Title: Important

Pairing: Sort of mentioned Rose/Ten

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For once people are gonna be looking at her, and they will smile and say how pretty the bride is; even Mum will have to be proud this day. Donna Noble has always known she's no one important. Just a temp, that's all. But for one shining moment as she walks down the aisle with her head held high and everyone watching, she will be special. The single most important person in the whole universe, in fact.

Was it really too much to ask? Just one day when someone notices her?

Apparently so, because one moment she's in the church, literally glowing, and the next Donna is standing on a spaceship (in space!) with no idea where she is or what's happening. And oh, she's in her wedding dress and Donna is supposed to be getting married right now, but instead there's this strange man gawking at her like she can't be real. The entire situation seems completely unfair. Donna is confused and furious, so she takes it out on him, later regretting it since none of this is actually his fault and if she'd thought about someone other than herself, Donna might have noticed that the alien looked like he had been crying recently.

He mentions a friend he lost. Really, she should be able to put the pieces together immediately. Perhaps they're both a little wrapped up in their own worlds.

So she doesn't notice. Not that the Doctor wants to talk about it; he gladly welcomes a distraction, in fact, even if she is a bit bossy and rude. So is he, for that matter. But she's also ginger, which is quite unfair. It occurs to the Doctor that one reason he likes her so much is because she doesn't remind him of Rose at all. Donna is loud and thoroughly unimpressed by his time machine or how clever he can be. Although he does wish she would stop calling him a Martian.

Donna Noble is truly brilliant. He offers her the universe, because he honestly doesn't think he can handle being alone again. She declines. Another thing to add to her growing list of regrets. But she won't forget him. This impossible, sad man with ancient eyes who changed how she views the world and her place in it. She will do so much. People will never forget Donna Noble.

"Promise me one thing," she says. "Find someone."

She can tell he needs a friend to hold his hand and stop him when he gets carried away. Donna Noble can't be that person. Not yet. She has a lot of thinking to do. Try to put her life back in order, maybe travel the world. But she hopes one day to see him again.

"Your friend, the one you lost, what was her name?"

"Her name was Rose."