I hung from the railing in the Tardis, my arms dangling, and my hair waving from the small breeze. My thoughts were chaotic; they couldn't stay still, and it felt like stones were being thrown at me. My eyes opened at the sound of footsteps coming my way. David hung himself upside down from the railing next to me, or feet both between the bars. At first we didn't say anything, we just hung there but after a moment David spoke.
"Spill, what's on your mind?" He said blowing a piece of his hair out of his face.
I was quite for a second. I really didn't know what to say, guess I'll wing it. I thought. I turned my head, "I want the truth." I saw David look at me from the corner of his eye. I faced forward again, "Why is this happening? Why is history vanishing? Why can the angels get into the Tardis? Please David I don't know what's going on and I don't know how to fix it." I felt all the hope, and courage drain from me.
David gave her a little push, "Hey don't worry, and about not knowing that was my fault." He closed his eyes, "I guess we didn't tell you everything yesterday." David flipped himself up and looked back at Haley, "Come on, I don't think you want to be upside down for as long as this is going to take." He put his hands in pockets and walked to the center of the Tardis. He leaned against the controls, "Well here it goes," he paused, "How do I put this." He shook his head; damn I can't find the right words. He thought, "Alright let's start at the beginning; do you remember the episode where Matt is trapped with a bunch of angels?"
I chuckled, "How could I forget?"
David nodded and went explaining, "Do you remember how at the end of the episode the angels were pulled into the crack?" he looked down at her.
"Yeah but," I thought of something, "hold up David; the Tardis isn't going to explode is it?" I saw a spark in David's eye.
"No, no it's not going to blow up, but this is where you need to start paying attention." He saw Haley frown at him.
"I've been paying attention!" I protested.
"Good," David said smiling, "No pay attention more. Within all the Doctor Who episodes some things are real, others fake." He gave Haley a moment to think, "The Tardis exploding was one of those fake things that Moffat created to keep the fans entertained." He stopped as Haley spoke up to him.
"Can Moffat really do that?" I asked.
David smiled, "His Moffat, he can do anything he wants and doesn't give a damn about what the people think." He heard Haley mumble some curse at Moffat under her breath, "Ok moving on. The angels were sucked into the crack and they were never heard of again, right?"
I tilted my head, "Angels take Manhattan," I narrowed my eyes, "and if the crack wasn't the Tardis exploding then what was it?"
David's answer came fast, "Moffat, he just needed a way to end Amy and Rory being companions. Second I, I don't know; no one does." David looked to see Haley slowly nod; "Now that crack does leave a giant gaping hole in time, so when the angels were inside of it they began feeding off of it. Does that make sense?"
"A little." I was having trouble putting everything together.
David looked at his shoes, "Ok, let's move on to the whole history vanishing thing. The angels began eating away at the time stream so much that it left permanent damage, and the universe being itself decided to fix it."
"How?" I asked, I didn't even think that the universe could fix itself. I thought.
"It began sending time energy to the spot where the angels had been feeding," His look darkened, "and because there was no time energy in its original spot the event began to fade."
I couldn't believe what he was saying, "But if the angels keep eating away at time wont that fade all of history away?"
"Exactly." Said a voice from behind the controls. Matt walked around to the both of us and shot a look at David, "So much for telling her together." Matt turned his attention to me, "However all of this isn't your concern; you shouldn't get all worked up over our problems." He heard David mumble in agreement. Crossing his arms Matt looked down at Haley, "Head back to your room now; everything else will be explained tomorrow."
"Fine." I growled. I started off down the hallway towards my room.
Matt waited until she was gone. He turned to David, "Can I ask you something?"
David raised an eyebrow at him, "What?"
"Without him do you understand what that means?" Matt silently asked him.
"Yes." David's reply was short.
"But you'll..." Matt started to say.
"That doesn't matter." David swiftly cut in, "The 50th will come even if he doesn't. Right now we need to be sure that Haley and the others stay safe; they maybe are only chance."
"At stopping the angels?" Matt asked.
"Yes." David said closing his eyes, "That and so much more."
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We all sat around the controls and waited for David to speak. I had filled my friends in on everything from the night before and we were now waiting for the rest. When he finally came into the room he started to speak.
"Right, so after the longest talk of my life Matt and I have come up with a thought about what the angels are trying to pull."
"Go on." We all said.
"As you know the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is coming up." David started.
"And that means a whole lot of time energy will be gathering inside of me, because 50 years means a lot of time to build in power." Matt said taking over.
"So the angels want you?" Cathrine asked.
"They want the Time Lord cell." I said answering her question, but then a question of my own popped into my head, "I thought that the time energy only builds when you're about to regenerate?"
They didn't answer, and I knew they weren't going to any time soon. Instead they went on explaining.
"The Time Lord cell will be at its most powerful and its most weakest." David said going on, "For now the angels wont attack, not until they know they've got enough power to take on a fully powered Time Lord."
"So what do we do?" I asked looking at them.
"You go home." Matt said bluntly.
"Oh hell no!" I shouted, "You're not pulling this again Smith! And that goes double for you Tennant!" I narrowed my eyes at him, "I'm not gonna let the angels take you, either of you, got that?" I could see that the two of them didn't know what to say. Instead of speaking I flipped a switch on the controls, "Let's just go ahead to the 50th and stopped them now."
"NO!" both of them shouted grabbing the controls.
I stumbled back into my friends as the two of them shut down the Tardis. My friends pushed me back up onto my feet and I stared wide eyed at them, "Why not? Matt is strong enough to take on the angels."
"The 50th anniversary is a fixed point in time; even if it hasn't happened yet. The events that are going to go down must happen without us interfering." David said giving us a sharp look.
"Ok trash that plan." I said putting my hands in my pockets, "So really, what do we do?"
"For now you all will go home like we said before," Matt said. He went on before Haley could cut him off again, "When the 50th comes you will be able to reach us by using the watch."
David held out his hand, "Here Haley give it to me, I'll be able to make it so that the watch can take you right to us." He watched as Haley pulled the small golden watch from her pocket.
I looked at the gift that David had given me, "I should just be able to fly straight to you."
David took the watch and pulled out his sonic screwdriver, "There will be many disruptions in the time stream during that day. I just want to be sure that you'll make it through safely." He flipped on his screwdriver and tampered with it for a moment. When he was down David tossed it back to Haley.
I caught the watch and put it back into my pocket. It felt heaver then what it normally did, but I knew I was just concerned about everything. I looked over to my friends and gave them a thumbs up, "Well I hate to say it but I guess we're going home." I saw them smile but they looked sad to leave. I walked over to the door of the Tardis, "Alright take us home before I change my mind." I heard them laugh and then the sound of the Tardis rang out.
When we were back home we waved to them as they vanished back into the time stream. On the way home we saw that all the angels from before were gone. I frowned, the worry I felt from before was slowly coming back, "Looks like they all went off to gain more power." I walked up to the door of my house and pushed it open.
"Hey I was just wondering," Calli said from behind, "when is the Doctor Who 50th?"
We all stopped in the doorway, "I don't know." I said thinking.
"Here let me check." Cody said pulling out his phone. There was a pause as Cody scrolled through his internet. He got a surprised look in his eyes, "Hey Haley." He said up to me, "What's todays date?"
I walked into my house, "Um I think it's the 21st why?" I turned around and blinked as Cody shoved his phone in my face. I read the number on the screen. Rage burned my insides, "Damn it!"
"What is it?" Dieter took the phone from me and held it out for everyone else to see.
I waited quietly as my friends all looked at the phone. When they were done I turned around and pulled the watch from my pocket, "I can't believe we missed that!" I shouted, "The 50th is tomorrow! How the hell did we not realize that!?"
"I guess David and Matt do good jobs when they want to hide something." Cathrine said quietly.
"Yeah well we're not going to just sit here." I said clicking open the watch. Nothing happened. I closed it and tried again. Still nothing. I shook the watch, "Hey Stark what's wrong?" The watch wouldn't work no matter how hard I tried to open in. I thought of something, "A time lock." I whispered. The memory of watch not working from before came back to me.
"What?" my friends asked.
My grip tightened around the watch, "When David fixed the watch he really reactivated the time lock." I gritted my teeth.
"What does that mean?" Cody asked looking at me.
"It means that we can't use the watch until a certain amount of time has passed." I felt like throwing the watch away. I knew that it wouldn't work again until after the 50th had passed.
"So we're stuck here aren't we?" Dieter asked looking around at all of us.
I didn't want to say that he was right, but I couldn't think of a way to start the watch back up. We were stuck and David and Matt were going to face an army of Weeping Angels by themselves. My grip tightened again and I thought that the watch was going to break, "I hate Time Lords."