"Doctor?!" I yelled.

"What are you yelling about? I'm right here!" The Doctor said in annoyance, as I had interrupted his light doze in the sun.

"I think that statue just moved." I said, my voice quavering, as I stared at the statue of an angel, trying to catch it moving again.

"Oh my god. Keep looking at it, Kate." The Doctor said, suddenly serious.

"Why?" I asked, my worry evident in my voice.

"Just do it! That's a lonely assassin! Don't blink. Don't look away. Keep your eyes fixed on it, but not on its eyes!" He whispered, his eyes darting around us looking for more crying statues with beautiful sloping wings. "It looks like there's just the one, thank heavens. Just keep looking at it. Okay, I'm looking too. You go ahead and blink."

I took the order immediately, as my eyes had been starting to water. "Wait, Doctor, I'm confused. You can't just go around yelling at me to stare at something without explaining!"

"It's a weeping angel. If they touch you, you get sent back in time. They cease to exist when a living being is looking at them. Turn to solid stone, they do. Best defense system in the world. You can't kill stone. That's why they cover their eyes. Can't risk looking at each other. They feed on the time energy that comes from displacing someone in time. They're the only things in the Universe that will kill you nicely. They let you live to death. Now go ahead and blink again." The Doctor said, doing his best to explain without risking a glance at me.

"Wait, don't they get lonely? Like, how do they survive? Wouldn't they get depressed and stuff?" I said, an almost sad tone in my voice.

"How human of you. Thinking about your would-be assassin's feelings. Just slowly back up. Head to the TARDIS. But don't stop looking at it!" my best friend in the entire universe murmured.

I stared backing up, but tripped over into a bush. I cried out, and the Doctor's head whipped around to make certain that I was okay. "Angel!" I yelled, and his head pivoted back to the angel, now not eighteen inches from him. "How on earth did it move that fast?!" I demanded.

"Well, technically we're not on earth, but they just move that fast. Faster than you can believe. Blink again." He asserted as he started backing away from the angel that was baring its inhumanly sharp stone teeth at him. I stood, my eyes on the terrifying piece of masonry and brushed off my shorts. I carefully stepped around the bush, and started backing towards the TARDIS again. Then the Doctor was calling out to me. "Just turn around and run towards the TARDIS! I'm looking at it!" I did as I was told, running past him as he kept our stone friend at bay with his steely gaze.

I got about halfway to the welcoming doors of the blue police box when I spun on my heel and again stared at the stone creature. "Now you! I've got it!" I yelled to the Doctor. He looked a little hesitant in my peripheral vision, but quickly took my order and ran towards his box. He closed the gap between us in moments and stood next to me. He stared at the angel and took my hand.

"We'll back up together, okay?" he said, squeezing my hand reassuringly.

"Okay." I said. We stared at the angel and backed up slowly, alternating blinking. After ten painstaking minutes of slow inching backwards so as not to fall, I felt my back hit the wood door of the TARDIS.

"You go in first, Kate." The Doctor asserted. I was in no mood to argue, so I just turned and pulled out my key. I opened the TARDIS, and stepped inside. I quickly slid behind the door and ordered the Doctor through it, slamming it shut behind him. He ran over to the console and started pulling on levers and pushing buttons. "Well, that was certainly interesting, wasn't it?" he said. I nearly punched him in the face.

"That was the most terrifying experience of my entire life!" I screeched. "I thought I was going to have to live to death!"

That was but the first of my many encounters with the Angels.