Fic: When The Clock Strikes Midnight . . .
Title: When The Clock Strikes Midnight . . .
Rating: PG
Pairing: Doctor/Donna
Summary: Written for The New Year's Kisses of the Doctor and Donna--A Fic Festival . Post Journey's End: The Doctor comes to Donna's house for New Years and things get a little out of the ordinary ... nothing new then!
Disclaimer: If they were mine Donna would still be in Doctor Who and all would be hunkydory
Author Notes: Its my first fic so i hope you all enjoy it and if enough people do i'll post the Doctors POV when I've finished it =)
Finally! I can take a quick nap before midnight and all the commotion starts again…
I had finally finished clearing up from dinner, Gramps had gone up to his hill to watch stars and God knows where mum had got to but at least I could get some rest…
I had layed down on the couch for about 5, 10 minutes. I finally started to drift when I was disturbed by a knock at the door.
Oh go away! I just want some peace!
I’m glad no one was in ‘cause with the expression on my face people would have thought I was going to whack someone if they said a single word.
A couple of minutes had passed and the door went again. I sat up and held my head in my hands. I took a couple of deep breaths so I could calm before I went to see who was at the door.
”Coming!” I said trying to keep my tone calm.
I opened the door to be greeted by the back of some strange mans head.
He comes to my door for something and the best he could do was great me with his back?!
The man turned around quickly finally noticing someone was there. He had a smile on his face but it soon faded as he layed his eyes on me …Our eyes met. His big brown eyes looked deep into mine…the look in his eyes was the look of seeing a loved one for the first time in ages….It was like he was looking into my mind…to find something…but what I had no idea….
For a moment I felt as if the rest of the world was shut off and it was just me and him standing on my doorstep with all our focus on one another. I opened my mouth slightly to speak but nothing came out. I shook my head to get whatever trance I was in out
”C-can I erm…help you?” I eventually got the words I wanted to say out. He repeated my movements a few moments after I had asked my question and answered.
”Erm is Wilf in? He invited me round for New Years” his facial expression changed to a more concerning one ‘Is that ok?’
I felt myself drifting back into that trance as he spoke but he finished his sentence just in time to stop me and responded.
”Are you a friend of his or something?”
I couldn’t help but look the man over while asking my next question. I had never noticed this man hanging around with Gramps but then again I don’t know what goes on up on his hill.
”I am yes, me and him go waaaay back” his answer had lightened the tense mood that existed around them and a little grin was playing on the corner of his soft looking lips.
Snap out of it girl! You don’t even know this man and already your perving on him…
I escaped from that thought quickly before he noticed what I was thinking…he seemed to be good at that … knowing what I was thinking … which was, now that I thought about it, quite freaky, it was hard enough for Gramps to read me at times and he’s known me all my life! There was something about this man … just something.
”Right … he’s out at the minute, did you want to come in erm-?”
I couldn’t complete my question as I didn’t know his name but that smile that was playing on the corner of his lips grew bigger as he took my invite with open arms.
”My names John by the way, John Smith”
~~~~
I looked at the clock in the lounge to see that it was 11:51pm. Time must have flown by despite the lack of communication me and ‘John’. All that could be heard was the chatter on the TV
Why does he keep looking at me? I scare men off not attract them …but then again when you think about it who would you want to watch, Donna Noble the fake tarts on TV? I felt a smile coming on at the thought of complimenting myself which wasn’t like me at all. I looked out of the corner of my eye to see a massive grin on John’s face. I hated this silence so I took a deep breath and broke it.
”Who are you really? I mean, you say you know my Gramps but you’ve not exactly been wondering about where he is or how long he’ll be out for. It’s like you’d rather be sat here with me in complete silence”
I realised I’d been rambling and had a slight attitude on which isn’t the best way to make an impression on someone new, I stopped looking at him and looked at the clock again … it finally hit me how late it was and that there was no sign of Gramps or mum anywhere. I was starting to get worried and John could tell because the next thing I knew he was sitting next to me on the couch with his arm around me.
”Donna …”
I cut him off the moment he started on the second syllable of my name
”How’d you know my name? I never told you it”
”Donna just listen to me…”
He grabbed my arms gently adding a little bit more pressure to get me focus on his now very serious looking face. I was annoyed that he had completely ignored my question but I found myself staring straight into his eyes instead of fighting back … this really wasn’t like me … if someone interrupted me I’d go off on one but no not with John … there was just something about him that restrained me from doing so … but why though? Why was I letting this complete stranger control me? There was nothing special about him … or was there?
”Donna … me and you … we know each other … we know each more than anyone else … you just don’t remember me but you will soon I promise I-”
”Your mad! I’ve never met you in my life! You’re a friend of Gramps that’s what you said! So why you telling me all this, Lying about that fact that we know each other!”
I went for him, trying to push him out of the house before Gramps and mum returned
”Just get out! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, SPACEMAN!”
I froze … the next thing I knew John Smith’s lips were on mine … I could hear the clock striking midnight and all the cheers from the crowd on the telly as they all welcomed the new year in … all the sounds echoing though my head repeating itself over and over again as this massive gateway opened in my mind. All these memories came flooding through it … the church from two years ago when I was getting married to Lance … being beamed up form there to the TARDIS, the TARDIS! Time And Relative Dimensions In Space … oh how I’ve missed her … being chucked around inside her as we travelled through time and space … travelling back in time to Pompeii and the 1920s to meet Agatha Christie … going to other planets like the Odd’s sphere and Midnight … meeting all the strange aliens like the Sontarans, and the Dalexs … meeting Jack, Rose, Martha, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie … and of course meeting the Doctor for the first time … my only true friend that didn’t think of me any more than a friend … a best friend … all of sudden my head stopped spinning and the gateway closed … I opened my eyes slowly … it took a while to focus on the blurry figure that was looking over me … he was using a stethoscope, one end in his ears and the other was against my chest.
”Oi! What you playing at, Timeboy!”
He grinned his cheeky yet adorable childlike smile and removed his stethoscope I couldn’t help but notice the concerned look on his face
”Donna? Whats my name?”
”The Doctor … unless you’ve done something like that to another women and got found out about it and changed your name”
”Brilliant! ”
”What happened?”
I slowly sat up after discovering that I must have collapsed onto the couch when all that ‘stuff’ was going on.
”Well …. You called me spaceman … I kissed you dead on midnight … you zone out and here we are!”
He smiled again, clearly happy at the thought … I had such a look of disbelief on my face … it was either about what had just happened inside my head or the face the Doctor had just kissed me!
”Do you remember anything about me Donna?”
I lost contact with his eyes and looked down at my hands thinking about everything that went on through the year … well last year …
”Yeah … everything … all the travelling we did …..the meta-crisis …… everything”
I took me a while to get the sentence out taking it all in as I said it.
”And how do you feel?”
He put one had round the back of my neck and the other came up to stroke my cheek. The second his skin came in contact with mine it sent shivers down my spine, despite remembering everything she never remembered feeling like this towards the doctor, all butterflies in my stomach and the continuous gaze into his eyes.
”I’m fine, just a little light headed ya’ know?”
We both found our selves laughing for some reason … it didn’t take long for us to return back to our previous state of just looking into each others eyes …we must have remained like it for a good couple minutes before I had asked him to explain to me what happened after everyone had left the TARDIS because that all seemed to be more a less a memory that I had permanently lost or just chosen never to take in.
It had been a good hour till he had finished explaining everything. I asked him to go over the other parts that I vagely remembered i.e. where Rose and the other Doctor had gone? And about what Torchwood as well as the time between saying goodbye to them all and the wiping of my memory and what happened after I had lost my memory.
It was enough to encourage the tears that were in my eyes to flow freely down my face. To stop the doctor from seeing my upset I stood up and walked over to the window. I wiped away my remaining tears after hearing the Doctor get up from his seat to move over to where I was standing. He stood next to me and took my hand.
”I’m sorry, Donna. But it was the way I thought that I co-”
”Its fine, it doesn’t matter now. I have back my memories and all the amazing things we did together”
At this point I was smiling at all the thoughts.
”and the most important thing is that I remember you and if we ever have to part again at least this time I can say goodbye …”
There was a long pause after that. I could see in his eyes that he was saddened by my last few words
”… but you’d need to screw up big time for that to happen, sunshine.”
We both smiled at each other. He was back in my life. The Doctor. Ready to go out and save the world again … but at that moment I couldn’t help but think about just how much I’d missed him … and how not knowing that that’s what it was, that it was him that was making feel low and abnormal and act completely out of the norm. The fact that something … someone so close to me was out of my life for good. I soon snapped out of my thoughts by a loud bang. Fireworks? At this time?
I looked out at the colourful sight that they made. All the different colours I could see … Yellow, Green, Blue, Red … all of which seemed to relate to how I was feeling … Yellow for the fact that I was so happy I was bringing the New Year with the Doctor, Green was really for the sickness I was feeling from all that went on in my head, Blue for the colour of the Doctors suit he was wearing - It always did look good on him - and Red for the love that I seemed to have developed for him … Love, yeah I said it love. I loved the Doctor.
”Oh Donna”
”Yeah?”
”I love you to”
He smiled and placed his hands on my cheeks and kissed me. It was such a gentle kiss despite how quickly it seemed to happen. I soon returned his kiss by wrapping my arms around his neck and letting his tongue slip into my mouth. He wrapped his arms around my waist which granted him further access into my mouth. We must have been kissing for what felt like a lifetime before we both parted for air. I caught my breathe and whacked his arm.
”What was that for?!” he gasped
”Reading my mind without permission, that’s what it was for”
”Ah ... about that I-”
I cut him off about by kissing him. Yup. Things were finally getting back to normal well … what I call normal for Donna Noble.
Rating: PG
Pairing: Doctor/Donna
Summary: Written for The New Year's Kisses of the Doctor and Donna--A Fic Festival . Post Journey's End: The Doctor comes to Donna's house for New Years and things get a little out of the ordinary ... nothing new then!
Disclaimer: If they were mine Donna would still be in Doctor Who and all would be hunkydory
Author Notes: Its my first fic so i hope you all enjoy it and if enough people do i'll post the Doctors POV when I've finished it =)
Finally! I can take a quick nap before midnight and all the commotion starts again…
I had finally finished clearing up from dinner, Gramps had gone up to his hill to watch stars and God knows where mum had got to but at least I could get some rest…
I had layed down on the couch for about 5, 10 minutes. I finally started to drift when I was disturbed by a knock at the door.
Oh go away! I just want some peace!
I’m glad no one was in ‘cause with the expression on my face people would have thought I was going to whack someone if they said a single word.
A couple of minutes had passed and the door went again. I sat up and held my head in my hands. I took a couple of deep breaths so I could calm before I went to see who was at the door.
”Coming!” I said trying to keep my tone calm.
I opened the door to be greeted by the back of some strange mans head.
He comes to my door for something and the best he could do was great me with his back?!
The man turned around quickly finally noticing someone was there. He had a smile on his face but it soon faded as he layed his eyes on me …Our eyes met. His big brown eyes looked deep into mine…the look in his eyes was the look of seeing a loved one for the first time in ages….It was like he was looking into my mind…to find something…but what I had no idea….
For a moment I felt as if the rest of the world was shut off and it was just me and him standing on my doorstep with all our focus on one another. I opened my mouth slightly to speak but nothing came out. I shook my head to get whatever trance I was in out
”C-can I erm…help you?” I eventually got the words I wanted to say out. He repeated my movements a few moments after I had asked my question and answered.
”Erm is Wilf in? He invited me round for New Years” his facial expression changed to a more concerning one ‘Is that ok?’
I felt myself drifting back into that trance as he spoke but he finished his sentence just in time to stop me and responded.
”Are you a friend of his or something?”
I couldn’t help but look the man over while asking my next question. I had never noticed this man hanging around with Gramps but then again I don’t know what goes on up on his hill.
”I am yes, me and him go waaaay back” his answer had lightened the tense mood that existed around them and a little grin was playing on the corner of his soft looking lips.
Snap out of it girl! You don’t even know this man and already your perving on him…
I escaped from that thought quickly before he noticed what I was thinking…he seemed to be good at that … knowing what I was thinking … which was, now that I thought about it, quite freaky, it was hard enough for Gramps to read me at times and he’s known me all my life! There was something about this man … just something.
”Right … he’s out at the minute, did you want to come in erm-?”
I couldn’t complete my question as I didn’t know his name but that smile that was playing on the corner of his lips grew bigger as he took my invite with open arms.
”My names John by the way, John Smith”
~~~~
I looked at the clock in the lounge to see that it was 11:51pm. Time must have flown by despite the lack of communication me and ‘John’. All that could be heard was the chatter on the TV
Why does he keep looking at me? I scare men off not attract them …but then again when you think about it who would you want to watch, Donna Noble the fake tarts on TV? I felt a smile coming on at the thought of complimenting myself which wasn’t like me at all. I looked out of the corner of my eye to see a massive grin on John’s face. I hated this silence so I took a deep breath and broke it.
”Who are you really? I mean, you say you know my Gramps but you’ve not exactly been wondering about where he is or how long he’ll be out for. It’s like you’d rather be sat here with me in complete silence”
I realised I’d been rambling and had a slight attitude on which isn’t the best way to make an impression on someone new, I stopped looking at him and looked at the clock again … it finally hit me how late it was and that there was no sign of Gramps or mum anywhere. I was starting to get worried and John could tell because the next thing I knew he was sitting next to me on the couch with his arm around me.
”Donna …”
I cut him off the moment he started on the second syllable of my name
”How’d you know my name? I never told you it”
”Donna just listen to me…”
He grabbed my arms gently adding a little bit more pressure to get me focus on his now very serious looking face. I was annoyed that he had completely ignored my question but I found myself staring straight into his eyes instead of fighting back … this really wasn’t like me … if someone interrupted me I’d go off on one but no not with John … there was just something about him that restrained me from doing so … but why though? Why was I letting this complete stranger control me? There was nothing special about him … or was there?
”Donna … me and you … we know each other … we know each more than anyone else … you just don’t remember me but you will soon I promise I-”
”Your mad! I’ve never met you in my life! You’re a friend of Gramps that’s what you said! So why you telling me all this, Lying about that fact that we know each other!”
I went for him, trying to push him out of the house before Gramps and mum returned
”Just get out! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, SPACEMAN!”
I froze … the next thing I knew John Smith’s lips were on mine … I could hear the clock striking midnight and all the cheers from the crowd on the telly as they all welcomed the new year in … all the sounds echoing though my head repeating itself over and over again as this massive gateway opened in my mind. All these memories came flooding through it … the church from two years ago when I was getting married to Lance … being beamed up form there to the TARDIS, the TARDIS! Time And Relative Dimensions In Space … oh how I’ve missed her … being chucked around inside her as we travelled through time and space … travelling back in time to Pompeii and the 1920s to meet Agatha Christie … going to other planets like the Odd’s sphere and Midnight … meeting all the strange aliens like the Sontarans, and the Dalexs … meeting Jack, Rose, Martha, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie … and of course meeting the Doctor for the first time … my only true friend that didn’t think of me any more than a friend … a best friend … all of sudden my head stopped spinning and the gateway closed … I opened my eyes slowly … it took a while to focus on the blurry figure that was looking over me … he was using a stethoscope, one end in his ears and the other was against my chest.
”Oi! What you playing at, Timeboy!”
He grinned his cheeky yet adorable childlike smile and removed his stethoscope I couldn’t help but notice the concerned look on his face
”Donna? Whats my name?”
”The Doctor … unless you’ve done something like that to another women and got found out about it and changed your name”
”Brilliant! ”
”What happened?”
I slowly sat up after discovering that I must have collapsed onto the couch when all that ‘stuff’ was going on.
”Well …. You called me spaceman … I kissed you dead on midnight … you zone out and here we are!”
He smiled again, clearly happy at the thought … I had such a look of disbelief on my face … it was either about what had just happened inside my head or the face the Doctor had just kissed me!
”Do you remember anything about me Donna?”
I lost contact with his eyes and looked down at my hands thinking about everything that went on through the year … well last year …
”Yeah … everything … all the travelling we did …..the meta-crisis …… everything”
I took me a while to get the sentence out taking it all in as I said it.
”And how do you feel?”
He put one had round the back of my neck and the other came up to stroke my cheek. The second his skin came in contact with mine it sent shivers down my spine, despite remembering everything she never remembered feeling like this towards the doctor, all butterflies in my stomach and the continuous gaze into his eyes.
”I’m fine, just a little light headed ya’ know?”
We both found our selves laughing for some reason … it didn’t take long for us to return back to our previous state of just looking into each others eyes …we must have remained like it for a good couple minutes before I had asked him to explain to me what happened after everyone had left the TARDIS because that all seemed to be more a less a memory that I had permanently lost or just chosen never to take in.
It had been a good hour till he had finished explaining everything. I asked him to go over the other parts that I vagely remembered i.e. where Rose and the other Doctor had gone? And about what Torchwood as well as the time between saying goodbye to them all and the wiping of my memory and what happened after I had lost my memory.
It was enough to encourage the tears that were in my eyes to flow freely down my face. To stop the doctor from seeing my upset I stood up and walked over to the window. I wiped away my remaining tears after hearing the Doctor get up from his seat to move over to where I was standing. He stood next to me and took my hand.
”I’m sorry, Donna. But it was the way I thought that I co-”
”Its fine, it doesn’t matter now. I have back my memories and all the amazing things we did together”
At this point I was smiling at all the thoughts.
”and the most important thing is that I remember you and if we ever have to part again at least this time I can say goodbye …”
There was a long pause after that. I could see in his eyes that he was saddened by my last few words
”… but you’d need to screw up big time for that to happen, sunshine.”
We both smiled at each other. He was back in my life. The Doctor. Ready to go out and save the world again … but at that moment I couldn’t help but think about just how much I’d missed him … and how not knowing that that’s what it was, that it was him that was making feel low and abnormal and act completely out of the norm. The fact that something … someone so close to me was out of my life for good. I soon snapped out of my thoughts by a loud bang. Fireworks? At this time?
I looked out at the colourful sight that they made. All the different colours I could see … Yellow, Green, Blue, Red … all of which seemed to relate to how I was feeling … Yellow for the fact that I was so happy I was bringing the New Year with the Doctor, Green was really for the sickness I was feeling from all that went on in my head, Blue for the colour of the Doctors suit he was wearing - It always did look good on him - and Red for the love that I seemed to have developed for him … Love, yeah I said it love. I loved the Doctor.
”Oh Donna”
”Yeah?”
”I love you to”
He smiled and placed his hands on my cheeks and kissed me. It was such a gentle kiss despite how quickly it seemed to happen. I soon returned his kiss by wrapping my arms around his neck and letting his tongue slip into my mouth. He wrapped his arms around my waist which granted him further access into my mouth. We must have been kissing for what felt like a lifetime before we both parted for air. I caught my breathe and whacked his arm.
”What was that for?!” he gasped
”Reading my mind without permission, that’s what it was for”
”Ah ... about that I-”
I cut him off about by kissing him. Yup. Things were finally getting back to normal well … what I call normal for Donna Noble.