The Sarah Jane Adventures fic:
Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Pairing: Clyde/Rani
Summary: A trip to a new swimming pool for Luke, Clyde and Rani, soon descends into chaos and terror. What is behind it all?
Venture into the Water
"How come we've never gone swimming?" Luke piped up, as he, Clyde and Rani were sat in the attic, finishing the last of their homework on a Thursday evening.
"Swimming?" Clyde looked perplexed, gazing up from his geography text book.
"Yeah swimming, Clyde" Rani said, giving him a playful nudge "Y'know it's a type of leisure activity done in water."
Clyde quickly gazed at her in a 'yes I know what it is Rani' look "Why d'ya ask Luke?"
"It's just, I overheard mum on the phone talking to one of her contacts, apparently they have refurbished that big old building a few miles away and turned it into a new swimming pool, she asked mum if she wanted to cover the story...but of course she turned it down."
"Why?" Rani asked, confused.
"Oh come on Rani" chuckled Clyde "It's hardly a big deal, not exactly in the same league as a Judoon ship crashing into Earth, now is it?"
"Fair point" Rani said, nudging Clyde playfully.
"Anyway, it's supposed to be great by all accounts so I thought we could go on Saturday? Something to do" Luke suggested, a small smile on his face.
"Yeah, sounds like a great idea!" Rani said excitedly "Count me in."
"Clyde?" Luke looked at his best mate with hopeful eyes.
Clyde sighed "Alright, I'll come too."
Rani and Luke smiled brightly, excited for Saturday, Clyde didn't seem overly bothered and just put his head down and tried to finish his geography assignment.
...
Saturday soon rolled around and Clyde came into the kitchen of 13 Bannerman Road, where Luke was sat at the table drinking some tea, and Sarah Jane was finishing off the dishes.
"Morning people!"
"Morning Clyde" Sarah Jane smiled "What brings you round?"
Luke grinned happily "Me, Clyde and Rani are going swimming."
"Oh to that new centre they've just built?"
"Yep, Luke was keen for us to check it out" Clyde smiled, having a quick glance around the room "Any breakie left?"
"No sorry, but I can do you some toast?"
"No, we've got to go and get Rani, see you later mum" Luke said.
Sarah Jane giving him a kiss on the cheek as the teenage boys left the house, only to see Rani coming towards them. A pink drawstring bag on her back, a smile illuminating her face.
"Morning you two."
"You ready to go?" Clyde asked.
"Yep, got everything" Rani smiled, she then reminded the two of them "I hope you two have remembered your towels?"
Clyde's face dropped, Rani noticed this expression "Oh Clyde, you haven't?"
"I'm sorry, it totally slipped my mind! I'll be five minutes!" he shouted as he ran down the street, back to his house.
Rani shouting after him "Hurry up, or we'll miss the bus!"
"What's he like eh?" Luke laughed, only causing Rani to laugh too.
Once Clyde had made it to the bus stop, with literally seconds to spare, they got on and headed to the swimming pool. They arrived soon enough, paid to get in and headed into the large communal changing area.
"Right, see you in a second" Rani said, as she grabbed a cubicle to herself, closing the door.
The boys getting their own separate cubicles too, they came out of them seconds later, Clyde in a deep maroon colour pair of swimming trunks, and Luke in blue ones.
"Rani, we're just going round the corner to find some lockers" Luke said loudly.
The boys hearing in reply "Alright, I'll join you in a second" from Rani in her cubicle.
"Got change for the locker, Lukey boy?" Clyde said, as they found some lockers, chucking their stuff inside.
"Yeah here" Luke handed Clyde a pound coin.
"Cheers mate" Clyde said, both boys locking everything away.
"Did you save me a locker?"
It was Rani. She walked towards them, her bag over her shoulder and her towel under her arm. She was wearing a stunning red bikini, more than showing off her figure. She got the reaction she was hoping for from Clyde whose mouth fell open, Luke didn't seem to notice.
Clyde gave a wolf whistle "Rani! Blimey..." he exhaled, his eyes roaming up and down her.
Rani smiled, ignoring Clyde's gaze and she stuffed her things in her locker, locking it up and she put her locker key around her wrist like Clyde had. They walked down the corridor and around another corner where their ears were hit with sound of gushing water, excited people and laughter.
What lay in front of them was a gigantic leisure pool, they were standing at the shallow end but at the other end was the deep end where the wave machine would start. There was fun water play apparatus for the children, a large Jacuzzi, four different coloured flumes, a lazy river and a large area with lots of fountains and water guns and buckets that would pour gallons of water on people's heads every few minutes.
"Wow, how cool is this?" said Rani excitedly, as they joined the throng of adults and children in the pool.
"Oh my god it's cold!" said Luke.
"No it's not, just get your shoulders under you'll be fine" said Rani, splashing Luke, who in turn splashed her back.
They didn't stay long in the water, as they decided to have a go on the flumes. Rani and Clyde were determined to go on the space bowl; Luke wasn't overly keen but went on it too. Clyde came back and bombed in the pool, this earned him a whistle from the lifeguard who warned him not to do it again.
Following some fun with the wave machine, the three of them headed into the lazy river. They were all laughing, joking, having a lot of fun and trying to stay hold of eachother, so they didn't become separated, with much difficulty. On the third time around the lazy river Luke gave a cry in pain as he felt a sharp pinch on his foot.
"You okay, Luke?" Rani asked, managing to slow herself down.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine...must have just hit my foot on the wall or something."
But it wasn't just fine. The pain in his foot was escalating at an alarming rate, he felt like he had to get out and see what was wrong with his foot. So not to worry the others, Luke said to Rani and Clyde "I'm just going to use the loo, I'll be back in a minute."
"Okay" and they saw Luke climb out of the pool and disappear from sight, not noticing that his foot was now bleeding.
"Come on, Jacuzzi time" Rani grabbed Clyde's arm and dragged him out of the lazy river and they headed out of that part of the pool and Clyde dived back into the other pool, earning him yet another whistle.
"Clyde, stop it!" Rani warned him as she was now sat in the Jacuzzi, Clyde coming over to join her.
The lifeguard who had blown the whistle came over "If you break anymore rules I will have to ask you to leave, is that clear?"
Clyde nodded "Yes."
"Good, remember no diving, no bombing and no heavy petting, it's on the signs!" he said, pointing to the one nearby on the wall, before walking away.
"No heavy petting, chance'd be a fine thing" Clyde said, glancing briefly at Rani, both of them now blushing.
"Well at least that's one rule you can't break, Clyde" Rani teased "Would have to find a girl with low enough standards first" she couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Ooo you are so dead!" Clyde said and began tickling Rani; he picked her up and carried her out of the Jacuzzi, much to the squeals of Rani who could not stop laughing. Clyde put her into a fireman's lift.
"Clyde put me down!" Rani laughed.
Clyde grinned cheekily "Take back what you said, or you're going head first in that umbrella fountain thing over there!"
"You wouldn't" Rani said seriously.
"Try me" Clyde said mischievously "So, do you apologise Miss Chandra?"
"No way!" Rani insisted with a giggle.
"Well, you were warned" and Clyde rushed and took her through the fountain, Rani laughing her head off, as was Clyde.
Clyde put Rani down onto her feet and they sat down under the umbrella of the fountain.
"You big idiot!" Rani hit him playfully.
Clyde grinned "But I'm your big idiot" he kissed her cheek. Rani's blush deepened even further.
They sat and chatted for a few minutes until Rani thought "Wonder where Luke's got to, he's been gone ages!"
"We'll give it a few more minutes and then I'll go and find him."
Literally seconds later, Clyde and Rani heard screams coming from the lazy river area of the swimming pool. People were screaming as they quickly tried to get out of the water, a lot of them had blood dripping off their legs or feet, that area of the pool was slowly turning a deep red colour as the blood spread in the water. People nearby were also now starting to scream and panic as they noticed the blood, the lifeguards now shouting for people to evacuate the entire pool immediately.
Clyde grabbed Rani's hand and they headed out of the water with the throng of people. Not wanting to lose Rani in the crowd, Clyde said "Stick together, we need to get Luke."
The two of them made a beeline for the toilets, only to find they were struggling to get to the area with the amount of people leaving the pool. After a few minutes, and some pushing and shoving, they had made it, only to find a lifeguard stood outside the toilet doors.
He held out his hand to stop them as he saw them approach "Sorry you can't go in there."
Clyde stressed "Our friend went in there a while ago and he hasn't come out yet."
"He wasn't wearing blue swimming trunks, skinny lad, brown hair?"
Rani frowned "Yeah that's him, why did you say that?"
"Because we just found him unconscious on the floor in here, and he won't wake up."
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What's caused the chaos in the pool, will Luke be okay? find out soon.