Jace-- (Sorry for two in a row, but it works :) )

"Stop this wedding now!" Dad shouted as we ran in together, everyone staring at us as Luke got to his feet. Huh, he, he was older now, about 16, just a little younger than me. He looked nerdy, geeky, but with really kind eyes. "I said, stop this wedding. Callie!"

A strong wind blew through the room, and I tried to counteract that. "Dad, it's not working!"

"Alert! Alert! Danger, Mistress!" K9 called, moving forward, towards her and the man she was with, Peter something.

"Stop! Get away from him!" I shouted, the glass behind her starting to splinter from my voice, the power still in there, even though I wasn't singing. Damn, this wasn't good, it was getting stronger again.

Sarah shook her head, trying to get to us, but her betrothed held her arm tight. "No! Peter, no!"

"Don't be afraid, Sarah Jane. It's the Angel." And then a faceless figure in white appeared, flicking as I tried to sing again, but the wind was crushing my vocal chords.

Luke tried to get to her now, fighting against the time waves that were pushing us back. "Mum! Mum!"

"Sarah!" We shouted together. "Trickster, let her go!"

"Too late, Time Lord and Lady." Ugh, I was so not a Lady, you should see me eat a Big Mac. "You're mine, Sarah Jane Smith. Mine forever."

No, no, no, no, not now! "Sarah! Sarah Jane!" I screamed, and she shouted back for us, but dad then pulled me back as my breath was taken away again, and everything went white. Great, my least favourite colour, er, shade. Damn, Girl Of Colours should know the difference between shades and colours. OK, even unconscious, I was sassing my own brain.

"Callie?" I heard someone ask hesitantly, shaking my shoulder. Hm, nice warm hands, really nice. "Callie, uh, it, it's Luke. Callie?"

Groaning, I sat up a little, until my forehead collided with his, making me drop back down. "Ow! Damn, ow, shit."

"Language, Calliope."

I opened my eyes again, seeing Luke's perfect blue ones looking down at me, a red mark on his forehead from where we headbutted each other. "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention." I muttered, blinking quickly, trying to get rid of the headache that the bright white the light of the room was giving me. "Nice to meet you in the Flesh, Luke, not so nice that they just connected very painfully."

He smiled a little at me, before realising that something was up. "What, what happened? Mum and the Trickster."

I put my hand on his arm as dad went around sorting out the other two kids. Clyde and Rani. "Luke, Luke, Luke, Luke, listen to me. Everything's going to be all right. We can find Sarah. I can bring her back. I promise. But we need you to be strong for us, just like you were before. I know you can do it." I smiled at him, and he managed to smile back at me. OK, he was seriously cute...

"Who are you two?" Clyde, unless he had a weird name for a guy.

"Hello, Clyde." Dad smiled, shaking his hand as the girl also sat up. "And that will be Rani."

That made him frown a little. "What? How'd you know my name? Who's the girl with Luke?"

Except Rani realised. "Wait a moment. You must be. It's you two, isn't it?"

"That's us." Dad agreed, not really paying attention to what was being said.

"The Doctor, and Jace, well Callie now." I liked Rani, she was fast, like, journalist fast.

Luke nodded, helping me get to my feet. "That's them."

Clyde shook his head a little as I brushed my hair off my face, seeing the soft pastel colours of their voices only temporarily filling the stark blankness of the room. "I hope you're both as good as Sarah Jane says you are."

That made me laugh, easily doing a cartwheel across the room. "Well, you know journalists, always exaggerating. But yeah, we're pretty amazing on a good day." I realised I was overly cocky, even if the cartwheel was a perfect ten. "Sorry, I'm not used to being this full of myself, but good to know that I still have some sort of humbleness. God knows dad doesn't."

"Thanks, Callie." Oh, so you were listening.

"Master, Mistress Calliope, query. Where is Mistress Sarah Jane?"

And now dad was completely engrossed in the dog. "K9! Did you miss me. Did you miss me, eh?"

"Repeat. Whereabouts of Sarah Jane? Where is she?" Good, at least he was on track.

Clyde frowned a little, facing out into the bright white of the windows. Damn that hurt. "Where are we?"

I pressed my hand to the still splintered glass, feeling out for what had happened. "There's been a dimensional shift. Time's moved on but us, and this entire building, we've been left behind. That's why it's white, why your voices keep fading, they're bleeding back into real time, not staying. No echoes."

"There's nothing out there."

"I said all along, I knew there was something wrong about all of this." The oldest human in the room, Clyde, told us. "And what exactly is going on?"

Which dad didn't help. "I'll explain later."

So all three spoke at once, the colours helping me, but the sounds not helping dad, so I started to sing, which silenced everyone, and they all stared. "Thank you, and yes, I have a hypnotic voice.Here's the answer to all your questions. Yes, that was the Trickster. Yes, we're trapped. Yes, dad and I the only ones who can get us out of the trap. Yes, we're going to bring Sarah Jane, and your mum and dad, and all the others back safe, but we can't do any of it without you."

The Bannerman Road gang stared at us. "You, you need us?"

"Just like Sarah Jane needs you." Dad agreed, putting a proud hand on my shoulder. Come on, I was 54, not really a little kid. To be fair, I did only feel about 17 again.

"My mum and dad, where are they?" Rani asked, hugging her arms around herself in the garish pink dress. Never been overly fond of the colour pink.

"Just go along with them, Rani. I saw them save the world."

I laughed at that, shaking my head as my long dark hair swished. "You helped us save the world, Lukey boy."

At which point dad took charge, taking his hands out of his pockets and turned towards the door. "Right. Come on, we can use the TARDIS. I assume everybody knows what the TARDIS is, unless you've really not been paying attention. And, allons-y!" And we ran there, but the space where the big blue box had landed was now empty. "Oh,no, no, no, no. It was there. It was right there."

There was then a noise, thick and viscous gold as she tried to break back through. "Wait, wait, wait."

"That noise." Rani realised. "I've heard it before."

"That was us, trying to break through." Dad replied, staring as she then started to get thrown back again. "Got knocked back by the Trickster."

K9 then told us why, well, Sarah Jane's lot, anyway. I understood the physics, it was easy. "Temporal schism is preventing TARDIS materialisation."

And now Clyde was skeptical. "Wait a minute. That's the TARDIS? It's just a wooden box."

"Come on, you can do it. More power. Come on!" Dad shouted, but she couldn't hold it, fading away. "Okay, got no TARDIS. It can't materialise here until time moves forward."

"What, so we're trapped here, wherever this is?"

I shook my head. "No. Because what have we got? We've got K9.And we've got you three. And any friend of Sarah Jane Smith is a friend of ours."

"But where is this?" Clyde asked as Luke moved closer to me, looking back at his friends from where I was stood. We both still had red marks on our heads from where we'd headbutted each other by accident. "What's happened to the rest of the world?"

"Our present location nowhere, no when." K9 told them, while I understood why the walls weren't resonating time as they were supposed to.

Luke frowned a little, looking at me. "No when?"

"Look at the clocks." Dad replied softly as I took off my cardigan, the leather jacket too hot for the weather. Except now it was roasting when I'd been cold all of five minutes ago. Strange.

"Time's stopped."

Clyde stared at us. "What? You're joking."

Dad shook his head now, looking as the second hand of the clock ticked backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards on the same second. "No. Time hasn't stopped. This second's on a loop. Twenty three seconds and twenty three minutes past three o'clock."

"And we're caught inside it." I agreed, pacing a little. "In this one second."

"But again, where is Sarah Jane?" Clyde pointed out. Oh, keep up, Lovey.

"I think she's right here."

Rani was pacing now too, following me a little in my haste. "So we've been kept behind in this second."

K9 moved forwards a little. "Affirmative Mistress Rani."

"But the rest of the world, Mum and Dad and everyone else, they've moved on from here, forwards in time. Why has the Trickster trapped us here?"

Dad shrugged distractedly, scanning for something. Not that he'd find anything, I'd already tried. "Oh, come on, Rani. You know the answer to that."

"We're Sarah Jane's friends, all of us. Her best friends." Penny in the air.

Come on, she had to get that. "Yeah. Which means?"

The penny dropped. "Hostages. He can use us to get at her."

"We've met the Trickster before, but we've never found out who he is."

Oh, I knew. I'd met his Beetle, the one who tried to undo everything Donna did for dad after losing me. That hadn't been fun, watching her kill herself. Bad Wolf. "The Trickster is a creature from beyond the universe. Forever trying to break in to our reality, manifest himself. He's one of the Pantheon of Discord."

"That's a good name for a band." Clyde commented.

Hmmm, hadn't thought of that. "Yeah, actually, not bad. He's an eternal exile, who exists to wreak havoc. But we can fight him, the five of us. And we can win." And then I got a trace of something, a flash of Sarah Jane's dark green as dads sonic started to beep. "Oh! Ha, that's it. A time trace. Just a hint of Sarah Jane. Ooo, she's close."

Then Rani shivered quickly. "What was that? Felt like someone just walked over my grave."

Dad whirled in a flurry of coat vents, facing her as I did. "Oh, oh, oh, she's here. She's here! Sarah!"

"Sarah Jane." She corrected. "She doesn't like being called Sarah." Since when?

"She does by us. K9?"

"Scanning, Master, Mistress Calliope."

"Doctor! CJ!"

Luke looked around quickly. "Mum. That was her."

"K9, isolate the time trace."

The dogs little radar ears started spinning from his order. "Affirmative, Master." Then they stopped."Temporal schism divided in two, Master."

And then I realised. "Yes, of course. We're trapped here in 3:23:23. and Sarah Jane's trapped too, just in another second. Our noise is bleeding through the gaps into the void, and so is hers, but there's a link holding us together. Maybe if we're loud enough, in the right place, we get through to her?"

"Hold on." Clyde interjected, stopping my train of thought. Great, I'd almost worked something out then. "You said you'd explain later. Well, it's later. Please explain."

Dad got on with it as I started scanning again. "The Trickster doesn't want us helping Sarah, so he's separated us, trapped us in two different seconds."

"Doctor. Callie!"

I turned to see where the voice came from, up the stairs and I sprinted. "Oh, oh, she's upstairs. Come on. Luke, K9, watch for the TARDIS, you see it coming back, shout the place down."

"Orders accepted, Mistress."

Dad was close behind me. "You two with us. Spit spot." We ran back through, but we went right back into the main room again. "She's here. If I can narrow the link ratio." He went to try, but a voice stopped him.

"Doctor. Seer."

We looked to see the Trickster, gruesome and proud in the black robe once more. "Ah. You look better in black. Or is white the new black? I don't know, I don't pay much attention to fashion, dad said that's a typical Time Lord thing."

The Creature smiled bitterly at us through cracked, shrivelled lips. "At last. Doctor, Calliope. I could feel this moment reverberating back through the ages. The meeting of the Pantheon of Discord and the last of the Time Lords, with his hybrid daughter." Um, thanks, I guess. I was more than a hybrid, I was badass squared.

"I've known the legends of the Pantheon since I was a little boy, well before my daughter was born. I've fought your shadows and your changelings. My daughter single handedly fought one of your more malicious forms, the Time Beetle, stopping the universe from unravelling. I never thought we'd actually meet."

"And I know the legends of the Doctor. The man of ice and fire, who walked among gods, who once held the Key to Time in his hands. His daughter, the Bad Wolf, the Girl of Colours, able to shatter the very skeleton of someone with just her voice, and liked it." Hey, that was a dark time, don't you dare bring it up. "She took apart the Dalek Empire at the age of 15, not knowing of her full heritage. Now they are surrounded by children."

Dad's voice lowered to a honey gold growl, like the sickly syrup coating something to smother it. "They're our friends. Which reminds me, you're looking a bit lonely for a Pantheon."

The crude smile hadn't yet left the worm like lips. "I embody multitudes. And who are you, the man who has lost everybody, to talk to me of loneliness, when the Gate is waiting for you? A Gate your daughter will watch you cross through?"

I stepped forward, putting dad behind me. "What do you mean? Come on, you ugly ass son of a bitch, we're trapped, what can we do? Tell me what you meant!"

Except he ignored me completely, still with a fixed gaze on dad behind me. "Sarah Jane Smith is my prize. Even you, Doctor, didn't realise how wonderful she is."

"What do you want with her?"

"What I always want from any of those I visit. Her agreement. Goodbye, Doctor. Goodbye, Calliope."

He vanished then, and I looked at dad, who seemed to be working something out. Good, because I was maiming that thing. "Her agreement. The power of words. She says I do, and. Yes, that's it!"

Clyde blinked at him. "That's what?"

"She promises to love and honour her husband, the wedding ring goes on and then she's agreed to it. She's totally under the Trickster's power. Marital bliss, but she forgets all about this. She starts living a new life." Oh, you were kidding me.

Which Rani understood. Wow, I was really missing Luke, and it had only been a few minutes. "Forgetting about her old life protecting the Earth."

"And the planet's wide open, so aliens can just barge in?"

That made sense, unfortunately. "Without Sarah, without you lot saving the world from your attic in Ealing, there'll be chaos and destruction. Meat and drink to the Trickster."

The only natural born male human scoffed. "As if she's gonna say yes."

"But she will, won't she. Because we're here." I said softly, before my voice was drowned out by the overpowering groan and wheeze of the TARDIS time engines. "Beautiful. Yes! It's homing in on Dad. Emergency program, protecting the pilot. Of course. Partial materialisation."

Luke ran in then, and the cold I'd started feeling finished, starting to warm up now he was around again. OK, I was really confused, what the hell was going on here? "What's happening?"

Dad was getting all fanboy over his ship again. "Look, that's pure artron energy. TARDIS power. Equal and opposite to the Trickster's power, just like Callie's voice. That's how we can fight him." He ran forward, unlocking the TARDIS door as I grabbed Luke, pulling him towards the door. Man, his warm hands... They were so lovely, perfectly opposite to my own icy ones half the time. "Run!"

A strong wind started pushing us back, crushing my ability to breathe, let alone sing. "Doctor!" Rani shouted, pulling me as well as I pulled Luke.

"Come on, all of you, get in. Come on now." Dad shouted again, managing to grab Clyde's hand, but he couldn't pull him in, the door slamming shut as the boy was thrown against it, artron energy coursing through him. Because that wasn't likely to make him grow an extra limb or anything.

"Clyde!" Luke and I shouted, running to check on him.

I pressed a small amount of sound into him, and he responded, making me relax a little. "He's just fine, a little shocked, don't let him out in a thunderstorm for about 10 years."

Rani sighed a little. "It's just us then."

"You all right?" Luke asked me and Clyde, seeing how I was holding my chest.

"Yeah. I think. He'll come back for us, won't he?"

"He will." I coughed, trying to clear my throat. "Yeah, I'm fine. Time winds, they're hard to breathe through when your DNA is time. It's like trying to breathe your own breath. You suffocate."

The other girl was still worrying about dads disappearance. "What if he can't?"

"He will." I replied firmly. "Luke, wait here for him. We'll check with K9."

He nodded, helping to push me to my feet as my chest was still trying to recover from the time winds. Why was it, I couldn't think straight with him near me, it was like my hearts kept beating so hard because they wanted him to hear them. I was so confused."The power of the TARDIS could fight the Trickster. Something energy." Rani muttered as we walked through into the lobby.

"Artron energy. Residue of TARDIS engines. Known to be highly inimical to certain time-sensitive life forms. It's what made the Time Lords what we are, giving us our gifts. Actually, gifts were still rare, especially ones as powerful as mine"

"There is no TARDIS." The girl reminded us. Hey, what was I, a duck?

Until Clyde held up his hand, a blue ball of the energy bubbling in his palm. Oh, that was not good. "Artron Energy. Not enough to do much, but you have it in you now, not sure how long it'll last. You can protect Luke and Rani here while I face the Trickster."

The boy shook his head. "No. We can fight him. K9 can protect them." Oh, no, no, first rule of dad's, never endanger people. "Wecan get close to the Trickster with this and your voice."

"Clyde, you can't. You don't know what you're doing." Rani told him, but I saw his point. The tactical advantage if there were two of us who could hurt him.

"When has that ever stopped us? It's what Sarah Jane would do. It's what the Doctor taught her, taught Callie. I've got no choice, Callie, come on."

Since when was he in charge? Eh, it was a good plan to be honest. We opened the door to the hotel, and he gave me a small nod as Rani begged us to stop. "Trickster!" I shouted, my voice resonating the bright white of Limbo, a posh term for the void. Hated the void, but it was a necessary evil to help Sarah.

The doors closed after us as he appeared in the mists that were slowly overwhelming my senses. "Clyde Langer, Seer. Why do you call me? Why do you leave your fathers side?" He left me, actually.

"I wish to serve you." Clyde told him. "I wish to join the Pantheon."

"You are of no importance. The Seer is pure power, the ability to control sound."

Oh, now that was something I really was, and I knew how to play up to it. "I know something. A secret. Something that can help you." We reached him, and he held out his hand. Clyde grabbed it before he could realise, and when I started to sing, he realised his mistake. "This was why you shouldn't trust me, because you're right. I did enjoy shattering spines. Not that it'll happen again."

But then the energy was flowing out of me, and I started screaming with Clyde, and we faded back into the wedding room, except this time Sarah Jane was there with Peter, and I let go, seeing dads terrified face, just before the TARDIS dematerialised. Great, we were on our own. We both dropped, but whereas he passed out, I just gagged, the taste of nothing burning through my tastebuds. At least the pastel colours of reality tasted like candyfloss.

"Doctor! Clyde, no." Sarah knelt besides us, taking my hand as she cradled Clydes head in my lap. "Callie, Callie, it's OK." Then Sarah Jane looked at her beloved. "Peter, I do love you, but the Doctor's right. There is another way out."

"Do not listen to her lies." The Trickster tried to say, but I sang again, and he cried out in pain. That's right, Mofo, I'm awesome.

She shook her head sadly, looking right at Peter. "Your accident. He can only talk to people who are about to die. He comes to them in that final moment. He gives them back their life."

He looked back at her, eyes wide. "What do you mean?"

"Clyde and Rani said your house was empty. Why did you never let me see your house? You died in that accident, Peter. But he needed you, so he kept you half alive. And if we got married the bargain would be complete. He would bring you back to life."

"Your love brought me back to life." Peter replied, his voice filling the white room with yellow fear and pale blue fear. "How can that be wrong, to save a life?"

"Look at this, this is what he'll do to millions of people unless, unless you break your deal with him. Look at Callie, what it takes for her to just keep him weak." Oh, was that why the room was spinning, I hadn't noticed.

Peter shook his head, looking pained. "But I'll lose you. I'll die. I don't want you to be alone."

Sarah Jane was crying now, looking terrified of the times to come. "I love you but I can't love you. You said you'd do anything to save me. If you love me, you know what you have to do."

And that was it, I knew what was happening as Peter moved towards the Trickster as he realised. "No."

"You got one thing exactly right." The man told him. "Sarah Jane and I, we were made for each other. we're the perfect match. And I know what she would do."

The Trickster knew he was done for now, so I stopped what I was doing, lying on the floor in a vain attempt to stop everything from slowly vibrating back and forth, but it just made things worse, Sarah Jane holding my hand tight to stop me from throwing up. That was not a pretty thought. "But I chose you because you didn't have the strength."

"You really don't know my Sarah Jane, do you? She gave me the strength. And I withdraw my agreement."

"No!" And then he was gone, and Peter turned back to face Sarah Jane, tears streaming down her face as she watched him.

"So, here I go. I wish I'd always known you."

I slowly sat up to wrap and arm around the woman, now only a few years my elder. Fun times, me growing old in the past and people staying the same age around me. "I love you, Peter."

He smiled back at her, letting go of her hand. "And I love you, Sarah Jane Dalton."

Then he was gone in a shower of sparkles, dad, Luke and Rani running in followed by a long distance by K9. "Dad!"

"Mum!"

"Luke. Doctor. Oh, Doctor, CJ." Sarah wept, and he wrapped his arms around the lot of us as we started to go back to where we were supposed to be. Seriously, the room was spinning like when dad accidentally put the TARDIS on carnival mode.

He smiled at her, pausing to kiss my hair. "My Sarah Jane. You did it. The trap's broken. Time's moving forward again, We're going home. Callie, try not to throw up just yet." Thanks, dad.

"Hold on!" Luke shouted as the winds around us started to pick up, but I was so warm being near him. Ok, I give up, its just a nice feeling.

"We're all going home." Dad shouted again, until he was gone, and I was stood where Peter had been, dad no where to be seen. Great, yet another disappearing act.

"If any person can show just cause or impediment why they may not be joined together let them speak now or forever hold their peace."

Everyone was staring at us, and I moved closer, seeing Sarah Jane biting back tears. "Where's he gone? Sarah's bloke, where's he gone? Who's she, is that what's her face from Buffy?" Seriously, what was Buffy?

"He was just there."

"Where's The Doctor gone?" I heard Luke as the others, letting Sarah hug me for a moment, holding her tight. It hurt, to suddenly lose your world. When I lost Katie, my little sister... It hurt so bad, like I was dying.

Rani frowned, looking between Luke and Clyde. "That all really happened, didn't it?"

"Yeah."

K9 moved forward from under the cake trolley. Why, Clyde? "Affirmative."

Luke got to his feet, moving towards us. "Mum? Callie?"

"I'm sorry, everybody." Sarah Jane said with a thick voice, facing the small crowd of her friends here. "I'm afraid the wedding is cancelled."

She walked away then, and I followed slowly, picking up her bouquet as she dropped it. I drove us back to her house, a lovely 3 storey building in Ealing, letting her change out of her dress as I made us some coffee, with that added bonus of whiskey. For some reason that was called an Irish coffee, not overly sure why. "Mister Smith, I need you."

The super awesome super computer came out with a green fanfare, the swirling screen having a whale of a time with small data sounds. He was basically bad ass. "Welcome back, Sarah Jane. Nice to meet you, Callie."

"Mum, are you all right?" Luke asked, coming into the attic with Clyde and Rani, all still in their wedding outfits.

"I'm going to be fine, I've got you, haven't I?" She smiled, getting to her feet and hugging him. He was lovely, really lovely. OK, now I sounded like Cassie from Skins.

"I can't believe the Doctor ran off like that."

I nodded, playing with my hair. "Sudden disappearing acts. That's him all over."

"Sarah Jane, Callie, escalation of temporal flux."

"Temporal flux escalating." K9 echoed, and I saw the familiar gold glow of the TARDIS materialising.

"Seriously, dad, how did you get her to fit?" I asked the air, as he then stuck his head out of the door.

His face was still happy, just a little hurt. "What do you take me for, Sarah, Callie? Just thought I'd go the quick way, leaving you behind." He then realised where he was. "Ooo, I like it in here."

Rani was the first to get up courage. "Can we have a look?"

"What, in the TARDIS? My TARDIS!"

Dad, you were such a goddamn Spaz. "Course you can, yeah." I told them, leading the way inside with a laugh, Luke coming in behind me, then the others.

"Oh, wow. It really is, isn't it? It's bigger on the inside."

"It's beautiful."

"Transcendental dimensions." OK, brilliant, I loved Luke for getting that. Huh, love. Weird feelings.

Clyde reached out to hit a button on the console, on that activated said Carnival mode, and my stomach was still churning slightly. "Wow, what does this do?"

Sarah Jane batted his hand away fondly. "Hey, don't touch." Then she looked at me and dad, my father checking me over with the sonic. Great, helicopter parenting. "You came all that way for me."

Did she not know why? She was amazing, she was dads best friend. "You're so important. Not just to us. The Trickster wanted to end your story, but it goes on. The things you've done, Sarah, they're pretty impressive, but, oh, the things you're going to do."

"The future." Luke cried, looking at us. "How about we could go for a ride?"

"Or back." His friend added. "To the dinosaurs, yeah?"

The other girl now had a plan. "Another planet?"

But their guardian had a complaint. "No way. For one thing, you were grounded by the Judoon." OK, how did they manage that one, and how can I undo it so we can joyride in the TARDIS? "And your parents would never forgive me. Go on."

They all went out, and I followed them, feeling like I'd made fast friends for once. "So, what did you think?" I asked, picking up a small device on the side. "How the hell do you have a Kanto Stasis Ball?"

Which got Luke exited again. "Is that what it is? Mum's had Mr Smith trying to work out what this thing was for weeks now!"

"Yeah, you just throw it at a hostile alien, and it gets trapped inside until you press the button on the front. Instant prison." I replied, throwing it up and catching it again. Loved these things, great way to stop a Raptor in it's tracks. "Got anything else you need identifying?"

Clyde and Rani then started finding things, while Luke stayed stood with me. "You're amazing, Callie, really." He told me, his big blue eyes wide and sincere. Aw, he was so sweet... "Um, I, uh, was wondering, maybe, if, you, maybe, wanted to-"

"Basically, he's asking you out." I blinked, turning to look at Clyde. "He's rubbish when it comes to girls, so please say yes so he can at least get some experience."

Wow. Um. Right. Dating. One person and another, on a date. I'd never expected to be in this situation, but, well. Why not? "Sure. I, um. Give me your phone, I'll give you my number." I took it from him, putting the number in, as well as the TARDIS landline, as Sarah Jane came out of the TARDIS, giving me a quick hug. "I know it doesn't feel like it, Sarah, but it does get better, I promise. I'm so sorry."

She nodded, and I backed into the TARDIS, the doors closing in front of me as Luke waved with a bright, shy smile on his face, giving me another of those warm feelings. OK, what the hell was going on with me?

But hey, I had a date.