AN: I am thrilled by the response to this. I am leaving it marked complete because each chapter will wrap up nice so that it could end at any time.

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The resort was amazing, the service was world class, but Donna Noble didn't pay attention to any of it. After the Doctor left her and Lee to go on an expedition, which would no doubt lead to trouble, the two of them sat down to have a discussion. This wasn't a computer program anymore, this was real life and they had homes in totally different centuries.

"I have a family back home on earth." Donna told him. Lee looked stricken. "No No No I mean a Mum and grand da. Not a man or anything. Last guy I tried to marry wanted to feed me to the Racnoss."

"Wh...What?" He asked in shock.

"Yeah." From there she told Lee about all the adventures she'd had with the Doctor so far. Once the tale was done they sat and had a meal in near silence.

"I... I've n.. n...never done any th... thing like th... that before." Lee finally said as they were almost finished. "I do... don't have any f...f...family. M...my p...p...parents died when I w...was t..ten. I was r...raised b...by nan... nannies hired b..by my p...p...parents co...company."

"What kind of company?" Donna asked wondering what sort of job Lee had before the library fiasco.

"Sh...shipping. Int...inter... interstellar t..tr...transport. I h... hate it." He told her in disgust.

Donna smiled. "There isn't much call for firemen in the Tardis." She told him. That had been his job in the computer. "Or do you just like playing hero and saving damsels?"

Lee turned bright red.

"My god you do." She laughed. "Well you can save me anytime." She said in a saucy voice leaning over and kissing him.

He gave her a goofy grin. He really loved this woman. In their minds they had been together for almost 10 years now. Their fake daughter having just turned 9 when they left. It was so sad that even after all that time they didn't know everything about each other. It showed just how much of their relationship was manufactured. Lee prayed that the love he felt for her wasn't as fake as the children they had together.

They spent the rest of the day getting to know each other for real. By the time the Doctor returned from his expedition they were both glad that their affection and some of their knowledge of each other was real.

"What did you do?" Was the first thing Donna asked when the Doctor exited the vehicle while hugging the life out of him. "I thought I told you no running this time. And you go off and get into trouble all on your own. What are we going to do with you?"

"We?" He asked looking at her. "What we?"

"Lee and I." She replied stepping back and putting an arm around Lee's waist. "He's coming with us seeing as he has no family and he's sort of my husband."

The Doctor looked at Lee and then Donna. He ran his fingers through his hair and then pointed at Lee. "Fine but if he wrecks the universe who's going to clean it up?"

"We will." Donna said motioning to herself and the Doctor. "And he's not going to wreck the whole universe. Do be so over dramatic." She told him rolling her eyes. She drug Lee forward linked arms with the doctor and started marching both her men to the Tardis.

The doors of the blue box clicked open as she was approaching so that she didn't even have to stop dragging them. "Thanks girl" She called fondly finally releasing the gapping doctor by the console. "Lee and I are going for a nap. Call us when we land again." Donna called still dragging Lee out of the control room.

"What am I going to do with her?" Doctor asked the ship after regaining his composure. "And what's this opening doors for her and not me?"

The Tardis made a noise.

"Don't take that tone with me. You do to know what I mean. You like her better than me." More noises. "No I'm not being silly. You never open up for me." A wheezing groan of anger. "Well that doesn't count. That was ages ago." Silence. "Fine be that way." The doctor huffed parking them in the vortex and going to his own room grumbling under his breath about conspiring women.

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AN: This one's a bit longer.