Title: When the Stars Come Out
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairings: grandfather/granddaughter relationship of Donna Noble and Wilfred Mott
Length: 354 words
Summary: Donna talks to her grandfather about the stars.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who, I'm just a fan. As in fanatic, not something that moves air.
Author's Notes: *spoilers for the episode 'Journey's End'* This is set sometime after the Doctor leaves Donna at her house after erasing all of her memories of him. This story came to me while thinking of trying to write a ficlet just hours after making 50 Doctor Who icons for a challenge.



Donna Noble walked up to the top of the hill where her grandfather Wilfred Mott liked to sit in front of his telescope as he gazed up at the stars. She wrapped her coat tightly around her, and looked up at her grandfather who was looking up at the stars without using the telescope.

"Anything interesting up there, Gramps?" she asked with a smile.

He turned around, taking off his hat as he looked at her. "What?" he asked, obviously surprised to see her up there. "Oh, no, just looking at the stars, Sweetheart," he told her.

"You might want to use the telescope, get a better look," she told him, gesturing at it with the thermos of coffee she'd brought him.

Wilfred gave Donna a small smile as he thought about all the things he knew but couldn't tell her, all the amazing things she had done yet couldn't know about. "Nah, I can see just fine for now. It's only when I'm looking for something in particular that I need to use it."

Donna handed the thermos to him and then squatted as she looked up at the stars. "So you're not looking for anything in particular tonight? No spaceship that's going to crash into Big Ben or just miss Buckingham Palace or a spaceship hovering over London and people on top of buildings ready to jump or even a bunch of planets in the sky?" she asked him.

He shook his head sadly, "No, just looking at the stars. Thinking of all the different worlds that could be out there, all the people, the aliens, so many different kinds of creatures that we don't know about even though they're out there, living their lives."

Knowing that her grandfather really believed in that, Donna told him, "If you ever see-" She paused, feeling as though she'd said something like that before. She shook it off and finished, "If you ever see anything up there in the sky, you shout for me Gramps. Oh you just shout. And I'll come running. But you just make sure that I don't miss out on it like every other time."