Turn Left - Four
Now calmed down Donna stood in a thick green jacket, multiple wires going around and in the coat. The blonde had taken charge and began to explain. "The TARDIS has tracked down the moment of intervention, Monday the 25th, one minute past ten in the morning." She nodded. "Your car was on Little Sutton Street Ealing Road, but you turn right heading for Griffin's Parade. You need to turn left." She said in a clear voice explaining to Donna who repeatedly nodded. "That's the most important thing. You've got to go back and turn left. Have you got that, Donna? One minute past ten. Make yourself turn left, heading for the Chiswick Highroad."
"Keep the jacket on at all times - it's insulation against temporal feedback." Magambo explained before placing a digital watch on Donna's wrist. "This will correspond to local time wherever you land." She then presents her a glass of water. "This is to combat dehydration."
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With multiple UNIT soldiers following them Magambo and the blonde lead Donna to the edge of the mirrored circle. "This is where we leave you."
"I don't want to see that thing on my back." Donna quickly replied shaking her head.
"No! The mirrors are just incidental." The blonde reassured. "They bounce chronon energy back into the centre which we control and decide the destination."
"It's a time machine." Donna looked in awe.
"It's a time machine." The blonde repeated smiling.
"If you could?" The mystery blonde smiled giving Donna's arm one last squeeze before the redhead stepped into the circle once more.
"Powering up."
"How do you know it's going to work?"
"Hmm? Oh... yeah... we don't." She shrugged. "We're just... we're just guessing."
Giving a laugh Donna looked at her. "Yeah. Oh, brilliant!"
"Just remember, when you get to the junction, change the car's direction by one minute past ten."
"How do I do that?"
"It's up to you."
"Well, I just have to... run up to myself and... have a good argument." She chuckled.
The blonde laughed. "I'd like to see that!"
"Activate loadstone," Magambo announced. The light on the top if the TARDIS started to blink.
"Good luck."
Donna beamed with enthusiasm. "I'm ready!"
"One minute past ten." She reminded.
"Because I understand, now." Donna looked at her tearful but very brave. "You said I was going to die, but you mean this whole world is going to blink out of existence." She said. The blondes face dropped as Donna continued. "But that's not dying. Because a better world takes its place. The Doctor's world. And I'm still alive!" She smiled at the blonde who
(she smiles courageously. Rose doesn't answer)
That's right, isn't it? I don't die? If I change things, I don't die? That's... that's right, isn't it?
"I'm sorry." the blonde whispered not able to lie to the woman.
"But I can't die! I've got a future! With the Doctor and the Stone!" She shouted her courage waving. "You told me!"
"Activate!" Magambo shouted.
Suddenly a bright light shone as well as a strong wind began to blow. Sparks flew from the TARDIS before Donna disappeared into smoke.
Donna blinked looking up. She had done it! Donna Noble travelled in time. Shockingly she looked around in glee and happiness seeing people walk about on the street as if it was a normal day before everything went wrong. standing up she waved her arms about laughing before she then realised where she was. "Hold on... but this is... I'm not..." She looked around. "This is Sutton Court! I'm half a mile away!" She shouted at the sky. "I'm half a mile away!" She then checked the watch which read 9:57. She gasped in horror. "Four minutes? Oh, my God..." She then started to run through the streets, moving past the people and shops going as fast as she could.
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"Jival, he's called. Jival Chowdry?" Donna raised a brow getting into the driver's seat of the car with her mother in the passenger seat.
"He runs that little photocopy business. And he needs a secretary." Donna's mother added.
"I've got a job." Donna groaned staring out the front window in annoyance.
"As a temp." Her mother added. "This is permanent. It's twenty thousand a year, Donna."
"H.C. Clements is in the City." She protested clicking her seatbelt. "It's nice. It's posh. So, stop it." She then turned the key in the ignition and started the car.
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Donna continued to leg it down the road desperately trying to get there on time. She paused by a lamp post to check the watch the continued to run.
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"It won't take long, just turn right." Her mother said. "We'll pop in and see Mr. Chowdry. Suzette can introduce you."
"I'm going left." Donna hissed. "If you don't like it, get out and walk."
"If you turn right, you'll have a career. Not just filling in."
"You think I'm so useless." Donna started to raise her voice.
"I know why you want a job with H.C. Clements, lady - because you think you'll meet a man..."
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"I'm not going to get there." Donna gasped. She looked around almost goving up when she suddenly remembered what the mysterious blonde had said. "You're going to die."
She stared at the lorry coming towards her and blinked looking as if she was dazed.
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"...city executives don't need temps, except for practice."
"Yeah. S'pose you're right." She sighed indicating right.
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"Please." She whispering before stepping out in front of the lorry. The driver slammed on the brakes but it was too late. Donna was knocked down as a woman screamed. Her vision blurred she made out the figure of the blonde and heard her faintly.
"Tell him this... two words...." she whispered into her ear before Donna closed her eyes.
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"Well, that decides it." Donna sitting in her car grumbled. "I'm not sitting in a traffic jam. I'm going left." She then switched the indicator again and turned left.
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Donna screamed as the beetle fell on its back. The fortune teller looked at her horrified and then cowered over near the back door. "What the hell is that?" Donna gasped seeing the beetle.
"You were so strong." The fortune teller whimpered. "What are you? What will you be?" She then ran out. The beetle then gave one last click before it died.
Frowning the Stone opened the curtain to the test raising a brow. "Donna?"
"Everything all right?" The Doctor asked poking his head over the Stones. Donna blinked at the two almost shaking before she threw herself at them both tightly hugging them while gasping.
"Oh, God...!"
The Time Lords looked at each other than laughed at the human woman. "Remind me to never let us leave you alone in a market." She chuckled as the Doctor let go of the woman standing beside the Time Lady laughing. "What was that for?"
"I don't know!" She beamed hugging the Doctor again.
"Well then." The Stone frowned her eyes finding the giant beetle laying on the floor. "It seems we found a rather large pest." She hummed walking over and carefully picking up the beetle from the floor.
The Doctor looked over after letting go of Donna yet again eying the insect. "Well." He muttered bringing a chair and sitting beside the Time Lady grabbing an incense stick and began to pock it.
"Donna, can you remember anything?" The Stone raised a brow eying the bug and shivering slightly feeling as if something bad was about to happen.
"I can't remember." She shrugging sitting down. "It's slipping away. You know like when you try and think of a dream and it just sort of... goes."
"It just got lucky, this thing." The Doctor nodded at the beetle. "It's one of the Trickster's Brigade. Changes a life in tiny little ways. Most times, the universe just compensates around it, but with you... Great big parallel world!" He said almost proud of the idea.
Donna smiled which then quickly faded. "Hold on, you said parallel worlds are sealed off."
"And they are." The Stone nodded. "But Donna, you had one created around you."
"Funny thing is, it seems to be happening a lot. To you." The Doctor hummed.
"How do you mean?" She frowned.
"Well, The Library and then this..."
"Just... goes with the job. I suppose." She shrugged.
The Doctor watched her for a moment his brows furrowed. "Sometimes I think there's way too much coincidence around you, Donna. we met you once."
"Then we met your grandfather." The Stone cut in.
"And then we met you again. In the whole wide universe, we met you for the second time. It's like something's binding us together."
"Don't be so daft." She waved them off. "I'm nothing special."
"Yes, you are, you're brilliant." He fondly grinned making the Stone snort a laugh at him.
"He's telling the truth Donna, absolutely brilliant." She beamed. Donna smiled for a moment but then remembered...
"He thought you were brilliant."
"She said that," Donna muttered.
"Yeah, I did...?" The Stone frowned.
"No, no." Donna shook her head trying to think.
"Who said that then?"
"That woman," Donna said trying to think before shaking her head. "I can't remember."
"Well, she never existed now." The Doctor shrugged.
"No, but she said... " Donna shook her head forcing herself to remember "the stars... she said the stars are going out."
"Yeah but Donna, that world is gone now." The Stone reassured her.
"No, but she said it was all worlds," Donna said. The Doctor and the Stone swallowed. "Every world. She said the darkness is coming, even here."
The Doctor and the Stone's eyes snapped up as he asked. "Who was she?"
"I don't know." Donna shook her head.
The Doctor swallowed having a small idea of who it might be. The Stone felt her mouth suddenly become dry, if she was back then that meant... "Donna. What did she look like?"
"She was..." Donna thought for a moment her gaze shifting to the Stones' hair... "Blonde."
The Doctor thickly swallowed grabbing the Time Lady's hand. The two of them looking like they had seen a ghost. "What was her name?"
"I don't know!"
"Donna, this is important, what was her name?" The Stone spoke in the most serious tone the redhead had ever heard. The Doctor stared at the redhead blankly slightly shaking.
"But she told me... to warn you." She looked at the Doctor. "She said... two words."
"What two words?" He whispered quietly, his eyes wide and very frightened matching the expression on the Time Lady's face. "What were they? What did she say?"
Donna paused in thought for a moment thinking back. "Bad Wolf." The Doctor and the Stone's eyes widened even further the two of them shaking in desperation for what they thought to be wrong.
"Well, what does it mean?" Donna looked between them. The Doctor suddenly leapt to his feet pulling the Stone with him, the two of them bursting through the tent, running through the market.
The Stone suddenly halted to a stop gasping and staring around seeing the two words plastered everywhere. Every sign, every banner, every flag the two words the Doctor had told her of before, the words that followed him and Rose across the universe just before he had found her on the Dalek ship.
'Bad Wolf' was everywhere.
They both darted in the direction of the TARDIS, Donna hot on their tails quite terrified at the sudden outburst and look on their faces. They stared in horror as every word on the TARDIS had been replaced with 'Bad Wolf''
The Doctor pulled the door open and ran inside the Stone beside him clutching his hand tightly as she gasped staring at the hellish red light. Donna ran in after them and slammed the doors shut.
"Doctor, Stone what is it?" Donna looked at them both. "What's Bad Wolf?"
The Time Lords swallowed breathing heavily. "It's the end of the Universe."
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