CHAPTER 12

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THE DOCTOR'S TWO WORST ENEMIES TEAM UP

As they stood together in the Console Room of the TARDIS, Jenny held Donna's hand with concern in her eyes as the redhead continued to scream out of control. Then the Doctor's failsafe to prevent her from remembering again was finally triggered, and she immediately went into a peaceful sleep.

Jenny quickly caught her before she hit the floor and lifted her up into her arms. She carried her through the corridors like a child as she headed straight for the medical bay.

"You're certainly a lot stronger than you look. You're carrying her around like she's a doll instead of a full grown adult," Clara said with amazement as she followed behind her.

"All Time Lords are from what Dad told me. You are too now," Jenny replied.

Clara had a surprised look on her face for a moment as she said, "Yeah, I suppose I am. I haven't noticed being any stronger though. Of course I never have any reason to use my strength so I guess I wouldn't notice it yet, would I?"

"No, you don't fight much. I've noticed that," Jenny said as she finally reached the medical bay and laid Donna down on one of the beds so gently that it made Clara smile.

"She's alright now. I hope Rayna can help her. She doesn't deserve to be in so much pain," Jenny said as she gently kissed Donna's forehead.

It was obvious that she loved Donna with all of her heart. It showed through in her every action. Clara idly wondered if Amy was about to be replaced as Jenny's mum.

"I try not to fight if I can help it," Clara said as she responded to her earlier comment.

"I know. That wasn't meant as a put down, Clara. I actually like that about you. I wish that I was more like you sometimes, but I'm too much of a soldier for my own good. It's been hardwired into my brain by the generator that made me," Jenny said with regret.

"So was the urge to kill, but you overcame that," Clara pointed out.

Jenny smiled at her as she said, "Yeah, I suppose you're right, Mum."

"Mum? I thought Amy was your mum?" Clara asked completely surprised.

"You're going to be my mum too though, aren't you? I've seen the way that Dad looks at you so I know that he's definitely going to marry you someday. Rose pretty much confirmed that. I just decided to start calling you mum too so that we could both get used to it. You don't think that Proper Mum will be mad about that, do you?" Jenny asked

Clara was amused as she said, "If you mean Amy, I don't think so. No. I don't think she'll be mad at all."

"Good. I'd never intentionally hurt her. She's had enough pain in her life," Jenny said as she stroked Donna's hair absentmindedly in what Clara knew was a display of her deep affection for her.

"There is such a thing as thinking of more than one woman as your mother, Jenny, especially if you never had one in the first place. I don't think that Amy would mind if you think of me or Donna as a mother. Not as long as you call her Proper Mum," Clara said as she tried not to laugh at that last sentence.

"Good. I'll do that then. Thanks, Third Mum," Jenny said with a mischievous grin on her face.

"Third Mum?! Hey! I should at least be Second Mum!" Clara said pretending to be angry and take a swat at her.

Then all of the silliness stopped as Donna moaned in her sleep, and Jenny's face became filled with concern for her. Clara held Jenny's hand as she said, "She'll be okay, sweetie. The Doctor will make sure of it."

Jenny nodded but her expression didn't change. She wished that she could have as much faith that things would turn out alright as Clara did. After all of the horrible things that she had seen in her life as she traveled alone through time and space though, that kind of faith was a little harder for her to come by now than it would have once been.

Meanwhile back in Donna's house, the Doctor and Amy were very busy trying not to get killed as Davros bombarded both of them with electrical bolts from his hand. The only things saving them at the moment were their sonic screwdrivers which they were using to redirect each of Davros' attacks away from them as quickly as he delivered them. They both knew though that Davros only had to get a single attack by them just once, and then they would be completely at his mercy as he slowly electrocuted them.

"So, Davros, I can't help but notice that you're alone this time. I mean besides the Slitheen of course, and they were absolute rubbish. I'm just dying to know what's going on. Where are the Daleks? Did they finally wise up and leave you behind?" the Doctor asked as he tried to make Davros angry and goad him into making a mistake.

"I don't need them to destroy you, Doctor, because I am your superior in every way. I will kill you and your pathetic little companion all by myself, and then the Daleks will give me a hero's welcome once I return to them," Davros said as the electrical bolts coming out of his hand suddenly became even wider and more violent.

"'Pathetic little companion?' Pathetic little companion?!" Amy shouted as her face turned red with anger.

"Now, you've done it. You've just made the biggest mistake that you'll ever make, Davros. You just made Amy Pond mad. Prepare to face the wrath of the Scottish Storm!" the Doctor said with a smirk.

"Shut up!" Amy said to the Doctor in a cold voice before she turned towards Davros to glare at him.

"First of all, you jumped up little Hitler wannabe, I am not his companion. Not anymore. I'm his partner. We're equals in every way now. Second of all, I'm far from pathetic since I once killed Madame Kovarian in an alternate reality all by myself though I'm not proud of that. Third of all, I'm not and never have been little. I've got legs that go on for miles thank you very much. I've always been one of the tallest people around," Amy said proudly to Davros even as she continued to redirect his attacks with minimal effort.

"That's for sure. Your legs are like a giraffe's legs," the Doctor said as he glanced at them.

"You really need to stop looking at my legs like that, Raggedy Man. If Clara found out about it, she might not understand," Amy said joking.

"Stop that! You know that I wasn't . . . I don't think of you that way. I never have. Just stop that!" the Doctor said in a flustered and embarrassed voice.

"Why? It's so much fun," Amy said with a chuckle.

"You dare to ignore me and treat me as inconsequential while I attack you! I will crush you both for your impertinence!" Davros said as he suddenly stopped firing on them and rushed towards them.

That was when Amy kicked him away as hard as she could as soon as he got within reach of her, and he slammed right into the nearest wall making the entire wall shake. His head was jerked back as soon as he hit, and he screamed in pain as it seemed that he had quickly developed a painful case of whiplash.

Now while he was momentarily distracted, Amy pounced on top of him and held his hand down and pointed firmly away from her as she smiled at him in triumph.

"And that's how it's done, Doctor. I made him so angry while poking fun at you and ignoring him that he made a serious mistake," Amy said.

"Be careful, Pond. He isn't that easy to defeat. He's very treacherous and clever. He hasn't been around for centuries for no reason," the Doctor warned.

Amy smiled as she said, "I appreciate the concern, Doctor, but I can take care of myself now. I'm pretty old and treacherous too even if I don't look the part anymore."

Davros smirked at her as he said, "Yes, now that I'm this close to you I can see the age and weariness in your eyes now. You're far older than your appearance suggests, aren't you? The pain and loss in your eyes remind me of the Doctor's. He did this to you, didn't he? You're just another in a long list of people whose lives that he's ruined just as he did Donna Noble's."

Amy could practically feel the waves of guilt and sorrow radiating off of the Doctor from behind her without even having to turn to look at him. She snarled at Davros for putting him through that as she said, "The Doctor didn't make me travel with him. I did it of my own free will knowing full well what might happen to me someday. None of this pain that I feel came about because of him anyway. It came from having my life manipulated and destroyed by others who interfered in it with no concern whatsoever with how that it would affect me. None of that was the Doctor's fault, and I don't blame him for it all. He shouldn't blame himself either."

"No, you really don't blame him, do you? Yes, I can see that. You blame yourself," Davros said with a wicked smile on his face.

"Amelia, don't listen to him. He's trying to play his little mind games on you. It's what he does," the Doctor said.

"Is that why my earlier remarks got such a violent response out of you because you realize just how weak that you truly are? It's true, isn't it? Is that why you consider yourself an equal partner of the Doctor's because you see yourself as a destroyer of lives like he is?" Davros asked.

Images of Rory and River flashed through Amy's mind as the guilt that constantly weighed on her heart briefly surfaced. Davros was right. She did secretly blame herself for what had happened to both of them. If she hadn't chosen to travel with the Doctor, each of them would have had a much better life. She and she alone had destroyed their lives, and she knew it.

"River told me just before she died that she wouldn't change a moment of her life, Amy. She had no regrets whatsoever and didn't blame you for anything so stop blaming yourself," the Doctor said as he realized what she was thinking.

Amy was surprised by this and then smiled as she said, "Thank you."

Davros laughed as he said, "How touching! At least you can die now with a clear conscience, my dear!"

Before Amy could ask him what he meant by that, she suddenly screamed in pain as Davros' chair suddenly electrified the entire area around him and countless volts of electricity poured into her body. She was frozen and unable to move as the electricity made its way through every part of her, and her body's nerve endings seemed to be on fire as she continued to scream relentlessly.

"Amy!" Rory screamed as he came running out of the TARDIS.

The Doctor was so intent on attempting to use his sonic screwdriver to shut this deadly new attack of Davros' off that he didn't even notice Rory's arrival at first. Then he heard Davros scream and looked up to see Rory firing the gun in his hand at the Dalek creator over and over again.

Davros' chair suddenly caught on fire all over it as he shouted, "I will not be defeated! I will kill each and every one of you and return to the Daleks in triumph!"

Even with his chair on fire underneath him, Davros raced towards Rory as he turned his full attention towards him while he fired on him with the electrical blasts from his hand. Amy fell to the floor as Davros continued trying to electrocute Rory.

The Doctor raced to Amy's side even as Davros and Rory fought with each other. Neither side was able to gain a clear advantage over the other as they continued to fight each other to a standstill while the Doctor checked Amy's vital signs.

"Doctor, is she going to be alright?" Rory asked as he could see that Amy wasn't moving.

The Doctor nodded as he said with a relieved smile, "She's fine. We Time Lords are extremely hard to kill. A little bit of electricity isn't going to hurt us."

"A little bit?! It felt like enough voltage was being poured through me to light up a whole lot full of Christmas trees!" Amy complained as she woke up.

"Time Lord? Of course. I should have realized. So you're finally no longer the last one, are you, Doctor? I'm sure that the Daleks will be more than glad to take her away from you as soon as I let them know about her existence," Davros said with maniacal laughter.

Suddenly Davros' laughter was caught in his throat as he found himself face to face with a furious Jenny who had seemingly appeared from out of nowhere and wrapped her hands around his throat. Fear shot through Davros as he saw the anger flash through Jenny's eyes like the lightning flashes in a thunderstorm. He saw the full anger and fury of a Time Lord up close and personal, and even he flinched back from it.

"You hurt my mother then you threatened to kill her while laughing about it! You'll never get another chance to do anything to her. This is the end for you," Jenny said in a cold almost mechanical voice that sounded nothing like her.

"Jenny, no!" the Doctor shouted.

"Jenny, don't do this. You're not like him. You don't kill," Amy pleaded.

"I finally found a mum, and he's trying to take you away from me," Jenny said as her grip tightened.

"Jenny! Remember what I said about how you could choose to overcome the instincts of a soldier?" Clara said behind her.

Jenny hesitated as she looked at Clara with eyes filled with fear. "He'll kill her if we let him go. He'll take my family from me," Jenny said in tears.

"No, he won't. We won't let him. Come on, Jenny. You're better than this. Let him go," Clara said in a soothing voice.

Jenny punched Davros in the face instantly knocking him out and then ran to Clara. Clara held her while she cried as the Doctor looked at her with astonishment as if he was seeing her in a new light.

"She truly is impossible. Every time that I think that I have her figured out she goes and completely surprises me somehow," the Doctor said with a huge smile on his face.

Amy smiled at him as she said, "You're really head over heels for her, aren't you? I can see why though. I like her. She's definitely something special. She needs to stay away from my daughter though or I might get jealous."

"It's okay, Proper Mum. I still love you the best," Jenny said.

"Proper Mum?" Amy said with a perplexed expression on her face that made the others burst out laughing.

"So what happens to me?" the surviving Slitheen who had been watching all of this without speaking all of this time said as he finally spoke up.

"You and Davros will be given over to the Judoon. I've already signaled them with my sonic so don't try to run. Maybe you'll get a reduced sentence since you didn't try to help Davros kill us," the Doctor said optimistically.

"Mercy from the Judoon? I doubt it," the Slitheen said with a snort of derision.

"So tell me. Did Davros ever explain why the Daleks weren't with him? I'd like to know just out of curiosity," the Doctor asked.

"They blamed him for their defeat at the Medusa Cascade and banished him. The only reason that they didn't kill him was because they reasoned that they might need him again someday. He's to have no contact with them ever again or he'll be instantly exterminated. Ever since then, he's been trying to find some way to get back in their good graces again for years now with no success. Apparently he finally got to the point where he became desperate enough to attack you all by himself in a last ditch effort to get them to take him back. Apparently my people and I were the only ones who he could get to go with him. We were the only ones insane enough to attack you I suppose. It's only because we needed the money that we took the job. We have massive debts with people who you do not want to owe money to," the Slitheen answered.

The Doctor nodded as he asked, "Why didn't you help him then?"

"I didn't do it out of any sense of morality if that's what you're asking. I just realized that the odds were against me and decided that it was better to live to fight another day," the Slitheen said.

"What changed your mind though?" the Doctor asked curiously.

"That woman. She's scary," the Slitheen said as he pointed at Amy.

The Doctor laughed as he said, "Yeah, I know. She's been scaring me for years."

Then he yelled as Amy slapped him while saying, "Apparently, I haven't scared you enough."

"Doctor, I'm about to try to fix your friend's condition. I thought that you might want to be there," Rayna said as she suddenly appeared in the doorway of the TARDIS.

The Doctor and the others immediately raced back inside of the TARDIS without another word leaving Davros and the Slitheen behind. They were only alone for a few seconds before the Judoon appeared to retrieve them. As the Judoon carted them off, the Slitheen briefly wondered if what he had told the Doctor were true or not.

Perhaps he had held back because he had realized that Davros was too evil even for him and that he had no wish to work for him for any amount of money. He smiled to himself as he wondered if maybe he had a sense of ethics after all. Wouldn't that be funny if it were true?

Back inside of the TARDIS, the Doctor and the others gathered inside of the medical bay and watched as Rayna placed Donna inside of a machine that she had spent the entire battle with Davros cobbling together out of bits and pieces found throughout the TARDIS. Rayna checked everything over again one last time just to make sure that it was ready before looking at the Doctor with what she hoped was a confident, hopeful look on her face. She didn't want to worry him any more than he already was after all.

Rayna smiled her brightest smile as she said, "I'm ready. Now I just have to know what course of action that you want me to take next. Should I attempt to make her all human once again or stabilize her as a half human half Time Lord? Making her all human once again is the safest option and the easiest one."

The Doctor looked uncertain for a moment and then he finally said, "I'd really like for Donna to decide."

Rayna nodded as she said, "With my telepathic abilities, I've managed to create a buffer around her mind that will temporarily allow her to keep her memories without it burning her brain up. It won't last long though. Go ahead and ask her what you want while you still can."

Then Rayna woke Donna up. Donna looked at all of them in shock at first until she suddenly remembered everything again. Her head was already starting to hurt though as she said, "Doctor? Is that you?"

"Yep. I look much better than Old Sandshoes, don't I?" the Doctor said with a grin.

"Your chin looks like it could punch a hole through a battleship," Donna said laughing.

"Doesn't it? I told him that he could use that thing as a lethal weapon," Clara replied with a chuckle.

"Clara? What are you doing here? Don't tell me that he's dragged you into being his companion now too?" Donna asked.

"I'm afraid it's a little more than that. I'm a Time Lady now. It's a long story," Clara said.

"I don't know whether to be happy for you or to slap the Spaceman for doing this to you," Donna said.

"I'm fine, Donna. That happened because of something that I did to save the Doctor. He had nothing to do with it. Right now, I'm more worried about you," Clara said as she explained the situation to her.

"So what do you want to do, Donna?" the Doctor finally asked as soon as Clara was finished.

"Can I stay like I am now only without the massive headaches and the amnesia?" Donna asked.

"I can try to stabilize you. It would be better to try to be only human though. You could keep your memories of the Doctor either way. It would be safer for you too," Rayna said.

"I want to go traveling again, and I'm betting after what happened to me the last time that the Doctor won't let me do that if I became ordinary Donna again. Will you? Answer me honestly, Spaceman," Donna said as she fixed him with a firm glance.

"No. I'm not even sure I'd let you travel with me again even if you could stay the DoctorDonna permanently. I'd be too worried about losing you again," the Doctor admitted.

"You're not going to have a choice, Doctor. Now that I have a chance to be what I was once again, I'm going to take it. Then you're going to let me travel with you whether you want to or not. Got it?" Donna asked.

"Donna, I . . ." the Doctor said with a worried look on his face.

Donna's eyes softened as she said, "I'll be alright. What happened before was just a fluke. I want this, Doctor. I want to travel with you again. I've been miserable ever since I stopped, and I never even knew why. Now I do. I finally remember everything, and now that I do I'm going to do something about it. I want to go back to the stars. I want to make a difference again just like I did before. How can I go back to an ordinary life when I've seen all of the things that I've seen?"

The Doctor was reminded of Sarah Jane who had said similar words to him once, and he realized now that she remembered again that Donna wouldn't stop trying to do what they had done before whether he left her behind or not. He would feel much better about being able to keep an eye on her on the TARDIS than he would about just letting her run around all alone on Earth getting into who knows how much trouble there.

He finally nodded and Donna smiled as she said, "Thanks. You're not such a dumbo after all."

"Thanks. I think," the Doctor said.

Donna suddenly started screaming again as she said, "Doctor, it hurts! I've never had such pain in my life!"

"It has to be done now. I had to take your failsafe away in order to restore her memory for a while. Her mind is burning up even faster now because of that," Rayna said.

"Do it. Help her!" the Doctor shouted.

Rayna started up her machine as Donna screamed louder and louder. The Doctor gripped Clara's hand in fear, and she put a comforting arm around him. At the same time, Amy had her arms wrapped around Jenny who was already starting to cry.

"It's going to be alright," Amy whispered to her.

"Yana, help me calibrate the machinery. Her body's fighting it. It's violently rejecting the Time Lord side of her," Rayna said.

Donna screamed louder and louder as Rayna and Yana worked the controls of the machine as fast as they could. They raced to stabilize her body and mind as Donna's alien half overwhelmed and destroyed her human side.

"Fix it now, you stupid Spacemen!" Donna screamed through gritted teeth.

"I'm trying," Rayna said.

"The machine's not working like it should because we didn't have the exact parts that you needed. Those no longer exist so I had to make do with substitutes from the TARDIS. I really thought that they would work anyway though. They should have, but apparently they weren't enough. She's dying," Yana whispered to her sadly.

"I know. I can't let that happen. I can't fail the Doctor. I can't take his friend away from him after everything else that I've done to him. Make it work, Yana. Help me make it work," Rayna whispered back.

"What's wrong?" the Doctor asked as he could sense their worry.

When neither of them answered him, he became even more worried. He began to wish that he had fought Donna harder about staying half Time Lord. If anything happened to her, he'd blame himself for it for not putting a stop to it when he had the chance.

Yana checked and rechecked the machine as he tried to get it to function properly. Finally he decided to fall back on a tried and true method of fixing something that wasn't working properly. He kicked it as hard as he could.

Then Yana yelled in triumph as he said, "It's a rather primitive way of fixing things, but it never fails. I've fixed it. That should stabilize the process in a matter of minutes now."

The machine worked perfectly from then on and as soon as it finished, Donna stood up and said, "Do any of you have any aspirin? My head feels like I just had the TARDIS land on it about fifteen or twenty times."

"Time Lords can't take aspirin. It's deadly to us," the Doctor said.

"What? I've been taking aspirin this whole time for my headaches! Do you mean that I've been poisoning myself?" Donna asked alarmed.

"No, you're probably okay since you're half human. The human half helps filter the poisons out," the Doctor said with an amused smile on his face.

"Stupid Spaceman! I traveled with you for a year, and you never once mentioned the whole aspirin is deadly thing to me. What if I had given you one by mistake?" Donna protested.

Suddenly the Doctor hugged her as he said, "I'm so glad that you're okay."

Donna smiled as she said, "Of course I'm okay. I never doubted it for a minute."

The Doctor began to cry despite himself and Donna became serious as she said, "I'm so sorry for putting you through that."

"I'm the one who should be apologizing to you. I should have found a way to fix you," the Doctor said.

"Oi! You did the best that you could, Doctor. I'm okay now so you can stop the self blame game, okay? I mean I know it's your favorite pastime to moan and groan about how everything that goes wrong is in some way your fault, but you can stop about this one this time. Give yourself a break for once. I'd say that you've earned it," Donna said with a huge grin on her face.

The Doctor began to smile too because he had dreamed about this moment for so long, and now it was finally here. After it finally hit him that he really had Donna back, he grabbed ahold of her, picked her up, and spun her around with joy.

"Whoa! What are you doing?" Donna asked in surprise.

"He does that. This version's very emotional. He's all touchy feely," Clara confided.

"Yeah, I can see that. Put me down before I start showing you my version of touchy feely with my hand upside your head," Donna said.

The Doctor sat Donna down, and then he hugged her tightly and kissed her forehead. Donna couldn't help but smile. This Doctor was so different from hers, and yet he was still the same in his hearts.

Jenny took this moment to come up to her and give her a hug herself as she said, "I'm so glad to finally have you back just like you used to be again, Donna. I was so afraid that I was going to lose you. It's so good to see you again, Second Mum."

"Second Mum?" Donna asked in confusion.

"I'll explain it later," Clara said with a chuckle.

"I'm glad to see you again too, Jenny. We were all devastated when we lost you," Donna said as she hugged the girl back.

Before she could start crying, Donna quickly changed the subject. She still kept one arm around Jenny though as she said, "I'm not sure if I like the public displays of affection or not from this version of you, Doctor, but I guess I'll get used to it. I just don't want people to start thinking that I'm your girlfriend or something."

"Oh, you don't have to worry about that," Clara said.

"Really?" Donna asked.

Clara smiled but said nothing. Donna's jaw dropped open as she said, "Really? Congratulations, Spaceman! You lucked out. Clara's a really nice person. You're so lucky that she agreed to date you."

"Oi! You act like I'm some kind of charity case or something," the Doctor said pouting.

"Have you looked at yourself in the mirror since you regenerated? With that chin of yours, you should count your lucky stars that anyone would agree to go out with you. You'd think that she'd be afraid of getting impaled on that thing," Donna teased.

"Oi!" the Doctor said.

"Oh, hush up, Spaceman!" Donna said as she hugged him and kissed his cheek.

Then the two of them embraced, and the Doctor refused to let her go out of an irrational fear that she might disappear. Donna smiled as she said, "You need to let me go, Spaceman. Your girlfriend might not like it if you keep holding onto me for so long."

"You should see what he does to me. He's always staring at my legs or looking at my naked bum," Amy couldn't resist adding.

"What?" Rory asked.

As Amy smiled at him, he realized that she was joking and shook his head at her.

"I do not! Shut up, Pond!" the Doctor said as he looked at Clara to make sure that she wasn't angry.

To his relief, Clara was laughing. Unfortunately in that moment, Donna had noticed his reaction.

"Who are you?" Donna asked.

"Amy Pond. Nice to meet you, Donna," Amy said.

"Do you make fun of him like that all of the time, and do you always get that kind of reaction out of him?" Donna asked with a merciless look on her face.

"Oh, yeah," Amy said.

"Amy, I think that we're going to be the best of friends. Let's compare notes," Donna said as her smile became wider and wider.

"Oh, no!" the Doctor said with dread.

"What is it, Doctor?" Clara asked as she saw the look of sheer terror on his face.

"I never even thought of that. If they should join forces, I'd never be safe again," the Doctor said as he began to shake all over.

"What are you talking about?" Clara asked with worry.

"Amy and Donna. If they join forces against me, they'll make fun of me relentlessly. It'll be just like Rose and Sarah Jane but a thousand times worse!" the Doctor said with a gulp.

"I wonder if they need some help," Clara said giggling.

"Don't even think about it," the Doctor said as he glared at her.

"Don't worry, Doctor. I'll always be on your side when the big, bad redheads come after you," Clara said as she kissed him.

The Doctor smiled at her with a huge grin that covered his face from ear to ear as he kissed her back. After so much misery for so long, everything was finally going well for him. He had his Clara, he had his Ponds back, he had Jenny and Susan, he had been reunited with Romana and Leela, two of his worst enemies had now become his friends once more, he knew for certain that Rose was happy and doing well, and now Donna was back and remembered him again. He was so filled with emotion that he was afraid that he was going to explode.

For the first time since the Time War, he was completely happy.

Next: Well, that was the signal for something to go wrong right there, wasn't it? Next time, one of the Doctor's worst enemies returns ready for revenge. I'll give you a clue as to who it is. He knows when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake even if you're not always sure yourself when he's around. I'll give you three guesses, and one of them isn't Santa Claus.