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Clara was returning home after a long trip in the TARDIS with the Doctor. A lot of time had passed for her, but no time had passed for anyone else on Earth. It was always like that, but she loved traveling with the Doctor. It gave her a whole new outlook on life.

Clara was walking home to her apartment, when she saw a little girl sleeping in the alleyway by her apartment. She was confused. 'What's a little girl doing all alone out in the cold?' She thought.

"Excuse me, little girl." Clara called out to the kid as she ran over to the little girl.

The small child rubbed her eyes sleepily as she looked up at the woman. She didn't say anything. She just blinked her big sea blue eyes. Her messy brown, outgrown bangs covering her eyes.

"Whatcha doing sleeping out here all alone, sweetheart? Where's your mummy and daddy?" Clara asked

The little girl just shrugged her shoulders.

"Well let's start with names. I'm Clara." Clara introduced, "What's your name?"

"Ginny." The little girl stated

Clara nodded, "It's nice to meet you. Now what do you say we get inside where it's warm. Would you like to come home with me?"

Ginny gave a nod. She hadn't had a happy home or family in a long time. She could barely remember her daddy, and her mommy wasn always drunk now.

"Alright then. Come on." Clara said as she extended her hand out to help the little girl up.

Ginny put her arms up, "Could you carry me please?"

"Yeah. I think I could manage that." Clara informed the small girl as she picked her up.

Ginny was small for her age. She was ten years old, but she was the size of a seven year old at 4'7 and only weighing 44 pounds.

As Clara laid down in bed with the sleeping little girl laying beside her, she watched the child sleep as she wondered where this child came from and where her parents were. She couldn't help but think about what kind of parents that this child had. How could this young child be out and about at night and she's not worried about getting home to her parents? Instead she's found sleeping on a stranger's doorstep. How does that make sense?

Just as Clara is falling asleep, she hears a rapping on her front door. 'Who is at my door at this hour?' She thought as she climbed out of bed.

Clara headed downstairs and opened the door to find The Doctor looking dishelved, with his clothes torn, soaked, and fire ashes in his hair. She furrowed her eyebrows at his appearance.

"Is she here?" The Doctor asked through shivers with his arms crossed across his chest, trying to keep warm.

Clara looked at him, "Is who here?"

"Ginny...the little girl...Is she here?" The Doctor wondered

"She's asleep upstairs." Clara replied, "Is she important?"

The Doctor pushed his way into Clara's house, "Oh Clara, Clara, she is so very important. I rescued her from her home planet and was taking her to the planet Altraxis, and then she disappeared from my TARDIS."

"She's not human?" Clara inquired, "But she looks human."

"So do I." The Doctor added, "I really need to get Ginny to Altraxis, so I'm just going to go wake her up."

Clara grabbed The Doctor's arm, "Wait? Doctor? Just let her sleep until the morning."

"She can sleep in the TARDIS."

The Doctor goes upstairs and then comes back down carrying a sleeping Ginny. He was planning on waking her up, but seeing her sleeping he just couldn't bring himself to do it.

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