A/N: ugh okay, hopefully this works. something screwed up along the way of submitting this or something sooooooooooo yeeeyeyeyeyeye.
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"Isn't there a chance this lot's just going to collapse? There's a whole ship up there." Amy questions, looking up at the gigantic building as we walk through the maze.
"Incredible builders, the Aplans." River says in awe about the high ceiling room and all the statues in it.
"Had dinner with their Chief Architect once. Two heads are better than one." The Doctor says, looking around the temple but still holding onto my hand. We haven't said a whole to each other but I actually prefer it that way. Because if he does say something about us fighting, I'll probably just end up getting more annoyed.
"What, you mean you helped him?" Amy asks, clarifying. The Doctor shakes his head, still looking for something in the temple. "No, I mean he had two heads. That book, the very end, what did it say?"
"Hang on." River says, going to grab the book. Something in the room changes though. Or at least for me. There's something really important I need to remember about this that can really help them, I think. But I just can't remember at all. I think I feel scared about it though. Like I need to run away from it. Maybe if I focus more on not focusing on anything, it'll come to me. Yeah cause that makes sense.
"Read it to me." The Doctor states, still not looking at anyone. River opens the book and flips to a page. "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."
"Are we there yet? It's a hell of a climb." Amy asks, sounding like one of those kids from that one movie. I'm glad she said something though so I didn't seem weak because I am exhausted from this hike. I really should get into shape before I start travelling with the Doctor all the time.
"The Maze is on six levels, representing the ascent of the soul. Only two levels to go." River says, and I almost voice my relief. At this point, the Doctor has let go of my hand and has gone ahead of me because my lungs are burning up. I'm not a hiker, jogger, or a runner. I mean, it would be awesome if I was in shape, but that would require a lot of time and effort. Plus, I've never really needed to because I naturally have a skinny, filled out body. I don't know how. I don't do anything. But, I am thankful for it.
"Lovely species, the Aplans. We should visit them some time." The Doctor says, pointing his flashlight to me and Amy. I smile and nod my head at him, trying to cover up my heavy breathing.
"I thought they were all dead?" Amy asks, confused about how we could go see them.
"So is Virginia Woolf. I'm on her bowling team. Very relaxed, sort of cheerful. Well, that's having two heads, of course. You're never short of a snog with an extra head." The Doctor says maybe a bit more cheerful than he should be.
River walks alongside the Doctor, urgency clear in her voice. "Doctor, there's something. I don't know what it is." River says as the Doctor casts his flashlight on one of the statues.
"Yeah, there's something wrong. Don't know what it is yet, either. Working on it. Of course, then they started having laws against self-marrying. I mean, what was that about? But that's the Church for you. Er, no offence, Bishop." The Doctor says, turning to Father Octavian awkwardly.
"Quite a lot taken, if that's all right, Doctor. Lowest point in the wreckage is only about fifty feet up from here. That way." Father Octavian states, leading the way there. But I'm still bothered by this whole wrongness.
"Uh, Doctor. There is defiantly something wrong." I say, probably the fear evident in my voice. I'm really not liking how all these statues are looking at me.
The Doctor falls behind everyone else and points the flashlight in my face. "You feel it too?" Before I can answer, he answers for me. "Well of course you can, you're Anna Day. You know my future but don't ever give spoilers, even when you're living it."
I blink at him. Yeah, sounds like me. I don't want to give him spoilers but this is very very important and I think I get it now. "Doctor. This is a temple for the Aplans, right?" I ask, raising my eyebrows at him in hopes he'll catch on.
He looks at me for a second in confusion but soon it turns into understanding. He looks at me for a few more seconds, in fear of the big mistake and then takes off running towards the group. I trail behind him, hardly able to catch my breath.
We get to the group and Amy asks instantly what's wrong. I shine my flashlight to the statue, in hopes of them catching on. "Oh." The Doctor and River say, looking at the statue terrified.
River, the Doctor and I all make eye contact. "Exactly." The Doctor says, knowing that River and I understand. "How could we have not noticed that?" River whispers angrily. This room is really not safe.
The Doctor scans the room with his flashlight, keeping an eye on the statues. "Low level perception filter, or maybe we're thick."
"What's wrong, sir?" Father Octavian asks the Doctor, confused. These people need to get out because they're about to be in real danger. "Nobody move. Nobody move. Everyone stay exactly where they are." I say as people begin to move. I don't know how the Angels see or whatever and maybe if we don't attract attention to ourselves…
"Bishop, I am truly sorry. I've made a mistake and we are all in terrible danger." The Doctor apologizes.
"What danger?" Father Octavian asks with his game face on. River turns to him. "The Aplans."
"The Aplans?" He asks, not fully understanding what she means. River looks straight at a statue. Not blinking. "They've got two heads." She says, fear clear in her voice.
"Yes, I get that. So?" Father Octavian asks, really not catching onto what we're all hinting at.
"So why don't the statues?" I ask, already knowing the answer. The Doctor springs into action after seeing the realization on everyone's face. "Everyone, over there. Just move. Don't ask questions, don't speak."
We all move under an alcove, away from the statues.
"Okay, I want you all to switch off your torches." The Doctor says, still looking at the same statue.
"Sir?" One of the men questions, not liking that idea.
"Just do it." The Doctor demands softly, and everyone does so. "Okay. I'm going to turn off this one too, just for a moment."
"Are you sure about this?" I ask the Doctor, really unsure of this plan of his. The Angels could kill us with this sort of advantage.
"No." The Doctor says and I would laughed at any other time, but now is defiantly not the time to be laughing. He turns off his flashlight for about one second and then turns it back on, only to reveal the statue has moved.
"Oh my god. They've moved!" Amy exclaims, looking at the slightly moved statues. Oh right, low energy or whatever. I don't care how they're weak, all I care about is getting these people out. Especially Amy. I know time can be rewritten and because I know how things should be, I need to be the one to make sure everything goes right.
The Doctor runs down a passage and shines a light through it, only to reveal some statues trying to make their way towards us.
"They're Angels, all of them." The Doctor states and my breath quickens at that. I hate the Weeping Angels. More than the Daleks. Probably because the Daleks are always going to be an enemy and they actually interact and have some character. I mean, they're still scary as hell. But the Weeping Angels absolutely terrify me. They're freaking statues that can kill you when you're looking away! I swear if one goes after me, I'm probably going to have to use my vortex manipulator.
"But they can't be." River objects, not believing that they're in a temple full of Angels. I can't believe it either.
"Clerics, keep watching them." The Doctor orders, moving past the Angel that's trying to crawl towards us.
I follow closely behind and nearly run into him as he abruptly stops to shine the light on a couple more Angels. "Every statue in this Maze, every single one, is a Weeping Angel. They're coming after us."
We head back to where the clerics are to regroup and figure out what to do.
"But there was only one Angel on the ship. Just the one, I swear." River says, sounding very sure but of course the Angels didn't come from the ship, there's way too many for them to discreetly be onboard.
"Could they have been here already?" I ask the Doctor, already sure about the answer. The Doctor ignores my question though and turns to Octavian.
"The Aplans. What happened? How did they die out?" The Doctor asks, still cautiously looking around the temple with his flashlight. River shakes her head at him. "Nobody knows."
"We know." The Doctor says gravely.
"They don't look like Angels." Octavian observes. "And they're not fast." Amy adds. "You said they were fast. They should have had us by now." Wow, I can see why the Doctor travels with Amy. She really is the whole package.
The Doctor moves in close to an Angel, pointing his flashlight. "Look at them. They're dying, losing their form. They must have been down here for centuries, starving."
"Losing their image?" Amy pieces together, catching onto the idea now. The Doctor nods his head at her. "And their image is their power. Power. Power!" The Doctor exclaims, hoping up and beginning to pace.
"Doctor?" I question, wanting to know what he knows. "Don't you see? All that radiation spilling out the drive burn. The crash of the Byzantium 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."
Okay, I don't remember this part. "We need to get out of here. Like, now." I say, attempting to get them all motivated to get the hell out of an awakening army.
Father Octavian walks a little ways to talk to the others on his walkie talkie. A walkie talke? Really? They still use those. I guess they have been using them already for a while now so it can't be THAT far in the future.
"Bob, Angelo, Christian, come in, please. Any of you, come in." Nobody answers at first but then a voice is heard over the other line. "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." Bob says on the other line and the Doctor yanks the radio from Father Octavian hands.
"Bob, Anna's Sacred Bob, it's me, the Doctor." Father Octavian tries to get the walkie talkie back but the Doctors voice just goes right over his. "Where are you now?" The Doctor asks, curious. I think I already know why he's curious…
"I'm talking to my" Octavian starts but is cut off by the Doctor's voice and finger in his face. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up."
"I'm on my way up to you, sir. I'm homing in on your signal." Bob says on the other side, sounding a lot different than the other Bob I talked to.
"Ah, well done, Bob. Scared keeps you fast. Anna told you, didn't she? She's a brilliant one. Your friends, Bob. What did the Angel do to them?" The Doctor asks, all in one breath, seemingly in a hurry to get some information.
"Snapped their necks, sir." Bob says, completely unfazed by that fact. River and I exchange grim looks as the Doctor goes on. "That's odd. That's not how the Angels kill you. They displace you in time. Unless they needed the bodies for something." The Doctor starts, but before he can get anywhere with that idea, Father Octavian snatches back the walkie talkie.
"Bob, did you check their data packs for vital signs? We may be able to initiate a rescue plan." Father Octavian says hopeful, and the Doctor once again snatches the walkie talkie back.
"Oh, don't be an idiot. The Angels don't leave you alive." The Doctor says to Octavian like it's the most obvious thing in the world. Which it kind of is. I look at the Doctor and raise my eyebrows at him about how easy that was for Bob. I really hope we're on the same wavelength because he only looks at me for a second.
"Bob, keep running. But tell me, how did you escape?" The Doctor asks skeptically. "I didn't escape, sir. The Angel killed me, too." Bob states in the same casual, unfazed tone he's been using. That was the first hint for me.
"What do you mean, the Angel killed you?" The Doctor asks, but probably knowing the answer to it.
"Snapped my neck, sir. Wasn't as painless as I expected, but it was pretty quick, so that was something."
Okay, I'm sorry but this sort of thing does not happen to me. It's one thing to see someone already dead and not know them; but it's a whole other thing to actually know someone who had died. Killed, in fact. This was a really nice, young, innocent guy too. That makes me want to starve these Angels to death.
"If you're dead, how can I be talking to you?" The Doctor points out, his voice sounding grave.
"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." Bob says, still unfazed.
"So when you say you're on your way up to us" The Doctor starts. "It's the Angel that's coming, sir, yes. No way out." Sacred Bob finishes and I look at the Doctor, eyes wide and scared.
"Then we get out through the wreckage. Go! Go, go, go. All of you run." Octavian demands, everyone filing out but I stay back with Amy and the Doctor.
"Doctor." Amy starts but the Doctor interrupts her with a lot of hand gestures. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm coming. Just go. Go, go, go." Amy takes off but I stay behind with him.
The Doctor doesn't see my reluctance to go without him and turns to Father Octavian. "Yeah. Called you an idiot. Sorry, but there's no way we could have rescued your men." The Doctor says sympathetically as Octavian nods his head. "I know that, sir. And when you've flown away in your little blue box, I'll explain that to their families."
Father Octavian walks away, leaving the Doctor to feel the guilt. By him walking away though, leaves me clear in the Doctors sight. He doesn't say anything though, just looks at me and brings the walkie talkie up to his lips. "Angel Bob. Which Angel am I talking to? The one from the ship?"
"Yes, sir. And the other Angels are still restoring." Angel Bob informs. "Ah, so the Angel is not in the wreckage. Thank you." The Doctor says, grabbing my hand and running out of the tunnel and onto the bridge. "I don't know why I bring you places when you insist on following me." He says sternly, but gives me one of his cute boyish smiles that proves he's only having a laugh. I wink at him. "I follow because I care."
We keep running and almost run right past Amy, the Doctor saying along the way, "Don't wait for me. Go, run." And right as we make it to the next entrance, Amy's words stop us.
"I can't." She states, looking intensely mad. "No really, I can't." The Doctor and I go up to her. "Why not?" I ask, not understanding what's holding her here. We really need to get going before they catch up.
"Look at it. Look at my hand. It's stone." We look down to see her hand is actually, real stone. Oh shit, the Angel. And I left her! Anna, get your shit together next time you think of leaving you friends.
The Doctor shines a light in the Scottish stones eye. "You looked into the eyes of an Angel, didn't you?" Amy just kind of glares at him as I bend down to look at her hand. I touch it and find it really is stone.
"I couldn't stop myself. I tried." Amy defends. The Doctor looks at her deep in the eyes to try and convince her. "Listen to me. It's messing with your head. Your hand is not made of stone." Amy shakes her head at the Doctor. "It is. Look at it." She demands, annoyed.
"It's in your mind, I promise you. You can move that hand. You can let go." The Doctor says quickly, as the flashlight begins to flicker. Amy shakes her head, again annoyed at the Doctor. "I can't, okay? I've tried and I can't. It's stone."
The flashlights flicker again and we all look down at it, knowing what flickering means. "The Angel is going to come and it's going to turn this light off, and then there's nothing I can do to stop it, so do it. Concentrate. Move your hand." The Doctor demands softly. Okay, well, this is taking longer than I'm comfortable for.
I run down the way we came only for my flashlight to flicker and a couple of statues moving towards me. Well, not moving. Because they can't move technically. Oh, I know what I mean.
I run back to the Doctor and Amy just in time for the Doctor to say that they'll kill the lights. Oh great, Angels in darkness. Absolutely terrific. I open my mouth to yell at them to hurry up but Amy speaks instead. "You've got to go. Take Anna out of here. You've got all that stuff with Anna and River and that's all got to happen. You know you can't die here."
Okay, this is taking long enough. I go to stand in front of Amy. "Time can be re-written. It doesn't work like that. Just move your hand!" I demand but just as the words come out of my mouth; one of the statues move closer to it and we all stare, unblinking.
"Keep your eyes on it. Don't blink." The Doctor says to me and Amy. I nod my head and continue to stare at it with Amy, backing up away from it. "Run!" She yells at the Doctor and I but we just stay in our place.
"You see, I'm not going. I'm not leaving you here." The Doctor says, and I can't help but smile at the sweetness of that.
"Yeah and if you're gone, then I'm stuck with bowtie over here." I say, referring to our conversation earlier and jerking my thumb at him, like she did. I think I see a hint of a smile behind her panic.
"I don't need you two to die for me. Do I look that clingy?" She says aggressively annoyed.
"You can move your hand." The Doctor states, sure of this plan of his that doesn't seem to be panning out. Even though Amy's looking at the statue, it's pretty obvious that she's annoyed. "It's stone." Amy insists.
The Doctor shakes his head at her as I form a Plan B. "It's not stone." The Doctor insists right back at her.
"You've got to go. Those people up there will die without you two. If you stay here with me, you'll have as good as killed them." Amy says as the two of them still stare at the statue.
Okay, this is not moving along as fast as I would of hoped. I quickly think of what the Doctor would have done. Or has. I've seen this episode! I know what happens, mostly.
"Amy Pond, you are magnificent, and I'm sorry." The Doctor says, making it sound like this is a goodbye. Oh hell no. She is not going anywhere. I move around the Doctor so I can get a better angle as Amy says, "it's okay. I understand. You've got to leave me."
Just as she says that, I bend down and bite, hard. But luckily I bite into flesh, not stone.
Amy lets out a loud "ow!" and looks at me like I'm absolutely crazy. "You see? Not stone, now run!" I yell and grab the Doctors hand to start running but Amy is just standing there, looking at me. "You bit me!" She exclaims and I just roll my eyes. "Yeah, I bit you and now you're alive! You're welcome, now run."
Amy just stands there, looking at her hand so the Doctor moves her behind us, shining the flashlight at the statues. "Look, I've got a mark. Look at my hand." She exclaims again and I roll my eyes, again. "Yes, and you're alive. Did I mention?"
We start to move backwards but not fast enough for me to not feel completely uncomfortable and freaked out by those things.
"Blimey, your teeth. Have you got space teeth?" She asks, still looking at her hand. Okay, moving statues are chasing us and she's worried about teeth marks. "Yeah. Alive. Let's go!" I yell and we take off running, away from the Weeping Angels.
We enter the tunnel just in time to hear Octavian tell his men to expect incoming.
"Yeah, it's the Angels. They're coming. And they're draining the power for themselves." The Doctor states, looking around the cave with his flashlight. Not torch. Flashlight.
"Which means we won't be able to see them." Octavian clarifies. The Doctor nods his head in agreement. "Which means we can't stay here."
"Two more incoming!" Octavian shouts, shining a light in that direction. River walks up to the Doctor, urgency written all over her face. "Any suggestions?" She asks, hoping he had some sort of plan, despite his track record.
"The statues are advancing on all sides. We don't have the climbing equipment to reach the Byzantium." Mr. Positive Plan announces to everyone. Positive Plan is Octavian. Because he's not being positive; nor does he have a plan. Ha. Good one, Anna.
The Doctor closes his eyes, listening to everything as River speaks. "There's no way up, no way back, no way out. No pressure, but this is usually when you have a really good idea."
The Doctor opens his eyes all dramatically that makes him look like he's got a plan. I didn't really question him to begin with. Sure he doesn't do well with plans but he's a professional at winging it.
"There's always a way out." He stands there for a second, thinking as I move my flashlight across the cave to only reveal more and more statues. Those things make me so scared I'm actually physically shaking.
"There's always a way out." The Doctor states lightly, looking around.
"Doctor?" A voice says from within the Doctors pocket. "Can I speak to the Doctor, please?" The Doctor takes out the walkie talkie. "Hello, Angels. What's your problem?" The Doctor asks.
"Your power will not last much longer, and the Angels will be with you shortly. Sorry, sir." Angel Bob says apologetically. Why the hell would he apologize? Oh that's right, because he's a conscious that's being forced to speak for the Angels. That's awful.
"Why are you telling me all this?" The Doctor asks, not understanding, like me. "There's something the Angels are very keen you and your friend should know before the end." Angel Bob says, still with the same unfazed monotone, young voice. "Which is?" The Doctor asks, curious what's so important and which friend.
"I died in fear." The voice on the other side says and I nearly freeze. No, actually, I do freeze. The Doctor looks over at me and speaks into the walkie talkie. "I'm sorry?" The Doctor asks, confused.
"You and your friend told me my fear would keep me alive, but I died afraid, in pain and alone. She made me trust you, and when it mattered, both of you let me down."
I nearly throw up. My head is spinning and I feel this awful swell of guilt in my stomach that won't come out unless I throw up.
The Doctor and I make eye contact and his eyes harden at the Angels words. Now I know how he always feels. And it's not a feeling I would like to share alone for centuries.
Behind me, I hear River tell Amy that they're trying to make the Doctor angry. Angry? At them? What an awful tactic. This feeling just makes me want to curl up in a ball and die. But then again, I'm not exactly accustomed to this feeling like the Doctor is so maybe it will make him angry.
"I'm sorry, sir. The Angels were very keen for you to know that." Bob apologizes, but doesn't sound sorry at all.
"Well then, the Angels have made their second mistake because I'm not going to let that pass. I'm sorry you're dead, Bob, but I swear to whatever is left of you, they will be sorrier." The Doctor says as he kisses me on my forehead. I don't react because I haven't reacted since Angel Bob just basically said I was responsible for an innocent man's death.
"But you're trapped, sir, and about to die." Angel Bob says and the Doctor walks away from me and starts pacing around, looking up for a way out.
"Yeah. I'm trapped. And you know what? Speaking of traps, this trap has got a great big mistake in it. A great big, whopping mistake." The Doctor states, spinning around, still looking up at the crashed ship, a plan probably already formed in his head.
But my thoughts are far from the Doctors. The only thoughts I can produce in my head are ones of home. I just want to go home. I shouldn't be here. I defiantly do not belong here with these brilliant people who know exactly what to do and can always figure stuff out and move on.
I can't do that. I can't just move on from this. I'm a weak human. I thought I was strong and could take this world but there's so much death. I need to go home.
The Doctor interrupts my thoughts by looking at me with intense eyes. "Trust me?" He asks and I just blink at him. I vaguely nod my head at him, not wanting to tell him the truth because everyone else is looking at me.
I also vaguely hear the Doctor take the gun from the Bishop and say to jump at his signal. I do everything that's asked of me but only with the sole intention of going back home when this is all over because quite frankly, I don't think I can't take the world of the Doctor anymore.