Callie:

"I'm really happy you came out with me." Luke smiled, sitting down opposite me at the restaurant as I self-consciously smoothed down my skirt. "I've been really looking forwards to seeing you again, Callie."

I smiled back at him, playing with the end of my hair now, the warmth that I always felt around him back in full force, and it was so lovely. I was genuinely turning into Cassie from skin's around this guy too, it was so weird.

"I'm happy that I came out too. I've been looking forward to this all week, tried to get dad to move us closer in time, but well..." I laughed a little, knowing that Dad wasn't overly happy that I had a date. Protective parent, let's me single handedly defeat a Dalek, but gets worried about me going on a date.

Luke laughed too, smiling thanks at the waitress who came to give us two glasses of water and the menus. "Mum was really protective too, don't worry. Surprisingly it was Clyde who managed to convince her to let me take you out here."

"Damn, Clyde didn't seem the persuasive one, either." I giggled, playing with the end of my currently straight dark hair. Took a while, what with the length, but it did go straight. "More seemed like Rani. She wants to be a journalist, right?"

He nodded, quickly scanning the menu down before looking back up at me. Super memory, he only had to look once, whereas the words weren't that bright in regards to my synaesthesia. The brighter and more out standing the words, the faster I could memorise the colour patterns and that improves the recall capacity of my brain. "Mum thinks she's got the stuff to make it too, but wants her to come on a few Investigations to be sure. She's just got to wait until she's a little older."

"Yeah, probably best. You can take on aliens and make it home for tea, but one slightly wrong move on a journalism trip, and you're in prison, being bailed by your angry parents."

"Something tells me your dad wouldn't need to bail you, Callie." Luke smiled, and his bright blue eyes lit up, sparkling like sapphires in the sun. "And that he wouldn't be all to angry about you getting arrested, as long as you could explain why."

That was actually a very good point. Let's just not tell him about what happened on the parallel Earth, where I was locked in my room with a deadlock seal every night. Sleepwalking was not good. "That is very true, Luke. And your mum is very likely to be the one to get you arrested, isn't she?"

"Mums very good at getting right out of it, though. Because of her time in UNIT, she does have friends in high places." Luke agreed. "I think I'm going to get the jacket potato, what do you want, CJ?"

Hmmm... Given that not long ago, the idea of eating in front of someone made me want to throw up, I wasn't sure what I wanted to eat. Most of it was nice, I did know that, but it was still worrying that all the work I put into feeling comfortable around eating, could go in a heartsbeat if I chose the wrong food.

"Um... Carbonara." I said after a short pause. It was the least messy, I'd decided. "Carbonara with some coke."

"Good choice, Miss." A waitress told us, appearing by our side. "So that would be the bolonaise jacket potato and the carbonara and two cokes?"

We agreed, and the overly enthusiastic waitress wandered off to take the orders to the kitchen, leaving us alone again. "So, who told you about this place?"

"Mum did. Said it was a great place, really good food." Luke replied, nibbling on a breadstick from the middle of the table. "I backed it up with a load of the reviews on Mr Smith. He's got access to everything, near enough."

Hmm. That was a little strange. "Dad said the same thing when he told me where you were taking me. He said that he'd been here, and that he loved the food."

Now Luke paused, looking around the restaurant where people were quietly chatting around us, all doing there own thing. Every table was full, meaning that the ones closest to the back were hidden from view. "You don't think..."

"Luke, they've both been really worried about this date, they've both gotten us late in our lives, sort of, and they're both capable of getting places other people aren't." I told him. "Dad's happy that when I regenerated, I regenerated to an age where I still needed a dad, but I'm still likely to grow up again. Your mum has you all the time. She probably doesn't want to lose her son."

"But you really think that-" Luke cut off as my hands lit up slightly blue, a soft noise coming from them. "OK, you're checking for sonic pulses. Any reason for that?"

I gave him a sly smile. "My dad is very good at getting lost. I worked out a way to find him through the sonic screwdriver, therefore..." They suddenly turned a darker blue, the note of the sound going from a D to an E flat. "Gotcha. That's both my dad and your mum hiding at the table closest to the kitchen."

His head thumped on the table. "Perfect. We have helicopter parents."

Laughing, I carefully moved his head up again, feeling even warmer when my skin touched his. "Luke, I can very easily get us out. You don't mind getting a little wet, do you?"

I didn't give him time to answer, I just sent a short sonic pulse through to the fire alarms, setting them, and the sprinklers off over all the diners, before grabbing Lukes hand and dragged him out of the restaurant before dad or Sarah Jane realised what was going on.

We kept running, running into main London, both of us soggy, but laughing. "That was brilliant!"

"That was nothing. You should see what I can do with my voice." I giggled, tying up my long hair, now starting to curl again from the water. "Damn, it took me hours to do that."

"You shouldn't have. Your hair looks amazing, Callie." Luke smiled, his hand still in mine as we kept walking. "So, now that dinners a bust, where should we go?"

That was a good point actually. I knew London so well, having spent years on the streets, which meant I could show him more than your average tour guide. "Name your favourite building in London."

Luke blinked, before answering. "Tower of London."

He couldn't have made it a challenge, could he? "Come on." I grinned, pulling him towards it. "I want to show you something!"

"Callie, it's half 8 at night, it won't be open!" He shouted back, running with me anyway. "You're going to get us in trouble!"

"Luke, you save the world on a regular basis, you live in trouble!"

"I don't get into trouble for breaking and entering!"

Yeah, something that I did a lot, and never got caught, so he'd be fine. We rounded the corner of the massive UNIT base, and saw where all of the camera's were, so sent out a small pulse to freeze them in a way that looked like they were still working. "OK, we should be fine until they realise what I've done. Stay down, and follow me."

Luke did as I said, getting down low as I found the gap in the perimeter wall, and crawled through. "Callie, what are we doing?"

"It's a surprise!" I whispered back, pausing as a guard went past, before pulling him quickly to a door, sonicking it open quickly. "Through here."

The minute the door closed behind us, I remembered that the stairs were behind a deadlocked door. "Cal, where now? What are we doing?"

"It won't be a surprise if I told you!" I laughed, before pressing my hand to the door. "Cover your ears." He blinked. "Seriously. Unless you want you to end up deaf, I'd cover your ears." Luke quickly clapped his hands over his ears then, and I let out a pitch that shattered the deadlock, causing the door to swing open. Luckily, it was similar to the Mosquito sound, meaning only Luke and I would be able to hear it.

"That, that was impressive." He agreed as we started up the stairs toward the roof. "Why are we doing this, really?"

"For the view!" I cried, getting him up there, showing the lights from the city across the river. "Everywhere in London, every roof, every stone in the city."

Luke paused, looking across the water at the hustle and bustle of London, where even at night things were manic, where everything was busy, and the awe in his eyes made my hearts skip a beat. "This, this in incredible. How did you know about this, Callie!? Your dad wouldn't willingly ask for UNIT'S help, how do you know about this?"

Shrugging, I leant against the wall, remembering when I hid up here to try and watch the comets my first year on the streets. Dad, the one who died, he loved taking me to see them every August, and I hadn't seen them in years. "When you live on the streets, you learn where to hide."

"You were on the streets?" Luke asked softly, putting an arm around me as I shivered a little. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that. Was this before your dad found you?"

"Yeah." I replied, leaning back against him, and his grip around me tightened, and I felt so safe, like nothing at all could hurt me. "It was a long time ago now, but I still remember when he saw me, no one else ever did, or could, I don't know. It was like in Neverwhere, London Above and London Below. I was there, but no one could see me, and the moment they looked away, they forgot about me."

Luke turned me and gave me a proper hug then, and I hugged him back, loving the way it made me feel inside. "I don't see how anyone could ever forget you, Callie. You're amazing, you're funny, you can manipulate sound with your voice! You're unforgettable, Calliope Jace Smith."

Oh, really... Luke was so amazing, he really was... "I'm so glad we came out tonight" I smiled, pulling back from the hug to look at him. "I've never felt like this before, it's, it's like-"

"You're in a warm bath, and everytime I see you, it's putting in a fresh load of hot water." He interjected, and I laughed, knowing that he just finished my sentence. "And I've just realised that we've done what Clyde told me not to be. Cliché."

Laughing, I shook my head a little. "I don't care about cliché. But as we've been it... Why not keep going?" Luke smiled at me then, moving closer to gently push his lips against mine, and I closed my eyes, feeling the lights and the music of the city surround us, like everything new was right with the universe for that exact moment.

I moved my lips for against Luke's, and his hands moved to cup my waist softly and my arms went around his neck, my fingers tangling in his hair.

We pulled away after a moment, and Luke laughed like mad, his eyes on the city skyline before turning me around. "Now that, that is pretty awesome."

The colours of the city were brighter, the buildings themselves glowing in different colours, and I saw that the trails of the colours started with us. "Well, I guess if they were looking for us, they're going to find us now."

"Is this you doing this, Callie?" Luke asked with an amazing smile on his face. "Because you've activated the slight bioluminescence that every form of stone has, and you're controlling it all."

"Ah, here's the thing..." I smiled, looking as the colours faded again. "I don't always control it. My emotions are what hold it all, and in moment that I lose control, it ends like that. But I can do better, watch this."

Moving to the end of the roof, I closed my eyes, listening to the stones, to find the right frequencies. Then I started to sing, loud, and powerful, the notes travelling through the stones, through the London Bridge, to the main city and brighter, more colourful streams of light traveling like veins to show the areas affected.

"That's incredible..." Luke breathed, the colours reflected in his eyes, swirling blues and greens, yellows and orange, pinks and purples. "Just with your voice..."

I stopped singing, and the trails of light faded, leaving London in darkness compared to what it had been. "Yeah, imagine the bollocking I'm going to get though. I'm not supposed to do that."

"I can imagine." He nodded, kissing my cheek lightly. "either way, I'm so happy we got to do this, Callie."

Turning, I nodded to face him again, pressing my lips harder to his, and he kissed me back. God, this felt so good, like it was perfection.

Until the TARDIS materialised in front of us, and we saw both dad and Sarah Jane watching us out if the doors. "Busted..."

DW

"So how was it?" Dad asked after we dropped Sarah and Luke back off at the attic, and I'd changed into my pyjamas. "I mean, you're both grounded for breaking into the UNIT headquarters, but it looked like you had a good time."

I nodded, sitting down on the consoles seats, hugging my arms around my legs. "It was amazing. Just... It was perfect, though I never got my carbonara. Why were you both there?"

Dad paused, his hand on the console, ready to send us of through time and space, but he swapped to the handbrake. "Callie... Remember how it was when you first started calling me dad?"

"Uh, yeah. It was the day that said your life really started again after the war." I nodded, braiding my hair ready for bed. "What does that have to do with anything, Dad?"

He came and sat next to me, and I leant against him, feeling a different type of safety and warmth than I did with Luke, but I knew that he would alwas be here to protect me. "It kinda... Both Sarah Jane and I have never been happier than we have before you and Luke came into our lives, love. And... I suppose that we were both scared that we were about to lose you both."

Aww. "Dad, I promise you, that if I ever move out, that I will come back and visit." I paused for a moment. "And I'd buy you a cat."

"Oh, thanks, Calliope." He laughed, pretending to be offended. I knew he didn't really hate cats after losing Rain. "But really, really, you had a good night, yes?"

"Yes, daddy." I smiled, kissing his cheek. "Lukes so perfect, he's so kind, and I just feel so warm when I look at him, and it's like nothing can hurt me."

Dad sighed, and patted my shoulder. "I thought so. You're just perfect together, the way you have the same thoughts. Just... Be careful. Jace, really. Please."

Nodding, I cuddled into him sleepily. "I will, dad. Promise. Love you."

"I love you too, Callie."