The Doctor and Rose followed Donna out to a busy street where she was trying to hail a cab.

"Taxi!" She cried as they joined her, but it just ignored them.

"Why's his light on?" Rose asked annoyed as they drove past.

"There's another one!" The Doctor pointed and ran towards it. "Taxi!" He called, trying to catch it, but it also just ignored them.

"Oi!" Donna cried, now very annoyed.

"There's one!" Rose called, waving trying to get its attention, but like all the previous ones, it just drove past

"Oi!" Donna cried again.

"Do you have this effect on everyone?"The Doctor asked. "Why aren't they stopping?"

"They think I'm in fancy dress." Donna said. Just then another taxi drove by them who honked his horn at them.

"Stay off the scotch darlin'!" The driver called at her

"They think I'm drunk." Donna said, slightly offended. A blue car drove by now with two men who called out the window,

"You're fooling no one mate!"

"They think I'm in drag!" Donna said, exasperated. The Doctor looked her up and down appraisingly.

"Hold on, hold on." The Doctor said, then raised his fingers to his lips and whistled loudly and piercingly. Both Donna and Rose covered their ears.

"Ouch!" Rose complained, but it was effective. A taxi screeched to a stop in front of them and the three of them piled in.

"Saint Mary's in Chiswick, just off Hayden Road." Donna told the driver. "It's an emergency, I'm getting married. Just…hurry up!" The driver turned around to face him.

"You know it'll cost you sweetheart?" He asked. "Double rates today."

"Oh my god! Have you got any money?" Donna turned towards The Doctor.

"Um…No. And you?" The Doctor admitted sheepishly. He turned questionably to Rose. She shook her head.

"Traveling with you has kinda broken me of the habit." Rose said. When the driver realized that they had no money among the three of them, he immediately stopped the taxi, and they were out. The Doctor slammed the door behind them.

"And that goes double for your mother!" Donna yelled at him. But the driver just drove off. "I'll have him. I've got his number. I'll have him. Talk about the Christmas spirit!"

"Is it Christmas?" Rose asked. It was easy to lose track of time in the TARDIS.

"Well, duh!" Donna said. "Maybe not on Mars, but not here it's Christmas Eve." But then, Donna hit him on the shoulder and pointed off to the distance.

"Phone box!" She cried and rushed towards it."We can reverse the charges!" She cried as she ran.

"How come you're getting married on Christmas Eve?" The Doctor asked as he followed her.

"Can't bear it." Donna explained. "I hate Christmas. Honeymoon in Morocco. Sunshine – lovely." But when they reached the phone box, Rose remembered something,

"Wait. Here." She said, pulling her mobile out of her pocket. "You can use this." Donna gratefully accepted it.

"Thanks." Donna said gratefully, and dialed the number.

"Phone." The Doctor told her. "I'll get money." And he sprinted off to the nearest cash machine. Luckily, there was one right down the street. The Doctor stood there impatiently, hopping from one foot to the other as he waited for the man in front of him to finish, who was being incredibly slow.

"Oh, answer the phone!" Donna pled into Rose's mobile, as her mum's phone just continued to ring. Finally, she gave up and dialed Lance. He didn't answer either. So finally, Donna dialed her mum again and left her a message.

"Mum, get off the phone and listen." She said. "I in…" Donna looked around, realizing she had no idea where she was. "Oh my god, I don't know where I am! It's a street." Donna tried to describe, looking around trying to get some frame of reference. "And there's W.H. Smith. But it's definitely Earth!" Back at the cash machine, the man in front of The Doctor finally finished, and The Doctor walked up to it. Looking over his shoulder to make sure no one was looking, he used his sonic screwdriver to take some money from the machine.

"Here." Donna said, pressing Rose's phone into her hands. "Thanks for nothing." Then she walked off. "Excuse me." She went up to a woman on the street. "I'm begging you. I'm getting married, I really am. And I'm late, and I just need to borrow a tenner and I'll pay you back, I promise. And it's Christmas." She pled with the woman.

"You should really wait for The Doctor…" Rose asked her. But Donna was ignoring her. She had had enough. But down the street, The Doctor's attention was elsewhere. Approaching him from further on down the street, were some masked Santas with instruments. The same ones that he had seen last Christmas, when he had just regenerated. When the Sycorax had invaded.

"Taxi!" he heard Donna call, and he looked over his shoulder to see Donna climbing into a taxi, Rose arguing with her, trying to get her to stay. "Just take me to Chiswick." She told the driver, ignoring Rose. Donna looked up and saw him standing there. "Thanks for nothing spaceman!" she called. "I'll see you in court!" Then she got into the taxi and drove away. But not before The Doctor saw the driver of the taxi. It was another masked Santa. Now he knew something was up.

"Donna!" he cried. But it was too late, the taxi drove away, nearly hitting Rose in the process.

"Oi! Watch where you're going." She called, as she walked back over to join The Doctor. But then she saw the masked Santas that were now approaching them. "Um…Doctor!" she cried, as they lowered their instruments at them, She knew all too well, what those instruments were capable of.

A/N

I hope you enjoyed this. This was a hard scene to write, it was so fast paced! So let me know how you think I did! And I promise, there will be more significant changes later. This isn't just going to be me giving Rose some of the dialogue! Promise! Anyways, review!