Donna Noble Donna Noble was a companion to the Tenth Doctor . Despite her humble beginnings , she was described by both Rose Tyler and the Tenth Doctor as being the most important woman in all of creation , due to the fact that she saved the whole of reality from the Dalek s and Davros . To survive the side effects of her transformation into the " DoctorDonna " , her memories of her time with the Doctor were forcibly erased and she was returned to Earth . She later married Shaun Temple , and became Donna Temple - Noble . Biography . Early life . Donna Noble was the only daughter of Geoff and Sylvia Noble ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) and the granddaughter of Wilfred Mott . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) On her first day of school , she was sent home for biting . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) When she was six , her mother refused to take her on holiday . Undaunted , Donna got on a bus , and went on her own to Strathclyde . Her grandfather later reminded her of this incident to buck her up . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) She attended Belmont Primary , where she met her friend Hettie . ( PROSE : " In the Blood " ) She was a lifelong supporter of West Ham United . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " ) Adult life . Donna received a bottle of Odeur Delaware as a gift from Sylvia for Christmas 2001 . ( COMIC : " The Widow ' s Curse " ) She once attended her friend Ginny ' s wedding , and was thrown out of the church by a monk . ( PROSE : " Most Beautiful Music " ) Donna ' s career consisted mainly of temp jobs . She worked at Hounslow Library for a while , ( TV : " The Doctor ' s Daughter " ) and for two years at a double - glazing firm sometime before June 2007 . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) She also worked for Hackney Borough Council . ( COMIC : " The Widow ' s Curse " ) She missed the Christmas Day Sycorax invasion of Earth due to a hangover and the Cybermen invasion because she was scuba diving in Spain . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) H . C . Clements . In June 2007 , Donna had the choice of being a full - time secretary for Jival Chowdry or a temporary secretary at H . C . Clements , a security firm in London . Although she considered the former at her mother ' s insistence , an accident blocked the traffic in the direction of Jival Chowdry , so instead of waiting in a traffic jam and turning right on Little Sutton Street towards Griffin ' s Parade , she chose the temporary position at H . C . Clements by turning left , heading for the Chiswick High Road . At the time it was unknown to Donna that the accident was caused by a future version of herself from a parallel world . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) At Clements , she gradually fell in love with Lance Bennett , whom she pressured into marriage . She planned the wedding , unaware that Lance was dosing her coffee with Huon particles by order of the Empress of the Racnoss , whom he secretly served . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) Meeting the Doctor . At her wedding on Christmas Eve 2007 , while she was walking down the aisle with her father , Huon particles reacted with her elevated emotional state and teleport ed Donna into the Doctor ' s TARDIS . Robot Santa s prevented the Doctor returning her in time for her wedding , but he got her there for the reception ; when she found the wedding party and guests had started without her , she was furious . Some of the guests , such as Sylvia , assumed Donna had played a practical joke on them and started having a go at her for it ; they quickly quietened down when Donna pretended to burst into tears , before joining the party . When a robotic Christmas tree fired explosives at the wedding guests , Donna and the Doctor investigated H . C . Clements . The trail led to an abandoned secret Torchwood base under the Thames where Lance and the Empress of the Racnoss revealed their plans . Donna was heartbroken after learning Lance had been toying with her feelings up to this point , especially when he outright called her stupid and felt he deserved a medal for putting up with her for that long ; she still pitied his death when the Empress betrayed him and fed Lance to her children . Donna helped the Doctor defeat the Empress and pulled him away from the Empress ' death , saving his life . However , she turned down his offer to travel with him , frightened by what he had done and could do ( such as making the TARDIS trigger snow ) . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) Joining the Doctor . As a result of her encounter with the Doctor , Donna ' s eyes were opened to the universe , and she could not resume her old life . Also following this encounter , Donna ' s father , Geoff Noble , died and Wilfred Mott , her grandfather on her mother ' s side , moved in with them . Donna tried to live without the Doctor . She went to Egypt for two weeks on holiday looking for some excitement . When this failed , she began investigating unexplained events , knowing the Doctor always ran into trouble and hoping that she would be able to encounter the Doctor again . She also took a thermos of coffee up to her grandfather when he was looking at the stars . In 2009 , she began looking into Adipose Industries ; whilst spying on Miss Foster , the head of Adipose Industries , she suddenly saw the Doctor also spying on her from the outside window , who was as surprised as she was when he saw her . Together they stopped the birthing of the Adipose from fatally converting human tissue into Adipose young , and witnessed the March of the Adipose . The Doctor once again invited her to travel with him , Donna remarking that she must ' ve been mad to turn him down the first time . Unlike most companions of the Doctor , she was well prepared for the trip having packed several suitcases ( including a hat box in case they went to the " Planet of the Hats " ) . The Doctor was reluctant at first , but agreed after Donna assured him that she , unlike his two previous companions , harboured no romantic feelings for him . Just before she left , whilst trying to find a suitable place to leave her car keys , she approached a blonde woman standing at a police line ; it was Rose Tyler , who had briefly returned from the parallel universe in which she was trapped . Once on board the TARDIS , Donna had the Doctor fly it to where her grandfather could see them through his telescope and wave him goodbye . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) Curiously , Donna ' s car was parked right by the Doctor ' s TARDIS ; Donna picked up on this , calling it destiny . Neither of them knew at the time that this had happened due to the manipulation of the timelines at the hands of Dalek Caan . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) Travels with the Doctor . After leaving home , Donna and the Doctor went to Pompeii on the day Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD . She tried to convince him to stop the eruption , but he called it impossible stating that it was a fixed point in time . She and the Doctor were ultimately responsible for the eruption ; a group of Pyrovile s , who had escaped from their planet before it was lost , planned to convert every human on the planet into Pyroviles , creating a new homeworld for themselves . The Doctor told Donna it was either Pompeii or the world ; she took some of the burden off of him by helping him cause the eruption , which killed the Pyroviles . The Doctor left for the TARDIS , ignoring the pleas and chaos all around him ; however , Donna convinced him to save one family from the devastation who subsequently worshiped the Doctor and Donna as household gods . ( TV : " The Fires of Pompeii " ) During this encounter , Lucius Petrus Dextrus , who was one of those who had gained psychic abilities due to inhaling Pyrovile dust , told her there was something on her back ; she was unaware at the time that he was referring to the Time Beetle that would later create a parallel world around her where she never met the Doctor . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) After that , Donna and the Doctor travelled to the Ood Sphere in 4126 and discovered the Ood ' s servitude was caused by removal of the Ood ' s forebrain and the " third element " , the controlling Ood Brain , being blocked . They together unblocked the Ood Brain , ending the chaos between the Ood and humans running the Sphere . The suffering that the Ood went through combined with witnessing Klineman Halpen get turned into an Ood was too much for Donna , who said she wanted to go home ; she later calmed down and took this statement back , however . When they parted , Ood Sigma referred to Donna as DoctorDonna . Neither the Doctor nor Donna realised the significance of the statement at the time . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " ) Next , The Doctor and Donna were called to Earth by the Doctor ' s former companion Martha Jones , who now worked for UNIT ; Martha and Donna quickly became friends , the former warning the latter of the dangers that occurred when being near the Doctor . While Doctor investigated ATMOS , Donna went home to see her family . She was terrified when her grandfather almost died from the Sontaran s ' Caesofine gas emitted by ATMOS . When the TARDIS was taken by the Sontarans with Donna still on board , Donna activated the teleporters to allow the Doctor to bring it back to Earth . She later scolded the Doctor for scaring her by nearly getting himself killed when offering the Sontarans the chance to leave Earth alive . She agreed with her grandfather that her mother Sylvia should not know about her travels in the TARDIS . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem " / " The Poison Sky " ) The TARDIS was pulled off course , with Martha Jones inside , to the planet Messaline in 6012 . The Doctor had his DNA synthesised and grown into a full - sized clone . Donna dubbed the " daughter " that resulted from the synthesisation Jenny ( as the Doctor had called her a " generated anomaly " ) . Donna was the first to realise that the war going on between the humans and the Hath had only been going on for a week . She witnessed the end of hostilities between human s and Hath when the Doctor opened the terraform ing device ( the Source ) inside the Temple . She also watched General Cobb shoot Jenny when he refused to lay down arms , which led to her apparent death . Donna left Messaline with Martha and the Doctor , believing Jenny had perished . They soon after drop Martha back off on Earth before continuing their travels . ( TV : " The Doctor ' s Daughter " ) Donna met Agatha Christie in 1926 and killed a Vespiform by throwing the Firestone into a lake to save Agatha ' s life . During this adventure , she influenced the creation of Miss Marple and " Murder on the Orient Express " by mentioning them to Christie years before they were created ; although Christie ' s memories of the incident were wiped , some unconscious memories remained . Donna muttered that she should have gotten Christie to sign a contract when she had the chance ( so they could split the copyright ) . She also comforted Agatha when she stopped believing in herself and over her marital problems , recounting some of the events that happened between her and Lance . ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) Donna ' s adventures with the Doctor involved visiting India in 1947 and encountering Mohandas " Mahatma " Gandhi , who helped them stop a Zytron energy outbreak ( PROSE : " Ghosts of India " ) . Other adventures involved coming into conflict with the Cult of Shining Darkness ( PROSE : " Shining Darkness " ) , battling Sebastiene in his goal to capture and kill the Doctor ( PROSE : " The Doctor Trap ) " and preventing a Mandragora invasion of Earth ( PROSE : " Beautiful Chaos " ) . Donna watched a magic performance by Fergus Antelect at the Galactic Royal Hotel when Antelect appeared to confess to stealing from wealthy people at his shows , and subsequently get arrested when his assistant Ood , Ood Delta , telepathically projected memories of Antelect ' s crimes being committed to everyone in the room . ( PROSE : " Disappearing Act " ) The Doctor was reading a collection of short stories when he realised that the words of one of them , " Variations " by David Banderson , changed each time it was read . The Doctor and Donna broke into Banderson ' s house when there was no answer at the door , and they discovered he was being influenced to write stories by a creature in the computer screen that was kept alive by stories . Donna was nearly caught in the creature ' s trap too , but the Doctor intervened , freeing Banderson from the creature . ( PROSE : " Once Upon a Time " ) The Doctor and Donna watched the Child of Music perform at the Concert of the Most Beautiful Music at the Church of the High Exalted on Cantabulous Nine . The Doctor and Donna went behind the stage to ask the Child , what he wanted . The man , who had performed for 320 years since he was little , answered " I want to die " . The Doctor and Donna were thrown out . Upon breaking back into the church , the Doctor explained to Donna that there was a creature trapped inside the Child ' s musical instrument the lassimater , and that the creature passed on its life energy to the Child as it slept . He also said the music being played was its cry for freedom . Upon reaching the Child ' s room , the Doctor broke the lassimater with his sonic screwdriver . The room was filled with what the Doctor called " the sound of freedom , " and the Child drew his last breath . ( PROSE : " Most Beautiful Music " ) The Doctor and Donna visited Shadow Cay on 2009 Earth , which was really a disguised Sycorax spaceship occupied by a group of widows of the 2006 Sycorax invasion which hypnotised humanity into believing the " island " had been discovered by Columbus . Separated from the Doctor , Donna and several other tourists were trapped inside the Church of the Sycorax . Donna and Norah escaped capture , but followed the Sycorax to see where the humans were being taken . Donna saw the Sycorax play a video from the 2006 invasion ship ' s Foraxi Yox which showed the humans betrayed the men of their clan . The grieving widows prepared to spread the " widows ' curse " using a captured aircraft boarded by zombies , or human abstracts , who carried a virus that would turn the Earth into " a world of never - ending suffering " by preventing death , leaving humanity in agony for centuries . Donna and Norah freed the prisoners , and Donna told them to head for the ferry . Donna and Norah boarded the plane and hijacked it from the abstract pilots as it took off for London . They flew the plane back to Shadow Cay and captured by the Doctor , who used the ship ' s magma - sculptor to catch Donna and Norah by replicating the hands of a " drowning giant " sculpture . The Doctor used the magma - sculptor to overload the ship , and before the ship exploded , the Doctor , Donna , Jean and Norah escaped the ship after the Doctor set its controls to take off . ( COMIC : " The Widow ' s Curse " ) The Doctor broke the control of the abstracts , but the Sycorax had a curse put on the phage abstracts that boarded a nearby plane . The phage abstracts intended to release a virus on humanity that would leave humanity in immense agony and prevent them from dying in revenge for the loss of the Sycorax widows ' husbands once it landed in London . Though unable to stop the phage abstracts himself , the Doctor controlled the abstracts outside the Church of the Sycorax to make the Sycorax ship overload by recreating the whole of Earth with the ship ' s magma - sculptor . Donna , having stowed away on board the plane with Norah , flew the plane back towards Shadow Cay , and the Doctor caught Donna duplicating hands from a " drowning giant " sculpture with the magma - sculptor . Jean saved the Doctor from being killed by the Haxan Craw , and the Doctor stopped Jean from dying along with the Haxan Craw . The Doctor , Donna , Jean and Norah escaped the ship after the Doctor set its controls to take off before it exploded . ( COMIC : " The Widow ' s Curse " ) In 2011 , she went shopping on Oxford Street whilst she left the Doctor visit London ' s Technology Museum . She became slightly concerned when Brian was paranoid about the new tablet computer . She watched as other people were becoming paranoid about computers . She went with Rebecca Young to the London Underground where they met the Koggnossenti who took Bex as a test subject . She told the Doctor this before he started to succumb to the Koggnossenti influence . She worked out a plan to destroy the Koggnossenti which involved Kevin Jones ' s train driving into their power source . ( AUDIO : " Technophobia " ) She wanted to go to the Planet of the Boys because she thought it would exist due to her logic , and dressed as a wench . Instead , he took her to Calibris as he needed parts for the TARDIS . She compared the planet to a space version of King ' s Cross station . She gave her watch to a Busker to get him to stop playing . She saw the effects of a Time Reaver gun and found them disgusting . After finding Cora , she had to escape from Gully . She became lost in the tunnels with Cora , where she found out why Cora was selling the Guns . Gully strapped a Time Reaver bomb on her back but the Doctor managed to remove it before it blew up . ( AUDIO : " Time Reaver " ) The Doctor received a message on his psychic paper from Professor River Song . She called him to the Library in the 51st century to help a team of archaeologists representing the Felman Lux Corporation to investigate the planet , which had been sealed off a century earlier with the message " 4022 saved . No survivors . " However , her message reached the Doctor at a point in his time stream where he had no idea who she was . The group discovered the Library was infested by Vashta Nerada . The Doctor teleported Donna back to the TARDIS with the ship ' s teleporters , but she never made it to the TARDIS . ( TV : " Silence in the Library " ) Donna ' s consciousness was " saved " to the planet ' s Data Core hard drive by CAL . Inside the hard drive , Donna experienced several years of a disjointed , idyllic married life and had two children within the space of less than a day , thanks to the memory alterations of the Doctor Moon virus checker . Miss Evangelista , whose data ghost had been uploaded via the Library ' s Wi - Fi , warned Donna that her world wasn ' t real . When River sacrificed her life to rescue the " saved " people inside the hard drive , Donna assumed that her husband " Lee McAvoy " was just a part of her simulation like her children . The real " Lee " saw Donna but was teleported away before he could call to her or reach her . ( TV : " Forest of the Dead " ) The Doctor and Donna visited China during the Qin dynasty , where they were thrown into a crater for being foreigners and faced a robotic soldier made of ceramics . Donna defeated it by disrupting the control signal with her mobile phone . The two were taken to the Imperial Palace of Qin Shi Huang , the first Emperor , who had become a cyborg . Donna was threatened by the Emperor ' s general Meng Tian , who was really an alien gangster , and Meng remotely awakened the soldiers of the Terracotta Army and shut down Qin Shi Huang . Donna made a call on her mobile phone , stopping the signal that paralysed Qin Shi Huang , waking him up again . While Qin Shi Huang and Meng were fighting each other , Meng shot at the warp converter , which shut down the Emperor and the Army , while also burying the whole palace in an explosion . The Doctor and Donna escaped the exploding palace . ( COMIC : " The Immortal Emperor " ) They travelled to the French Rivera in the 1780s and went to a casino . There they met Rudolph of Goritania and she started dating him . She eventually became the Queen of Goritania . She told the Doctor of her exploits as Queen , including being annoyed by the Queen Mum about procedure . After getting annoyed by her maids , she got them to be taught to read and write instead of embroidery . Seeing the death cloud she order that all of the peasants into castle to protect them . When the Queen Mum said that the coronation would still be going ahead , Donna chatised her because of the danger outside . She told Rudolph that he was sending his troops to their deaths . Ruldoph then blackmailed her into marrying him as that would save the kingdom . Hortense told Donna that she would do anything to stop the death because it had destroyed her mother ' s house , and then helped Donna into her wedding dress . Death walked out of the mist and stared at her . She realised that there was something special about the Goritanian flag and got her maids to cover the castle in it . At her wedding she discovered that she was given to death . When Death eventually came to collect her , he couldn ' t destroy her because her underwear was made from the royal standard . ( AUDIO : " Death and the Queen " ) On a visit to the planet Shan Shen , Donna was distracted by a fortune teller while a Time Beetle leaped on her back and created an alternate world in which she never met the Doctor , who because of this died following this confrontation with the Empress of the Racnoss . In the alternate world , Rose gave the alternate Donna a message for the Doctor , before Donna deliberately sacrificed herself to make her " normal " self turn left on Little Sutton Street , heading for the Chiswick High Road . Her " normal " version barely remembered Rose and her message ; however with the Doctor ' s prompting she " was " able to remember and give the Doctor her message : " Bad Wolf " . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) Against the Daleks . Donna and the Doctor rushed to Earth in 2009 , only to find it taken from underneath them . They then went to the Shadow Proclamation for help . They traced the Earth , along with twenty - six other missing planets , to the Medusa Cascade , where the planets had been hidden by being placed one second out of sync with the rest of the universe . As the Doctor reunited with Rose , he was shot by a Dalek and rushed into the TARDIS with Rose , Jack and Donna . As a result , the Doctor began regenerating but was able to use some of the regeneration energy to heal himself before funnelling the remaining energy into a matching bio - receptacle — his spare hand — and stop the regeneration . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) The TARDIS was taken on board the Crucible and its defences were taken down . Donna was separated from the Doctor when the TARDIS refused to let her leave when the others surrendered to the Dalek s . Donna reached out toward the Doctor ' s hand when the TARDIS was being sent to the core of the Crucible to be destroyed . The regeneration energy stored in the Doctor ' s hand interacted with Donna and created a being who looked like the Doctor , but was half human and had aspects of Donna ' s personality . When Donna tried to use the Meta - Crisis Tenth Doctor ' s Z - Neutrino Biological Inversion Catalyser on the Daleks , Davros electrocuted her . The electrical shock on Donna stimulated her brain , awakened the Time Lord DNA that transferred to her during the two - way biological meta - crisis , and gave her " the best part of the Doctor — his mind , " rendering her the " DoctorDonna " of the Ood ' s prophecy . She used her new - found intellect to deactivate the reality bomb and disable the circuitry on the Daleks ' controls , and helped use the magnetron to bring twenty - six of the planets back to their rightful places in the universe . The Meta - Crisis Doctor , fulfilling one of Dalek Caan ' s prophecies , destroyed the Daleks . When the Supreme Dalek wrecked the magnetron , Earth was the last planet still in the Cascade . Donna helped the Doctor and his companions to " tow " the Earth to its proper place in the galaxy with the TARDIS . After assisting the Doctor in exiling the Meta - Crisis Doctor to Pete ' s World and saying farewell to Rose , Donna ' s mind overloaded , a consequence of the unbearable Time Lord - human meta - crisis . Donna now had a second mind in the form of the Doctor ' s knowledge and some of his personality aspects , which started to encroach on her original mind and overwhelm it . To save her life , the Doctor was forced to erase her memories against her wishes and bring her home , which suppressed her " DoctorDonna " alter ego . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) Back to Earth . The Doctor took Donna home , with strict instructions to her mother and grandfather never to tell her about the TARDIS or him . The Donna who had saved the universe was dead , fulfilling another of Dalek Caan ' s prophecies . Donna was left to her " normal " life . Wilfred , her grandfather , promised to keep thinking of the Doctor on her behalf , and to never mention the Doctor to her as that might trigger her memory of events and cause her mind to " burn up " , killing her . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) By Christmas 2009 , Donna had got her life back on track ; she was engaged to Shaun Temple . According to her grandfather though , she and Shaun had some financial issues as neither had good jobs . She nearly bumped into the Doctor twice , once while Christmas shopping during which she angrily warned a nearby traffic warden to leave her car alone . For Christmas , she gave Wilf a book by Joshua Naismith , but did not know exactly why , saying that she simply felt like he should have it . The Doctor surmised it was her Time Lord subconscious directing Wilf , since he was so important . On Christmas Day , the Master turned every human into versions of himself . Donna ' s half - Time Lord mind caused her not to transform , but her mother and Shaun were . The shock of seeing them transformed into duplicates of the Master reawakened some of the memories of her travels with the Doctor . Visions of aliens she had met appeared in her mind . She called Wilf and was told to run for her life . She ran , but was cornered by Master duplicates in an alley , and was beginning to break down over the rush of recovered memories . However , the Doctor had also implanted a form of mental self - defense in her mind that released a blast of energy , putting Donna to sleep and knocking the Master facsimiles unconscious . While Gallifrey appeared in the sky hurtling towards Earth , Shaun found her unconscious and brought her home . She came to when the TARDIS appeared in the street and complained that she had , yet again , missed something important . Sylvia was just amused when Donna said that as she knew Donna to be safe . Donna ' s memories of the Doctor apparently never returned . In spring 2010 , she and Shaun were married and left the church with family and friends cheering them on . Donna asked for a photograph of her friends and her , allowing her mother and grandfather to speak with the Doctor one last time . They returned and gave Donna an envelope holding a gift from her deceased father and the Doctor , a lottery ticket the Doctor bought with money borrowed from her father . Although she considered it to be a cheap present , she remembered that the next lottery draw had a triple roll - over prize before stuffing it in her dress for safekeeping ; both Sylvia and Wilf knew that the Doctor had made sure it was a winning ticket and thus secured Donna ' s financial future . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) In a meeting between companion s of the Doctor organised by Alice Obiefune , Donna walked in . However , as she could not remember the Doctor she realised she was in the wrong room and went on her way . ( COMIC : " The Meeting " ) While trying to syphon emotional pain off of the Tenth Doctor , the Reach deposited him in the living room of the Noble household while Donna was having an argument with her mother in the hall . The Doctor left before Donna could see him . ( COMIC : " Revolving Doors " ) Legacy . When the Doctor discovered what the Manus Maleficus was capable of doing , he was momentarily tempted to use it to save Donna from burning up without wiping her memories . ( COMIC : " The Crimson Hand " ) The Doctor still felt guilty over what travelling with him had done to Donna , feeling that he had " screwed up " her life ; these feelings persisted into his next incarnation . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) At some point , he also told River Song about Donna and what happened to her . When River eventually encountered the Tenth Doctor and Donna , she was visibly moved when she realised who Donna was . ( TV : " Silence in the Library " ) Donna was inadvertently responsible for the appearance of the Doctor ' s twelfth incarnation when she convinced him to save Lobus Caecilius ' family from the destruction of Pompeii . The Doctor subsequently took on Caecilius ' face to remind himself of Donna ' s plea ; to always save someone , no matter what . ( TV : " The Girl Who Died " ) Shortly before regenerating , the Twelfth Doctor dreamt of Donna along with some of his other companions . ( TV : " The Doctor Falls " ) At some point , Donna recorded a holographic message on the TARDIS ' Emergency Program One when she didn ' t get the chance to say goodbye to the Doctor properly . She told him she had the time of her life and not to find someone to stop him as she said at Christmas , but someone to keep him going . This message was played to the Doctor when he travelled on his own again . ( COMIC : " The Time of My Life " ) Undated adventures . At some point , Donna was taken to the Black Archive by UNIT to have her record as a companion of the Doctor taken . Her memories of the visit were subsequently erased and she was sent on her way . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) The Tenth Doctor and Donna watched the courtship of the Zyglot s , ran from intelligent dogs in a flying house , joined forces with a survey team to escape a living swamp , witnessed " something " bring time to a halt , saw the Beatles perform at The Cavern Club , chased after " vampire goth cannibal s " , saw time get meddled with while being chased by Cossack s , and got infected by a reality - altering psychic parasite . ( COMIC : " The Time of My Life " ) Parallel world . In a parallel world in June 2007 , Donna decided to work for Chowdry instead of H . C . Clements by turning right on Little Sutton Street towards Griffin ' s Parade . She was promoted to his personal assistant the December when she saw the Racnoss Webstar attack central London . There , she saw the deceased Tenth Doctor carried away by UNIT troops and a blonde woman , Rose Tyler , arrive , apparently by mistake . Over the next two years Donna met Rose at several alien encounters which the Doctor would have prevented , had he not died in 2007 . After Mr Chowdry laid off Donna , she won a trip to Firbourne House on a raffle ticket she found with the office supplies she had taken . While there , over Christmas 2008 , the " Titanic " crashed into London , destroying it . Donna ' s family was relocated to Leeds . Rose knew she needed Donna as well as the Doctor to stop the stars from going out throughout the multiverse as timelines had been converging on Donna since her birth . In 2009 , Donna agreed to be sent back to June 2007 in a jury - rigged time machine ; her task was to prevent her younger self from turning right on Little Sutton Street and taking the fatal job with Chowdry , instead getting a job at H . C . Clements by turning left towards the Chiswick High Road . Unable to get there in time , the alternate Donna Noble threw herself in front of a lorry to cause a traffic jam that would physically prevent her younger self from making that decision . Just before her death , Rose appeared to Donna and gave her a message for the Doctor . Donna retained dream like memories of the world , including the blonde woman and her message to the Doctor : " Bad Wolf " . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) Career . Donna worked as a temp secretary in several places , including H . C . Clements and a double glazing firm . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " , " The Sontaran Stratagem " ) She worked for health and safety for two days and kept the ID card . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) At some point she worked for six months at Hounslow Library , where she learned the Dewey Decimal System in two days . ( TV : " The Doctor ' s Daughter " ) Personality . Donna ' s first encounter with the Doctor was bewildering for both : the Doctor was shocked into speechlessness by her sudden appearance in his TARDIS ; Donna was furious with him for " kidnapping " her and twice slapped him in the face when he was overexcited in the face of her missed wedding and imminent danger or death . ( TV : " Doomsday " , " The Runaway Bride " ) Though Donna ' s sharp tongue and hair - trigger temper kept the Doctor at arm ' s length for most of their first adventure , quieter moments showed a more level - headed and perceptive woman . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) Although she sometimes appeared unintelligent and persistently referred to herself as " only a temp " , the Doctor responded on one occasion by calling her " brilliant " ( TV : " Turn Left " ) and she was actually quite smart ; she mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days of work at a library ( TV : " The Doctor ' s Daughter " ) and remarked that she could walk around an office blind - folded , quickly picking up on an important clue others might ' ve missed in that no one ever gets sick or has days off at an ATMOS factory raided by UNIT , impressing Martha Jones . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem " ) When she joined the Doctor in his journeys , her quick and sometimes dry wit often came out , syncing with his own . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " et al . ) Donna ' s fiery temper hid a deep well of compassion . She reached out to Agatha Christie , trying to share her own story of failed marriage . ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) She helped free the Ood from mass slavery . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " ) When the Doctor was forced to make the terrible choice of destroying Pompeii to save the world , something Donna had tried and failed to get him to stop as it was a fixed point in time , Donna took some of the burden on herself by helping him push the lever to trigger the eruption of Mount Vesuvius . ( TV : " The Fires of Pompeii " ) Though most companions were , to some degree , the Doctor ' s conscience , Donna adopted this role more openly and forcefully than her predecessors . She pleaded with the Doctor to save the inhabitants of Pompeii — if not all of them , then a single family — and got her way with Caecilius ' family . ( TV : " The Fires of Pompeii " ) Donna insisted that the Doctor acknowledge Jenny as his daughter , no matter how she was created or what job she was trained for . ( TV : " The Doctor ' s Daughter " ) She also convinced the Doctor to leave the Racnoss and her children after he began to drown them , rather than keep going . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) Likewise , travelling with the Doctor made Donna a better person . He tempered her sharp tongue and brought out a more clever , compassionate aspect of her personality . She acknowledged that in the past , she had been selfish , always putting herself first . Travelling with the Doctor changed that : she started looking out for others , automatically helping where she might not have before . In some instances , she became almost motherly towards the Doctor , telling him to take care , reprimanding him when his actions were found wanting , automatically fixing his tie , etc . He even once stated that " she [ Donna ] takes care of me ! " ( PROSE : " Beautiful Chaos " , TV : " The Fires of Pompeii " , " The Doctor ' s Daughter " , " The Sontaran Stratagem " ) When the Doctor ' s former companion , Martha Jones , recalled the Doctor to Earth , she and Donna became fast friends ; neither was jealous of one another , and both were willing to share experiences . The Doctor found this disconcerting . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem " ) Her relationship with Rose Tyler was initially abrasive in the parallel world ( TV : " Turn Left " ) but friendly in the Doctor ' s world . She also enjoyed an attraction to Captain Jack Harkness , which at one point involved her pushing Sarah Jane Smith out of the way to get a hug from him . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) Unlike Rose and Martha , Donna was intent on maintaining a platonic relationship with the Doctor , reacting with disgust when she misinterpreted his comment , " I just want a mate " , ( friend ) as , " I just want to mate " , ( breed ) . ( TV : " Partners in Time " ) Both the Doctor and Donna also corrected many people who thought they were married , saying things like , " We ' re so not married . Never " . ( TV : " The Fires of Pompeii , Planet of the Ood , The Doctor ' s Daughter , The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) She did kiss him , but only to give him a shock as part of his cure for cyanide poisoning . ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) She was very supportive of the Doctor , at one point forcing him to admit that despite the potential collapse of universes , Rose ' s return was still a good thing . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) She also supported the Doctor when the time came to leave the Meta - Crisis Doctor and Rose behind on Pete ' s World . Dalek Caan referred to Donna as " the most faithful companion " . Just before her memories were wiped , she tearfully echoed Rose ' s earlier desire to travel with the Doctor " forever " . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) The Doctor reciprocated Donna ' s feelings , referring to her as his best friend . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) The Meta - Crisis Doctor , working from his original template ' s memories , recognised that Donna ' s brash attitude arose from her belief that she was unimportant ; she was " [ s ] houting at the world , ' cause [ she thought ] no one ' s listening . " The original Doctor attributed this to her mother never telling Donna she was important to her , and told Sylvia to tell her that more often . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " )