A/N: Doctor who does not belong to me, but my character does.
Chapter 37
Doctor POV
I burnt up a sun to speak to Rose, it was worth it. I had to know that she was alright, I had to say good-bye to her properly. I'm going to miss her. My hearts are breaking, I lost my best friend.
I set the controls to head into the time vortex, as soon as that is done, I have to go see if Ayla is fine. I can sense that she herself is no longer affected by time.
I turn around and I see a human woman in a white dress.
"What?" I ask in disbelief, she turns around and exclaims,
"Oh!"
"What?"
"Who are you?" she asks.
"But" I say still in disbelief, 'this is not possible'!'
"Where am I?" she asks angrily.
"What?" I continue dumbfounded.
"What the hell is this place?" she asks.
"What? You can't do that. I wasn't. We're in flight. That is, that is physically impossible! How did…?" I ask.
"Tell me where I am. I demand you tell me right now where am I? " She demands.
"Inside the TARDIS." I say.
"The what?"
"The TARDIS" I reply again. 'Are humans thick or what? I just answered her question where she is'.
"The what?"
"The TARDIS" I reply again.
"The what? She asks again.
"It's called the TARDIS" I repeat.
"That's not even a proper word. You're just saying things" she replies insultingly. 'Humans!'
"How did you get in here?" I ask her.
"Well, obviously, when you kidnapped me. Who was it? Who's paying you? Is it Nerys? Oh my God, she's finally got me back. This has got Nerys written all over it" The woman asks.
"Who the hell is Nerys?" I ask, maybe Nerys is responsible for this.
"Your best friend" The woman replies.
"Hold on, wait a minute. What are you dressed like that for?" I ask her.
"I'm going ten pin bowling. Why do you think, dumbo? I was halfway up the aisle! I've been waiting all my life for this. I was just seconds away, and then you, I don't know, you drugged me or something!" The woman replies sarcastically, accusing me of kidnapping her.
"I haven't done anything!" I reply.
"I'm having the police on you! Me and my husband, as soon as he is my husband, we're going to sue the living backside off you!" she says running to the doors and opening them.
"No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Don't!" I yell out. She opens the doors, nearly running into space.
"You're in space. Outer space. This is my space ship. It's called the TARDIS" I explain.
"How am I breathing?" She asks.
"The TARDIS is protecting us" I reply.
"Who are you?" She asks.
"I'm the Doctor. You?"
"Donna" She replies.
"Human?" I ask just in case my assumption is wrong.
"Yeah. Is that optional?" She asks.
"Well, it is for me" I reply.
"You're an alien" she states.
"Yeah"
"It's freezing with these doors open" She says suddenly. 'Well this is going well, at least she isn't running away, not like she could if she wanted to.
I close the door.
"I don't understand that and I understand everything. This this can't happen! There is no way a human being can lock itself onto the TARDIS and transport itself inside. It must be…" I say grabbing a device to look into Donna's eyes.
"…...Impossible. Some sort of subatomic connection? Something in the temporal field? Maybe something pulling you into alignment with the Chronon-shell. Maybe something macro mining your DNA within the interior matrix. Maybe a genetic…" I theorize out loud when Donna slaps me out of my train of thoughts.
"What was that for?" I ask her, rubbing my cheek.
"Get me to the church!' She yells.
"Right! Fine! I don't want you here anyway! Where is this wedding?" I ask.
"Saint Mary's, Hayden Road, Chiswick, London, England, Earth, the Solar System" she replies loudly.
"I knew it, acting all innocent. I'm not the first, am I? How many women have you abducted?" She asks holding one of Rose's shirts. I don't even want to look at it, a reminder of what I lost.
"That's my friend's" I say.
"Where is she, then? Popped out for a space-walk?" Donna asks.
"She's gone"
"Gone where?"
"I lost her" I reply.
Donna can see that this is not easy for me, she then says, "Well, you can hurry up and lose me! How do you mean 'lost'?"
"Right, Chiswick" I reply after taking the shirt from her and setting a course.
Time Skip
I found out that Donna basically works for Torchwood as a secretary, she just doesn't know it. Donna is something else.
"To you lot this might just be a locksmiths, but H C Clements was brought up twenty three years ago by the Torchwood Institute"
"Who are they?" She asks.
"They were behind the battle of Canary Wharf. Cyber-man invasion. Skies over London full of Daleks?" I ask.
"Oh, I was in Spain" She replies.
"They had Cyber-men in Spain" I state.
"Scuba diving" is all she replies. 'How did she miss all the drama?'
"That big picture, Donna. You keep on missing it. Torchwood was destroyed, but HC Clements stayed in business. I think someone else came in and took over the operation" I tell her.
"But what do they want with me?" She asks.
"Somehow you've been dosed with Huon energy. And that's a problem, because Huon energy hasn't existed since the Dark Times. The only place you'd find a Huon particle now is a remnant in the heart of the TARDIS. See? That's what happened. Say, that's the TARDIS" I say demonstrating with a mug and a pencil.
"The particles inside you activated. The two sets of particles magnetised and whack...You were pulled inside the TARDIS" I tell her as I demonstrated.
"I'm a pencil inside a mug?" she asks in disbelief.
"Yes, you are. 4H. Sums you up. Lance? What was HC Clements working on? Anything top secret? Special operations? Do not enter?" I ask Lance, the soon to be husband.
"I don't know, I'm in charge of personnel. I wasn't project manager. Why am I even explaining myself? What the hell are we talking about?" Lance asks.
"They make keys, that's the point. And look at this. We're on the third floor" I say showing them the building plans from the computer.
We head towards the lift.
"Underneath reception, there's a basement, yes? Then how come when you look on the lift, there's a button marked lower basement? There's a whole floor which doesn't exist on the official plans. So what's down there, then?" I ask.
"Are you telling me this building's got a secret floor?" Lance asks.
"No, I'm showing you this building's got a secret floor" I tell him.
"It needs a key" Donna says.
"I don't" I say, using my sonic screwdriver to unlock the elevator.
"Right then. Thanks, you two. I can handle this. See you later" I tell them.
"No chance, Martian. You're the man who keeps saving my life. I ain't letting you out of my sight" Donna responds. 'How noble of her'.
"Going down"
"Lance?" Donna asks.
"Maybe I should go to the police" He suggests.
"Inside!" Donna commands.
"To honour and obey?" I ask Lance jokingly.
"Tell me about it, mate"
Donna responds with an "Oi"
Later Donna and I discovered that Lance is a traitor, he was the one who poisoned her with the huon particles and the Queen of the Racnoss, an old enemy of the Time Lords have become the centre of the Earth. 'It really was incredible to watch Earth form with Donna. I think Ayla would've liked to watch this, I miss her presence, I want to go check up on her'
"What the hell's it doing?" Donna asks as the TARDIS is being pulled back to the present time of the Racnoss.
"Remember that little trick of mine I pulled earlier, particles pulling particles. Well, it works in reverse. They're pulling us back!" I tell her.
"Well, can't you stop it? Hasn't it got a handbrake? Can't you reverse or warp or beam or something?" She asks.
"Backseat driver. Oh! Wait a minute! The extrapolator!" I exclaim.
"It can't stop us, but it should give us a good bump!" I reply to her. 'We can use it so that when we arrive, it's not on their specified location'.
We step out of the TARDIS, "We're about two hundred yards to the right. Come on!"
"But what do we do?" Donna asks.
"I don't know. I make it up as I go along. But trust me, I've got a history" I tell her. Rose and Ayla can attest to that.
"But I still don't understand. I'm full of particles, but what for?" She asks.
"There's a Racnoss web at the centre of the Earth, but my people unravelled their power source. The Huon particles ceased to exist but the Racnoss were stuck" I explain, not realizing at the moment that Donna was grabbed by a robot, so I continue to explain,
"They've just taken hibernation for billions of years. Frozen, dead, kaput. So you're the new key. Brand new particles, living particles! They need you to open it and you have never been so quiet" I see she has disappeared.
"Oh!" I say.
Time Skip
I saved Donna, but couldn't save Lance. Donna saw a different side of me today, one that I barely show any more. I had no mercy for the Racnoss. All I could think was, 'What if Ayla was here? They would engorge themselves on her energy given the chance', so I took that chance away. Donna seemed momentarily frightened of me. Her look reminds of when I reprimanded Ayla with the werewolf incident, I feel a pang in my heart with the way I spoke to her back then.
I stop in front of Donna's house, "There we go. Told you she'd be all right. She can survive anything"
"More than I've done" she replies. I scan her with the screwdriver.
"No, all the Huon particles have gone. No damage, you're fine"
"Yeah, but apart from that, I missed my wedding, lost my job and became a widow on the same day. Sort of…" she says.
"I couldn't save him" I tell her sadly.
"He deserved it. No, he didn't. I'd better get inside. They'll be worried" She replied.
"Best Christmas present they could have" I tell her.
"Oh, no. I forgot you hate Christmas" I say to her.
"Yes, I do"
"Even if it snows?" I ask.
I use my sonic to manipulate the atmosphere through the use of the lamp on top of the TARDIS.
I made it snow.
Ayla would've loved this
"I can't believe you did that!" Donna exclaims.
"Oh, basic atmospheric excitation"
"Merry Christmas" She says.
"And you. So, what will you do with yourself now?"
"Not getting married, for starters. And I'm not going to temp anymore. I don't know. Travel. See a bit more of planet Earth. Walk in the dust. Just go out there and do something"
"Well, you could always…" I suggest
"What?" She asks.
"Come with me"
"No" she reples
"Okay" I say, feeling rather disappointed. She would be a great distraction.
"I can't" She replies.
"No, that's fine" I tell her.
"No, but really. Everything we did today. Do you live your life like that?" She asks.
"Not all the time" I say to her, thinking about those times on the moon with Ayla and Rose.
"I think you do. And I couldn't" she says.
"But you've seen it out there. It's beautiful" I reply.
"And it's terrible. That place was flooding and burning and they were dying, and you were stood there like, I don't know, a stranger. And then you made it snow. I mean, you scare me to death" She says strongly.
'She makes a valid point, I put Ayla in so many dangerous situations trying to save others'. I exposed Ayla to the dangers of the universe, to the dangers of me'.
"Right" I tell her.
"Tell you what I will do, though. Christmas dinner. Oh, come on" she says.
"I don't do that sort of thing" I tell her.
"You did it last year. You said so. And you might as well, because Mum always cooks enough for twenty" She tells me.
"Oh, all right then. But you go first. Better warn them. And don't say I'm a Martian. I just have to park her properly. She might drift off to the Middle Ages. I'll see you in a minute" I lie to her, going into the TARDIS .
"Doctor! Doctor!" I hear her shout.
"Blimey, you can shout. You know the only reason I knew you went missing earlier when the robot grabbed you was because I noticed you were so quiet, you, I have noticed are never quiet"
She rolls her eyes at what I said and asks, "Am I ever going to see you again?"
"If I'm lucky"
"Just promise me one thing. Find someone" She says.
"I don't need anyone" I tell her, 'I always lose my companions'.
"Yes, you do. Because sometimes, I think you need someone to stop you"
She makes a valid point, I respond "Yeah. Thanks then, Donna. Good luck. And just be magnificent"
"I think I will, yeah. Doctor?" She asks
"Oh, what is it now?"
"That friend of yours. What was her name?" She asks.
"Her name was Rose"
I disappear into the TARDIS, going straight to the Stasis Chamber after I set the TARDIS in the time vortex.
I enter the room, I see her laying in the stasis pod. The TARDIS changed her clothes from the battle to a red and beige Gallifreyan set of clothes, clothes she would've worn everyday had she still lived on Gallifrey.
"Hello Vanlia" I greet her in Gallifreyan, knowing she wouldn't hear me.
'If I wake her up now, she will be devastated with the loss of Rose and Jackie. And Donna said it even, a human I have known for less than twenty-four hours, that I live a dangerous life. She didn't want to travel with me because of it. How can expose Ayla to this life? To my world of danger constantly?'
I have decided, "Little Vanlia, you will probably hate me once you wake up, but for now, I want to spare you from this danger, I want to spare you of the pain of this universe. I'm so sorry, but you are going to be staying in this pod for a while. One day we will settle down, we can continue your schooling, you can grow up safe and happy. One day you will understand my decision. I don't know if I am making a mistake, I probably am but I will deal with the consequences when that day comes" I tell her, knowing she didn't hear a single word I said.
"Good-bye my lovely daughter".
A/N: Sorry it took so long to write. The past few weeks have still been hectic at work, stressful in general and I am still sick, and I am moving to my new place this coming weekend. Exciting stuff!
Don't worry guys, this is not the end of the story, if it was, then it would've been a sucky ending. I'll write another chapter as quick as possible. Please let me know what you think in a review after you read this :).