Amelia Oswald was jumping on her bed, her long brown hair bouncing all around. It was time for bed, but she wasn't tired at all, so she decided to try to burn off some of her extra energy. It was at that point her parents came in.

"Amelia Ellie Oswald," her mother shouted. Amelia ceased jumping immediately. "You know better than to jump on your bed."

"Yeah," her father agreed. "By now I thought you would have learned that you can't jump on your bed without me up there with you." With that, the Doctor hopped up onto the bed and started to jump with his daughter. Clara couldn't help but roll her eyes. Between her husband and daughter, it felt like she was in a house with two little children.

"Alright, you two, that's enough," Clara hollered at them. Once the Doctor climbed off the bed, he peeled back the covers and allowed his daughter to get in before he pulled them up around her.

"Tell me a story, Daddy," little Amelia exclaimed.

The Doctor smiled warmly. "If I tell you a story, will you promise to go to sleep?" Amelia nodded her head emphatically. "Alright." The Doctor sat on the edge of the bed and prepared to spin a tale. "Once upon a time, there was a young boy who was a slave. He worked in the forges during the Time War."

"I've been learning about the Time War at school," Amelia said excitedly.

"You have? Well, then that will make this story that much better. Now, this slave worked hard beating hot metal into swords and shields for the soldiers of Gallifrey even though he was only ten years old. He worked hard so that he could please his masters and not get beaten. But he was still beaten because the masters were cruel.

"After the war was over, he ran away because he didn't want to die like many of the other slaves had. Eventually, he was purchased by a very nice lady and her husband. He started to work for her, and eventually, he met their daughter. She was the first girl his age he had met, and he thought she was beautiful. The slave and the daughter talked for hours together, and they ended up falling in love with each other, but the laws of Gallifrey said that they couldn't be in love with each other.

"But the daughter's parents wanted her to be happy, so they made it seem like they had gotten rid of the slave, and made him a new identity so that they could get married."

"Did they get married, Daddy?"

"Yes, they did. And for two wonderful years they were together. Unfortunately, the woman died. She was a scientist who worked inside an ancient library, and the passage collapsed because it was so old. Eventually, she ran out of air and died."

"What happened to the slave?"

"Well, he and the parents of the woman were very sad. Eventually, the parents died of a disease, but the slave lived. And before she died, she made the slave promise her that he would never be cruel or cowardly. That he would never give up, and never give in. The slave promised, and the woman made sure that he inherited all her money. She died a day later.

"After the funeral, they slave was declared the owner of the family's entire estate, which made him very rich. Do you want to know what he did with his money?"

"Tell me, tell me!"

"Alright, alright. Hold your horses. He went to the slave auctions and bought the slaves that looked sick or weak. He took them back to his house and made sure that they were taken care of. Not long after, the slave found a letter that his wife had written him before she died. In the letter, the woman said that she wanted him to find another wife and fall in love again. But the slave was so sad that he didn't think he could. For three years he stayed alone. It wasn't until he bought another slave that he started to fall in love again.

"You see, this new slave was a beautiful woman who had been beaten almost as much as he had when he was young. He bought her, and brought her to his house where he took care of her. Eventually, he realized that he was falling in love with her, and was thinking about doing the same thing that his wife's parents had done for him; making it seem like she was gone, but marrying her instead."

"What happened?"

"Well, before he could do that, he had to throw a big Celebration Day party at his house. And one man who came to that party was the same man who had beaten him all those years ago. This man came before Lord Rassilon, who was also there, and said that he'd found the escaped slave from the forges.

"At first, the slave was scared, but then he saw that the man thought it was somebody else. The slave relaxed as he realized he wouldn't have to be scared anymore. But then he remembered the promise he made to the lady who bought him. So instead of letting the man die, he jumped in front of everybody and told them that he was the slave that escaped the forges."

"What happened next?"

The Doctor smiled at his daughter's wide-eyed expression. "Rassilon asked him why he escaped, and the slave told him because he was being beaten every day for nothing. He showed them the scars, and Rassilon took the man away to punish him for beating the slave so much. Then, he made a new law, saying that any slave who could purchase his freedom would be free, and masters could free their slaves whenever they wanted.

"The slave then told all his slaves that they were free to go, but none of them wanted to leave. He was so nice to him that they never wanted to go. So the slave made sure that he paid them wages, and treated them like employees instead of slaves."

"What about the beautiful woman he wanted to marry?"

"She came to the slave and asked him if he really did love her. The slave said yes, and he asked her to marry him. At first, she wouldn't. It was too strange. She had been a slave all her life, for her to be anything else was hard for her to except.

"But before she could say 'No', the slave sang a special song, one that proved how much he loved her. After hearing that song, she said 'Yes'."

"And they got married and lived happily ever after?"

"That's right, princess. At least they have so far." The Doctor got off the bed and pulled the covers to Amelia's chin.

"Daddy," she asked, "what was the slave's name?"

The Doctor kissed her forehead. "They called him Slave 24601 in the forges, but after he ran way, he started to call himself something else."

"What did he call himself?"

The doctor smiled, kissed his daughter once more and whispered in her ear, "The Doctor." Standing up, the Doctor shut the door to his daughter's room and left her to dream.