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The console phone was ringing again. "Aren't you going to answer it?" Rose asked him.
"Nope." He responded from where he was sitting on the pilot seat with a book open and a child on either side, cuddled up looking at the book. He was reading an old Gallifreyan story. He wanted Kiam to know his heritage, even though he would never get to experience it. Over the top of the book he saw Rose reach for the phone. "Don't.." He started to say but then realized it was too late.
"Hello?" A slight pause. "Oh, hi Donna. Yeah he is right here. Just a second." She held the phone out to him. He took it as he glared at her.
"Donna!" He exclaimed with fake happiness.
"You have been ignoring my calls spaceman." She yelled at him. "You said you would find her and it has been a month now and I have heard nothing."
"Right, been busy looking." He lied rubbing his neck with one hand. He looked up at Rose again angry and she glared right back at him. "It's your own fault," she mouthed.
"You will find her, won't you." Donna asked him, her voice going from yelling to sounding as though she were about to cry.
"Yes."
"Thank you." And she hung up the phone before he could respond.
-DW-
He sighed as he looked at the newspaper in his hands. They had stopped off for a bite to eat and he had seen an article about mysterious crop circles outside of London. Interested he had picked the newspaper up to find that the "crop circles" spelled out the word Doctor.
"Look at this Rose." He said and held up the newspaper to her.
"I think somebody wants your attention." She giggled. "I am sure if you keep ignoring her she will find more creative ways to get it."
"Let's go and find out what she wants." He took them back to the Tardis and then landed it in the middle of the O in the field. Leaving the others inside he stepped out of the Tardis holding the newspaper up to where Donna could see it as she got out of the car.
"Seriously?" He asked her using his other hand to point at the picture on the main page.
"Well, you never answer your phone." She told him as wrapped him in a hug. Pulling back she looked him in the eyes. "Okay, you've had all summer. Have you found her? Have you found Melody?"
"I know who she grows up to be, so you know I will find her." He tells her softly rubbing her back.
"But you haven't yet." She broke away from him as he didn't answer her not wanting to lie to her again. She looked at the newspaper he was holding. "Hang on. What's this bit?" She indicated a line that went through the middle of the words stopping at the o.
She looked up at him. "That wasn't me." She says as they hear another car approaching fast. He grabs Donna and pulls her out of the way, falling onto the ground as the car stops dangerously close to them.
"You said he was your best friend. You never said he was hot." A young girl says getting out of the car. He immediately senses the Time Lord part of her and realizes who she is before Donna yells at her.
"Melody. What are you doing here?" She scolded her.
"Following you. What do you think?" Melody responded.
"Where did you get the car?" Donna asked. He stood up as he heard police sirens approaching. Rose poked her head out of the Tardis.
"Everything okay?" She asked him looking at the scene in front of her.
"Fine," He responded stepping away from her and towards Donna. "Wait inside." He told her and was shocked when she listened.
"You can't keep doing this. You're going to end up in prison." Donna was yelling at Melody.
"Sorry. Hello." He interrupted their conversation.
"Is that the phone box? The bigger on the inside phone box? Oh, time travel." Melody said excitedly. "That's just brilliant. I've heard a lot about you."
"You're Donna's cousin, right?" he put emphasis on the word cousin to let her know he knew differently.
"Right," She said as the sirens were getting closer. "And that's me out of time." He watched a Melody reached into her bag and pulled a gun out. She pointed it at him and he put his hands up.
"I hate guns." He told her.
"For God's sake!" Donna yelled. "Melody, what are you doing?"
"I need out of here, now." Melody responded calmly.
"I'm not taking you on my Tardis with that." He said.
She released the safety on the gun as she continued to point it at him. He sighed. He didn't want to regenerate but he wouldn't put his family at risk, so he stood his ground.
"Put the gun down and I will take you anywhere you want to go." He said his voice deathly calm but his eyes full of anger. She hesitated for a moment before she put the safety back on and returned the gun to her purse.
He lowered his hands. "Where do you want to go?"
"Well, let's see. You've got a time machine, I've got a gun. What the hell. Let's kill Hitler." She walked around him and onto the Tardis.
He turned to look at Donna. "Great first trip out and she wants to change history. Does it run in the Family?" He asked her and she punched him in the arm before following after Melody. He shook his head as he stepped on and closed the doors behind him.
