Summary: Sequal to A lost childhood friend, while fighting an alien bent on taking over earth(what else is new?) he zaps Sarah-Jane and Alan so that they become merpeople and forced to live in the sea until their young friends can turn them back- featuring Rani, this is set when Alan and Maria come back from America
Main charaters: Sarah Jane, Alan
Secondary charaters: Luke, Maria, Clyde, Rani, Mr Smith
Disclaimer: I do not own Sarah Jane Adventures or any of it's charaters.
Note: If you haven't read 'A lost childhood friend' yet, I suggest you read it now, it's only a one-shot but it will help you understand the storyline.


Agent 23-ABP walked down a corridor, briefcase in hand and wearing a pair of dark sunglasses with his suit. The corridor itself was plain white with plain flooring, armed guards stood like statues on both ends of the corridor, all holding a large gun in the same position while wearing identical uniforms and dark sunglasses.

When he got to the end of the corridor, there was a large metal door blocking his way, he pressed his hand against a fingerprint scanner and then faced near the wall on the other side, allowing a light to scan his eye. Once that was done, the door opened and he walked in.

In the room was a large circular table. Men with suits and sunglasses on were sitting in most the places but one, which was the to the right of the seat nearest the opposite wall, where the mission leader sat.

"Ah, Agent," said the leader, "please, take a seat." He gestured to the spare seat.

"Yes sir," he replied, he walked round to the seat, putting his briefcase on the table and pulled out the chair, sitting on it and pulling it back in.

"May I have your report on your findings on the mermaid mission agent?" the leader said to him.

"Yes of course, cadet." He replied and then called to the other side of the room to the previously unseen young man standing in the corner of the room, who was wearing a suit by no sunglasses. It rushed over and stood next to Agent 23-ABP.

"Yes sir?"

Agent 23-ABP opened his briefcase and took out the camera that he used to take photos of Sarah Jane and Alan. Facing the cadet again, he held the camera out for him to take.

"Plug this camera into the whiteboard please cadet, and give me the control to operate it."

"Right away sir." The cadet replied as he took the camera, rushing over to the other side of the room, where a small desk with a laptop on stood next to a large whiteboard that was hang on the wall right opposite the mission leader. The cadet rushed over and plugged the camera into a laptop and pressed a few buttons to make it appear on the whiteboard. He then picked up a small remote control next to the laptop and gave it to the agent.

"Very good cadet, dismissed."

The cadet saluted the agent and moved back to his original spot.

"Gentlemen," Agent 23-ABP started, "When we saw the two mermaids 60 miles west of Ealing Docks via alien satellites stolen from a crashed spaceship, some of you thought it was a hoax, but we decided to investigate it anyway. Today, I am going to show you that the claim was not a hoax and give evidence of the two mermaids, their identities, location and what I believe we can do with them.

Earlier today, I managed to track the mermaids to a beach 15 miles from Landsea, a beach normally deserted because of nearer beaches to the towns nearest to it." He used the control to show a picture of Sarah Jane's car stopping outside the beach, and them getting out, "When they went onto the beach the adults, which are the mermaids, walked into the sea, stopping when it was waist-length," he showed a picture of Sarah Jane and Alan standing into the sea, "They gave their teenage friends the thumbs-up sign," the next picture showed Sarah Jane giving the double thumbs-up to the teens, "Before turning into their mermaid forms," the picture showed Sarah Jane and Alan in their mermaid forms just before they fell into the sea, resulting in raised eyebrows and a gasp or two, "They then," he carried on, ignoring the reactions, "swam back to shore and the kids drag them ashore," the next picture was the kids dragging the adults out of the sea, "They then dry off," next picture was the kids drying the kids tails, "which causes them to turn back into human form," they saw Sarah Jane and Alan sitting on the beach after being turned human,"

"They do exist then," the mission leader said as soon as Agent 23-ABP finished speaking, "Good work agent, so what are their identities and location then agent?"

"Their identities," Agent 23-ABP answered, opening his briefcase and taking a couple of sheets of paper and photos out, he slid the photos to the middle of the table, showing that they were pictures of Sarah Jane and Alan, "the women is known as Sarah Jane Smith, journalist, famous for cracking unusual cases and disappearing for a little while about 40 years ago, currently living in 13 Bannerman Road in Ealing. The man is Mr Alan Jackson, a computer security consultant, previously living at 36 Bannerman Road, opposite Miss Smith. Now living in America after getting a higher job in his firm. It is unknown if this is going to continue, seeing as him and Miss Smith are now a couple." He then changed the picture on the whiteboard of Sarah Jane and Alan kissing by the car.

"And what do you suggest we should do with them?" the leader asked.

"I suggest that we arrest these mermaids and have them tested," Agent 23-ABP answered, "Their speed of swimming and their ability to breathe underwater will result in being very useful, and even though they haven't displayed anything yet, I am almost certain that there is more to being a mermaid then having a fish's tail."

"A good suggestion," the mission leader replied, "One that we shall do if the rest of the table agrees," he then faced the rest of the table, "Which of you are supportive of the suggestion?"

All of rest of the table put their hands up.

"It's unanimous," the leader declared, and then turned to Agent 23-ABP, "When do you suggest we carry out the plan?"

Agent 23-ABP leaned forward in his seat, "Now."


As Sarah Jane's car entered the driveway of 13 Bannerman Road, they didn't fail to notice the familiar car sitting outside Rani's house, everyone except Rani of course.

"Why is there a car outside my house?" she asked puzzled, after everyone, except Maria, groaned when they saw it.

"It's Chrissie's." Alan answered, as Maria opened the door and rushed out of the car, running to the street and looking around.

"Who's Chrissie?" Rani asked, as she looked at Maria.

"His ex," Sarah Jane replied, pointing at Alan, "I have not been looking forward to this."

"Me neither," Alan replied, as they all got out the car, "I'll tell her."

"Tell who what?" came a familiar female voice from behind him, everyone looked around to see Chrissie coming out of the back gate, "Never mind, Alan, welcome back," she hugged him briefly, "what are you doing with Mary Jane?"

"Sarah Jane." Sarah Jane corrected her, looking at her in disbelieve about her coming from her back garden.

"Whatever," Chrissie replied, "Anyway, where's Maria, where's my little girl?"

"Over here mum." Maria came back from her search of the street to see her mum standing on Sarah Jane's drive.

"Maria, honey," Chrissie rushed over and hugged her daughter tightly before pulling away, "What are you still doing hanging around with Mary Jane?"

"Sarah Jane." Sarah Jane corrected her again, much to the amusement of the others.

"You know it's dangerous, remember that Sontaran thing I had to save you from." She then gasped and covered her mouth, realising her slip-up.

"Wait, you remembered?" Maria exclaimed.

"Do you think I'm stupid?" Chrissie replied, "I get knocked out and you then take me back to your home," she gestured to Rani's house, "dump me on the floor and say I tripped over my heel and hit my head. Though to be honest, I probably would have believed you if you hadn't reminded me about that new job thing. Anyway secret is safe with me, I told Mary Jane over there that."

Everyone then turned to the women in question, who was looking down to the ground, rubbing the back of her neck in a obvious guilty gesture.

"Sarah Jane, you knew she remembered?" Maria asked her.

"Well, yeh," Sarah Jane walked over to Alan, "She also said that she wanted you to have a fresh chance, I didn't want you to live in America forever wondering if she would keep the secret."

"I asked her to not tell you," Chrissie interrupted, "Anyway, Maria honey, it's too dangerous."

"Stop right there mum," Maria said, stepping back from her, "When dad found out about this, he first said that we were going to have to move away, but I ran out of the house and went to Sarah Jane's, he finally realised that I would never have forgiven him if he took me away, so he allowed us to say, the next thing you know, he helps save the universe from the moon. The point is, I don't care what you say, I'm still going to be fighting aliens with my friends and my father, and there isn't a single thing you can do to stop me, so don't even try."

Everyone looked at shock at what Maria just said, but it was finally Chrissie who finally found her voice.

"You really love doing this don't you?" Maria just nodded, "What about you Alan?"

"It's changed my life in many ways," he answered, Sarah Jane and Alan just smiled to each other.

Sarah Jane then faced Chrissie, "Chrissie, once the universe had chosen to reveal its secrets, you can never turn your back on it."

Turning back to Maria, Chrissie bend down so her face was at the same height as her daughters, "Just promise me that you will do everything to keep yourself safe, and update me every once in a while."

"Thanks mum," Maria then went over and hugged her.

"Anyway, gotta go," Chrissie said after Maria had let go, "Ivan promised to take me shopping." She then turned and started walking back towards the car.

"Chrissie wait," Alan ran forward, "I need to quickly talk to you,"

Sarah Jane knew what this was about right away, walking over to Maria and whispering to her, "Stay with him and help him tell her."

"Sure." Maria rushed off after her dad, who was trying to explain how to tell Chrissie.

"Everyone else inside." The three Jackson's watched as everyone retreated into the house.

"What is it Alan?" Chrissie asked him, "I don't exactly want to be late for the person I'm marrying in a week."

"Well Chrissie," Alan started, "On our last mission, something kind of happened to me and Sarah Jane."

"What kind of something?" Chrissie asked.

Before he could answer, a man in a suit and sunglasses came behind him and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Mr Alan Jackson?" he asked.

"Yes?" Alan answered, turning around.

"I'm afraid you will have to come with us." He replied, taking out his gun and pointing it at Alan.

"What?" Chrissie and Maria said together as Alan put his hands up.

"Step away from him ladies," the man said as more men in identical uniforms to him stepped out of a plain black car, pointing their guns at him, "This man is a mermaid, possibly very dangerous."

Chrissie turned to Maria, a look of shock and disbelieve on her face, "Seriously?"

"That was only number one." Maria replied.

"What's number two."

In answer to Chrissie's question, Sarah Jane came running out of the house after seeing what was happening though her living room window.

"Oi, get your hands off my boyfriend," she shouted at them before having to stop and put her hands up because two of the men turned and pointed their guns at her.

"You're kidding?" Chrissie said in shock of what Sarah Jane had shouted.

"That was number two." Maria muttered.

"How they hell did that happen?" asked Chrissie.

"Madam, I must ask you to be quiet." The man said, then addressed Sarah Jane and Alan, "We have permission to capture you and take you to a top secret testing lab, where your mermaid forms will be examined for use for queen and country."

"What?" Alan exclaimed, "How did you find out?"

"You came to the surface one too many times," He answered, "Now grab them."

Sarah Jane and Alan yelled and struggled as the men rushed over and grabbed them by the arms, but it was Alan that made himself heard.

"Now wait just one minute." He said it so forcefully that they all stopped to look at him, "Where we just were, it was something to attempt to get rid of our mermaid form's, Sarah Jane managed to succeed. I'm still a mermaid, but she isn't, isn't that right Maria?"

"Yeh," Maria lied swiftly, "I saw it."

"Here's the deal," Alan said to the man, "Take me, examine me, I'll go quietly, make no fuss. But you have to leave Sarah Jane alone."

"What?" Sarah Jane whispered, as she struggled against the men holding her.

For a minute, the man talked in a communicator about Alan's deal, after about a minute he put it away, "Deal."

"No!" Sarah Jane screamed, as the men realised her, she tried rushing forward to Alan but was blocked by a couple more, she tried fighting though them, tears falling down her face.

After getting handcuffed, Alan turned to the man, "Can I least say goodbye? last request."

"Fine," he replied, and nodded to the men blocking Sarah Jane who stepped aside and allowed her past.

As she ran forward, she saw his expression told her not to argue about what he was doing, after a second's thought, she decided to obey his request. As soon as she got near enough, she threw her arms round him.

"I'll miss you." She said, then separated a bit, touching his cheek, she brought him in and kissed him, ignoring Chrissie's gasp.

After a few seconds she separated from him, "I love you." She whispered to him.

"I love you too." He whispered back.

She stepped back from him, fresh tears falling down her cheeks as she watched Alan getting dragged to the car, before the put him in, one of them lifted his gun and bashed Alan's head with it, knocking him out.

"Alan!" Sarah Jane ran forward, but one of the men by the car whipped out a white gun and shot at Sarah Jane with it, causing her to collapse on the ground a second later.

"Sarah Jane!" the kids, who had came out the house a minute earlier ran with Maria to Sarah Jane's non-moving form.

Luke reached her first and grabbed her wrist, sighing in relief when he felt a pulse, looking at her, he saw a white dart poking out her shoulder.

"Tranquillised," Luke said, "Lets get her inside."

As the kids lifted her up, Chrissie walked over.

"This isn't the time mum." Maria said to her, as she put one of Sarah Jane arms round her shoulder.

"Just tell her this," Chrissie said, "Just don't break Alan's heart."

"Sure," Maria replied, "You better get going, Ivan's waiting."

They were just getting though Sarah Jane's door when Chrissie finally drove off.


After 10 minutes, they finally managed to get Sarah Jane lying on the sofa in the attic, after calling Mr Smith, he did a scan and found Sarah Jane to be all right, aside for the fact that she was still unconscious. After 20 minutes she finally started stirring.

"Mum, are you alright?" Luke asked, as they all rushed over.

Sarah Jane slowly opened her eyes and looked at her son, she reached out and touched his cheek, "Luke?"

"Yes, it's me," he answered, "How are you feeling?"

"Awful," she replied, then tears started forming in her eyes, she looked over to Maria's equal condition, "I'm sorry Maria."

"You're not the only one who's sad." Maria replied, as the two girls tried and failed to keep their tears at bay.


A couple of days later, Luke answered the doorbell to Rani.

"How are they doing?" she asked him.

"Maria's keeping herself busy," Luke replied, "Mum, she didn't even leave the sofa for the entire day, except to make meals or when she was forced too."

Going in the living room, they saw Sarah Jane sitting on the sofa with her knees up, cradling a cup of tea. Tears stains still on her eyes and cheeks, though it looked like she had finally ran out of tears.

"How are you doing?" Rani asked, sitting down and putting her arm round Sarah Jane's shoulders.

"I miss him." Sarah Jane answered, looking down into the tea.

"I know you do," Rani replied, "He did it for you."

Those words seemed to do something to Sarah Jane, something good, because she sat up, shaking herself away from Rani's arm. Putting her tea down, she leapt up from her seat and ran to the stairs.

The kids exchanged a puzzled look before following her.

"What are you doing?" Rani asked Sarah Jane, who was on top of the stairs and heading towards the attic stairs.

"I'm going to get my boyfriend back." She said, loud enough for Maria, in her bedroom and Clyde in the kitchen to hear. She then rushed towards the attic door, with all four kids on her tail.

"Mr Smith, I need you." She called as soon as she entered the attic.

After the supercomputer unfolded itself, Sarah Jane gave her instructions before it could even say a word.

"Mr Smith, I need a visual link with Torchwood Cardiff, more specially, a man called Jack Harkness."

"I will use the same signal as when you last spoke to him via the subwave network."

After a few seconds, the familiar background appeared on the screen, and a couple of voices could be heard.

"Hello, it anyone there?" Sarah Jane said.

After a few seconds, a familiar black man came on screen, "Sarah Jane!" he exclaimed.

"Mickey Smith," Sarah Jane replied, "is Captain Jack there please?"

"I'll get him," Mickey replied, he then turned his head over his shoulder and screamed "JACK!"

Within seconds, the familiar man came into view, "Sarah Jane Smith, couldn't get enough of me I see," he then stopped when he noticed Sarah Jane's tear stains, and by then Martha Jones, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones had appeared on the screen, all of them looking at her in concern, "Have you been crying?"

Sarah Jane ignored the question, "Captain Jack Harkness, I need your help."


A/N: OK, Chrissie's found out, got her reaction and Area 41 has acted. Adding Torchwood was a late decision but I like the look of a crossover, having Martha and Mickey in the team is following some other stories I have read so I included them, and in case your wondering where the doctor is, he will appear in the story, i promise. Please say your views in a review PLEASE.

so please read, review and enjoy.