Chapter 2

"Doctor!" the girl cried out. She bolted upright in bed and she looked around her bed. She had been changed into an old-fashioned night gown and she was in some sort of infirmary.

"Calm down. You are safe here. I am the Matron, Nurse Redfern. Do you know your name?" a 40-year old brunette walked up to her bed and rested a comforting hand on the younger girl's arm.

"Where am I?" the girl asked, ignoring the question directed at her.

"You are at the school. The Headmaster found you down an alley unconscious. Something happened and you stopped breathing for a while, do you remember what?" Matron asked, kindly.

"I remember, my name. It's, it's Rose. But that's all. I don't remember anything else. Oh god!" Rose gasped, sobbing into her hands.

"It's OK. I'll help you remember. Calm down. Now, you are at the school, I could try to get some work for you but I don't know what it will be. It could be anything from a housemaid to a teacher, understand?" the Matron asked, resting a hand on Rose's arm. Rose nodded, not trusting her voice. "OK, I have to go see the Headmaster, try to rest some more. I will be back later." the older woman walked out the door, shutting it behind her. Rose let out a sigh as she slumped back down in bed. Where was she? She had lied, she did remember her past. She was walking with Tony, her little brother, and their mother. She had seen a flash of gold light then just the darkness surrounding her. Then she woke up here. She had to find out where and when she was. And which world.


Martha and her maid friend, Jenny were sitting on the floor, scrubbing. 'Once this is over, I can go back to the TARDIS' Martha thought as she listened to Jenny's gossip.

"Martha, did you hear? There's a new girl. The Headmaster found her down an alley, unconscious. No memory, poor girl." Jenny said, glancing over at her new friend.

"No I didn't know that. Wonder what is going to happen to her?" Martha said, faking interest.

"I also heard that the Headmaster was going to put her under the care of one of us maids. The girl was practically begging for a job here at the school. Obviously was scared cause she had no-where to go." Jenny said, breathing slightly heavy as she put some elbow grease into her scrubbing.

"Do you know her name?" Martha asked, her curiousity sparked.

Before Jenny could answer, the Headmaster walked up to the two girls and said, "Jones. I have a job for you. I found a young girl in the alley with no memory, she asked for work and I offered her the only position available. As a maid. She will be helping you do your work for a week while she gets settled then she will be assigned her permanent post but until then, you have to show her around and tell her the rules. You are responsible for her. If she breaks a rule, you both get punished. Understood?"

"Yes, sir." Martha said, curtsying. Martha inwardly groaned. Another person to tease her about her skin.

"Very well." the Headmaster walked off, leaving behind a young woman with blonde hair pulled back into a hasty bun to keep hair out of her hazel eyes.

"Hello there. I'm Jenny and this is Martha. You'll be working with Martha for a while until you get your own chores." Jenny said, standing up and shaking the girl's hand.

"Hello Jenny, Martha. I'm Rose." Rose said, inwardly groaning about doing chores.

Martha stifled a gasp. 'The Doctor's Rose? Impossible. Must be a coincidence'. Martha smiled as normally as she could and reached her hand out saying, "Nice to meet you Rose. From what I heard, you don't remember anything?"

Rose shook Martha's hand without reacting to the colour of it and said, "Just my name. Don't remember anything else."

"Oh, well. Maybe it'll all come back to you eventually." Jenny said, smiling cheerfully. "Do you want to start straight away? Or have you not eaten yet?"

"I think the Headmaster wanted me to get to work straight away. Besides, the Matron insisted I eat before even leaving my bed." Rose said, smiling.

"OK. At the moment we got to scrub this floor, then we got to dust the trophy room." Jenny said, steering Rose towards the bucket and cloths.

John Smith walked past the three girls as Jenny was showing Rose what to do. Martha smiled up at him and said, "Good morning sir."

"Good morning Martha." he replied, before going up the stairs. When Rose heard his voice, she glanced up only to see Martha looking back down at the bucket and a teacher walking up the stairs behind them. She mentally shrugged, ignoring the feeling of disappointment. 'Must've been imagining things, I could've sworn I just heard the Doctor say something.' She thought.


John Smith was walking from his previous class to his office with a few books in his arms, constricting his view. He didn't see the Matron in the way until he hit her gently and the top two books fell off.

"Oh my. I am sorry." She said, turning around. "Here let me get it for you." she bent down and picked the two books up.

She straightened to see John smiling slightly at her, "It was my fault. Thank you."

"Here, how about we split the load? I'll carry half." she said, taking the top half of the books. "Well, Mr. Smith. Are these books going anywhere in particular?"

John seemed lost for words. "ahh, yes. Right. Umm, this way." he continued walking in the direction he had been going in, with the Matron walking in front of him. "How is Jenkins?" he asked, slightly worried about a boy from his class.

"Oh, fine. Just a slight cold. Missing his mum more than anything. He got a letter this morning, seemed a lot happier." She said, smiling at John.

Again he seemed lost for words. "That's good. Thank you for checking him out."

"Well, that's my job as Matron." She said, laughing slightly.

"Thank you Matron." he said still slightly lost for words.

"You're welcome. Although, when it is just you and me, I would prefer Nurse Redfern, or even Joan, Mr. Smith. That is my name after all." she said, stopping in front of the billboard in the corner.

"Of course. You can call me John, if you want." he was stuttering, still lost for words.

"John," she said smiling, "Have you seen this?" she pointed to a notice on the board, "It's the village dance. it's going to be held in a couple of days. Shame I wont be going, no-one has asked me."

John was lost for words, he stuttered, "I-I don't kn-know. I-I'm sure a woman, l-like yourself wo-would ha-have someone who w-wanted to ta-take y-you, I-I mean..."

"Stairs!" Joan said, amused at his awkwardness.

"W-what?" John was still stuttering.

"Stairs!" Joan tried to grab John as he tumbled backwards, down the stairs. the books and papers flew everywhere as Joan watched John roll down the stairs, hitting his head a few times.


Martha burst into the room, "Is he alright?" she had heard about John's tumble down the stairs and had to see if he was alright. After leaving Rose with Jenny, she had sprinted to his room. To find Matron doing something to his head.

"Martha, you should not enter someone's study without knocking first." the Matron said, in a shocked voice.

Martha turned around and walked back to the door. She knocked then walked back up to John and Matron. She then said, "Better? Is he alright?"

"Yes, fine. Just a bump." Matron said, letting annoyance creep into her voice.

"But have you checked for a concussion?" Martha said, temporarily forgetting she wasn't a medical student here and that she was a maid.

"Yes, and I am sure I know more about it then you." Matron said, glaring at Martha for a second.

"Right, sorry." Martha said, panicking at her slip. "I'll just tidy your things then." she said, picking up some books and putting them away. She continued cleaning while listening to the conversation between John and the Matron.

Matron saw a book on the desk and said, "What's this about?" she picked it up and read the cover out loud. "The Journal Of Impossible Things." she raised an eyebrow and looked at John.

"Oh that. I-I wrote that. It's just ideas and things from my dreams." John said, blushing slightly. He smiled and shook his head. "It's silly but I dream I am this madman. And I travel through time and space. Another thing is that I dream I am an alien with two hearts."

"Well, I can be the judge of that." Matron said, picking her stethoscope up and listening to his heart beat. "See, one heart. Just like the rest of us."

"Of course. They're just dreams. But the funny things is, in my dreams, I am hiding. From these aliens. It's interesting. Anyway, I wrote them down in there. You're welcome to read it if you want. I mean, they aren't that good."

"I would love to read it. I will bring it back to you when I have finished, is that OK?" Matron asked. The pair of them were getting caught up in their own little bubble, oblivious to Martha who was now standing there, staring.

John seemed to wake up from the daze he was in and said flustered, "Sure, sure. I best be off, got to get to my next class. Matron. Martha."


Rose sighed. Martha had suddenly left Rose with Jenny to finish dusting the trophy room and now Rose had no idea what to do. They had finished some time ago and Jenny was on her way to continue her chores. Rose didn't know if she should go with Jenny or go find Martha.

"Well, Martha must be held up somewhere, do you want to come help me or go find her?" Jenny asked Rose in her cheerful manner.

Before Rose could answer, she heard Martha call out, "Rose! Over here!"

Rose turned to see a door open and Martha waving her over. "Sorry Jenny. Martha is just there and is calling me. I'll see you around, yeah?"

"Yeah. Have fun." Jenny said walking down the corridor and around a corner.

"Martha, where'd you go?" Rose asked, walking up to her.

"I had to check something out. Did you finish the trophy room?" Martha asked, slightly annoyed at the Matron from before.

"Yeah, what do we have to do now?" Rose asked. She was wondering about what could've happened to cause Martha to change from being cheerful and friendly to a grouch.

"Well, we can have a break for lunch then we have to help the Matron tidy up the infirmary." Martha said, leading Rose away from the room she was just in and down the corridor.


"Here we go. Drinks all around." Jenny said, putting down a tray with three drinks on it.

"Thank you Jenny." Rose said politely.

"Thanks Jenny." Martha said. She picked up one of the glasses of beer and went on to say, "I can't wait till I'm back to traveling."

"Traveling?" Rose asked, picking up the glass of water that she had asked for.

"Oh yes. She's going to go traveling up there in the stars." Jenny said, clearly not believing what Martha had said.

"I am going to travel. Up in the sky. I'm going to see all kinds of things. I wish I could tell you both." Martha said.

Rose looked up at the sky with hidden longing as she said, "Do you think I could come with you? I would love to travel."

"I dunno. It's not really up to me who comes and all but I could see. Just a couple more weeks." Martha said, gazing up at the stars. Just then a flash of green light appeared high in the sky. It fell down from the sky towards the Earth.

"Look at that, a meteorite." Rose said, smiling.

"Wow. It's beautiful." Jenny said. Martha remained silent. She was silently thinking, 'Oh no! That looked like the Family's spaceship.' "Martha? Did you see it?"

"Yeah, where do you reckon it landed?" Martha asked, fear making her sound breathless.

"It seemed that close but really, it landed miles away. It's probably only a little rock by now, burned up in the atmosphere." Rose said, not thinking.

"How would you know?" Jenny asked, amused.

"I don't know." Rose said, hiding panic at her slip. "I suppose, I could've learnt it before I woke up here. I don't remember." she was getting a feeling she would be saying 'I don't remember' quite a bit these next few days.

"Oh well, I'm going to go inside, it's freezing." Jenny said, finishing her drink.

"Same, you coming Martha?" Rose asked. She had only just met these two but already Rose felt like they had been best friends for ages. Rose gulped the last of her water down and stood up.

"Yeah, I'm coming." Martha took one last look up at the sky before following her two friends inside.

Author's Note: There's the next chapter. I will hopefully be putting up the chapters more quickly now that I am in the holidays and I am sorry for the delay with this one but my Internet stuffed up. Now, please click that little review button that will take all of 2 minutes max to write a few words in a review and then to click send. :-)