Drabble: Donna's Great Adventure (Doctor Who - Donna Noble)
Title: Donna’s Great Adventure
Format & Word Count: Drabble / 426 words
Fandom & Characters: Doctor Who, Donna Noble, references to Shaun Temple (her hubbie from The End of Time) and Jo (Grant) Jones (companion to the Third Doctor)
Summary: The lottery win changes Donna’s life in a way she never expected. Set after The End of Time Part Two.
Author’s Note: Written as a gift for hrymfaxe for pulped_fictions Festival of Wishes. Slight reference to a previous drabble Incredible Dreams
Donna's Great Adventure
Receiving a winning lottery ticket as a wedding present was something Donna never expected. It meant that they went from scraping every penny together and never seeming to have enough, to having more money they could have imagined. They changed their budget break to Spain for a around the world trip and had the time of their lives. Donna had always meant to travel but had never got round to it preferring the comforts of home, frankly she’d never really been able to afford it anyway, but she found herself oddly at home travelling from place to place with only one bag and Shaun for company. It even managed to quell her weird dreams, as long as they kept moving she slept more soundly than she had in ages.
They saw many things on their travels; breathtaking landscapes and amazing people. They kissed for hours in a Venetian gondola, watched the sun go down at Uluru and shared a simple meal with a tribal chief in a small African village. But travelling also gave her an ache in her heart, she felt like she was only half involved with the world around her. It was like she had another purpose that was lurking at the back of her mind, if only she could unlock it.
It was on a trek to Machu Picchu that everything changed. In their group was a wonderful older lady who introduced herself as Jo Jones. Donna took to her immediately feeling a kinship with her that she couldn’t quite fathom. Jo was an inspiration and so full of enthusiasm for her environmental causes. She helped Donna to recognise that what she really wanted was to help people. Having seen so much more of the world, she’d also seen so much more of the suffering and she decided to do what she could to change that.
On their return to London she set up her own foundation to provide support to those lost and alone and to be the first to charge in where governments and other charities feared to tread. . The Temple-Noble Foundation also provided Donna with the sense of purpose she’d lacked. She put her passion for people and her organisational skills to good use and was much more hands on than anyone, including herself, expected. She had finally found her place in the world and she loved it. However, sometimes those dreams still plagued her; it did seem much easier to deal now she was content with her life but part of her longed to know the truth.
Format & Word Count: Drabble / 426 words
Fandom & Characters: Doctor Who, Donna Noble, references to Shaun Temple (her hubbie from The End of Time) and Jo (Grant) Jones (companion to the Third Doctor)
Summary: The lottery win changes Donna’s life in a way she never expected. Set after The End of Time Part Two.
Author’s Note: Written as a gift for hrymfaxe for pulped_fictions Festival of Wishes. Slight reference to a previous drabble Incredible Dreams
Donna's Great Adventure
Receiving a winning lottery ticket as a wedding present was something Donna never expected. It meant that they went from scraping every penny together and never seeming to have enough, to having more money they could have imagined. They changed their budget break to Spain for a around the world trip and had the time of their lives. Donna had always meant to travel but had never got round to it preferring the comforts of home, frankly she’d never really been able to afford it anyway, but she found herself oddly at home travelling from place to place with only one bag and Shaun for company. It even managed to quell her weird dreams, as long as they kept moving she slept more soundly than she had in ages.
They saw many things on their travels; breathtaking landscapes and amazing people. They kissed for hours in a Venetian gondola, watched the sun go down at Uluru and shared a simple meal with a tribal chief in a small African village. But travelling also gave her an ache in her heart, she felt like she was only half involved with the world around her. It was like she had another purpose that was lurking at the back of her mind, if only she could unlock it.
It was on a trek to Machu Picchu that everything changed. In their group was a wonderful older lady who introduced herself as Jo Jones. Donna took to her immediately feeling a kinship with her that she couldn’t quite fathom. Jo was an inspiration and so full of enthusiasm for her environmental causes. She helped Donna to recognise that what she really wanted was to help people. Having seen so much more of the world, she’d also seen so much more of the suffering and she decided to do what she could to change that.
On their return to London she set up her own foundation to provide support to those lost and alone and to be the first to charge in where governments and other charities feared to tread. . The Temple-Noble Foundation also provided Donna with the sense of purpose she’d lacked. She put her passion for people and her organisational skills to good use and was much more hands on than anyone, including herself, expected. She had finally found her place in the world and she loved it. However, sometimes those dreams still plagued her; it did seem much easier to deal now she was content with her life but part of her longed to know the truth.