My Distant Rose:

I wanted to take Donna somewhere special, to make up for all the trauma of Pompeii. So I took her to her first alien planet! Her excitement was very contagious! She reminded me of you, how you would always want to be the first one to step on a new planet first, and feel the new ground beneath your feet. And then I would grab your hand and we would fly off on another adventure. I miss those days.

Thankfully Donna is a much bigger help than Martha ever was. Donna cares for me as a friend, and she helps me forget all my troubles. With Donna I'm just a silly spaceman, not a romantic interest. Other people don't seem to realize that though. I wish I had a banana for every time someone mistook us for a couple! I love bananas, bananas are good!

I set the TARDIS controls to random. Any planet, any time in the whole wide universe! I was so proud of Donna, how she had become so much greater and done so much more than she had ever done before. Donna Noble, exploring the universe! And I was able to take part in that.

The TARDIS must've known something, because, in all the planets to land on, we land on the Ood's home planet! Remember the Ood, the odd Ood? The servants to the people on the space station orbiting the black hole. What a night that was! I can't help but think of the beast's prophecy now and how it came true, even though I told you it was lying. I'm just glad you're not dead, that you're safe and very alive in another universe that is now graced by your presence. I just wish I could see you again.

Looking back now I should've trusted you. How was I to know that the Ood are not naturally servants? That they were stripped of their true nature and bred to serve? But you had the right instinct. Just as you did with Gwenyth and not wanting to send her to the Gelth. You knew then that something was wrong and you had compassion for those society deemed "lower" than you. I should've trusted you! For years and years the Ood brain was being tortured and locked up in order to make money. If Donna and I hadn't gone to that planet, the Ood would still be slaves.

When we first arrived there, in the blistering cold and the falling snow, one of the first things we found was a dying Ood. He had been shot, and right before he died, he had the red eye, just like when the Ood were possessed with the beast. Something was controlling their minds again. Donna was compassionate though, and she wasn't frightened. I'm proud of her, not being afraid encountering one of her first alien species.

The humans on the planet had the Ood imprisoned, locked up in containers just waiting to be shipped out to the rest of the universe! Donna accused me of taking humans to see the universe just to take cheap shots on humanity. The Ood were so stripped of their natural state that they didn't even understand the concept of being free. They were bred to be slaves.

"The circle must be broken." The Ood kept saying. I know now that it was the circle restraining the Ood Brain that connects their thoughts together.

Donna and I encountered a group of locked up Ood in their natural state. They weren't born with those communicators in their hands, no. They were born with their brains in their hand. The ultimate sign of trust. Their song was so heartbreaking. Because I'm telepathic, I could hear it constantly. Donna wanted to hear it too. But it was so sad she asked me to take it away. So I did. But I could still hear it. It was the song of captivity.

It seems the renegade Ood were planning for war. A war between the slaves and their captors. There was gunfire everywhere, and nothing to stop it. Until we broke the circle by freeing the brain. The Ood were finally free!

They sang a song for us. The song of captivity was now the song of freedom. They said forever they will sing of us and tell the next generations of the DoctorDonna. That was just great to take part in a planet's upcoming history!

The rest of the universe had heard the song as well. The other Ood were coming home.

Ood Sigma said something though. He said. "I think your song must end soon." I am disturbed by this. "Every song must end." Being telepathic, I'm sure the Ood knew what he was talking about. But I can't dwell on that now, there are other places to visit and people to save. With my friend Donna Noble by my side, what can possibly happen?

-My hearts are with you-

Your Doctor