Silence in Time Part 3
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flydye8Title: Silence in Time Part 3
Author: Flydye8
Pairings: Doctor 9th/Donna/Doctor 2.5
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don’t own them I just play with them a bit then give them back to the BBC.
Summary: Donna Noble and John Noble must team up to find the Doctor (9) before the Sphere comes and causes silence to envelope the Earth.
Authors Note: This takes place in the parallel world after “Journeys End” this is also beta’d by my wonderful friend Rei (aka thenoblethang) Thanks a bunch
John watched as Rose approached his desk. Reaching for an empty box under his desk, he started to pack his things.
“What hell are you doing, John?” Rose asked angrily as she watched him put the few personal items into the box.
Sitting at his desk, he turned on the computer screen and plugged in a memory stick to the USB port to download a few files. “I am being transferred to the Mr. Copperfield foundation.”
“Why? You can’t leave, they need you here,” she said feeling the frustration build within her.
“Well it seems that I am needed more there. Mr. Copperfield sent the request himself.”
“You know what I think? I think that the Doctor is here and wants to leave me in this world. That is the only reason why Donna would come here, this Mr. Copperfield thing is just a ruse; there is no way anyone else would want you to work for them,” she responded haughtily.
He looked at her, his eyes darkening with anger. Running out of patience John exclaimed, “Dammit, Rose! I may not be one hundred percent Time Lord, but I have all his knowledge and memories in here,” he stated tapping the side of his head. “Just because you can’t accept that doesn’t mean that others can’t.”
“Why can’t you and Donna just bring me to the Doctor?” she whined, tears clouding her eyes.
“As I have told you before, the Doctor can never come back. The Donna you met is from this world. You really need to accept that you are here permanently,” he tried to explain knowing that his statement would be rejected by her instantly.
“I don’t believe you John. He will return for me. I just know it.”
Sighing sadly, he started the defragment of his hard drive and packed up the last bit of his belongings. Yanking out the memory stick he turned to Rose. “You take care of yourself and try to live a fantastic life.”
Walking away from Rose, he started to the door. She called out to him, tears running down her cheeks. “You told me on the beach that you loved me. What changed?”
He turned around and looked at her. “Nothing changed, and that is why we never worked out. Good-bye, Rose.”
He walked out the doors of Torchwood, and John felt the burden of Rose being lifted from him. As he entered his car, he started to feel excitement of adventure course through him.
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Donna sat at the table at the Old World Café, sipping her coffee and reading some reports that had been neglected by her recently as she waited for John to show. As expected, he was cautious when she first presented the transfer to him. But as she explained that he was needed for something important, she saw the first vestiges of interest emerge within his eyes.
Looking at the entrance of the Café, for what seemed like the hundredth time, she hoped that Rose didn’t talk him out of the transfer. She was intrigued by John Noble and wanted to get to know him better.
She looked back down at her coffee and the report she had been trying to read for the last fifteen minutes, she didn’t see John enter until his shadow fell upon the paper she was holding.
Donna looked up at him she smiled. “It’s about time you showed up, pretty boy.”
He took the seat across from her and explained, “Well I was a bit delayed.”
“Ah. So blondie tried to get you to stay at Torchwood,” Donna stated knowingly.
“Actually, she wanted me to bring her to the Doctor; she swears that you are the Donna we met when we last saw him.”
She shook her head.
“I thought I made it clear to her that I was not that Donna,” she responded.
“She can’t help it. She truly believes that the Doctor is going to return.”
She began to pack her things and Donna stated, “I think it is time to put our blonde friend behind us and head off to see Mr. Copperfield. He is expecting us within the hour.”
Standing up, John offered, “Do you want to take my car or yours?”
“Neither, I think a walk would do us some good. It is not far from here. So come on! Let’s get a move on.”
Thinking that there might be another reason why Donna wanted to walk, he extended his elbow out for her. He saw her hesitation and rolled his eyes. “Are you too much of a business woman to accept a man’s arm?”
Weaving her arm through his she countered, “No, but being in the position I am in, most men don’t offer their arm to me.”
“It is their loss, I say, because what type of man would pass up the opportunity to escort a beautiful red head for a walk to the office.”
Swinging her bag on her shoulder she blushed. “You are a charmer, John Noble.”
“Yes, I know,” he replied confidently.
As they walked out the door Donna snipped, “and a bit conceited too.”
He laughed at her statement as they walked out the door and headed to see Mr. Copperfield. After walking a few blocks, making ideal small talk, John asked, “So tell me, why did you want to walk instead of drive?”
“Not much gets past you does it, John.” She saw him shake his head no, as she continued, “I don’t know everything, but one of the reasons you are needed is because Mr. Copperfield wants us to locate the Doctor of this world.”
“How does he know that there is a Doctor in this world?”
“I am not sure, but I can tell you this. Mr. Copperfield has been keeping tabs on all the alien activity on this planet. He knows more than all the Torchwood and UNIT facilities combined when it comes to non-terrestrial species...”
Nodding his head, John completed her statement. “So to keep the knowledge from being used as weapons, he keeps the other organizations out of the loop. I think I am going to like this Mr. Copperfield.”
“You are both handsome and smart, John. Because Torchwood and UNIT are out of the loop, we think that they might plant listening devices on, say, former employee cars, to gather intelligence and knowledge.”
Taking note of Donna’s suspicion, John decided that at the next opportune moment he would check his car and his house for listening devices.
Since he had arrived in this world, he had created some little mechanical devices to be used by Torchwood that could help with detection and reconnaissance. He had the prototypes in his flat.
A cell ring interrupted his thoughts. Donna reached into her bag and pulled out her phone. “Hello… Yes, Mr. Copperfield we are almost there…okay, we will be right there.”
Watching her hang up the phone John asked, “Is our illustrious boss impatient for our arrival?”
“You could say that, whatever is happening is causing him to be on edge.”
Seeing that they had arrived, Donna unwound her arm and lead John into the corporate building to meet Mr. Copperfield.
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In the dark recesses of space, a spherical ship approached the world of Alpha Minor, sending a shadow ominously onto the surface of the planet.
Sucra leader of Alpha Minor paced the control room worriedly. “Mantra, has the ship answered to any of our requests?”
“I am sorry, sir, but there has been no response to any of our requests,” a young woman with pale yellow skin replied.
He leaned down, and his long silver hair touched the back of Mantra’s chair as he looked at the screen. “Have our technicians been able to tell the origins of the ship?”
“No, sir, the only thing they can tell us is that there is no record of a device built by any current civilization,” Mantra replied.
“Well have them look at extinct civilizations, maybe it is something created by them.” After his request, Sucra started to pace the floor once again, his silver coat dragging behind him.
After a brief moment Mantra called out. “Our technicians found the origin of the craft. It is from the world of Gallifrey.”
“I thought all the Time Lords were eradicated in the last Time War. So how can it be from that world?”
“I don’t know, sir, but the writing found on the far side confirms that it is from Gallifrey,” Mantra responded once again.
“Start transmitting a signal to all the planets within—“
He was interrupted by Mantra. “Sir, the port side is starting to open up maybe…”
Her statement was lost in time as a blue beam engulfed the room effectively causing time to stop.
Fully aware of what was happening around him despite being in a time freeze, Sucra tried desperately to speak but without success, when he noticed that a red beam replaced the blue one and started to move across the room, incinerating everything in its path.
He looked on in horror as the beam moved over those he knew, causing their bodies to turn into dust instantly. As the light moved closer to him he prayed without a sound to his gods for mercy. Then as the red color hit his body, he silently screamed and was turned into dust.
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Date: 2011-03-02 02:02 am (UTC)I...erm.. might have overstated my feelings for a mo' there!
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Date: 2011-03-02 12:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-26 09:53 pm (UTC)And, thinking about it, i also like the way you make time stop with the blue beam, then force silence with the red, so that before death there is silence in (that particular segment of) time.
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Date: 2011-04-29 03:18 am (UTC)