Fic: Little Blue Book (4/14)

Title: Little Blue Book (4/14)
Author: shining_moment 
Characters/Pairing: Doctor,Donna
Rating: G
Spoilers: General S4, specifically Planet of the Ood in this chapter.
Summary: Oh, I think I mentioned we went to another planet? Didn’t mention that we visited this planet in the year 4126. Forty one, twenty six!
Word Count: 559
Disclaimer: Not mine :(

Playing catch-up?

Chapter One Here
Chapter Two Here
Chapter Three Here


I remember at school when they made us read that Charles Dickens book with the first line that really annoyed me. How can something be the best of times and the worst of times? I understand now.

Every time I sit down to write in this little blue book of mine, I feel like I need to start with “so, you won’t believe what happened today”- it’s mad, really. So, it started off with me going to my first alien planet which I was obviously proper excited about until I stepped out of the TARDIS and found it was a planet made of ice and I’d chosen that day to wear a sleeveless top. Brilliant.

If I tried to describe everything that happened in the Oodsphere, this little diary entry would turn into a novel so I won’t, I’ll just focus on the important stuff, there’s enough of it.

Oh, I think I mentioned we went to another planet? Didn’t mention that we visited this planet in the year 4126. Forty one, twenty six! Not only am I travelling through time and space but I’m doing them both at the same time!

The Ood are peaceful, trusting creatures born with their brains in their hands. Sweet, gentle and manipulated, I’m ashamed to say, by humans. Their brains removed and replaced with a translator, looking more like a Persil ball than a Persil ball itself, then sent into a life of slavery.

When we found the unprocessed Ood in that cage, I can’t even explain on paper how it felt. It was just the saddest sight I’d ever seen. The Doctor could hear their song because, God bless him, he can hear everything and when he asked me if I wanted to hear it, in that moment, I really did, I needed to hear it. I couldn’t bear it though, not for more than a few seconds and I hated that, hated that I wasn’t strong enough to take it when the Doctor had been coping with it in his head on his own all along. Right then, I just wanted to go home.

Those were the worst of times, now I’ll get to the best.

Long story short? We freed the Ood, me and the Doctor and I didn’t need him to help me hear their song because it was loud and clear and I could hear it all by myself. We stood, in the snow, outside the TARDIS, surrounded by a circle of free Ood telling us that their children would be told about what we did, and their children’s children. I mean, how amazing is that, to think that in years to come, these wonderful Ood will still be free because of what we did to help?

When they thanked us so sincerely, told us we were friends of Oodkind, I knew I’d been crazy to think I could go home.

Just because it isn’t all beautiful and wonderful and magical all the time, doesn’t mean I want to run away from it back to my safe little life at home. Nah, I’m Donna Noble, I don’t run away. I only ever ran away from something, someone once and then I spent what felt like forever looking for it, looking for him again and I don’t make the same mistakes twice. This time, he’s stuck with me.