Disclaimer: I do not own The Sarah Jane Adventures or any of its characters. I only own my OCs Emily, Mark, and Michael, and the plot. Everything else belongs to CBBC & Russell T. Davies.

Beated by GleeJunkie007.

England 1938

Emily Smith waited by the gates of St. Mary's watching the children pour out of the school. They ran and shouted with childish glee, happy to be free from school for another day. Two children broke away from the horde of children running towards her.

"Emily!" Her ten year old brother Luke was running towards her with his best friend, Maria, behind him, pigtails flying.

"Guess what!?" Luke bounced up and down barely unable to contain his excitement.

"What?" Emily asked calmly.

Luke held up a gold medal on a blue ribbon. "I won it."

Maria spoke up. "We had a spelling bee in class and he was the only one left."

"That's good, Luke." Emily smiled at her little brother. It had been barely four months since their mother, Sarah Jane, had adopted Luke from the orphanage where she had been doing a story.

Emily snuck a glance at the two younger children as they chatted about everything and nothing. They passed the local sweet shop and they both begged her if they could go in.

"Let me see if I have any money." Emily checked her cardigan pocket. She found five pounds and five shillings. That should be enough. They headed into the store and found it was crowded with children. Emily bought them each a small bag containing lemon drops, parma violets, and jelly babies. They dropped Maria at her house across the road before heading into their own.

Their house was a modest two storey house with a small garden in the front, consisting mostly of wildflowers, roses, and other various flowers. There also was an Oak Tree with a swing attached to one of the big braches. In the back was a larger garden with flowers and vegetables.

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Luke was sitting at the kitchen table, homework spread out, while watching Emily chop vegetables for the beef stew.

"Are you putting turnips in the stew?" Luke asked, wrinkling his nose.

"Just a tiny bit." Emily admitted.

"I don't like peppers. They're disgusting. " Luke stated emphatically, he pushed aside his math book and opened his language book. They were learning about diagramming this month.

The front door opened and closed. Then, a few minutes later their mother, Sarah Jane, entered the room. Sarah Jane was a widow. Her husband, Harry, had died after being killed in an automobile accident when her oldest son Mark was just three and Emily still a baby. Well-meaning friends and family had pressured Sarah Jane to marry again. They said raising two small children alone was difficult. Though she seemed to be doing just fine on her own.

Sarah Jane removed her hat. Emily then handed her a cup of tea as she sank into a chair. She accepted the cup gratefully.

"Thank you, love." She turned her attention to Luke.

"How was school?" Luke had only been to school for a month, before Sarah Jane had him being tutored at home since he didn't seem to be ready for school. Not the academic part, he was very smart, but living in an orphanage most of his life, he was very sheltered. His first week at school had been tough, but he seemed to be settling in. It helped that Maria was there and even though boys and girls were separated in the classroom, during recess they played together and then they ate together at lunch.

"Today was good." He showed her his medal.

Sarah Jane praised him. Emily turned the stove down and turned towards their mother, but she waited until Luke had gathered up his books and papers before she spoke.

"Michael asked me to go to the pictures tonight." Emily tells her. Michael Dennyson was Emily's special guy. They usually went to the pictures or the soda shop.

Luke looked up. " You promised we'd play chess." Emily had been teaching him to play chess and he was getting very good at it. He certainly enjoyed it.

"I'm sorry, how about you and Mum play," Emily suggested. "She's very good, she's the one who taught Mark and me."

Luke still looked upset. It wasn't that he didn't want to play with his mother, it was that he liked playing with Emily; that was their bonding time. Luke hasn't met Mark yet as he was at university and he had been too busy with exams and tests to even come home for the weekend. But he knew he would meet him soon enough.

"How about we have a picnic tomorrow afternoon. " Emily compromised.

Luke thought about it for a few minutes then nodded. "I guess that's all right."

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Michael arrived after the dishes were done. He had a box of chocolates for Emily, flowers for Sarah Jane, and a comic book for Luke.

"Hiya, dollface," He gave Emily a kiss on the cheek. "Ready to go?"

Emily grabbed her coat. "Sure come on. Bye Mum, bye Luke."

"Have fun. Make have her home by half past ten." Sarah Jane said. Michael nodded and the two teenagers left the house.

Once they were gone, Luke and Sarah Jane played two games of chess, Luke winning both games, not because Sarah Jane was letting him win as Luke actually came out and asked her because Emily used to do that and he didn't like it. He felt like it was cheating and he wasn't winning fairly, so she stopped.

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Meanwhile at the theatre, Michael and Emily couldn't decide what picture to see. Michael wanted to see an action movie while Emily wanted to see a romance. They finally decided after much deliberation they decided to see a comedy.

Afterwards they went to the soda shop for some root beer floats.

"How would you like to go on a picnic?" Michael asked

"When?" She inquired

"Tomorrow afternoon. I know this swell spot." Michael told her.

Emily frowned. "I promised Luke we'd go on a picnic." She told him, trying to think of a solution. "I don't want to break my promise. I mean, couldn't he come with us? Then I wouldn't be breaking my promise."

Michael shook his head. "Listen, doll, nothing against your brother, he's a good kid, but he's just an infant. I don't fancy playing nurse maid to your kid brother."

"I'm not going to break my promise to him. if you don't like it, I don't know what to say." She pushed her chair back and walked outside.

Michael ran after her.

"Aw, come on, Funny face, don't be like that." Michael begged. Emily pursed her lips refusing to look at him. "Gee whiz, all right the kid can come with us. If it means that much to you." Michael gave in.

"Whee!" Emily threw her arms around his neck giving him a kiss.

Michael shook his head, if the other fellows heard about this, they wouldn't let him live it down, imagine taking your girls kid brother along on their date; it was going to be more like a play date now.

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He dropped her off at ten as promised.

She headed into the parlour where Sarah Jane was reading. She looked up when she saw Emily.

"How was your date?" Asked, Sarah Jane.

Emily sat down. "It was wonderful. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic."

Sarah Jane raised an eyebrow at her daughter. "Em, didn't you promise Luke that you'd take him on a picnic tomorrow?"

"It's all right, Mum, he's coming with us." Emily told her.

"Michael is all right with this?" Sarah Jane asked and Emily nodded.

"He doesn't mind. It was his idea." Emily told her. "I'm going to bed. Is Luke asleep?"

"He might be, but you can check. I suppose you want to tell him about tomorrow. "

"I can tell him tomorrow, I guess." Emily shrugged. She didn't want to wake him if he was asleep, however.

She headed upstairs and saw that Luke was already awake and in her bedroom.

"Did you have a nightmare?" Emily asked and Luke nodded. "How long have you been in here?"

"An hour. I was going to go downstairs and sit with mum, but she got a phone call and she was on the telephone for ages. So I came up here. Was that all right." Luke explained.

"It's fine." Emily assured him, heading into the bathroom to change. She sat at her vanity to curl her hair. "Slight change of plans tomorrow." She then added.

"We are still going, right? You haven't changed your mind?" Luke asked.

"Of course, but we're going with Michael."

"Why?" Luke asked.

"Because he asked me on a picnic and I told him I had already promised you that I already planned a picnic and I wasn't about to break my promise." Emily explained.

Luke was silent for a long time and Emily thought he had fallen asleep until he spoke.

"I don't mind not going. I can go with Maria tomorrow. Her Dad was going to take her to see the new Disney movie and she invited me." Luke told her.

"Are you quite sure?" Emily asked, wanting to make sure it was alright.

Luke nodded. "I don't mind."

Emily slipped in the other side of the bed. "Don't wiggle." She told him.

"I don't wiggle." Luke stuck his tongue out, Emily was about to say something when she felt something hard and soft pressing into her side. she reached down and then smiled at finding Luke's teddy bear.

"This yours." She held up a teddy bear, but Luke was already asleep. She tucked the bear next to him and turned out the lamp.

A/N : This takes place in 1938. Mark (who will appear in the next chapter) is seventeen and is portrayed by Brenton Thwaites; he was born in 1921. Emily is fourteen and portrayed by Maia Mitchell; she was born in 1924. Luke and Maria are ten; Maria was born April 1928 and Luke was born September 1928.

Outfits: Emily's first outfit: Green skirt, white blouse grey cardigan, knee socks, and Oxford shoes; Date outfit: Red dress with small white polka dots, white cardigan, nylons, and sandals. Luke: school clothes brown short trousers, sweater, and black socks with black shoes; then pyjamas that are light blue with white stripe down the shirt. Maria: Yellow smocked dress, white socks, yellow ribbons in her pigtails, and Mary Jane shoes.

Also, The Disney movie is "Snow White" I am trying to be authentic to the time period with the outfits and speech. World War 2 has not begun yet, but it is on the horizon as is the blitz. If there is anything you would like me to add please leave it in the reviews, however do not leave anything retaining to aliens though. This is not that type of story.