Luke was currently situated on the sofa in Sarah Jane Smith's house. He was frightened, he barely knew Sarah Jane, but he was her son supposedly, and he supposedly lived here, in this house, wearing these clothes, yet everything seemed alien to him.
"Luke?" Sarah called nudging him slightly. He'd momentarily forgotten she was still here. He looked at her to see the sadness and worry in her eyes. "Luke are you alright?" she asked stroking his face, trying to calm him down, but he shook his head anyway. Sarah Jane's touch felt…comforting, but it wasn't helping out his fear in anyway.
"I'm… Fr…frightened a….and I… still don't remember anything." He whispered, but Sarah still heard him, even though he spoke in a very quiet voice. She gathered her son into her arms and rubbed circles on his back.
"Oh Luke, it'll be aright, you'll see." She soothed. Even though he wasn't crying, Sarah Jane still continued to rub circles on his back and whisper soothing words to him. Personally he didn't mind, he felt safer, that's kind of all that mattered. But then he had a thought, why did this feel familiar but nothing else. He remembered being comforted after a scary nightmare one night.
"A nightmare?" he accidently asked out loud. Sarah didn't answer, but Luke felt her body tense up. He knew that he needed to find out a bit more information about Sarah Jane before completely putting his trust into her. "So… you're my mum, and this is our house, and everything here, we share?" Sarah nodded, smiling and frowning at the same time. "But you don't look anything like me!" he pointed out and Sara gave another smile "that's an easy one!" She thought
"That's because you're adopted Luke. Before all this mess started, me and Maria had rescued you from the bane's control after blowing up the factory. You'd just saved our skins but had nowhere to go, so Mr Smith wrote up the adoption forms so you could come and live with me." She let him take in it all. She mentally slapped herself at realising that Luke would ask where his dad was now, considering she'd just mentioned him. But to her complete surprise he smiled up at her and didn't ask her about it. But squealed in realisation.
"You know about the bane, so you must be telling the truth so that means you must be my mum." He reached out to hug her and she gratefully took it. She hadn't been expecting Luke to be so clingy. The way he was dressed when she first found him, it was exactly the same as when he had been in the factory. Had he been rescued in a different way? The thought alone scared her, her poor Luke afraid and not knowing where he was. She just hoped it was UNIT that had done it. But then again who could it have been. Then she remembered the angel Luke said. "Could this have anything to do with the angel?" she silently asked herself
"Luke?" she asked him. He looked up at her. "What do you remember about the day's events?" She watched nervously as Luke gulped before telling his story.
"I…I erm, well, in … in the factory, I woke up but saw lot's of people in uniforms and there were lot's of alarms were going off. I didn't…didn't know what to do, on one side of me there was a man in uniform on the floor. But…but then in…in front of me I, I saw…saw this creature in a bright white light. He… He came up to me and whispered in…in my ear that my life…my life comes at a price, and…and the price will be paid s…soon. Mum! I think…think that he was…was telling me that I was going to die!" He said sobbing as the tears freely fell from his eyes. Sarah felt sympathy for him and opened her arms, which he gratefully crawled into.
"So that's why you're so clingy, you're scared of what that angel thing said, aren't you?" She heard a muffled sob then a meek little "yes" She couldn't help but feel her heart break. "Shh, it's alright. Listen." She said "you can't die if you're safe here with me, right.2 Luke lifted his head up.
"Well, erm… OK." He guessed, Sarah smiled, and then grabbed his hand. "Where…where are we going, Mum?" he asked. Sarah Jane looked at him
"You'll see" she said. She opened the attic door and allowed Luke to group at the wonders of the attic. While she confronted Mr Smith. After playing the fanfare played, Sarah opened her mouth to ask something but Mr Smith spoke before she had a chance.
"Luke how is it possible that you are here. You were reported dead yesterday." Sarah stared, eyes wide open at the computer. Before turning to her son. What on earth was going on?
