Lorna Bucket was just doing her job. Well, at least she tried.
The Silence had given her a job to do, but she wasn't doing this for them; she was doing this for Amy, a woman she didn't even know, but when Amy had asked her to take care of her baby, Melody, to make sure that they didn't hurt her, she had said, of course.
Lorna hadn't wanted to see Melody get taken away from her mother, but this was the only way to protect her from the silence.
So as she held baby melody in her arms, she looked down at her face from time to time, and remembered her promise that she would keep this baby save, even if it cost her own life.
She had persuaded The Silence to give her the job of taking the baby to the orphanage. She was never going to take her to that horrible place; she had given her word to Amy and wasn't ever going to break it.
As she was running she heard a familiar wheezing sound. The sound was different from the sound she remembered but it was still the same. The wheezing was coming from the junk yard a few feet away.
She would take melody to the Doctor; he would take care of her she knew he would. So she ran. She ran even faster than she was running before (As fast as someone can run with a baby in their arms).
She looked at the sign on the door, '76, Totter's lane'
When she got closer to the sound, she could hear voices.
"Grandfather, where are we?" Said a young girl, from inside.
"It seems as though we have landed in a junk yard," A male voice answered.
Lorna walked through the doors and into the junkyard. She was exhausted; she had run all the way here.
The old man looked surprised at her sudden entre, but did not go back inside.
"Doctor?" She asked,
"Who are you? What do you want?" He asked as a girl with short dark hair came out of the box.
She gave us a questioning look, but remained silent.
"Who I am is not important," Lorna said as she turned the baby so they could see her. "Who she is, is important; because I want you to protect her"
"Us? You barely know us, and you want us to watch your child?"
"She isn't my daughter," Lorna stated, slightly annoyed, "And you aren't strangers to me, I have met you before." She looked around "Please. I need her to be safe. I made a promise to her mother." She said with pleading eyes.
Susan looked at her grandfather, silently asking if it was ok. He nodded warily, still looking at Lorna. Susan gently took the baby from Lorna and asked what had happened.
"Ok, but I think I'm being followed so it has to be quick." She paused and looked around again "Her name is Melody Pond; she was stolen at birth by a group of people called the Silence. They wanted me to take her somewhere to be raised as a weapon. Her mother and I met and we didn't want that to happen so we made up a plan, to take her somewhere safe. And that safe place is with you Doctor" she finished, a little out of breath.
"Please keep her safe" She said as she ran back into the night, hoping she did the right thing.