"Wrong. Wrong. Wrong."

"Yeah, great. Can we go to a planet now? Big space ship, Churchill's bunker...? You promised me a planet next." Amy spoke up at last, finally fed up with the Doctor hopping around, claiming that artifacts and their dates were wrong.

But even so, he ignored her. "Ooh, that's one of mine! Oh, that is as well! Oh, but that's wrong."

Evy rolled her eyes and shared a look with Amy. "Yeah, well that's all very 'fascinating'. Can we go now?"

He looked up in indignation. "You don't like museums? I love museums."

"No, I do enjoy them, but..." She trailed off mid-sentence and the Doctor stepped over, standing close to her.

"But...?"

Noticing their close proximity, she turned away, face a bit red. "It's just, you know, once you've seen when and how everything came to be, all of this is just... stuff."

"Oh, Evy," he said quietly, "Nothing is ever just stuff."

"Hmm..." She looked up at him, "Perhaps."

She gave a small smile and the Doctor returned it with a grin. But the two were interrupted by a loud sigh.

"I'm still here! Might do you well to remember there's other people on this planet, please and thank you!" she cried, hand over her eyes.

Evy's eyes widened and they both blushed furiously. "What?! No, I wasn't- We're not-"

"Right, um, a-anyway, it's not a planet, Amy," he stated, "It's an asteroid. This is the Delirium Archive, final resting place of the Headless Monks. The biggest museum ever."

Amy sarcastically mouthed 'ooh' and watched as the Doctor continued to go around and correct artifacts. The Ponds were helplessly pulled along, but they didn't seem to mind.

What else were they supposed to do? It was then something caught his eye when he stopped suddenly, looking at an artifact through the glass with a childish curiosity.

"Ooh, one of mine," he said with a grin as Evy stepped beside him.

Amy walked over to see the artifact as well.

"It's just an old box," she said with her eyebrows raised. "What's so wrong about an old box?"

"It's not just any old box, it's a homebox. From one of the old starliners. Sort of like a blackbox on an airplane," he explained dismissively at their questioning looks.

"But look at this," Evy pointed at the symbols etched into the box. "This writing shouldn't be here. It's impossible. If I do remember correctly, this is Old High Gallifreyan. Lost language of the Time Lords."

The Doctor paused, looking at it as memories flooded back.

"There was a time, long ago, when these letters could burn through stars and tear apart galaxies. But that was centuries – millennia ago. They stopped using this when I was only 300. No one else knows it, because –" he stopped short. "Anyway, it's impossible."

"Doctor," Amy asked gently, "What does it say?"

He gave a loud sigh and groaned, "Hello sweetie."

"Hello sweetie...?" Evy raised a brow and he gave a nod.

"Yes. That's why we've got to…." He paused, looking around the corner briefly and then back at the glass case enclosing the box.

Within seconds, he'd sonicked the lock on the case and threw off the glass. The sound of shattering and alarms blaring filled their ears. He snatched the box.

"Run!"

~x~

The Doctor flung open the door, his arms open, as if ready to catch something. Well, someone.

But instead, he heard a loud thud beside him and turned around to see that a woman crashed into a stunned Evy, causing both of them to stumble back.

"River?" he asked her, but she stood up and ignored him.

"Follow that ship," she commanded, pointing to a spaceship out in the distance, amidst the stars. The Doctor nodded and ran to the console, setting his ship to actually fly for once.

Evy just stood up and looked around, still a bit dazed. After a second or two, she stepped down to the woman and held out her hand.

"Umm... H-hello. I'm Evy."

The woman turned to look at her and smiled from ear to ear. "Yes, yes you are," she said, ignoring her hand and pulling her into a tight hug. Evy blinked but hugged her back, albeit a bit awkwardly. The woman froze and pulled back suddenly.

"You don't know who I am."

Evy smiled nervously. "Umm, sorry."

The woman laughed, but her eyes were sad. "No, I'm sorry. I'm making a lovely first impression. I'm River Song," she said, holding out her hand.

Evy took it with a smile. "Evelyn Paris. Call me Evy," she winked, earning a chuckle from River. She continued to look at her oddly with a twinkle in her eye. Not a bad weird, just... as if seeing Evy brought her so much joy.

She looked around. "Is Amy here?" Evy gestured her head to her sister and the woman smiled.

"Oh, Amy, hello! Have you met me yet?"

"How do you know my name?" Amy asked, her eyebrows scrunched together.

River shrugged, laughing nervously. "Oh, um, well, it was just a... lucky guess!" She looked as though she were about to say something else, but before she could, the TARDIS swung around violently, sending them all crashing to the floor.

River and Evy jumped up and ran to the console, flipping switches. Noticing they were doing the same thing, they gave the other a mental high-five.

"What're you two doing?" The Doctor cried over the noise of everything shaking about.

"Helping you fly the TARDIS!" Evy shouted.

"I don't need 3 pilots to fly the TARDIS!"

"You do when the other one doesn't know how to fly it properly!" She exclaimed, shutting him up for now.

"Turn on the stabilizers!" River suggested, but the Doctor groaned.

"There are no stabilizers!"

"The blue buttons!" She cried, frustrated.

"They don't do anything, they're just blue!"

Tired of their debate, Evy slammed her palm down onto the blue buttons and the TARDIS stopped shaking immediately.

"Yes," she said slowly, "The blue stabilizers."

Amy raised a brow and shared a look with the Doctor, who seemed miffed that someone could fly his ship better than them. The two women seemed too get along very well. A bit too well for the Doctor's liking.

"We're losing them," he announced, "They've gone into warp speed."

River rolled her eyes and shoved him out of the way, spewing out a long string of words that Amy couldn't understand and apparently landing the TARDIS without the whooshy noise. Amy loved the whooshy noise.

The Doctor seemed like he was trying very hard not to be aggravated. "Alright, let's have a look," he said, leaving River and Evy at the console.

He grabbed Amy's hand and stepped toward the door. Amy gave him a questioning look, but he just shrugged and shook his head. It seemed he knew nothing about this River Song as well.

"Environment check!" Evy called out, but the Doctor just opened the door.

"Right, yes. Sorry, environment check. It's nice out," he declared after he'd poked his head outdoors.

River started to read something off of the screen, but the Doctor cut her off.

"We're on Alfava Metraxis, the seventh planet in the Dundra system, oxygen rich atmosphere, eleven hour day, and a chance of rain later."

Evy laughed. "You think you're so impressive."

He winked at her and shut the door, leading them back over to the console. "I am so impressive."

"How do you know how to fly this thing?" Amy asked River, who smirked.

"Oh, I had lessons from the best."

The Doctor leaned against the wall, a proud look on his face. "Well…yeah."

"Shame you were busy that day," River continued, looking at the Doctor.

He just frowned and stood up straight, ushering River by pushing her rudely out of the TARDIS.

"Have fun." And he slammed the door behind her.

"Doctor, that was very rude," Evy admonished like a mother scolding a child. Well, a 907-year old child.

"I don't care."

"Why are you running away from her, then," she asked, crossing her arms.

The Doctor frowned and walked over to the console, preparing to start the dematerialization sequence.

"Because she's the future. My future. And I don't want to deal with it."

"You can't always run away from your future."

"I can run away from anything I like. Time is not the boss of me," he scoffed.

"Hold on," Amy cut in, "Is this a planet?"

The Doctor scrunched his brows. "Yes, of course it's a planet."

"You promised me a planet. Five minutes?"

He groaned and messed up his floppy hair in frustration.

"You two are going to be the death of me. Alright, come on. But only for a little while!" he called after them, as they'd already run outside.

With a sigh, he released the controls and walked outside, shutting the door of his ship behind him. "Now you've seen Alfava Metraxis. Let's go."

"Oh come on, Doctor," Evy said, punching his arm playfully. "Don't let it latch on. I'm sure there's much more to it than just this."

He smiled despite himself. Evy was always so optimistic and happy wherever they ended up. Here they were in a filthy shipwrecked wasteland, and still, she wanted to explore.

"Why did it crash?" she asked, looking up at the destroyed ship.

River sighed. "Was that my fault?"

"No," the Doctor said, but he gave no explanation.

"Shouldn't we check for life signs? Heat signatures?" Evy asked in concern, but the Doctor just shook his head sadly.

"No survivors."

They were silent for a while. Rive pulled out a box-shaped scanner – or maybe it was a communication device – and raised it in the air. It beeped.

"I don't get it," Amy said in a hushed voice to the Doctor, "how did she do that box thingy in the museum?"

"Two things always guaranteed to turn up in a museum: the category 9 starliner homebox, and sooner or later, him. It's how he keeps score," River told Evy, who giggled and nodded in agreement.

"I know, right?"

"I'm not a taxi service," the Doctor said, wagging his finger at them. "I'm not going to be there every time you decide to jump out of a spaceship. I'm not a babysitter!"

River snorted and looked down at some sort of rectangular device with a small screen.

"Oh, you are so wrong. There's one survivor. There's a thing in the belly of that ship that can't ever die." Her box – maybe it was a communication device and a scanner – rang and she put it up to her ear.

"You lot in orbit yet? Yeah, I saw it land; I'm at the crash site. Try and home in on my signal." She raised it in the air, but apparently it wasn't strong enough. "Doctor, could you sonic this?" she shouted, pointing to the, umm, phone?

The Doctor rolled his eyes and pointed his sonic at her, though he didn't look as though he wanted to.

"Ooh, Doctor," Amy faked a swoon as she waggled her eyebrows. "You sonicked her!"

He muttered a curse under his breath and turned away, hoping Evy wouldn't notice his slightly scarlet cheeks.

"So where are we? Have we done the rubber heads yet?" River asked, pulling out a blue book from God knows where. The Doctor shook his head.

"No, not yet."

"What is that?" Evy asked, gesturing to the book.

The Doctor frowned. "Don't look at it. It's her diary, to keep up with us. We all keep meeting in the wrong order. Time travel," he scoffed, purposely not looking at the book.

A flash of light brought their attention back to the wrecked ship, where four men dressed in military clothes had just appeared. Transmit, maybe. They turned and walked over to where the small group of time travelers stood.

"You promised me an army, Doctor Song," said the one who appeared to be in charge.

River smirked. "No, I promised you the equivalent of an army. This is the Doctor, Evy, and Amy."

The military man gave a salute and Evy saluted back. She'd always loved salutes. It reminded her of when she was a soldier herself.

"Father Octavian, sir. Bishop, second class. The troops are already in the drop ship and landing shortly. Doctor Song was helping us with a covert investigation."

"What're you investigating?" Evy wondered aloud and Father Octavian turned to her, shocked.

"Doctor Song hasn't explained what we're dealing with?" he asked incredulously and Evy swung around to look at River.

"Well," she began, "What do you know of the Weeping Angels?"

~x~

"I've seen that before," Evy said, pointing to the statue on the screen.

The Doctor's head snapped up. "What? Where?" he asked in concern.

Evy frowned, still looking at the screen.

"Uhh…ages ago. When I was at the Citadel's library, there was this book that always had chains and a lock. They said there was a demon trapped inside. But I was able to take a peek, and..."

"And..?"

She turned away from the screen to look at him. "I saw it. Exactly like that," she pointed to the figure, "I noticed that every second, it started to get closer and closer. So.. I shut it."

"I'm sorry," Amy cut in loudly, "What's it do? It's just a statue."

"It's just a statue," River told her," until you look away. Sorry about the video, it's only a second. I've put it on a loop."

"Where did it come from?"

"What the video?" River asked, confused.

"The angel! Where did the angel come from? River, use your common sense!" the Doctor chastised, his hand clinging onto a strip of fabric hanging from the ceiling. It ripped.

"Oops," he said quietly, throwing the loop behind him as though it might not have happened.

"I snatched it off a wrecked RanVahan ship," River began slowly, looking at the Doctor with a mix of laughter and embarrassment.

"Before that it was in a private collection. Dormant for ages," she added, and Evy frowned.

"Dormant? That means it's got a time when it's not dormant. So what is it?" she asked, looking to River for answers once more. It thoroughly annoyed the Doctor, who obviously thought he was better than the archaeologist woman.

"It's an alien," she explained, and Amy rolled her eyes and muttered 'of course it's alien'.

"It's an alien that is only alive when no one's looking at it. Otherwise it's a statue. If you blink…" she trailed off and Evy blanched, thinking that perhaps she'd had a near miss back in her old library.

Amy shuddered, looking at the short video. It was so spooky, all alone in the dark like that, she thought idly, be terrifying if that thing came after you.

"So!" the Doctor said, trying to bring the energy back up to happy again.

"Hyperdrive would've split open on impact," he announced, leading the way out of the small military vehicle.

"That whole ship's gonna be flooded with drive burn radiation, cracked electrons, gravity storms…dinner to an angel, but deadly to any other living thing."

Throughout the Doctor's explanation, River - for some unknown reason - kept her gaze locked at Evy with a smile tugging at her lips.

"You alright?" Evy asked her, catching the woman's arm to steady her.

River gave her a confused look. "What? Of course. Why?"

"It's just... Why do you keep looking at me like that?" she admitted.

"Like what?"

"Like you're so happy to see me."

"Ah, nothing. I just look at you and I think..." she showed a bit of an embarrassed smile, "Someone is going to be so in love with you some day."

Evy felt the heat rise to her cheeks. "Wait, w-what? Someone. Like me?!" She gave a breathy laugh, "I'm sorry, but that's kind of impossible."

River rolled her eyes. "I'm from the future, remember?"

"Ah... Well then, if you're from my future," she started, catching up to River, "Then tell me, who is this bloke? The one who- well... fancies me?"

River paused and pursed her lip. She gave a quick glance at the Doctor, who was busy giving out orders before turning back to Evy with a small smile.

"Spoilers."

~x~

"Who built that temple?" the Doctor asked abruptly, pointing.

"The Aplans," River answered, overhearing, "Indigenous life form. They died out hundreds of years ago."

"Two hundred years later, the planet was terraformed," Evy added.

"Oh, there is," the Doctor assured them, "Lock and load, Bishop!"

Octavian called out for River, but she waved her hand at him, looking intently at some little book. "Two minutes. Sweetie, I need you!"

"Sweetie?" Evy mouthed, looking up at the Doctor with one eyebrow raised. He shrugged, his eyes wide, and made to go to River, pulling Evy along with him.

"Oh, Evy, darling, perhaps it'd be best if you'd stay with Amy?" River asked.

"No- River, she could help," the Doctor protested, but she gave her a hard glare, making him groan and shut up.

"Understood, ma'm," Evy said jokingly with a salute and a wink before walking back to where Amy stood, rather alone.

"Thanks, you're a doll!" River called to her back in a gushing voice and Evy wondered how close they must be in the future. Rose used to call her doll.

"So nobody needs us?" Amy asked, rolling her eyes. "Typical." And she went back into the drop ship, Evy on her heels.

She had to bite back another shudder when she looked at the screen again. The video was still playing.

"I feel as though we ought to sing," she said with a nervous laugh. "Might make that thing seem a bit less horror movie."

Amy looked at it, frowning.

"Evy," she said, pointing at the video. "Wasn't the statue facing the other way? With its hands over its eyes?"

Evy slowly walked closer, her eyes wide.

"River?" Amy called, poking her head out the door. "Did you have more than one clip of the angel?"

The woman turned. "No, just the four seconds."

The red-head frowned, pulling her head back inside.

"Right…" she said slowly. When she turned back, she saw her sister staring at the screen, looking petrified.

"She said that was only the four seconds, right?" Evy asked in a shaky voice and Amy nodded. "Well how come it's just moved?"

"What do you mean, it's moved? It can't have," Amy said, trying to be reasonable. But sure enough, the angel had turned, facing the screen.

"Keep looking at that, will you?" she asked Evy, who nodded numbly.

Amy looked down in the corner at the time. It was the same four seconds, on a loop, just like River had said. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and then back to 24 again. Evy gasped and Amy snapped upright, looking at her.

"I blinked," she said quietly, still staring at the screen. "Didn't mean to. It's moved again."

"But it's just the recording!" Amy protested, though the evidence was right in front of her. "Can't we just unplug it?"

Evy nodded at her and bent down slowly. She inched forward, trying to keep one eye on the screen. She looked away for a moment to see the plug, but it was stuck. She couldn't pull it out.

"Here, let me try," Amy said, bending down to help her.

Evy jerked back when she looked up again. The angel was so close now that all that could be seen was its face.

"Doctor?" she asked weakly. Then she shook her head, trying to be brave and remember what the Doctor and River said.

"Alright, Amy," she said, "Keep looking at it. Don't look away, don't blink. Let's just try and back up to the door."

They both slowly stood, not taking their eyes off of the angel, and backed toward the door. Evy stretched her hands out behind her, so she wouldn't hit anything, but apparently Amy hadn't thought to do that, as she backed into the desk and fell forward a bit from the impact.

Evy looked down at her in concern. "You alright?"

"Yeah. Sorry." And then she screamed. Because now, the angle wasn't on the screen. The angel was in the room.

"Doctor!" Amy banged on the door, looking away from it.

"Don't stop looking at it!" Evy commanded, trying to reach the remote on the table. She couldn't find it.

"Doctor!"

The remote. She couldn't find the remote.

"Listen up, Amy. I keep looking at it while you grab the remote off this table, got it?"

"Yeah. Yeah, alright. Go," Amy said, snapping her head down and snatching up the remote in an instant, raising it up in front of her and pressing the power button. The angel flickered, but came back just as strong. This time, it had fangs.

"Evy! Amy!" came a muffled cry from outside the door.

"About time!" Amy growled, still pressing the power button. "It won't turn off!"

"Don't panic!" Evy instructed her, staying oddly calm herself compared to what she was only moments ago. "We can figure this out. Door. We never got to the door."

Amy reached behind her and yanked on it. "It's locked shut!" she hollered, loud so that the Doctor could hear outside.

"Hold on!" he yelled, "Just don't blink! Keep looking at it!" they heard a thud.

"Argh! It's deadlocked!" a muffled reply, too faint to make out. "Try to turn it off again!" he ordered, addressing Evy and Amy inside.

"Yeah, got that bit and it's not working!" Evy announced, her voice still calm, but now slightly shaking.

"Don't look at the eyes! Look anywhere except the eyes!"

"Why? Doctor, what's gonna happen? What's it gonna do to us?" Amy shrieked, staring at it in horror. But what Evy didn't realize was that she was staring into its' cold, dead eyes for too long.

"The image of an angel is itself an angel," he mumbled, barely loud enough for them to hear. "Why didn't I realize that sooner?" there was a loud noise, like he'd banged his head against the door.

Amy, give me the remote," Evy instructed, holding out her hand. Amy dropped it into her palm and Evy took her eyes off the angel, trusting her sister to keep looking at it, and looked down at the numbers in the corner.

24, 25, 26, 27, 28, blip, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, blip, 24, 25, 26, 27, 2 –

She pressed the power button and the angel flickered before the screen went black, sucking the angel back inside.

Amy sighed with relief and the door popped open. "Oh, sure, now he gets it open," she grumbled.

Evy was still frozen in place, holding the remote out in front of her, totally in shock that it had worked.

"Not bad," she finally said, looking a bit breathless. The Doctor bolted into the ship, pulled Amy and her into a fierce hug, squishing the remote between their chests.

"Oh my stars, Ponds," he said, pressing a kiss to the top of her head, making her blush a bit. "Don't you ever do that again. Don't ever scare me like that."

Evy gave a nod but Amy just rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, right," she mumbled into the hug, "Like that's gonna happen..."

"So that was the angel? It was here?" River cut in and the 3 pulled away.

"No," the Doctor answered, "just a projection. It was just scoping us out."

Evy's eyes widened. "The angels have awakened."

~~~~~CHAPTER 1 END~~~~~