Author's Notes: I do not own Doctor Who, the Doctor, Donna, Amy, Rory, Torchwood or anything. Thanks for the reads and reviews and follows. I hope you enjoy this one and please let me know what you think!
The party moved into the sitting room and Donna sat with Zara in front of the heap of gifts. They started opening gifts as the partygoers watched.
"Jack..." the Doctor sided up next to him. "Who's the ginger?"
"You've already got one," Jack said.
"No, I don't know her, who is she?"
"She's related to Donna, she said."
"She's Scottish."
Jack shrugged. "So?"
Sylvia approached then.
"Sylvia," said the Doctor, he motioned at Amy and Rory, "who are they?"
Sylvia looked at them. "How should I know? I thought they were friends of yours."
"I've never met them." The Doctor looked at Jack. "You are never in charge of the front door again!"
The party started dissipating. Before they realized it, Amy and Rory were the only guests left.
"We should go," Rory said to Amy.
"I still don't know who sent me the invitation and I promised Jack I would go out with him."
"Just Rory!," shouted Zara as Donna held her across the room.
Rory waved sheepishly.
"These people are going to realize no one knows who we are," he hissed.
"Yeah, they do, you're Just Rory."
"What?," asked Donna, whispering with Jack, Ianto and the Doctor across the room.
"They're party crashers," said Jack quietly.
"Who crashes a one year old's birthday party?," asked Donna.
"Jack let them in," said Ianto.
Donna looked at Jack in horror. "We are never putting you in charge of the front door again! Do you think this is a disco? We ought to just get a velvet rope!" She knocked the balloon animal hat off his head.
"Look, we just need to find out why they're here," said the Doctor. "Let's be calm and rational and-"
Donna thrust Zara into Ianto's arms.
"And there we go," said the Doctor.
Donna stalked over to Amy and Rory. "Who are you?"
The Doctor and Jack followed.
"What?," asked Amy.
"We are so sorry," said Rory.
"Oh, you bet you'll be sorry once I'm done with you! Who are you and what the hell do you want with my baby?"
"What?," asked Amy. "We're not after your baby!"
She looked at Rory. "You were obviously making yourself chummy with her! And you were distracting our security!"
"Your security?," asked Amy.
"Listen, we just need to know why you're here," said the Doctor. "We're not going to hurt you."
"Don't make promises," hissed Donna.
"I got an invitation," said Amy. "It led me here. It's in my bag, I swear."
Amy got out her bag and started spreading out the collection of blue envelopes and notes on the dining room table. It nearly covered it. Ianto, Martha and Jack stood over it looking at everything. Donna and the Doctor sat opposite of Amy and Rory.
"TARDIS blue," observed Martha.
Jack and Ianto were going through them.
"What's a TARDIS?," asked Rory.
"This one's for Harrod's on Christmas Eve," said Ianto.
"This one would have led her to the christening," said Jack.
"Yeah, I didn't make that one. I was trying to ignore them, but they just kept coming."
"The night of the Dalek invasion," said Martha, handing one over to the Doctor.
"This is just a street over from your mother's," said the Doctor.
"Yeah, that was weird. This blonde with a big gun shoved me and I did run into Wilfred. He was trying to shoot a Dalek with a paint ball gun," said Amy.
"I don't understand," said Donna. "These notes all lead to us."
"Is this all of them?," asked the Doctor. "No others?"
"No, that's all of them," said Amy. "Sometimes they come with tickets, like the Harrod's one. Last Valentine's Day there were two to see Hairspray."
"We couldn't follow the end because this ginger lady down in front started shouting at another woman."
"I wasn't shouting," said Donna. "And she was being rude and what part couldn't you follow, exactly?"
"Nothing else out of the ordinary?," asked the Doctor. "Something you won or didn't ask for?"
"I got a weird job offer last year," said Rory.
"This isn't about you, Rory," said Amy.
"No, I'd like to hear," said the Doctor.
"Well, I'm a nurse-"
"A nurse?," snorted Jack.
"Hush you," said Donna.
Rory started again. "Last year, just before the thing with the pepper pots and the planets, I got an offer to work at King's Cross Hospital here in London. I never even submitted my CV."
Donna looked at the Doctor. "I know I don't usually, but I'm about to freak out."
Gwen was in the kitchen with one of the Torchwood laptops. Rhys was feasting on leftover nibbles. The Doctor entered with Donna carrying Zara, Martha and Jack.
"What is it with you people?," asked Rhys. "You manage to turn a birthday party into an interrogation."
"Did we find out who they are?," asked Jack.
"Fingerprints match to who they say they are. Amelia Pond and Rory Williams of Leadworth. They grew up together, same schools, everything. He's a nurse and she's-"
"A kissogram!," exclaimed Rhys.
"Really?," asked Jack.
Martha shook her head. "We are never putting you in charge of the front door again."
"She was ginger, I thought she was a relative of Donna's."
"Am I Scottish?," asked Donna incredulously.
"The nurse and the kissogram," mused the Doctor.
"It's as if someone's trying to get you together," said Martha.
"But why?," asked the Doctor.
"I don't know, as companions?," asked Martha.
Before the Doctor could ponder that, Donna said, "Oh, hell no."
The Doctor looked at Donna. "What?"
"Have you taken a look at me lately?"
"Of course I have," he said.
"Do you think there's any way I'm letting a younger, leggier, thinner ginger come along with us when all of your companions have this habit of falling in love with you? No offense, Martha."
"Why does your mind go right there?"
"Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately?," asked Donna. "You flirt and you don't even know you're doing it!"
"I am not a flirt!"
Donna looked around. "Anyone?"
"You come off as a little bit flirty," said Gwen. "When you're not doing the angst bit."
"And even then you do the puppy dog eye thing," said Jack.
"What puppy dog eye thing?"
Martha made her approximation of the Doctor's puppy dog eye expression.
"Yeah, that's the one," said Donna.
"Oh, and sometimes you do this thing with your tongue," added Rhys.
"I did not want to hear Rhys say that," said Jack.
"Well, the question is what's so special about Amy Pond and Rory Williams?," the Doctor asked, ignoring all criticism of his facial expressions.
"You think it's the both of them?," asked Jack. "That job offer?"
"How many jobs have you gotten that you didn't apply for?," asked Martha.
"Well, I've only had two and it was more like I got captured for the second one," remarked Jack.
"Are they together?," asked Gwen.
"Hey, they said they were just friends," Jack insisted.
"As if anything would stop you," said Donna.
"Okay, do I have to hear this from everyone?"
"Yes," said Rhys. "Or you could learn to control your hormones."
"That'll be the day," muttered the Doctor.
Jack threw his arms up. "I'm going to go help Mickey Mouse with the car search."
Ianto was left to guard Amy and Rory.
"What do you think they'll do to us?," Rory asked Amy.
Amy shrugged. "They can't do anything to us. All we did was crash a birthday party."
"I can hear you," said Ianto.
"Please don't throw us in jail," said Rory.
"You're such a wimp," said Amy.
"I could lose my job!"
"We won't throw you in jail," said Ianto. "We're Torchwood. Ever heard of us?"
"No," said Rory.
"There's a reason for that."
"Oh, God, we're going to die," said Rory.
"We are not going to die!," said Amy.
"What are you basing that on?," hissed Rory.
"Doctor!," they heard Jack shout from the front door. "Slight problem out here!"
The Doctor rushed out of the kitchen and looked to where Jack motioned at the sky.
"What?," he asked.
"Do I have to say?," asked Jack.
The Doctor looked again. "Yeah, I think you're going to have to say."
Ianto's phone rang. "Oh, good, the office." He picked up his mobile. "Phone for you, Jack!"
"Just a minute!," said Jack.
"Jack, I don't see what you mean."
Martha and Donna walked up.
"What happened to the sky?," asked Martha.
"What are you talking about?," asked Donna.
"You see it, too?," Jack asked Martha.
"Yeah, the sky is bloody purple!"
Jack frowned. "It's orange."
"Donna, what color is it?," asked the Doctor.
"Blue," said Donna.
"That's what I see," said the Doctor. "Ianto!"
Ianto came to the front steps and shoved his mobile at Jack.
"Why is the sky green, Doctor?," asked Ianto.
The Doctor shouted. "Mickey! What color is the sky?"
Mickey looked up out of Rory's car. "I don't know, ochre?"
"Ochre?," asked the Doctor.
"Purple, orange, green, ochre and blue," said Donna. "You mean regular blue, right? Like normal?"
"Sky blue," said the Doctor.
He walked back into the sitting room where Zara read to her zebra and rocking horse.
"Zara, what color is the sky?"
"Blue!," she said without looking.
"No, but look out the window and tell Daddy what color the sky is."
Zara looked. "Blue! I win!"
"Yes, you do," he said and gave her a peck on the cheek.
Jack came in. "Gwen says a yellowish brown and Rhys agrees with me for a change."
"Well, that will be the only time that happens," said the Doctor.
The others entered.
"Doctor, what is it?," asked Martha.
"I have no idea."
Mickey shook his head. "Call yourself a Time Lord, do you?"
"Sorry, slight question."
They turned to see Amy and Rory had joined them in the sitting room.
"What's a Time Lord and why do they keep calling you Doctor?," asked Amy.
"I was actually just wondering if I could get my car keys back," said Rory.