As usual we were all in the attic, the day it happened, me, mum, Luke, Rani and Clyde. Mr Smith was telling us about some boring fact that couldn't be bothered to listen to, but then things got more serious. Mr Smith was saying that U.N.I.T was on Bannerman Road. I didn't know that meant at the time, but we all raced downstairs and out the front door. A man and woman in matching uniforms with red berets were just by the door, there were about 20 people behind them holding big black guns, Luke got me behind him.

'What do you want?' he said.

'Sarah Jane Smith?' the woman said. Mum stepped forward.

'Who's asking?' she said with courage.

'I'm Sergeant Alice Thomas, can we come in?'

'What for? If you have anything to say to me, say it here.' Mum mum gestured around.

'Okay, well the thing is Ms. Smith, we need you.' Alice said.

'Need me? Children, do you think you could go back up to the attic for moment.' it seemed the wrong time to argue, so we took ourselves upstairs.

'What did she mean they need her?' I asked.

'I've no idea Sky, they better not take her from us.'

'Luke!' Rani said.

'What? You mean, Sarah Jane might be leaving?' I felt my face getting hotter.

'No, Sky, it's fine, don't worry about it.' Clyde put his arm round me.

We waited for at least an hour. Mum finally came in.

'What's going on?' I walked over to her.
'They need me to help them, to win this battle thing with the Daleks.' she looked worried.

'The Daleks? Mum you can't.' I could see the panic in Luke's eyes he stood up.

'I have to, the Doctor's no where to be found, and it doesn't look like he'll be here soon. You'll have to accept it Luke because I'm going.' she sat down next to Clyde and Rani, they looked panicky too.

'When are you going?' Luke asked, sitting down as well.

'In an hour or so.'

'What? You can't leave us!' tears started rolling down my cheeks, and we all knew I had to get away from Mr Smith so we went downstairs. I was sat on the sofa, mum was next to me holding my hands.

'I promise I'll come back Sky.' she wiped my tears and kissed my forehead. She stood up and left the room. I was on my own, I felt so angry. At everyone, not just Sarah Jane. I went into the kitchen. Rani was there getting a drink.

'Hi.' she said to me. I felt my self welling up again, the lights flickered and I fell into Rani's arms. 'It's okay Sky, it's gonna be okay.' she stroked my hair.

Rani, Clyde, Luke and I were waiting outside, U.N.I.T were still there. I walked over to the Sergeant.

'Please don't let anything happen to her.' and I walked away. Mum came out wearing a backpack. She was crying.

'Mum.' she hugged me and told me she loved me, and to be good for Luke. She moved on to Luke, then Clyde and then Rani. Telling them all she loved them. We all had a group hug and watched mum get into the car with the people from U.N.I.T. She looked out of the back window and waved, she cried as they drove away. Clyde and Rani went home and me and Luke went up to the attic.

'Mr Smith, I need you.' Luke said. Mr Smith gave his usual fanfare and opened up.

'Yes Luke.' Mr smith said.

'Can you let us know if anything happens to mum.'

'Yes, I have her on track right now.'

'Okay good, thanks Mr Smith.' Luke turned to me, 'What do you want for tea?' he asked

'Pizza!' I smiled, I felt better with Luke around.

'Cool, I'll order now, shall I get Clyde and Rani to come round as well?'

'Yeah! Of course, I'll go get some plates ready.' I went downstairs as Luke Dialled the pizza place, it felt really weird without Sarah Jane, especially because I didn't know when she would be back. I brought four plates up to the attic.

'It'll be here in half an hour,' Luke said. 'and Rani and Clyde said they'll be here in a bit too.'

'Luke.' I looked at him. 'You're upset about her going aren't you?' I asked.

'Yeah, of course I am, but I honestly don't see the point of being upset really, because she's going to come back, she promised didn't she.'

'Well yes but, come one, even I know the Daleks are deadly.' I felt sad.

'Sky, there's no point worrying about it.' he seemed quite angry. Rani and Clyde came up. They all spoke about the adventures they'd been on, the pizza arrived so I decided to eat it in my bedroom. I felt so annoyed with absolutely everyone I didn't eat my pizza, I threw it in the bin, I lay on my bed curled up in a ball. I couldn't cry because the lights would blow and the others would know. So I found a different way to express my anger. I grabbed a pair of scissors and scraped across my wrist, nothing happened so I took a sharpener of my desk and stomped on it, it broke into pieces so I picked up the blade from it and sat on my bed, I dragged it hard across my arm. A burst of crimson blood dribbled over my hand. It felt amazing. It didn't feel wrong at the time. I held my hand over my wrist to stop it from bleeding.

'Sky!' Luke called me. 'Come up here, now!'

I quickly changed my top to a long sleeved one and ran upstairs.

'What is it?' I was out of breath.

'It's mum, she's in danger.' Luke said, him, Clyde and Rani were all standing by Mr Smith, I went over.

'How do you mean?' a horrible thought crossed my mind. 'Is she going to die?'

'No, she's Sarah Jane, she'll get out of it.' Rani said, but she sounded unsure. Suddenly something came over me and I burst into tears, the lights went out and Mr Smith was going out of control. I couldn't stop though, so I ran, I left the house. And I ran, I had no idea where I was going. It was getting dark and I was freezing. But it didn't matter, she might die. I stayed out for hours, and a few times I heard Rani and Clyde calling my name, but I hid in allies, they never found me. Eventually I went home. I walked in the front door and they were all standing there, they looked at me.

'Sky you didn't have to run away, one of us could have come with you. You scared me death.' Luke's tone was angry, but he hugged me. I couldn't cry any more.
'Sorry, is Mr Smith okay?' I asked worriedly.

'No, his circuits blew out, I can't fix him.' Luke sat on the stairs.
'Oh no, I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself! God I'm so stupid.' I sat next to Luke.
'It's okay.' he didn't look at me, Clyde and Rani wouldn't look at me either, or Luke.
'Something else has happened.' I said. 'It's mum isn't it? They killed her.' none of them said anything.