AN: "Turn Left" went pretty much cannon.
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Donna clung to Lee and the Doctor once the bug was dealt with. The Doctor was pretty impressed with Lee when decked the fortune teller for hurting Donna. The two men had become friends as they traveled. The Doctor loved having Lee in the control room, mostly because unlike Donna the man didn't insult or interrupt him every 2 seconds. Though he did often walk away with out saying anything to the Doctor, which was a bit odd.
Lee rolled his eyes. The Doctor and Donna were perfect for one another. They could almost be twins. Both talked unendingly, but at least with Donna he got a word in edge wise... sometimes. Doctor seemed to forget he had trouble speaking and would just steam roll on after asking a question never letting him answer. Most of the time he wound perch on the jump seat and listen to the Doctor natter on to both him and the TARDIS for an hour or two then he's leave and go find Donna. She was usually in the kitchen, the closet or the library. Though a few times he had found her just sitting in a random chair talking.
It took him a while to understand she was talking to the TARDIS. At first he had been worried scared she was sick or ill but one day he swore he heard the ship talk back. It wasn't proper words in proper English but it was a response and Donna seemed to understand the ship as well as she understood his mangled speech. From that point on Lee made sure to thank the ship for everything it did. Like giving them food or landing safe. He spent one whole hour thanking her, when no one else was in the control room, for letting him meet Donna.
The TARDIS was wary of this new man at first. He was so quiet but after traveling for a while she realized that like herself he may not speak in normal terms but he did see and listen. Once she realized that she understood how he spoke, with his eyes, his face, his actions. This human was kind to her thief but he loved the Donna so much that she couldn't help but like him, maybe even starting to love him. She wished Jack would join them again, he was the only other male she liked. His oddity, being touched by her very soul frightened her thief. And he lied, telling everyone she didn't like the man, he was practically her son now, he had bits of her soul in him. She huffed. If her little Jack didn't find his way home she'd make sure they found their way to him
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Lee was excited. Donna had talked about her mom and granddad, but so far they had not been to earth to visit. Today they were going. HE made sure to put on a smart outfit without being too fancy, which was hard and fussed over his hair so long that Donna started laughing at him. He frowned. "I w..want t..to make a g... g... good impression." He said with a pout.
"I'm bringing a man home. Mum wouldn't care if half your face was eaten off." Donna told him with a kiss. "They will love you." She kissed hims a again, "Or they'll have to deal with me."
Lee laughed then too. Donna could be quite the wild cat, but he loved her all the more for it.
Once the Doctor said they had landed Lee opened the door to look out. His face was puzzled. "Are you j...j...joking?" He asked the man.
"What do you mean joking. Donna's house is right...there" He said the last slowly having come over to look out. He looked all around them.
"Doctor did you get us lost again?" Donna asked hands on hips.
"No." HE replied going back over to the console. "No the coordinates are right, it's the Earth that's lost."
"You had better find it. I am not having my planet with my mum and granddad lost in space." Donna demanded.
Lee got worried because for the first time the Doctor actually looked scared. Donna looked at him too. "What are we going to do?"
"I don't know. There's not a trace, not a whisper. That is some powerful technology. Donna... Lee. I'm taking you to the shadow proclamation. Hold on."
Rhinos in space suits. When was Lee going to learn to just accept insanity? But at least Donna looked as lost as he did when the Doctor started talking nonsense. He decided to stay quiet and just listen. He's let Donna and the Doctor deal with this.
Listening to her putting the alien in her place made Lee have to adjust himself subtlety. Donna was hot when she took charge.
With all the planets in alignment it looked like... "A ma.. ma.. machine?" He asked.
The Doctor looked at him. "What?"
"It l...looks like the I..inside of a m...machine. E...Each p..pl...planet a c..c...cog." He explained
"Your right if you think of them as cogs it's almost like my granddads pocket watch." Donna added.
"More like an engine. A powerful one. But why?" He asked
Time seemed to pass slower while the Doctor was trying to puzzle out where the planets had gone and more importantly who had taken them. Lee held Donna as they sat on the stairs and waited. His face darkened when the other alien woman gave Donna such a vague warning about future loss.
"D...Don't w...worry about her. I... I won't e...ever l...lee...leave you." He told her with a kiss to her temple.
The Doctor asked about occurrences on the earth, signs that something was happening. "The bees. The bees have all gone missing."
The doctor repeated her a dozen times as he was like to do. "THE BEES!" He said a final time rushing back to the computer.
Donna and Lee followed her talking about pollution and other human theories. "What if they didn't die but went home?"
"Are you telling me bees are aliens?" Donna asked
Lee looked at her odd that she didn't know that. "Not all of them." The Doctor replied
"And you knew this?" She asked looking at his face.
"It's t...taught in p...p...primary sc..school." Lee replied.
"Right future boy." Donna replied with her usual sarcasm.
The doctor then told them about the frequency the migrant bees used to communicate. Within moments they were off running back to the TARDIS. Lee smiled and kissed Donna when they got a blip. He also chuckled when the head of the Shadow Proclamation demanded the TARDIS. Lee may not have been with them long but it didn't take long to realize that the Doctor loved this ship more than anything in the universe. Well maybe except Rose. He hadn't gotten that full story out of Donna but he knew she was the Doctor's ex.
Lee didn't know what to do when they arrived to find nothing. So he did the only thing he could, hold Donna's hand while she confronted the Doctor.
None of them had ever been so happy for a phone call in their whole lives. Lee looked at the primitive phone and was once again reminded that Donna was born 1000's of years before him.
Going one second out of sync was the hardest trip Lee had ever experienced with the Doctor but he was so glad to see the planets. He could feel the relief in Donna as he pulled her to his side.
He just listened to the intros and shouts about daleks until. "Oh Sarah Jane Smith. And who's this boy?"
"S...Sarah J... Jane Sm...Smith?" Lee asked leaning closer.
"You know her?" Donna asked as Sarah said "Have me met?"
"No n.. not really. S..She's a l...l...legend. F... founder of m...m.. my s...school." Lee replied with a smile. "An a...a..honor ma'am."
"Sarah Jane's school is still around in the 50th century?" The Doctor asked
Lee nodded. Sarah looked shocked but pleased as well.
"Back on topic." The only man on the screens said.
"Who's that?" Donna asked the same way she asked about ice cream and new flavors of pudding.
"Captain Jack Harkness. Don't just don't." The Doctor told them warningly.
"It's like outer space facebook." Donna said.
"All except Rose?" The Doctor said sadly.
Lee gripped the Doctor's arm. The Doctor had helped him keep Donna if he loved this Rose as much he'd do anything to help him find her.
The signal cut out and the Doctor called for Rose, begging it to be her. It broke Donna's heart to hear him like that.
The... thing speaking now they could see both scared and angered the Doctor. Learning about the daleks, and getting hints of a time war Lee was confused. Donna seemed to be keeping up better but he assumed it was why the Doctor was alone and needed them at his side. Lee turned a bit green thinking about losing everyone he knew. Sure he had left them for Donna, but they were still there. If the other Time Lords were time locked there was no going back. No visiting old friends. A time lock was said to be unbreakable. This dalek Khan should be happy he made it out with just his mind missing.
He had to smirk though at the Doctor's parting words. "All I have to say is... Bye."
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AN: I know it's evil but I'm leaving this here.