Chapter 11: Donna and Jack's Help
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- DW -
The Doctor had wandered a long time in the Tardis's hallways before returning into the control room where Donna and Jack were waiting for him. He was greeted by a wave of questions from his two human friends. He didn't want to answer any of them, he totally ignored them and he sat down on the captain's chair again and buried his head in his hands.
Donna and Jack looked at each others. Apparently, it didn't go very well with Rose. Donna went to sit next to the Doctor and she saw something that shocked her: his shoulders were shaking.
He was crying.
The Doctor was crying, in front of them. He didn't care anymore, he couldn't hold back his tears anymore and he needed support from his friends. He couldn't cope with this story, alone. He was on the verge of losing Rose a second time, all because of a misunderstanding and he couldn't handle this situation, not this time. Losing her a second time could kill him, literally. He knew he needed his friends.
Donna put a comforting hand on his still shaking shoulder and asked him:
"Do you want to talk about it?"
The Doctor sniffed, raised his head to look at her and leaned against the back of the chair. He had red puffy eyes and a defeated look on his face.
Donna and Jack would never have thought to see one day, in their lives, the Doctor in a state of distress and sadness. They had in front of them a man who had lost all hope and perhaps the love of his life, and it was breaking their hearts.
"I don't know … I …" he answered, in a shaky voice.
Jack came and stood in front of his friend and put a hand on his knee. The Doctor looked up to see his immortal friend and Jack gave him a small smile of encouragement.
"Doc, you can tell us what happened, you know? We are here for you!" he said softly.
The Doctor sighed and replied sadly:
"I failed ... as always. Rose ... she thinks I 'm with Martha."
"Yes, but you told her that you and Martha were not together … right?" asked Donna.
"That's the problem, I ... I didn't have the time … the opportunity to say otherwise." answered the Doctor, looking down. He had difficulty speaking because of the knot that had formed in his throat.
"What do you mean you didn't have the opportunity to say otherwise?" asked Jack, frowning.
"She said …" The Doctor continued his sentence with a little voice that broke Donna's heart: "she said she wanted to be friends … and just friends." he said the last part of this sentence in a whisper and with closed eyes.
"What?" cried Jack, removing his hand on the Doctor's knee and straightening up. "Doc, are you sure about that? Are you sure that you had understood well?"
"Yes, Jack!" dryly replied the Doctor. He rose from his seat violently, his face was absolutely livid and he started walking around the console, hitting random buttons on the console, trying to avoid Donna and Jack's eyes.
Suddenly, he felt a sense of shame when he realized that he had let his emotion out of his control in front of them. For Rassilon's sake, he was a Time Lord, one of the oldest and powerful beings in the universe and he let himself cry in front of … two humans.
No! He had to stop thinking like that, now! Donna and Jack were his friends and he should be grateful to have them. And he was. He was so glad to have them in his life. They had saved him so many times his life that he had lost the count.
He felt a hand on his shoulder, and this brought him out of his thoughts, he turned and saw Jack.
"Doc! Rose probably said that to cause no problems between you two. I think she didn't want to make the situation more embarrassing than it already was. You know Rosie, right? She didn't said this in a bad way, but because she thinks you're with Martha and you are happy with her, she doesn't want to create a discomfort between you and destroyed your friendship." said Jack, lightly squeezing his shoulder while he was talking for show him his support.
The Doctor looked away and began to think. Why he hadn't thought of that?
She had said all that, because she still loved him. Of course.
And it was so logical … and he had been so stupid to have thought she was no longer in love with him. She just didn't want to destroy their friendship, even if she was unhappy. The others had to be happy around her and the happiness of others came before hers. It was who she was, it was his Rose.
"I think … I think you're right, Jack. I didn't thought about that." said the Doctor, running his fingers through his hair. "I'm gonna talk to her agai…"
"No!" interrupted Donna. The Doctor glanced at her with big eyes and Jack turned to look at her, frowning. "I'll go and talk to her!"
"Donna … no! It's not … She doe... she doesn't … know you" stammered the Doctor
"No, Doctor! I'll go … and Supertemp will fix everything. And you, Space Man … go talk to Martha. I think it's time for you to go see her and have a serious conversation. She needs to stop thinking that you are a couple and that your heart …"
"My hearts" interrupted the Doctor with a smirked.
"Yeah, yeah! You have to tell her that your hearts belong to Rose. I'm sure she'll understand. I mean, come on! She is not stupid; she is a medical student for God's sake. And I think she is mature enough to understand and accept that."
" … Ok, you're right. I'll go talk to Martha." replied the Doctor, sighing. He had accepted, but he was not enthusiastic about this idea.
" Great ! I will take this opportunity to introduce myself to her and I can't wait … where is she, by the way?"
"In her bedroom. Don't worry, the Tardis will help you to find the bedroom's door." answered the Doctor with a smile.
Donna smiled in return and left the console room, searching for Rose's bedroom.
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As the Doctor had said, the Tardis had helped Donna to find Rose's room. She was in front of the door, she took a deep breath and knocked on the door and waited for a response.
After a few seconds the door opened and a blonde appeared.
"Hi," said Donna shyly and with a small smile. She didn't want intimidate Rose; on the contrary, she wanted to get comfortable and get to know her a little bit before talking about the Doctor.
"Are you here to talk about the Doctor?" asked Rose.
Oops, fail!
"Um … yes" answered Donna.
"Come in" replied Rose after long seconds of reflection. She opened the door wide to let Donna get into the room.
Donna entered the room and Rose closed the door and turned back to the redhead.
"Is it the Doctor who sent you? He told you to talk to me?" asked the blonde, while going to sit on the edge of his bed
"No. I came of my own accord. He was not very agreeing for me to come talk to you, but I persuaded him and here I am." Donna replied with a small smile.
Rose gave her a little smile back and asked:
"And you… who are you? What's your place in all this mess?"
"My name is Donna. I'm a friend." Donna said as she approached Rose. "May I?" she asked staring at the edge of the bed. Rose nodded and Donna sat next to her.
"Rose! I know you don't know me, but I need you to listen to me, okay?"
Rose looked right into her eyes and nodded again. Donna smiled and continued:
"I heard what Martha told you a few hours ago, and let me tell you something. Everything is fake, Rose. Again, I know you don't know me, but I beg you to believe me, because what I'm telling you right now is the truth. The Doctor could tell you, but apparently, he is very awkward when it comes to relationships … or woman in general."
Rosa laughed at this sentence, which made Donna smile.
"When I met the Doctor, it was just after he lost you. Believe me; I had never seen a man so devastated in my entire life. He was so depressed … he … he even tried to kill himself, Rose."
"What?" cried Rose. "No! Not the Doctor! He would never have done something that stupid."
"Rose, I was there! There was this 'alien spider' threatening the Earth and she wanted her children to return to the surface of the Earth. But the Doctor found the solution and … he drowned them. But he … he didn't move when the room was beginning to fill with water. I told him to stop and hopefully, he realized that I was still there and that he needed to save me. But I can't imagine how things, god … you know … if I had not been there. The look in his eyes, Rose … you should have seen the look in his eyes. He was devastated and …"
"Yes, I think I can imagine it. The Oncoming Storm, it's actually very scary to watch. But, it's ok now, right? He found a new person and I'm sure he's happy because she seemed very nice. Martha …"
"No, Rose. That's where you're wrong. Martha is just a friend to the Doctor."
"Donna! Martha came to see me and she told me the truth. I know they are together." replied Rose, raising her voice a little bit. She was fed up that everyone tells her otherwise just to make her feel better.
"Rose, listen to me! Martha is in love with the Doctor, but not him. He's in lo…" Donna stopped talking right there, she didn't want Rose to find out like this. The Doctor needed to say those words to her, not Donna. "All Martha told you about her and the Doctor is false, I can assure you that."
"No, you're wrong. The Doctor confirmed he had kissed her … and that he had shared a bed together."
"Yes, but I would bet that he didn't explained you how and why … the reasons" said Donna, rolling her eyes.
"How that?" asked Rose, slightly frowning. Donna could swear she saw a glimmer of hope appeared in Rose's eyes. She smiled and said:
"Their kiss, it was in a critical situation. They were on the Moon, trapped in a hospital with … rhino men who were chasing them. The Rhino Men were looking for an escaped criminal who was alien and to buy time, the Doctor made a genetic transfer. So he kissed her and that's where all started in Martha's head. She began to believe it was a real kiss, blah, blah, blah."
Rose slightly smirked. She slowly began to really like Donna; she couldn't wait to discover more about her … well, when everything will be arranged.
"And … they shared a bed together … what do you have to say about that?" asked Rose with a little voice. She was afraid to hear the answer, it might break her heart completely, but she had to know the truth.
Seeing the doubt and fear in Rose's eyes, Donna smiled. My god, Blondie was really in love with her space man to react that way.
"Oh that! It was Martha's first trip. He had taken her to see a Shakespeare's play and they had to stay a little bit longer because there was some kind of witches that threatened the Earth and the humans! Well, like always when he's around." she said, laughing. "Anyway, and for that, they had to spend the night at Shakespeare's house. And there was just one bed and … that's all. They shared the bed."
"What? That's all?" asked Rose, her eyes wide open and her heart a little lighter." But … but the way Martha said it … I thought they had, well, you know …"
"Martha disguised the truth, Rose. Yes, they shared a bed, but not in the way you think." replied Donna with a big smile. She was proud of herself; she managed to tell the truth to Rose. And Rose, her heart was so much lighter, but a thousand questions were running through her mind right now.
Why Martha had said all those things? And why the Doctor didn't tell her the truth?
"Why? Why Martha said that to me?" asked Rose to Donna, totally confused.
"I've already told you, Martha is in love with the Doctor and she has created a whole scenario in her head, just because of a misunderstanding. But the Doctor is talking to her right now, and he will finally make things clear with her. You don't have to worry anymore, Rose."
Rose smiled to Donna. Yes, definitely, she liked Donna more and more.
"And why the Doctor didn't tell me that?"
"Because he's an idiot." replied the Donna, laughing. Rose was laughing as well. Donna greatly appreciated Rose, a beautiful friendship and complicity was being created between the two women, and Donna was happy about that.
They began to talk for a few minutes, trying to get to know each other a little much better. But they were interrupted by someone knocking on her door. Rose looked at Donna with apprehension, thinking it might be the Doctor. She felt a little bad about the conversation she had with him.
She should not have told him she just wanted to be friends with him, but now, she knew the whole truth. And thank you to Donna, now she had understood everything. But still, she wasn't ready to talk to the Doctor again, she needed time.
"Yes, come in." said Rose, raising a little bit her voice for the person behind the door hear her. The door opened and then ... Jack appeared. Rose jumped up and ran towards him to jump into his arms.
"Jack!" she said with such emotion that Jack's heart broke. She broke the hug and looked into his eyes.
"Hello Rosie, how are you doing?" asked Jack, he was still holding her in his arms as if he was afraid she disappears.
"I'm fine" she answered with a big smile. "I thought I would never see you again … I thought you were dead" she said with a shaky voice. For all those years, the Doctor had told her that Jack was busy rebuilding the Earth but she always had this feeling that it was a lie. She thought that Jack was probably dead, and the Doctor didn't have the heart to tell her, but no, he was so alive.
"No, Rose. I'm there, and I'm alive. I am very much alive, in fact." He said with a little smirked. He released her and gently put both hands on Rose's cheeks and quickly kissed her on the lips.
Donna raised her eyebrows while standing up, and said:
"Uh … this is the wrong man, Rose. And Jack, how dare you?"
Rose stepped back and laughed at the sight of Donna's face. As for Jack, he put his arm around Rose and answered:
"Don't worry, Donna. This is a little thing between us. She still belongs to the Doctor. And me... well … I'm all yours, if you want." He winked at her. Of course, he was kiding, because Jack was actually happy with Ianto.
"You haven't changed, Jack." said Rose, laughing. At the same time, Donna said: "In your dreams, Harkness".
They were laughing. Rose was so happy to have found the man she was considering like her big brother and a new friend, Donna. Thanks to them, she knew she was going to be all right in this crisis.
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Author's note
Here's the eleventh chapter! Haha
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