AN: Finally less angst! This a chapter filled with joy. A little. Anyway. For timing we'll say it's been a month or two since Rory and Amy last saw the Doctor and for SPN let's say what we've seen of season 7 has happened EXCEPT BOBBY DIDN'T DIE BECAUSE GODAMMIT YOU CAN'T TAKE BOBBY AND CAS AWAY.
Ahem. Thanks for the reviews and in reply to Kate I'm having trouble with pairings too. I love Rory/Amy but I also love Sam/Rory. I've written a Sam/Rory scene for later on but I don't know whether to include it!
The Creature awakens with a start to find itself no longer constrained.
Its cage is gone.
It can move.
It is free.
Rory is almost asleep when he hears the familiar whirring sound coming from the garden. He hears Amy whoop and call to him and he shuts the heavy book with a yawn. He's been looking for Gabriel's creature. He hasn't found it yet.
When he gets downstairs Amy and the Doctor are giggling together at the kitchen table. When he walks in the Doctor stands up and pulls him into a hug, "RORY!" he cries with joy. "It's been so long!"
"Yeah, it has Doctor." Rory says smiling widely.
"I was just talking to Amy about having a little catching up adventure. What do you say?" he says, with a cheeky grin.
Rory shrugs, "Yeah, awesome."
"Excellent!" The Doctor says, beaming. "Come along then Ponds. Let's go. Now, where to? Maybe Asgard, I had a wonderful picnic there last week. Or perhaps the planet I found last month, it's contained in a sort of time lock, people have evolved whose souls walk outside of their bodies as animals! It's wonderful! Or maybe..."
They reach the TARDIS and the Doctor's still blathering on about all the wonderful planets they could visit and Amy's listening, enamoured. Occasionally she makes suggestions and eventually they settle on a planet made up entirely of rainforests. An intergalactic nature reserve.
When the TARDIS lands Rory's the first to the doors and he throws them open excitedly only to be met with a very familiar scene. A motel. But that's not what catches his eye.
It's the car that has just pulled up outside of the motel. And the two men who clamber out of it wearily.
Rory makes a strangled noise in his throat and without a second thought runs out of the TARDIS towards the Impala. Dean sees him first, turning to check out the surrounding area. He gapes and his eyes go comically wide. His brother to him and laughs slightly before turning to see what Dean's looking at.
Sam's green eyes go wide and he chokes, "Rory..."
And then Rory's hugging Sam and he's not sure if he's crying or laughing or both. All he knows is that he's shaking and Sam's holding him like he'll never let go. When Sam finally does let him go Dean pulls him into a rough hug. And Rory's pretty sure this is all some wonderful dream.
Dean lets him go and the Winchesters stare at him, they're all at a loss for words.
"Rory," comes a cautious voice from behind him. Amy. "The Doctor says the TARDIS took us here for some reason deliberately. Are they the people from your photos?" she asks hesitantly.
Rory turns to her and nods, "Amy, this is Sam and Dean Winchester. Sam, Dean this is Amy Pond," he says, turning back to them. He hesitates and then says, "My wife."
He pretends not to notice the flicker of hurt-disappointment-jealousy that flashes across Sam's face and focuses instead on Dean's predatory glance at Amy. He clears his throat and Dean looks up at him, flashing him a winning smile and winking in approval. He rolls his eyes. Same old Dean.
But Sam won't even look him in the eyes.
Amy laughs as they both shake her hands and makes a few jokes about not knowing Rory had such handsome friends. Rory looks away and spots the Doctor ambling towards them, looking completely baffled.
"It just doesn't make sense," he says when he reaches them completely ignoring Sam and Dean. "The TARDIS took us here but I don't understand why! What's here anyway? Nothing! And now she won't leave! Can you believe it, Ponds? Looks like we're stuck here!" Then he looks up and smiles at the Winchesters, "Hullo, I'm the Doctor."
"Doctor? Doctor who?" Dean asks.
"Just the Doctor!" says the Doctor brightly.
Dean and Sam look at Rory, eyebrows raised and Rory shook his head and let the Doctor ramble on to them, hoping that Dean would equate alien with monster and decided to shoot him. Amy leans up and whispers, "You didn't tell me they were that hot, Rory."
"Oh, so you're hunters too! Wonderful! Love a hunter!" he was saying. "Glad we've got that sorted! Now, one more question to answer: why did the TARDIS bring us here?"
Rory is about to say something about the creature under the Earth and about how the TARDIS must have found out about it but he doesn't need to because the Doctor's question is answered by a voice behind them.
"Well, probably because I told her to bucko."
Rory wants to shout and punch and scream at Gabriel all once. By the looks on Sam and Dean's faces they're having similar thoughts.
Instead he strides up to him and hugs him. "Don't you ever fucking dare to do that again, Gabriel." He whispers.
Gabriel smirks, "In my defence I didn't know what'd happen. I didn't think I'd get brought back, but heyho."
It's free of Its cage.
It's free.
It starts to move.
It needs a body before it can get to the surface.
So it starts to search one out.
The Doctor leads them into the TARDIS, watching Gabriel curiously and after they've gotten over the whole 'it's bigger on the inside!' Gabriel starts to talk. He tells them all what he told Rory, about the creature under the Earth.
"It's free now," he says grimly. "I felt it when it happened."
"So what now?" Sam asks.
"It'll make its way up to the surface. It'll find a body and then I suppose it'll get on with destroying the universe." Gabriel shrugs.
"What is it with destroying the universe that's appealing, huh?" Dean growls, frustrated.
"What about the Leviathans?" Sam asks shooting his brother an annoyed look.
"What's a Leviathan?" Amy asks.
"We won't need to worry about them," Gabriel says waving a hand dismissively. "This creature will automatically be drawn to the most powerful things on Earth, which except for me and the Doc here will be the Leviathans. So hopefully it'll destroy them."
"That's oddly helpful..."
The Doctor was uncharacteristically silent throughout the whole conversation and only speaks when Gabriel admits to having no idea of how to stop the creature. He stands up and strides right up to Gabriel, "What are you, Gabriel?" he asks.
Gabriel blinks. "I'm an angel." He says, sounding slightly confused and Rory catches a glimpse of Gabriel's wings in his shadow. God he's missed them.
The Doctor frowns, "An angel." He repeats. "I've never met one." his voice is cold.
Gabriel's stance changes immediately from relaxed to defensive. "Well you're the first Time Lord I've ever met so touché."
The Doctor's eyes narrow. "Angels don't exist. I've travelled the universe and never met one. I've never met a God either."
"Doctor," Rory says warningly. He can see Gabriel and a pissed off archangel is the last thing they need right now. Dean's getting angry now too.
The Doctor looks at him, blue eyes wide. "But Rory, listen to what he's saying. He's saying there's an evil creature living in a cage in the centre of the Earth. He's saying he's an angel Rory. A biblical angel, you know there's no God."
Gabriel looks like he's about to stab the Doctor in the face. "Doctor," Rory says, "I believe Gabriel. I know there are angels. Doctor just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it doesn't exist."
The Doctor's eyes widen a fraction and he turns to Amy, "Amy, please. Tell me you don't believe this."
She stammers, "I-Doctor...I don't know."
The Doctor looks crestfallen. Gabriel looks smug.
Dean stands up, "Well we better get researching."
Rory can't help feeling excited. It'll be like old times, him, Dean and Sam and Gabriel and now the Doctor and Amy as well. He starts to smile but then the Doctor says, very quietly. "No."
Everyone looks up.
"I'm not coming."
"Doctor...what?" Amy asks, looking more terrified then Rory's ever seen her.
"I'm not coming," the Doctor repeats. "I don't believe in monsters."
It finds one.
It's in a cage surrounded by two, angry, powerful souls.
