Partners in Crime

Donna's back!!! Honestly, she is probably my favourite companion so far, I just love how she isn't scared to put people no matter who they are in their place. She is so sassy and I love it! 

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Rita walked down the street with the Doctor walking past the busy Londoners going about their day, they recently found odd disappearance and signals coming from a 'fat company' obviously being themselves they couldn't help but investigate.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" Rita raised her brows at the Doctor. "Last time we did something like this you got the wrong address."

"That wasn't my fault" the Doctor grumbled in protest.

"Whose fault was it then?" Rita asked raising a brow.

"Yours." He muttered looking down slightly blushing.

"Okay." She shook her head, rolling her eyes and took his hand clearing her throat. "Come on then." They looked around and found a back entrance, the Doctor used his sonic to open the door creating a spark in the process. They headed through what was a basement corridor while looking round. The Doctor then flashed his psychic paper at a guard as he passed them.

"John Smith and Rita Stone. Health and Safety." The guard nodded at them then continued walking. They found the projector room and headed in walking up and watching the presentation through a small window.

They noticed a woman standing on what looked like a podium. "Adipose Industries, the twenty-first century way to lose weight. No exercise, no diet, no pain. Just lifelong freedom from fat." She announced to the several dozens in the room sitting in the cinema like chairs. "The Holy Grail of the modern age. And here it is. You just take one capsule. One capsule, once a day for three weeks, and the fat, as they say...

"The fat just walks away." The Narrator on screen took over.

"Excuse me, Miss Foster." They looked down at a woman speaking. "If I could? I'm Penny Carter, science correspondent for The Observer. There are a thousand diet pills on the market, a thousand con men stealing people's money. How do we know the fat isn't going straight into your bank account?"

"Oh, Penny, if cynicism burnt up calories, we'd all be as thin as rakes." Miss Foster chuckled. "But if you want the science, I can oblige."

"Adipose Industries." The film started up showing a capsule. "The Adipose capsule is composed of a synthesised mobilising lipase, bound to a large protein molecule.

"The mobilising lipase breaks up the triglycerides stored in the adipose cells, which then enter..."

"You were right." The Doctor whispered to the Time Lady. "This does look strange." She went to speak but jumped slightly at the sound of the door behind them opening, the Doctor and Rita both looked at a man who was slightly frowning at them as he walked in. The Doctor flashed his psychic paper at him as he then nodded reading it.

"Health and Safety."

"Of the film department," Rita added after the man gave the Doctor an odd look before he shrugged, the man then left them alone. They both looked back seeing that Miss Foster started to talk again.

"One hundred percent legal, one hundred percent effective."

"But, can I just ask, how many people have taken the pills to date?" Penny questioned writing down some notes.

"We've already got one million customers within the Greater London area alone, but from next week, we start rolling out nationwide. The future starts here. And Britain will be thin."

"I don't understand the need to be twigs." Rita shook her head mumbling. "It makes no sense at all, why should someone care about how thin they are?"

The Doctor nodded kissing her cheek while the man in the room wasn't looking. "Exactly." He whispered. "Come on let's go look around the call center, see if they could help us."

 
The Doctor and Rita walked through the building glancing at the people in the cubicles all on phones and computers, they ducked into a cubical where a young woman glanced at them continuing to chat on the phone. "We deliver within three working days."

The Doctor whispered holding up his psychic paper. "John Smith and Rita Stone, Health and Safety. Don't mind us." She nodded looking at them continuing to talk.

"The box comes with 21 days worth of pills, a full information pack, and our special free gift, an Adipose Industries pendant." She held up a box. Rita frowned slightly and picked it up opening the box and taking out the pendant slightly frowning at it, knowing that there was more to it than that, people don't just go around handing out stuff like that, especially a fat company. She then passed it to the Doctor to have a look at.

"It's made of eighteen carat gold, and it's yours for free." The woman said into the phone. "No, we don't give away pens, sorry. No, I can't make an exception, no."

"We better keep this for a while," Rita informed the woman as the Doctor handed the pendant back to her, placing it into her pocket. "Say you wouldn't be able to print off a list of some of your customers?" She raised a brow, the woman nodded and started to type at her computer.

The Doctor stood up looking around. "Is the printer there?" He asked looking near a plant pot.

"By the plant, yeah." The woman nodded.

"Brilliant." He sat back down waiting for the woman to tell them it had been sent to the printer. Rita tried to hide her smirk noticing the way the woman was looking at the Doctor who was completely oblivious to her gaze.

The Doctor then jumped up again. "Has it got paper?"

"Yeah, Jimbo keeps it stocked."

Rita rolled her eyes at him "Stop jumping up and down, you're not a child."

"What if I am?" He smirked at her.

"You should be setting an example." She rolled her eyes again seeing the grin on his face. They looked up to see Miss Foster standing in the middle of the room with two guards beside her.

"Excuse me, everyone, if I could have your attention." She announced, everyone stopped what they were doing giving her their full attention. "On average, you're each selling forty Adipose packs per day. It's not enough. I want one hundred sales per person per day. And if not, you'll be replaced." She looked at everyone in the room, the Doctor and Rita hid behind the cubical as she turned to their direction. "Because if anyone's good in trimming the fat, it's me. Now. Back to it." She then left with the guards as the workers began to move around again.

"Anyway..." The Doctor glanced at Rita seeing the hidden smirk and not understanding what it was for. "If you could print that off. Thanks."

The Doctor and Rita then stood up to leave, the woman slightly pushed the Doctor back down and handed him a small piece of paper, Rita watched on with amusement.

"Oh, what's that?"

"My telephone number." The woman slyly smiled at him.

The Doctor frowned then glanced at Rita seeing the amused look on her face then looked back at the woman. "What for?"

"Health and Safety." She continued to smile at him slyly. "You be health, I'll be safety."

"Ah." The Doctors eyes snapped to Rita who just crossed her arms in amusement. "Ah." He looked at her pleading for help.

"Sorry but that contravenes paragraph five, subsection C." Rita cut in, the woman slightly jumped forgetting her presents and glared at the blonde. "Sorry." Rita smugly looked at her taking the Doctors hand and heading to the printer.

"What was that?" He asked her quietly.

"What was what?" She frowned.

"That." He looked at her. "You didn't look worried at all?"

"Why should I?" She shrugged. "Come on Doctor as if I would waste my time being jealous of every single woman who threw themselves at you." She laughed. "They can flirt with you as much as they want for all I care, if it ever went the other way then you would have me to deal with." She pointed at him her face becoming serious before it grew into an innocent smile "Plus I know what you're like so why should I bother being jealous?" She asked smirking at the shocked look on his face where he obviously wasn't expecting that. Rita glanced at the printer seeing it hadn't printer and shook her head. "Stay here." She pointed at him. "I mean it, Doctor."

"Yes sir." he joked as she walked off back to the woman's desk.

"Hi, sorry," Rita said the woman turned around seeing it was her, a tiny bit of disappointment and annoyance struck her face when she saw the blonde. "Printer didn't have the list, could you print it again?"

"Sure." She nodded turning around and printed the list again.

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"Here we are." Rita looked up at the Doctor who rang the doorbell. The door shortly opened and a slightly old man around his 50's stood inside.

"Mister Roger Davey?" The Doctor asked as the man nodded. "We're calling on behalf of Adipose Industries. Just need to ask you a few questions."

"Of course" He nodded for the two of them to follow him inside. He sat down in his chair as the Doctor and Rita remained standing.

"How long have you been using Adipose?" Rita asked.

"I've been on the pills for two weeks now. I've lost fourteen kilos."

"That's the same amount every day?" The Doctor asked him.

"One kilo exactly. You wake up, and it's disappeared overnight." He stated. "Well, technically speaking, it's gone by ten past one in the morning." Rita and the Doctor frowned and both stopped slowly pacing around the living room. 

"What makes you say that?"

"That's when I get woken up. Might as well weigh myself at the same time."

"How do you know it's ten past one?" Rita crossed her arms against her chest.

"I'll show you." He got up and walked outside with the Doctor and Rita following him. "It is driving me mad. Ten minutes past one, every night, bang on the dot without fail, the burglar alarm goes off." He nodded up at it. "I've had experts in, I've had it replaced, I've even phoned Watchdog. But no, ten past one in the morning, off it goes."

"But with no burglars?"

"Nothing. I've given up looking."

"Tell me, Roger." The Doctor looked at the man. "Have you got a cat flap?" He nodded and they followed him back inside to the kitchen.

"It was here when I bought the house." He said as the Doctor moved to the floor lying down on his stomach pushing the cat flap up with his sonic. "I've never bothered with it, really. I'm not a cat person." Roger explained.

"No, we've met cat people." The Doctor muttered looking out of the flap. "You're nothing like them."

"It's that what it is, though?" He asked. "Cats getting inside the house?"

"Well, thing about cat flaps is, they don't just let things in-"

"They let things out as well." Rita cut in.

"Like what?" Roger looked at them.

The Doctor then quietly said "the fat just walks away." He then stood up brushed himself off and looked at Rita.

"We should be going now." She announced as the Doctor nodded in agreement. Roger led them back outside to the front of the house.

"Well, thanks for your help. Tell you what, maybe you could lay off the pills for a week or so..." He was cut off by a beeping sound in his pockets, patting himself he pulled out the Y shaped device. "Oh. Got to go. Sorry." He and Rita both turned and ran down the street following the signal. He then stopped and started to hit it.

"Give it here." She rolled her eyes taking the device and blowing on it a few times. "Ah ha!" She beamed running down the street with the Doctor running up beside her. "Do keep up sweetheart." She laughed while following the signal.

They continued running as Rita hit the device standing in the middle of the road. The Doctors eyes widened seeing a black van heading straight for Rita who continued hitting the device. The Doctor pulled her out the way as it zoomed past. She blinked before the Doctor tightly hugged her. "You alright?" He breathed into her neck.

"I- I'm fine." She hugged him back before the device beeped again the two of them sprinted down the road putting the dots together that the signal was coming from the van.

The device then stopped beeping, the Doctor and Rita sighed knowing that they lost the signal. Slowly they walked through an alleyway heading back to the TARDIS.

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"Oh, fascinating." The Doctor hummed staring at the pendant through a magnifying glass. "Seems to be a bio-flip digital stitch, specifically for..." he looked up and frowned not seeing Rita anywhere.

"What are you doing?" He jumped turning around and seeing Rita stood their brows raised holding a packet of ready salted crisps in her hand.

"What are you doing?" He asked her eyeing the packet in her hand.

"I got hungry." She shrugged "it appears that I have found out that this body really likes salty food." She shrugged again placing a crisp in her mouth while walking over to the TARDIS doors. She looked back at the Doctor and frowned at him. "Well come on." She rolled her eyes. "I thought you wanted to find out more about the Adipose Doctor, or am I going alone?"

The Doctor quickly walked over stealing a crisp and grinning as she pouted watching him place it in his mouth. Shaking her head she stepped out of the TARDIS standing in an alleyway, they headed to the back entrance again and walked through. The Doctor took the lead walking to a storage room and stepping inside after Rita had. He soniced it locked and Rita looked around. "How long are we going to be here for?" Rita asked him sitting on the small stall in the room.

"About... Nine hours." He said looking at her.

"Nine hours... in a cupboard." She muttered.

"Things could be worse." He smirked stepping closer to her.

"Doctor..." she muttered moving against the wall. "You obviously picked this storage room for a reason." She swallowed deeply as he shuffled closer to her his breath hitting her lightly on her lips.

"Nine hours.." He reminded her smirking at the look she was giving him. She swallowed again her gaze shifting from his eyes to his lips. Well, they could always do that and work on whatever he had picked the storage room for... The Doctor then looked at her mischievously and pressed his lips to hers while pressing her body right up against the wall, deepening the kiss.

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Nine hours passed and the Doctor and Rita stepped outside of the storage room Rita's eyes fixed on the ground as she attempted to fix her hair. The Doctor was at all no better with his hair sticking up in multiple directions grinning to himself before noticing the blondes face and feeling his smile widening. "That was... different." She breathed heavily catching the Doctors gaze on her, feeling her blush grow as he started to blush as well.

"It was... fun." He smirked. Rita rolled her eyes hitting his arm in the process. 

"You really are a child." She shook her head.

"I'm older than you." He reminded her in protest.

"Right now you're acting like the typical hormonal human teenager." The Doctor looked at her offended before she burst out laughing as he frowned not understanding what was funny. She wiped her eyes and looked at him seriously. "Okay..." She nodded in agreement. "That was... fun." She agreed seeing his smile grow. "Come on then," she took his hand. "Let's go and see what we can find, sweetheart." The Doctor and Rita then headed up to the roof. The Doctor climbed into the window cleaners cradle as Rita looked down. "Erm..." she mumbled looking over the edge and swallowing hard. "That's a big drop..."

"Rita you'll be fine." He reassured her looking straight into her green eyes. "I promise you." He held out his arms, she then walked up the steps and got in with his help as he lowered the cradle keeping an arm wrapped around the blonde's waist.

The cradle then stopped, the Doctor and Rita looked around before ducking under the view of the large window seeing Miss Foster enter. The Doctor brought out a stethoscope and Rita placed her head beside his. He then placed one of the buds in his ear and placed the other in Rita's then used the stethoscope so they could both listen in on the conversation.

"You can't tie me up." They heard the voice of Penny snap. "What sort of a country do you think this is?"

"Oh, it's a beautifully fat country. And believe me, I've travelled a long way to find obesity on this scale."

"So, come on then, Miss Foster, those pills. What are they?" She asked.

"Well, you might just as well have a scoop, since you'll never see it printed. This is the spark of life." Rita frowned slightly looking up and seeing Miss Foster holding one of the capsules.

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Penny asked as Rita moved back down next to the Doctor.

"Officially, the capsule attracts all the fat cells and flushes them away. Well, it certainly attracts them. That part's true. But it binds the fat together and galvanises it to form a body."

"What do you mean, a body?" Penny spat.

"I am surprised you never asked about my name. I chose it well. Foster. As in foster mother. And these are my children."

"You're kidding me." She gasped. "What the hell is that?"

Rita and the Doctor both looked at each other frowning and then poked their heads up looking through the window and seeing a small white blob with eyes sitting on Miss Foster's desk.

"Adipose." Miss Foster informed them. "It's called an Adipose. Made out of living fat."

"But I don't understand."

"From ordinary human people." Rita frowned looking around the room before looking directly ahead of her, her mouth gaped open seeing Donna on the other side watching Miss Foster. Without moving her eyes Rita tapped the Doctors shoulder. He looked over at her and frowned then followed her gaze, his eyes widened as Donna's open mouth gaped open seeing them.

"Donna?" The Doctor and Rita both mouthed.

"Doctor?" She mouthed back then frowned at Rita. "Whose she?"

"It's the Stone!" Rita mouthed to Donna gleefully.

"What?" She mouthed back as the Doctor mouthed to her. "But what? What? What?"

"Oh my god!" Donna looked at them in shock still confused about the blonde next to him.

"But how?"

"It's me!" Donna pointed to herself happily.

"Yes, I can see that."

"Oh, this is brilliant." She gave them a thumbs up as Rita continued to mouth "it's the Stone" to the redhead.

"What the hell are you doing there?" The Doctor asked her.

"I was looking for you."

"What for?"

"I read it on the internet." She mouthed "Weird. Crept along." She gestured people quietly walking. "Heard them talking. Hid. You-" she paused seeing Miss Foster had spotted them.

"Are we interrupting you?" Miss Foster asked.

"Run!" The Doctor shouted to her.

"Get her." Miss Foster ordered the guards as the Doctor locked the door by Donna with his sonic screwdriver.

"And them." She ordered. Rita already had her own sonic out pointing up at the cradle controls sending it back.

"Oh, this is about to get confusing for Donna," Rita muttered. The cradle then reached the top and the pair jumped out running to the door and heading down the stairs. They bumped into Donna and Rita pulled her in for a hug while laughing seeming to forget her change of appearance as the red head in snapped her pushing the blonde off.

"Who the hell are you!"

"Oh... forget about that," Rita muttered to the Doctor who smirked at her. "Donna it's me the Stone!"

"You're not the Stone!" She shouted. "She's a brunette and has an English accent, your welsh and you are blonde!"

"Yeah, long story short I got shot by my cousin's wife well, sort of wife... that's going to be a fun story in a few years, I kind of died and regenerated which means I basically look and sound different. I'll explain it in more detail later."

"But-"

"Donna I'm still me" she promised. "I just look and sound a bit different with some really weird habits. It's still me, still the Stone you met on Christmas day after the encounter with the Racnoss."

Donna nodded slowly then turned to the Doctor hugging him. "Oh, my God. I don't believe it." She then let him go and looked at him. "You've even got the same suit! Don't you ever change?" She asked.

"Yeah, thanks, Donna." He said. "Not right now."

Rita and the Doctor then looked down the stairway and saw the guards running up. "Come on Donna, just like old times!" The Doctor beamed running up the stairs with the two.

"Because I thought, how do you find the Doctor and the Stone? And then I just thought, look for trouble and then they'll turn up." She said as the Doctor soniced the door. "So I looked everywhere." She followed them as they ran to the cradle. "You name it. UFOs, sightings, crop circles, sea monsters. I looked, I found them all. Like that stuff about the bees disappearing, I thought, I bet they're connected. Because the thing is, Doctor, Stone, I believe it all now. You two opened my eyes. All those amazing things out there, I believe them all." She smiled. "Well, apart from that replica of the Titanic flying over Buckingham Palace on Christmas Day. I mean, that's got to be a hoax."

"What do you mean, the bees are disappearing?" The Time Lords looked at her.

"I don't know." She shrugged. "That's what it says on the internet. Well, on the same site, there was all these conspiracy theories about Adipose Industries and I thought, let's take a look." The Doctor then soniced the cradle controls and jumped in with Rita.

"In you get!" The Doctor told her.

"What, in that thing?" She looked between them as if they were crazy. Which they were.

"Yes, in that thing."

"But if we go down in that, they'll just call us back up again." She protested.

"No, no, no, because I've locked the controls with a sonic cage. The Stone and I are the only two that can control it." Rita glared at him. "Not unless she's got a sonic device of her own, which is very unlikely."

"Don't jinx it, Doctor!" Rita told him as Donna got in, the cradle then lowered down to Miss Foster's office again. Suddenly the cradle began to fall. The Doctor pointed his sonic at the cable forcing it to stop.

"Hold on." He said trying to sonic the window with Rita's help. "Hold on. We can get in through the window."

"Deadlock." Rita gritted her teeth. "Our sonics are useless."

"Well, smash it then!" Donna shouted turning around and finding a spanner on the floor beginning to hit it at the window. The Doctor and Rita started ti hit it as well until Donna gasped looking up. "She's cutting the cable." The Doctor and Rita snapped their heads up as the cable snapped. The Doctor grabbed Rita by the waist keeping her in pside the cradle, Rita tried to grab for Donna, however, she fell out.

"Donna!" The Doctor and Rita both shouted moving to the edge to see Donna dangling from the end of the broken cable.

"Doctor!" She screamed. "Stone!"

"Hold on!" The Doctor shouted at her.

"I am! Doctor!" She shouted back at him her feet dangling in the air.

Rita looked down at Donna then up seeing Miss Foster start to sonic the other cable. "No, you don't." She muttered aiming her sonic at Miss Fosters and causing the woman to drop her sonic in pain. With the Doctor holding her waist she reached and caught the falling pen and tucked it into her pocket. The Doctor smirked at her then shook his head focusing back on what he was doing before climbing through the window.

"I'm going to fall!" Donna screamed at them.

The Doctor continued to climb, Rita behind him. "This is all your fault!" Donna shouted at the two Time Lords. "I should've stayed at home!"

"We won't be a minute!" The Doctor shouted back sliding up the window and climbing in falling to the ground before jumping up and helping Rita. Taking his hand after safety being inside Rita and the Doctor sprinted down to Miss Foster's office.

"Is anyone going to tell me what's going on?" Penny snapped as the Doctor and Rita ran in over to the window.

"What are you, a journalist?" The Doctor asked looking at her.

"Yes."

"Well, make it up then," Rita told the woman "Dear Rassilon, journalism in 2009  has really let itself go." Rita muttered helping the Doctor unlock the door. They grabbed Donna's legs as she kicked and screamed at them.

"Donna it's us!" Rita shouted as the Doctor told the woman to stop kicking him in the face. The Doctor and Rita then pulled her inside.

"I was right. It's always like this with you two, innit?" She asked brushing down her clothes

"Oh, yes!" The Doctor grinned taking Rita's hand. "And off we go." They ran out with Donna behind them. Rita pulled herself out of the Doctors grip and ran back to the room, she poked her head in at the struggling Penny and soniced the rope to free her. "Just do yourself a favour and get out." She then ran back to the Doctor took his hand again and ran.

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So for those of you who haven't found out already I would seriously go onto the BBC/Doctor Who YouTube channel and watch the short clip revealing the 13th Doctor before you continue reading on.

(Will include spoilers mentioning the 13th Doctor duh)




So the 13th Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) was announced as the first female Doctor today and honestly, in my opinion, seeing her with the key and walking towards the TARDIS, it just looked so right in my opinion, she's such a great actress, she was in Broadchurch which also had David Tennant (10th Doctor) and Arthur Darvill (Rory) in it. She's actually the first Doctor I knew from previous shows before being the Doctor. (I didn't realise David Tennant was in Harry Potter before like a year later xD) It's going to be a challenge writing Rita/the Stone with the 13th Doctor (because I do plan to write all of Matt Smith's and Peter Capaldi's episodes) but we don't even know anything about her Doctor, the companion(?) or series 11 yet. Just felt like I had to say something about the topic since it isn't every day a new Doctor let alone a female Doctor is announced. 

Well done for those who actually put up with my rambling. Ta!

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