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A/N: Okay, so here's my deal, peeps. I'm going to move Lily's chapters to every two of the Doctor's for two reasons. One because the separation is even killing me, and doing two chapters of the Doctor to one chapter of Lily will make it go faster, and two because I have officially run out of ideas for Lily's part. I'm not that creative, so sue me.

On with the story.

Ch. 26:

A transport ship had arrived and unloaded clerics, who had quickly set up camp. The Doctor and Amy followed Octavian as he explained the situation.

"The Angel, as far as we know, is still trapped in the ship." He told them. "Our mission is to get inside and neutralize it. We can't get through up top, we'd be too close to the drives. According to this," he held up a 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 said.

"Good, sir?" Octavian asked.

"Catacombs, probably dark ones." The Doctor told him. "Dark catacombs, great."

"Technically, I think it's called a maze of the dead." Octavian replied.

"You can stop anytime you like." The Doctor said.

"Father Octavian?" a soldier called.

"Excuse me, sir." Octavian said.

The Doctor waved him off and then began scanning some of the equipment on a table with his screwdriver.

"You're letting people call you 'sir'." Amy pointed out as she sat on the table. "You never do that. So, whatever a Weeping Angel is, it's really bad, yeah?"

"Now that's interesting…" the Doctor said before turning to her. "You're still here. Which part of 'Wait in the TARDIS 'till I tell you it's safe' was so confusing?"

"Ooh, are you all Mr. Grumpy Face today?" Amy asked.

"A Weeping Angel, Amy, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent form evolution has ever produced." The Doctor told her. "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 asked. "'Cause she's someone from your future, and the way she talks to you, I've never seen anyone do that. She's kinda like, you know, 'Heel, boy!'. She's Mrs. Doctor from the future, isn't she? Is she gonna be your wife one day?"

"Yes." The Doctor said. "You're right. I am definitely Mr. Grumpy Face today."

"Doctor?" River called. "Doctor!"

"Oops!" Amy laughed. "Hurry indoors!"

"Father Octavian!" River called.

They all walked towards the transport where River was standing.

"Why do they call him Father?" Amy asked.

"He's their Bishop, they're his clerics." The Doctor replied. "It's the 51 Century, the Church has moved on."

They walked into the transport to find a video of the Angel playing. It was turned away from them, it's hand's covering its face.

"What do you think?" River asked the Doctor. "It's from the security cameras in the Byzantium vault. 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." The Doctor replied. "Hands covering its face."

"You've encountered the Angels before?" Octavian asked.

"Once, on Earth, a long time ago." The Doctor said. "But those were scavengers, barely surviving. Plus I had The Phoenix on my side. She's probably the only being that could go toe to toe with these things and survive."

"It's just a statue." Amy said.

"It's a statue when you see it." River replied. "And I told you you were going to regret not having her."

"Yeah, well if I die, it's you she'll be coming after." The Doctor said.

"What makes you think I'll survive if you die?" River asked.

"Doesn't matter." The Doctor told her. "She'll just find your body and bring you back so she can kill you herself."

"Good point." River said, wincing.

"Why do you act like she could really do that?" Amy asked.

"Because she can." River replied simply.

"Where did that Angel come from?" The Doctor asked, nodding to the video.

"Oh, pulled from the ruins of Razbahab, end of last century." River replied. "It's been in private hands ever since, dormant all that time."

"There's a difference between dormant and patient." The Doctor said.

"What's that mean, it's a statue when you see it?" Amy asked.

"The Weeping Angels can only move if they're unseen." River replied. "So legend has it."

"No, it's not legend, it's a quantum lock." The Doctor said. "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 asked.

"Being a stone…" the Doctor replied, "until you turn your back."

He turned and led them out.

"The hyperdriver would've split on impact." He told them. "The whole ship will be flooded with radiation, cracked electrons, gravity storms, deadly to almost any living thing."

"Deadly to an Angel?" Octavian asked.

"Dinner to an Angel." The Doctor replied. "The longer we leave it, the stronger it will grow. Who built that temple? Are they still around?"

"The Aplans." River said, looking at her handheld. "The indigenous life-forms. 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!" the Doctor exclaimed. "Like rabbits! I'll never get done saving you."

"Sir, if there is a clear and present danger to the local population…" Octavian said.

"Oh, there is." The Doctor replied. "Bad as it gets. Bishop, lock and load!"

"Verger, how we doing with those explosives?" Octavian called. "Dr. Song, with me."

"Two minutes." She replied. "Sweetie, I need you."

The Doctor mouthed 'sweetie' before realizing that she meant him and went to join her. Amy stood in the entry of the transport.

"Anybody need me?" she asked. "Nobody?"

She just crossed her arms. She moved inside and studied the Angel on the screen. It had lowered its hands.

River handed the Doctor a book.

"I found this." She told him. "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 flipped through the book and finished it.

"Not bad, bit slow in the middle, didn't you hate his girlfriend?" he asked. "No, hang on, wait, wait!"

He sniffed the book.

"Dr. Song?" Amy called. "Did you have more than one clip of the Angel?"

"No, just the four seconds." River replied.

Amy went back inside.

"This book is wrong!" the Doctor exclaimed. "What's wrong with this book, it's wrong."

Amy looked at the video again, and the Angel was now facing forward, hands down at its side. Amy bent over and looked at the time code. It looped from 11:24 to 11:28, but the position of the Angel continued to change. Engrossed in the video, Amy didn't notice the door close and lock.

River watched the Doctor as he examined the book.

"Oh, it's so strange when you go all baby-face." She told him, picking up the diary. "How early is this for you?"

"Very early." He replied.

"Well it would have to be for you to leave the Phoenix behind." She said, opening the book.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"I mean, that as the bond grows, you two become less able to bear separation." River told him, smiling. "I once had to deal with your mate when you were away. It was like dealing with a caged tiger. Albeit, a tiger willing and able to tear down the universe to get you back. For either of you to stomach being apart, it must be very early indeed."

"So I go back for her?" the Doctor asked nonchalantly.

River laughed.

"Of course you do!" she said. "That's not even a spoiler." She gently touched his face. "There is literally nothing I have ever seen that could keep you apart for long. Not even your stupidness, sweetie." She sighed. "So you don't know who I am yet, do you?"

"How do you know who I am?" he asked. "I don't always look the same."

"I've got pictures of all your faces and the Phoenix's." she told him. "You never show up in the right order though. I need the spotter's guide."

"Pictures?" the Doctor murmured. "Why aren't there pictures?"

Amy picked up the remote and tried to turn off the video, but it kept coming back on. She set the remote down and peered at the screen.

"You're just a recording." She told it. "You can't move."

She looked away and tried to unplug the screen and when she looked up, the Angel's face now filled the screen, and she quickly backed away.

"Doctor!" she called.

She tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. She looked back at the screen and the serene Angel was gone, replaced by its predatory face.

"Doctor!" she yelled.

"This whole book-it's a warning, about the Weeping Angels." The Doctor said. "So why no pictures? Why not show us what to look out for?"

"There was a bit about images." River said.

"Yes! Hang on…" the Doctor flipped through the book. "'That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel."

Amy glanced back at the screen as she tried to open the door.

"Doctor!" she yelled.

"What does that mean?" River asked. "'An image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel'?"

Amy looked back to see that the Angel was beginning to manifest itself in the room.

"Doctor!" she yelled. "It's in the room!"

"Amy!" the Doctor shouted, running towards the transport.

"Doctor!" Amy yelled, punching the keypad.

"Are you alright?" the Doctor called from the other side of the door. "What's happening?"

"Doctor!" she shouted. "Doctor, it's coming out of the television. The Angel is here."

"Don't take your eyes off it!" the Doctor told her, taking out the screwdriver and using it on the keypad. "It can't move if you're looking. What's wrong? It's deadlocked."

"There is no deadlock." River told him, trying to override the controls. "The Phoenix would be really useful right now!"

"Yeah, yeah I know." The Doctor growled. "Don't blink, Amy! Don't even blink!"

"Doctor!" Amy shouted.

"What are you doing?" River demanded.

"Cutting the power." The Doctor replied. "It's using the screen, I'm turning the screen off." He sighed in frustration. "It's no good, it's deadlocked the whole system."

"There's no deadlock." River insisted.

"There is now!" he shot back.

"Help me!" Amy yelled.

"Amy!" the Doctor shouted. "Can you turn it off?"

"Doctor!" she yelled.

"The screen." He pushed. "Can you turn it off?"

"I tired." She told him.

"Try again," the Doctor told her, "but don't take your eyes off the Angel."

"I'm not!" she shouted.

The Doctor and River continued to try to override the controls.

"Each time it moves, it'll move faster." The Doctor shouted. "Don't even blink."

"I'm not blinking!" Amy yelled. "Have you ever tried not blinking?"

Amy blinked one eye, trying to keep at least one eye on the creature. She fumbled for the remote before finally finding it. She grabbed it and backed towards the door, trying to switch it off, but it just turned back on again.

"It just keeps switching back on!" she told him.

"Yeah, it's the Angel." The Doctor said.

"But it's just a recording." Amy protested.

"No, anything that takes the image of an Angel is an Angel." The Doctor told her before turning to River. "What are you doing?"

"I'm trying to cut through." She replied, holding up a blowtorch. "It's not even warm."

"There's no way in." the Doctor told her. "It's not physically possible, short of ripping the ship apart at the atomic level."

"Told you you'd want the Phoenix here." River said.

"Yes, I get it." The Doctor said crossly. "We all wish Lily was here, but she's not so we need another plan."

"Doctor!" Amy called. "What's it gonna do to me?"

"Just keep looking at it." He ordered. "Don't stop looking!"

"Just tell me." She shouted. "Just tell me. Tell me!"

The Doctor ran for the book and ran back to sit in front of the door.

"Amy, not the eyes." He said. "Look anywhere but don't look at the eyes."

"Why?" Amy asked, immediately looking at it's eyes.

"What is it?" River asked.

"'The eyes are not the windows of the soul, they are the door.'" The Doctor quoted. "'Beware what may enter there.'"

A/N: So I hope you guys aren't too disappointed in the change of format. Also Lily's chapters will be more like oneshots. Let me know what you thought.

Abbey