"What?" Rose said for the second time, staring at the redheaded bride
"Who are you? I demand to know you…you peroxide chav!" the redhead snapped
"Excuse me?"
"Tell me, who are you?" the bride said slowly
"I'm the Doctor and this is Rose and you are?" the Doctor said raising an eyebrow
"Donna, Donna Noble, what is this place?"
"The TARDIS stands for Time and Relative Dimensions' In Space" the Doctor said
"Is this some kind of joke?" Donna demanded hands on hips
"Err…" the Doctor said trying to think of a story to tell Donna, Donna got impatient and slapped him "OUCH!" The Doctor said cradling his cheek "why is it that I always get slapped?"
The Doctor was by the bank teller getting some money out for Donna; Rose was leaning against the wall looking at her phone. One hundred missed calls. Six messages. Rose pressed on the button and lifted the phone to her ear.
"Hey Rosie, it's been two months and I have finally found the Scotland branch of Torchwood, two blokes run it, just them. They're rather sweet, accepted me immediately we've been drinking and re-telling stories. I'm staying here for a few months."
"Hey Rose it's been another month, me and the guys have been tracking down Torchwood Branch 4 apparently it went missing ten years ago. I've been helping out here in Scotland it's brilliant"
"Rose, it's me Shareen, I've talked Gwen. How are you? Are you still travelling with that bloke of yours? Keish said she saw you pack the flat up and Bev said you gave the keys in. are you ever going to come home?"
"Rose it's me Keisha, where are you? I haven't seen you since the funeral, I saw you at the flat awhile ago, and you're leaving for good? I take it this Doctor bloke of yours is taking good care of you, where's Gwen? I haven't heard from her for a while."
"Rosie sweetie I haven't heard from you for ages, I know it's hard for you but your mum would have wanted you to be happy and not running away. I'm always here for you hun,"
"Rose, it's almost Christmas, I hope the Doctor is taking you somewhere nice, I'm almost finished in Scotland, we haven't managed to track down the fourth branch, however we found the third in Cardiff, when I'm done there I'll give you a ring and you two can fuel up and pick me up. Tell the Doctor I said hi."
"Rose" the Doctor said tugging Rose's sleeve, "don't they look familiar to you?" he said pointing to three very familiar Santa Claus's…
"Aw shit, did we land in last year instead of this one?"
They managed to save Donna…barely….they got her to her reception by then Donna and Rose were rather good friends and Donna invited them to stay for the party. The Doctor did some research and found out that Donna had huon particles in her bloodstream.
Then the Santas came back.
And another killer Christmas tree.
Then it turned out Donna's fiancée was in on the alien conspiracy. And huge giant red spider woman wanted to revive her people using Donna as a sacrifice. The Doctor didn't have mercy for her…it scared Donna…it didn't scare Rose…she was feeling exactly how the Doctor did…when it was over she was scared.
The Doctor invited Donna to join them.
"I don't know" Donna said
"Please come" Rose said "you were brilliant today, we could use an extra pair of hands"
Donna shook her head and smiled sadly "I'm not ready for this kind of life…take care Rose, you too Doctor" she quickly embraced the two.
Suddenly Rose felt weak, the Doctor made it snow but Rose wasn't paying attention…her head hurts…her heart was speeding up…and then everything went black…