who ten & donna [2] what saving his best friend. where his room when saturday, after donna [1] has died. which is top secret information between him and audrey. and medical. warnings TRIGGER: character death references, and more importantly: Ten and Donna angst. SORRY NOT SORRY IF YOU READ THIS AND CRY.
All of his efforts to help Donna had led to a catastrophic end. One version too many of his best friend had perished already, and now a core aspect of her had, too. With her emotions stretched so thin, he had only one option left in his sorely lacking arsenal. He needed to tamper with her mind. As he ran through the halls to get back to his room shortly after having examined the first Donna's body, he looked grim. The Doctor was afraid.
How many more mistakes could he possibly make before he lost all of them? A Lord of Time itself with the worst timing in the universe, it didn't amuse him in the slightest. Had he not spoken of Donna's fate, perhaps she wouldn't have spiraled in the subsequent loss of Eddie. Lies didn't suit him, but clarifying them had only made matters worse in the long run. If he'd just tampered with her mind in the first place.
Shutting out the negative thoughts, the Doctor picked up speed somehow. Donna would be waiting for him, it didn't matter what sort of fall out they had. She would be there, because no matter the rift he'd created, they were best mates. She could always come to him with whatever she needed.
And it would always be in the last place he bloody well thought to look.
Several collisions with those passing him by in the halls, he made it skidding to his room and rushed inside. "Donna?!" He called out urgently, his pace only a fraction slower now that he was within the flat. Had he been a burlier man, he might have taken down the door to his hardly used bedroom altogether, and it wouldn't have mattered because she was there, waiting. Every line of fear mixed with determination vanished from his face only to be replaced by alarm and concern.
On the bed in a second, he knelt down beside her and gently reached out to touch her shoulder. The desperation in his voice turned into a much softer, coaxing tone as he spoke to her, "Donna. I'm here--I'm sorry. So sorry. I'm here now. And I'm going to make this better."