CHAPTER 11

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DONNA NOBLE RETURNS

As the TARDIS piloted by Amy returned to Torchwood in the present day to pick up Oswin, the Doctor found himself being squeezed to death as Susan and Jenny both embraced him at the same time, one on each side of him. Both of them had been completely terrified that they had lost him forever when he died. Now that he was back again they wouldn't let go of him for fear that something would happen to him again.

Especially Jenny.

"Don't you ever do that again, Dad! Ever. I - I love you so much, and I can't stand to lose you again. I just can't. I don't think that I could take it this time," Jenny said in an emotional voice that kept threatening to break.

"I love you too, Dad. Please look out for yourself much better than that from now on. I don't want to grow up without a Dad too. I know what it did to Jenny, and I don't want that happen to me. I don't want to ever see her that upset again either. I was afraid that she was going to collapse. Please promise me that you'll be more careful in the future. Please?" Susan asked.

"I will be more careful, Susan. I promise. I'll definitely be more careful from now on because now I have two very good reasons to come back in one piece from an adventure. I love both of you with all of my hearts, and I never want to see those frightened, scared looks on your faces ever again," the Doctor said firmly.

Both of them smiled at him as he held them close to him and kissed their foreheads. Amy smirked at him as she said, "Did I call it right or what?"

"What do you mean, Pond?" the Doctor asked.

"You just can't stand to see children cry especially your own," Amy said.

"No, I never could. Susan, the other Susan, used to have me wrapped around her finger. Whenever she'd get upset, I'd instantly cave. That was saying something too because that was when I was the tetchy old man. He never backed down to anyone," the Doctor said.

"Could you tell me more about the other Susan, Dad? Was she anything like me?" Susan asked.

"Yes, in many ways. She had your curiosity and zest for life. She could also bring out the best in everyone especially me just like you do. Another similar thing was that she was extremely intelligent just like you. I think that it was very appropriate of Ushas to name you after her," the Doctor said.

Susan smiled at him pleased by his words and the fact that she reminded him of someone who he obviously had loved very much. She wished that she could meet her. She wondered if the other Susan would have liked her or not or resented her having the same name as her.

She knew that she would never know that of course. Not unless that Bad Wolf Girl's hints actually meant something. She desperately hoped that they did.

"Talking about me, are you?" the Rani said as she walked up to the Doctor with a large smile and kissed his cheek.

The Doctor was taken aback by this but smiled all the same. He couldn't get used to the new Rani, but he certainly liked her. He was so glad that she was back to being his friend again just as she had been when they were young.

"I was just telling Susan that she's just like the other Susan. You named her very well," the Doctor said.

"I always liked her. She was a very nice girl," the Rani said sadly as she put her arms around the Doctor and gave him a sympathetic hug.

"I can't get used to you being so warm and loving. You're just like you used to be," the Doctor said.

The Rani looked amused by his reaction as she said, "I'm glad. I've missed being this way. I've missed it so much. Doctor, I want to be called Rayna from now on. The Rani is dead. Let her stay in the past."

"I prefer to call you Ushas. I'm used to that," the Doctor said.

"That's fine. I'll answer to either one although I prefer Rayna I think. Rayna was my second chance to get it right, and I think that I owe it to her from now on to use her name in order to honor her for what she did for me," Rayna said.

"You act like Rayna's dead," Rory said in concern.

"It's hard to explain, Rory. She's still alive in me because she came from me, but the person that she was is basically gone. I'm sorry if that upsets you," Rayna said.

"I think that you're wrong about that because you act just like her. I think that you're more like her than you think," Rory said.

"Maybe you're right. I hope so. I'd rather be her than who I was," Rayna said as she gave him a warm smile.

"I happen to like who you are myself. I'm not sure why you think that you need a name change, my dear, but it doesn't really matter to me anyway. As long as you stay just as sweet and wonderful as you are now, you can call yourself whatever you like," Yana said as he kissed Rayna.

"Maybe you could call her Fred," Romana joked.

No one but the Doctor got her little in-joke. Everyone else just looked at her in confusion. She grimaced as she said, "Sorry, I think I've picked up the Doctor's bad habits."

"There are certainly worse people to model yourself after," Leela said with a smile.

"Yes, but I'd rather not model myself after a madman. No offense meant, Doctor," Romana said.

"None taken," the Doctor said cheerfully.

"He calls himself a madman all of the time. I think he thinks of it as a badge of honor," Amy said with a grin.

"Personally I bet that he thinks being mad is somehow cool," Clara joked.

"Then he's been cool for a very long time then from at least around the time that I first met him," Romana said.

"He was definitely mad when I met him too," Leela said.

"I can confirm once and for all that he's been mad all of his life. I knew him when he was a Time Tot, and our instructors used to think that he was mentally unstable even then," Rayna said with a chuckle.

"Does that mean I'm mad?" Susan asked in concern not getting that the others were just kidding. Well, mostly kidding anyway.

"No, sweetie. You're no madder than I am," Jenny said reassuringly.

"Oh, no," Susan said in a horrified voice and then grinned.

"I think I should be offended by that," Jenny said.

"I'm sorry, Jen. I just couldn't resist teasing you. It's what little sisters are for," Susan said.

Clara smiled at her daughter's impish behavior because she was so much like her. She never thought that she could love anyone as much as she did her parents or the Doctor, but Susan had gladly proven her wrong.

The TARDIS finally landed then, and the doors opened to reveal an extremely happy Oswin running inside. She saw Amy at the controls and instantly hugged her with joy as she said, "Thank you so much for driving! I've been worried sick that he wouldn't show up for years or maybe even centuries."

"I insisted on driving. I wanted to make sure that I got back to you sometime before you were on your last incarnation, Oswin," Amy said.

"It's my TARDIS, and I should be the one who pilots her. I've been driving it for 900 hundred years so I think that I should know a little something about how to do it correctly," the Doctor said indignantly.

"12 years!" Amy said as she glared at him.

"Do you have to keep bringing that up? It gets old, Pond," the Doctor said with a sigh.

"Well, I guess it's time to go now. I should probably head back to Angie and Artie. I just left in a hurry without really giving them much of an explanation, and I certainly don't want to leave them alone any longer than necessary. I am supposed to be their nanny after all," Clara said.

"It's okay. I'll get you back right after you left," the Doctor said as he eagerly stepped up to the console.

"Touch it and die, Raggedy Man. I'm bringing her back to a time from before her kids are ready to collect their retirement," Amy said with a grin.

"This is my TARDIS," the Doctor protested.

"We're partners now. Remember? That means that I'm driving when it's important that we get to the right time and place," Amy said.

"Well if you want to get to where you're going the boring way by getting there right away then go ahead. I like to take the scenic route myself. Life is more memorable that way," the Doctor said.

"Maybe but not today. Today she needs to check on her kids, Doctor. She's worried enough about them," Amy said.

The Doctor nodded and he smiled as he said, "Alright. Next time though, I'm driving. Agreed?"

"Fine. Happy now?" Amy asked as she smiled at him with an amused look on her face.

"Yeah, I am. For the first time in a long time," the Doctor said with a serious look on his face as he looked at the huge crowd of family and friends gathered around him on the TARDIS.

"Good. No one deserves it more than you do," Amy said.

Just before Amy could dematerialize though, Jack came running through the doors and said, "Wait! We're getting reports of some kind of disturbance in Chiswick. There are a group of what sound like Slitheen reported to have broken into a house there, and there are loud screams coming from it."

"I'm sorry, Clara, but this is more important than the Maitlands right now. I'll head there right away, Jack. Do you have the address of this house?" the Doctor asked.

Jack's face became grim as he said, "It's Donna's house, Doctor."

"What?" the Doctor asked as he started to panic.

"Who's Donna?" Amy asked as she saw the Doctor starting to become extremely upset.

"She was a companion of mine. She traveled with me for a while, and she was absolutely brilliant. We did so many great things together. Then something terrible happened, and she became half human and half me. Her brain couldn't handle it so I had to erase her memories of me in order to save her life," the Doctor said with a haunted look on his face.

"I thought that what happened to me was bad. At least I never lost my memories of you not even when I was dying," Amy said as she shivered in horror at the thought of that happening to her.

"What was the problem with her being half Time Lord exactly?" Rayna asked curiously.

"She had my memories and knowledge, and her mind just couldn't contain it all. It was burning it up," the Doctor explained.

"You couldn't fix that?" Rayna asked surprised.

"Of course not. She was involved in a Metacrisis. I had no idea how to fix that. It's never happened before. How do you know how to fix something that's never happened before?" the Doctor asked.

"Actually I have some experience with half-human, half-Time Lords. Rassilon wanted me to experiment with creating them at the end of the War. He thought that the Human Factor being put into our newest soldiers might help them better against the Daleks. I became very good at being able to create stable Time Lord-human hybrids," Rayna said.

The Doctor looked at her with a face full of hope as he said, "Do you think that you could help Donna?"

"I don't see why not. I could either stabilize her or make her entirely human again by taking the parts of you out of her. I'm sure that I can fix her amnesia either way," Rayna said.

Now it was the Doctor's turn to kiss her cheek as he said, "Thank you, Ushas. Thank you so much!"

Rayna smiled as she said, "I owe you that much at least for that time I killed you."

"You killed him?" Amy asked in shock.

"It was an accident. I didn't mean to do it. It happened when I shot the TARDIS down once," Rayna said.

Amy's eyes widened as she said, "I'm glad that you're on our side now."

"I'm so glad to hear you say that," Rayna said.

Clara had been staring at the Doctor for a while now and then she finally said, "Doctor, is this Donna that you're talking about named Donna Noble?"

The Doctor's eyebrows shot up as he said, "Do you know her?"

"Yes, I do. I've known her for years. She's a good friend of my family's. Her family and ours used to do things together all of the time until a few years back when she started becoming depressed for no reason. Even her husband couldn't help her overcome the frequent bouts of depression that she sometimes would get. She used to get so upset just out of the blue, and she couldn't tell anyone why. In the end, it wound up breaking up her marriage. She didn't let it defeat her though. She used her money to create a foundation to research the brain so that she could find a cure for her problem. She never found one, but she did help a lot of people with their problems along the way. So many people love her for that. Even out of something terrible, she made something good," Clara said.

The Doctor looked devastated by this and so did Jenny. She couldn't believe that something like that had happened to a good woman like Donna.

"I thought that I had helped her," the Doctor said in a pain filled voice.

"We're going to help her now, aren't we?" Jenny said.

"Yes. Yes, we are," the Doctor said with determination.

The Doctor took off immediately, and the TARDIS soon landed invisibly right in the middle of Donna's house. As soon as they landed, they all heard anguished screams coming from outside.

The Doctor turned on the monitor and saw to his surprise that it wasn't Donna doing the screaming. It was the Slitheen!

The Doctor started laughing as he saw Donna pounding the living daylights out of all of the Slitheen around her with a broom. The Slitheen just kept trying to get to her and every time that they came close she would whack another of them in the head and make them cry out in agony.

"You idiots! Surely you can manage to subdue one human female!" one of the Slitheen, who was standing very far away from the others, complained.

"I don't see you doing any better. In fact, I don't see you even trying at all," another Slitheen answered in anger.

"I'm leading you. That means that I stand over here and lead," the leader of the group said.

"Funny how leading and being a coward look so very similar," another Slitheen said as he nursed his aching head.

"Come on, you freaky Spacemen! Come and get me if you think you can! I don't know what you're doing here, but no one's going to use a probe on Donna Noble or force her to carry their disgusting alien babies. You're not mating with me! Have you got that?!" Donna screamed.

The Doctor grinned as he said, "Same old Donna."

"Maybe we should come back later. I bet Donna will have them begging her for mercy by then," Jack suggested with a grin.

"No, we're not going anyway. We're going out there right now," Amy said firmly.

She then promptly marched outside and said, "Hey, who do you think you are? You get away from her!"

"Oh, no! Another red headed human female, and she's just as bad as the other one!" one of the Slitheen said in a panicked voice.

"Hey! Watch the cracks about the red hair!" Amy said.

"They're very rude, aren't they?" Donna said not even questioning how Amy got in there because she was so glad to see another human being at that moment.

Then she began to grin as she said, "Rude and not ginger. I knew someone just like that once. He had something to do with aliens too I think."

Suddenly she began to look very sick as she said, "My head. It hurts."

The Slitheen leader chuckled as he said, "Finally. Your memories are surfacing at last, aren't they? Tell us where the Doctor is, human. Tell us now!"

"He's right here!" the Doctor said as he ran out with twin water guns filled with vinegar and started spraying the Slitheen with them.

Jenny rushed out and quickly put her arms around Donna as she started to guide her into the TARDIS. Donna looked at her with recognition in her eyes as she said, "I must be hallucinating! Jenny? You're dead."

"No, I'm not. I got better, and you will too. You'll see, Donna," Jenny said happily.

Then Donna screamed as more memories started flooding into her mind. Jenny quickly brought her into the TARDIS as the Doctor finished off the last of the Slitheen except for their leader who he cornered.

"Why are you here? Why did you think that Donna knew me for? How did you even find out about her?" the Doctor demanded in anger.

"Through me, Doctor! I hired them to question her as to your whereabouts. I knew that she would know. Did you think that I would forget about her? Her name is one that I will never forget! Not after what she did to me!" a familiar voice said from behind the Doctor.

The Doctor turned around to see Davros come gliding into the room. His face was contorted with rage and anger as he said, "Now I will have my revenge against both of you, Doctor! First I will destroy you, and then I will take great pleasure in destroying her!"

As the Doctor remembered the look of pain on Donna's face when Jenny took her inside of the TARDIS, he couldn't help but wonder if Davros had already done that without even realizing it. He silently prepared himself to do battle with the Dalek Creator even as he hoped that Ushas would be able to help Donna. He would never forgive himself if Donna died because of him.

That would be the final straw that would break his hearts forever.

Next: The fate of Donna Noble is revealed as the Doctor and Amy battle with Davros for her life while Rayna battles for her mind. Will they both succeed?