{The Runaway Bride}

The Doctor ran his hands down his face drying his face completely, but the pain in his hearts still remained but the image of his son and wife were forever in his memory. He turned his attention to the surprised, very impossible guest. He knew she was going to be a feisty one. Oh he was jealous, she was ginger!

"What the hell is this place?" she asked.

The Doctor walked up to the redhead and looked at her up and down. "What? You can't do that. I wasn't. we're in mid-flight. That is, that is physically impossible."

"I demanded you tell me where I'm at?" she asked hotly.

"The TARDIS."

"The what?"

"It's called the TARDIS." said the Doctor. "How did you get in here?"

"You obviously you kidnapped me. Who was it? Who's paying you?"

"Hold on wait a minute. Why are you dressed like that for?" he asked.

"I'm going ten bowling! What do you think dumbo! I was half way up the ale! I have been waiting all my life for this. I was just seconds away, and then you, I don't know, you drugged me or something."

"I haven't done anything!" yelled the Doctor.

"I'll have the police called on you! Me and my husband, as soon as he is my husband, we're going the sue the living backside off of you!" She yelled and ran down the ramp to the doors.

"No, no, wait a minute! Don't!"

She pulled open the doors and saw nothing but dark sky with bright swirling stars. Her mouth fell open and quickly closed it.

"You're in space. Outer space. This is my spaceship. It's called the TARDIS." explained the Doctor.

"How am I breathing?" she asked.

"The TARIDS is protecting us." He told her, walked up and stood beside her looking out into the sky.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"I'm the Doctor. Who are you?"

"Donna."

"Human?"

"Yea, is that optional?" asked Donna.

He looked over at the redhead, "It is with me."

"Are you alien?"

"Yea." he told her.

"It's freezing with these doors open." said Donna rubbing her arms up and down with her hands.

The Doctor closed the doors and returned to the console. He couldn't understand how Donna had gotten into the TARDIS, and how a human could have locked themselves onto the TARDIS in mid-flight. He walked over to the woman in the wedding dress and looked her over carefully. He pulled a magnifying glass over asking questions to himself.

Donna raised her arm and drew it back and her face made contact with his face.

"What was that for?" he asked.

"Get me to the church!" yelled Donna.

"All right! Fine! I don't want you here anyway! Where's this wedding?"

"St. Mary's Hayden Road, Chiswisks, London, England, Earth, the Solar System." said Donna.

She looked over on the railing and saw a purple blouse laid over it. She picked it up and showed it to the Doctor.

"I knew it, acting all innocent. I'm not the first one am I? How many women have you abducted?"

The Doctor looked away from the console when he saw the blouse that Donna had in her hand. He swallowed hard. "That belongs to my wife."

"Where is she, then? Did she hop out for a spacewalk?"

"She's gone and my son." he whispered.

"Gone where?" asked Donna.

The Doctor sighed heavily, "I lost them," and he gently took the blouse from the redhead and put it back were she had taken it from. "I missed the son's birth," he whispered gently ran his fingers over the shirt. He cleared his throat, "Right let's get you to the church."

Donna stood quietly watching the man in front of her. She could tell he was hiding his pain, and she had to admit rather well, but she assumed he must had just lost them. Because to her he seemed like a man that had many hidden secrets.

She walked up to the Doctor and rested a hand over his, "I'm sorry."

He shook his head and pulled down a nearby leaver, and landed the TARIDS. The Doctor walked over to the door and pulled it open for Donna. They stepped out of the box.

She looked around and said, "I said, St. Mary's. what kind of Martian are you?"

The Doctor turned to the TARDIS and gently ran his hand over the side of the door. "I don't know what's wrong with her. The TARDIS. It's like she's recalibrating," and he ran back inside. "She's digesting. What is it? What have you eaten? What's wrong? Donna? You really got to think, what really caused this.

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Donna looked at the Blue Police Public Call Box. She walked around the right side and then went to the left. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. She slowly took a small peek inside. She still could hear the Doctor talking about her and the TARDIS. She heard him ask questions if she had any encounters with anything alien or even if the man she was marrying was even human, and asked if he had a zipper across his forehead.

Donna stepped back when the Doctor stepped of the TARIDS and he saw her shocked slightly scared face.

"Donna." said the Doctor carefully.

"Leave me alone. I just want to get married.

"Come back to the TARDIS."

"No way, that box is too weird." said the redhead.

"It's bigger on the inside, that's all." said the Doctor. "Who are you marrying anyway?"

"He's name is Lance." said Donna. "And you're not going to stop me from getting married Martian boy."

The Doctor sighed, "I'm not for Mars."

Donna shook her head and walked way from the phone box. The Doctor not far behind her. He only knew that he had to keep an eye on her, because she had appeared in his TARDIS while it was in mid-flight. Donna held for a cab and they got into it and she gave the driver the direction. She turned to the alien beside her and asked if he had any money. He told her no and then he asked the same question and return. The cab driver learned that none of them had any money. He threw them out on the curb and drove way.

"And that goes double for your mother! I'll have him. I have his number. Talk about the Christmas sprit." said Donna.

The Doctor looked around the street. "Is it Christmas?"

"Well, Duh. But maybe not on Mars, but here it's Christmas Eve."

"Why are you getting married on Christmas Eve?" asked the Doctor.

"Because I hate Christmas, and I figured if I got married on Christmas I wouldn't hate it so much."

The Doctor sadly shook his head and they walked over to the ATM. He pulled out his sonic screwdriver and the machine gave him 50 quid.

"Donna that shouldn't be the reason why you marry." He told her as he took the cash.

"What did you just do?" asked Donna.

"Something Marishin." said the Doctor.

"Doctor when you married was it something special?" asked Donna as they walked down the road.

The Time Lord let a small sad smile cross his face. "Oh yes. So very special."

"Was it some type of ceremony on Mars?" asked Donna.

"I'm not from Mars, but yes it was a very old custom. A simple bonding of minds, bodies and hearts." He pulled out his tie from his breast pocket and handed it to Donna.

She carefully took it as they stopped and stood on the curb waiting for a taxi to drive by. "It's beautiful Doctor. Is it a union cloth?" He nodded and took the it, and stuck it back inside his pocket. "Hand me the money Spaceman." She told him holding out her hand.

He handed her the money and she haled for a taxi. Donna quickly got inside the and door closed quickly behind her, and it drove off before he could get inside.

"Donna!" called the Doctor.

He saw Santa men with horns. He remembered them from last Christmas. He saw a ATM and sonic it making money fly everywhere. He ran down the street back to the TARIDS.

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The Doctor quickly unlocked the TARDIS with a jiggle of the key. He stepped in, ran up the ramp and quickly put her into flight. He grabbed a rubber hammer and hit the console. "Behave."

Donna looked out the back window of the cab, "You've got to be kidding me." She said when she saw a flying blue box on the terminal.

The TARIDS weaved through the traffic hitting a car every so often. The Doctor wrapped a piece a twine around the control leaver. He held the twine between his teeth and pulled open the doors.

"Open the door!" said the Doctor.

"Do what?"

"Open the door!"

"I can't. it's locked!" She replied.

The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver and Donna lowered the window.

"Santa's a robot!" said Donna.

The Doctor looked at the Santa, "Donna, open the door!"

"What for?"

"You're going to have to jump!" He told her.

"I'm not blinking jumping! I'm suppose to be getting married!" yelled Donna.

The robot picked up speed and drove pass the TARDIS. The Doctor pulled the string shifting the leaver and sparks flew around the console. He winced every time his ship hit a car or the pavement. The Doctor got closer and he pointed his screwdriver at the Santa, and it gripped the wheel hard.

"You're going to have to jump!" the Doctor told the bride.

"I'm not jumping on a motorway!"

"Donna listen to me, what ever they want you for, it isn't good. But now come on!"

"I'm in my wedding dress!"

"Yes, and you look lovely in it. Come on!"

Donna opened the taxi door. She looked down at the fast moving motorway. She looked up at the man or alien that his arms stretched out for her. Two kids in a back of a car in front of the taxi were cheering the couple on.

"I can't do it." said Donna shaking her head.

"Trust me." said the Doctor.

She jumped from the moving car landing into the his arms. The Doctor shut the doors and pulled the leaver sending the TARDIS spinning up in the air away from the motorway leaving two cheering kids in the car.

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