Right, first time ever it's taken me a week between updates on this story. Had a bit of writer block but then, after watching Doctor Who last night (OMG) the dream just seamed to flow. Bewere though, there are spoilers for later stories in the Luke/Maria series, and its planned sequel series. Spoilers for Doctor Who Series 5 (mainly upto Cold Blood but small spoilers for the final, mainly the Rory details).
Due to the length of this chapter (During the Luke POV, I reached the 4000 words) I decided to only show the future from one POV and have the other talk about it at the end of the chapter. Since I had already started writing Luke's POV, I deciseded to show the future from his view for two good reasons. 1. He doesn't dream and 2. I needed him to feel really guilty about running away for the next chapter they feature in.
Enjoy.
Chapter 6 Future Dreams
Back in Danemouth, the four teens were still chatting amongst themselves. Luke and Maria were tell Sam and Eve all about their adventures before Rani joined the gang, while Sam and Eve were telling stories about the places and planets they had visited in the short few months since the gang helped them. As they were talking, Luke turned to look at Maria and caught sight of his watch. 10PM! Normally he would be in bed by now, waiting for his mum to come and say goodnight. He sighed. His mum would, by now, be worried sick. The day of the School's leaving party, Rani's 16th birthday party, Clyde's 16th birthday, the revision session at Rani's and Clyde's, and the end of exams party Clyde had at his house; his mum waited for him to come home.
At that moment, Maria turned her head to look at Luke, and saw the look on his face. She knew that since they got there, Luke's conscience had gotten the better of him and he was starting to miss home. She knew how much Sarah Jane meant to him. She had been a mum to him, a saviour who rescued him from the darkest part of his life. She sighed, before turning back to speak to Sam and Eve and saw that the two of them had fallen asleep. She then felt something brush on her shoulder and turned to see Luke resting his head. "Luke," she whispered softly. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine," Luke said sleepily. "Just tired that's all."
"You sure?"
Luke chuckled. "You sounded just like Mum there." He replied.
Maria giggled, before gently hitting her boyfriend on the shoulder. "Oi You! Don't say that." She said, before changing the subject. "Are you ready for bed?"
"Yeah." He said, before looking over at Sam and Eve. "But what about them?"
Maria smiled. "And Harry. We haven't seen him since we got back."
Luke lifted his head from Maria's shoulder. "Maybe we should have a look, see where he is." Quietly, the pair left the sitting area and headed for the rear of the caravan.
Located there was three bedrooms, one twin-bed room, a single room and the large double-bed room. Seeing that the door to the single room was open, the two teens walked gently over to the door and peered in. There on the bed was Harry who, like Sam and Eve, was fast asleep. "He must be knacked after all that space travel." Maria said.
"Yeah," Luke said. "Let's go to bed."
Maria blushed. "Luke!" She said. "That's a bit quick."
Luke giggled. "I didn't mean it like that Maria. I mean go to bed to sleep, not...you know."
Maria grinned. "Oh! Sorry Luke. I thought..." She trailed off, knowing Luke would know what she meant.
"I know. One day, maybe. But not now." He smiled and Maria remembered back to the day they first met. The way he smiled hadn't changed one bit.
"Come on. We should try and move Sam and Eve," Maria said, before the pair turned to head back to the living area.
Luke lay on the large double bed, looking at the girl lying next to him and smiling. Two days earlier, he thought, he wouldn't have dreamed of what was happening right now. Maria back from America, the pair running away from his home, declaring his love for her and sharing a bed with her. Slowly, he rolled over and was soon fast asleep.
Luke's POV
What is this? A dream. I don't dream. The only times I ever have is when Mrs Wormwood returned and after we meet Eve the first time. That time, it was about the future I had seen that time. This was different. This was something I have always wanted to happen ever since, well, the moment Mum told me, Maria and Maria's old friend Kelsey about the Doctor.
I was in the Tardis. The Doctor's Tardis. Just like Mum once did. But I wasn't the only one there, other than the Doctor. Maria was there as well. She was stood right next to me, holding my hand. She was older but still as beautiful as she ever was. I looked at her left hand. On it was an engagement ring. Was this? Did this mean? Me and Maria?
Looking away, I looked around the Tardis. It was totally different to what it had been when the Doctor crashed mum's wedding. The whole surrounding walls were no longer round, instead being more of a six-sided shape – I can't even describe it. The console was now hexagonal instead of the round one from the last time. The floor was now glazed instead of the grating. Under the main room was a long metal tube leading to a sphere in what looked like oil. There were two sets of stairs leading further into the Tardis.
From the lower set came the Doctor. Like the Tardis, he too was different. I was just glad Mum had explained regeneration to me, after the Doctor's two short visits, last Christmas – when he saved me from being run over – and for her wedding. Mum had seen him change back when she travelled with him. Then, he had gone from grey hair and frilly shirts to a brown hair mop – not unlike my own – and an 8 foot-long scarf. Last time he was a tall skinny man with styled brown hair and wore pinstriped suits – the first time a brown with blue pinstripes, and a blue with red pinstripes at Mum's wedding – and Converse trainers, either white with his brown suit or red with his blue one (I think that were I got the idea to get a pair, to be just like the Doctor – I wonder if he has a pair of black ones). Now he was slightly plump, with a mop of brown hair, and wore a brown tweed jacket, a red patterned shirt, a red bow tie, rolled-up trousers with red braces and black boots. He was more alien like that the previous one.
"So, you two, where next?" he said, looking at me and Maria. "Wedding present before the wedding. Oh, Lukey Boy, this has been great. But your parents would kill me if you two were late for your stag and hen parties or even worse your own wedding. I don't know which scares me more – your mum Luke, Your mum Maria, – or the Tyler slap? Besides, I got a feeling that if I don't get you back, the other married couple here will kill me."
"Yeah Doctor," a Scottish-sounding voice cried from the bowls of the Tardis. "Don't give them the same thing you gave me and Rory." From the bowls of the ship came a gorgeous ginger-haired girl and a brown-hair lad. Amy and Rory Williams, though I gathered Amy still liked to be called Amy Pond. "He met me when I was 6, returned 12 years later, then buggered off for another 2 years returning on my wedding night, took me to the far future, to meet Winston Churchill, then to meet his wife..."
"Oh, River is not my wife...well, I don't know yet. Haven't met her properly yet. She know my future, I know...hers." The Doctor snapped. Different, I though. The last one never snapped like that at his friends. Only at enemies, especially the Daleks and Davros.
"Yeah right," Amy said back, before leaning towards me and Maria. "She so is." She whispered before continue. "Then he picked Rory up, took us to 16th century Venice, were attacked by the dark side of his personality caused by psychic pollen, and then tried to take us to Rio and instead ended up in Wales in 2020 and then the centre of the Earth."
"Yeah," Rory spoke for the first time. "And I got killed and sucked into a crack in time."
I looked at Maria, who had a puzzled look on her face. "But how are you here?"
Rory smiled. "The Pandorica opened."
I smiled, before looking back at the Doctor. "How about Florana? You know the place you tried to take mum when you ended up on Exxilon." I grinned, knowing that I had one up on the Doctor.
Amy grinned at me. "So, the Tardis hasn't always been reliable then." She said, before the pair of them let out a huge laugh.
"Yeah. He dropped my mum in Aberdeen. She was luck he dropped her in the right year. From what I have heard, he left some companions in the wrong time or on another planet."
"Oh! I'm still here." The Doctor said.
I chuckled. Suddenly, the Tardis faded around me and I was enveloped in a grey fog. Then, the fog was replaced by what looked like my Bedroom at home. I was stood in front of my mirror in top hat and tails. I guessed this was mine and Maria's wedding day. In the mirror, I could see Clyde stood behind me, as well as Rory, the Doctor, a Wheelchair-bound Brig, my mum and a number of well wishers including Brendan Richards – Mum's Aunt's ward – and his wife, a number of mum's former UNIT colleagues, my University professor Liz Shaw, a old friend of the Doctor Jo Grant and, thanks to the Doctor, mum's Aunt Lavinia.
"Luke, I'm so proud of you." Mum said. I turned around to see she was standing right behind me. Inside, I felt pride. "I never thought I would see the day my son got married. And now it's happening. I'm just glad that the Doctor didn't lose you halfway across space. Or drop you and Maria off in the wrong city." She hugged me. "But I'm glad of the Doctor being here. He brought Aunt Lavinia to meet you. And now I know what happened to her when she disappeared just before died. And he brought our family together."
"Yeah," I said. "And, he gave me the best Stag night ever."
"True that Lukey," Clyde started. "Zaggit Zagoo Bar on the planet Zog. Me, you, himself, Rory, Brendan, the Brig, your mates from uni, Finney and the others from school, Haresh and Captain Jack."
Mum looked at the Doctor horrified. She wasn't particularly happy with Jack, especially after the 456 incident. Me and Clyde were slightly affected during that as was Maria. I was more than them, however, due to me being only a year old when they attacked, while Clyde and Maria were 15 (I was too but only biologically). "WHAT? You mean to tell me JACK HARKNESS was at my son's stag night."
The Doctor grinned. "So was his boyfriend. And Mickey was as well. I just glad we planned his stag night and Maria's hen night was planned on different nights, so we could have Amy as a kiss-o-gram and get a..." he trailed off. I knew what he was going to say.
"A what? Doctor," Mum pushed. "A What?" The silence from the Doctor and the other males confirmed my thought. "Oh, you are joking aren't you? Luke? Clyde? Tell me you didn't..."
"Yes Mum, he got a stripper." I just had to come out and say it. There was a chorus of "LUKE" from the males while the women shock their head.
"Luke, it's been nearly ten years, haven't I taught you anything?" Clyde whispered in my ear. The Doctor still doesn't know about my origins.
I grinned. "What time is it?"
Mum looked back at me. "5 to 10. We're leaving in five minutes. Doctor, I think it's time Aunt Lavinia returned home now." I smiled at my great Aunt, who came over gave me a hug before following the Doctor up towards the Tardis parked in the attic. He would take her back and then meet us at the church. Clyde was my best man; Rory, Finney and the Doctor were my ushers. Maria had Amy as her maid of honour while Rani was a bridesmaid. The other one was, well, my sister. Just like me, another Archetype, this time a girl created by another branch of the Bane Family. Mum adopted her, and we called her Jade, mainly due to the colour of her eyes. When we found her, she had the body of a twelve-year old. That was eight years ago. Now, she was 20, at Oxford studying education in the hope of becoming a teacher. Just like I was a Doctor of both Medicines and Science. And I was marrying Maria.
Once again, the grey fog changed the image from my room to Ealing Church. I was stood there, with Clyde at my side, waiting for my Maria to walk up the aisle with her dad. I turned to look at Maria's side of the cognation and saw her mum and her step-father sat on the front row, alongside Sue. Her grandparents were sat alongside, her dad's parents next to Sue, her mum's next to Ivan. Behind them were all the rest of her family and her friends, from her old school, from Park Vale and from Washington.
I turned to look at my side of the church. My mum sat on the front row with the Doctor, Rory, Mr and Mrs Chandra, the Brig, Liz, Joe, Brendan and his wife. Behind them were John Benton and Mike Yates, Mum's UNIT colleagues as well as Finney and other close friends of mine in the rows behind. Clyde's Mum, Carla, was also sat next to mum.
Just then, the wedding march played. I turned and saw Maria and her dad starting up the aisle. She looked beautiful in her wedding dress. Behind her, Amy, Rani and Jade were dressed in identical dress in different colours: Amy was in red; Rani in the same shade of pink she wore at mum's wedding and Jade was in, what else but green. Behind them was Maria's younger sister, Miley, Sue's daughter. Only seven years old, she trotted along behind them as the flower girl, wearing a lovely pink dress; through different to the ones the Bridesmaids were wearing.
As Maria came alongside, the grey fog descended again, and this time the scene just time jump to the vicar declaring us man and wife. I lent in a kissed Maria. Arm in arm, we headed out of the church followed by our family and friends, As we walked out of the church, the fog descended again and the scene changed to the reception and Clyde's best man speech. It was totally the opposite of what I would be expecting. Instead of being full of Clyde's jokes, it was heart-felt and sincere, more like one I would do. He said that he had been expecting this since the day we met. He could see me and Maria were in love even back then. The one good thing was that he left out the bit about me only being a week old the day we met.
Then the fog descended again. Now the scene was an unusual beach with a cabin. I guessed this was another planet and mine and Maria's honeymoon. I had asked Amy what the Doctor had done with them after they got married. She told me that he had taken them on a honeymoon trip around the best luxury planets in the universe. I guess the Doctor had booked us into a cabin on one of those planets. Then I remembered. We were on Florana. Maria came over to me and smiled. We had been there a month already and still had a month left.
The scene jumped again, this time to the day before we left. Me and Maria were sat on the sofas in the cabin when Maria blurred out. "Luke, I'm pregnant!"
I was speechless. "Pregnant! You mean I'm going to be a daddy."
"Yes." And as she said that, the scene changed again. Now, we were stood in mum's front room with mum, Jade, Maria's mum and dad, Ivan, Sue, Miley, Clyde and Rani. "Mum," I started. "We're expecting." And the whole room was speechless.
"You mean I'm going to be a granny, at my age!" Maria's mum exploded.
"Chrissie, calm down." Mr Jackson and Ivan said simultaneously.
"Calm down! Calm down! Alan, our daughter is 24 and expecting a baby. What do you expect me to do?"
"Look happy for us, mum!" Maria blurred out. "Look, I'm in love with Luke. And I know you don't like this and don't deny it. I known since the moment I told you about us. Just be happy for us."
Mum spoke up before anything erupted. "Oh Luke, Maria. I'm so happy for the pair of you. I'm going to be a grandma. Oh, come here." And she pulled the pair of us into a hug.
Jade stood up. "I'm going to be an auntie. I'm happy for you bro." In the last few years, the two of us had started calling each other 'bro' and 'sis' rather than by our names, unless we were having an argument.
"Thanks sis." I said before we hugged.
Maria bent down to talk to her sister. "What do you think Miley?" She asked.
"You're going to have a baby?" Miley asked.
"Yes," Maria started. "You're going to be an auntie."
"Cool."
Clyde and Rani decide to speak. "Well done mate. At last." Clyde joked.
"I'm happy for both of you," Rani said, before coming over and hugging us. "Well, Luke you didn't take your time. Unlike somebody I know." Since the wedding, Clyde and Rani had started seeing each other, mainly since they sleep together that night.
"Thanks, both of you. You two are the best friends we could ever have." I said.
Then the scene changed again. Now, we were in a maturity ward. Maria had giving birth...to twins. One boy, one girl. Apart from that, they were identical. "Beautiful." Was all I could say expect "Just like their mum."
Now, the room was full with people. Mum, Jade, The Doctor, Amy, Rory, Clyde, Rani, Mr. Jackson, Sue, Miley and Jenny, the Doctor's daughter who had been created in a similar way to me and Jade, expect from just the Doctor's DNA. "So, what are you going to call them?" The Doctor asked.
I smiled at Maria and picked up my son. "Doctor, meet Clyde John Smith."
Clyde beamed. "Mate, you didn't have to do that?"
"I did, Clyde. You're the person who taught me most." I said. By now, the Doctor knew of mine and Jade's origins. "And John's from the Doctor's name."
"My aliases actually." The Doctor said. "And what about madam there?" He asked, pointing down at my daughter who was still lying in her 'fish tank'.
I smiled at Maria. "Jenny Donna Smith." I said. "After Jenny," I gestured at his daughter. "And Donna. In her memory."
"Lovely. They're going to do so many great things. Just like their parents, their aunt Jade and their grandma Sarah Jane."
Mum smiled and took baby Clyde from the Doctor before asking for me to pass baby Jenny to her. "Hello my little grandkids," she said. "Now listen to the stories me and your mummy and daddy..."
"And godparents," I said before turning to Clyde and Rani. "Me and Maria would like you two to be their godparents."
Rani smiled at us. In the last nine months (or eight), Rani had fallen pregnant as well and was due in a few weeks. Her and Clyde had tied the knot in a low-key ceremony at Ealing Town Hall, in front of their parents, me, Maria, Mum and Jade. Me and Maria acted as best man and bridesmaid. ""Deal. If you two become our kid's godparents?" She said.
Maria smiled. "Deal. At least our kids will be like us four." It was September now. September the 7th. Rani was due around in about three weeks time.
The scene jumped again, but stayed in the same room, this time it was Rani on the bed and me and Maria stood by the window. In addition, The Doctor, Amy and Rory weren't there. Instead, Mr and Mrs Chandra and Carla were. And instead of me stood over two 'fish tanks', its Clyde.
Suddenly, he leaned into one of them and picked out one of his kids. Like me and Maria, Clyde and Rani had had twins. And like us as well, they were identical in all ways but their gender. One girl, who Rani was holding, and one boy, who Clyde was now carrying towards me.
He passed his son to me. "Lukey met your godson, Luke Langer." I couldn't believe it. Luke Langer! Clyde had named his son after me. Just like I had with mine. Mum was holding my little delights in her arms while we were looking at our godchildren. After being shown Luke, Clyde walked back over to Rani and swapped Luke for his daughter. "And this," he said as he approach us again. "Is Sarah Rani Langer." I smiled. Rani had used her name in her daughter's name, and used mum's as well.
The fog came again, and now the four of us were stood in Ealing Church again, this time for our children's christening. We all decided to have our children baptised at the same time. Rani had gone into labour a few weeks before she was due, ironically while we were helping mum chase a Slitheen lose on the planet. As a result, my Clyde and Jenny were only a week older than Luke and Sarah. And now we were baptising them. Clyde had decided to give Luke a middle name like the others had, naming him after Sam. Luke Samuel Langer.
The fog came and the scene changed again. We were still in the church, but now I was stood in the doorway of the church with my arm interlinked with Jade's. It was her wedding, to her long-time boyfriend. Just after we defeated the Bane a third time, a new family moved it next door to Rani. A young widow with her two sons. The oldest, Matt, became good friends with me, Maria, Rani and Clyde, while the youngest, Adam, became part of the gang and very good friends with Jade. And now, they were getting married. It had been two years since the kids had been born and now I was walking my sister up the aisle. Since we didn't have a dad, and the Doctor couldn't make it to the wedding, Jade had asked me to do it. Behind us were Maria, Rani and Miley in bridesmaids dress – Rani and Maria in identical jade green dress similar to the ones the bridesmaids wore at mine and Maria's wedding, while Miley was wearing a green dress similar to the one she wore then as well.
The scene changed again. Now, we were stood at the front of the church, the vicar declaring Adam and Jade man and wife. I looked over at my family. Mum was sat with little Clyde and Jenny beside her. Clyde sat next to her, holding Sarah while his mum was sat holding little Luke. It had only been two years, but already our kids were showing signs of taking on our personality. Little Luke was just like Clyde, while little Sarah was just like Rani. Little Clyde was like me, curious about everything, while Jenny was like Maria. The four of us had said they were our gang point two.
The scene changed again. Now, we were back at mum's, a few years later. The four of us were stood in the living room, me, Clyde and Adam in black suits, the girls in black dresses. The Doctor was stood in the kitchen in a black suit as well. Well, when I say the Doctor, I mean all of his regenerations. Some in black versions of their normal clothes, the skinny one in a tuxedo with black Converse (Just like me, Clyde and Adam were wearing. Wasn't really keen on proper shoes). The kids, now ten years old, were running riot. Big Jenny and Amy were trying to keep them in one place while Jade was pushing a pram trying to get my little niece to sleep. Little Hannah Jane.
And then I realised, I was crying. I knew what this was. It was mum's funeral. Mum was dead. Died in her sleep. Not the way I would have expected her to go.
The scene changed again, quickly showing mum's burial, before shifting to the living room of the house. The reading of her will.
"To my dearest son, Luke Smith, I leave the sum of £150,000, my home of Bannerman Road number 13 and my Aunt Lavinia's research papers. To my darling daughter, Jade Williams, I leave the sum of £150,000 and my county house in Morton Harwood. To my grandchildren, Clyde John Smith, Jenny Donna Smith and Hannah Jane Williams, I leave the sum of £150,000 in trust fund until their eighteenth birthday. To the first to pass their driving test, I leave my car. To the others I leave a small sum to buy a car." I saw the grin on my Clyde and Jenny's face light up. Both of them loved mum's little car, and they were very competitive. Both were as smart of me, but had their mum's sense of balance. They were great on a skateboard, unlike me, I fell over every time I tried it. They always were trying to outdo each other at school, and had leaded to me and Maria being pulled in a few times to sort them out. The will reading went on. Mum left Rani her journalist notes and books, and left Clyde a small token. I chuckled, when the solicitor left and Clyde opened the box. Inside was a K-9 unit. Mum had, in her last days, asked me and the Doctor to build a new K-9 model for Clyde. K-9 Mark V. The improved version of mine, though I got the Doctor to update Mark IV after we built Mark V. Clyde was delighted. The other thing was that me and the Doctor built the kids K-9s as well. My Clyde and Jenny had K-9 Mark 4.5, Little Luke and Sarah had K-9 Mark 5.5 while Hannah got K-9 Mark 3.5, through they all had the same technology as Marks IV and V, just a bit smaller.
The fog returned, and then the scene changed to the attic. The six of us, me and Maria, Rani and Clyde and Jade and Adam, were stood facing the four teenager twins. They were fourteen now. Well, about to turn fifteen. We were revealing our secret to them, about Mum, the aliens, The Doctor and telling my two that they were conceived on another planet. And now they were shouting at us, for keeping it secret from them for so many years. Jade was telling them to calm down. She was trying to keep Hannah away from all this until she was in her teens as well. And now, the kids were apologising for shouting and come up and hugging us.
The fog surrounded me again. But now, the fog didn't disappear this time. The fog changed colour from the grey in had been every other time to the red. The face of Ship appeared in front of me. "Luke Smith. This is what your future holds. For you and Maria. This is what you want to happen."
"But my mum. She dies in twenty years time in this timeline," I said. "I can't let that happened."
But then Ship disappeared and the fog faded, and I woke up.
No one's POV
"Luke," Maria had woken up. She too had seen her and Luke's future up to the point their children found out about the Smith family business, alien hunting. But unlike Luke, she hadn't seen her parent's death. Her mum and dad were still alive in twenty years time. But she had seen something else. The Bane were coming back. And Luke would be getting a sister born in identical circumstances. Both her and Rani would have twins to the two boys. She would be Maria Smith. And now, her boyfriend and future husband was tossing and turning, sweating buckets as he still sleep. "Luke, Wake Up! LUKE!"
Then suddenly, Luke woke and shot up from the bed, tears streaming down his face. "MARIA!" He screamed before she pulled him into a hug. "Maria. Did you see that? Did you? Did you see our future?"
"Yes Luke, I did." She said. "What did you see?"
"I saw...I saw...my Mum's funeral."
"Oh Luke! But you did see everything. The Doctor, The Tardis, our beautiful twins. Your sister, my sister. Oh, Luke! We're both getting younger sisters."
"But, Mum. Maria, she dies in twenty years time. We get married in nine years, the twins are born in ten years time." And Luke broke down in tears. "Maria, I don't know what it means. I never dream. The only times before was when Mrs Wormwood returned, and after we met Eve the first time. And now..." Maria pulled him tighter into her embrace. Was their future going to be as rosy as they had seen? Or would something change their destiny?
Can anyone guess what spoilers for this series are?
Next Chapter is totally from Sarah Jane's POV. And the title of it is "Sarah Jane's Nightmare." Anyone guess what her nightmare is? Next chapter should be up mid week.
Luke is sad :(. Reviews would make him very happy.
Thanks. Kuyoyo.
