"It's so beautiful," She whispered to the stars, her legs dangling out of the TARDIS. They were floating in space now, Elise hanging out the door and the Doctor sitting on the chair with Sophie in his lap.

She had been in the TARDIS for about a week now, and this was the second time she was gazing out at the stars. Elise probably would never get used to how beautiful they looked up close. This time there was one only a few miles away and you could see it burning.

"What are you doing cat?" The Doctor looked down to Sophie licking her genitals only for her to look up at him and meow. "No, I will not try it thank you very much."

"Are you arguing with a cat Doctor?" Elise got herself up, closed the doors and walked over to pick up Sophie. She purred loudly when Elise began to scratch behind her ear. "She can't talk you know."

"I speak cat," He said as he wrote down another work on some crossword puzzle. "What's a six letter word for strong?"

"Ardent," Elise answered, popping down next to him. "Surprised you didn't know,"

"I know a lot of words, I forget some of them time to time." The Doctor scribbled it down and turned to her smiling. "You were right, congratulations."

"Yes, well,"

They stared at each other smiling, the gaze only breaking when the ship suddenly shook and Elise slammed down on the floor. The Doctor ran over to the console, checking the screen while holding on. His grip slipped though and he flew down to the floor with Elise.

"Doctor!"

"I'm fixing it!"

He stood back up and stabilized himself, checking the screen again. His face scrunched up and he turned to her. "We're being pulled in by something,"

"Well couldn't they just ask us to come?"

"Apparently not," He stretched out his hand and pulled her up off the floor. Sophie was hidden away under the chair not, scrunched up in a ball. They were both now gripping to the console for dear life, feet slipping under them until they crashed and they both went slamming down.

"Well, that was something," They got up and the Doctor ran towards the doors to open it. Outside stood a bunch of military men holding arms. They gazed at both of them until one of them stepped forwards.

"We requested your help Doctor," The man said gun still raised in the air up to his chest. "We needed an expert,"

"Surprise you recognize me, with my new body and all." The Doctor smiled and walked past him to the structure behind them.

It was a museum, which one, Elise didn't know. She wasn't even sure it was earth but she knew it was a museum by the tall historic looking statues standing outside. She blinked, and suddenly the status were looking at her.

"Doctor, the statue just moved." She whispered, grabbing his arms.

"You have a weeping angel infestation?" With raised eyebrows he stepped closer to the now still statues. They were still moving when he blinked, faces getting scarier, but they couldn't seem to move from that spot. "And tourists just think these are cool, moving statues yes? How did you contain them,"

"We mimicked time energy and put them in a force field of it. They don't need to move unless that energy is cut off." The man explained from behind them. "My name is Williams Sir, we were told you could help."

"How did you manage to do that? Build a time energy field and transport my ship from outer space to here?" The Doctor asked, turning around. "You have to have a very strong transmat beam, and then extend it around the whole ship and bring it in. Who could design that?"

"You did Sir,"

"Ah, bit timey wimey don't you think? Course I did, I'm brilliant. Anyways, if you have them contained in the field why are we here?" Raising his eyebrows he began to circle the large statues, blinking his eyes and watching them follow his every move.

"The statues inside, they've become like these. We don't have enough energy to contain them, we need to get rid of them."

"And you think I can do that? I'll tell you what, your best bet is clearing off this planet or at least this region, and going somewhere else. They can't be killed."

"We have enough time energy to keep them holding inside the building but there's people inside there, we need to get them out."

The Doctor nodded and outstretched his hand to Elise before turning around and ordering those there. "When we go in there, don't blink. If you see a statue, don't even blink. Don't look away, don't turn around because it will take you and transport you back in time. Do you all understand?"

The group nodded and they walked into the museum, stone eyes on all of them.

It was twenty minutes until the hour and the Doctor turned to give orders, his hands clapping in front of him happily despite the apparent danger. "Right, well, we're all going to split up. Give us a call on those walkie talkie things," he grabbed one from one of the soldiers belts and placed it in his hands. "Two people together at all times, got to have eyes everywhere. See an angel I suggest you get out of there as fast as you can. Don't blink. Check every room and give me a buzz if you don't find anything. Got it?"

They all nodded, and went their separate ways.

The Doctor and Elise entered a hall of exhibits, except they were all empty. Trees were there in the background, sand in other spots. Replicas of building stood there but behind the small railing keeping visitors out of the exhibits stood nothing but open space. Looking around there were small postcards and pictures in the middle of each exhibit, but they were all of landscapes and nothing else.

"Elise, remember," The Doctor leaned forwards to examine one of the cards. "Any image of a weeping angel becomes a weeping angel."

"Doctor, how do these things kill?" They stood back to back, the Doctor facing the small photo that was being concealed by a bundle of fake branches and Elise looking out for any moving statues.

"Quite mercifully really, they let you live to death. Send you back in time and let you live out the rest of your life."

"Can't you just go and get them? Back in time, you have a time machine."

"Yes after some digging, you're usually dead or dying by the time where you were first touched. Don't let them touch you Elise."

She nodded silently and continued looking, and from the corner of her eye she swore she saw something grey flash around.

"How fast are they?"

"Very,"

"If I blink will I be gone?"

"Elise," She could feel the Doctor rising up behind her, him gently bumping into her back pushing her an inch but she stopped him. "What's wrong?"

"Big wings, scary face right? Teeth and claws and…"

"You're looking at one aren't you," the Doctor moved behind her again carefully, this time not stopping when she moved her arm in protest. After he stood up he grabbed her shoulders. "You can blink I'll keep looking,"

Elise did and when her eyes opened back up the statue still stood frozen only a foot in front of her. It's hands coming up almost touching her head.

"I want you to move very slowly, and very carefully around it alright. I'll keep looking at it, alright? Keep going Elise that's it. Can't hurt you if I'm looking at it."

She slipped out and was now starring the the side of it's face, waiting for the Doctor to do the same. He did, but his eyes never left it despite her looking at it.

Elise swallowed searching for the new, but still so familiar hand to hold. They backed out of the room slowly, slamming the door behind him. As they turned they were facing another ray of exhibits, except now there were even more angels.

"I think I liked the multiform better," Elise laughed shakily, as the radio suddenly burst to life with noise.

"Yes?" The Doctor answered into the small black box.

"The Ancient Rome room is empty, no one is here. But the exhibits are… the statues aren't there." This voice was a voice neither of them recognized, so it was assumed it was one of the soldiers from before. "I don't know where Jeff is though, I can't find him. Oh my, oh dear that is a large statue."

"Don't blink!" They screamed into it at the same time.

"My eyes burn," He said, his breathing still coming through the speakers.

They screamed at him to not close his eyes but he couldn't hear because he was still pressing his own button. The situation made them forget about their own and weeping angels were soon surrounding them.

"Doctor," Elise whispered, staring at angel standing in front of him. "Don't blink,"

"Why are they so slow?" He asked as he straightened his bow tie and handed the walkie talkie to her. The black pupils examined the statue in front of it. It looked like it was half decayed, it's face had large holes in it and only slightly resembled a person. Looking around all of them were like that too, decaying with no wings or defined features. Some had the start of them, their noses chiseled out or some large lumps protruding from their backs. But they were slower, easier to get away from. Lifting the box up to her face she spoke.

"Friend of Jeff, whatever your name is. What does it look like? Does it have wings or is it all decayed and broken looking?"

"Broken,"

"Blink, but only for a second. It should be slower than a normal angel by what I can tell."

There was no noise for a second and then his voice came back through the black slits. "It didn't move that far,"

"Great, now find the nearest door- forget about Jeff for now we'll find him later- and get out and lock that door. Do not go back into that room." Elise's voice was calm and soothing, helping the now lonely soldier out of the room. "But don't take your eyes off of it, just in case. If you need to blink you can but do it as little as possible until you get out of there."

"Alright Miss,"

"What's your name?"

"Andrew Jenkins."

"I'm Elise Racker. Now Andrew Jenkins, are you out of the room?"

"Yes,"

"Lock the door as quickly as you can, the more time you take the more of a chance it has of getting through you hear?" She explained now trying to navigate her way through the room, Doctor following behind her.

"Andrew?"

No answer.

"Andrew Jenkins?"

Once again no answer.

"I think it got him," Elise turned to the Doctor quickly, eyes scanning around them as she did. The angels that were once following them were now suddenly returned to their spots. Some of them posed in pictures and others just standing there looking. Compared to how they looked before- which wasn't exactly good- they looked worse now. Some of their faces were half missing. "Doctor,"

"I know," He gulped before turning back to her. "Time loop, we're probably in a time loop cause by the time energy field. I don't know how long, maybe it's twenty minutes maybe it's hours but apparently we stepped in during the middle of one."

"Time loop?"

"It's going to reset everything every so often, and exact measurement of time. Which makes this much harder. This museum is full of statues, stone, marble, copper, doesn't matter what they are. Any one of them could be a weeping angel. Even pictures are angels, if it resets while we're in a room we might not be as lucky as we were now. They could be full blown, Rassilon knows. And one regular angel is hard enough, imagine ten or twenty.

"In time loops," the Doctor continued on. "People's memories often reset. Meaning a lot of people are going to think we just got in here, but we didn't. They've have had exposure prior to coming inside to the building. We will remember, but not for long. Which gives us even more of a time limit."

Elise nodded and glanced behind him to see the angels moving towards them, much slower this time. "We should go,"

Nodding the Doctor grabbed her and closed the door to the room. They were standing in the hallways now, a few voices were coming from around the bend where the main entrance was.

"Excellent!" The Doctor clapped his hands together and walked forwards. "What rooms have been explored and have not? Find anyone?"

"What are you talking about Sir? We just got here five minutes ago," A brown haired man spoke up, his eyes glistening a bright green in the sun coming in from the windows.

The Doctor's enthusiasm faded a bit before coming back to life. "Right yes of course, anyone have a bit of paper? Or maybe just a pen or marker?"

"I do," A female soldier stepped forwards and handed the Doctor a black sharpie.

"Fantastic. Elise give me your arm."

Furrowing her brows she rolled up her sleeve and outstretched it, he immediately began to write words down. Ancient Rome, Exhibit A, Exhibit B.

"What are you doing?" She asked, examining her now inked arm.

"Remembering," He tapped her nose affectionately before doing the same to himself. "Right now, once you enter a room you walkie talkie me, or whatever telling your whereabouts. There are twenty five rooms according to that map over there on the wall, and we need to check out all of them. There's fourteen of us, including me and her, so 7 groups. They're large rooms, check quickly and sufficiently. Remember to tell me,"

Everyone nodded, grabbed a partner and left. Half of them were probably going into rooms they already checked, but as long as they knew it didn't matter. It took probably an hour to check over the whole place and even longer if they were to thoroughly check each room for people.

Over the next hour they had only gotten five other rooms, and when the angels reset Elise was beginning to forget what was happening. She was losing track of time but knew she was. She could remember what rooms were searched and what wasn't, thanks to her arms which now read five additional names (Pompeii, Exhibit D, Modern, The Ancient World and Exhibit C.) Elise didn't remember what had happened to Jeff or Andrew either, and the Doctor had to tell her. They were checking one of the long rooms which apparently was supposed to be The Byzantium, no one knew what happened to the race that lived there but they found these statues on their grounds. They looked a lot like the other ones from before, all decaying and old.

"Elise, check behind those trees displays over there, someone could be hiding."

Elise nodded as the Doctor bent down to look over one of the displays, finding an old photo plastered to the back wall.

"Elise, come here."

No answer.

"Racker, come here."

Silence.

Panic started to run through him now because what if she was really gone? An angel took her when she wasn't looking. They weren't here before when they came in but they were swift killers, quiet and deadly. She could have easily been taken by one of them, or maybe she was playing a joke. Elise was the sarcastic type he realized, and liked jokes it would be something she'd do. So he turned, expecting to find that same face with a hand stifling their giggle but didn't. He was the only one there. Him and an angel that was only a foot away from his face.

I hope that was okay, I have this whole complicated idea and was trying to write it down. So for a quick overview, just in case I ended up confusing someone, there is a museum on a planet that contains statues from various periods. The builders thought it would be cool to contain the angels and a time energy field was made so they could be contained in the displays. But it faltered, trapping a group of tourists inside the building. Them and a group of soldiers go searching for them only to realize that they are in a time loop, resetting every hour on the hour. While studying a room called "The Byzantium" Elise gets taken and it ends with the Doctor being face to face with a weeping angel.

Well thank you for reading and reviewing last chapter! I hope you enjoyed this one as well :)

-Naomi