Disclaimer: I do not own Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman at all. Those belong to their respected owners. I am only using the known characters in this story. The ones that you don't recognize are those that I have created. In this chapter, the prologue, there are no DQMW characters, but this is a fanfic, so I put this disclaimer on anyway.

Carlotta Martiz stared at her children; she knew that she was very lucky; she had the perfect life, the life that she always wanted. She was so scared to move to America at first, it was so big. It was hard to adjust to a life where no one knows you and you don't even speak the language well. That was why she had her husband, the man of her dreams. Without him, she would be lost literally. He knew the language well and was the reason that she was here. She loved him deeply and they already have three beautiful girls together.

As she stared at her youngest child, her four month-old daughter and she thought about the secret that she kept, one that she was going to tell everyone tonight, she was pregnant. She was pregnant with their fourth child and she had a distinct feeling that this was going to be the son that Alejandro always wanted.

She felt a pull at her dress and looked down, her eyes warmed as she stared at her middle child. Alejandra was the quietest. She was also a good drawer. She would sit down and draw whatever came to her mind. Carlotta was surprised how realistic her drawings were. It was even more surprising, since she was only six.

Alejandra stared her mother with her wide brown eyes and smiled. She held out a picture and handed it to Carlotta.

"Para tú mama!" she exclaimed. Carlotta took the picture that was given to her and almost cried. The picture was of her whole family and was in so much detail that she almost thought it was real.

Right then, her oldest daughter stormed in the house all muddy and dirty. She was always excited and rambunctious. Carlotta loved her deeply. She looked up and gave her mother a smile. A smile that showed her gaps in her teeth. She ran to Carlotta and hugged her, bringing mud all over the floor and her dress.

"Mama, I'm sorry!" her eight year-old daughter Adrianna exclaimed and then took a frog from her pocket. Carlotta screamed as the frog jumped to her dress and then off to her youngest. The baby smiled and tried to go after the frog. As it jumped, the infant crawled after it, but the frog was too fast. It jumped away and out the backdoor.

Carlotta did not know much English, but she knew enough to tell to clean up.

"Querida, I want you to…to…." Carlotta tried to remember the word for limpio, but she could not remember it. Adrianna laughed at her mother.

"Do you mean clean?" she asked.

"Sí, sí." Carlotta smiled at her daughter and told her to go clean up.

She then took her infant daughter who was looking very sleepy. She knew that it was time that the four month old youngster went to sleep.

She carried the baby to her nursery and to the rocking chair. When she got into the chair, she started to breast feed her daughter.

There were times that Carlotta was unsure about this country. It had a double standard about what was right and wrong. They are trying to destroy the natives of this country, and are also destroying immigrants. She had tried so many times to be friendly with them, but stopped. As long as they were safe, Carlotta was happy. It was sad, but she could live with it.

Soon enough Carlotta heard the door open and then close. The steps were loud, as in a boot and also hurried. She put Isabel in her cradle, buttoned up her shirt, and walked into the main living area. There was Alejandro, who looked like he was beat up. He had taken Alejandra into his arms to cry to comfort her. She seemed to be crying, due to the big bruises on his face.

Alejandro went to Carlotta with a very fearful look on his face.

"I'm sorry querida, but we have to leave." Alejandro urgently said.

She did not know that much English, but she could tell when he was upset, and the word leave was salir in Spanish.

"What happened?" she asked scared.

"There are some angry people at my job." He said it slowly so that his wife could understand. She looked distressed, but he was not sure if she understood.

He decided to continue. "They came and attacked me. I got out, but they said that they had some friends who were going to destroy our family."

"Destroy our family?" That was something that she understood, and it scared her that she did.

They had to get out of there, there was no way out. Alejandra started to cry really hard, and would not stop, even when Alejandro rocked her.

Then all of the sudden she stopped. Alejandro looked at her and widened his eyes as she went limp. He put his hand on her head and screamed as he saw her blood in his hands.

Adrianna heard some screams and slowly went to see what was happening. She went to her special spot that no one knew about. She widened her eyes as she saw her whole family get murdered. Tears of anger fell as she saw it happen. It was so terrible that she could not even repeat it in her memory. She glared at one of the men, one that was wearing a uniform, a uniform like those that her father called a United States soldier. He had a pointed beard and a look of triumph as he murdered her family. They left soon enough, but exclaimed that they would come back to "ransack the house".

Adrianna ran to her family and cried. She looked at the naked body of her own mother and tried to cover her. After she found one of Isabel's blankets that were left, and covered her mother with it, she heard a voice. She froze, afraid that they were back. She looked around and then saw her father move very slowly.

"Papi?" she asked and saw him open his mouth slightly.

"Anna. I want you to go far away and to take Isabel." He said very weakly.

Tears fell from her face as she shook her head. She watched as he took his last breath and whispered, "I love you".

Adrianna then ran to Isabel's room and grabbed her, along with a couple blankets, food and toys of hers. She then ran out the back door, carrying her infant sister, the only family she had left….