Authors Notes: I apologize in advance...theres going to be some Angst in this...you can't expect a little girl whose just excepting that her mother died to come out all rosy do you? Even with the Doctor as a father. Also yes I am well aware that this chapter rambles a lot. Trying to explain stuff.

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or anything of it.

My Love

Chapter 1

The Letter

My Dearest Evie,

I am so sorry, but I won't be returning. Unforeseen actions have pushed me to an end of my own choosing. But don't cry, please don't cry. He'll come for you, he comes for everyone that he loves. Even though he has never loved you, once in a little while he'll come looking. He won't find me this time, he'll find you. So please don't cry, and hold on…and never let go of him. That man, that beautiful man won't ever let you go. The Doctor…your father.

Always with love

Mama

Eve read this letter over and over again for the past three years. She knew her mother had hid her from her father, and River made sure she never spoke a word of her to anyone except there maid. Since Rivers death her estate had been foreclosed and her bank account was lost to her. So she got along the only way she knew how. Pretending she was an adult.

Eve had been in this form now for quite some time. She was actually 6 years old in the body of a 16 year old or at least that's what people say. She looked 16 or 17 years old. So she got a job at a small deli where she would wait on people and serve food. She would also get food for free there too because its where she worked.

One thing her employer didn't know is her address was fake…she didn't live anywhere. People that had apartments or anything of the like asked for licenses and what not to keep a place. So at night she would go sleep in a small inlet for a sewer. She clogged the openings with rocks and pieces of paper…all she could do.

On her days off she would go to the park and sit there like she was now reading a news paper like her mother used to…news…any news that might point to her father. Sometimes she would read things about him, see deeds that he's done. But lately she hadn't been hearing much of anything at all. It was like he suddenly disappeared.

She quietly put down the paper and looked around. There were three people walking there dogs, a woman with a baby, six kids, three guys playing football and an guy sitting across from her reading his own newspaper. He quietly reached for his coffee on the ground and knocked it over. He sighed and looked at his foot that was now covered in coffee. He quickly looked up to see if anyone else saw. He spotted Eve who blushed and went back to her paper. When she looked back over the paper the man was gone. The paper was still there folded neatly for whoever wished to read it, the cup was gone too. She quietly stood back up and did the same to her own paper like normal. Some people like to read the paper and leave it for homeless to either read or use as bedding at night. It was getting rather late and Eve was getting hungry. She walked over to one of the shops near her and began to buy food. Once again there was that strange man with a bow tie. She just shrugged it off and picked up the soap she had grabbed.

"Aren't you a bit too young to be shopping by yourself?" The man asked her. She shook her head not even making eye contact. "Wheres your mother…father?" He asked

"Dead…and I donno." She said plainly not really wanting to talk. As a matter of fact she hardly ever spoke a word. She found herself to be a bit socially awkward so just kept to herself. Even her clothing was a bit off from normal people. Forest green poncho that was bowtied out the front, a black dress under that, black stockings and short boots. Her hair was actually pretty long and reached down to her behind, but she kept it under a hat that way no one grabbed it. Kids at the deli would tend to grab it with sticky fingers and showers were hard to come by without a house. She would go to a small bath house when she had the money. She would clean herself off every night in the bathroom of the deli when she had to close some nights. But other then that it was hard.

The man stood straight up again and looked down at the girl again as she picked up a can of peaches.

"So your…on your own?" He asked Eve sighed and just nodded.

"Yes that happens when parents die." She felt a bit pushed by the man who had three bags of Jammie Dodgers, a box of tea, and milk.

"where are you staying then?" He asked. The girl turned to glare at the man.

"I am 16 years old I can take care of myself!" She yelled and glared down the man who put down what was in his arms and then looked at the picture in his hand and then looked at the little girl who put down her own basket of stuff and backed away from the man who turned the picture over. "But it says here your only 6." That was it…she was gone. She turned and ran out of the store and down the street as fast as she could go. Down an alleyway and up an emergency exit ladder to the roof. She backed away from where she had just came up. She hid behind one of the exit doors and hugged her knees.

Her mother had warned her that there would be people after her. People that had kidnapped her grandmother while she was pregnant and stole the baby away from her. They would probably try to steal this infant too…the baby who belonged to the Doctor.

Eve hugged herself tightly and sat there. She looked around the door when she heard a soft rumble in the back ground. It wasn't unusual to storm this time of year. She leaned against the wall for quite some time till it stopped raining. It made no sense to just go home now. Getting wet, and cold would only make things worse for her. She couldn't pay medical bills, and she didn't even have a birth certificate anyways so school was out of the question too.

Eve walked down the street and stopped in front of an old abandoned opera house her mother used to poke her head in whenever she was hiding from someone. She walked into the room and looked around seeing wood that had fallen from the roof. This would have to do tonight since she couldn't get all the way to her own hiding home. She was to tired for that, she coughed a bit before sitting back against the wall and pulled a tarp around her shoulders. It would save her from any more rain falling through the roof. This was pretty much the only dry spot in the old home anyways. The place was being put back together by her mother when she was alive so there were scaffoldings all over the place and they made perfect roofs themselves. So sitting up under one of them was an old bed that she and her mother would sleep in…but she was sure it was full of bugs now…as if the tarp wasn't. But she didn't…the bed moved…something was on the bed. She gasped and jumped when a green light illuminated the persons face. That man…it was that man again. How did he…

"So this is where you've been staying?" He asked and stood up. He held out his hand to Eve who hissed at the man.

"Hey! I'm not going to hurt you. I knew your mother. I'm the Doctor." Eve swallowed hard not really knowing what she should do…how could she know if he was really the Doctor? She reached into her pocket and pulled out the letter her mother wrote to her. There had been a letter to the Doctor written in a weird language…or at least that's what she figured since well it was just a bunch of circles and what not.

"This ones yours…can you read it to me?" She asked holding out the letter with a shaky hand. The Doctor gently took the letter from her. He could see she was cold even with the tarp over her. He sat down across from her and looked over the letter using the green light he had used before.

"Her names Pepper…keep her safe. I don't think the silence has found her yet, but I figured its only a matter of time before they figure it out. Its kind of impossible to not have a child with how long you and I have been married. Love her.

Good Bye Doctor."

Eve closed her eyes and hugged her knees.

There it was…written in a language she didn't know how to read. As if she could read the English one anyways. She wasn't very good at it yet and took her almost fifteen minutes to read the letter she got from her own mom.

"I'm sorry…" The Doctor reached out and put his hand on her knees. "I would have been here sooner…but I've only just got this letter myself." The Doctor held up his own letter from River. "Took me a bit to find you. Your not exactly on the grid at all. Although I think that's your mothers doing." He said and looked around. "Do you not…have a proper home?" He asked and heard the young girl sigh.

"Its hard enough to find a job at my age and pretend to be 16. But I can't fool someone into letting me stay at there apartments without credentials." She said and put her head down on her knees. She was beginning to get a headache. All this talking and she was tired, plus it was freezing out. The Autumn air was stinging sometimes.

"Come on then…you can stay with me." She was about to protest but the tarp was pulled off her and his jacket was laid on her shoulders.

"You're catching a cold." He said she wanted to protest she really did but he was so warm and her head felt heavy.