FanFiction - Sherlock

Prologue

Desperately she pulled at her ragged cardigan attempting, in vain, to keep as much of her body heat in as possible. The cool wind was biting at her vulnerable flesh and whipping violently through her untidy hair. Fumbling aimlessly, trying to fight her way towards the clearing, she grabbed onto nearby trees to push her forwards.

Everyday she would have the same job, at the same time, in whatever mother nature decided to through at them. Today there just happened to be the most awful gale the island had ever seen passing by. The sky was a bleak grey, which the sun appeared to be hiding behind, and the bone-chilling winds were so strong that some of the trees looked as through they were struggling against it.

But that didn't mean she got the day off. No. That's not how they ran the place. They ran a hardcore orphanage that seemed to show no mercy. There were no safety or human-right's rules and regulations at that place.

Shaking, she pulled her hands out of the warmth of her cardigan, and held out the tin bucket. It was the heavy grey tin bucket that she had used to do this job all her life, since the age of five, at least. She knelt down on the ground, wincing as the cold mud began to soak her lower legs, and felt with her hands, the bank of the stream. She lowered the bucket into the water and listened to the sound of the fresh running water connect with the metal, cutting the silence with a large 'clang'.

She hauled the heavy bucket back out of the water and carefully placed in on the ground beside her, trying not to spill a single drop. Water was precious on the island. There were only one or two streams. They connected to the river but the river was far away, on the other side of the island and the orphanage had no running water, so the streams were their main source.

Suddenly the ground lurched violently and sent her flying into the stream. A loud sound rang through the forest, birds crying in surprise as they took to the sky. The 'bangs' and 'crashes' of unknown objects fell from above.

She managed to lift her head above the water and pull herself forward in the direction of the bank, before the pain in her head became too much and her stomach felt as though it were being pummeled by a million elephants.

She passed out cold, and hadn't a clue of what had just happened to her, and how her whole life would change. In a blink of an eye.