I don't know...if I can save your life this time.
I don't know and it scares me Donna, it scares me more than anything I've ever lived or dreamt.
Because, to deny you death, I had to strip you of everything you had grown into, everything we became together.
The Doctor-Donna. Splintered and divided for what I assumed was for all time.
Losing you meant losing the best times spent in this body, wearing this face. I can never look at myself in a mirror because of what is reflected back at me.
The face of a coward, the man who stole you away.
I can't guarantee you a sun rise nor sunset, I can't promise you today or tomorrow
If you travel with me, if you come with me now, and it all happens to you again, just know I did my best for you, but not all Doctors can heal.
Donna, please, say something, tell me it's over, tell me you can't come, that you mustn't come. Tell me to think of your family, your husband, your daughter. If I can spare a thought for them, I can spare you. Tell me this and I'll go. I'll blaze my trail across the universe and never scar your patch of Earth again.
Say it Donna and I'll oblige.
Say it, say anything.
Please.
Donna Noble stared blankly at the gentleman before him; she read the sorrow in his eyes, the sharp lump in his throat as he held back a want, a need, to tell her how he truly felt.
She knew an answer, however simple, would not uncomplicated his life.
She knew her next action would overcomplicate hers.
But she had to do it, she had no choice.
Her greatest desire had yet to be fulfilled, what she had built for herself on Earth didn't matter to her in light of what this man needed.
She had told him once she wanted to travel with him forever, that was not merely the promise of a companion, it was the vow of an unwed wife.
She had the means again to fulfil that promise to her first husband, the man who stole her away on her wedding day and set her free, but not before giving her a taste of all the stars that dared not turn cold.
And only when he left her did she realize that no star, however bright, deserved to burn out.
Not even theirs.
And in that instance, in the present, she knew how to save a life.
Shoe quoted one of her all time favourite movies as she leaned in on his face, stroking his cheeks with both hands.
"You had me at hello"
"But I never said..." The Doctor began; Donna cut him off with a press of her fingertips to his lips.
"Good, then you can never finish with goodbye" she continued, before giving him a slow, passionate kiss.