Chapter 2

Rose and the Doctor sat silently by the control panel, both there heads were filled with questions for the little girl, why was she there? who was she? How long had she been there for? Rose had been biting her lip for a while now; the Doctor had asked her to stop every now and then because it looked 'really painful' but other than that neither Rose nor the Doctor spoke much at all.

"Do you think she will speak, you know about what happened there?" asked Rose

"Maybe...then again, maybe not" the Doctor replied "All I know is that she needs to be back to wherever she comes from"

"Is that such a good idea though? I mean perhaps the reason she was on that planet was because of where she comes from."

"It's a possibility, we'll see" said the Doctor. Rose bit her lip again, the Doctor winced. The metallic taste of blood filled her mouth

"Ouch" she moaned putting her fingers to her lips

"I told you to stop" the Doctor nagged

"Yeah yeah I know" Rose wiped her mouth on her sleeve

"Hello there" the Doctor said looking over Rose's shoulder. Rose turned around she saw the little girl standing in front of them.

"Are you alright?" Rose asked, the little girl did not reply

"Er we're going to need to ask you some questions is that okay?" asked the Doctor. The little girl said nothing she walked over to Rose and the Doctor and sat down on one of the large TARDIS chairs and looked up at them with her big blue eyes

"Alright…what are your questions" she asked. Her accent sounded English

"er well we're glad you want to speak but if there's something you don't want to talk about or you want to stop speaking at anytime you can"

"very well"

"Now lets start simply, what's your name?"

"In the factory I was called Eiye"

"So that's what you were doing on the planet, you were working in a factory?"

"Yes…for…" she looked up as if thinking and counted along her tiny fingers "3 years"

"did you want to work there?" asked Rose, the little girl shook her head

"When I was four my parents died and I went to live with my Uncle. I lived with him until I was six, then one day he told me that I was going on holiday with lots of other children like me and that it would be a long time, I asked why I was going and he said that someone had given him money to make me go. I did not understand at the time." Rose looked shocked; the Doctor gave her a stern look. "I was put on a space ship with lots of other children; we were all very excited about going on holiday. We were in the ship for a long time because I remember going to sleep a number of times. When we landed we were all led out onto a very hot desert and taken down under the ground to the factories"

"Now these factories, what did you do in them"

"It changed, sometimes we helped make things, the older children did the harder stuff and we helped them. They made large metal things sometimes I don't know what they were though. Sometimes we cleaned things, things that the bigger children could not do. We had to go in little holes and fix or clean things. Other times we were called down in groups to the white rooms"

"The white rooms?"

"I do not know what they were really called but all the children there called them the white rooms."

"What happened in the white rooms Eiye?" the Doctor asked curiously but was already guessing the answers

"Lots of things really, the first time I went down there they put me on a chair"

"Who's 'they?'" There were men and ladies in white coats. I never saw their faces, they was white masks. A lady came up to me and put a needle in my arm. I screamed and started to cry, she told me to stop it, but I didn't, she slapped my face but I cried louder. She signalled to other people in masks and they picked me up and put me on a table. They took out another needle; I cried again but went to sleep."

"What happened when you woke up?"

"I was in my dormitory with the other children asleep. I don't know why I was taken put on that table and put asleep"

"Did you ever go to the white room again?"

"Yes lots of times but I was never put on the table, I only had injections, sometimes; they would put metal cases on my body and on my head they press lots of buttons. I did not cry again I did not feel any pain either. I only screamed if I was scared. Like when…" she paused and looked down

"Go on" said the Doctor

"In the factory last night, an older boy dropped a machine he had been making it went up in flames so did he and the little boy helping him. Every tried to run away but the men in white coats told us that if we left the sun would kill us instead. Everyone stayed while the fire spread. I ran I did not care about the sun, I ran out of the door I had come through when I arrived. I wandered around the desert I tried to make to concentrate. My uncle told me once that if you thought about something enough, it would come true. I was thinking about being rescued. You rescued me"

"And what about the factory?"

"It burnt away under ground I saw it engulfed in the flames"

Rose hugged Eiye warmly. She was still. Cold as ice, Rose thought the little girl might have cried from losing any friends in the factory. She said she had never cried since the day she was put on the table, was that an experiment.

"What planet are you from?" the Doctor asked

"Zelnt"

"I thought so, your uncle was right if YOU think about something enough it will happen"

"My uncle sold me to that horrible factory, did he think of selling me off a lot then for it to come true"

"We're going to get you back to Zelnt, we'll tell your leader what has been going on then perhaps he can stop any other factories like this." The Doctor explained. Eiye nodded

"I'm tired now can I go to sleep."