The road less travelled...

Title: Second Chances Part III – The Doctor 11/12
Author: katherine_b
Rating: G
Characters: Donna and the Doctor
Disclaimer: Still wishing and hoping they might be mine, but to no avail.
Spoilers: Everything up to the end of Season 4.
Summary: Donna has news for the Doctor...

Chapter X

“Elizabeth Noble, are you coming?” the Doctor calls back into the TARDIS. “Or are Mummy and I going without you?”

“Coming!”

There’s a rush of footsteps across the metal grill of the floor and the newly-five-year-old Elizabeth all but falls into her mother’s arms, which are opened ready to catch her.

“Gotcha!” Donna exclaims as she sweeps the little girl into the air.

The Doctor laughs and closes the TARDIS door, locking it as Elizabeth wriggles down to the ground.

“Where and when are we?” she asks.

The Doctor answers Elizabeth’s question and, as the little girl runs away, chasing a butterfly, he looks up to see a smile on Donna’s face.

“What is it?”

“She’s her father’s daughter, always asking questions,” Donna says, taking his hand.

He chuckles. “This is like old times,” he says, waving his free hand in demonstration. “The Doctor and Donna Noble on an alien planet. Just like it always was.”

“Better,” she tells him, squeezing his fingers. “Less running. At least,” she amends her sentence quickly, “less run away from things and more running after things. Well, one thing.”

“One thing with red hair and insatiable curiosity,” the Doctor adds, fixing his eye on the mop of ginger curls that is skipping across the azure blue grass.

“One little thing with all that, but which still won’t call you ‘Daddy’,” Donna laughs, and then her free hand comes to rest on her lower belly. “So we’d better hope that the next one will instead.”

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