Chapter 1

Scared… Unbelievably scared, that's how she felt… scared and alone. The Doctor and Rory were nowhere to be seen and she was absolutely terrified…

Amy could still remember her trauma like it was yesterday yet it had been almost three months beforehand. It kept her awake most nights, constantly plaguing her mind, and the times she did manage to doze off, it haunted her dreams instead.

The pain that ripped through her abdomen was excruciating. The Doctor, after repeating the command 'breathe' God knows how many times, rounded her back into the TARDIS before informing her and her very worried looking husband that she was in labour and actually wasn't really with them. In fact, she hadn't been for months. Instead of travelling in the TARDIS like she thought, her actual body was in some sort of stasis while her baby girl was growing inside her light years away.

"Hold on." the Doctor told her, "We're coming for you, I swear it, whatever happens, however hard, however far. We'll find you."

His hand was protectively placed on her cheek which she remembered gripping, desperately hoping he was mistaken somehow.

"I'm right here." she cried.

"No you're not." he replied, "You haven't been here for a long, long time."

The way he pulled away scared her to death. Was he loosing his mind or was she in a lot more trouble than she ever dreamed?

The last thing she remembered before waking up in some sort of white medical pod was him lifting the sonic screwdriver and activating it…

Amy awoke abruptly. Her heartbeat was erratic and breathing was rapid. She took deep breaths while her eyes adjusted to the darkened room. She rubbed her mouth and felt warm tears rolling down her face which had been caused by the latest nightmare.

She looked over at her husband who was sleeping soundly next to her. At least she hadn't woken him. She moaned slightly before quietly getting up and making her way over to the window. She sat down and looked up at the stars. He was up there, somewhere. He'd been searching for Melody ever since he'd left at Demon's Run. The fact that she knew River was her daughter eased her mind slightly because that proved that eventually he would find her, however, she still wanted to see her baby girl, the sooner the better.

Her time was running out.

"Two minutes." Kovarian scowled.

It broke her heart that the beautiful baby in her arms, the baby she'd given birth to only hours before, was about to be snatched away from her. Her beautiful and brave baby…

Amy tried her very best to be brave as Kovarian approached, opened armed, ready to take her away and turn her into a weapon just to bring the Doctor down.

"Leave her." she said.

Her beg did little good to crack through Kovarian's sinister pleasure that she had won this one.

"Just you leave her." Amy cried, unable to hold back her tears any longer, "Please leave her… LEAVE HER!"

And then Melody was gone, snatched from her own mother's arms. Of all placed, that was the one place a child should be safe…

The room was quickly evacuated and Amy was left to weep to her own accord. The Doctor and Rory were still nowhere to be seen… Kovarian had won.

Amy noticed she was crying once again. That day had been jam-packed with emotions. The fear of having a baby she knew nothing about, the happiness of seeing her baby girl for the first time, the sadness of losing her, the guilt of letting Kovarian win, the anger of what Kovarian was doing to her, the relief when Rory 'found her' and they were all reunited…

"Rory?" she asked, "Rory, is that you?"

After what felt like a millennia, he managed to answer.

"Yeah, yeah it's me." he replied, "Hang on a minute."

Amy's mind then wondered back to her baby girl who had been taken away.

"They took her…" she managed to bring herself to tell him, "Rory they took our baby away…"

Suddenly, the door swung open to reveal the best sight she could ever imagine. Rory strolling in cradling her baby girl, baby Melody.

"Oh my God…" she cried as he walked down to her.

Her eyes welled up as she saw her baby girl once again. She couldn't believe her luck…

And she shouldn't have because 'Melody' wasn't real. She was nothing more than a synthetic copy of her real baby. Of course, she didn't know that at the time but she should have really. How can a mother not recognise her own child?! Amy kicked herself everyday that she had been fooled so easily!

Her mind then wandered to the moment when she discovered Melody wasn't real. It had killed her! Her daughter hadn't just been snatched away from her once, but twice…

"Oh dear God!" cried Dorium, "That's the attack prayer!"

He was referring to the headless monks which had appeared out of nowhere ready to attack Rory and the rest of 'The Doctor's Army'.

"Quick!" cried Rory, "Come with me."

He ushered her behind a large amount of canisters as she attempted to protect Melody. She wasn't going to let them lake her again… too bad they already had.

The fighting was taking place metres away. Amy could clearly hear the electric charges emanating from the monks swords and she was desperately trying to calm her petrified daughter.

Then she heard it. The sinister voice of the 'demon of Demon's Run'… Kovarian herself.

"Wake-y Wake-y." she sneered.

Amy gasped as her baby girl suddenly exploded into a sticky puddle of synthetic flesh. Her breathing suddenly became erratic as she desperately clung onto the cold sticky blanket hoping that Melody would somehow come back.

"Rory…" she whispered as the shock of it all was sinking in, "RORY!"

It didn't take him long to turn to see his wife desperately crying her eyes out.

"RORY!" she screamed once again.

She was shaking considerably and clinging onto the blanket, and that was it. Melody was gone…

"Amy?" a voice asked.

She felt her body being shook and she suddenly awoke to she Rory looking down at her. She'd obviously dozed off on the window seat and she could tell that she'd been crying in her sleep.

"Amy?" Rory asked once again, "Are you okay?"

She shook her head slightly and looked over at the calendar on the wall. It had been exactly two and half months since the Demon's Run episode and she desperately wanted to know where the Doctor was… and Melody.

"Where is he, Rory?" she asked, "Where the hell is he?!"