The Doctor strode through a medieval church-like museum, randomly pointing at displays while giving his opinions on it. Behind him strolled Amy, Avalon and Lena, looking a bit bored of the location.
"Wrong! Wrong! Bit right, mostly wrong," the Doctor pointed to several displays, "I love museums."
"Yeah me too, except I don't go pointing out the errors of history," Avalon remarked, "Why are we here? You promised me an alien planet. Where is it?"
"Patience," he pointed at her and Amy scoffed.
"You have no patience," she informed.
"Where are we, Doctor?" Lena looked around, not at all upset with the location. It was a nice, calm place with lots of interesting artifacts. Leave it to Avalon and even Amy to be disappointed with it.
"It's the Delerium Archive, final resting place of the headless monks, the biggest museum ever!" the Doctor gave a whirl with his arms extended out.
"You've got a time machine, what do you need museums for?" Avalon raised an eyebrow. "Isn't that redundant? And boring?"
But the man continued pointing here and there, "Wrong! Very wrong! Oooh, one of mine. Also one of mine," he peered into a display case.
"Oooh..." Avalon smirked, "I get it now. This is how you keep score. I didn't think you would be conceited about it...well...smug, but..." she trailed off when she saw the Doctor had stopped at an intriguing display holding an antique box with strange symbols on it.
"Oh great, an old box," Amy sighed this time.
"Maybe it's important," Lena offered, moving over to stand beside the Doctor. She stared at the box, tilting her head from one side to the next as she tried to read the funny symbols on the box. "Is it?"
The Doctor slowly nodded but was no longer as excited as earlier. "It's from one of the old starliners. A Home Box."
"What's a Home Box?" Amy asked.
"Like a black box on a plane, except it homes. Anything happens to the ship, the Home Box flies home, with all the flight data."
"So what's so important about this one?" Avalon questioned, making rounds on the display box.
"The writing, the graffiti - Old High Gallifreyan. The lost language of the Time Lords."
"And let me guess, you're the only one that's supposed to know it..."
"You'd think since I am the last..." he nodded, "There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars and raise up empires, and topple Gods."
"What does it say?" Lena asked.
The Doctor looked up, "Hello, sweetie."
Next thing the women knew, the Doctor ripped the case off and snatched the box from its place.
"What are you doing!?" Avalon stiffened as she heard the alarms blaring, "I thought you didn't steal!"
"You rubbed off, now run!" he ordered and went first. The women ran after him with two guards coming out of the door to chase them. Just barely, the group ran inside the TARDIS where the Doctor quickly sent them off and hooked up the home box to the console.
"Why did you just steal it?" Lena asked him, completely out of breath.
"Cos someone on a space ship 12,000 years ago is trying to attract my attention. And here you go by the way," he took out an asthma inhaler from his jacket's pocket and handed it to the brunette.
"You carry one now?" Avalon asked, a small smile on her face.
"Course I do, my baby sister has asthma," he shrugged casually and patted Lena's head who simply rolled her eyes, "Now let's see if we can get the security playback working."
A grainy black and white footage of a woman in a dress and fairly big hair appeared on the monitor. The image switched to the woman's back facing the screen and three men standing in ahead of her.
"The party's over, Doctor Song…" one of the men was saying, "…yet still you're on board."
The woman turned to face the men, "Sorry, Alistair. I needed to see what was in your vault. Do you all know what's down there? Any of you? Because I'll tell you something. This ship won't reach its destination."
"Wait till she runs," the man told the other men behind him "Don't make it look like an execution."
The woman looked at her watch and started saying slowly numbers, "Triple-seven, five…slash, three, four, nine by ten. Zero, twelve, slash, acorn. Oh, and I could do with an air corridor."
The Doctor quickly began typing on the keyboard of the console.
"What was that, what did she say?" Amy asked, confused.
"Co-ordinates!" he exclaimed.
"Like I said on the dance floor, you might want to find something to hang on to!" the woman said over the monitor.
"Ha-" Avalon laughed loudly, "-that's a good line! I'm taking that one!"
"Seriously? That's what you paid attention to!?" the Doctor shot her an incredulous glance before dashing for the doors. He yanked them open and reached out. His companions saw him being toppled over by the same woman from the video.
"Doctor?" Lena called.
"River?" the Doctor looked up at the woman on top of him. Her bushy hair was partially covering his eyes.
"Ew, get off. And follow that ship!" River Song jumped to her feet and watched the ship fly away from them.
In a one two, River and the Doctor ran back to the console and worked the controls to follow the ship. Avalon, Amy and Lena stood back and watched the two in confusion.
"They've gone into warp drive, we're losing them! Stay close!" River said.
"I'm trying!" the Doctor exclaimed.
"Use the stabilizers."
"There aren't any stabilizers!"
"The blue switches!"
"The blue ones don't do anything, they're just...blue," the Doctor gestured to the blue controls.
"Yes, they're blue. They're the blue stabilizers!" River used the stabilizers and suddenly the TARDIS went quiet, "See?"
"Yeah, well, it's just boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers. They're blue boring-ers!" the Doctor frowned.
"That's not a real word," Avalon informed and noticed River giving her a small smile, "And how do you know how to fly this thing? Sorry, she," she quickly looked up at the rotor in apology.
"You call that flying the TARDIS?" the Doctor scoffed and sat down to sulk, "Ha!"
"OK. I've mapped the probability vectors, done a fold-back on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination, and parked us right along side," River informed, finishing up with the controls.
"Parked us? We haven't landed," the Doctor shot her a sharp look.
"Of course we've landed. I just landed her."
"But it didn't make the noise."
"What noise?"
"Oh! Oh! I know!" Lena raised her hands, using her inhaler once more before she imitated the TARDIS wheezing sound, making River laugh.
"Oh I'm sorry sweetie but that's cos that fool over there-" she pointed to the Doctor who mock-glared at her, "-leaves the brakes on."
"What, so it's actually not supposed to make that noise?" Lena frowned.
River shook her head, "Nope."
"Serious let down..." Avalon sarcastically whispered as she turned to the Doctor with a look. "What else has been a lie?" she dramatically asked.
"Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise!" the Doctor jumped to his feet, purposely ignoring Avalon. "I love that noise. Come along, baby sister," he swung his arm around Lena's shoulders, "Let's have a look."
"No, wait! Environment checks," River called but the two kept going.
"Oh, yes, sorry! Quite right. Environment checks," the Doctor stuck his head out the door, "Nice out."
"We're somewhere in the Garn Belt," River started reading off the screen, "There's an atmosphere. Early indications suggest..."
"We're on Alfava Metraxis, the seventh planet of the Dundra System," Avalon declared proudly, "Oxygen-rich atmosphere, toxins in the soft band, 11-hour day."
River put her hands on her hips and gave her a sharp look, "Oh and you think you're so hot when you do that, don't you?"
"I like to think I look hot all the time," Avalon triumphantly smiled. "But also, the words on the screen are big enough to see from here," River playfully rolled her eyes at the cheeky ginger.
"How come you can fly the TARDIS?" Lena asked River as she and the Doctor returned to the console.
"Oh, I had lessons from the very best," River declared, rolling her eyes when the Doctor smugly smiled.
"Well, yeah," he fixed his jacket.
"Thank you Avalon," River then said with a hint of a smirk.
"What? I don't know how to drive this," Avalon nearly laughed while the Doctor looked from one woman to the other with a frown.
"You don't?"
She shook her head, "No. I just came on board a month ago."
"Ooh..." River then understood the timelines, at least with the twins, "...right then," she picked up her red shoes, "Why did they land here?" she headed for the doors.
"They didn't land," the Doctor clarified.
"Sorry?"
"You should've checked the Home Box - it crashed," he followed her then shut the doors behind her and returned to the console.
"Doctor, who is she?" Lena asked.
"Yeah, and how did she do that museum thing?" Amy added.
"It's a long story and I don't know most of it," he answered as he worked the controls, "Off we go!"
"Hold on, what are you doing?" Avalon neared him, more curious of the controls after what the woman said of driving the box.
"Leaving. She's got where she wants to go, let's go where we want to go."
"Are you basically running away?"
"Yep."
"And why?"
"Cos she's the future."
"Can you run away from that?" Amy asked.
"I can run away from anything I like. Time is not the boss of me," he declared.
"Yeah but..." Avalon smirked as she looked towards the doors, "I was promised an alien planet and I do believe that-," she pointed to the doors, "-is indeed an alien planet."
The Doctor caught onto what the ginger was heading for and shook his head, "Oh no, no. No," he pointed at her.
She put her hands on her hips and sharply looked at him, "You said 'Avalon, I'll take you to any alien planet you want'. Now, you need to keep that word. I choose this one," she crossed her arms.
"Avalon, don't do that," Lena moved up beside the Doctor, "We don't even know this woman and if the Doctor wants to leave it's probably for a good reason."
"Amy?" Avalon looked at the other ginger, knowing she was just as adventurous at times as she was, "What do you say?"
"Well..." Amy played with her fingers.
"No, Amy, no," the Doctor threw his head back in frustration, "Why can't you be obedient like Lena is?"
"Because we're gingers," Avalon declared, "We're feisty. I want this planet."
He sighed, "Fine, five minutes. You get five minutes and then we're off," he warned.
"We'll see about that," Avalon ruffled his hair and rushed for the doors, Amy right behind her.
Lena giggled, "We should go and take care of them."
~ 0 ~
The ship they had been following had crashed on the top of a large and old stone structure. It was burning in certain areas with bits of debris on the ground and around the TARDIS.
River Song stood several inches from the TARDIS. She was gazing between her handheld device and the scenery. "What caused it to crash? Not me," Avalon laughed.
"Nah, the airlock would've sealed seconds after you blew it," the Doctor explained, "According to the Home Box, the warp engines had a phase-shift. No survivors."
"A phase-shift would have to be sabotage. I did warn them," River shrugged.
"About what?"
"Well, at least the building was empty. Aplan temple. Unoccupied for centuries," she started keying something into her handheld device.
"Aren't you going to introduce us?" Amy asked the Doctor, the twins nodding in agreement.
"Amy Pond, Avalon and Lena Reynolds, Professor River Song," the Doctor gestured.
River turned to them with a small gasp, "Ahhh, I'm going to be a professor some day, am I?" the Doctor winced at his little slip, "How exciting!" she laughed, "How exciting! Spoilers!" she turned back to what ever it had she'd been doing.
"Oh no, no, no there's something more here," Avalon looked at the Doctor with a smirk, "She left you a note in a museum...who is she?" but the Doctor walked off instead of answering.
"Two things always guaranteed to show up in a museum: The Home Box of category four starliner and, sooner or later, him," River informed, "It's how he keeps score."
"I know!" Avalon laughed, moving over to the woman.
"It's hilarious, isn't it?"
Avalon nodded, "It's so stupid!"
The Doctor came up behind the two with a sarcastic laugh, "I'm nobody's taxi service! I'm not gonna be there to catch you every time you feel like jumping out of a space ship," he informed River.
"And you are so wrong...if you want to keep on the good side of the..." she shut her mouth and simply smiled, "There's one survivor. There's a thing in the belly of that ship that can't ever die. Now he's listening!" she started speaking into the device, "You lot in orbit yet? Yeah, I saw it land. I'm at the crash site. Try and home in on my signal," she held up the device and looked at the Doctor, "Doctor, can you sonic me? I need to boost the signal so we can use it as a beacon."
The Doctor begrudgingly took out the sonic screwdriver and used it on the woman's device.
"Ooh, Doctor! You soniced her!" Amy teased him.
"We have a minute. Shall we?" River opened her diary and skimmed the pages, "Apparently far earlier days," she mumbled to herself, "Have we done the Bone Meadows?"
"What's the book?" Avalon asked her.
"Stay away from it," the Doctor warned.
"Is that a journal?" Avalon ignored him, "You like to write?"
"Mm, not so much. It's more a necessity," River explained.
"It's her past," the Doctor began, gesturing to the diary, "And my-"
"Not just yours," River reminded, seeing this version was much younger than the last. Oh she truly hated the man's thoughts about her in these early days.
"Yes, but you never say who else's," the Doctor rolled her eyes.
"Clearly I can't tell, now can I?" she raised an eyebrow, "We meet in the wrong order and I won't corrupt the timelines."
Four columns of swirling dust appeared behind them and emerged to be four soldiers in desert camouflage uniforms, the leader immediately walking to River, "You promised me an army, Doctor Song."
"No. I promised you the equivalent of an army. This is the Doctor."
The man, Octavian, shook the Doctor's hand, "Father Octavian, sir. Bishop, second class. 20 clerics at my command. The troops are already in the drop ship and landing shortly. Doctor Song was helping us with a covert investigation. Has Doctor Song explained what we're dealing with?"
"Doctor, what do you know of the Weeping Angels?" River asked and the Doctor immediately tensed.
~ 0 ~
Later in the night, a transport ship had arrived and more soldiers had set up a camp. Octavian strode across the ground follow by the group, "The Angel, as far as we know, is still trapped in the ship. Our mission is to get inside and neutralise it. We can't get through up top, we'd be too close to the drives. According to this," he showed another handheld device, "Behind the cliff face, there's a network of catacombs leading right up to the temple. We can blow through the base of the cliffs, get into the entrance chamber, then make our way up."
"Oh, good," the Doctor mumbled.
"Good, sir?"
"Catacombs, probably dark ones. Dark catacombs, great!"
"Technically, I think it's called a maze of the dead."
Lena frowned, already fearing the place, "You can stop any time you like, you know."
"Father Octavian?" a soldier called.
"Excuse me, sir," Octavian said before leaving the group.
The Doctor waved him off then used his screwdriver on some of the equipment on the table.
"You're letting people call you "sir". Don't take you for a man who does that," Avalon remarked as she helped Lena sit on the table.
"What's a Weeping Angel?" Lena asked.
"And is it bad?" Amy added, "Like really bad?"
"Hm, now that's interesting..." he turned to the three women, "You're still here. Which part of 'Wait in the TARDIS till I tell you it's safe' was so confusing?"
"Which part of I don't follow orders was so confusing?" Avalon countered, a small smirk on her face.
"Ooh, are you all Mr Grumpy Face today?" Amy teased and Avalon laughed, Lena simply shaking her head with a small sigh.
"A Weeping Angel is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life form evolution has ever produced, and one is trapped inside that wreckage and I'm supposed to climb in with a screwdriver and a torch-and assuming I survive the radiation, and the whole ship doesn't blow up in my face-do something clever which I haven't actually thought of yet. That's my day, that's what I'm up to. Any questions?"
"Is River Song your wife?" Amy tilted her head, the man nearly strangling her out of frustration. Between she and Avalon he really didn't know who would end up killing him out of frustration first.
"She's got a point though," the second ginger, of course, had to add, "Cos she's someone from your future, and the way she talks to you, I've not seen anyone do that."
"Yeah, she's kinda like, you know, "Heel, boy!"" Amy nodded, "She's Mrs Doctor from the future, isn't she? Is she gonna be your wife one day?"
"You guys are being nosy," Lena scolded, hopping off the table and moving beside the Doctor, "And rude."
"Thank you," the Doctor said to Lena, "And yes, I am definitely Mr Grumpy Face today."
"Don't be, it's not a good face on you," Lena wagged a finger.
"Doctor? Doctor!" River called from a transport.
"Oops! Her indoors!" Amy exclaimed and she and Avalon laughed.
"Father Octavian!" River called.
"Why do they call them Father?" Lena asked the Doctor, the two leaving the laughing gingers.
"He's their Bishop, they're his clerics. It's the 51st Century, the Church has moved on."
~ 0 ~
The group stood inside the transport ship with a large screen and monitors at the end of the room. A black and white footage of a Weeping Angel with its hands over its eyes was being watched, River controlling the video with a remote.
"What do you think? It's from the security cameras in the Byzantium vault," she said, "I ripped it when I was on board. Sorry about the quality. It's four seconds. I've put it on loop."
"Yeah, it's an Angel. Hands covering its face," the Doctor nodded.
"You've encountered the Angels before?" Octavian asked.
"Once, on Earth, a long time ago. But those were scavengers, barely surviving."
"But this is just a statue," Amy shrugged.
"It's a statue when you see it," Lena informed, giving up on the normal human charade from now on.
"What?" Amy looked at her.
"Dad used to tell us this story to scare us," Avalon smiled and shook her head, "But it didn't scare me."
"I bet it didn't," River nudged her.
"Nothing scares me, River Song. If we're going to be meeting you with the Doctor, then it's one thing you should know."
"So where did it come from?" the Doctor asked.
"Oh, pulled from the ruins of Razbahan, end of last century. It's been in private hands ever since, dormant all that time," River explained.
"There's a difference between dormant and patient," the Doctor corrected.
"What's that mean, it's a statue when you see it?" Amy looked between them in confusion. Nothing anyone said was making sense, especially the twins!
"The story went that Weeping Angels could only move if they were unseen," Lena explained to her friend, understanding it could be quite confusing.
"Oh it's not a legend, baby sister," the Doctor sighed, missing the confusion one of his ginger companions wore, "It's a quantum lock. In the sight of any living creature, the Angels literally cease to exist. They're just stone. The ultimate defense mechanism."
"What, being a stone?" Amy scoffed, "Statues can't really move, Doctor. Don't know how that went by in your place."
"It's stone, Amy, until you turn your back on them," Avalon informed, dead quiet as she cast her twin a concerned look. She wanted Lena no where near those awful creatures.
~ 0 ~
The Doctor was leading the group out of the transport while speaking to Octavian, "The hyperdrive would've split on impact. The whole ship will be flooded with radiation, cracked electrons, gravity storms, deadly to almost any living thing."
"Deadly to an Angel?" Octavian asked, well hoped.
"Dinner to an Angel. The longer we leave it, the stronger it will grow," the Doctor said.
"Is there anyone around this place?" Avalon asked suddenly, "Anyone in danger of with this thing nearby?"
River was already on it and began reading what her device was saying to her, "The Aplans built the temple, the indigenous life-form. But they died out 400 years ago."
"200 years later, the planet was terraformed," Octavian added, "Currently there are six billion human colonists."
"You lot, you're everywhere! Like rabbits! I'll never get done saving you," the Doctor amusingly smiled and shook his head.
"Sir, if there is a clear and present danger to the local population..." Octavian trailed off, pausing when the Doctor nodded, his amused smile no longer on his face.
"Oh, there is. Bad as it gets. Bishop, lock and load!"
Octavian nodded and started with his commands, "Verger, how we doing with those explosives? Dr Song, with me."
"Two minutes," River waved him off as he walked away, "Ava, I need you."
Avalon froze and looked after River, "Hold on..." she went after the woman, the Doctor closely behind the ginger, "...why did you call me that?"
"Call you what?" River asked as she looked through books on a desk.
"Ava, only one person calls me that and it's most certainly not you," Avalon said, quite serious.
"I know him, silly," River waved her off, still trying to find that blasted book.
"I told you, she's from the future," the Doctor explained again.
"Yeah but she's from your future," the ginger pointed at him.
"And you're in it," River turned to them with a big grin.
"But so is Amy and Lena," Avalon reminded.
"Right, yes, Lena is called 'Lena' sometimes and when you seriously want to anger Amy, you call her 'Amelia'."
"How do you know all that?" Avalon stepped back, severely disliking the fact a woman she didn't know apparently knew all about her and her sister and friend.
River's grin only widened as she picked up the book she'd been looking for, "Don't fret. One day you'll all figure it out."
With a small irritated frown, Avalon looked back at the Doctor, "Now I get why you're so irritated with her."
The Doctor nodded silently.
~ 0 ~
"No one needs me," Amy paced back and forth inside the transport ship, Lena sitting in a chair with her legs crossed.
"I need you," Lena raised a hand with a small smile, getting one back from Amy, "And Rory. How is Rory, by the way?"
Amy stopped pacing and kept to the side, for some reason really hoping the topic of Rory wouldn't ever come into conversation...well not forever...maybe just...a couple more months?
"Amy?" Lena called again, "Are you okay?"
"Hm? Yes, but hey, I'd like to know something," Amy faced her, hoping to change the subject, "How do you and Avalon know about the Weeping Angels? I'm pretty sure that wasn't one of the fairy tales Avalon has in her room."
"Amy I'm going to share my family's biggest secret with you, alright? I really hope you don't get angry with us," Lena announced and Amy nodded, "We're actually humans from the future. Our parents were born on another planet called New Earth." Amy's mouth fell open, no words emerging. "Our several times grandparents were actually from a livestock in a hospital the Doctor managed to save and cure from every disease. Our specific species is actually quite immune to most diseases out there. Well, I'm not immune to the diseases which is why I'm actually weaker than Avalon and the rest of my family."
"But you said it was just a-"
"Forget everything we said cos it was a lie. My immune system didn't develop quite right and mutated. I'm prone to get more sick and tired than the normal species."
"So all this time you and Avalon...weren't humans..." Amy breathed.
"We are, just from the future," Lena shrugged, "We're evolved Humans."
"Lena that's...that's..." but Amy trailed off as she noticed the screen above the brunette where the Weeping Angel image was.
Lena followed her gaze up to the screen and frowned, "What's wrong?"
~ 0 ~
River was busy showing the Doctor and Avalon a book in her hands, "I found this. Definitive work on the Angels. Well, the only one. Written by a madman, it's barely readable, but I've marked a few passages."
The Doctor took the book from her and finished it up, "Not bad, bit slow in the middle, didn't you hate his girlfriend? No, hang on, wait, wait!" and he sniffed the book.
"Why did you just sniff that? What possible information can you get from sniffing the book?" Avalon raised an eyebrow, River snickering beside her.
Amy popped her head out of the transport, "Dr. Song? Did you have more than one clip of the Angel?" she called.
"No, just the four seconds," River answered absently.
Puzzled, Amy returned to the ship.
"This book is wrong! What's wrong with this book, it's wrong," the Doctor shook the book in frustration.
~ 0 ~
"Amy, what is it?" Lena insisted but the ginger just came back inside and forced her to stand away from the monitor, "Amy?"
"The Angel..." was all Amy could say as she focused on the video. The Angel was now facing forwards with its hands down at its side. Amy moved closer to the screen and bent over to see the time code.
"It just...changed..." Lena blinked as she caught the problem.
With the two so focused, neither noticed the door close and lock behind them.
~ 0 ~
"Give me that," Avalon snatched the book from the Doctor and started skimming a few pages, the Doctor frowning at her rudeness, neither noticing how River observed them both.
"That was not nice," the Doctor pointed at the ginger.
"Get that finger out of my face before I bite it," she warned quietly as she read a couple lines.
"You wouldn't dare-" but he quickly jerked his hand away from her after she suddenly leaned forwards and actually tried sinking her teeth into his finger. He took a step away from her with wide eyes, "Are you human or a Parana?"
She plainly shrugged, "Don't know. Go ahead and find out," she flashed a smirk before flipping to the next page.
"Don't you dare either of you," River playfully rolled her eyes, "Not with those baby faces."
"What are you talking about?" Avalon asked, both she and the Doctor sending River a confused glance.
River simply smiled at the pair, "How early is this for you?"
"Very early," the Doctor replied.
"Ah, so very early for you too," River nodded to Avalon, "So no one knows who I am yet?"
"How do you know who I am?" the Doctor curiously asked, "I don't always look the same."
"I've got pictures of all your faces. Neither of you ever show up in the right order though."
"Neither?" the Doctor had caught that last word, glancing at Avalon who had become too engrossed in the book to be paying attention. He blinked when River just sent him a small wink and smirk, prompting a small blush on his face.
"Dr. Song, why aren't there any pictures in this book?" Avalon suddenly asked, only seeing River still smirking at the man as she moved over to the ginger.
~ 0 ~
Amy had picked up the remote of the video and tried turning it off but the image kept coming back.
"If it's just a recording then how can it move?" Lena questioned, already moving back from it.
Amy instead moved forwards and peered at the screen, setting the remote down, "Maybe it's...not...just a recording?" she mumbled.
"Try the plug," Lena pointed and Amy went down to unplug the power source, "Amy it's moved!" Lena nearly shouted when the two had looked back up to see the Angel's face close to the camera, "We need to get out of here!" she rushed to the door first, "Avalon!" she exclaimed.
Amy tried opening the door but found it wouldn't budge. She looked back at the screen and saw the Angel with its mouth open like a predator, her eyes widening, "Doctor!"
~ 0 ~
"This whole book warns about the Weeping Angels and yet not one picture is given as a visual description," Avalon was explaining to River.
"There was a bit about images," River mumbled as she tried finding it on the page.
"Yes! I remember that, hang on..." the Doctor took the book from Avalon and flipped through it until he found the correct page, "That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel.'"
"What does that mean? 'An image of a Angel becomes itself an Angel'," River looked at Avalon, knowing if anyone could figure out a quote it would definitely be her.
"Simple, they're saying an Angel can literally come to..." Avalon blinked, her eyes widening, "...life." She remembered where Lena was at the current moment. "Lena!" she dashed back for the door of the transport ship.
~ 0 ~
Amy was punching the keypad while Lena pounded on the door, desperately crying out for help, "Avalon! Avalon!"
~ 0 ~
The small trio ran to the door and found the door locked up.
"Lina? Are you alright!? What's happening!?" Avalon struggled with the door.
~ 0 ~
"It's the Angel!" Lena exclaimed.
"Doctor! Doctor, it's coming out of the television," Amy added, "The Angel is here."
~ 0 ~
"Lena, remember the story, don't take your eyes off it!" Avalon instructed and looked at the Doctor frantically, "Do something, please!"
He had already taken out his screwdriver and tried using it on the keypad, "The Angel can't move if you're looking at it," he called to the girls inside, " What's wrong? It's deadlocked."
River was busy trying to override the controls to the side, "There is no deadlock."
"Don't blink, Amy, Lina. Don't even blink!" he ordered the girls.
~ 0 ~
"What are you doing?" Avalon asked the man as he tried something new with the screwdriver.
"Cutting the power. It's using the screen, I'm turning the screen off," he explained and then sighed, "It's no good, it's deadlocked the whole system."
"There's no deadlock," River reminded.
"Well there is one now!" Avalon snapped.
"Help us!" Amy and Lena cried together from the inside.
"Amy! Can you turn it off?" the Doctor tried asking but they kept shouting together, "The screen, can you turn it off?"
"I tried," Amy responded.
"Try again but don't take your eyes off the Angel."
"We're not!" Lena assured.
"Just don't look at the eyes," Avalon suddenly warned, " not the eyes.
"Why?" Amy asked.
'What is it, Ava?" River stopped her work, knowing there was something she and the Doctor had apparently missed in the book.
""The eyes are not the windows of the soul, they are the doors. Beware what may enter there," Avalon recited and stepped back from the door, "Lena, don't look into its eyes, you too Amy!"
~ 0 ~
But Amy immediately went for the eyes while Lena made sure to look at its clothing instead.
~ 0 ~
"And step away from the door," Avalon ordered.
"What? Why?" Amy asked.
"I'm Avalon, Amy. Why do you think?"
~ 0 ~
Inside, the two women looked at each other and hurried up to the monitors, still looking at the Angel of course.
~ 0 ~
"What are you going to do..." the Doctor tried asking but River had already pulled him away from the door.
Avalon whipped out a small squarness gun from the inside of her boot and shot straight at the door, blasting a big hole inside, "Lena!" she cried and dropped the gun before running inside for her twin.
"Avalon!" Lena rushed over and encased the ginger in a tight hug, "Thank you!"
"It's okay now, it's okay," Avalon kissed her sister's head, "You didn't look at the eyes, right?" she pulled away and studied her sister.
"No, I listened," she assured.
"What the hell was that?" the Doctor entered the room with a big scolding face.
"Uh...hello..." Amy waved from her spot, still looking at the Angel for everyone's sake, "A little help would be nice."
"Anything that takes the image of an Angel is an Angel," Avalon recited and hurried up to the desk and picked up the remote, pausing it when static appeared, "There," River went ahead and unplugged the screen.
"Amazing!" River praised and hugged the ginger.
"I try to be," Avalon laughed, but really out of fear for her sister...though no one would ever know that.
"Uh, hello?" the Doctor waved the squareness gun in his hand, "How? What? And where?"
"I found it inside my room..." Avalon cleared her throat and innocently wrapped her fingers around her curls.
The Doctor tilted his head, his eyes hardening on the ginger's blatant lie. "Really?"
"I know what I'm doing!"
"And you just carry it around in your shoe?"
"Do I have my purse?" she gestured to her free arms.
"Yes, but...shoe? Gun?"
"Oh give it up, you carry a screwdriver. Least people know what my weapon does!"
"Okay, before we get into more bickering..." River stepped between the two, hands apart to keep those two apart, "...how's about that Angel? Was that it?"
"That was a projection of the Angel," the Doctor answered in a mutter, "It's reaching out, getting a good look at us. It's no longer dormant. And I'm keeping this," he waved to Avalon her gun.
"But that's mine!" the ginger tried lunging for it but River kept her back while the Doctor simply rose the weapon with his hand, "You can't do that!"
"My TARDIS, my companion, my decision," he informed.
"I'm gonna kill you!" she declared and continued her attempts to get her hands on him.
River just laughed as she tried pushing the ginger back gently, "Oh, the first of many."
The group rushed out of the transport ship upon hearing an explosion that had managed to rock them.
"It's gone positive!" a soldier called out.
"Doctor! We're through!" Octavian announced.
"Okay, now it starts," the Doctor mumbled and headed outside, a very peeved Avalon behind him with her twin at her side.
Amy rubbed her left eye before following, River catching the action, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah. There's just...something in my eye."
~ 0 ~
The group found themselves climbing down a rope ladder where Octavian and several more soldiers awaited. Once at the bottom, the Doctor and Octavian burned their torches to look around.
"Do we have a gravity globe?" the Doctor questioned.
"Grav globe," Octavian ordered and was given a sphere from one of the soldiers.
"Where are we? What is this?" Amy asked as River stood beside her.
"It's an Aplan mortarium. Sometimes called a maze of the dead," River replied.
"And what's that?" Lena, with a shaky voice, asked.
"Well, if you happen to be a creature of living stone..." the Doctor trailed off as he kicked the gravity sphere as if it was a football and it rise into the air where it stopped and showed the number of stone statues, "The perfect hiding place..." the Doctor mumbled.
"I guess this makes it a bit trickier," Octavian breathed as he saw the millions of statues.
"A bit, yeah," the Doctor nodded.
"A stone angel on the loose amongst stone statues. A lot harder than I'd prayed for."
"A needle in a haystack," Avalon offered, moving closer to Lena's side. One Weeping Angel was bad enough and now she had to protect her sister from a Weeping Angel in hiding? She'd be a little more at ease if a certain alien hadn't kept her gun...
"A needle that looks like hay," the Doctor began, "A hay-like needle. Of death. A hay-alike needle of death in a haystack of, er, statues. No, yours was fine."
"Of course it was," Avalon waved him off.
"Right. Check every single statue in this chamber," Octavian gave the orders, "You know what you're looking for. Complete visual inspection. One question - how do we fight it?
"We find it, and hope," the Doctor declared and walked off, Amy following.
"From this point on, you do not let go of my hand, got it?" Avalon had taken hold of Lena's hand and put quite a grip on it.
"Got it," Lena nodded and so they went off as well.
River had tried to go and follow the group but Octavian grabbed her by the arm and held her back, "They don't know yet, do they?" Octavian asked her, "What you are...?"
"It's too early in their time streams," River mumbled.
"Well, make sure he doesn't work it out, or he's not gonna help us," Octavian warned.
"I won't let you down. Believe you me, I have no intention of going back to prison. But you better keep your mouth shut with her, not ONE word, understood?"
"Suppose that's fair," Octavian let her go.
A soldier walked up to the two, "Sir? Side chamber. One visible exit."
"Check it out. Angelo, go with him."
The two soldiers nodded and walked off to check the chamber.
~ 0 ~
The Doctor was shining his torch in every direction before moving, the twins closely behind. Amy was moving to follow as well when she stopped to look at the numerous levels up above. She rubbed the corner of her eye with a finger and found a small grit. She used her entire hand and sand and grit came out through her fingers. Afraid, she stopped immediately and studied her hand to find nothing.
River had walked up beside the girl and looked at her, "You all right?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," Amy forgot the moment and shrugged, "So, what's a maze of the dead?"
"Oh, it's not as bad as it sounds. It's just a labyrinth with dead people buried in the walls..." River paused and shook her head, "OK, that was fairly bad. Right give me your arm," she showed the ginger a syringe with a smile, "This won't hurt a bit."
Amy yelped upon being shot, "Ow!" she shot the woman a small glare.
That had hurt.
"There, you see. I lied. It's a viro-stabilise," River shrugged then turned for the others, "Oi, twins! Come here a sec," she waved the syringe.
The two Reynolds came towards the women, still hand-in-hand as Avalon had ordered, "What is it?" Avalon frowned, disliking any needles that went near her sister.
"It's a viro-stabilize," River repeated, "It stabilizes your metabolism against radiation, drive burn, anything. You're going to need it when we get up to that ship, no matter how evolved you are."
Avalon held her own arm first, "Go ahead."
"Does it hurt?" Lena frowned, flinching when Avalon was shot, though the ginger only crinkled her nose.
"No," Avalon replied and gently lifted her arm for River. River injected Lena who flinched badly again. Avalon rubbed the spot where Lena had been injected and looked at River, speaking very quietly, "You know he's listening to us, right?" she made a small nod to the Doctor who was conspicuously reading off River's device a few feet ahead of them.
"He thinks he's so clever," River rolled her eyes, "Ask me a question, any of you," she looked at the three.
"Um..." Lena thought, "What's my big brother like in the future?"
"Cos you know him in the future, don't you?" Amy joined in.
"The Doctor? Well, the Doctor's the Doctor," River answered, hiding her smirk from the man behind the women.
"Oh, well that's very helpful. Mind if we write that down?" Avalon asked.
"Yes, we are."
"Sorry, what?" the Doctor finally turned to them, still 'reading' from the device.
"Talking about you," River shook her head.
"I wasn't listening, I'm busy."
"Yeah, you might want to turn that the other way," Avalon swayed on her feet, "Just a suggestion."
"Oh, shut up," he frowned and turned away, this time actually focusing on his work.
"Just a heads up, he's big on eavesdropping," River nudged the ginger and walked around the three women for her own work.
"What's that got to do with me?" Avalon frowned and looked at the other two.
Lena shrugged, "You talk a lot when you write, maybe that's it."
"Still doesn't make sense," Amy mumbled, "Anything that women says, actually. She acts like his wife and then she gives these little hints..."
"Hints of what?" the twins asked together.
"Nothing," Amy moved around them as well, seemingly upset about something.
She actually liked that River person, despite the Doctor's apparent uneasy feelings on the woman. River seemed funny, she seemed sneaky and flirty. She moved around like she was practically married to the Doctor but then...she'd say these little things, like her last words to Avalon, that made Amy confused...upset. River was from the future, that was a fact, and because of that she knew exactly who ended with who in the future...
Amy had a little desire for the Doctor's 'who' to be herself...just for a tiny bit...nothing permanent.
But for some reason, River kept leaning more to Avalon and that bothered Amy. Avalon had always had a much closer relationship to Rory and Amy believed that when Rory actually confessed his feelings to her that the relationship with Avalon would sort of...waft down a bit.
That wasn't the case.
Rory and Avalon were always super duper close, sharing laughs and whatnot, even sports! Rory hated sports! But because Avalon liked them, so did he...just to make her happy. Amy had heard repeatedly from Lena that Avalon had only a platonic love for Rory, like a brother, and nothing more beyond that. But there was always a bit of doubt Amy had for Lena's words...and somehow that made her shift a little more to the Doctor for some reason. Technically, he had landed in her garden, in her backyard; Avalon was only a guest at that time. She can't also take the alien, no! Amy knew she didn't want anything permanent, anything real, with the Doctor but perhaps a little...adventure...wouldn't be so bad.
Avalon couldn't have him too, no sir.
~ 0 ~
"Once hearing gunfire, the group ran back down to the main chamber where a young cleric stood, having just fired the weapon at a statue. The Doctor quickly moved up to see but only saw a regular stature.
"Sorry. Sorry, I thought... I thought it looked at me," the cleric nervously said, still shaking a bit.
"We know what the Angel looks like. Is that the Angel?" Octavian, rather rudely, asked.
"No, sir."
"No, sir, it is not! According to the Doctor, we are facing an enemy of unknowable power and infinite evil. So it would be good, it would be very good, if we could all remain calm in the presence of decor."
"Don't be rude," Lena spoke up, getting everyone's attention.
Usually she'd be all for staying behind everyone and letting them do their things but the man had been clearly afraid and simply shot to save his life. She could empathize because she practically lived to be afraid of things. She'd never once been reprimanded for her fears, not even by Mels and that was saying something as the woman lived to make trouble.
"I bet if you were afraid you would've shot too," she said to Octavian then looked at the cleric, "Are you okay?" the cleric nodded with a small smile, appreciative that someone wasn't irritated with him.
"My baby sister has a point," the Doctor agreed, "What's your name?" he asked the cleric.
"Bob, sir."
"Ah, that's a great name. I love Bob."
"It's a Sacred Name. We all have Sacred Names, they're given to us in the service of the Church," Octavian explained.
"Sacred Bob. More like Scared Bob now, eh?" the Doctor playfully teased the cleric.
"Yes, sir."
"Ah, good. Scared keeps you fast. Anyone in this room who isn't scared is a moron. Carry on," the Doctor declared and took Lena's hand, quite forcefully from Avalon who shot him a small glare for it.
"We'll be moving into the maze in two minutes," Octavian said then looked to Bob, "You stay with Christian and Angelo. Guard the approach."
~ 0 ~
"Isn't there a chance this lot's just gonna collapse? There's a whole ship up there," Amy kept looking up every time she remembered where they were.
"Incredible builders, the Aplans," River remarked, not at all perturbed.
"Had dinner with their chief architect once," the Doctor said, "Two heads are better than one."
"You mean you helped him?" Lena looked at him.
"No, I mean he had two heads. That book, the very end, what did it say?"
"Hang on," River took the book out of her backpack and handed it to Avalon while she re-closed her bag.
"Read it to me," the Doctor ordered.
Avalon rolled her eyes but did as told. She wasn't very pleased he'd taken her twin from her but did, nonetheless, know that he would protect Lena like she would. She just wasn't quite used to sharing the job with anyone else, except her family of course. Avalon flipped to the last page of the book she held and started reading aloud, "What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us. The time of Angels."
~ 0 ~
"Are we there yet? It's a hell of a climb," Amy sighed as they walked.
"The maze is on six levels representing the ascent of the soul," River explained, "Only two levels to go."
"I'm getting tired," Lena complained.
"I'd recommend a rest spot but this may not be the ideal place," the Doctor said.
"Perhaps the city?" Lena joked.
"How about the Aplans? We could visit them some time."
"I thought they were all dead?" Avalon reminded.
"So's Virginia Woolf. I'm on her bowling team. Very relaxed, sort of cheerful. That's having two heads. You're never short of a snog with an extra head."
"Doctor, there's something. I don't know what it is..." River trailed off as she kept looking around, something in the pit of her stomach telling her to get them out, apart from the regular danger that always came with the Doctor.
"Yeah, something wrong. Don't know what it is yet either, working on it," the Doctor casually waved her off, "Then they started having laws against self-marrying and what was that about? But that's the church for you. Erm, no offence, Bishop."
Octavian just made a face at those words, "Quite a lot taken, if that's all right, Doctor."
They arrived at a narrow passage lined with statues on either side.
"Lowest point in the wreckage is only about 50 feet up from here. That way," Octavian pointed.
"Church had a point, if you think about it. The divorces must have been messy," Amy chuckled.
However, the Doctor suddenly stopped and closely looked at a statue, his eyes widening when he realized it, "Oh!"
"What's wrong?" Lena asked.
River also blinked as the light bulb lit up in her head, "Oh!" she looked at the Doctor.
"Exactly," he nodded, slowly pulling Lena behind him.
"How could we not notice that?" River did the same with Avalon, though that particular ginger wasn't too fond of the idea. She was never the one to go behind people's back for protection. She hated it!
"Low level perception filter, or maybe we're thick," the Doctor said.
"Speak for yourself!" Avalon exclaimed, forcefully moving beside River.
"What's wrong, sir?" Octavian asked.
"Nobody move. Everyone stay exactly where they are," the Doctor instructed, "Bishop, I am truly sorry. I've made a mistake and we are all in danger."
'What danger?" Avalon's eyes immediately fell to her twin.
"The Aplans," River explained.
"What about them?" Amy asked, confused on what was so important.
"They've got two heads."
"Yes, we get that. So?"
"Oh..." Avalon's eyes widened, now realizing the problem.
"Oh what?" Amy raised an eyebrow.
"The statues-" the Doctor began, "-don't have two heads," the ginger's eyes widened, "Everyone, over there. Just move, don't ask questions, don't speak," everyone moved to a spot with no statues, "OK. I want you all to switch off your torches."
"You're kidding me?" Avalon shot him a sharp look.
"Just do it," he reiterated. Everyone turned off their torches except for him, "OK. I'm going to turn off this one too, just for a moment."
"Are you sure about this?" Lena looked at him, unlike her twin with a nervous face.
"No."
"You make me feel so much better, brother."
The Doctor shrugged and switched off his torch for only a split second. Upon turning it back on, they saw all the statues in front of them FACING them unlike their previous position.
"Oh, my God! They've moved!" Amy gasped as the Doctor ran ahead.
Quickly, the rest of the group followed the Doctor and saw all the statues lining their way to the ship, "They're Angels. All of them!" he exclaimed.
"But they can't be," River breathed.
"Clerics, keep watching them," the Doctor backtracked and saw the Angels moved forward, "Every statue in this maze, every single one, is a Weeping Angel. They're coming after us."
~ 0 ~
"There was only one Angel on the ship. Just the one, I swear," River was saying to the group.
"Could they have been here already?" Lena offered.
"The Aplans, how did they die out?" the Doctor asked.
"Nobody knows..." River blinked with realization.
"We know," Avalon scoffed.
"They don't look like Angels, though," Octavian pointed out.
Amy nodded in agreement, "And they're not fast. You said they were fast. They should have had us by now."
"They're dying. Losing their form. They must have been down here for centuries, starving," the Doctor sighed.
"Losing their image," Amy shrugged.
"And their image is their power. Power. Power!"
"Doctor?" Lena frowned at his almost excitement. This was not the time for him to get excited over a dangerous situation!
"Don't you see? All that radiation spilling out, the drive burn. The crash wasn't an accident - it was a rescue mission, for the Angels. We're in the middle of an army and it's waking up."
"We need to get out of here fast," River snapped, almost angry. How could she be so stupid and call him and the girls in? Granted, she believed a much older version of them would come to help out. But no, to her luck the baby-faced group had turned up and now were in danger because of her miscalculation. Oh, she was just awful!
Octavian had begun speaking into his radio, "Bob, Angelo, Christian, come in, please. Any of you, come in!"
"It's Bob, sir. Sorry, sir."
"Bob, are Angelo and Christian with you? All the statues are active. I repeat, all the statues are active!"
"I know, sir. Angelo and Christian are dead, sir. The statues killed them, sir."
The Doctor's head snapped over to Octavian and he quickly moved to take the radio from him, "Bob, Sacred Bob, it's me, the Doctor. Where are you now?"
Octavian frowned, "I'm talking to my..."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up!"
"I'm on my way up to you, sir, I'm homing on your signal," Bob said.
"Well done, Bob. Scared keeps you fast, told you, didn't I? Your friends, Bob, what did the Angel do to them?"
"Snapped their necks, sir."
"That's not how Angels kill you," Avalon frowned, "At least that's not what dad used to tell us. They displace you in time."
"Unless they needed the bodies for something," the Doctor mumbled, about to speak into the radio when Octavian snatched it from him.
"Bob, did you check their data packs for vital signs? We may be able to initiate a rescue plan."
The Doctor took back the radio and gave him a look, "Don't be an idiot! The Angels don't leave you alive!" he then spoke into the radio, "Bob, keep running, but tell me, how did you escape?"
"I didn't escape, sir. The Angel killed me, too," Bob said, much to the group's shock.
Slowly, the Doctor spoke into the radio again, "What do you mean the Angel killed you too?"
"Snapped my neck, sir. Wasn't as painless as I expected but it was pretty quick, so that was something."
"If you're dead, how can I be talking to you?"
"You're not talking to me, sir. The Angel has no voice. It stripped my cerebral cortex from my body and re-animated a version of my consciousness to communicate with you. Sorry about the confusion."
"So when you say you're on your way up to us..."
"It's the Angel that's coming, sir, yes."
"No way out."
"Then we get out through the wreckage. Go!" Octavian exclaimed, shooing the women.
"Go, go, go. All of you run!" the Doctor agreed.
"But we can't..." Lena frowned.
"Here," he took out her asthma inhaler and placed it in her palm, "Now you can. I'm coming, just go, go, go!"
The women ran off with the clerics, leaving the Doctor and Octavian alone.
"Called you an idiot. Sorry, but there's no way we could have rescued your men," the Doctor said to Octavian, genuinely sorry for his choice of words.
"I know that, sir. And when you've flown away in your little blue box, I'll explain that to their families," Octavian walked off.
The Doctor shook his head and spoke into the radio again, "Angel Bob, which Angel am I talking to? The one from the ship?"
"Yes, sir. The other Angels are still restoring."
"Ah, so the Angel is not in the wreckage. Thank you," he quickly ran along the passage and saw Amy just waiting, "Don't wait for me, go, run."
"I can't!" she cried and the Doctor hurried back to help her, "No, really I can't."
"Why not?"
"Look at it. Look at my hand. It's stone!" Amy looked down at her hand on the rail, seeming like stone.
River, Octavian, the twins and the other clerics arrived at an open chamber where they could see the ship above them.
"Well. There it is - the Byzantium," Octavian looked up.
"Well, it's got to be 30 feet. How do we get up there?" River asked.
"Check all these exits. I want them all secure."
The Doctor was flashing his torch in Amy's eyes and sighed, "You looked into the eyes of an Angel, didn't you? What did Avalon say?"
"I couldn't stop myself. I tried. I don't do orders either," the ginger frowned.
"Listen. It's messing with your head. Your hand is not made of stone."
"It is. Look at it!" Amy nearly shouted, but really how could he not see it?
"It's in your mind. I promise you. You can move that hand. You can let go."
"I can't, OK? I've tried and I can't. It's stone."
The Doctor's torchlight began flickering, alerting him the Angel was nearing, "The Angel is gonna come and it's gonna turn this light off, and then there's nothing I can do to stop it. So do it, concentrate, move your hand!"
"I can't," the ginger whimpered.
"Then we're both going to die!"
"You're not going to die."
"They'll kill the lights," the Doctor reminded her as the light flickered off and the Angels moved closer.
"You've got to go, you know you have. You've got all that stuff with River and that's all got to happen," Amy reminded, deciding to believe that it was River who he'd end up with in the future, "You know you can't die here!"
"Time can be re-written, it doesn't work like that," the Doctor reminded as Amy looked back at the Angels, "Keep your eyes on it. Don't blink."
"Run!" Amy exclaimed.
"You see, I'm not going, I'm not leaving you here."
"I don't need you to die for me, Doctor, do I look that clingy?"
"You can move your hand," the Doctor said.
"It's stone!"
"It's not stone!"
"Those people up there will die without you. River, Avalon, your baby sister! If you stay here with me, you'll have as good as killed them."
"Amy Pond, you are magnificent. And I'm sorry."
"It's OK. I understand. You've got to leave me."
"Oh, no, I'm not leaving you, never. I'm sorry about this," and then the Doctor bit her hand, making the ginger scream in pain and jerk her hand away, "See, not stone. Now run!"
"You bit me!" she accused, rubbing her hand.
"Yep and you're alive," the Doctor reminded.
"I've got a mark! Look at my hand!" she held her hand for him yo see but he used it to yank her behind him.
"Yeah, and you're alive, did I mention?"
"Blimey, your teeth! Have you got space teeth?"
"Alive. All I'm saying," he concluded and ran off with her.
~ 0 ~
A cleric sent off to check passages returned to the group, "The statues are advancing along all corridors. And, sir, my torch keeps flickering."
"They all do," Octavian reminded.
"So does the gravity globe,' River added.
"Clerics, we're down to four men. Expect incoming," Octavian gave the warning.
"Yeah, it's the Angels. They're coming. And they're draining the power for themselves," the Doctor explained while he looked for another way out.
"Which means we won't be able to see them," Avalon mumbled, her hand gripping Lena's, "And we can't stay here so do something, please!"
"There are more incoming!" Octavian exclaimed.
"Any suggestions?" River looked around for ideas.
"The statues are advancing on all sides and we don't have the climbing equipment to reach the Byzantium," Octavian reminded.
"There's no way up, no way back, no way out," she looked at the Doctor, her heart racing as she thought of the full-on danger No pressure, but this is usually when you have a really good idea.
"There's always a way out," he said and heard his echo. The lights flickered off again and the Angels appeared far too close for their liking, "There's always a way out," he repeated, assured.
"Doctor? Can I speak to the Doctor, please?" Angel Bob's voice came through the radio.
Bitterly, the Doctor took hold of the radio and spoke, "Hello, Angels. What's your problem?"
"Your power will not last much longer, and the Angels will be with you shortly. Sorry, sir."
"Why are you telling me this?" the Doctor looked at the group, feeling awful of the horror he saw in Lena's face. The girl really wasn't up for this kind of adventures. He himself didn't like this! He assured Avalon he'd help protect her because in reality he had grown attached to the little brunette, she really did remind him of a little sister and this was not how he wanted to care for her.
"There's something the Angels are very keen you should know before the end," Angel Bob brought the Doctor out of his thoughts.
"Which is?"
"I died in fear."
"I'm sorry?"
"You told me my fear would keep me alive but I died afraid, in pain and alone. You made me trust you, and when it mattered, you let me down."
"What are they doing?" Avalon whispered to River, seeing the Doctor tense at the words being said.
"They're trying to make him angry," River replied.
"Is that very smart?"
"Not really."
"I'm sorry, sir. The Angels were very keen for you to know that," Angel Bob said.
"Well then, the Angels have made their second mistake because I'm not going to let that pass," the Doctor snapped, "I'm sorry you're dead, Bob, but I swear to whatever is left of you, they will be sorrier."
"But you're trapped, sir, and about to die."
"Yeah, I'm trapped. Speaking of traps, this trap has got a great big mistake in it. A great big, whopping mistake!"
"What mistake, sir?"
But the Doctor ignored the Angel and looked at Amy, "Trust me?"
"Yeah," the ginger nodded.
He looked at the twins, "Trust me?"
"Of course," Lena replied, Avalon nodding in agreement.
He looked at River next but before he could even repeated the question she nodded, "Oh I do," she answered.
"You lot - trust me?" he looked at Octavian and the clerics.
"Sir, two more incoming!" one of the cleris guarding the passage reported.
"We have faith, sir," Octavian answered.
"Great," he took out Avalon's gun much to the ginger's shock.
"Oi, that's mine!" she tried reaching for it but River held her back.
"You said you trusted me," he reminded.
"But not with that! You don't know the first thing about them!"
"Oh, but I do..." he mumbled quietly, his gaze falling for a moment.
Avalon stopped as she saw him, feeling there was something he was hiding and a painful something by the looks of it. She sighed, "Fine, go ahead," she motioned for him to do whatever he was planning.
"Right, I'm about to do something incredibly stupid and dangerous. When I do...jump," he jumped in place as example.
"Jump where?" Octavian questioned.
"Just jump, high as you can. Come on, leap of faith, Bishop. On my signal."
"What signal?"
"You won't miss it," the Doctor aimed the gun at the roof.
"Sorry, can I ask again? You mentioned a mistake?" Angel Bob asked from the radio.
"Oh, big mistake. Huge. There's one thing you never put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap."
"And what would that be, sir?"
"Me!"
The Doctor fired at the gravity globe and made it explode...
Author's Note:
And we got River Song introduced! How do you think that's gonna go along the stories? xD. Since this is a 2-parter episode I might update a little quicker!
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autaro94: Glad to hear you liked her! :) And yeah I see what you mean too, the Doctor and the TARDIS do have a significant relationship!