Amelia Pond jolted awake with a scream.

"Mommy!" she cried, tears rolling down her cheeks. "Mom, Rory, help! They're going to get me! Don't let them get me!"

"Its too late kid," said a voice to her right. "they already got you, and no one, especially not your Mommy, is going to rescue you."

Amelia opened her eyes and looked over to the voice with tears in her eyes. She was in a small white room with a set of metal bars that cut straight down the middle. On the other side of the bars, a girl who looked to be about eleven or twelve with frizzy black hair, starched white clothes and a knowing smirk was leaning over and regarding her with a look of boredom mingled with curiosity.

"W-what do you mean?" Amelia whispered. "Where am I?"

"Isn't it obvious?" The girl sighed dramatically. "You're in the Specimen holding block of the Science division of the Silence division of the Alliance headquarters."

"What?!" Amelia asked, more confused by the strange girls flippant tone and quick manner of speaking than the unfamiliar words she used.

"Not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you?" The girl rolled her eyes. "What's the last thing you remember?"

"I-I was playing with Rory in the front yard, and he hurt his knee, so my Mom took him inside to get a band-aid, and then, a-and then-" her voice shook as she remembered the next part. "I was all alone in the front yard, and these really scary looking men came up in a van and grabbed me and put something in my arm and I fell asleep!"

"Yeah, they tranqed you." The girl informed her matter-of-factly. "Don't worry, they do it to everyone they bring in. There shouldn't be any major side effects, but I wouldn't try standing up for a while."

"But, why? Why did they take me? Why am I here?" Amelia sniffled, trying to hold back more tears as the girl sneered at her teary questions.

She missed her parents, and she missed Rory, and she just wanted to go home! Away from the tiny cell, scary men, and unsettling girl who was now staring at her with a look of pity and condescension.

"Cause they need a new guinea pig for Dr. Gillyflower's experiments, duh!" She said with a yawn. "My names Melody by the way, but you can call me Mels." She scowled as Amelia failed to respond, clearly shell-shocked from her tactless explanation. "Well, don't be rude, you crybaby. tell me what your name is!" She demanded haughtily.

"...Amelia Pond." Amelia responded quietly, cheeks burning from Mels' insult. "And I don't want to be here! I want to go home!" She gave up on her losing battle of maintaining her composure and started to cry again.

"Oh quit yer whining, Amy, -can I call you Amy? I'm gonna call you Amy, Amelia is too much of a mouthful- At least you had a real life, and a family. Probably in Scotland, right? You sound Scottish. Certainly not from around here anyway..." Mels trailed off thoughtfully as she lost her train of thought and looked at the newly renamed 'Amy' expectantly.

"..Oh, um, we used to live in Scotland, but we moved to England last year for my dads work. I didn't like moving very much, but now I really don't like it!" Amy said with a shiver as she looked around the unnaturally white space.

Mels nodded. "Yeah, I thought so..." Suddenly her eyes flashed and she shook herself as if to clear her head. "Anyway, the point is, 'boo hoo,' poor little Amelia Pond from Scotland." she spat venomously, her mood changing from curious to livid in a heartbeat. "Compared to me, your life is a god damn Fairytale!" she ignored Amy's scandalized gasp at her cussing and continued to rant, her voice shaking with anger. "I was born in this hell-hole. I've been raised to be a living weapon, and I don't even know what my own mother looks like. you have no reason to be upset about anything!"

Amy gaped at her cell mate in shock. Unable to process the overwhelming amount of information Mels had just spewed at her, she blurted out the first question that came to her mind. "How can you not know who your mother is?"

"They tried to tell me that my mother didn't want me and I was 'abandoned as an infant'," Mels scowled as she made air-quotes with her scarred hands. "but I know they're lying."

"How?"

"Cause they lie about everything! They just want me to think I'm unwanted and unloved so they can manipulate me into thinking they're the 'good guys' or something equally stupid. Besides, Ada told me the truth years ago."

"Ada?"

"Yeah, Ada. You'll meet her soon, its almost lunchtime. I'm sure you'll love her. Ada's the only person in this place who's outside of a freaking cage and actually has a soul. She's pretty much the only good thing in my life. Well, besides you."

"Me?!" Amy said in surprise. A moment ago Mels had seemed to hate her!

"Yeah, you." Mels regarded the younger girl thoughtfully. her earlier outburst long forgotten. "I haven't been around someone close to my own age in forever! Amelia Pond, the girl who's been torn out of her fairytale, and landed in my nightmare...I do believe you and I are going to be the best of friends!" she smiled, plump lips pulling wide over her straight white teeth. Amy had a feeling that the smile Mels was giving her would have made the Cheshire cat proud...

So, this is an all human Doctor Who AU, very Amy and River Centric...

I'm going to be squishing a number of Doctor Who villains together into 1 big bad organization, including ones who never actually met Amy or River, (*cough* Mrs Gillyflower *cough*) but this is my fic and... *does bad Loki impression* "I DO WHAT I WANT!"

since the villains main goal can no longer be to destroy an all powerful time travelling alien called The Doctor, I'm going to have to figure out exactly what The Silence is training River for, other than basic world domination. (I'm open to suggestions, since I have the basic idea planned out but no specifics yet)

The Doctor isn't going to appear till the very end od this story, but I'm planning to make a sequel that revolves around the Doctor more (I'm also considering making him have Multiple Personality Disorder, since he'll just be a regular human like everyone else, but I just can't imagine making him too normal...what do you think?)

as you can see, I've changed Amy and Rivers relationship rather drastically, but they never really had a normal Mother/Daughter bond anyway, so in this fic they'll be more like adoptive sisters.

I hope River, (or Mels, as she's currently being called) is ok, I'm trying to make it obvious that she's unstable. I mean, she is psychopath after all, and besides Rivers always seemed to have pretty major mood swings, enjoyed being a disrespectful delinquent (even as Mels the kid) and been far too blasé about violence due to her upbringing. obviously she also doesn't have to greatest social skills at the moment, but that will happen when you've been locked in a lab for 10 years. anyway, i hope it worked, you can tell she's brilliant, and she's not off-putting or anything...

Hope Amy's ok as well, I know she's not very fiesty right now, but she's still just a kid, and pretty shell-shocked at the moment.

Sorry about the swearing, I don't normally use cuss words in my fics, but I wanted to show how River has had to grow up too fast...

I hope to update soon, and have a much shorter Authors note/longer chapter!

I don't own Doctor Who or any of its characters, and please review!