A/N In this alternate universe Martha Jones, Amy Pond, and Rose Tyler are eight years old and are orphans. Martha is the oldest by a few months, followed by Rose and then Amy. The Doctor is David Tennants version but this is his last regeneration. This also doesn't follow any official canon, in fact it's a total alternate universe. This is also a short story as I don't plan on it being super long. Think of it as a form of mini series or a series of drabbles. Also this is a heavy Martha - Centric fic.

Prologue

Beacon House Orphanage

1993

Night

"Ewww, Kill it Martha, kill it!" a pretty little blond girl yelled as she and a red headed little girl jumped up and down on a twin sized bed. Both of them were wearing night gowns and they held onto each other as they jumped.

"It's just a little spider." Martha said quietly as she bent down and picked it up off of the floor. "See look." she went on as she cupped up her hands to show them.

"No, I don't want to see it!" Rose cried out. "Just kill it, Martha."

With a shake of her head, Martha walked over to the open window and let the spider crawl outside. Happy that the pest was gone, the two girls bounced down on the bed and started laughing. Hearing the door creak open, the girls scrambled to get to their beds but were caught as Matron Mother River Song walked into the room.

As her blueish- green eyes scanned the room, she saw that her only wards were staring back at her with fearful eyes. Ever since she had taken the three orphans in two years ago she had always been hard on them, especially Martha. She seemed to be the leader of the bunch and she had always took responsibility for what the other two had done.

Letting out a sigh, she knew that tonight would be different. Tonight would be the last night that she would ever see them. "Girls." she started calmly as she walked forward, running a hand through her curly hair. "Didn't I tell you it was time to go to bed?"

"Yes, mother Song." the girls said together as they shook at her approach. She had never beat them or anything of that nature, she just yelled at them a lot.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to yell at you for disobeying me." she replied as she sat down on Martha's bed. "Now you two lay down, I need to talk to Martha." as she said that she patted on a spot beside herself, which Martha reluctantly took. Seeing that the other two girls were getting settled in, River looked at Martha with all the seriousness in the world before giving her a soft smile. "You're always going to play a little ring leader to those two aren't you?"

"There was a spider in the room and..."

"I wasn't talking about why you three were up." River cut her off. "I was just talking about watching out for them in general. Why do you always do that?"

"I've always looked after them." Martha replied as her beautiful brown eyes fell to the floor. "We're all we've got."

"You feel responsible for them then?" River asked as she took a finger and looked deep into the little child's eyes. As she nodded, River grinned. "Then I want you to be responsible for one more thing."

Taking a silver chain off of her neck, Martha saw that at the end of it hung a key. It looked like an everyday ordinary house key, but as her eyes fell on it, little Martha knew that there was something more to it than met the eye.

"What... what is it for?" Martha dared to ask as Mother Song placed the chain around her neck.

"It's for a magical blue box." River replied with a big smile as un-shed tears started to form in her eyes. "A blue box that'll take you to beautiful places. Places all through out time." Trying to gauge if River were off her rocker or not, Martha eyed the older woman as she stood to her feet. "Well, I've fulfilled my obligations." River said as she cleared her throat. "I want you to make me two promises Martha. You make sure to watch after your sisters and to keep that key with you at all times."

"I... I promise." Martha replied nervously as River leaned down and gave her a lingering kiss on the forehead.

"Good." River said as she choked up a bit. "Goodbye, Martha."

"I'll see you in the morning Mother Song." Martha told her as River's back went stiff. Not saying another word River walked out of the room.

Not fully understanding what was going on, Martha looked down at the key she was given one last time before she laid back on her bed. Seeing that her sisters were fast asleep, she decided to join them. As she started to drift off a titanic boom, sounded through the air that made her, Amy, and Rose sit up with a start.

"What was that?" Rose asked as she and Amy got out of their beds. Feeling that the sound was coming from outside, they looked out of the window and gasped.

Jumping out of her bed herself, Martha nudged them to the side and her eyes widened as she saw a big blue box laying on it's side with smoke coming out of it. Looking down at the key that Mother Song had given her, she tightly clutched it in her hand, just as a white male popped his head out of the box and looked into their direction.