We Are Family (short story): Difference between revisions

|main character  = [[Donna Noble|Donna]], [[Sylvia Noble|Sylvia]], [[Shaun Temple|Shaun]], [[Rose Noble|Rose]], [[Wilfred Mott|Wilf]]

|featuring      = [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Fourteenth Doctor]], [[Beep the Meep]]

The short story gave some background on the main previously seen members of the [[Noble family]] - [[Donna Noble|Donna]] and [[Sylvia Noble]], [[Shaun Temple]] and [[Wilfred Mott]], and was notably the first work of fiction to feature Donna and Shaun's [[daughter]], [[Rose Noble|Rose]], in any way. It also contained a cameo of [[Beep the Meep]].

== Plot ==

=== Donna ===

While [[walking]] down the aisle on [[Donna Noble and Lance Bennett's wedding|her wedding day]], [[Donna Noble]], a [[temp]] from [[Chiswick]], believed she knew where her [[life]] was going. However, she suddenly vanished from [[St Mary's Church (Chiswick)|the church]] and found herself standing in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], near a baffled [[Tenth Doctor]]. As it turned out, [[Lance Bennett|Lance]], her husband-to-be, was secretly plotting with "[[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|a giant red spider woman]]" to allow [[Racnoss|her spider babies]] to feast on the population of [[Earth]].

Initially, Donna declined the Doctor's [[offer]] to travel [[the universe]], but, after some [[searching]], she and the Doctor were reunited, and became the [[Best friend|best of friends]]. During these travels, the Doctor came to believe that Donna was perhaps the most important [[person]] in all of [[creation]]. Her [[destiny]] was to save the universe, and [[Omniverse|every other universe out there]], from the [[destruction]] of [[Davros]] and the [[Dalek]]s' [[Reality Bomb]]. After causing a [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis|biological metacrisis]], she was [[Flooding|flooded]] with [[Time Lord]] [[DNA]], giving her the [[skills]] needed to [[defeat]] Davros. However, this came at a cost: Donna had to [[Memory wipe|forget]] her [[memories]] of the Doctor and their [[time]] together, although, [[years]] later, she still has a [[sense]] that there was once more to her life than she remembers.

When Donna vanished on her wedding day, her [[mother]], [[Sylvia Noble]], barely batted an [[eyelid]], already being weary of her daughter's [[stunts]]. She held great [[suspicion]] of the Doctor, as [[chaos]] was never far behind him, and she was furious to find out that he and Donna has been travelling through the [[stars]]. Now, knowing that Donna could [[die]] if she remembers the Doctor, she's filled with [[worry]] when the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] appears after several years.

[[Wilfred Mott]] is the [[grandfather]] of Donna Noble, and is a [[soldier]] who helped the Doctor after Donna's loss of her memories. After the [[Saxon Master]] attempted to [[Master Race|turn every human on Earth into a copy of himself]], Wilf helped to stop him, even manning a [[laser]]-blasting [[cannon]] aboard a [[spaceship]]. He was never phased by the Doctor or the various aliens he encountered, and believed that [[mankind]]'s destiny was to reach for the stars and to get along with the [[people]] found there.

[[Rose Noble|Rose]] is the [[daughter]] of Donna and Shaun, with her life changing when she stumbles upon "[[Beep the Meep|something alien]]", just as her mother had.  

 

The [[world]] was never quite the same for [[Noble family|the family]] after they encountered the Doctor, and now he's back in a big way.

== Characters ==

* [[Tenth Doctor]]

* [[Fourteenth Doctor]]

* [[Lance Bennett]]

* [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]]

* [[Beep the Meep]]

* The [[Saxon Master]]

== Worldbuilding ==

* It is noted that Rose is named after [[Rose Tyler|an old friend]] of the Doctor and Donna's, despite Donna not remembering them.

== Notes ==

== Continuity ==

* The events of [[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'' are given in an abridged fashion, with the most notable details being [[Donna Noble and Lance Bennett's wedding]] being interrupted and Lance betraying Donna to the Empress of the Racnoss.

* After a [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis]] changed her, Donna saved the universe from [[Davros]]' [[Reality bomb]], and had to have her memories wiped, in [[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''.

* [[Donna Noble and Shaun Temple's wedding]] from ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' is referenced.

* Wilf's aid in helping the Doctor find the Master in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' is mentioned.

== Gallery ==

== Footnotes ==

 

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