Come Take Me Home Chapter 2
Title: Come Take Me Home
Author: noblegirl91
Rating: PG
Charaters: 10/Donna
Disclaimer: BBC owns them but I have borrowed them for a little while. I promise to give them back!
Chapter 2
I'll stay with you
The walls will fall before we do
Take my hand now
We'll run forever
I can feel the storm inside you
I'll stay with you
When Donna stepped on board the TARDIS for the second time, it only took her the equivalent of two Earth days to make herself feel at home. For some reason she felt more at home here than in her own home in Chiswick.
As Donna walked around her room for the hundredth time since unpacking, she thought back to the night she and the Doctor were reunited.
Donna was so afraid that the Doctor didn’t want her to come because he hesitated to answer. She didn’t plan on taking no for an answer though. Why else would she station herself in the doorway? If the Doctor tried to leave her, he would have had to go through her first!
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The Doctor was roaming about the consol room while Donna went to change outfits yet again. He noticed that he was considerably happier since Donna had agreed to let her travel with him. The Time Lord would have done anything in his power, said anything that night, to assure Donna that she was welcome.
He still couldn’t believe that she had been searching for him and succeeded in tracking him down. He was not an easy person to find after all. Donna was truly brilliant.
The pair had just returned from their first adventure to what the Doctor thought was Rome but was in fact Pompeii. Today, Donna had showed him exactly what she meant by “needing someone to stop him”.
I knew Donna was meant to be that someone.
The fiery temp probably would have left him then and there if he hadn’t saved someone. The thought sent a shiver through him. But as the Doctor was quickly finding out, Donna always knew what was right.
Donna entered the consol room and walked over to where the Time Lord was standing lost in thought. She used her fist to lightly bang on his forehead. “Anyone home?”
“Oww!” The Doctor feigned injury hoping to maybe receive a sympathetic kiss. To his dismay, it only earned him a slap.
“I’ll give you something to cry about Sapceman!” the fiery red head scolded.
“Is there something you wanted or did you come in here just to hit me?” The Doctor complained as he rubbed his sore arm.
“Yeah, I wanted to know if running will be a major part of all our trips? Cuz if it is then I am gonna need to buy another pair of trainers.”
The Doctor chuckled at his companion’s concern. None of his previous friends had worried about their footwear. Donna was definitely different from anyone who had travelled with him before. He placed his hands on Donna’s shoulders.
“Are you sure you know me? Yes. There is going to be a lot of running!”
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Fooled by my own desires
I twist my fate
Just to feel you
But you, turn me toward the light
And you're one with me
Will you run with me?
People change for various reasons. Sometimes it’s because of a situation; sometimes it just happens over time. But for whatever reason, the Doctor had begun to notice subtle changes in his relationship with Donna. He sat at the kitchen table pondering their last few adventures.
The Doctor knew that he had agreed to keep their relationship strictly in the “friends-zone”. But after leaving Messaline, he couldn’t help but to think that there was more to their relationship.
As Donna walked Martha back to her house, The Doctor had overheard what she said about travelling with him forever. He smiled at the thought and hoped that she was right and would stay forever, even though he knew that it was not humanly possible.
And the day that they met Agatha Christie, Donna had kissed him. Sure it was to save his life but he couldn’t help thinking that she might have had another motive. The Doctor couldn’t admit it, but he had enjoyed their all too brief embrace and was almost certain that Donna had too. Then a few days later Donna had nonchalantly commented that it would’ve been better without the anchovies. So was his assumption wrong?
Just a couple days ago they had visited The Library and Donna had mysteriously disappeared and the Doctor feared the worst had happened, especially with an infestation of Vashta Nerada hanging around. Relieved to discover that she had not fell victim to the flesh melting shadows but trapped in a virtual world, he would stop at nothing to get Donna back. That day the Doctor started to realize just how much Donna meant to him.
But how could he ever tell her this? Tell Donna that without her by his side, holding his hand, running from the danger, stopping him when he starts to go too far, he didn’t feel whole.
I'll stay with you
The walls will fall before we do
Take my hand now
We'll run forever
I can feel the storm inside you
I'll stay with you
Ironically Donna was thinking about practically the same thing as she sat sipping her tea in the TARDIS library.
She knew that the Doctor needed her but she hadn’t realized that she needed the Doctor. He made her life more exciting, showed her things that she never could have dreamed of. Sure there was usually a risk to life and limb but it was worth it. He was worth it. Startled, Donna looked around the room expecting to see someone standing behind her.
Where did that come from? That wasn’t me was it? She continued to survey the room until she was satisfied that she was alone. I’m not falling for the Doctor am I? What happened to just mates? Donna’s thoughts wandered back to the kitchen where she and the Doctor shared their first kiss. Now that she thought about it, why had she kissed him?
It was to save his life! Yeah that’s why. Although… it definitely wasn’t the worst kiss I’ve ever had. Donna sank deeper into the comfy chair that she occupied, relishing the warmth of her mug in her hands.
Donna’s thoughts flickered to that dreadful day that they had lost Jenny. The Doctor had holed up in his room after leaving Messaline wanting to be alone; but he let her in when she asked. She listened patiently and held him as he began to talk about all the people he had watched die or walk out of his life. “They all leave, Donna.”
“I am going to travel with that man forever.” That’s what she had told Martha.
“Well I ‘m not going anywhere. I’ll stay with you. Forever. Promise. You couldn’t get rid of me if you tried Spaceman.” It brought a smile to his handsome features, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes.
Donna could see how upset he was and she knew that he had probably never told anyone any of this before. She sat cradling him in her arms as he grieved for every one of his friends that was lost for the rest of the night.
For the first time in her life Donna realized how lucky she really was not to have experienced that kind of lost. She finally understood why the Time Lord always, no matter what they had done, gave people a choice. Because he didn’t always have one.
He was known as The Oncoming Storm and Donna decided that she going to help him find the eye of that storm and save him from his own destruction.
Not only did the Doctor need someone to save him, he needed someone to love him. And so Donna silently vowed to do just that. Why? Because he would do the same for her.
Now come in from this storm
I taste you sweet and warm
Take what you need
Take what you need
From me
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Wake up this world
Wake up tonight
And run with me
Run to me now
“How about I take you to the most gorgeous and relaxing spa this side of the galaxy?” The Doctor announced as he stood hunched over the central consol. He eyed Donna with an inquisitive look as he stared around the time rotor at her.
“Are you serious or just taking the mickey?” Donna walked around to where the Doctor was standing with a look of utter disbelief on her face. How many times had she asked, no begged him to take her somewhere like this?
“I’m serious!” He flashed Donna a megawatt smile.
“So what? You just been holding back mentioning you knew where the greatest spa in the universe was?” The Doctor turned to face her; what he faced was the red head’s intense icy blue glare.
The Time Lord’s smile fell from his face. He thought that Donna would be pleased by this news but she looked torn between hugging and murdering him. He had learned quickly what preempted Donna to strike since she started travelling with him. The Doctor quickly tried to amend his error.
“What!? No, no, no! I just thought that you, we, could use a nice quite day! No running, no monsters.” He tried desperately to soothe the red head’s temper. Lucky for him it work and he escaped unscathed.
“Well what are you waiting for? Get on with it!” With that she dashed out of the room to get ready.
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Unfortunately the planet Midnight turned into probably the most terrifying day the Doctor had experienced yet.
When the Doctor got off the rescue vehicle, Donna was waiting for him. It was almost as if he had just woken up from a terrible nightmare and was still in a daze. He felt Donna wrap her arms around his neck and melted into her embrace, pulling her to him as if he feared she would slip out of his grasp and disappear. He thought he would never see her again.
They sat at a table near the pool. Donna listened as the Doctor recounted his nightmarish ordeal and slowly recovered, mentally kicking herself for not going with him.
“I wanted to run, but I couldn’t. I had no control…and that scared me.” The Doctor was broken, Donna could see that, so she said the only thing she could think of.
Reaching across the table and grabbing his hand, Donna whispered, “So let’s run. Far away from this place. Just you and me…” She paused searching for the right words. Her voice cracked as she finally fell apart. “God, I should’ve been there with you! I’m sorry…” Tears began streaming down her pale face.
The Doctor stopped her midsentence; he placed his hand on her cheek and used his thumb to wipe away her tears. “No! No. I…I’m glad you weren’t there. If that thing had… I’m not sure what I would have done… There was no way of predicting what it would do. Please don’t cry.”
Donna was still upset but she nodded in agreement. She thought that there was something he wasn’t saying. They sat for a few more minutes in comfortable silence before the Doctor got up.
He offered his hand to Donna. “Com‘on. Let’s run. Far away, just the two of us.” He gave her a sad smile.
The Doctor was still shaken up, but his smile, though sad, was a sign that he was returning to normal. Donna took his hand and together they slowly made their way back to the TARDIS and left Midnight far behind them.
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I'll stay with you
The walls will fall before we do
Take my hand now
We'll run forever
I can feel the storm inside you
I'll stay with you
The Doctor lay on his bed staring into the abyss, afraid to close his eyes. He thought he could still feel that thing pulling at the back of his mind. Donna lay next to him asleep. He had asked her to stay here with him after leaving Midnight. She was the only thing that had kept him fighting, blocking that creature from completely overwhelming him. He just needed to get back to her and nothing would stop him.
The Doctor turned over and lay on his side so that he was facing Donna. He watched her as she slept peacefully. Thank Rassilon that she was there for him afterwards. Good ol’ Donna, always there to help him pick up the pieces when everything went wrong. She was his rock, she kept him grounded.
Ever since finding Donna, the Doctor felt like he could face anything as long as she was by his side. She even made the TARDIS feel more like a home. He reached over and gently brushed stray strands of golden-red hair away from Donna’s face.
The Doctor replayed their conversation by the pool in his mind. He had almost let it slip. That he loved her. The Doctor had contemplated telling her about his feelings; especially when she had caught him staring from across the room. Not to mention any of the times they were trapped in close quarters.
There was something special about Donna. When he looked at her, he could see it, feel it. It was like a storm was gathering around her. Like the feeling you get just as a storm comes in, when the air is charged and you can hear the thunder rolling in the distance. The Doctor found it exhilarating.
I made this mistake before, burying my feelings and missing my chance with Rose. But not this time!
Tomorrow they were going to Shan Shen, so the Doctor resolved to find some way to tell Donna exactly how he felt before the end of the day.
Author: noblegirl91
Rating: PG
Charaters: 10/Donna
Disclaimer: BBC owns them but I have borrowed them for a little while. I promise to give them back!
Chapter 2
I'll stay with you
The walls will fall before we do
Take my hand now
We'll run forever
I can feel the storm inside you
I'll stay with you
When Donna stepped on board the TARDIS for the second time, it only took her the equivalent of two Earth days to make herself feel at home. For some reason she felt more at home here than in her own home in Chiswick.
As Donna walked around her room for the hundredth time since unpacking, she thought back to the night she and the Doctor were reunited.
Donna was so afraid that the Doctor didn’t want her to come because he hesitated to answer. She didn’t plan on taking no for an answer though. Why else would she station herself in the doorway? If the Doctor tried to leave her, he would have had to go through her first!
*********
The Doctor was roaming about the consol room while Donna went to change outfits yet again. He noticed that he was considerably happier since Donna had agreed to let her travel with him. The Time Lord would have done anything in his power, said anything that night, to assure Donna that she was welcome.
He still couldn’t believe that she had been searching for him and succeeded in tracking him down. He was not an easy person to find after all. Donna was truly brilliant.
The pair had just returned from their first adventure to what the Doctor thought was Rome but was in fact Pompeii. Today, Donna had showed him exactly what she meant by “needing someone to stop him”.
I knew Donna was meant to be that someone.
The fiery temp probably would have left him then and there if he hadn’t saved someone. The thought sent a shiver through him. But as the Doctor was quickly finding out, Donna always knew what was right.
Donna entered the consol room and walked over to where the Time Lord was standing lost in thought. She used her fist to lightly bang on his forehead. “Anyone home?”
“Oww!” The Doctor feigned injury hoping to maybe receive a sympathetic kiss. To his dismay, it only earned him a slap.
“I’ll give you something to cry about Sapceman!” the fiery red head scolded.
“Is there something you wanted or did you come in here just to hit me?” The Doctor complained as he rubbed his sore arm.
“Yeah, I wanted to know if running will be a major part of all our trips? Cuz if it is then I am gonna need to buy another pair of trainers.”
The Doctor chuckled at his companion’s concern. None of his previous friends had worried about their footwear. Donna was definitely different from anyone who had travelled with him before. He placed his hands on Donna’s shoulders.
“Are you sure you know me? Yes. There is going to be a lot of running!”
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Fooled by my own desires
I twist my fate
Just to feel you
But you, turn me toward the light
And you're one with me
Will you run with me?
People change for various reasons. Sometimes it’s because of a situation; sometimes it just happens over time. But for whatever reason, the Doctor had begun to notice subtle changes in his relationship with Donna. He sat at the kitchen table pondering their last few adventures.
The Doctor knew that he had agreed to keep their relationship strictly in the “friends-zone”. But after leaving Messaline, he couldn’t help but to think that there was more to their relationship.
As Donna walked Martha back to her house, The Doctor had overheard what she said about travelling with him forever. He smiled at the thought and hoped that she was right and would stay forever, even though he knew that it was not humanly possible.
And the day that they met Agatha Christie, Donna had kissed him. Sure it was to save his life but he couldn’t help thinking that she might have had another motive. The Doctor couldn’t admit it, but he had enjoyed their all too brief embrace and was almost certain that Donna had too. Then a few days later Donna had nonchalantly commented that it would’ve been better without the anchovies. So was his assumption wrong?
Just a couple days ago they had visited The Library and Donna had mysteriously disappeared and the Doctor feared the worst had happened, especially with an infestation of Vashta Nerada hanging around. Relieved to discover that she had not fell victim to the flesh melting shadows but trapped in a virtual world, he would stop at nothing to get Donna back. That day the Doctor started to realize just how much Donna meant to him.
But how could he ever tell her this? Tell Donna that without her by his side, holding his hand, running from the danger, stopping him when he starts to go too far, he didn’t feel whole.
I'll stay with you
The walls will fall before we do
Take my hand now
We'll run forever
I can feel the storm inside you
I'll stay with you
Ironically Donna was thinking about practically the same thing as she sat sipping her tea in the TARDIS library.
She knew that the Doctor needed her but she hadn’t realized that she needed the Doctor. He made her life more exciting, showed her things that she never could have dreamed of. Sure there was usually a risk to life and limb but it was worth it. He was worth it. Startled, Donna looked around the room expecting to see someone standing behind her.
Where did that come from? That wasn’t me was it? She continued to survey the room until she was satisfied that she was alone. I’m not falling for the Doctor am I? What happened to just mates? Donna’s thoughts wandered back to the kitchen where she and the Doctor shared their first kiss. Now that she thought about it, why had she kissed him?
It was to save his life! Yeah that’s why. Although… it definitely wasn’t the worst kiss I’ve ever had. Donna sank deeper into the comfy chair that she occupied, relishing the warmth of her mug in her hands.
Donna’s thoughts flickered to that dreadful day that they had lost Jenny. The Doctor had holed up in his room after leaving Messaline wanting to be alone; but he let her in when she asked. She listened patiently and held him as he began to talk about all the people he had watched die or walk out of his life. “They all leave, Donna.”
“I am going to travel with that man forever.” That’s what she had told Martha.
“Well I ‘m not going anywhere. I’ll stay with you. Forever. Promise. You couldn’t get rid of me if you tried Spaceman.” It brought a smile to his handsome features, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes.
Donna could see how upset he was and she knew that he had probably never told anyone any of this before. She sat cradling him in her arms as he grieved for every one of his friends that was lost for the rest of the night.
For the first time in her life Donna realized how lucky she really was not to have experienced that kind of lost. She finally understood why the Time Lord always, no matter what they had done, gave people a choice. Because he didn’t always have one.
He was known as The Oncoming Storm and Donna decided that she going to help him find the eye of that storm and save him from his own destruction.
Not only did the Doctor need someone to save him, he needed someone to love him. And so Donna silently vowed to do just that. Why? Because he would do the same for her.
Now come in from this storm
I taste you sweet and warm
Take what you need
Take what you need
From me
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Wake up this world
Wake up tonight
And run with me
Run to me now
“How about I take you to the most gorgeous and relaxing spa this side of the galaxy?” The Doctor announced as he stood hunched over the central consol. He eyed Donna with an inquisitive look as he stared around the time rotor at her.
“Are you serious or just taking the mickey?” Donna walked around to where the Doctor was standing with a look of utter disbelief on her face. How many times had she asked, no begged him to take her somewhere like this?
“I’m serious!” He flashed Donna a megawatt smile.
“So what? You just been holding back mentioning you knew where the greatest spa in the universe was?” The Doctor turned to face her; what he faced was the red head’s intense icy blue glare.
The Time Lord’s smile fell from his face. He thought that Donna would be pleased by this news but she looked torn between hugging and murdering him. He had learned quickly what preempted Donna to strike since she started travelling with him. The Doctor quickly tried to amend his error.
“What!? No, no, no! I just thought that you, we, could use a nice quite day! No running, no monsters.” He tried desperately to soothe the red head’s temper. Lucky for him it work and he escaped unscathed.
“Well what are you waiting for? Get on with it!” With that she dashed out of the room to get ready.
**************
Unfortunately the planet Midnight turned into probably the most terrifying day the Doctor had experienced yet.
When the Doctor got off the rescue vehicle, Donna was waiting for him. It was almost as if he had just woken up from a terrible nightmare and was still in a daze. He felt Donna wrap her arms around his neck and melted into her embrace, pulling her to him as if he feared she would slip out of his grasp and disappear. He thought he would never see her again.
They sat at a table near the pool. Donna listened as the Doctor recounted his nightmarish ordeal and slowly recovered, mentally kicking herself for not going with him.
“I wanted to run, but I couldn’t. I had no control…and that scared me.” The Doctor was broken, Donna could see that, so she said the only thing she could think of.
Reaching across the table and grabbing his hand, Donna whispered, “So let’s run. Far away from this place. Just you and me…” She paused searching for the right words. Her voice cracked as she finally fell apart. “God, I should’ve been there with you! I’m sorry…” Tears began streaming down her pale face.
The Doctor stopped her midsentence; he placed his hand on her cheek and used his thumb to wipe away her tears. “No! No. I…I’m glad you weren’t there. If that thing had… I’m not sure what I would have done… There was no way of predicting what it would do. Please don’t cry.”
Donna was still upset but she nodded in agreement. She thought that there was something he wasn’t saying. They sat for a few more minutes in comfortable silence before the Doctor got up.
He offered his hand to Donna. “Com‘on. Let’s run. Far away, just the two of us.” He gave her a sad smile.
The Doctor was still shaken up, but his smile, though sad, was a sign that he was returning to normal. Donna took his hand and together they slowly made their way back to the TARDIS and left Midnight far behind them.
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I'll stay with you
The walls will fall before we do
Take my hand now
We'll run forever
I can feel the storm inside you
I'll stay with you
The Doctor lay on his bed staring into the abyss, afraid to close his eyes. He thought he could still feel that thing pulling at the back of his mind. Donna lay next to him asleep. He had asked her to stay here with him after leaving Midnight. She was the only thing that had kept him fighting, blocking that creature from completely overwhelming him. He just needed to get back to her and nothing would stop him.
The Doctor turned over and lay on his side so that he was facing Donna. He watched her as she slept peacefully. Thank Rassilon that she was there for him afterwards. Good ol’ Donna, always there to help him pick up the pieces when everything went wrong. She was his rock, she kept him grounded.
Ever since finding Donna, the Doctor felt like he could face anything as long as she was by his side. She even made the TARDIS feel more like a home. He reached over and gently brushed stray strands of golden-red hair away from Donna’s face.
The Doctor replayed their conversation by the pool in his mind. He had almost let it slip. That he loved her. The Doctor had contemplated telling her about his feelings; especially when she had caught him staring from across the room. Not to mention any of the times they were trapped in close quarters.
There was something special about Donna. When he looked at her, he could see it, feel it. It was like a storm was gathering around her. Like the feeling you get just as a storm comes in, when the air is charged and you can hear the thunder rolling in the distance. The Doctor found it exhilarating.
I made this mistake before, burying my feelings and missing my chance with Rose. But not this time!
Tomorrow they were going to Shan Shen, so the Doctor resolved to find some way to tell Donna exactly how he felt before the end of the day.