Sarah Jane Adventures fan fiction:

The Wedding Of Chrissie Jackson

Set after series 3. Maria and Alan come back for Chrissie's wedding. When a mysterious alien starts to stalk the halls of the reception, it's up to the gang to try and stop it before it ruins the wedding. Will working with Maria again force Luke to admit his feelings for her?

Luke Smith looked in the mirror that hanged on his bedroom wall, smoothing down his dark brown hair. He wanted to look his best as today was an important day. He's best friend Maria Jackson was returning from America for her mum's wedding. Luke had been counting down the days to her return since Maria had told him. The chance to see Maria again, in the flesh and not over a webcam, made Luke smile. Although he'd never openly admit it, he'd fallen in love with Maria and when she left so her dad could take a job in Washington DC, it felt like a part of him had moved away too.

And when Luke really thought about it, a part of him had moved away. Luke had been created by the Bane, when they'd come to earth and created a drink called Bubble Shock to try and put the human race under their control. With a certain amount to humans hating the taste, the Bane were downloading parts of those humans into their creation, giving him the brain power of 10,000 humans. Maria had gone to the Bubble Shock factory, and had a part of her downloaded in Luke. And Maria had been in the factory when Luke had accidentally been activated. He'd escaped and was running through the corridors of the factory when Maria had found him. They'd hidden from the Bane in the ladies toilets-the only time Luke can say he's ever been in the ladies toilets-where Sarah Jane Smith had found them. The three of them defeated the Bane with help from Sarah's super computer, called Mr Smith, and then Sarah Jane adopted Luke, giving him his name.

On his first day of school-and Maria's first day since they'd only just moved to the area-they'd met Clyde, who was also having his first day of school. Clyde had found out about their alien fighting when aliens had taken over their school, hoping to turn off the sun. he'd helped them defeat the latest threat and joined the team, and Clyde and Maria had helped Luke to become as normal a human teenager as he could be. Together Luke, Maria, Clyde, Sarah Jane and Mr Smith had battled and helped all sorts of aliens, and when Maria's dad, Alan found out, he also joined the team. But then he got the job offer and after one last battle against yet another alien threat-during which Luke had found out about Maria leaving and her mum, Chrissie, had found out about the aliens and stopped the threat with the heel of her shoes-Maria and Alan were gone. And Luke missed her even before the taxi was out of sight.

Then Rani moved across the road, found out about what went on across the road, helped the team to stop an alien clown, and joined the team, helping them to fight and help all sorts of aliens, including Mrs Wormwood, the Bane who'd created Luke. But it never felt the same without Maria around. Maria got Luke in a way Clyde and Rani didn't.

Luke was snapped out of his thoughts by Sarah Jane calling up to him. Maria and Alan had arrived. "Coming mum!" Luke called down, before giving his hair one last check. He took a deep breath and then headed downstairs, where Sarah Jane had just closed the front door and Maria and Alan were standing in the hallway. Maria looked more beautiful than Luke remembered. Her dark brown hair had been cut into a bob, and was straightened rather than the tiny bit of frizz that it normally had been. Luke rushed down the stairs and gave Maria a hug. "I've missed you so much!" Luke said before letting go.

"I've missed you too. It's good to be back." Maria replied.

"Come on, I'll put the kettle on." Sarah Jane said heading for the kitchen. Alan followed, with Luke and Maria close behind.

An hour later, Luke and Maria were sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching the news and catching up on things since they'd last spoken. The doorbell went and Sarah Jane went to answer it as Luke and Maria continued talking. They were interrupted by two voices breezing in from the living room, followed by their owners, Clyde and Rani. "Hey Maria how was the flight?" Clyde asked giving Maria a hug.

"It was alright." Maria answered as Clyde sat down between Luke and Maria. Rani gave Clyde a small stern look for it as she sat down in an armchair, before turning to Maria and smiling.

"You'll have to thank your mum for inviting me and my parents to the wedding," Rani said. "I'm so excited about it!"

"Me too. Hopefully it'll be a wedding without aliens." Maria said.

"Well I wouldn't mind if the Doctor showed up at this wedding like he did with Sarah Jane's. Except the trying to stop the wedding part." Clyde said.

"Clyde, we said we weren't going to mention that again. Not when Sarah Jane might hear." Rani hissed at him.

"She isn't around to hear us. Anyway, presents. Tell me you brought something back for us."

"Of course," Maria replied. "They're in my bag upstairs."

"Well then, no time to waste." Then Clyde took Maria's hand and pulled her up from the sofa, before pulling her out of the room. Rani rolled her eyes to the sky and shock her head, before giving a small laugh and following them out with a smile. Luke sighed and got up to follow. He'd been hoping to have some more time with Maria all to himself, but now he'd have to try and get rid of Clyde and Rani first.