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Chapters: 21/? Fandom: Doctor Who (2005) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble, Donna Noble/John Smith, Donna Noble & Joan Redfern Characters: Joan Redfern, Tenth Doctor | John Smith, Donna Noble, Tim Latimer, Original Cat Character(s) Additional Tags: Episode: s03e08-09 Human Nature/Family of Blood, Episode AU: s03e08-09 Human Nature/Family of Blood, yet another Donna Noble in Human Nature fic, BAMF Donna Noble, The Doctor (Doctor Who) Uses They/Them Pronouns, Angst with a Happy Ending, no shared cover story, they don't start out married, we kin Donna in this house, welcome to our fic where the characterization is good but the episode order doesn't matter, References to Shakespeare, References to Audio 01.03: Death and the Queen, Minor Character Death, Panic Attacks, Canon-typical levels of poor decision-making, Miscommunication is Worst Trope, we wrote it anyway, Slow Burn, well a slower burn than Donna's was in any case, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Flashbacks, Referenced Time War (Doctor Who), Time War Angst (Doctor Who), Mild Blood, (we edit the older chapters for consistency), Cat Puns, John is a He/Him Disaster Lesbian, Dr Nyarlathotep Summary:
One moment they were shopping, the next the Doctor was screaming, and the moment after that they're in 1913 and Donna is more alone than she's been in over a year. And all the Doctor's video said was, 'Improvise.'
Hell with it. Farringham School needs a good secretary.
(A Donna Noble in Human Nature story, but a little bit different.)