Mr Smith is picking up a time anomaly in town, so we head out to locate it. "What's a time fissure?" Lucy asks.
"It's like a crack in time," Mummy explains. "It connects one period to another. Sometimes, people wander through them and get lost; it does happen." As we walk over to the fissure, located in an abandoned clothes shop, a little boy runs out. Lucy, as she's still wearing her clothes from 1913, offers to talk to him.
"I might be able to calm him down, explain to him where he is."
"Be careful," I agree as Lucy walks over to him. I motion for the others to remain quiet. However, the little boy runs off before Lucy has the chance to talk to him. "Clyde, Rani, Maria, go after him. We can't afford to lose the little boy."
"It's in here," Luke calls before the rest of us walk into the shop.

"We're staring into time," Lucy breathes. "How incredible is that?"
"That poor boy we saw must have wandered through," Mummy agrees as Lucy steps forward. "Whoa, it might not be safe." Lucy steps back. "I'll use the converter to reduce the energy ratio, closing the gap, as soon as we send him home."
"Like a time puncture repair kit?" Alistair suggests.
"Something like that."

"We've found him," Rani calls as she, Maria and Clyde hurry in with the boy.
"What's going on?" The boy asks.
"Don't worry; everything's going to be all right."
"What's your name?" Mum asks.
"Oscar. Who are you lot? Where am I?"
"Don't worry about that. You're going home." Mummy opens the time fissure.
"Just step through, and you'll be back in your own time. There's nothing to be scared of."
"Go through; I promise you'll be safe."
"No," Oscar says. "I'm scared." Mummy passes the converter to me as she and Mum step through into another period. We wait patiently on the other side.

When they come back, Mummy is acting strangely. She closes up the time fissure before we head home. "What was on the other side?" Sky asks.
"It's a village called Foxgrove, where Sarah was born," Mum explains. "According to Oscar, it's July 1951, when her parents were still alive."
"What happened to them?"
"They drove off in the car a month later, leaving me on the side of the road," Mummy explains. "Thankfully, I had Ruby to look after me. It's a miracle that I remember that far. Most people don't remember that much."
"They don't, usually. You only remembered because of me."
"Wouldn't have you been a kid?" Luke asks.
"No," Ruby chuckles. "I was still a teenager like I was when my species exiled me to Earth."
"You're an alien?" Maria asks.
"I thought you would have worked that one out by now!" Mummy smiles.

Mum drives us back home rather than Mummy. "I remember that my parents loved me," Mummy smiles. "Do you think they would still love me if they knew about all this?"
"Yes," Mum confirms. "They knew about this; I had to tell them."
"How much did you tell them?"
"Everything. I told your parents before you were born; I felt that they had a right to know."
"Oscar was lying about when it was," Jessica pipes up. "It wasn't July 1951; it was August 1951."
"What?!" Mummy cries.
"No, Sarah, we can't turn around. History has to go as it did. What would happen if your parents survived? That shaped our lives."
"Did they know? Ruby, it's important. Did they know that they had to die?"
"Yes. I told Eddie and Barbara because they were worried about you." She parks in the driveway, and we climb out of the car. "Sarah, everything's going to be all right, I promise."

That night, I notice that Mummy is about to sneak out in clothes from 1951. We all corner her, saying that we're going with her. "Very well," she sighs. "Emma, I've got some clothes up in the attic you can borrow. Lucy, your clothes from 1913 are going to have to do." When we are ready, Mummy drives us back to the abandoned shop before all of us head through the time fissure.

"It feels lovely to smell the fresh, country air again," Lucy smiles, closing her eyes.
"Now, we can't change anything," Mummy says. We begin heading down to the village, wondering where everyone is.
"Look," I point. "Village fete."
"Great spotting, Emma," Mum smiles as we make our way over. When we arrive in the field, we all laugh at our attempt to stepping back into history.

"Sarah Jane!" A female voice calls. We turn to find Barbara, cooing at her baby. She looks up, spotting us. We begin walking over to her. Mummy wants to talk to her. "Hello," she smiles. "Ah, Ruby, good to see you. When are you from?"
"I'm sorry?" Mum's on her guard at once.
"Surely you remember saying that you will return from the future? So, when are you from?"
"2008."
"Wow," she smiles. "Eddie! Eddie, over here!" He walks over, saying that he parked the car by the memorial. "Eddie, Ruby and some of her friends have come through from 2008."
"I'll leave you two to talk," a younger version of Mum moves the pram out of the way, taking baby Mummy with her.

"I'm Eddie Smith."
"I'm Ruby White."
"Luke Smith-White."
"Emma Smith-White, Luke's twin."
"Oh, our grandchildren, Ruby did say. I feel honoured to meet you."
"And it's an honour to meet you, too."
"Please, Emma, call me Eddie. Who are these?"
"This is Jessica, Alistair, Sky and Lucy, my children."
"We're great grandparents?" Barbara asks, smiling. "How old are you in 2008?"
"Eight," Luke and I chorus.
"I know," Luke agrees. "Many people think that it's strange when we tell them our real ages."
"What about Jessica, Alistair, Sky and Lucy?"
"Jessica and Alistair are a year old. Sky is less than a year, and Lucy is, I think she's six, but I'm not sure."
"Why don't you know?" Eddie asks.
"I found her in 1913 when she was six. After that, she travelled in time and space for a bit before coming to 2008 about a week ago."

"Who are you?" Eddie asks, holding his hand out to Mummy.
"Sarah Jane Smith."
"You mean," he points over to a younger version of Mum and Mummy.
"Yes, that's right."
"Oh, look at you," Barbara smiles. "You're older than us!"
"And you came all that way to see us," Eddie agrees, smiling. He asks Barbara if she could help out in the tent, and Mum and Mummy agree to help her.

"We were always planning on having more children," Eddie explains. "We didn't want our daughter growing up on her own, but when Ruby dropped the bombshell about our deaths, we decided to try and do what we can to make sure that she'd have a happy childhood."
"That's a good plan," I agree.
"So, what about you and the Doctor?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Ruby did say that in 2008 you would be together."
"Oh, yes. Well, I don't think the government would approve. I'm only eight, and the Doctor's thousands of years old." Eddie chuckles. "But then, there isn't anything we can do to change her age or mine, so we're stuck with each other. So, we're waiting until I'm eighteen until we can marry."
"Ah, smart move. Don't want the government to tear down Child's Torchwood before it's even begun."
"No," I agree.
"Anyway, have a look around. Don't let me spoil your day back in good old 1951."
"It was lovely meeting you, Mr Smith."
"It was nice meeting you, too." The others stay behind to talk to Mr Smith while I look around the village fete, smiling. Lucy's right, it's lovely here.

When we meet everyone back at the square, Luke shows us a newspaper- dated from August 1951. 18th August 1951. It's the day Eddie and Barbara die. Mummy disables the car with the sonic before we can stop her, commanding us to return to the fissure. When she's gone, Mum tells me to use my scanner to undo what Mummy has done. I agree. After all, saving Eddie and Barbara could have devastating consequences for the universe. History has to stay as it is.

When Mummy returns through the time fissure, she says that everything seems normal. I turn to Mum, wondering if we should tell her. Mum nods. "Mummy, when you left the car, I used my scanner to allow the engine to function. You said that if we change anything, it's dangerous. We had to protect the future."
"Why did you do this?"
"There's something I haven't told you," Mum says. "However, I'll save it until we reach the other side and you closed the time fissure for good." Mummy nods, defeated.

We head back through the time fissure to find Maria, Rani and Clyde waiting for us. "Thank goodness you're all right!" Rani smiles, pulling us all into a hug.
"We were so worried about you. Rani had to get Mr Smith out and everything," Clyde agrees. Mummy closes the time fissure.

"Sarah Jane!" I hear Barbara calling when we burst out into the sunshine. We turn to find Eddie and Barbara outside a police box.
"Mum? Dad? What are you doing here?"
"This woman, the Doctor, saved us," she explains.
"But she does seem a little bit… alien," Eddie finishes.
"Yes, she is alien," Mummy agrees. The Doctor appears in the doorway. I run over to her, hugging her. Mummy smiles at the sight of us. "However, she loves Emma, and Emma loves her. The Doctor's our best friend as well, so we can trust her, no matter what face she has."
"Yes, Ruby mentioned that," Eddie agrees.

"Anyway, I was only going to stop for a few minutes," the Doctor tells me. She spots our children, who walk over to us. "It's great to see you all."
"It's great to see you too, Mum," Lucy agrees.
"How are you settling in?"
"Fine. I've started year 7, in all of the same classes as my siblings."
"Well, maybe I should pop around one day after school so we can catch up. Would you like that?"
"Yeah."
"Emma, how have you got on with the 456?"
"We have next to no information. They seem to be almost unknown to everyone."

"The 456?" Lucy asks. "I met them. I have a lot of information on them, including strategies to defeat them." We all stare at her, hopefully. "It will take until January for me to get all of the information on the system."
"After that, we'll have a few months to prepare," Jessica smiles. "Lucy, you're a genius!" She pulls Lucy into a hug.
"I'm going to need my own laptop, so I can record everything without someone else wanting to use it. I'll try and upload something to the system weekly and-"
"Just don't push yourself," I remind her, gently. "Of course, any information you can give us will be useful, but don't push yourself to remember stuff, okay?" Lucy nods. That evening, I give her an old computer that one member was going to throw out because 'it wasn't cool enough', even though it did everything that you wanted. Lucy got to work straight away- I also had to remind her to turn her light out for a change.

That evening, I sit down with Eddie and Barbara to discuss their future. "We'll have to utilise whatever skills you already have," I explain.
"I can work in a café, or something," Barbara offers.
"In the next few months, Child's Torchwood will become very busy. We'll need someone like you on the team, Barbara."
"Thank you, Emma. I can also try catching up with modern technology at the same time."
"That will be useful."

"I don't think the job I did back in 1951 would be necessary, so I'll try out for a new occupation. Are you in need of teachers?"
"You need a diploma for that," Luke points out. "Besides, the information you remember will be outdated."
"I can teach people how to grow their own food."
"That would be useful, because we might need that at some point," I think out loud.
"Yeah, if we land on an alien planet."
"It can happen, Luke!"
"Alright," Luke nods. He turns back to Eddie and Barbara. "Emma will teach you how to use firearms, but we hope you never have to use them."
"Do you always say that?" Eddie asks.
"Yeah," I say. "And every time we say it, that person always ends up needing to use a gun."
"Well, it would be on the safe hand to teach us." I nod, smiling. We'll start training them tomorrow.

That evening, John and Diane call me. John says that they employed all of the children from the Cromwell Estate. "The school they go to is part of the lowest 10% in the country, so I was wondering whether to employ some teachers and teach them in the base so they can start achieving better grades."
"We don't have any teachers at the moment," I point out.
"Ah, yes, good point." When John hangs up, Diane informs me that they employed nearly all of the children in Edinburgh and she is setting off to Canada to employ more children.