A/N- I'm sorry it's so short- I've been trying to write it forever, but I've got a slight but not too serious case of writer's block. To make it up to you, I'll try and upload another Chapter really soon and make it good. :D

Merry Christmas!

As Rani, Clyde and I turned the corner in my drive I breathed out a sigh of relief. Sarah Jane's green car was parked reassuringly in the driveway and the lights on the ground floor were on. As it was the last day of school, all of our parents had given consent for us to have a sleepover and Sarah Jane had given her consent for it to be held at our house. What with everything that had been happening, we'd forgotten that the school holidays were here. We were going to send Keira to school with us on Monday, but remembered that we didn't go back until early January.

When we walked into the kitchen, I could immediately feel the atmosphere was different from what it had been for the last week. The tension had been stripped away and replaced by a laid-back comfortable feel. I didn't have to ask to know that the operation went well and was a success; the change in Keira was apparent. Although her forearm was wrapped up in thick bandage, she was smiling at us and practically glowing.

Sarah Jane was mixing something up in a bowl. I raised my eyebrows at her. Was she actually baking? She cooked dinner and sometimes heated some stuff up, but I'd never seen her actually make something. She was becoming all maternal.

"Hello, Luke!" mum greeted me. "I'm making a cake to celebrate Keira's operation being a success. The Doctor said she did very well and she's healing up already. Better yet, she hasn't slept since."

"Awesome!" said Clyde. "So she'll be all better now?"

"Should be." Confirmed Sarah Jane. "I've got the clinic's number in case anything goes wrong, but it was very minor surgery and there shouldn't be any complications. And no, you cannot have any!" she said when she saw him eye up the cake mix. "This is going to be the best cake ever; I'll not have you poking your fingers in it. Go next door, I'll call you when suppers ready."

Keira accompanied us into the living room, where we put the TV on, but didn't really watch it.

"Look at Sarah Jane becoming all housewife-y." giggled Rani. "She and mum will get together soon and swap recipes!" Clyde chuckled at that, making Rani grin in delight that she'd made him laugh.

"She's already made some gingerbread." Keira chipped in. She was sitting next to me on the sofa, not tucked up into a ball like she usually was, but sitting with her legs up and under her. "She let me cut it into shapes."

I was glad Sarah Jane and Keira seemed to be getting fond of each other. While Keira and I had a natural bond, I got the feeling that mum needed to get used to her.

"Gingerbread, seriously?" asked Clyde incredulously. "She must be in a good mood. I didn't know she even had a recipe book. And if she had, it would've been an alien one."

We talked until Sarah Jane called us for supper.

"Have a good day at school?" she asked once we were all seated and eating.

Clyde grunted a non-committal noise through a mouthful of pizza, whilst Rani and I nodded.

"It was the last day, so we didn't really do anything though." Explained Rani. "Would've thought you'd've enjoyed doing nothing, Clyde."

"Don't see why we can't just stay at home if we're not going to do anything." He grumbled back. "Why do we even go in?"

After dinner and a cake that must have had more baking powder in it than flour, we got our sleeping bags and spread them out in the living room. We turned the TV on again and flicked through a few channels before setting it on a new channel and ignoring it.

We made small talk until Keira pointed at the screen.

"That's the drug they used for my operation."

A news presenter on the screen was saying was reporting the existence of a new drug that wasn't yet available everywhere in the country.

"…research suggests that it is over two hundred times safer than your everyday anaesthetic. While an average of five in one million people don't wake up from an anaesthetic, only one in one hundred million are at risk from 'DormiSalv', the newest sleep-inducer on the market. While it is not yet on the NHS, it is reported that they have ordered over two million doses of it from abroad. And next, the story of a-"

Keira smiled. "It felt just like going to sleep."