When Lily met the Doctor

The sky was filled with German war planes, the air raid sirens where getting louder and ten year old Lily Martin was terrified, she was running through the dark streets of london and she could hear the sound of the bombs falling onto the ground. The little girl ducked into an alleyway as a crowd of people ran down to the air raid shelter but she was too terrified to come out of hiding, so she waited until they had all gone before she could move again, but just as she was about to run again, she felt a hand clamp down on her shoulder.

"You shouldn't be out here miss." Lily looked up and saw a police man standing next to her.

"Why haven't you been evactuated to the country?" he asked her "you shouldn't be out here. Come on, let's get you down to the shelter." The Policeman then held onto Lily's hand and the two of them ran down to the shelter just as a bomb hit the area where Lily had been hiding.

"Come on love, let's get you checked over." The policeman said as he sat Lily down onto one of the cots "now, can you tell me your name?"

"Lily martin" the child replied.

"Where are your parents Lily?" he asked her "did you get seperated from them?" Lily shook her head and said that she was an Orphan.

"Ok, so whya re you still in london and not in the country. Did you run away?" the officer asked her.

"My mummy told me to run and she was killed" Lily replied "I can't really remember anything else."

"Ok, well first thing tomorrow, we're going to sent you to the country, but I think it will be best if you stayed here tonight" he told her. Lily nodded and layed down on the cot, kicking her shoes off.

"Now you get some sleep" the officer told her "you look worn out." Lily nodded and closed her eyes. That was when the nightmares began, she had been having the same dream for quite sometime.

She was running down a strange hallway, holding onto a woman's handand they were being pursued by what looked like giant pepper pots with something that resembeled a sink plunger attached to it's front. The strange woman had pulled Lily into a room and knlet down to her level.

"Get out of here honey, save youself." The woman then pulled out a watch and handed it to her "you know what to do with this, it's the only thing that can save you, now get out of here." Lily then climbed into what looked like a playhouse before hearing a loud harsh cry of " EX-TER-MIN-ATE."

It was at that moment when Lily woke up, sweaty and gasping for breath. She looked around her and could tell that it was early morning so she swung her legs over the edge of the cot, put her shoes back on and crept towards the exit. As she poked her head out, she could see all the rubble and destruction from the night before, but it seemed like no German war planes were flying up in the skies, so Lily stepped out of the shelter and ran down the street.

"So where are we going now?" Amy asked the Doctor as he set the controls for their next destination.

"I thought we'll take a trip to London, 1941, world war 2" he replied.

"Didn't we go there before, when we encountered the Daleks?" Amy asked "what is it for this time?"

"I jut fancied going to that time period, just have to avoid the bombs though, ah ha, I think we've landed." The Doctor took his hands of the controls and turned to Amy.

"Ok, go and get Rory and tell him we've landed." Amy then ran into further into the Tardis and she re-appeared five minutes later, accompanied by Rory.

"So, where have we landed then?" he asked.

"London, 1941" the Doctor replied "come on then, let's go out." He dashed to the doors and opened the doors to London during the second world war.

"Doctor, is there a reason why you chose to come here or did you just come here because you wanted to?" Amy asked as they stepped outside.

"No reason, just fancied it" the doctor replied with a grin "but if the bombs start falling then we head straight back to the Tardis." Suddenly, they saw a small girl running into a nearby alleyway so they decided to investigate.

"That's strange" the Doctor said "it's 1941 and that girl should have been evacuated to the country by now."

"Maybe she's a run away" Amy pointed out "I learnt about world war 2 in school and some evacuees did run away because the people they stayed with were possibly mistreating them."

"That is a good explanation pond" the Doctor replied. They arrived at the alleyway to where the little girl had run into to and they found her sat up against a wall with her knees pulled up to her face, she appeared to be round about ten years old.

"What's the matter with her?" Amy asked "she seems upset."

"I'll go and find out" the Doctor said before walking over to the girl. When he came up to the girl, he crouched down in front of her and put his hnad on her shoulder.

"Are you ok?" he asked. The girl lifted her head up and he saw that her face was dirty and her eyes were red from crying, she let out a terrified gasp, stood up and ran away, but she tripped up and sprained her ankle in the process. The Doctor, Amy and Rory came rushing towards her.

"It's ok, I'm not going to hurt you" the Doctor reassured her as she tried to crawl away.

"Who are you?" the girl asked, a hint of fear in her voice.

"I'm the Doctor and this is Amy and Rory" the Doctor replied "you don't have to be scared." The girl then sat up and allowed the doctor to come towards her.

"Mind if I take a look at that ankle?" he asked. The girl nodded so he kneeled down, pulled out a weird silver stick thing and waved it over her sprained ankle as a green light emitted from the end of it, making a strange whirring noise.

"It's just a sprain, but it's not broken" he told her "so, what's your name then?"

"Lily Martin" she replied.

"Ok, where are your parents?" the Doctor asked.

"They're dead" Lily replied "I live on the streets, I've got no home to go to."

"Well that simply won't do" the Doctor said "we can't have a child of your age out here all alone with this war, especially an injured child, well don't you worry because the three of us are going to look after you, that's if you want us to." Lily looked at the Doctor, then at Amy and Rory and realized that they looked like friendly people and she didn't have anyone else who would help her.

"Ok" she replied "only because I trust you." The Doctor then lifted Lily from the ground and carried her back to the Tardis. When the four of them arrived back, the Doctor took Lily to the medical room and put her sprained ankle in a bandage.

"Now, you get that ankle rested up and it should be right as rain in a few days" he said. Lily smiled and layed down on the bed.

"You going to take a nap?" the Doctor asked.

"Yeah" Lily replied. She then closed her eyes and the Doctor slowly crept out of the medical room. A few hours later, The Doctor, Amy and Rory where sat in the control room when they heard a terrified scream coming from the medical room so the three of them rushed down there to see Lily sat up on the bed, terrified.

"What's wrong?" the Doctor asked as he rushed towards her "is everything ok?"

"Bad dream, nightmare, really scared" Lily yelled.

"Ok, slow down, you had a bad dream?" the Doctor asked. Lily nodded and used the sleeve of her cardigan to wipe her eyes.

"What happened?" he asked her. Lily then began to tell him how she was running down a hallway with a woman and how they were both being chased by giant pepperpots.

"And how long have you been having his dream?" the Doctor asked.

"I don't know, but it doesn't seem like a dream, it's more like a memory" Lily replied "and this keeps appearing in my dream." Lily then pulled out a watch and handed it to the Doctor. When he took a good look at it, he was shocked as the watch that Lily had handed to him, was a Fob watch.