The institute -10 years after Rose and the Doctor left

Annalise looked up and down the corridor ensuring that matron and her pet were nowhere to be seen, if she was caught then the punishment would be much worse than the usual beatings. She shuddered at the thought of what matron would do to her if she discovered Annalise in her office uninvited. She snuck in through the door and began to search through the drawers behind matron's large desk, she needed to find her file rapidly before matron returned. She had to find her file, Annalise was sick of matron and the other staff members telling her she was a nobody. She knew she must have come from somewhere, she understood the basics of biology and she wanted to know who her parents were.

As she moved from the drawers to the filing cabinet Annalise hit the jackpot, there was a drawer full of files ordered alphabetically and she didn't have to search for long until she found her own name. She pulled the file out and opened it on the desk. A quick scan of the information in there revealed a little. Her parents had been travellers who had come to the institute by accident, her mother was a human named Rose and her father didn't appear to have a name, he was simply referred to as the Doctor. Rose frowned as she read that he was a Time Lord, she was sure that her history teacher had said they were extinct, that they all died in a war with the Daleks. Maybe matron had made a mistake. In the front pocket of the file was a photograph, Annalise assumed the woman in the picture was her mother, a lock of blonde hair in a small silver locket and a coin. As she held the locket she heard matron's unmistakeable tones drifting down the corridor towards her. Her heart begin to race, she needed to get out of there fast. Piling all the notes back into the folder she pocketed the items, and stuffed the folder back into the gap in the filing cabinet drawer, she was glad that the folders looked dusty, hopefully matron would never notice the missing items. She left the room and leant as casually as possible against the wall next to the door just as matron rounded the corridor.

"Annalise, what are you doing here? Should you not be in training?!" Matron barked.

"No, Ma'am" Annalise replied.

"Then what are you doing?" Matron repeated her patience rapidly running out with the girl.

"Nothing Ma'am" Annalise said looking down at the floor.

"Then get out of my sight!" Matron ordered. Annalise turned and walked smartly away from matron as quickly as possible. Matron cast a wary eye over her as she walked away, although she was only 10 that girl was too clever for her own good. She asked far too many questions and had to be disciplined far too frequently. Matron thought it might be time for a big shock in order to try and bring the girl in line, she summoned Jordullian to her office.

Annalise didn't slow her pace until she had reached her room, once there she buried her pocketed items into the cardboard box on the floor containing her clothes, then she flopped onto the bed. Her heart was still racing as she lay there and contemplated the information she had just found out, slowly she drifted off to sleep dreaming of a different life, a life where she wasn't stuck in this dreary dank institute, but instead lived in a pretty little house with her mother and father.

Annalise was rudely awoken from her dreams by a rough hand grabbing her round the neck. It was Jordullian, matron's pet thug. She tried to remember her combat training but he was cutting off her airway making it difficult to concentrate. His huge ugly face began to swim in front of her as she began to pass out. Suddenly she was in the floor again gasping for breath. Before she could recover Jordullian kicked her in the ribs, he did it again and again until Annalise curled into a foetal position. This was the first of many times Annalise would find herself in this position over the next five years, no matter the number of beatings she just couldn't keep her mouth shut. Jordullian leant down next to her and whispered into her ear.

"Next time don't be so insolent you stupid little rat."

5 Years Later-the day our story began-The Institute

Annalise ran faster than she had ever run before. Even for her booby trapping matron's office had been risky, but she was sick of the way matron treated her. She was mainly sick of repeatedly being told no one cared for her, especially when Annalise was sure that her parents would never have forgotten her. She had placed a bucket of ice water and flour on the top of the door and then hidden round the corner waiting for matron. It had been hilarious to see matron floundering about like a floury snowman, hilarious until Jordullian had come up behind her and dragged her towards matron. Annalise had only just escaped and now she was running, running as fast as she could, she needed somewhere to hide...quickly.

She turned down the corridor towards the laundry room but as she reached the door she heard Jordullian's footsteps round the corner, her heart sank, she was trapped. Jordullian began to lay into her with more vengeance than he ever had before, kicking and punching and throwing her around like a ragdoll. As the pain ripped through her she thought of her parents and how this would never happen if they were there, she wished so hard that they would rescue her, she wanted it more than anything in the whole world, she wanted it so much her heart hurt. Suddenly there was a golden glow behind her eyelids and she screamed in pain as her world went dark.