This is a lot shorter than some of my other chapters and I apologize but it's all I can manage right now as I am exhausted but I wanted to give you guys something. The next chapter will be longer I promise. Rassilon, help me.
Drew woke up in the same position she had fallen asleep, she carefully wiggled out of the Doctor's hold making sure not to wake him before moving off the bed and grabbing one of his discarded shirts pulling it on. She carefully closed the door, the floor was cold against her bare feet "Drew" Donna's voice erupted from behind her making her jump and put her hand over her left heart.
"Donna, you scared the life out of me," she laughed, rounding on the older woman
"Sorry, why are you sneaking about?" she asked looking her over "And what are you wearing?"
"Uh I was trying not to wake the Doctor and this is one of his shirts, I grabbed it on my way out. I was just about to go make breakfast care to join?" she explained quickly changing the subject away from her being in the Doctor's room. Donna nodded and followed her down the hall, Drew suddenly felt very naked under the stare of the older woman, it was the same uncomfortable feeling that she had gotten when Sarah-Jane had caught her kissing a boy from her class when she was fourteen. The TARDIS moved her kitchen closer so Drew wouldn't have to suffer Donna's scrutinizing gaze any longer. "What should we have? We've got everything, human and other wise," Drew said walking over to the fridge
"How about we save the alien stuff for the Doctor and we just have good ole bacon and eggs?" Donna said sitting down at the island, Drew laughed
"Surprisingly the Sycorax's have an lovely breakfast selection, even if they are uglier than sin," she said while pulling eggs, bacon, sausages and bread out of the fridge.
"I'll take your word for it" Donna replied, shaking her head. Drew turned to the stove that the TARDIS had made bigger so she could cook everything at the same time "Tea?" she asked looking back at the redheaded woman
"I'll do it," she said standing up and walking over to the kettle "When we first met Caecillius, what did our names mean?" she asked suddenly
"Oh, umm yours meant Reddish-gold hair and mine meant Wolf" she said making sure the bacon and sausages didn't burn
"And the Doctor's?"
"Tall" she laughed, "I couldn't think of anything else," she added as Donna started laughing.
"I wonder what Lucius meant when he told the Doctor 'She's returning'" Donna said idly, more to herself than anything
"No idea could mean anything. He knows a lot of she's, it could mean anything from a companion to an old enemy to anything really" Drew said putting some bread in the toaster.
"What do you think he meant when he said that you had so many futures with him and that all of them ended in the loss of something?"
"I don't know, prophecies are funny like that" she said shying away from the question, she knew who the 'him' was but the 'him' was still hung up on someone else and she knew the loss would be many things from, her mother and brother, to the human life she had already lost; to the 'him' himself possibly. She shuddered at the thought of losing everything she loved again, she knew she would out live her mother and now she would out live even her brother. "Can I tell you something and have your word that you wont tell the Doctor?" she asked suddenly, Donna looked at her worried but nodded and sat down at the island with her plate. Drew sat in front of her and took a deep breath "When I was seventeen, I joined Torchwood to study under Toshiko Sato after they found me hacking into the military computer systems to learn about aliens and such. It was about my third month in when we were all out tracking a bunch of aliens that had come to Earth; Jack and I got separated but I spotted one of the aliens ahead of me so I went after it trying to reach Jack on my earpiece. I ended up in the middle of a forest surrounded by the aliens, that was the first and last time I saw them, I woke up in some sort of lab with tubes hooked up to my back and neck" Drew stood up and pulled the Doctor's shirt and hers up to show Donna her scars "There was this vat thing full of glowing golden liquid that they put through the tubes and into me" she added sitting back down "It was so cold at first, it made my whole body feel like I was submerged in ice water, but that didn't last it quickly started burning like every one of my nerves were set on fire" she paused "They kept me there for fifty three years until the process was complete. The last treatment they gave me was just as painful as the first, my chest felt like it was going to explode my heart pounding so hard I thought it was going to burst from my ribcage; but suddenly there was a pain in the right side of my chest and a second set of thudding against my ribcage, my lungs were killing me from screaming and at some point in the treatment I had to inhale a lot more air then usual. When the vat was empty, I figured it was over like usual"
"Was it?" Donna asked not waiting for her to finish, Drew shook her head no
"I was sort of suspended by chains attached to poles, my vision was off from the treatment but I could still see it coming. They ran a current through my body for at least two minutes before shutting it off"
"They electrocuted you!" Donna shrieked, Drew shushed her
"Yes, to splice fifty years worth of DNA they had been pumping into me to what was left of my DNA"
"What happened then?"
"They spent another three years thinking of ways to harm me to see if I would survive, before dumping me back on Earth a few hours after they had taken me when they figured out I wasn't what they needed" she said picking at her eggs.
"They just dumped you back on Earth after fifty six years of torture?" Drew nodded "And you seem completely unfazed by it, like it never happened" Donna said looking at the younger, but technically much older, woman in front of her
"I have nightmares every night about it, nightmares that are so real my body tingles from the electricity and my scars ache from the DNA solution… I don't live without consequence from that experience. I've been through the depression of being alone and suffering for fifty-six years, I don't dwell on it because there's nothing I can do to change what happened nor do I want to" Drew explained, Donna nodded
"What DNA did they fuse to yours?" she asked, Drew looked up from her plate and looked at the older woman
"You mean you didn't figure it out from me telling you I have two hearts and a respiratory bypass system?" Drew asked surprised, Donna shook her head no "Oh umm, they tried to force my body to become that of a Time Lords, but when I didn't have the Time Lord mind they dumped me back on earth; unaging and undying"
"Time Lord… you mean like the Doctor?" she asked trying to grasp what the younger woman went through, Drew nodded
"Essentially my body is Time Lord, I have all the same DNA and internal make-up, I just lack the mind and ability to regenerate" Drew shrugged as she put her plate in the sink and went back to the stove to make the Doctor something.
"So like couldn't the Doctor just teach you a bunch of stuff and then you'd be like a full blown Time Lord?" Donna asked trying to grasp why she wasn't a Time Lord
"No, just because my body has everything to be a Time Lord, I would never be considered one as I wasn't born on Gallifrey. Plus my mind is far to small to fit everything the Doctor knows inside, I would essentially burn out like a light bulb" she explained turning back to the stove almost sadly 'I could expand your mind' the TARDIS sounded in her mind "I know you could" she whispered so Donna wouldn't hear "I just don't know how the Doctor will react when I tell him" she sighed quietly 'You should tell him soon' she reasoned "I know, I just don't know how and I don't want him to be mad at me for keeping it from him"
"Did you say something?" Donna asked suddenly, Drew spun round to look at the taller woman
"Me? No, maybe your hearing the TARDIS; she mumbles sometimes" Drew smiled convincingly, mentally apologizing to the TARDIS
"Yeah maybe" Donna said absently"
"I'm going to take this to the Doctor then we can talk more if you like" Drew suggested "I can clear up the questions I can see brewing behind your eyes" she laughed, Donna nodded as the smaller woman exited the kitchen. Drew balanced the plate and tea expertly on one arm, having worked as a waitress before Torchwood, she found the Doctor still curled up in the same position she had left him in, she wondered if he ever moved in his sleep but figured as he slept every few months his body would probably shut down completely excluding mandatory functions. She set the plate and tea on the bedside table before crawling onto the bed and lying beside him, she brushed his unruly fringe out of his eyes causing him to stir but not wake, she half laughed moving closer to him "Doctor, wake up" she whispered, pulling away to watch him come to. She laughed as he squinted at her at first before completely register what was happening around him "Kyr tysol" he said without thinking, she laughed and smiled
"Morning" he looked at her for a second as if thinking
"Wait, you understood that?" he said recalibrating what he'd said
"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" she asked confused
"It was High Gallifreyan… the language of the Time Lords," he said sitting up
"I thought the TARDIS translated everything?"
"Not that" he said looking at her "Tor o ialaesal sor?" Can you understand this?
"Yes, why is this such a big deal? Maybe the TARDIS is just translating it for me because you said it? I mean have you ever spoken it to anyone before?"
"No, which is why it's such a big deal. The TARDIS can't translate High Gallifreyan because the only people supposed to be in a TARDIS already known the language. So where have you picked up such an intimate knowledge of it that you understand?" he looked her over, before bringing his hands to her face making her jump back
"What are you doing?" she asked looking between his hands, he sighed
"I'm not going to hurt you" he said taking her hand and gently pulling her towards him "I'm just going to look into your mind and see if I can find why you understand a dead language" she pulled her hand away from him and all but jumped off the bed
"Your breakfast is getting cold," she said quickly before grabbing a pair of pants and leaving. The Doctor sighed flopping back against his pillow, he was certain she was hiding something from him now, he didn't like it but he would respect her wish to keep it from him until she was ready, he sighed again rubbing his temples before moving to grab the plate she'd brought in for him; no one had made him breakfast in bed before he half laughed. 'When are you ever in bed?' the TARDIS snickered, he glared at the ceiling for a second before returning his attentions to the plate.
Drew quickly walked back into the kitchen where she had left Donna, she was trying to protect him from feeling her pain did he not see this; why did he have to go trying to see into her mind? She sighed mentally knowing he probably thought she was mad at him now. Donna touched her arm making her jump "You ok?" she asked, "You've been just standing there staring at the floor"
"Fine, shall we go to the library?" Drew asked shifting the conversation
"This thing has a library?"
"And a swimming pool" Drew laughed
"Oh we should go to the pool" Donna swooned
"Ok, then lets go to the library" Donna starred at her
"But what about the pool?" Drew laughed again before taking hold of the older woman's arm
"The pool is in the library," she said before pulling the woman out of the kitchen.
Donna was floating in the water on a blow-up lounge surrounded by huge bookshelves filled to the point of exploding with books while Drew sat on the edge with her legs in the cool water. "Where would you like to go?" Drew asked suddenly "Like on Earth" she added, Donna seemed to ponder the question for a while
"Well I really wanted to go to Rome, I mean we went to Pompeii yeah, but Rome just seems so beautiful" Donna rambled
"It is" Drew said idly "Beautiful I mean"
"You've been?"
"Few years ago with my mum, before I started at Torchwood and she adopted Luke"
"I've been to Egypt" Donna said absently
"Haven't been there," Drew said mindlessly watching the redheaded woman float "I've always wanted to see Finland"
"So ask the Doctor? I mean it's not like he's going to say no" Donna suggested, Drew was silent as if thinking about asking him 'I could take you there' the TARDIS filled her mind, she smiled and looked up at the ceiling 'Off we go' the TARDIS' laughing voice hummed though in her ears. "Come on, get out already!" Drew laughed, "We're going to Finland!" Donna was confused for half a second, she had never seen anyone so excited about something so silly… well except the Doctor but he was nine hundred going on four.
Drew and Donna ran out into the control room, finding the Doctor staring at the computer far beyond confused "She's landed herself, just up and suddenly landed" he said rubbing his earlobe, making his glasses slide down is nose slightly.
"I know" Drew beamed, before bounding towards the doors
"Drew wait! You don't even know what's out there!" he called bounding after her,
"Finland!" she laughed throwing the doors open, the time-trio was met with a beautiful winter scene befitting of a postcard; everything had a light dusting of snow, the lake was frozen over and white, the trees were covered in a soft blanket that made the green stand out more, the sky was a very pale blue almost blinding the trio. Drew smiled "Now excuse me while I fulfill a dream of mine" she said quickly before bounding off down a hall. "Drew brought us here?" the Doctor asked mostly to himself or the TARDIS
"She said she always wanted to go to Finland and then suddenly she just jumped up and said that we were going" Donna explained, the Doctor ran his hand through his hair. They stood waiting in the door for Drew, it wasn't all that cold for Finland in winter; suddenly Drew shot past them and out into the snow, the Doctor watched her twirl around smiling. He noticed Drew had changed out of her jeans and into a very Celtic looking dress, it was as white as the snow and billowed out at her waist making her twirling look more elaborate, he suddenly looked at Donna who was smiling at him; he glared halfheartedly "Come on Spaceman" she laughed dragging him out the doors by his tie, he barely had a chance to close the doors behind them. They fooled around in the snow for hours, before Donna decided she was sufficiently cold enough to go back into the TARDIS, the Doctor held out his hand to Drew who had fallen to her knees to slow her breathing, she shook her head "I'll be in, in a minute" she smiled, he nodded hesitantly before making his way back to the TARDIS. The Doctor was ten feet from her when he heard her muffled scream, he spun around and found two creatures holding her; one looked as if it was a Egyptian mummy and the other a ghostly pale woman wearing a clearly past its date dress. "Wait no! I can help whatever it is! Just let her go!" he yelled running towards them, where had he said that before he almost rolled his eyes 'Why do they always go after the companions!' he yelled in his mind. He was almost on them when they vanished; he yelled in frustration before sprinting back to the TARDIS, he grabbed his coat off the coral "Donna get a coat! Our stay just got longer!" he yelled.
To be continued...