Notes: Last chapter of this story, but certainly not the end of this series. Yes, this one was just about how to get Rose sleeping with as many Doctors as possible, AND I ended up finding a fix for Donna in the end. Next up in this series, I plan to do a DW/ST:TNG crossover. I was a Trekker long before I became a Whovian, so we get to do some playing around with Will and Deanna ;)
Chapter Twenty-Nine
With the flick of a switch, Missy appeared in the yellowish, gleaming console room. Evander pressed another button to activate a glowing, purple forcefield around her, disabling the use of the device on her wrist completely. She didn't say anything, just crossed her arms and looked at the four of them with raised eyebrows.
"Hello. Fancy meeting you here," Alex announced with false joviality.
"Doctor," she replied curtly.
"I want to thank you, Missy," Rose announced suddenly.
"Thank her?" Evander asked incredulously.
"Absolutely. How else would I have had a chance to meet every version of my husband? Well, all but one, I suppose," she replied. "And, if it weren't for you, we would never have known that we could restore Donna's memories as well. So, thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my hearts."
"Darling, she killed you! She cost you one of your regenerations. And honestly, we really have to have a chat about you jumping in front of guns. That's twice now that you've been shot by a blast meant for someone else," Evander argued.
"Would you rather I had allowed my past self to die instead?" Rose asked.
"Of course not, love, but let one of us make the sacrifice next time, eh?" Alex told her.
"Now! Time to deal with you," the past Doctor interrupted. "Can't have you roaming around and causing trouble, but there's no point in even trying to kill you anymore because you just keep on coming back anyway. So, for now, we'll just have to keep you contained."
"There is no prison that will hold me, Doctor," Missy sneered at him.
"That's why we're not bothering with a prison. So, we are taking you to Minplinta. No sentient life anywhere in its history. Not leaving you with any technology. Should prove to be a bit of a challenge for you," Alex told her as he rocked on his heels with his hands in his pockets.
"You're just going to leave me on a primitive planet, in the middle of nowhere?" Missy questioned furiously.
"Yes. Isn't that what we just said?" Evander replied. "So, scanning for technology," he said as he flicked a few switches. "And removing all of it." With a brief flash of light, the device on her wrist and presumably anything in her pockets disappeared.
"Setting coordinates for Minplinta, ooh a couple thousand years ago, I'd say. And then, you three can go and get Donna," the Doctor announced as he spun enthusiastically around the console, flicking controls dramatically. He completed his motions by pulling Rose into a twirling dance across the room.
The TARDIS landed with a thud and as the past Doctor pressed one final button to release Missy. Alex and Evander took Missy by the arms and dragged her outside. Without another word to her, they shut the doors and returned to the console so that they could all pilot the ship back to meet the future TARDIS.
"No more timeline hopping for me, I suppose. We really need to explore the possibilities of that scarf more," Rose told them with a playful smirk.
"Let's go and get Donna first, eh?" Alex suggested, shaking his head at his wife's seemingly insatiable appetite despite spending the past week or two with all of his various incarnations.
"Oh alright," she sighed and turned to the past Doctor to say goodbye. "The Tesselecta. You'll be just fine, love. And we'll find you again."
He pulled Rose into his arms for a crushing hug as he breathed in the scent of her hair, his face buried in her shoulder. He didn't say anything, but he gave her a tender mental caress as she pulled away to join her husbands back on their own TARDIS.
They landed a fair distance away from Donna's flat. Until they had done a little extra work in the TARDIS medbay, her mind wouldn't be quite ready to handle the Time Lord consciousness in her brain. The plan therefore, was for Evander to find her, knock her out, and bring her back to the ship. All of which went very smoothly.
"Ok, so a quick injection of this neurostimulant, should nudge her brain cells that little bit extra that she needs," Alex told them as he injected Donna with a bright orange liquid. "And, now I should be able to bring her back to us," he added as he placed his fingertips against her temples.
Donna's eyes popped open an moment later and after a few confused glances to determine where she was, the room was filled with a deafening smack.
"Oi! What was that for?!" Alex shouted as he cradled his sore cheek.
"For being a bloody idiot and taking my memories away!" she shouted back. Rose could barely contain her giggles as she tried not to laugh at her husband's pain.
"I wasn't even the one who did it! I wasn't even in this universe at the time, thank you very much!" Alex protested. He pointed at Evander and continued, "He's the one that should be getting slapped!"
Donna jumped off of the bed and stormed across the room to where Evander was holding up his hands defensively. "I was only trying to save your live, I swear, Donna! I never wanted you to leave the TARDIS!" he insisted.
"Donna, how are you feeling?" Rose interjected, hoping to protect her husbands from further abuse, but also worried about their friend.
"Rose? Oh my god! You two are really back here? Is that how I'm OK now? Something to do with having that one here with me?" she wondered as she looked back and forth between Rose and Alex.
"Actually..." Evander began but was silenced by her sudden glare. Apparently, she was still too angry with that Doctor to allow him to be the one to explain.
"Oh, don't be too mad at him. You would have died if he hadn't done it. The energy from the meta-crisis changed your physiology enough to handle it, but only over time. We couldn't do anything until now and we only found out about all of that from Missy kidnapping you a few months ago," Rose explained.
"Missy? Who's Missy?" Donna questioned.
"The latest incarnation of the Master," Alex replied.
"But, I thought he was dead?" she wondered. "Wow, I really do remember all of that stuff from your head and it doesn't hurt anymore."
"Would she have all of those suppressed memories too then, Doctor?" Rose asked curiously.
"Yes, and don't you dare go unlocking those particular memories, Rose! I'm sure Donna doesn't want to know any of that stuff any more than we want her remembering it," Evander responded emphatically.
Donna's eyes went wide at the implication. "Umm, no thank you. You can all keep that stuff to yourself. I've got enough floating around in here already. Seems like I'm missing whatever brought you to that face though, Doctor," she commented as she took in the new face of Evander.
"Well, you'd only have up to my creation really," Alex interjected as he strolled over to them with his hands buried in his pockets.
"I can feel you! Your emotions, I mean," Donna said as she felt his giddy joy at her return to their lives.
"Yup! Told you that before we went back to the crucible. Seems we may have a sibling bond between us from the meta-crisis," Alex announced with a smile.
"That's not fair!" Evander pouted.
Rose giggled and gave him a mental caress and she wrapped her arms around his waist. "Now, don't be jealous. It's because of Donna that Alex was even created," Rose chastised.
"Alex?" Donna asked.
"Well, you see, the three of us are all married now. And, well, it was a bit confusing and we thought it would be important to make a bit of a distinction between us that would stay through regenerations now that all three of us have a completely new set of lives to go through. Mind you, Rose has already used one since our last encounter with the Bad Wolf made all of this possible," Alex rambled.
"Married? But that's wonderful, Doctor! Oh, I'm so happy for you. Oh my god. I almost forgot about Shaun! I'm married too. I can't just go off in the TARDIS with you now," Donna told them sadly.
"Oh, don't worry, Donna. We'll leave you with our number and any time you want to come for a trip, you just give us a ring, yeah?" Rose assured her. "Shaun can come too, although, you might have a fair bit of explaining to do about all of this."
"Yeah. I don't know how he's going to take this. He doesn't really believe in aliens and things. And mum's going to hate the idea of me going off with you again," Donna told hem.
"I warned them a little bit when we returned you after the kidnapping, but I couldn't say much because all that stuff with the Master turning everyone into himself had to happen still. Couldn't have them mentioning anything about it before now. Anyhow, it all worked out in the end," Alex responded.
"Ok. Give me that number and once I've gotten a few things worked out and explained around here, you three can come pick me up for a trip," Donna told them. "So, if he's called Alex, what name did you pick?" she asked the other Doctor.
"Doctor Evander Tyler," he replied with a smirk.
"Tyler? Ooh, did you both take Rose's last name? That's a bit domestic for you," she teased.
"Let's get you back to your boring old human life for now and you can poke fun all you like later," Alex told her as he guided her back through the TARDIS to the console room with an arm over her shoulders. "Call us whenever you're ready for a trip and you know that if you ever need anything, we'll come running, yeah?"
"Yeah. Never had a brother before. This is brilliant. Thank you, Doctor," Donna said, her eyes glistening with unshed, happy tears.
"It most definitely is," Alex agreed and gave his sister a hug.
Rose hugged Donna as well and when Donna turned towards Evander for the same, he tensed slightly and stepped back. "I'm really not much of a hugger this time around," he told her.
"Oh, come here, Spaceman!" she demanded and pulled him into an embrace despite his protests. He patted her on the back awkwardly until she backed away from him again.
"How you ever put up with their nonsense, Rose, is beyond me. I'll be in touch. I'd tell you to keep out of trouble, but I know you won't," she laughed and left the time machine with assurances that she would call soon.
"So, where shall we go get into trouble this time?" Evander asked as he circled the console and prepared the TARDIS for dematerialization.
"I think, we have an appointment with a certain scarf. I've spent too much time with past versions of you and I'd like to spend some time with the two of you and this fresh regeneration of mine. I may look similar to my first, but things still feel different to me," Rose told them.
"That's to be expected. Not only are there a few minor differences like your eye and natural hair colour, but you were human when you looked like this before," Alex said as he took her hand and entwined their fingers.
"A little time hanging out in the vortex then, as we discover all of the delightful ways to make you squeal, darling," Evander announced as he pulled the lever that would leave them floating timelessly in the vortex.
Both of her husbands shared images of their plans for the aforementioned scarf that made Rose stumble over her own feet as she raced towards the wardrobe room.
