Chapter 11
The Doctor quickly yelled, "Stare at the angle! Don't stop staring! Don't even blink!"
Malfoy laughed, "Don't blink? What is the evil statue going to do?"
The Doctor was about to answer when Hermione said, "Malfoy shut it."
Malfoy said, "How dare a Mudblood like you speak to me like that!"
The Doctor yelled, "QUEIT! Wait a tick….. what's a Mudblood?"
Hermione rolled her eyes at Malfoy and said, "That is a witch or wizard whose parents are both Muggles."
The Doctor said, "You humans and your racism. One of the worst in the galaxy."
Hermione said, "Doctor will you please explain what this angle is and why are we staring at it?"
The Doctor said, "Creatures from another world."
Hermione said, "But there statues."
"Only when you see them."
Hermione asked, "So we need to continuously stare at these statues or we die?"
The Doctor nodded
Hermione turned to Malfoy with her wand out and said, "Hey Malfoy"
As he turned to look at her she yelled, 'Petrificus Totalus" Malfoy froze in the position he was in.
The Doctor said, "What did you just do?"
She answered, "I froze him so he can't blink." And she walked to Malfoy and turned him to face the Angle.
Hermione said, "Now we are free to have a conversation."
The Doctor laughed and said, "Hermione Granger you're a star."
Hermione smiled and said, "Thank you. Now continue"
The Doctor said, "The lonely assassins they used to be called. No one quite knows where they came from but they're as old as the universe or very nearly and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defense system ever evolved. They are quantum locked. They don't exist when they're being observed. The moment they are seen by any other living creature they freeze into rock. No choice, it's a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing they literally turn to stone, and you cant kill a stone. 'Course, a stone cant kill you either but then you turn your head away, then you blink and oh yes it can."
Hermione looked at the Angle with fear in her eyes and said, "Good thing I made it where Malfoy can't blink."
The Doctor continued with a hint of sympathy, "That's why they cover their eyes. They're not weeping, they cant risk looking at each other. They're greatest asset is they're greatest curse. They can never be seen. Loneliest creatures in the universe."
Hermione asked, "How do they kill?"
"Angles have the ablility to move thru Time. An full grown mature Angel will take a person several decades in the past and will consume the potietnial energy of the life you would have lived if you had stayed in your time. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely. They simply let you live to death."
Hermione asked, "How is that possible?"
The Doctor explained, "People don't understand time its not what you think it is."
"Then what is it?"
"Complicated"
"Tell me."
"Very complicated."
"Then why not explain it Doctor? I'm am a fast learner."
The Doctor rubbed his face in defeat, letting out a sigh as he explained, "People assume that time is a straight progression of cause to effect but actually from a non-linear non-subjected viewpoint it's more like a ball of wibbly-wobbly timey whimey. ...stuff."
Hermione chuckled
The Doctor said, "That sentence got away from me."
Hermione asked, "How did the Boggart become a real Angel?"
The Doctor said, "Anything with the image of the Angel, such as pictures or film, also gained the abilities of an Angel and would eventually become an Angel."
Hermione said, "Wait a minute…. you said a fully grown mature Angel."
The Doctor eyes turned sad, "Nice catch Herimone Granger. Only a fully grown Angel can let us live to death. An newly born Angel cracks the neck. Kills you dead right there and then."
Herimone said, "How can we stop them."
The Doctor said, "That's just it. We can't kill them. Usally the only way to get rid of an Angel was let them kill to their heart's content, or find a way to trap them."
Hermione instanty had an idea, "Doctor I have an idea."
The Doctor smiled, "I'm not surprised. Don't tell me know." He put his hand next to his mouth and wispered, "Little pigs have little ears."
Hermione and the Doctor laughed
The Doctor said, "Now we find a way out of this room."
He turned to the door and found it was locked. Hermione pushed past him and said, "Alohomora" but nothing happened. The Doctor tried to sonic the door. And said, "He locked it with his braclet, rendering it unable to open to magic. But he doesn't know about my screwdriver. He should take about 15 minutes to open."
As he set about sonicing the door, Hermione asked, "You said you were the Last of the Time Lords."
The Doctor not looking at Hermione said, "They all died in the war."
Hermione said, "I'm sorry."
The Doctor didn't respond
Hermione asked, "What happened."
The Doctor said, "I ended the war. I'm the only one left."
Hermione had tears in her eyes for this man she had met just a few hours ago.
The Doctor, stilling not turning to face her, said, "I'm sorry about Ron."
Hermione said, "It's ok."
The Doctor couldn't help but ask, "Did you love him?"
Hermione said, "A year ago I thought I did. During our war it was just me, Harry, and Ron traveling the country searching for a way to stop the Dark Lord. I've always been close to Harry and Ron. I always liked Harry more, seeing how Ron was a git. But Harry never returned the feelings."
The Doctor asked, "So you settled for him?"
"He was an good guy don't get me wrong. He could be loyal, he did help Harry and I end the war. But he was insecure. Always jealus of Harry for his fame and me for being good in school. He was also stubborn. I think he loved me in more of a possesive kind of way. We fought a lot."
The Doctor asked, with a ever so slight quiver in his voice Herimone noticed but didn't say anything about it, "Did he ever hurt you?"
Hermione sniffed, "Once. He got drunk one night and saw Harry and I talking and got jealous."
The Doctor suddenly was filled with that rage again. He chalked it up to be protective of Hermione, and still being hurt over the loss of Rose.
Finally after many minutes the door opened. The Doctor smiled and said, "Molto Bene"
As they turned to leave they looked back at Malfoy.
The Doctor asked, "How long will he be like that?"
"About another 30 minutes."
The Doctor said, "We can't leave him here. It's murder." He walked over to Malfoy and grabbed him wand and put it in his pocket.
Hermione asked, "How much do you have in there?"
"A lot, there bigger on the inside. Impressed?" He said with a smile.
Hermione smiled back, "Not really, my purse is the same way."
The Doctor stoke out his tongue at her with a laugh.
Hermione waved her wand at her at Malfoy and he unfroze.
Malfoy yelled, "The bloody hell you do that for Granger?"
The Doctor said, "Oi language in front of a lady."
Malfoy reached in his pocket for his wand, but the Doctor pulled it out and said, "Looking for this?"
Malfoy yelled, "Give that back you freak."
The Doctor said, "Or what? We just saved your life."
"What from a statue?"
The Doctor blinked.
Malfoy turned to the statue and saw that the Angle no longer had its hands over its eyes. It was staring right at Malfoy.
Malfoy let out a scream.
The Doctor said, "If you're quite down wetting your knickers, I suggest you leg it."
Not needed to be told twice, Malfoy ran out of the room.
The Doctor slammed the door and soniced it to lock it.
Hermione asked, "Will that keep him in there?"
Then the door shaked.
The Doctor said, "Doubtful" and grabbed her hand as they ran out of the dungeons.
Malfoy reached the stairs and turned to see if The Doctor and Hermione were behind him. He saw the two exit the dungeon, and Hermione whispered something into the Doctor's ears and put something in his hand. The Doctor nodded to her and put the thing in his coat pocket.
Hermione ran to the stairs as the Doctor stopped to turn and lock the door to the dungeon.
Malfoy, deadly afraid of the Angel shoved Hermione down the stairs she had already climbed to give him time to escape. He continued to run up the stairs when his leg fell threw the stair he was on. In his haste, he had forgotten the vanishing step.
Hermione and The Doctor ran on past Malfoy till he shouted, "Help me up."
Hermione gave Malfoy a cold look, and then continued to run toward the 7th floor.
Malfoy yelled, "You can't leave me here you filthy Mudblood!"
The Doctor gave Malfoy his own cold look, "Comments like that probably doesn't help your case."
Malfoy heard a loud knock on the door to the dungeon. He yelled, "You can't leave me. It's murder."
The Doctor said, "Like Ginny Weasly?"
Malfoy yelled, "That filthy blood traitor didn't deserve the pure blood in her veins."
The Doctor looked at Malfoy for a long time, then giving him his cold look said, "I gave you a chance to stop this. You murdered an innocent. This is your own doing." And he turned and ran down the third floor corridor.
As Malfoy watched The Doctor running up the stairs, he turned to see the Angel. It was only inches away from his face. Malfoy screamed, and tried desperately not to blink. He stared at the Angel with sweat running down his face. And finally with another yell, he blinked.
As The Doctor ran he could hear Malfoy's screams and finally followed by a loud cracking sound. The Doctor, never turning around, continued to run.
The Doctor was panicking. He thought that he must have taken a wrong turn. He knew the Angel was not far behind him. After hitting a dead in, he stormed into the nearest room, which happened to be a bathroom.
The Doctor ran it and soniced the door shut. He searched throughout the bathroom but there was no escape.
As he was about to give up hope he heard the door slam open and turned to see the Angel. The Angel had his hands reaching out at the Doctor, and its eyes stared out at him, its face in a snarl.
The Doctor jumped when he saw it. He pressed his back against the mirror and held out his hands.
He stared at the Angel, his body trembling. As he stared knowing that the end was near, he thought of Rose. He thought of how he'll never get to tell her how he truly felt.
When his eyes couldn't possible go any longer, he spoke to the Angel with his voice trembling, "As a famous Mon Calamari Admiral once said, "It's a Trap!" he finished with a laugh.
He pulled out the object Hermione had handed him earlier, which turned out to be an old cloak. He smiled right at the Angel, put on the cloak, and became invisible.
The Angel went from looking right at the Doctor to looking right at its own reflection in the mirror. He was trapped in its own gaze forever.
The Doctor walked behind the Angel and took off the robe. He bowed at the frozen statue and said, "Shakespeare eat your heart out."
The Doctor walked out of the bathroom and locked it with his screwdriver.