. "I don't know."

"What did she look like?" The Doctor asked, unable to hide the interest in his voice.

"She was…" Donna paused. "Always drenched in this weird… goo. She… She said she was in a Time Coma. Blonde. Yeah, she was blonde."

The Doctor's breathe caught. He wouldn't allow himself to wish for the impossible. "What was her name?"

Donna shook her head. "She wouldn't say."

"Donna," The Doctor said, his voice and expression matched in seriousness. "What was her name?"

Donna tried desperately to think. "She told me to warn you." She looked up at The Doctor. "She said, 'Two words'."

The Doctor tried to remain calm, but it wasn't working. "What two words? What were they? What did she say?"

Donna frowned.

"Bad Wolf."

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