"How do I destroy an Angel?"
"Doctor-"
"River! Tell me how to destroy an Angel!" He couldn't stop the tears as tore his gaze away from the headstone to focus on the Angel, sidestepping slightly as he realized they were there; this was their grave. Six feet below where he was standing, dead for over fifty years. He felt sick.
"I suppose you could destroy it like any stone statue while looking at it. Break it into pieces. Crush them."
"That seems too fair." He was glaring through the tears now, and hoped that the stone monster registered the hate emanating from his entire being. "I want it to suffer, not just die. Because I'm going to suffer. You're going to suffer. I can't ever see my best friends again because the planet will burn if I even go back into the state of New York in that time! So figure out some way to make it suffer for centuries on end, slowly starving to death but never able to leave for food. I don't even understand how it's here!"
There was a pregnant pause. River didn't want to tell him the thought that immediately came to her mind, but he would never forgive her if she kept it to herself. "Those blocks that the box was built out of in Florida. Even an Angel couldn't get out of it. And it's here because it probably didn't go anywhere near Winter Quay. It stayed out here, acted as a sentry."
He repressed the urge to punch it. "And where would we put it?"
"We could put it anywhere we want. We could put it on the surface of the sun if we wanted to."
"No, the sun expands in a few billion years. I need longer than that."
"That cliff I wrote on. The diamond one. I swear I saw it there."
"Oldest location in the universe." He smiled angrily. "Do you hear that, you stupid thing? You'll pay for this for years and years on end. River, you know how to get the blocks with the TARDIS?"
She scoffed. "Of course I do. I'm not called the child of the TARDIS for nothing." Feeling guilty about leaving her husband standing in a graveyard staring down an Angel, she kissed his cheek before dashing to the ship and back to Florida.
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"Just knock it over."
"Trying, dear, but solid stone statues are surprisingly heavy."
"Here, let me help."
Together they shoved the Angel onto its side on top of the solid wall the had built out of the bricks River had fetched. They worked quickly, River thanking Time Lord DNA that her husband wasn't as willowy as he really looked. Once the Angel's prison was completely sealed (they had left out the brick with the control panel and electrical impulses running through it) the Doctor finished tying the thick ropes they had laid it on so they could pull it with the TARDIS.
"I think we're ready to go now."
"Once we drop it off... I want to come back here. Please."
River smiled bracingly and took her husband's hand. "Of course, dear."