The Child of Time

by roseannacharlotte

My name is Harmony Williams. THEY insist on calling me Jessica Adams and make me call THEM 'father' and 'mother'. THEY aren't my parents though. I know they're not. I'm not sure how I know it though. I just do. I think my real mother is one of the prisoners here. I think that is why I live with the warden and his wife. I HATE THEM. One day I'll escape and find my family.

1. Child of the Storm Cage

Child of the Storm Cage

There was only ever one child born to a prisoner of Storm Cage; the highest security prison in the universe. The child's mother was the most notorious of all those behind the prison's bars. River Song had a habit of breaking out of the prison to have adventures with the man whose murder she had been incarcerated for. Sometimes her parents joined them. On one of River's adventures with her not really dead time travelling husband, the infamous prisoner fell pregnant. Nine months later, after the baby was born, River's memory was wiped. She had no idea that she was a mother. The warden raised the child as his. But this was no ordinary child. Her mother was the child of the Tardis and her father was the last of the Timelords, sometimes known as the Oncoming Storm. This was the Child of Time.

My name is Harmony Williams.THEY insist on calling me Jessica Adams and make me call THEM 'father' and 'mother'.THEY aren't my parents though.I know they're not.I'm not sure how I know it though.I just do. I think my real mother is one of the prisoners here.I think that is why I live with the warden and his wife.I HATE THEM.One day I'll escape and find my family.My REAL family!

"Jessica Adams! Pay attention!" the school teacher's voice was firm. Harmony sighed and pulled her eyes away from the roses outside the window. She had been sure the roses were trying to tell her something but that was silly. How could roses tell anyone anything? Feeling inexplicably sad Harmony struggled to concentrate on her lessons. Suddenly Harmony threw down her pen. She stood up and walked out the room refusing to return. The warden was very angry when she got to the place he called home.

"Jessica Adams!" he started, but before he could go any further Harmony interrupted him.

"Don't call me that! I hate that name! It isn't mine! My name is Harmony Williams and I. AM. NOT. YOUR. DAUGHTER!" Jacob Adams stared at his adopted daughter in astonishment. How did the ungrateful brat know the name her mother had given her before they took the girl away? No one knew other than Jacob himself and he certainly hadn't told her. Angrily, the warden went to remove his belt but halted in confusion as the child of the storm cage began to glow then seemed to fade away before his eyes. By the time Jacob had recovered his wits, Harmony Williams was gone.