Not yet sunday but I can't post it tomorrow!


Previously on As the Wolf Howls:

The telly turned off, and slowly Donna came back to the galley. She took deep slow short breaths to calm her down and get away from the echo of memory-Rose's feelings.

"If we had intervened in Pompeii, those creatures would have come back" Donna whispered in understanding of Rose and the Doctor's reasons.

"Yes" Rose answered fixing Donna a new cup of tea, since hers had gone cold. "I just wanted you to understand" she gave her shoulder a supportive squeeze and with her tea she walked away back to the Doctor.

Chapter three "Hell hath no fury"

The dark green night sky burned with the light of a new explosion and the ground shook from its force, it was the fourth explosion in the last fifteen minutes; Donna's heart hammered in her chest at the terror of their situation. They were hiding in the ruins of what had once been someone's home, she felt cold, they had been hiding in the mud earlier from those who were hunting them and her clothes were wet and bloodied from the wounds she had gained after the first explosion.

Her eyes moved absently over the room and focused on the bloodied form of Rose in the corner, she was unconscious lying on the Doctor's coat, she had received the whole force of the explosion when she pushed them to safety.

"Donna! Donna listen to me!" the urgency in the Doctor's voice jolted her out of her numbness. "I need you to take Rose and get back to the TARDIS"

Her eyes finally focused on his face, he had a deep cut on his left cheek and his face was covered in dirt, his clothes where bloodied with a mixture of his own and Rose's blood from when he carried her, he was covered in mud just as she was, his breathing was uneven more from the terror than from the running.

"I—"

"Take this" he put a cold metallic thing in her hand "TARDIS key and this" he gave her a mobile phone "When you get there, press 2 and then call, when he answers—tell him what happened, tell him—tell Jack—Barcelona"

With those words he left her standing still, trying to understand what was happening, how such a nice day had changes so much in just a heartbeat.

"That's it!"

She mentally slapped herself, the Doctor and Rose needed her help and she would be damned if she didn't do something; quickly she ran to the corner where they were, the Doctor was whispering something to Rose in a language Donna couldn't understand and apparently the TARDIS didn't translate but she didn't need to understand it to know what he was promising.

"Go, the TARDIS won't be far that way" he instructed her, when a new explosion hit, bits of stone flying around as the explosion shook the foundation of the building they had found refuge in .

"What about you?"

"I need to stall them"

Only then did Donna notice the heavy sound of the creatures who were hunting them coming near, using all the power from her adrenaline rush she took a side of the Doctor's coat and dragged Rose away. She was far enough to be safe in just a couple minutes but not enough that she didn't hear the Doctor screaming in pain as he let himself be captured by those creatures.

Biting her lip hard she keep walking until she saw the TARDIS, she ran to open the door and drag Rose inside all the way to the infirmary that today appeared to be nearer than before.

"Come on blondie, up you go!"

Donna said to herself moving Rose's limp body up onto the well-lit examination table, whatever alien trickery the Doctor did to make her sleep must had been a good one, because she hadn't stirred not even once in all her walk, she took a cloth and washed away the dirt from her face, the wound on her forehead was closed now, leaving behind only a golden mark, the cuts and bruises from her fall were starting to disappear now.

"Regenerative coma" Donna whispered to herself remembering how Rose had ended up in that state.

/

The Doctor laid Rose's bloodied and hurt body onto his coat, she was shaking and moaning in pain, she coughed blood over the Doctor's shirt, but he was too concentrated on his mission to care.

"I'm gonna put you to sleep" he said putting his fingers on her temples "Regenerative coma, you are too hurt—if I don't'—you may..." he trailed of unable to said the words.

"No!"Rose begged him, with tears in her eyes "Don't do this"

"They are too close, I need to know you'll be alright" with that Rose fell unconscious in his arms and he lovingly kissed her forehead before he ran to the battered window.

/

"It must be working" she said falling into a chair before she took the mobile from her pocket and pressed 2.

"He Doc" Came an American accented male voice from the other side of the line. "Did you miss me already?" He asked in a cheerful tone.

"My—my name is Donna Noble I—the Doctor is in trouble; he told me to call you and say Barcelona"

All amusement from the person on the other side of the line disappeared; Donna could even hear his intake of sharp breath as the information hit him.

"Where is Rose?"

"She is in the infirmary, in the TARDIS, but they have the Doctor those—those creature things and—"

"Calm down, Donna, you are in the TARDIS right?" came a new question from this man and she just made a positive noise, doing her best to kept calm "Ok, I need you to go to the control room, let me know when you are in front of the screen"

"I'm going now"

Quickly Donna ran to the control room, thanking god that she only had scraps and little cuts, she couldn't even think how everything might have turned out if she had broken a leg or something.

"I'm here what do I do now?"

"Look at the keyboard, is a rectangular—"

"I was a temp for years! I know what a keyboard looks like!" Donna screamed at the mobile starting to lose her patience.

"I don't even know what species you are" Jack answers back and takes a breath before starting to talk again "I need you to input this" quickly Jack give her the coordinates and time frame to find him. "Now press enter and move the hand break, it should be at your right next to something that once belonged to a toaster"

"Is moving, is working!" Donna laughed in joy for that little success when she saw the time rotor move up and down "And I'm human, just for the record"

"Good, I'll see you soon"

"Wait! where am I going?" Donna asked looking at the numbers in the screen trying to get some idea of where she was going.

"Cardiff, 2010"

"Oh—Ok"

She said sitting on the captain's chair breathing slowly. She left the mobile on the chair and took the next couple of minutes to assess herself, her hands and arms hurt from the effort of dragging Rose around, but that will pass, the scraps and cuts she had were nothing a band aid couldn't cure and surely the Doctor had some kind of alien medicine that would cure her in a second. She was cold and dirty, a quick shower was in order for her that was all she really needed to be in top shape to help them.

A thud and the TARDIS door opening took her out of her assessment, on the screen Donna saw what looked like a normal street a minute before a handsome man, in his mid thirties entered the ship, with black hair and stunning blue eyes, wearing clothes she had seen in old pictures of her gramps.

"How did you get inside?" Donna asked with a bravado she didn't feel.

"Jack Harkness, we spoke on the phone"

He said and with no other words, he passed her and walked straight to the infirmary, with Donna hot in his heels following him, a million of questions going through her mind trying to understand who this man was, who just barged into the TARDIS like he owned the place; she was so lost in thought that she crashed against him when he suddenly stopped in the entrance of the infirmary.

"Oh Rosie, sweetheart what happened to you?" he muttered to himself going quickly to her side "The Doctor placed her on a regenerative comma right?" he asked and once Donna nodded he breathed in relief "Right Donna Noble I need you to tell me everything that happened"

"We came to this planet—"


TBC

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Cheers,

-Emily