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I actually couldn't wait to write this episode. I have so many plans for River, it's all a bit exciting. Anyway, on we go!
Martha Jones stood outside of the pub where they were celebrating her brother Leo's birthday. There had been nothing but arguments and snide remarks all night and Martha had just about had enough of it all. She was about to turn around and walk back inside when she spotted the Doctor standing in an alley.
She followed him and came to a stop when she saw him leaning against a blue police box with his arm wrapped around Kari.
"I went to the moon today." Martha said, her family had not believed her. Well, who would, unless they had been there as well?
"A bit more peaceful than down here." Kari said, smiling away.
There was silence for a moment. "You never told me who you are." Martha said, watching the pair closely.
"The Doctor. And this is Kari." His grip around her waist tightened.
"What sort of species? It's not every day that I get to ask that." Martha seemed very excited.
"I'm a Time Lord." The Doctor said sadly.
"And what about you, Kari? What are you?" Kari froze, she didn't know how to answer that. They hadn't really spoken about what happened, and how she turned into what she is now.
The Doctor seemed to notice that she was struggling and stepped in for her. "Kari is a Time Lady. We're the same species."
"Right. Not pompous at all, then." Martha said with a snort.
"We just thought, since you saved my life and I've got a brand new sonic screwdriver which needs road testing, you might fancy a trip." The Doctor asked, playing around with his new sonic screwdriver, which looked much the same as the one before.
"What, into space?" Martha asked, as if she couldn't quite believe what was happening. "I can't." She eventually decided to say. "I've got exams. I've got things to do. I have to go into town first thing and pay the rent, I've got my family going mad…"
"If it helps, we can travel in time as well." The Doctor told her, a grin on his face.
"Get out of here." Martha replied, her eyes growing wide.
"We can." Kari protested.
It was clear Martha still didn't believe them. "Come on now, that's going too far."
"We'll prove it. Let's go, Kari." The Doctor dragged her into the TARDIS and the blue box disappeared.
Martha stood there in awe, not knowing what to do when suddenly the wind picked up and the box reappeared where it had been before. The Doctor stepped out, his tie missing, and then Kari followed behind him, adjusting his tie around her neck.
"Told you." He said, beaming away.
"I know but… that was this morning! But… did you… oh, my God! You can travel in time!" Martha didn't know what else she could say. "But hold on, if you could see me this morning, why didn't you tell me not to go into work?"
"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden." The Doctor told her.
"Except for cheap tricks." Kari said as she batted away the Doctor's hand that was trying to get the tie back. "Get off, it's mine now." She said as she defending it with her arms.
"And that's your spaceship?" Martha asked, looking at the box.
"It's called the TARDIS. Time and Relative Dimension in Space." The Doctor told her.
"Your spaceship's made of wood. There's not much room. We'd be a bit intimate." Martha said, inspecting the box a little.
A frown formed on the Doctor's face. "Take a look." He said, pushing the door open so that Martha could take a look inside.
Martha went in, and then ran back out again. Unable to believe that there was a huge room inside such a little box. "It's like a box with that room just rammed in. It's bigger on the inside." She said, appearing in the TARDIS again.
"Is it? I hadn't noticed." The Doctor said as he shut the door. "Alright, then, let's get going."
Kari leaned against the console, smiling away. She never thought she would enjoy living the adventures as much as she did. It was definitely better to live through it all rather than watch it, even if you were facing deadly situations.
Then Kari felt a pain in her head. She closed her eyes tightly, hoping that it would just pass, but her head started pounding more and more. "Doctor…" Her voice was almost a whisper. "Doctor!" She called again, but slightly louder.
He looked over at her and his smiled faded fast. "Kari, what's wrong?" He asked, putting an arm around her.
"Headache. I think… I'm wanted somewhere else now." She said, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Kari, everything will be okay, I promise you." The Doctor told her, holding onto her tightly.
"Doctor, I don't want to leave you. I want to stay here." She pleaded, finally opening her eyes and looking at him. She could see so much sadness in his eyes.
"I know. But you will see me again, you know that." Kari nodded at him and the golden glow started to burn brighter. The Doctor pulled Kari's head up and kissed her lightly before letting her go and watching the light engulf her.
She kept her eyes tightly shut until she felt the pain start to ease. She slowly opened her eyes, looking at her hands. The golden glow was fading fast, she had been pulled through time and space, now she just needed to work out where she was.
She looked around and heard voices approach where she was. "A stone Angel on the loose amongst stone statues. A lot harder than I'd prayed for." A man said.
"A needle in a haystack." Kari's eyes widened, she knew that voice.
"A needle that looks like hay. A hay-like needle of death. A hay-like needle of death in a haystack of, er, statues. No, yours was fine." She also knew that voice as well.
"Blimey, Doctor. A hay-like needle of death in a haystack of statues?" Kari shouted, knowing that would get his attention. "I think you deserve a smack for that one."
A moment later the Doctor appeared in front of her, his eyes wide and a smile was on his face. "Kari!" He called, laughing away as he bounded up to her and grabbed her, hugging her and swinging her around.
Kari couldn't help but laugh and smile as well. "Nice to see you too, Doctor." She said as he finally put her down.
He looked her up and down before frowning at her. "Is that my tie?" He asked, tugging a little at the tie around her neck.
"Oh, yes. I do believe it was your tie. Hasn't been your tie since you took it off and put it around my neck." She said, take it if off carefully and tucking it away in her pocket. Kari noticed the two women standing a little behind the Doctor now. "Amy! River!" Kari cried, pushing the Doctor out of her way so that she could reach the pair.
"Kari, where have you been?" Amy asked, as she gave her a hug.
"Oh, you know, around." Kari looked over at River. "Dr Song, I presume you have been behaving yourself?" She asked.
River grinned at her. "Course I have, darling." Kari smiled at her and threw her arms around her, both of them giggling away.
"Good. Now, where are we? Alfava Matraxis, lovely. Aplan temple with a Weeping Angel on the loose and a crashed starliner called the Byzantium. Oh, this is going to be… interesting." Kari wondered how she was going to cope with all the Angels. They had always scared her, and now she was stuck, surrounded by a whole army of them.
River smirked at her. "She thinks she's so hot when she does that." Kari noticed the Doctor blushing while Amy just looked confused.
"Oh, River. Why don't you just ask me out? We could make a lot of men jealous." Kari said, throwing her a wink.
"Sorry, darling. I think someone might object to that." River told her, still smirking away.
"Oh well, your loss." Kari said as she bounced back over to the Doctor. "So, did you miss me much then, Doctor?" She asked him as she watched him look around.
"I always miss you. I never know when you're going to show up again. Certainly didn't expect to find you in the midst of a catacomb." The Doctor told her, looking at her and giving her a smile.
"Well, I didn't expect to arrive in the catacomb. Last place I arrived was the TARDIS, was a lot more comfortable in there. Got to have a lovely cuppa before we went off exploring." Kari said, not paying any attention to what was around her. She knew what was going to happen, she just had to wait.
"So, where did you come from? I know when you decided to keep my tie, that was the day we met Martha Jones."
Kari giggled a little. "Just came from meeting Martha Jones." The Doctor just shook his head at her and concentrated on the handheld device he was looking at. Kari knew what was going to happen next.
"So, what are they like? In the future, I mean. Because you know them in the future, don't you?" Amy asked River.
"The Doctor? Well, the Doctor's the Doctor." River replied without any hint of emotion in her voice. She was very good and not giving anything away. "And Kari, well, she's Kari."
Amy rolled her eyes. "Oh, well, that's very helpful. Mind if I write that down?"
"Yes, we are." River said, looking over at the Doctor and Kari.
"Sorry, what?" The Doctor called back, still pretending to work. Kari was holding in her giggles now.
"Talking about you both."
"I wasn't listening. I'm busy." The Doctor said, not very convincingly.
"I was listening." Kari called to River, a smile on her face. "And it's the other way up, Doctor." Kari told him before turning it up the right way for him. The Doctor mumbled his thanks, and that was all it took for Kari to let out her giggles.
She heard the Doctor groaning. "Here she goes again." Kari just whacked him around the back of the head as she tried to contain her laughter.
River shook her head. "Want me to make her stop?" She asked. The Doctor looked at her quizzically but nodded all the same. He couldn't concentrate while Kari was laughing away in the background. "Kari, come here." Kari stood next to River, who proceeded to whisper something in her ear.
Kari's eye grew wide and her face flushed red. "Shut up, River. That's not funny." Kari said, storming away from her and over to a corner on her own.
"What did you say to her?" Amy asked.
"Oh, just a little spoiler for her." River told her, grinning away.
"You're so his wife." Amy said smugly. She had been thinking, ever since she had met River that she was the Doctor's wife.
"Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy. This is the Doctor we're talking about. Do you really think it could be anything that simple?" River asked, risking a quick glance over at Kari who was still sulking in the corner.
"Yep."
River smiled at Amy. "You're good. I'm not saying you're right, but you are very good."
The Doctor stopped what he was doing and went over to Kari. "You going to sulk the whole time now?" He asked her, puling her away from the corner.
"Yes. I am. Got a problem what that?" The Doctor could tell from her tone that she wasn't happy about what River had said to her.
"What did she say?"
Kari refused to look at the Doctor, she kept her eyes firmly fixed on the ground. "Spoilers." She said bitterly before kicking one of the statues. "Ow!" Kari rubbed her foot, thinking that maybe kicking a statue wasn't such a good idea after all.
"Wait, so, did she say 'spoilers' or is it something that you can't tell me because it would be a spoiler?" He was slightly confused.
"Can't tell you. Your future. My future as well actually. Bloody future." Kari moaned. She was really starting to set into her bad mood.
"Come on, it can't be that bad." The Doctor said, trying to get her to cheer up.
Kari glared at him. "Doctor, I know the timelines. I know what's meant to happen and what is going to happen. If what River said to me is true, then the timelines have seriously been altered."
The Doctor could tell from the look on her face that it was serious. "Listen to me, Kari. No matter what happens, we will get through it. We always do. You and me, together against the universe, just like we always have been." He took hold of her hand and gave it a squeeze.
Kari let out a heavy sigh. "Fine. You win, this time. But I'm still not happy." She warned him.
The Doctor could tell from the look in her eyes that she meant it. She really did have a fearsome glare, and her golden eyes just amplified that. "Right, now let's focus shall we? We have an Angel to track down." He planted a kiss on the top of her head and pulled her away to look at some more statues.
"Oh, I am so not looking forward to this." Kari mumbled, knowing what was soon to happen.
The Doctor frowned at her. "Is this your all knowing power speaking?" He asked her. Kari just nodded at him. He wanted to know if she knew what was going to happen, and of course, she did. "Any chance of a little help?"
Kari glared at him again, her eyes were starting to burn brightly. "You know I can't, so don't even ask." Kari let out a sigh, knowing that the Doctor only wanted to get this over with and get everyone out alive. "I will help you where I can. But you know I can't mess with the timelines."
"I know. I'm sorry. It was silly of me to even ask that of you." Kari gave the Doctor a small smile.
"Too right it was." She watched as the Doctor as he carried on looking around. "Doctor, has it been a long time since you last saw me?" Kari asked him nervously. She knew that she probably shouldn't have been asking about her future, in fact she knew that she shouldn't, but she wanted to know.
"Oh, not too long. You always come and go as you please." Kari frowned at him, she should have known he wouldn't say anything more than that. Unless he was distracted, maybe.
"Thanks for that. You really know how to make me feel at home don't you. Telling me I come and go as I please. I don't please, I don't have a choice remember." She glared at him again. She was definitely still in a bad mood.
The Doctor let out a sigh. "Kari, I didn't mean it like that."
"It's fine. Forget it. I just wished that at some point I would be able to have a choice in the matter. But we both know that's never going to happen." She tried to pull herself away from the Doctor but he pulled her back.
"Kari, I'm sure that one day we will find out how to control it." He said, trying to reassure her and calm her down.
"Doctor, we didn't know how to do that in the past, we still won't know in the future. For all we know, this is always going to be my life. I don't even know what's going on half the time." The Doctor frowned at her. "Okay, I know what's going to happen, but I don't know what's happened."
The Doctor turned her so that she was facing him and held both her hands tightly. "Kari, I promise you, we will keep working on it. When all this is over, we'll run some more scans. There has to be something we can do."
Kari shook her head at him. "My guess is you've been running scans for centuries and still not any closer to working it out. This one time isn't going to be any different."
"You're right. This has been going on for so long, one day it will have to stop. I will make it stop."
"Doctor, you know that is never going to happen. My timeline is even more messed up than River's, and I know River's timeline." Tears were actually starting to build in her eyes now, she had only been pulled twice so far, but she knew it was going to happen so much more. She would be so happy to just stay somewhere, with one Doctor, permanently.
"Oh, my brilliant, beautiful Kari." He said, kissing her forehead. "No matter where or when you go, you will always end up with me. I will always be there, remember that."
Kari was about to reply to him when the sound of gunfire rang out through the chamber. The Doctor wasted no time in running off to investigate, with Amy and River close behind him. Kari, however, didn't bother to move. She stayed exactly where she was, looking at the statues.
"Look at you all. You might be able to fool the others, but you don't fool me. I know that every single one is an Angel. But don't you worry, they will work it out." Kari didn't blink. She winked one eye and then the other. She knew how to keep an Angel locked, and even though they were still restoring, they could still catch her if they really wanted to. Plus, she was rather scared of them still.
A few minutes later everyone else returned. "How's Sacred Bob?" She asked, noticing that he wasn't with them, well, he wouldn't be would he?
"A little scared. Which is good. Everyone should be scared." The Doctor said, glancing over at Father Octavian.
"Yup. Everyone should be scared. More scared than any of you realise." Kari said, and instantly Amy and River tensed up. "There we go, that's more like how scared you should be."
"Do you have to frighten the children?" The Doctor asked her as he took hold of her hand.
Kari smiled at him and started swinging their arms. "Yup." Was all she said, causing the Doctor to shake his head at her.
"Hey, I'm not a kid anymore thanks." Amy protested, her Scottish accent coming out very thick.
"Nope. But I've known you since you were a kid, Amelia Jessica Pond. The Scottish girl in an English village." Kari said, still swinging her arm and that of the Doctor's that she was holding. "I know everything there is to know about your past, present and future."
"Kari, love, you can stop any time you like." The Doctor whispered to her. It was his way of gently telling her to stop talking and leave Amy alone.
"Oh, well aren't you just a bundle of fun today." Kari moaned stopping the swinging and letting her arm hang by her side, but still holding the Doctor's hand.
"Mr Grumpy Face, I think Amy called me earlier." Kari turned and looked at Amy and she nodded in confirmation. "And I agreed. Weeping Angels, like you said, everyone should be scared."
The Doctor looked at her carefully, studying her, as if trying to work something out. "Stop looking at me like that. I am scared, I just decide not to show it."
"You also know what's going to happen." He whispered to her.
"Ah, correction, I know most of what's going to happen. There are always a few little alterations." She whispered back to him.
"Are you really scared or are you just saying that?" The Doctor asked her. Sometimes he didn't know if she was joking or being serious.
"Doctor, it's the Weeping Angels. If course I'm scared. From the first time I saw one, I could never look at a statue the same way again. Just like the bloody shadows and the Vashta Nerada." Kari paused for a moment, thinking. "Oh, that really isn't going to be a good day is it?" She wasn't actually asking the Doctor, she already knew what was going to happen that day, and it was one of the days she would never want to come.
Suddenly all the colour drained from her face. Just the thought of what was going to happen then made her feel like bursting into tears. She quickly turned and glanced over at River, walking behind a little, scanning around with her torch and looking at the statues.
The Doctor's grip on her hand tightened. Kari knew that he understood why she had suddenly gone so pale and quiet. She looked up at him and saw the sad smile on his face, he remembered that day as well.
They walked for a while in silence. Kari was trying to clear her mind, she just kept thinking about what was going to happen to River, how it all ended.
Amy finally broke the silence. "Isn't there a chance this lot's just going to collapse? There's a whole ship up there."
"Incredible builders, the Aplans." River told her, still looking at all the statues.
"Had dinner with their chief architect once." The Doctor said, giving Kari a worried and concerned look.
"Two heads are better than one." She said quietly, at the same time the Doctor said it.
River groaned. "Oh, please don't start doing that again. Do you have any idea how annoying that is?"
The Doctor and Kari just looked at each other, both confused, before Kari turned to face River with a full smile. "Spoilers, Dr Song, spoilers."
Amy just shook her head. "What, you mean you helped him?" She asked, clearly trying to stop any conversation between Kari and River.
"No, I mean he had two heads." The Doctor told her before stopping and turning to River. "That book, the very end, what did it say?"
River stopped and pulled out the book on the Weeping Angels. "Hang on."
"Read it to him, River. He likes his bedtime stories." Kari said, earning a playful whack from the Doctor. She noticed that he seemed to have a slight tint of red on his cheeks.
River grinned a little before starting to read. "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." Kari and River said at the same time.
River just rolled her eyes. "Oh, you just had to do that didn't you?" Kari shrugged her shoulders at her.
A while later, after a lot more walking, Amy started to complain. "Are we there yet? It's a hell of a climb."
"The Maze is on 6 levels, representing the ascent of the soul. Only 2 levels to go." River told her. Kari had remained mostly silent since River read from the book, occasionally answering the Doctor when he asked her if she was alright.
"Lovely species, the Aplans. We should visit them some time." The Doctor called back to Amy.
"I thought they were all dead?" Amy asked in confusion. Kari usually would have rolled her eyes at that point, but she knew what was coming next. She had to be on her guard.
"So is Virginia Woolf. We're on her bowling team. Very relaxed, sort of cheerful. Well, that's having 2 heads, of course. You're never short of a snog with an extra head." Kari knew that the Doctor was starting to ramble, because something was bothering him, and he said 'we're' and not 'I'm'. He had slipped up.
"Doctor, there's something. I don't know what it is…" River said, looking around at the statues more than she had been doing.
"Yeah, there's something wrong. Don't know what it is yet either. Working on it. Of course, then they…"
"Everyone shut up and stay still." Kari ordered. Her voice was strong and firm and everyone fell silent and stopped walking. "Doctor, River, take another look at the statues. Just look at them. Take a good hard look and think about what we were just talking about. Virginia Woolf, the chief architect."
"Oh." The Doctor said his eyes widening.
Amy looked at him, confused. "What's wrong?"
River's expression quickly changed to the same as the Doctors. "Oh."
"Exactly. Just thought I would point it out to you now." Kari said, gripping the Doctor's hand a little tighter than before.
"How could we have not noticed that?" River asked.
"Low level perception filter, or maybe we're thick." The Doctor said, moving his torch light from one statue to the next.
"What's wrong, sir?" Father Octavian asked.
"Nobody move. Nobody move. Everyone stay exactly where they are. Bishop, I am truly sorry. I've made a mistake and we are all in terrible danger." Kari could sense the Doctor starting to panic now.
"What danger?" Octavian asked.
"Father Octavian, sir, the Aplans have two heads." Kari said, turning to face the man.
"Yes, I get that. So?"
"So why don't the statues?" She asked, knowing full well that the Doctor was thinking the same thing.
"Everyone, over there. Just move. Don't ask questions, don't speak." Everyone moved into a small alcove, everyone apart from the Doctor and Kari. "Kari, go stand with them."
"Nah, I think I'm going to stay with you." She smiled at him and squeezed his hand tighter.
He couldn't help but smile back at her. For as long as he had known her, she had never been one to take orders from anyone, especially not him. "Okay, I want you all to switch off your torches." He waited, and yet a cleric decided to question him.
"Just do it." Kari snapped, making the man, and everyone else, flinch slightly.
"Okay. I'm going to turn off this one too, just for a moment." The Doctor said, his hand ready to turn the torch he was holding off.
"Are you sure about this?" River asked. It was risky, none of them knew what would happen, apart from Kari.
"No." The Doctor admitted before flicking the torch off and then straight back on again.
"Oh, my God. They've moved." Amy cried in horror. The statue that had been in front of them now seemed to be closer than it was before, and it was in a different position.
The Doctor and Kari both ran around, looking the way they had come and along the passage. "They're Angels. All of them." The Doctor announced.
"But they can't be." River insisted, unable to come to terms with what was happening.
"Oh, but they are." Kari said quietly. "Clerics, keep watching them." She ordered as she followed the Doctor to look back down to the main cavern. All the statues down there were reaching out, trying to get them.
"Every statue in this maze, every single one, is a Weeping Angel. They're coming after us." The Doctor said once they had returned to the main group.
Fear and panic was starting to take River over. "But there was only one Angel on the ship. Just the one, I swear."
"Yeah, you're right, River. There was on the one Angel on the ship. These were here before. Guess we now know how the Aplans died out." Kari said. She wanted to get this over with now.
"They don't look like Angels." Father Octavian pointed out.
"And they're not fast. You said they were fast. They should have had us by now." Amy added.
"Look at them. They're dying, losing their form. They must have been down here for centuries, starving." The Doctor said, still inspecting the statues from a safe distance.
"Losing their image?" Amy asked.
Kari nodded at her. "Yup. And their image is their power…" She paused, waiting for the Doctor to realise. Clearly he hadn't caught on. "All that radiation spilling out the drive burn… the radiation that's dinner to an Angel…" The Doctor spun around to face her. His eyes were wide, he had finally caught on to what she was trying to tell him.
"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."
"We need to get out of here fast." River said, trying to think of some brilliant way to escape their current predicament.
"Bob, Angelo, Christian, come in, please." Father Octavian called over his communications device. "Any of you, come in."
There was silence for a moment before finally someone replied. "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 snatched the communicator from Father Octavian. "Bob, Sacred Bob, it's me, the Doctor."
Father Octavian looked at the Doctor, a hint of anger on his face. "I'm talking to…"
"Where are you now?" The Doctor asked Bob.
"I'm talking to my…" Father Octavian said again.
"Oh, shut up." Kari snapped, no longer caring about being polite to anyone.
"I'm on my way up to you, sir. I'm homing in on your signal."
"Ah, 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."
Kari quickly turned to Father Octavian, remembering what he was going to say next. She put a finger to her lips and glared at the man. He bit his lip and stayed silent. She knew what was coming next, and she wanted to hurry up and get to it. She knew she probably shouldn't do it, she shouldn't interfere, but she had to. "Yeah, Doctor, Angels don't kill, they displace you. Now, ask him how he escaped."
The Doctor nodded at her. "Bob, keep running. But tell me, how did you escape?"
"I didn't escape, sir. The Angel killed me too."
"What do you mean, the Angel killed you?" The Doctor asked.
"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."
The Doctor was more curious now than before. "So when you say you're on your way up to us…"
"It's the Angel that's coming, sir. Yes."
"No way out." The Doctor whispered.
Kari clapped her hands together. "Right, come on you lot, we go through the wreckage. Go, come on. Run!" She ordered, making everyone move.
The Doctor turned and smiled at her. "Angel Bob. Which Angel am I talking to? The one from the ship?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes, sir. And the other Angels are still restoring."
"Ah, so the Angel is not in the wreckage. Thank you." The Doctor pulled Kari along with him as they started chasing after the others.
"Don't wait for us. Go, run." The Doctor called as they ran past Amy.
Kari stopped and pulled the Doctor back. "She can't." She whispered, remembering what was going to happen next.
"Why not?" The Doctor asked, looing between Amy and Kari.
"Look at it. Look at my hand. It's stone." Amy cried. Her hand was clenched to the rail of the walkway they were standing on.
"You looked into the eyes of an Angel, didn't you?" The Doctor asked her, flashing his torch across her eyes.
"I couldn't stop myself. I tried."
"Listen to me. It's messing with your head. Your hand is not made of stone." The Doctor told her firmly.
"It is. Look at it." Amy was sure her hand was stone.
"It's in your mind. I promise you. You can move that hand. You can let go." The Doctor told her. Kari knew they were running out of time.
"I can't, okay? I've tried and I can't. It's stone."
"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." He told her as the torch started to flicker slightly.
"I can't." Amy insisted.
Kari let out a sigh. "Then we're all going to die. The three of us together. Not quite how I had imagined it, but oh well."
Amy looked at Kari in shock. "You're not going to die. Neither of you."
"They'll kill the lights." Kari reminded her.
"You've got to go. You know you have. You've both got all that stuff with River and that's all got to happen. You know neither of you can die here."
"Time can be re-written. It doesn't work like that." The Doctor told her, trying to make her see sense.
Kari glanced over to where she knew a statue would now be standing. "Keep your eyes on it. Don't blink." She told Amy.
"Run."
"You see, we're not going. We're not leaving you here." It was the Doctor's turn to be firm and stubborn now.
"I don't need you to die for me. Either of you. Do I look that clingy?" Amy asked.
"Well, I don't think now is an appropriate time to answer that question. So how about I just do this instead." Kari said before biting down as hard as she could on Amy's hand. Amy cried out in pain. "See? Not stone. Come on, run."
"You bit me." Amy cried, nursing her hand.
"Yup, and you're alive. Funny that." Kari said as the Doctor tightened his grip on her hand. She couldn't help but notice the smile on his face. It looked like he actually wanted to laugh.
"Look, I've got a mark. Look at my hand!" Amy kept inspecting her hand as they ran.
"Yes, and you're alive. Did I mention?"
"Blimey, your teeth. Have you got space teeth?" Amy asked, going back to rubbing her hand to try and make the pain fade a little faster.
"Now that you mention it, yes I do. Brush your teeth twice and day and remember to floss. Keeps them nice and health." Kari said, trying not to laugh herself at Amy's reaction. She couldn't help but feel bad that she had stolen the fun of biting Amy from the Doctor, but she felt that it had been worth it.
They made it back to the others and all the lights were flickering, even the gravity globe. It also didn't help that the Angels were advancing on all sides, and they had no climbing equipment to reach the ship above them.
"There's no way up, no way back, no way out. No pressure, but this is usually when one of you have a really good idea." River said, looking between the Doctor and Kari.
"There's always a way out." The chimed together, smiling at each other.
"Doctor? Can I speak to the Doctor, please?" It was Angel Bob again.
The Doctor rolled his eyes before pulling out the communications device. "Hello Angels, what's your problem?"
"Your power will not last much longer, and the Angels will be with you shortly. Sorry, sir."
Kari noticed the Doctor frowning. "Why are you telling me this?"
"There's something the Angels are very keep you should know before the end."
"Which is?"
"I died in fear."
"I'm sorry?" The Doctor was slightly confused now.
"You told me my fear would keep be alive, but I died, afraid, in pain and alone. You made me trust you, and when it mattered, you let me down. They also wanted you to know that she knew. She knew who was going to die, she knew all along and didn't say anything. She didn't even try to prevent the deaths."
The Doctor looked at Kari, her face was a mixture of panic, fear and anger. "What are they doing?" Amy whispered to River, watching the Doctor and Kari closely.
"They're trying to make him angry, and her guilty."
"I'm sorry, sir. The Angels were very keen for you to know that."
The Doctor was starting to let his emotions bubble over. "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."
"What mistake, sir?"
The Doctor held the communicator down by his side. The first thing he done was hug Kari. He knew that she couldn't have saved them, he knew that she couldn't mention any of it. None of it was her fault. Then he turned to River and Amy, asking them if they trusted him. Of course, they did. Then he asked Father Octavian, who only replied with telling him that they had faith. Then he pushed Kari away a little.
He tucked some of her hair that had fallen over her face behind her ear. "Kari, it's not your fault. Never. Trust me?" She nodded at him and he kissed her quickly on the forehead before turning back to Father Octavian. "Give me your gun. I'm about to do something incredibly stupid and dangerous. When I do, jump!"
Father Octavian handed him the gun and looked at him, puzzled. "Jump where?"
"Just jump, high as you can. Come on, leap of faith Bishop. On my signal."
"What signal?" He asked.
"You won't miss it." Kari said, finally starting to pull herself back together.
"Sorry, can I ask again. You mentioned a mistake we made?"
Kari grinned at the Doctor, she had always loved this 'speech' of his. "Oh, big mistake. Huge. Didn't anyone ever tell you 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 me, sir?"
"Me." The Doctor replied, and then he fired the gun up in the air.
A/N: Confused? Let me know! I will try to explain anything that is confusing.
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