[FFML] [Doctor Who][One-Shot] Good Intentions gone bad.

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Contains Spoilers for the ending of Season 4 of the New Doctor Who  
Series.

Disclaimer: Doctor Who and related characters are the property of the  
BBC. No money is being made from this and no such intent should be  
inferred.
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There is a great deal that Donna Noble doesn't know.

She doesn't know that she has saved the universe once, and Earth many  
times over. She doesn't know that two government agencies have open  
files on her, or that a sentient computer has a subroutine devoted  
exclusively to tracking her credit cards and mobile calls. She goes  
through her days unaware of government agents noting her every action  
or that the australian barmaid down the street with the sharp tongue  
and dark eyes is part of an elite group of men and women. A group  
Donna is a member of, but doesn't know it. A group, who, in their own  
way, is also watching her.

If Donna was to ever learn any of this, she would remember, and then  
she would die.

Donna absorbed part of a Time Lord, gaining his expertise and  
knowledge. But the brain of a Time Lord is far different than that of  
a human. There are no hemispheres, it's compartmentalized for 13  
different personalities, and is structured around a worldview that  
regards movement space and time as little more than a stroll down the  
block. All at once.

A human brain can not, will not process that much input and activity  
without something giving way.

So her memory was erased. To save her life. she was made to forget.

But there is something her watchers don't know.

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She lives inside Donna's brain. She has no name, not yet.

She is the fusion of Donna and the Time Lord she absorbed. When Donna  
was made to forget, she was pushed down in Donna's subconscious.

Here, she grows and she waits. She is almost unaware of the tiny ball  
of hate and anger at her core. Donna would have rather perished like  
a dying star than be forced to forget the wonders she had seen.

Oh, she understands why it was done. Why he couldn't let her die. Its  
not his way. No one dies if he can help it.

Still, deep down, she hates him.

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She is Donna no longer, she understands that now. What she is  
becoming is unclear. Human, no. Time Lord? Perhaps?

It has been months now. She watches through Donna's senses and when  
Donna sleeps, she directs that tiny tendril of Regenerative Energy,  
the vehicle that birthed her, through Donna's body, altering it.  
Preparing it.

She can talk to Donna through her dreams now. Her voice is almost  
lost in the babble of fantasies, memories, and desires, but she can  
do it.

She still has no name.

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It has been five years since she was created. The government agencies  
now merely check up on Donna now and then. The subroutine still  
diligently monitors her mobile and cards, but the A.I. which created  
it has moved on to other things.

Donna is nearly ready. The regenerative energy is no longer tiny, for  
in the changes it made, her body now produces it. A second heart has  
been grown.

She still hates him. Plans for revenge move through her own  
subconscious.

Inside Donna's mind, the entity puzzles. She lacks a TARDIS. Earth  
has no way to construct one. But, she also needs a name. She is not  
Donna Noble.

As Donna eats lunch in her cubicle, the entity's attention is drawn  
by something on a web site. An ad, demanding an end to American  
Tyranny in the Middle East and asking for support.

Tyranny. The word tickles at her.

As Donna goes throughout her day, the entity plays with the word.  
Turning it over, adding letters, taking away letters. Replacing  
letters with other letters.

Finally, she finds it. A name that suits her and she gives Donna a  
nudge to find a job in Cardiff. There's that rift through the middle  
of town. Something will turn up.

She looks at her new name and is content.

She is the Rani, and tomorrow is a new day.

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Notes: There were so many ways I could have gone with this. Donna  
dies and regenerates, Donna wakes up and goes to work for Torchwood,  
Donna seeds a new race of Time Lords amongst humans.

But then I started thinking of River Song's reaction. Sure, we  
thought she was sympathizing with Donna over being made to forget.  
But what if not? What if it was worse?
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