9.

Wilf was puzzled, the Doctor was okay by doing something weird in the process of healing, after all who lights up like a light bulb? Apart from Rudolf? Wilf mentally smiled. The Doctor was okay. Donna was... hopefully okay- he didn't want his granddaughter getting hurt, although she had been so happy in the blue box, travelling around. Sylvia... well, no doubt she'd probably be complaining about something as usual.

The Doctor was running off and Wilf didn't want to lose him, not again, he knew the Doctor could fix Donna as the Master had told him but he didn't know why he wasn't doing it. Was it because he didn't know he could? No, that wasn't it, not his brilliant Doctor; he knows everything but that would mean he wasn't doing anything which was perhaps worse.

"Wait up!" Wilf panted, half jogging after the Doctor "My body's older than yours..." he grumbled. Pulling a handkerchief out of his coat he wipes his head as he hurries down yet another flight of stairs and a long creepy corridor.

"...You see I was thinking about this earlier. What happened to the Cacti? Their ship was damaged, their teleports were down and they're probably running out of fuel by now..." The Doctors voice drifted into Wilf's hearing as he rounded the next corner and he realised they were heading back down towards the basement. "...so big space ship over London again, surely someone's going to notice and the Cacti need somewhere to go, somewhere to land, somewhere safe. I was thinking if we could find them I could give them a lift in the Tardis...never been to a planet full of green Cacti before, well, not humanoid ones... sounds fun... What if they have green Cacti dogs? Can you imagine that..."

"Cactuses."

"What?" The Doctor comes to staggering halt and looks at Wilf with those big eyes and the old man now sees why Donna wants to whack him all the time; with a speech like that.

"Cacti is racist."

Gaping at him the Doctor looks away slightly and opens his mouth then closes it. "Humans..." he mumbles and starts jogging down the steep stairs to the basement controls. Waving his sonic screwdriver the Doctor reboots the system and his silhouette is black against the glowing green of the weird circly cog language things. What did they mean? How did the Doctor even understand what it said? All looks the same to me...

"Aha!" shouted the Doctor pointing to a particular row of what Wilf had come to think of as space-talk. "Right here," he beckoned towards Wilfred Mott and then hit the console as the alien language flickered out of focus. "No, no ,no , no..." whined the Doctor taking out his glasses and looking closer at the system "No!" he shouted as the whole thing went black.

10.

The Master watched as the Doctor got distracted and shook his head. This wasn't good, the stupid timelord was supposed to go and see Donna not a bunch of cactuses who couldn't even make sure that a healing gate worked. He would have to do something. He would have to pull the plug on the Doctors little rescue.

Grinning wildly in the shadows the Master laughed at himself. Pull the plug, of course, it was so simple the Doctor would never think to look at something so trivial as an electricity supply. Bye bye cactuses one and two the Master thought as he pulled the plug out of the socket and heard the Doctor give a shout of anger and kick the primitive machine. With a smirk on his face he retreated from the basement feeling Wilf's eyes on him as he left. Now the Doctor had no choice but to check up on the human girl. The plan was back on track.

11.

"Ere, where can I get one of these?" Wilf indicates towards the Tardis and laughs; half jokingly and half hopefully.

The Doctor looked at Wilf pointedly then locked the door to the blue box in a way that told Wilf it wasn't happening. "So here we are then, I'll just check on Donna and make sure her mind hasn't collapsed yet." Setting of at a fast pace the Doctor crosses the road and walks around Sylvia who stares at him gaping.

"What are you doing here? What's going on? No! Don't go in there, Donna's in there!" Sylvia shouts but the Timelord just carries on walking and enters the house while pushing past her.

"Wha'd'ya mean 'yet'?" Wilf hurries after the Doctor and pays as little attention to Sylvia as the young man in the pin striped suit had to her shouts of protest.

Walking into the lounge the Doctor plonks himself down on the sofa right next to Donna where her fiancé was just about to sit and takes one of the cups of tea that the man held in his hand while giving the other one to Donna. "So Donna... do you remember me? I'm the- John Smith" he quickly corrects himself and looks curiously at the man before him who is glaring in his direction. "You know it's rude to stare right?"

"But-you-you just-" Shaun started.

"Listen skinny boy, you don't come into my house, act like you own the place and as if you're my best friend. Guys in suits are CHEAP you hear me? CHEAP!" Donna interrupts and stops the Doctor when he tries to talk; "No, don't you even try Martian boy, now get off my sofa and give Shaun back his tea!"

The Doctor opens and closes his mouth in disbelief but quickly gets up when Donna looks like she is about to have another outburst. Handing the cup of tea back to the tanned man he pulls a chair from the kitchen table and slumps down on top of it while watching Wilf enter the room. "So... Donna," he looks her seriously in the eye "do you remember me?"

"What is with you and all these questions about my memories? Anyone would think I'd had them wiped..."

Crooking an eyebrow the timelord leans forward on his arms and examines the woman before him "Who's to say you haven't?"

"um- I think she'd remember if she'd had her memory wiped." Shaun chips in and doesn't notice when the Doctor and Donna give him odd looks.

"okaaaay, so," The Doctor turns away from Shaun and back to Miss Noble "Do you remember anything at all about me?"

"Apart from your rudeness and your ability to travel from one place to another?"

"Yes!"

"No."

"What?"

"What?"

"but you said... what was that about me travelling from one place to another?" the Doctor inquired wondering how far gone Donna was if she was calling him Martian boy.

"Well, you have legs don't you! You don't have something wrong with them do you! Therefore you can walk!" Oh good so she was okay... "bite me alien boy!" …or not.

"Why do yo keep calling me an alien?" the Doctor asked Donna trying to figure her out.

"You smell funny." Donna said as if that explained everything.

"What!" the Doctors face screwed up in confusion. Only Timelords can smell other Timelords...which means...Grabbing both sides of Donna's head as gently as possible while in haste he leaned closer to her and closed his eyes. PHWACK! "ow" the Doctor winced and looked at Donna in confusion. "What was that for?" he asks rubbing his right arm.

"I am ENGAGED, do you not know what that means on your planet?"

"But-"

"But what? You don't go around kissing people on Earth who are ENGAGED!"

"But-"

"Just 'cus I'm from Chiswick and I'm ginger? Well, that doesn't give you a right!"

"Donna!"The Doctor shouted in anger and placed a finger over her mouth "Ssshhh!" She went in for another whack but he grabbed her wrist. "No." then he grabs her other one when she tries that. Noticing the ring on her hand he looks at it then at her. "Where did you get that?"

"Get what?" Donna asks confused.

"This ring!" he pulls it off her finger and puts it in front of her face. It had circles on it with weird lines... or to the more educated, High Gallifreyan. It was the Master's ring and there was no way Donna could have it.

"I don't..." she looks confused and hesitates with the word she was about to say.

"What? You don't what?" he asks quickly with panic on his face.

"I don't remember..." Donna frowns and rubs her head wincing in pain. "It was there when I woke up in the alley, already on my finger... I thought it was a Christmas present."

Sharing a worried look with Wilf the Doctor leans closer to the ring, making out every detail in a way no one else could any more. It was beautiful, with the green background and the circles rotating as if in a solar system: it was a perfect balance of control and precision with just a touch of madness in the way it was perfectly laid. It was the only thing left of the Master and he didn't want to let it go but he knew that he couldn't just take it from Donna without her knowing the reason why. Slipping his hand into his coat pocket the Doctor brought out his black rimmed glasses and the white point star, the last of which he carefully concealed.

"Do you know where I it came from?" Donna asked doubtfully.

"No." the Doctor lied, again looking at Wilf. "Do you mind if I take a closer look at this?"

Donna shrugs in a not fussed manner and looks in the direction of the Doctor's flickering gaze. "Gramps!" she cheers and bursts into a wide grin while jumping up and giving him a big hug.

Quickly the Doctor slams the white point star into the Gallifreyan ring and watches them combine. The diamond broke down into smaller ones which rimmed each circular word. The regeneration energy gave the whole ring a slight glow and the silver of the ring turned slightly golden in colour. Realising that Shaun was watching him he got up to give the ring back to Donna. If he was right the regeneration energy in the ring would gradually change Donna so that she would be able to hold a Timelords brain and abilities. That was if he was right, if he wasn't... who knew what would happen.

"Here you go Donna," the timelord says placing the ring in Donna's hand, "Don't go blowing things up now." he says thinking of the Darleks and his other self. Turning to Wilf he takes him aside and gives him a quick explanation "I'll be here when the process completes, under no circumstance must she leave the ring anywhere, otherwise she won't return to normal."

"Doctor?" Donna says in confusion.

Surprised the Doctor turns "yeah?"

"Bye!" smiles Donna in confusion and holds her head. The ring glows faintly then returns back to it's new form.

"yeah." the Doctor smiles widely giving her a hug which is too intimate for a pair of strangers, however no-one seems to notice apart from Shaun who glares at the Doctor and holds Donna protectively after the embrace is broken.

12.

That night Donna had wild dreams of a man named the Doctor. They ran down corridors and leaped down stairs, she hung in the air as he told her to hold on. Giant wasps entered her mind, a girl soldier with blonde hair did flips through laser beams and John Smith was there, no there was two of him and metal pepper pots span in circles. A giant spider with a human body connected to it screamed at her over a deep hole that led to the centre of the earth but she wasn't scared in her dreams, she was happy. The happiest she had been in a long time. When Donna woke she didn't remember any of it; only a feeling of joy and a memory of a group of faces she didn't recognise standing around a circular station.

The Masters ring hummed with energy in the darkness while the Master found himself being slowly depleted. As he watched Donna his blue life force showed and he winced in pain every time his body changed form.

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