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Kari opened her eyes and instantly looked up. She let out a small sigh of relief, glad that the Doctor's plan had actually worked, even though she knew it would. She felt a pair of arms around her waist, pulling her off the ground. She shrieked a little in surprise before a hand flew over her mouth and she turned to see the Doctor.
"No screaming." He whispered to her. Kari just nodded her head and he moved his hand. "You alright?" He asked her as he gazed into her eyes.
"Well, I'm still alive. That's a bonus." She told him, grinning away. The Doctor just rolled his eyes at her and kissed her head quickly.
"Up. Look up." He told everyone as he looked around where we were standing.
"What happened?" Amy asked after River had helped her to get back onto her feet.
"Don't you remember, Amy? We jumped." Kari told her, glancing up every now and again.
"Jumped where?" Amy seemed to be very confused as to what had happened.
"Up, up. Look up." The Doctor said again, still wandering around.
Amy looked up. "Where are we?"
Kari let out a sigh. "Oh, Amy. We are exactly where we were." She knew that Amy still wasn't going to get it and that the Doctor was going to have to explain it a lot more.
Amy looked around at her surroundings some more before coming to a conclusion. "No we're not. Doctor, what am I looking at? Explain?"
The Doctor stopped what he was doing and stood next to Amy. Kari plucked the sonic out of the Doctor's hand and bent down, working on the hatch that he had just been working on. Leaving the Doctor confused. Kari just winked at him and turned on the sonic.
The Doctor smiled at her before turning to Amy. "Oh, come on, Amy, think. The ship crashed with the power still on, yeah? So what else is still on?" He glanced down at Kari and saw she was still concentrating on getting the hatch open. "The artificial gravity. One good jump, and up we fell. Shot out the grav globe to give us an updraft, and here we are."
"Doctor, the statues. They look more like Angels now." Father Octavian pointed out as he looked up at the Angels, in the place that only moments ago, they were all standing.
"They're feeding on the radiation from the wreckage, draining all the power from the ship, restoring themselves. Within an hour, they'll be an army." The Doctor said before kneeling down next to Kari. "How's it going?" He asked her, just before the hatch opened. Kari ginned at him and gave him back his screwdriver.
"They're taking out the lights. Look at them. Look at the Angels." The Doctor said, keeping a close eye on Kari. She was now standing on the edge of the open hatch, grinning away madly. "Kari…"
She turned her head to face the Doctor and he saw a glint in her eyes, she was about to do something, he knew she was. "Geronimo." She said before jumping into the open hatch.
The Doctor just rolled his eyes before sitting on the edge, his legs hanging down the hole. "Into the ship, now. Quickly, all of you." He said, before jumping down. Everyone rushed over and looked through the hole. "It's just a corridor. The gravity orientates to the floor. Now, in here, all of you. Don't take your eyes off the Angels. Move, move, move."
The Doctor turned to Kari as the others made their way through the hatch and into the ship. "Don't do things like that. It scares me when you do things like that." Kari could hear the concern and seriousness in his voice.
"We both knew the gravity was still on. We both knew it was safe. You're just upset that I done it before you and nicked your favourite word." Kari told him, not understanding why he was so worried.
"Yes, but you should have let me go first, what if it hadn't been safe? What if there had been an Angel just… waiting?"
Kari frowned at the Doctor. "What's got you so worried? You aren't usually like this." Kari had to pause and think for a moment. Had there been a time when she had seen him so concerned in this way? "No, this isn't you. So what's wrong?"
"I just worry about you. I'm allowed to worry." Kari eyed the Doctor carefully, there was something strange going on, she knew there was. Only she didn't really know how to approach the situation.
"The Angels. Presumably they can jump up too?" Father Octavian asked as he and his clerics took up their positions in the corridor they were all now standing in.
"They're here, now. In the dark, we're finished." The Doctor said, having a quick look around before rushing to the door at the end that swiftly closed, leaving them somewhat stuck.
"This whole place is a death trap." Father Octavian stated.
"No, it's a time bomb. Well, it's a death trap and a time bomb. And now it's a dead end. Nobody panic." There was loud banging noises at the hatch they had come through which the Doctor had managed to close. The Angels were trying to get in. "Oh, just me then." Kari took his hand and gripped it tightly. She really wasn't looking forward to what was going to happen next. It was amazing how quickly her moods could change.
The Doctor smiled at her, he could see that she was actually terrified. It wasn't very often that she let her emotions show, but when she did, the Doctor knew things were bad. "What's through here?" He asked, pointing his sonic screwdriver at the large door that was behind him.
"Secondary flight deck." River and Kari said at the same time. River looked at Kari, about to say something. But the moment she saw her eyes and the way she was gripping the Doctor's hand, she turned away.
"Okay, so we've basically run up the inside of a chimney, yeah? So what if the gravity fails?" Amy wondered.
"He's thought about that." Kari answered for the Doctor.
"And?"
"And we'll all plunge to our deaths. See? I've thought about it." The Doctor told her before turning back to the door with Kari still clinging to him. "The security protocols are still live. There's no way to override them. It's impossible."
River glanced over at him. "How impossible?" She asked, working away at a panel on the wall.
"2 minutes." Kari answered for him, seeing that he was busy. She pulled her eyes away from the Doctor and looked over at the hatch. It was now open, and the lights were flickering. She knew what was coming next.
"The hull is breached and the power's failing." Father Octavian called as the lights flickered some more. Then the shadow of an arm reached across the opening.
"Doctor? Lights." Amy was getting more and more concerned. Kari just stood there, almost frozen, beside the Doctor.
By the time the lights flickered on for more than a second there were already four Angels with them, and the hatch behind them closed. "Clerics, keep watching them." Father Octavian ordered his men.
"And don't look at their eyes. Anywhere else. Not the eyes." Kari told them. "I find the shoulder a good place to look, or the hair. Have they all got the same hair? I should probably pay more attention at times." River and the Doctor both looked at Kari in concern, she was starting to ramble, much like the Doctor did.
"I've isolated the lighting grid. They can't drain the power now." The Doctor said, giving Kari's hand a reassuring squeeze.
"Good work, Doctor." Father Octavian praised him as he and his men kept their eyes on the statues.
"Yes. Good, good, good. Good in many ways. Good you like it so far." The Doctor said, gripping Kari's hand a little tighter. She looked up at him and nodded.
"So far?" Amy questioned.
"Well, there's only one way to open this door. I guess I'll need to route all the power in this section through the door control." The Doctor told them.
"Good. Fine. Do it." Father Octavian said, not taking his eyes off the Angels.
"Including the lights. All of them." Kari's voice was starting to get a little shaky now. She couldn't believe how scared she actually was.
"I'll need to turn out the lights." The Doctor confirmed, noticing how frightened Kari seemed to be now. That was something that was bothering him. She had been all smiles and jokes not so long ago, and now she was closing herself off.
"How long for?"
"Fraction of a second. Maybe longer. Maybe quite a bit longer." Father Octavian question the Doctor about the 'maybe' part. "I'm guessing. We're being attacked by statues in a crashed ship. There isn't a manual for this." Kari could see how frustrated the Doctor was starting to get now.
"Doctor, we lost the torches. We'll be in total darkness." Amy reminded him. It was clear that she didn't like the idea of turning all the lights off, especially since no one knew how long the lights were going to be off for.
"No other way. Bishop." The Doctor said, standing beside the man.
Father Octavian turned to River. "Dr Song, I've lost good clerics today. You trust this man?"
"I absolutely trust him."
"He's not just some kind of madman, then?"
"I absolutely trust him." River said again, making the Doctor smile and head back to the door with Kari still holding onto him.
"Kari, everything is going to be fine. I promise." He told, giving her a quick one armed hug. All she did was nod at him. "I hate seeing you like this, you're so scared."
"Like I said, Weeping Angels. Being scared is a good thing right about now. Especially since you're about to turn off all the lights." The Doctor could tell for the quietness of her voice that he needed to get her out of there soon.
"I will be here the whole time. Right next to you. Okay?" Kari nodded at him. She knew that everything would be fine in the end, but she still couldn't help the way she was feeling. She had thought, that knowing what was going to happen would make her braver, not act like a coward.
"Okay, Doctor. We've got your back." Father Octavian called.
"Bless you, Bishop." The Doctor said, taking some wires from Amy and getting Kari to help him attach them to the door.
"Combat distance, ten feet. As soon as the lights go down, continuous fire. Full spread over the hostiles. Do not stop firing while the lights are out. Shot gun protocol. We don't have bullets to waste."
"Amy, when the lights go down, the wheel should release. Spin it clockwise four turns." The Doctor told her, still working away with Kari.
"Ten." Amy said, making Kari's eyes widen. That just reminded her of what was going to happen next, and it was making her feel sick.
"No, four. Four turns." The Doctor told her, keeping Kari with him the whole time.
"Yeah, four. I heard you."
"Ready!" The Doctor called, getting his sonic screwdriver into position and ready to go.
"On my count, then. God be with us all. Three, two, one, fire!" Father Octavian called.
The lights went out and the clerics began to fire. Kari watched as the Angles moved closer each time they were in complete darkness.
"Doctor, it's opening. It's working." Amy called, as she turned the wheel and the door started to slide open a little.
"Fall back!" The Doctor called, making sure everyone went through the small gap between the door and the wall. He pushed Kari through just before he slipped in as the door closed again. They ran along the corridor which looked very similar to the one they had just escaped from. The Doctor pulled out his screwdriver again and opened the door, ushering everyone inside.
The Doctor pulled Kari with him to the control unit in the room. "Kari, how you doing?" He asked her quietly.
She smiled at him a little. "I'm okay. Could murder a nice cup of tea if I'm honest. And some fish fingers and custard, that would be nice."
The Doctor frowned at her. "When was the last time you ate?"
Kari shrugged. "Um, pass?" She honestly couldn't remember. For her it had been at least 2 days, but it was hard to tell how time was passing for her since she was being pulled from one place to another. All she knew was that she was hungry.
"After this, fish fingers and custard and a cuppa. How does that sound?" He asked her, doing everything he could to get a real smile from her.
Kari let out a sigh, she knew what he was doing. "Oh, go on then. If it will keep you happy." She told him, before finally giving him that smile he wanted.
"Doctor!" Amy called, getting his attention. The Doctor and Kari looked at her and followed her gaze. She was watching Father Octavian. "What are you doing?" Amy asked as he placed some device on the door. The Angels were turning the wheel, trying to get in.
"Magnetized the door. Nothing could turn that wheel now." Father Octavian told her confidently.
Kari smirked and watched as the wheel slowly started to turn again. "Yeah?"
"Dear God!" Father Octavian exclaimed in horror.
The Doctor grinned, noticing that Kari seemed to be a little more herself now. "Ah, now you're getting it. You've bought us time though. That's good. I am good with time." He said.
"Well, be a bit pointless you being a Time Lord if you wasn't really, wouldn't it?" Kari told him, earning a whack on the arm from the Doctor and some giggles from River and Amy.
Another wheel started to spin around rapidly on another of the doors. Father Octavian and his clerics were quick to seal all the doors. But they were now surrounded. "Doctor, how long have we got?" He asked.
"Five minutes, max." The Doctor replied.
"Nine." Amy said, standing on the other side of the Doctor still.
"Five." The Doctor said, working away still.
"Five. Right. Yeah."
"Why'd you say nine?" The Doctor asked her, trying to focus on his work.
"I didn't."
Kari shook her head and kept helping the Doctor.
"We need another way out of here.' River said, stopping whatever she was doing on the console and looking to the Doctor.
"There isn't one." Father Octavian insisted.
Kari giggled. "Yeah there is. Course there is." She said, making everyone look at her, including the Doctor. "Sorry, Doctor, do you want to explain?" He smiled and shook his head, giving her the go ahead to keep talking. "Okay, so this is a galaxy class ship. Goes for years between planet falls. So, what do they need?" She asked, grinning away.
River gasped. "Of course." She gave Kari a huge smile.
"Of course what? What do they need?" Amy asked, she was getting lost in confusion again.
"Can we get in there?" Father Octavian asked, also realising what was going on.
The Doctor was hugging Kari but finally let her go and rushed over to the wall in front of them. "Well, it's a sealed unit, but they must have installed it somehow. This whole wall should slide up."
"There's clamps." Kari called. "You need to release the clamp." The Doctor whipped out his sonic screwdriver again and used it on the clamps.
"What's through there? What do they need?" Amy asked, still none the wiser as to what was going on.
"They need to breathe." Kari told her, grinning away as she stood by her and River. The three of them watched as the wall slid up.
Amy looked on in awe at what she was seeing. "But that's… that's a…"
"It's an oxygen factory." River told her, grinning away.
Clearly Amy was in utter shock. "It's a forest."
"Yeah, it's a forest. It's an oxygen factory." Kari told her, she couldn't help but smile. The sight of it really was amazing.
"And if we're lucky, an escape route." The Doctor said, having a quick look at the forest.
Kari's face fell a little when she heard Amy say 'eight'. She heard River ask what she had said but Amy claimed she didn't say anything. Kari just took a deep breath and went to join the Doctor where he was standing.
"Is there another exit? Scan the architecture, we don't have time to get lost in there." As soon as Kari was standing next to the Doctor he wrapped an arm around her waist. "You're brilliant. Did I tell you that?" He whispered in her ear.
Kari just shrugged her shoulders. "It may have been mentioned before." She said as she watched Father Octavian go into the forest and check everything out.
"But trees, on a spaceship?" Amy asked, she was smiling.
"Oh, more than tress. Way better than tress." Kari said as the Doctor dragged her over to one of the tress with him. "Amy, you are so going to love this."
"Treeborgs. Trees plus technology." The Doctor said, pulling a panel open on the tree. "Branches become cables become sensors to the hull. A forest sucking in starlight, breathing out air. It even rains. There's a whole mini-climate. This vault is an ecopod running right through the heart of the ship. A forest in a bottle on a spaceship in a maze."
Kari pulled the Doctor back into the room with the others. Grinning away madly, just like the Doctor. It was strange how some of his traits were showing through her.
"Have I impressed you yet, Amy Pond?" He asked her.
Amy let out a little laugh. "Seven."
Kari tightened her grip on the Doctor's hand. She knew that the worse was yet to come, but she knew what she could do to help.
The Doctor sense Kari's anxiousness. "Seven?"
Amy looked at them both blankly. "I'm sorry, what?" She asked, not realising what she had just said.
"You said seven." The Doctor said, studying Amy closely.
"No. I didn't." She protested.
"Yes, you did." Kari said nervously.
"Doctor, there's an exit, far end of the sip, into the primary flight deck." Father Octavian said, coming back and joining the group.
"Oh, good. That's where we need to go." The Doctor told him, not taking his eyes off Amy.
"Plotting a safe path now."
"Quick as you like." The Doctor called back to him.
"Doctor? Excuse me? Hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir." The Doctor pulled Kari over to the white chair, pulling out the communicator from inside his jacket pocket and forcing Kari to sit on his lap, much to her surprise.
"Ah, there you are, Angel Bob. How's life? Sorry, bad subject." He said, grinning. Kari just shook her head at him.
"The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve."
"Achieve? We're not achieving anything. We're just hanging. It's nice in here. Consoles, comfy chairs, a forest. How's thing's with you?" He asked, wrapping his free arm around Kari to keep her on his lap.
"The Angels are feasting, sir. Soon we will be able to absorb enough power to consume this vessel, this world, and all the stars and worlds beyond."
"Well, we've got comfy chairs. Did I mention?" Kari went to whack the Doctor but he quickly grabbed her hand and entwined his fingers through hers.
"We have no need of comfy chairs."
The Doctor couldn't help but grin. "I made him say comfy chairs."
Amy and Kari laughed a little. "Six." Amy said, making Kari squeeze the Doctor's hand.
The Doctor pushed Kari up, letting go of her hand of only a second while he got up as well. "Okay, Bob, enough chat. Here's what I want to know. What have you done to Amy?"
"There is something in her eye."
"What's in here eye?"
"We are" Angel Bob answered.
"What's he talking about?" Amy asked as the Doctor and Kari stood in front of her. The Doctor was staring at Amy, trying to work something out. "Doctor, I'm five. I mean, five. Fine. I'm fine."
"You're counting, Amy." Kari told her.
"Counting?"
"You're counting down from ten. You have been for a couple of minutes." The Doctor told her, still watching her closely.
"Why?"
"I don't know." The Doctor told her honestly.
"Well, counting down to what?"
"I don't know." The Doctor said again.
"We shall take her. We shall take all of you. We shall have dominion over all time and space"
"Get a life, Bob. Oops, sorry again. There's power on this ship but nowhere near that much." The Doctor said, sitting back down again and expecting Kari to join him. She just shook her head and stood facing the wall behind him.
"With respect, sir, there's more power on this ship than you yet understand. Only She understands."
Then they all heard a screeching sound. It sent shivers down Kari's spine. River looked at her in concern. "What's that? Dear God, what is it?" River asked.
"It's hard to put it in your terms, Doctor Song, but as best I understand it, the Angels are laughing."
"Laughing?" The Doctor didn't understand why, only Kari knew what was going on.
"Because you haven't noticed yet, sir. The Doctor and the TARDIS hasn't noticed."
Kari held out her hands and pulled the Doctor out of the chair. "No, wait. There's something I've missed." He said, frowning at Kari. Kari didn't let go of his hands, she just walked around so that her back was now to the wall she had been looking at. She saw the Doctor's eyes widen as he saw what the Angels were talking about.
River and Amy both followed his gaze. The Doctor quickly ran around, taking Kari with him as she was still holding onto his hand, and looked at the crack in the wall closer.
"That's… that's… that's like the crack from my bedroom wall from when I was a little girl." Amy said in shock, joining the pair.
The whole room started to shake. "Okay, enough. We're moving out." Father Octavian decided.
River nodded at him. "Agreed. Doctor? Kari?"
"Yeah, fine." The Doctor said, waving River off. He was still too interested in the crack.
He pulled out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the crack. "What are you doing?" River asked, watching him still.
"Right with you." He said, really not paying them any attention at all.
"We're not leaving without you." River protested.
"Oh yes, you are. Bishop?"
"Miss Pond, Doctor Song, now!" Father Octavian ordered.
"You as well Kari. I'll be fine, you know that. Now go." The Doctor said, giving her a smile. Kari nodded at him and followed the others out.
Since Kari knew what was going to happen next, she stayed as close to Amy as she could. It didn't take long for Amy to start acting drowsy. Kari wasted no time in getting straight to the point. "River, get over here now. And bring the med scanner with you." River just looked at her. "Now!" Kari shouted.
"Four." Amy said, before becoming less stable on her feet and lying herself down on a mossy tree trunk.
In an instant River was there with Amy and Kari, med scanner in her hand and being attached to Amy's arm.
"Doctor Song, we can't stay here. We've got to keep moving." Father Octavian told her, not realising how serious the situation with Amy was.
"We wait for the Doctor." River told him. It was clear she was worried about Amy as well.
"Our mission is to make this wreckage safe and neutralise the Angels. Until that is achieved…"
"Father Octavian, when the Doctor's in the room, your one and only mission is to keep him alive long enough to get everyone else home. And trust me, it's not easy. God knows if it wasn't for Kari he probably wouldn't have survived as long as he has. Now, if he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself, and I doubt Kari will either. And if he's alive…" Kari gave River a little nudge to shut her up. "And, Doctor, you're standing right behind me, aren't you?"
"Oh, yeah." He said, grinning away.
"I hate you." River said, looking over at him.
"You don't. Bishop, the Angels are in the forest." The Doctor said before jumping of the trunk he was standing on and joining Kari and River with Amy.
"How did you get past them?" River as quietly.
"I found a crack in the wall and told them it was the end of the universe."
"What was it?" Amy mumbled.
"The end of the universe." Kari said, passing the med scanner to the Doctor.
"So, what's wrong with me?" Amy asked.
"Nothing, you're fine." River told her calmly.
"Everything, you're dying." The Doctor told her honestly, earning a glare from River. "Yes, you're right. If we lie to her she'll get all better. Right, Amy, Amy, Amy. What's the matter with Amelia? Something's in her eyes. What does that mean? Does it mean anything?"
Kari was sat there, playing with her hands. She didn't want to interfere, she knew she shouldn't, but she wanted to help.
"Doctor…" Amy mumbled, she wanted to know what was going on.
"Busy." He told her, focusing on the med scanner.
"Scared." Amy replied. Kari wasn't sure how much more of this she could take.
"Course you're scared. You're dying. Shut up. What happened? She stared at the Angel. She looked into the eyes of an Angel for too long." The Doctor looked over at Kari, hoping the she could help him. "Come on, come on, come on. Wakey, wakey. She watched an Angel climb out of the screen. She stared at the Angel and… and…"
Kari let out a sigh. "The image of an Angel is an Angel."
"A living mental image in a living human mind. But we stare at them to stop them getting closer. We don't even blink, and that's exactly what they want. Because as long as our eyes are open, they can climb inside. There's an Angel in her mind." The Doctor and River both gasped.
"Three. Doctor, it's coming. I can feel it. I'm going to die."
"Please just shut up. I'm thinking. Now, counting. What's that all about?" The Doctor stood up and pulled the communicator out from one of his pockets. "Bob, why are they making her count?"
"To make her afraid, sir."
"Okay, but why? What for?"
"For fun, sir."
The Doctor threw the communicator to the ground in frustration. Kari had made her decision now. She wasn't going to just sit there and watch any more. She couldn't let Amy suffer anymore. She knew what needed to be done and she was going to do it.
"Doctor, what's happening to me? Explain." Amy asked.
"Amy, be quiet and listen to me." Kari said softly. "There's basically an Angel living in your mind. In the vision centres of your mind. Now trust me and close your eyes."
"No. No, I don't want to."
"See, that's not you talking. That's the Angel inside you and it's afraid. Please, Amy. Close your eyes. You have to do this. Everything will be fine, I promise you." Kari was trying to keep as calm as she could.
Everyone held their breath when Amy finally closed her eyes. Kari let out a breath that she didn't even know she was holding.
"She's normalising. You did it. You did it, Kari!" River said, a smile on her face as she looked at her.
The Doctor scooped Kari up and hugged her tightly. "You, are amazing, Kari. Amazing. Even if it was your all knowing power, you're still amazing." He whispered to her before letting her go.
"Doesn't matter. Okay, too weak to move her." Kari said, looking around the forest, knowing that the Angels were getting closer.
"So, can I open my eyes now?" Amy asked.
Kari let out a sigh and looked at the Doctor. "Amy, listen to me. If you open your eyes now for more than a second, you will die. The Angel is still inside you. We haven't stopped it, we've just sort of paused it. You've used up your countdown. You cannot open your eyes." He told her gently.
A:N/ I actually loved writing the next chapter. I had so many ideas for it, but I couldn't fit them all in. So anyway, tell me what you thought, and if there is any episode you want to see Kari jumping around to.
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