"Bubble Shock." I mumbled, watching the advert on Mr Smith. Sarah Jane was going to get one hell of a shock when she found out her super computer was opening up for me. "Noticed anything unusual about it yet Mr Smith?" I asked, glancing out at a man and a young girl moving in across the street.
"I can not detect any alien authority without a proper sample to analyse."
"Guess we're gonna have to wait til Sarah Jane gets back." I sighed before noticing a small green car pull up in the driveway. "Which is any second now." I listened as the door unlocked and then slammed, and the sound of footsteps headed towards the attic. The door creaked open and-
"What the bloody hell are you doing here?"
"Oh cheers Sarah Jane." I grinned at her. She put her bag down and rushed forward, engulfing me in a hug.
"Hang on." She said, pulling away and looking at me. "What's Mr Smith doing out?"
"He seems to answer to me." I shrugged.
"What are you even doing here?" She chuckled.
"I just, needed some space." I sighed.
"Rose?" I stared at her before giving her a small smile.
...
I smiled fondly, thinking about the butterfly woman that visited me and Sarah Jane the night before in her garden, the universe was amazing.
"Hi!" I looked over to see two teenage girls across the road from us, outside the house I saw people moving into, the girl I saw moving in talking to us. "We've just moved in across the road, I'm Maria Jackson." Sarah Jane nodded at her as she walked towards me from coming back from the post box, trying to pull me inside.
"Hello!" She said briefly.
"Hello!" The girls father shouted, causing Sarah Jane to stop and turn round to him.
"Be nice." I hissed.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Alan." He said, running over the road to shake hands with us.
"I hope you're not going to make too much noise, I work from home and I don't like to be disturbed."
"Ok." He said as she turned to go inside.
"Hey." I smiled, shaking his hand. "Flo."
"Nice to be made to feel welcome." He muttered.
"Sorry." Sarah Jane said, turning back and shaking his hand. "Sarah Jane Smith.
"Seeya then!" Maria shouted over.
"Where you off to?" I asked friendily.
"Bubble Shock factory." I frowned at Sarah Jane as the girls walked off and Alan started going on something about how it was just him and Maria, and he'd just gotten divorced. We just looked at each other before walking away and getting into the car, speeding off.
...
"Gates gonna shut!" Sarah Jane pushed her foot on the pedal harder, just getting through the Bubble Shock factory gates before it shut. We parked up the side of the factory and got out, leaning against the wall and trying to find a way in. We found our way round to a door and scanned the area with her watch.
"I knew it." She whispered before taking out her lipstick and sonicing the door.
"I still can't believe The Doctor gave you a sonic lipstick." I muttered as she yanked open the door to be faced with a guard.
"Oops." She cleared her throat. "Any chance you nicked the psychic paper as you left?"
"Sorry." I muttered.
...
Me and Sarah Jane smiled at Mrs Wormwood as we sat opposite her in her office.
"Let me explain." I began. "We weren't breaking in."
"I was trying to find someone in charge." Sarah Jane said. "I phoned about 100 times but no-one would talk to me."
"Oh I've seen the list. Phone calls, emails, Miss Sarah Jane Smith certainly does make her presence."
"Do you mind if I take notes?"
"Not at all. And as you've been so bold, let's make this a official interview."
"And it's Mrs Wormwood?" I asked, nodding at her name plate on the desk.
"That's correct."
"As a matter of fact, that's in the bible, Wormwood." Sarah Jane said. "The book of revelations. At the end of the world it describes a star, falling to Earth and poisining the waters. A star, called Wormwood."
"Fascinating. Shall we move onto business?"
"I've got contacts in the city. They said it was like this business dropped in from nowhere, and usually it takes years to get approval from the EU for a new food stuff. You got it in two weeks."
"All we're doing is satisfying a need."
"Which is?"
"People are hungry Miss Smith, new food, new drink, new tastes. All the western world does, is eat. All day, every day, eating! That's the human race, they devour! Who are we to deny them?"
...
"Always the secretary." I said breathlessly as we ran through the factory before a alarm went off. "Come on, womens toilets." I said, pulling her towards the ladies loos. We ran in and Sarah Jane kicked open the first cubicle to see Maria and a teenage boy in a white dress sitting there.
"What are you doing here?" Sarah Jane asked.
"I could ask you the same!" Maria spluttered.
"Who's this?" I asked, smiling at the young boy who looked puzzled. "What have they done to you?"
"I knew I had to get away..." He began slowly.
"Yeah, well that goes for all of us." Sarah Jane said.
"Window!" I said, pointing up at a small window.
...
"But who is he?" Maria asked as we got out of the car. "What was he doing in the factory?"
"Come on." I whispered to the boy, taking his hand and leading him into the house, leaving Sarah Jane to talk to Maria. We walked through to the living room and I sat down opposite him. "Let's start from the beggining shall we?" I smiled "Hello."
"Hello." He replied, smiling.
"My name's Flo."
"My name's Flo."
"No silly." I chuckled, shaking my head. "Do you have a name?" I asked as I heard Sarah Jane come into the house, heading into the kitchen to make tea. "You must have a name." I said as Sarah Jane came in to the room with a tray full of sandwiches and tea on. "If I'm Flo, and this is Sarah Jane, who are you?"
"All I know is I had to run."
"You can talk, someone must have taught you that." Sarah Jane said as she sat down. "Who taught you that?"
"Everyone."
"And what does that mean, everyone?"
"I am, everyone. And then I had to run. The girl came, Maria, and then you."
"Well think back." I said, reaching forward and squeezing his hand. "Before that, what can you remember?"
"I was born running."
"But you must have a home." Sarah Jane frowned.
"Is this your home?"
"Yeah."
"And yours?" He asked me.
"No. I don't really have one anyone, drifter me." I chuckled, watching him smile at me.
"Can I live here?" He asked Sarah Jane.
"No, I don't think so, sorry." Sarah Jane said as I frowned at her. I smiled slightly to myself, maybe that's what she needed, someone to love her as much as she loved them. "Help yourself." She nodded at the tray. "Is this food?"
"Food and drink."
"Which is which?"
"Sarah Jane." We heard Mr Smith from upstairs.
"Who's that?"
"No-one."
"There was a voice."
"No there wasn't."
"Sarah Jane." She stood up.
"Not now!" She shut the door over.
"I thought you lived alone?" The boy asked.
"I do. And whatever happens, you must not go upstairs, have you got that? It's private, you must never go upstairs unless Flo or I say so."
"You don't trust me." The boy frowned.
"I don't even know you."
"You've only met me once remember?" I raised a eyebrow at her as she sat down.
"Yeah, but that's different."
"In what way is that different?"
"Now don't be afraid." Sarah Jane said, changing the subject and opening up her watch to scan the boy with.
"Not alien." I muttered, looking at the readings. "Normal healthly lad, human, aging rate normal." Our eyes grew wider.
"This says you were born 360 years ago!" Sarah Jane said in shock. "No, 360 minutes ago!"
"Is that good or bad?" He asked innocently before getting up and picking a book of the shelf, starting to read.
"You can read?" Sarah Jane asked as she continued to scan him.
"I can now. It's easy, see? Letters and words."
"We should let Mr Smith scan him." I begged.
"No." Sarah Jane said stubbornly as I got up and pulled up his top.
"Just as I supspected." I pointed at his stoumach. "No belly button."
"Is that good or bad?" He asked.
"Everyone that's born has a belly button." I sighed, pulling down his top and ruffling his hair.
"Why not me?" He asked.
"I don't think you were born, I think you were grown." Sarah Jane said as I pulled the boy closer to me, hugging him.
"I've never been hugged before." He said. "It's nice."
"SARAH JANE OPEN UP IT'S ME IT'S MARIA!" We heard Maria shout from the front door. Sarah Jane looked at me and ran out to the front door.
"Trust me?" I asked the boy. He nodded. I took his hand and pulled him upstairs and into the attic as I heard screams and bangs round the side of the house.
"What's happening?" He asked as I sat him down on the sofa and picked up a alien gun that looked like a bee hive.
"Mr Smith, if anything happens to me and Sarah Jane, keep him safe until The Doctor comes back, ok?"
"I will keep the boy safe, Flo." I ran out of the attic and blasted the gun at the giant squid cornering Maria, Sarah Jane and Kelsey, sending it flying down onto the landing. It turned back into a human man before running down the stairs.
"Sorry, used your last one." I said, walking back into the attic.
"OH MY FLIPPIN GOD!" I looked round to see Kelsey had walked in.
"GET OUT!" I shouted at her but she just ingored me.
"These things, are they alien?" Maria asked.
"Some of them."
"Where did you get them? How did you get into all of this?"
"I used to travel, through time and space, with a man called The Doctor..."
...
It had been a long day, and I'd convinced Sarah Jane of being a good neighbour.
"Just checking everything's alright." Sarah Jane said to Alan and Maria.
"Very neighbourly."
"Sorry about earlier, welcome to the neighbourhood."
"And who's this?" He nodded at the archetype.
"This is my son." Sarah Jane smiled brightly. "And I should have introduced you two earlier, this is my daughter." She nodded at me, which left me taken back a bit.
"And you are?" Maria's mum Chrissie asked us rudely as she walked in.
"Sarah Jane Smith. I'm from over the road."
"What's he wearing?" Chrissie asked, nodding at the archetype's clothing.
"These are the clothes I was born in."
"Right. Well if you don't mind leaving, it's been a bit of a trauma, family time."
"This woman is rude." The boy said innocently which made me laugh.
"Come on, home." Sarah Jane said, trying to pull us both away.
"You don't have to go." Maria said.
"Come on no." Chrissie laughed. "Invite the neighbours round you'll never get rid of him. Next thing you'll know, holidays together, that's a disaster. No offence, nice to meet you Sarah... Lou."
"Come on." I laughed as Sarah Jane pulled us out.
...
"How are you going to adopt him then?" Maria asked Sarah Jane later on in the garden. "I mean you need forms and things. Who are you gonna say his real mum is, the Bane mother?"
"Mr Smith sorted that." Sarah Jane smiled, holding a bunch of forms. "Officially done and dusted, just needs a name."
"You can choose your own." I said, putting my arm around him.
"I like your's, Flo." He smiled at me.
"How about Jack? Josh? Nathan?" Maria asked.
"Harry? Alistair?" Sarah Jane asked. "Luke?"
"I like Luke." Maria and me both said.
"If you like Luke, I like Luke." Luke smiled.
"Luke Smith, you're a mum." I laughed.
"So, if you're my mum." Luke said. "Who's Flo to me?"
"Flo is your sister." Sarah Jane smiled.
"But what about your parents?" He asked, looking at me.
"You're lucky kiddo, you got adopted, I spent my life in care."
"Not any more." Sarah Jane passed me another pack of forms with my name on it. "A little late I know but, then you'll officially have a brother, a mother, a home." I smiled at Sarah Jane with tears in my eyes, nodding at her before we all looked up at the stars. Who'd have thought I'd have started this day upset and heartbroken, and end it with a family? The Doctor wasn't going to believe this.
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