A cry broke through the silence in the London estate, early in the morning. Jackie Tyler slowly got out of her bed and walked across the room to her daughter Rose, feeling like she hadn't slept in weeks, which wasn't far from the truth.

"What's wrong, love?" she question her crying baby, knowing that she won't answer her.

Carefully, she lifts Rose out of her cot and walks to the kitchen of the tiny place to warm some milk for her. Once the milk has been in the microwave for 30 seconds, she takes it out and tests it on her wrist to make sure it is not too hot for Rose. As she gives the bottle of milk to Rose she sings her a little song. It's always the same song that softly lulls her into a peaceful sleep. When she is sure that Rose won't wake up she puts her back into the cot at the end of her bed and goes back to sleep herself.

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One Year Later

In the morning Jackie gets Rose ready for a day with Mickey Smith and his grandmother Jenny like normal and drops her off on the way to work. Because Jenny looks after all the children on the estate she has to have ways of keeping all of them out of trouble, she does this by taking them to different places in the city to keep then distracted or interested. Today she was just taking them on a picnic in the park across the road from the estate. She packs a big basket of food for the children's lunch and heads over so that they can burn up some of their energy. As they arrive at the park, all of the children ran off the play their games, their feet barely touching the ground with their haste.

"I'm going to play with another group because you are being very mean to me" Rose announce after they excluded her from the conversation for the third time in the past hour.

They didn't even look up from their conversation as she starts to walks away, trying not to cry because she knows that all the groups will do the same, because her father was dead and therefore her mum had to work for these people even if they are only just above her mum in rank, but they are meant to be her friends. She walks for a long time, until she can't see them anymore. She sits under a tree for some time and accidentally falls asleep.

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Once she wakes up and look around she realizes that it is dark and she has now idea how to get home again. She starts to walk in the direction she thinks she came from but only gets more confused as to where she is and how to get home. After what feels like forever walking, not knowing if she was even going in the right direction, she comes across a girl standing in a field just watching the sky.

"Hello," Rose said the girl, quietly because she is beyond scared.

The girls head snaps done at the sound of Rose voice and she looks surprised, she slowly kneels down so that she is at the same height as Rose and says kindly, "Hello my name is Susan. What is your name?"

"R-r-r-rose" she answered with a bit of a stutter from holding back tears for so long, "C-can you p-p-please help m-me get home?"

Susan gave Rose a little smile, and yelled "Grandfather Ian, Barbara, come here"

At once three more people came. Barbara was the one that ask "And who is this? My name is Barbara and this is Ian" she said as she pointed to the young man "and this is the Doctor" she said as she pointed to the old man, giving Rose a soft smile.

Susan answered, "This is Rose and she is lost"

The Doctor ask grumpily, "And why is she out here in the middle of the night, my dear?"

Susan answered, "She is lost grandfather"

Ian spoke for the first time asking where she lived before a fight could start. She told them her address with pride, if a little watery from the tears she was still holding back from falling down her cheeks. While the men worked out how to get there, the woman tried to distract Rose from her fear. But after only five minutes she had had enough of everything and stared to cry. Barbara tried to help her, but Rose just wanted her Mummy. The Doctor took things into his own hands once, having had quite enough of the crying, and picked up Rose into his arms. He softly sang her a song that he used to sing to Susan when she was baby. In no time at all Rose was asleep but she wasn't letting go of the Doctor's shirt.

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The doctor carried her the six hour walk back to her home and then knocked on the door of the flat.

"What the hell is it now?" came from the other side of the door before it was pulled open so hard it nearly came off its hinges. But when she saw Rose she ask frantically "What hell are you doing with ROSE?"

The Doctor took a step back and shielded Rose with his body from the tone of her voice alone, before answering, "My granddaughter found her on the outskirts of town and I was bring her back to what she said was her home." But didn't hand her over

"Well are you going to give me my daughter or do I have to call the cops and get them to make you give her back to me?" she ask in a tone and pitch of voice that world make the dead do as she said in that moment.

The Doctor gave Rose over carefully in the hopes that she doesn't wake up and told Jackie to have a good night and was about to leave when in a small voice, Jackie said thank you and that she was so concerned about her daughter not returning safely.

The next morning Jackie took the day off to spend some time with Rose after the scare to the both of them the day before. They planned to spend the day watching crappy TV and eating ice cream, but by lunchtime they decided to go shopping.