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It has been a hectic summer for me, working in a charity shop, getting my results (6 C's! :D ), starting sixth form and looking after little year sevens who have got our old shirts which are bright yellow and getting homework on my first day of lessons.

I hope you will all enjoy this chapter, I must admit not a lot of action but I'll try and get more in to it in the next few chapters. Thank you all who have reviewed my story, although I do have a sneaking suspicion that the people who just write initials are all the same person...hmm. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you to my beta reader maxibatts as well. :)

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The Time Traveller

Chapter Six

Sarah Jane watched over everyone as they all slept on various pieces of furniture. This was definitely not how she wanted to spend her evening. Her eyes moved over to where Clyde and Rani slept and she smiled slightly. Clyde was lying on the floor next to Rani who was sleeping on a rickety sun lounger with her head close to Clyde's, as if they were cuddling. Rani had calmed down a lot during the evening, but she still felt uneasy with the danger around her, so to keep her calm Clyde had offered to stay near her and keep watch whilst she slept, only to have him drop off to sleep half an hour later. How can they not notice? She thought with a shake of her head.

She glanced over at her son who was sleeping peacefully, not too far away from Trix. She frowned. Even after Trix's explanation of where she went after the library, she was still suspicious. She had no idea exactly who she was and whether she could be trusted. It was just too much of a coincidence that she appeared out of nowhere on exactly on the same day that the Judoon have appeared around London. She couldn't have her family and friends put in any more danger, so she needed to be one hundred percent sure that she could trust the teen. She looked at her watch noting that it was two thirty in the morning, and decided to get some sleep so that she would be able to get up in the morning. With a yawn, she laid back on a moth eaten mattress that had some very sharp springs poking out and pricking her in the back. Sarah Jane promptly fell asleep, content that everyone was safe for the time being.

Trix woke suddenly, looking over to where Sarah Jane slept. Confident that she was asleep, Trix quietly stood up and crept over to where Clyde slept and gently opened one of the zipped pockets on his jacket. Clyde stirred and Trix froze with her fingers just inches away from the key inside his pocket. She didn't even dare to breathe for risk of being caught in a very compromising position. Clyde sighed and shifted closer to Rani, his eyes still clamped shut. Trix sighed inwardly and finally pulled the key out of his pocket. Sighing quietly in relief, Trix quietly walked towards the entrance of the old warehouse. As she passed Luke he woke up sleepily and found Trix creeping towards the door.

He quietly stood up and followed Trix out of the door, careful not to wake everyone else up. Trix headed out of the door of the warehouse and ran towards the gates surrounding the warehouse. Luke quietly closed the door behind him.

"What are you doing?" He demanded quietly. Trix screamed slightly, spinning around and clutching her chest. Luke checked that Sarah Jane and his friends hadn't woken up and sighed in relief, seeing them slumbering peacefully.

"Stop doing that! You nearly gave me a heart attack." Trix hissed at him as he crept over to her, careful not to step on anything that would make a noise.

"Where are you going?" he whispered curiously. Trix eyed him, wondering whether she could trust him. She sighed as her shoulders slumped. She showed Luke the key she had taken from Clyde's pocket.

"I need to get to a school called Park Vale comprehensive. I borrowed a locker key from the headmaster's desk so I could keep my things in one place while I travel." She explained, watching Luke as he turned the key over in his hands. "I just wanted to go and get some clean clothes."

"That's my school. It wouldn't be open until eight o'clock though. How did this key turn up under a plant pot in my front garden?" he asked her with a frown. Trix turned away and rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. Luke raised an eyebrow.

"When I left the library I accidently turned up outside your house. Your friends Clyde and Rani were chasing something in your house whilst you and Sarah Jane were driving off with a man." Luke raised his other eyebrow.

"The restaurant lunch with Peter Dalton!" he exclaimed suddenly, causing Trix to hiss at him to stay quiet. He mumbled a sorry before indicating her to continue.

"When the coast was clear I ran over and hid the key under the plant pot. But then my Vortex Manipulator malfunctioned and I ended up in 1940." She finished as they walked over to a wooden crate to sit down.

"But why hide it at my house?" Trix's face started to heat up and her cheeks were growing pinker by the minute.

"I...I thought you seemed like someone I could trust." She mumbled looking at her hands on her lap. Luke stared at her in surprise but then smiled widely, feeling quite proud of himself. They sat in silence for a while listening to each other breathing and distant cars drive on the road. Trix looked up at the night sky and stared at the sparkling stars.

"They're beautiful aren't they?" she spoke wistfully. Luke glanced at her staring at the sky and followed her gaze. "Stars, I mean. They're not bad for hydrogenous balls of gas, are they?" She grinned at him, letting out a small chuckle.

"What's it like on your planet?" Luke asked out of the blue, turning to look at Trix hopefully. The grin on Trix's face fell. Luke frowned as he watched her stand up and cross her arms across her chest.

"I can't really remember...it's been such a long time. I left when I was fourteen and I haven't been back since." She said quietly. Luke stood up and stood next to her. "It was very much like Earth. The people on Stowe-Mark-Two were very grateful to Earth because of an accident that happened many years ago. A ship had been flying above your planet, carrying a disease to a black hole on the other side of the universe to be deposited. Sort of like dumping rubbish on the side of the road. But there was a ship malfunction and it crashed to Earth somewhere in one of the big countries...America I think."

"Could that have been the Roswell crash?" Luke thought out loud. Trix frowned in thought trying to remember, before shaking her head.

"No, that was a totally different race. Anyway, the epidemic had been stopped but a lot of people had died so to keep it a secret and so that Stowe-Mark-Two wouldn't be put in solitary confinement by the Shadow Proclamation, we joined an alliance." She smiled slightly. Silence fell between them again, but neither of them minded. They were content in a companionable silence and it wasn't awkward at all. In the distance behind the tall buildings of London, the sky lit in to a pink colour. Luke and Trix watched until the sky and turned in to an orange colour. Trix covered a yawn that was escaping her mouth. Luke caught her movement from the corner of his eye.

"We should probably go to sleep." Luke suggested turning towards the warehouse, his eyes drooping slightly. "What time is it?" Trix shrugged and grabbed his wrist staring at the watch hidden underneath his jacket sleeve.

"Five o'clock. You must be tired to forget you have a watch on." She grinned before another yawn escaped her mouth. They walked sluggishly back inside the warehouse and got settled on the floor where they were sleeping earlier (or pretending to sleep in Trix's case). Just as Luke was about to fall asleep on his side, Trix rolled over and nudged his shoulder. Luke opened a weary eye.

"What is it?" he whispered quietly. He leaned on his elbow and rubbed his eyes to stay awake a tiny bit longer.

"You never did tell me who you all are. You better tell me in the morning so I know that I can trust you." She whispered sternly before lying down on her back. Luke frowned.

"But I thought you said you already trusted us?" Trix rolled over and frowned at him.

"No, I never said I did trust you, I said you seemed trustworthy." She corrected him. "Besides, I told you all about me. What about all of you?"

Luke opened his mouth to reply but stopped. If he told Trix about who they were and what they did then it would be another person joining their team and another person in danger. Sarah Jane wouldn't allow it; she was already worrying about all of them being put in danger. Just imagine what she would be like if she had four people to watch out for. Trix sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Luke, if you're worried about me joining your group then don't. I wouldn't want to join anyway. I enjoy travelling too much." She grinned at him. Luke sighed and smiled slightly before laying back down and rolling over so that his back faced Trix.

"Goodnight." He whispered over his shoulder before slowly falling asleep. Trix rolled over on to her side and laid her head on her arm, using it as a pillow. She frowned thoughtfully before quietly sitting up and reaching in to the pocket of her skirt. Pulling out her notebook and a spare pencil, she opened her notebook and wrote a note in it, glancing at Luke before lying back down, letting the sleep consume her. Her notebook still lay open in her hand, with a small note written in the middle of the page.

There's too much coincidence around Luke Smith.