Donna POV

The Doctor said goodbye to Frank while I was speaking to Tallulah, we'd sort of become friends over the past couple of days and she was a lovely girl.

"So, thank you for helping us all out, you were brilliant! Without your help, Laslo would be dead. But you, you gotta move things along with that fella' of yours, hmm?" I laughed at her a little, wondering if we were really that obvious.

"Yeah sure, but you, you've gotta stay with Laslo. If you can pull through all this, it just proves you were meant to be together. Any other place in the world, it couldn't work, but here in New York? Anything is possible." She smiled at me and gave me a quick hug before we made our way back to the others, she went straight to Laslo's side and slipped an arm around him. I stood next to the Doctor, just a little closer than we normally do and let my hand hang loosely by my side. I felt like a girl at the cinema putting her hand on the arm rest, but he didn't take it instead he wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me into him in a sideways hug.

We said our goodbyes and headed back to the TARDIS, taking one last look at New York.

"What do you think will happen to him? Laslo I mean." I asked, wondering what he thought could be out there in the world for a pig-human-alien hybrid.

"Oh, he'll be fine. He's got Hooverville, and Tallulah. Anywhere else in the world, I'd say it was impossible but New York, that's what this city is good at, giving hope to the hopeless." He philosophized, smiling at me.

"The Pig and The Showgirl." He grinned and laughed a little. "Just proves that there's someone for everyone. Oh I forgot to say, sorry about that dalek, I know what it meant to you." Looking up at him, he gave an acknowledging nod before skipping off to the TARDIS with a spring in his step.

I stepped inside and breathed in deeply, drowning myself in the familiar smell.

"Hi beautiful, we're back." I said, smiling at the console as it hummed delightedly. "We missed you."

"I never thought to ask before now Donna, do you want to pop home? For a visit, it's been a while, I never bothered to ask you." He asked me, still hopping around the console and pulling the zig-zag plotter in to place before I heard the familiar wheezing of the TARDIS.

"Oh yeah, sure. I don't really mind, we can go whenever is good for you." I murmured. Was he sick of me already? I asked myself, trying to keep the thought to myself so the TARDIS couldn't interfere

"What's up? Don't you want to see your parents?" He asked, coming over to where I was stood, looking at me with a mildly confused expression.

"No it's not that, I'd like to visit home, really I would." I pulled a fake grin across my face and looked at him. "I'm going to go have a shower if you don't mind, I still feel grimy from being down in those sewers." He nodded before standing out of the way for me to pass. I headed straight for my bathroom for a long shower.

Doctor POV

I caught up on some reading while she showered, wondering how long she was going to be, it was still the middle of the day on her body clock so she wouldn't go straight to bed, so neither would I. I sat in the console room, feet up on the chair, glasses on, reading some 65th-century history books.

She came back in about an hour later, wearing different clothes and her hair was still damp.

"Your TARDIS is messing around with our stuff again, she decided she wanted to paint my walls, I've told her to change them back and I think she agreed in the end." She said, hopping up to the console and coming to sit beside me, she lifted up my feet and placed them on top of her knees.

"For a start she's our TARDIS, and she only does that if we leave her for too long." I stated, trying to defend my ship. She laughed, smacking my feet playfully and picking up one of the books from where they rested on my stomach. "They're history books from your future, I'm not going to let you read them Donna. Give!" My hand was held out expectantly but she didn't hand it over.

"No way Spaceboy, I could make a fortune as a psychic in my day with all this information!" I sat up to grab it from her but she held it just beyond my reach, and I was considering getting up but that would have been too easy.

"I could always make you give it back to me." I teased, and all she did was reciprocate.

"And how exactly do you plan on doing that Timelord?" I smirked, knowing there was only one way I was going to get that book back without getting up completely.

"Well past experiences have taught me quite a few of your secret ticklish spots, I mean that would be a last resort because it's so cruel but I'm clutching at straws here Donna, you give me no choice." I inched towards her, with my legs still swung over hers, and I was almost sitting on her knee.

"You wouldn't dare." She said with a cheeky grin on her face, oh wouldn't I! I thought. My hand delved straight to the back of her neck and she started squirming underneath me, begging me to stop.

"Well that depends," I continued. "do I get my book back?" She shook her head and told me that I would never get it back. "Well now this calls for extreme measures!" I let my hand run slowly past her neck, below her arm and continued south until I reached her waist and my fingers curled slowly around her waist, tickling the skin there lightly.

I eventually got the book back, after almost an hour of tickling, she gave in to me but the books weren't thought of for the rest of the day.