Rose tightened her grip on the railing while staring at Donna in horror, earlier that morning Donna had turned round and informed them that she should learn to drive the TARDIS in case of emergency…and the Doctor agreed.
One look from the Doctor's face told Rose that he was regretting agreeing to Donna.
"I can't believe I'm doing this!" Donna squealed excitedly
"No neither can I" the Doctor muttered, the TARDIS rocked to the left slightly "careful"
"Oh what am I going to do? Put a dent in the eighties?" Donna asked rolling her eyes
"Well someone did" the Doctor said
"Oi! I was born in the eighties" Rose snapped
"And it's a lovely decade!" the Doctor said cheerfully
Both Rose and Donna rolled their eyes when Rose's mobile went off.
"Hang on you got a mobile here in a spaceship?" Donna asked a look of disbelieve on her face.
"Well I am from the 21st century as well Donna" Rose said answering the phone "hello?"
"Rose? It's me Martha"
"Hiya Martha! How are you?"
"We need help. Yours and the Doctor's"
Martha stood there behind a building far out of the towns reach, the breeze blew her hair in her face and everything was silent. Then the familiar sounds of the TARDIS engines pierced through the silence, Martha turned to see the blue box materialize and the doors opening.
The Doctor stood there looking sombre "Martha Jones" he said quietly and then suddenly he was pushed out of the way.
"Stop trying to be so dramatic" Rose said with a teasing smile on her face. She turned round to Martha "oh give us a hug it's been months since I've seen you"
Martha gave Rose a quick, tight hug before hugging the Doctor, she pulled away and beamed at the couple "it's so good to see you two, gotten married yet? No you haven't I can't see a wedding band, just to let you know the team has a betting pool going on"
"What's the rates?" the Doctor asked looking interested
"That the two of you won't get married while we're alive that's for sure, Gwen reckons that the pair of you will sneak of to some Vegas like planet one day"
"How is my hormonal sister?" Rose asked "I haven't heard from her since my idiot of a fiancée dropped Owen off three days late"
"Five months along, baby's kicking and healthy. They don't know if it's a girl or boy, decided to keep it a surprise"
"Don't suppose there's a chance we go to the future and find out?" Rose asked the Doctor
"Now Rose that's cheating" the Doctor admonished
A bit of red hair caught Martha's eye as someone ducked their head out of the TARDIS looking out shyly.
"Who's this?" Martha asked pointing to an older redheaded woman
"Donna Noble, she travels with us. Donna this is Martha Jones she travelled with us for about a year, saved us and the world several times" Rose said introducing the two women.
"No fighting" the Doctor said quickly
"Just because me and Sarah Jane argued doesn't mean everyone will fight over you" Rose said raising her eyebrow
"They might fight over you" the Doctor said quickly in defence "after all you snogged Martha"
"It was a genetic transfer" Rose and Martha snapped in unison (they had an agreement to never speak of that day again).
"Ignore the skinny prick in the suit" Donna said "I've done something like that when I was drunk, nothing to be embarrassed about. "But I see it's obvious that you're straight as a ruler Martha"
"What?" Rose and the Doctor said looking confused
Donna nodded to Martha's hand where a glittering diamond ring sparkled on.
"Tom proposed before he left to go to Africa again" Martha said a slight blush on her cheeks "guess you and me have another thing in common Rose"
"Dark and handsome doctors that like to go to far away places" Rose said ignoring the smug look the Doctor had on his face. She then let out a high pitched squeal causing the Doctor to flinch "congratulations"
The three girls hugged each other the same time and then walked off talking as if they have been best friends for the majority of their lives. The Doctor watched with an expression of mixed horror and shock when they started to talk about him loudly.
It was Sarah Jane, Rose and Gwen all over again.
The problem was a new sat-nav/enviorment control system called ATMOS, apparently the most popular thing since sliced bread, even Torchwood had it on their SUV (which worried Rose). People seemed to have been dying at the exact same time and they all had the ATMOS. UNIT thinks that it's alien and there's something wrong with it but they can't find a single piece of evidence…which was why they had Martha call in the Doctor.
The slagging-the-Doctor-off moment annoyed him, seeing Martha act like a solider and have Donna ask is that what he does, make people into soldiers unsettled him, the Brigadier saluting him ticked him off and overall he was in a bad mood.
Then Donna came in and showed the no off days and instantly set off a newer investigation, cheering him up a bit. Because this was more proof on how brilliant she was despite what she says. Martha started a medical on all of the workers while the Doctor was preparing to visit Rattigan who created the ATMOS.
"Doctor" Donna said "I'm going home"
"Oh…" the Doctor's cheerful mood vanished "well…it's been good hasn't it? All the things we've done? You were brilliant and I shall miss you" he noticed the cheeky grin on Donna's face "you just meant a visit didn't you?"
"Yeah" Donna said trying to not laugh "Rose is coming with me, you know to help come up with a good excuse. Going to give us a lift?"
Donna walked down her street silently; Rose who was walking beside her didn't speak at all. Something Donna appreciated because it gave her that chance to remember everything she has done over the past few days.
She looked towards her house and she saw him, her Granddad. She ran across the street and he ran towards her dropping the gardening tool he held and they met each other half-way in a huge embrace.
"Donna love where have you been?" her Granddad asked "I saw you in that blue box but after that…"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you" Donna said "it's been so mad, so fantastic…oh this is Rose Tyler she's the right woman I mentioned"
Wilf looked over to Rose and his mouth dropped open "I remember you!" he said
"Oh god, you're the newspaper seller" Rose said unable to contain the grin "bet we gave you a right scare disappearing like that in front of you"
"Too right it scared me. People standing there right in front of me and then poof gone!"
"You two met before!" Donna squawked "Granddad why didn't you tell me?"
"Well I didn't know love, did I?"
The commotion Donna and her Grandfather caused attracted Donna's Mother, who came charging out looking furious.
"Where have you been? What the hell were you thinking off? Leaving my car keys in the bin! I had to go through six bins to find them, SIX!"
"What…? But I asked the man to tell you" Donna said looking confused
"Well no man told me anything!" Donna's mother snapped "now tell me where you have been"
"With me" Rose said stepping in between the mother and daughter "me and my partner hired Donna, she's our PA. We travel a lot, big opportunities. We're planning to go over to Paris this weekend"
"This won't last. It never lasts" Donna's mother mutters
"It's a permanent job" Rose said through gritted teeth
"Well go in then, have a cup of tea and you can tell my father exactly what this job is all about while I go to the shops"
Half an hour later, after Rose creating convincing lies about what Donna will be doing for Wilf to tell his daughter, the doorbell rang. Donna went to answer it to find a rather agitated Doctor.
"You won't believe the day I'm having" he said
Wilf babbled on excitedly while the Doctor was looking over Sylvia's car. Rose was trying to ring Martha while Donna stood there smiling at her Granddad's enthusiasm.
"Don't tell me, Rose Tyler" Martha said through the phone
Rose frowned slightly at Martha's tone "Martha the Doctor here has some info for you, I'll pass you overt"
The Doctor snatched up the phone "Martha it's the Sontarans, tell Colonel Mason it's code red Sontaran. If they're at the factory don't shoot, UNIT would only be massacred. You got that?"
"Code red Sontaran, got it" Martha said before hanging up
Wilf started babbling again about how bossy Donna was and telling Rose about her love life while the Doctor was leaning over Sylvia's car with his sonic screwdriver (he refused to let Rose anywhere near it with her sonic pen) when suddenly spikes popped up.
"I don't know men and their cars" Sylvia said coming back "I think if I was a car I wou…oh it's you" she turned to look at Rose "I knew you looked familiar"
"You met them as well my dear?" Wilf asked
"Dad, it's the couple from the wedding. Doctor what's his name"
"Yeah that's me" the Doctor said waving a hand before going back to his work
"I'm warning you last time that man turned up it was a disaster"
Suddenly smoke appeared and Rose groaned, the worst possible time for that to happen. It steadily got worse; the other cars on the street started to release smoke and Wilf climbed in the car (for what reason Rose wasn't sure) and got himself locked in.
Both her and the Doctor were on either side of the car using their sonic devices on the car doors, Donna was coughing loudly and Rose felt her newish respiratory bypass kick in.
The Doctor stepped away from the car and looked at the street in horror.