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~ELEVEN~All around her was a strange, whitish room, with no doors, no windows, not even a source of light she could see - the walls themselves seemed to glow. It smelled of seawater and salt and sand - in fact, the floor felt rather like sand, only it was utterly unmovable, and hard. Donna stood ( Read more... )

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~NINE~

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~TEN~As they approached the island, the Doctor kept well away from Donna. Donna wouldn't have minded his company, in fact, she would have been glad - the island had stopped rising, but there still was something deeply unnerving about that sudden large spot of land - but she knew that the Doctor ( Read more... )

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~NINE~The cabin was a mess. Donna had expected nothing else, of course. There was a large table, which could have been covered in maps, but they were all on the floor now. A chair had toppled over, but the Doctor quickly pulled it upright, flopped down on it and placed his trainers on the desk. ( Read more... )

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The Doctor pushed Gibbs aside as he darted towards the console to stand beside Jack. The pirate looked mildly astonished, but recovered quickly.

“The ship seems to be broken,” he said.

“How do you know?”
Sparrow clicked his compass shut. “Because it is the means to my end, and if flying it ( Read more... )

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Donna, in the meantime, was standing in front of her wardrobe, wondering what to wear. It was not that she hadn't brought enough clothes - in fact, she'd even brought too much. There had still been no occasion where she could possibly wear a woman's hat. Even so, with half her wardrobe to ( Read more... )

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Donna scarcely believed her eyes. “What's that?”

Captain Jack Sparrow and Joshamee Gibbs were lying under a makeshift shed of palm leaves, enjoying the sun and sharing whatever drink there was in Gibbs' flask.
Jack raised himself up onto his elbows, blinking up at her. She was standing over ( Read more... )

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The Doctor could scarcely believe his eyes. He had brought some distance between the furious owner of the pub and his bodyguards, and then had ambled aimlessly along the coastline. He had discovered a fisher's shed with one small boat and a second one missing, but the remaining boat was ( Read more... )

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“Soo...” Donna said, slowly. “Real pirates, yeah?”

Gibbs only glared at her, while Jack had the decency to look mildly embarrassed. “My ship's... temporarily unavailable.”

“I see,” Donna drawled. She had, in the meantime, figured out that those two really were humans, and that she really was ( Read more... )

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The Doctor was not quite sure what he had expected to find in the most notorious pirate harbour of the whole Caribbean, but no doubt it had been something like this, he thought when he ducked away under a bottle crashing through one of the windows. Somehow he doubted that Donna would have ( Read more... )

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Donna woke to a hand shaking her by the shoulder. “Uh, budge off, Doctor!” The shaking continued. She waved him away as she would an annoying fly. “Get off, spaceman! You might not need to sleep, but I'm happy with my eight hours each night, thank you!”

He just wouldn't leave her alone! Donna ( Read more... )