"No, no, no, no, Clyde, don't do this, open your eyes," Sarah Jane demanded as tears poured from her eyes. She desperately tried to bring him around but was unable to.
"Oh no, not both of them," Maria's voice was heard in the room.
Sarah Jane, Alan, and Sky turned around to see where the voice had come from.
"What?!" Sarah Jane exclaimed when she had seen her son holding Rani in his arms. His t-shirt was wrapped around her head and was becoming soaked with blood. Rani's eyes were closed and she was as still as Clyde. Sarah Jane wiped some tears out of her eyes and handed Alan a teleport device. "Dr. Martha Jones is in charge of a UNIT hospital," she then gave him the name and directions to the hospital after programming the coordinates into the teleport device. "Teleport Rani and Clyde there straight away, the doctors there will know what to check for in case the bloody Zerlocks injured them with an alien device."
Alan gently grabbed her by the arm to keep her from leaving. "Where are you going?"
"Where do you think I'm going? I'm going to look for the rest of the Zerlocks," Sarah Jane said in a deadly tone. "Alan, please get them there. Get the rest of the kids out of here as well."
Alan hugged his daughter and gave her the teleport device.
Maria hugged him back, and pulled back when he handed her the device. "Dad," she said through her already falling tears.
"I can't leave Sarah Jane here alone. We'll join you as soon as we can. Just please get out of here," Alan demanded not wanting his daughter to wind up in the same condition that Rani and Clyde were in.
Luke gently placed Rani on the ground next to Clyde, grabbed one of her hands in his, and held on to her hand. He than grabbed one of Maria's hands with his free hand
Maria told Sky to grab onto her arm and to hold one of Clyde's hands. Sky did so, and then Maria activated the teleport device transporting all of them inside the UNIT hospital.
Sarah Jane and Alan managed to render the remaining Zerlocks unconscious with perfume. Once that step was complete they gathered all of them together and activated a force field around the aliens. The two mates then waited for the Zerlocks to come to.
Alan observed Sarah Jane and began to worry more when he saw the look of pure devastation on her face and in her eyes. He walked over to her and hugged her.
She hugged him back and cried in his arms.
"They're going to be all right. Clyde and Rani are strong and healthy; they're both going to walk away from this," Alan tried to comfort her.
"What if they don't?" Sarah Jane sobbed into his shirt. "What if they both are hurt too badly to bounce back; I can't lose them, Alan."
"You won't lose them. Kids are very resilient," Alan insisted and then sighed. "Besides, you killing these Zerlocks won't heal them."
Sarah Jane sighed as well, pulled away from his embrace, and began to pace the floors. She finally stopped and faced Alan. "I know it won't, but what those aliens did today was unforgivable. They hurt two of my kids badly enough to render them both unconscious," she said as more tears began to fall from her eyes. "No one is allowed to do that and come out of it unscathed."
"But why stoop to their level when all you have to do is contact the Judoon? The Zerlocks in this room are already wanted for multiple violent offenses on three other planets," Alan argued. "Would you be able to look at yourself in the mirror if you killed the Zerlocks?"
Sarah Jane mulled his words over and realized that her friend was right. Thus, she had Mr. Smith make contact with the Judoon. The Judoon arrived moments later by teleport and teleported all of the Zerlocks out of the room and to an intergalactic prison.
Alan and Sarah Jane teleported inside the UNIT hospital and looked for the children. They located the waiting room which was filled with blue cushioned chairs and also with two blue cushioned sofas. Luke, Maria, and Sky were sitting on one of the sofas. Luke was in the middle hugging Sky with one arm and Maria with the other.
Sarah Jane looked at all three of them and the looks on their faces tugged at her heart strings. The lot of them look as bad as I feel right now, she thought. Oh, Clyde, Rani, please be okay. She walked over to the children, as did Alan.
Hugs were exchanged between the adults and children and once things had settled down a bit, Alan spoke first.
"How are they?" Alan asked.
"We don't know yet, dad," Maria wiped some tears away from her eyes. "Dr. Jones and another doctor here, Dr. Kramer had them both rushed to the trauma unit seconds after we teleported into the hospital."
"Martha and her team are tending to Rani; Dr. Kramer and his team are tending to Clyde," Luke added.
Sarah Jane sighed and hugged Sky as Sky clung to her.
"Mum, I don't want Rani and Clyde to die," Sky voiced her fears.
Sarah Jane held her closer and tighter. "They're not going to die, Sky, I'm not going to let that happen," she promised.
"Has anyone contacted their parents yet?" Alan asked Luke and Maria.
Maria nodded. "Carla is on her way; Haresh and Gita will be on the next flight back from Paris."
"What time does their flight get in?" Alan inquired. "I'll pick them up at the airport."
Maria gave him the flight information. Seconds later Carla Langer barged into the room.
"What happened to my baby?" she demanded an answer. "Who hurt him?"
Sarah Jane gently let go of Sky and walked over to Carla.
"Sarah Jane, who did this, which alien was it? Just tell me and I'll tear their whole world apart," Carla said as her eyes welled with tears. "Was it an alien?"
Sarah Jane gently got her sitting down in one of the blue chairs and then sat beside her in another chair. "Yes it was an alien," she then gently told Carla everything that had happened with Clyde. Carla and Rani's parents had discovered the truth about what Alan, the kids, and Sarah Jane do two months ago. They had been angry with Sarah Jane at first and refused to talk to her. They had also kept their children away from her for a week or two until the adults had finally got together and talked things through. Thus, Rani and Clyde were allowed to hang out with Sarah Jane again, and they were allowed to help with aliens. Sarah Jane doubted that Carla, Gita, and Haresh would still allow their children to help. However, she wouldn't blame them if they felt that way. She didn't want any of the kids helping out anymore either after what had happened to Clyde and Rani.
Carla's tears began to fall as her fear and worry increased. She glanced around the room looking for Rani. Carla knew that the young girl would need comforting. She had seen the way that Rani had looked at Clyde when Rani thought that no one else was watching, so she knew from the looks that the young girl was in love with her son. "Where's Rani, she must be going out of her head?"
Sarah Jane's eyes welled with tears. "Rani was hurt as well," she said and then told Carla the rest.
"No, not both of them," Carla's tears fell harder.
Sarah Jane hugged her, Carla hugged her as well, and they cried in each other's arms as they both worried about Clyde and Rani.
Maria walked out of the waiting room.
Alan started to go after his daughter, but Luke stopped him.
"I got this," Luke promised.
Alan nodded, and then Luke went after Maria.
He found her sitting on a black metal bench outside the hospital. He sat down beside her and put his left arm around her.
"They're going to be all right, Maria, they have to be." He gave her shoulder a gentle squeeze.
"What if they're not? Maybe this is what your mum meant when we first met her. She warned all of us about the danger involved with what we do," Maria rambled as her tears continued to fall. "Maybe this is how it all ends with us losing Clyde and Rani."
Luke shook his head. "No way, I accept that never," he held her close as his tears started to fall again. They stayed on that bench for a while comforting each other. Once they had each other sorted they both walked back inside to the waiting room to rejoin the vigil.
Twenty minutes later Martha and Dr. Kramer walked into the waiting room.
"Sarah Jane," Martha called out.
"Mrs. Langer," Dr. Kramer called out.
Sarah Jane and Carla walked over to the two doctors, as did Alan. The kids listened in.
"Martha, how are they?" Sarah Jane hoped for a good answer and feared a bad one.
-to be continued