Flesh and Stone: Secondary Flight Deck
Amy sat up on the ground as everyone recovered from the jump when the Doctor leapt up, yelling, "Up! Look up!"
"Are you ok Amy?" Angel asked, moving right to the girl's side and helping her stand, checking her over to make sure she hadn't been hurt in the jump, it was quite sudden and none of the humans, save maybe River, had understood what was going to happen. Well, and her. She knew, but she'd sort of felt it coming, managed to work it out right near the end, which was nice, she found she actually liked working things out on her own at times. It used to be fun and playful, her and the Doctor, when she'd get stuck on something, he'd give her little hints and nudges in the right direction, little touches and kisses when she got it right, but for now she was just pleased to know she could still work some things out on her own.
"What happened?" Amy frowned, rubbing her head as she looked around, not sure where they were now or how they'd gotten wherever it was that they were.
"We jumped," River replied.
"Jumped where?"
"Up, up, look up!" the Doctor called again.
"Where are we?"
"Exactly where we were," River answered.
"No we're not."
"Move your feet!" the Doctor shouted as he soniced an indentation on the floor, nudging Amy's feet away from it.
"Doctor, what am I looking at?" Amy huffed, stepping back, "Explain."
"Oh, come on, Amy, think! The ship crashed with the power still on, yeah? So what else is still on?"
Angel put a hand on Amy's shoulder, "The gravity," she told the girl, it was something the TARDIS had as well, gravity within so that while travelling in space they wouldn't be floating all over the place, and even anti-gravs so that when they were floating above a planet or a black hole they wouldn't get sucked to it. She nodded to the side and up a bit, which made Amy frown, the girl turning to look up...to see they were standing on the underside of the Byzantium.
The Doctor cheered, "One good jump," he jumped in place, "And up we fell. Shot out the grav-globe to give us an updraft, and here we are!" he turned back to sonicing the indentation again, needing to get it open...for all his smiling and cheers and excitement he was projecting to the others...he felt quite different on the inside.
His hearts were racing, his mind well aware that he hadn't saved them just yet, he hadn't gotten them out of danger. At most, he'd bought them just a little time, he'd gotten them out of the reach of the angels, who were trapped on the ground, but only for the moment. And he was frantic to try and get them farther away, get them all to safety and work out a way to stop the angels from growing even stronger. He frowned, looking at his hand, it was shaking as he flashed the sonic around, but he didn't know why. Yes, it was a terrible situation, yes they were all in danger, but it was no different than any other adventure really.
Perhaps it was because this was the second adventure in his new body that had him facing an old enemy. Yes, perhaps that was it. The Daleks, well, he was more angry with them than truly scared of them, though he had been worried and fearful during that encounter too...though a bit more for Angel really. He paused, blinking as his hearts zinged, and he realized...he was worried about Angel now too. He was worried what this encounter with the Weeping Angels might mean for her. He didn't know why though, it wasn't like she'd met them before, she'd been in the TARDIS when he'd gotten trapped in 1969 with Martha. Maybe that was it? Maybe he was worried since this was the first time she'd have to deal with them and now she was forced to face an army of them. He'd told her about the angels when he and Martha had returned, she knew what she was facing, she must be scared.
He glanced over at her, for what was admittedly not the first time since they'd jumped, and saw her more worried and focused on Amy than the angels. He had to smile at that, not just because she was fretting over his companion, trying to comfort her, but also...she didn't...appear worried really. She didn't look too scared, though he was sure she might feel it. But he got the feeling that it was because she trusted him to get them out of there...and he would not let her down now. No, he promised himself that he would get them out, get Angel out, all safe and sound and stop the angels too. He nodded to himself and got back to work.
"Doctor," Octavian called, "The statues, they look more like angels now."
The others glanced up to see the angels were now partially formed, some in tunics some with wings half out of their backs.
"They're feeding on the radiation from the wreckage, draining all the power from the ship, restoring themselves," the Doctor nodded, "Within an hour, they'll be an army!" the indentation opened and led into the ship just as the lights around them began to flicker, "They're taking out the lights. Look at them, look at the angels. Into the ship, now, quickly all of you!" he hopped into the hole.
"But how?" Amy moved to the hole, "Doctor!" she peered into it to see the Doctor standing upright, though from her vantage point from the side of a wall.
"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!" he turned and used a sonic on a keypad while Angel ushered Amy in and followed.
"Ok, men, go, go, go!" Octavian commanded as he, the Clerics, and River joined him, "The angels, presumably they can jump up too?"
The hatch closed as soon as they were inside, and the Doctor nodded, turning to lead them down the hall, "They're here. Now. In the dark, we're finished. Run!"
Unfortunately, a large door that led to the rest of the hall closed in front of them, trapping them inside, "This whole place is a death trap."
"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!" he spun around, to see that they were all standing there, relatively calm, even as the angels banged against the exterior door, "Oh, just me then," he mumbled, glancing at Angel to see her giving him a small smile, which made him start to smile as well, before he shook his head, needing to focus on their next escape, "What's through here?" he nodded back at the door that had cut them off.
"Secondary flight deck," River said.
"Ok," Amy looked at him as River turned to work on bypassing the power, "So we've basically run up the inside of a chimney, yeah? So what if the gravity fails?"
"I've thought about that," the Doctor nodded.
"And?"
"And we'll all plunge to our deaths," he winced, feeling rather alarmed at the thought before he shook it off, "See? I've thought about it. The security protocols are still live. There's no way to override them, it's impossible."
"How impossible?" River called, throwing him a knowing and playful smirk.
He started to smirk back, liking the challenging note in her voice, "Two minutes."
"Might want to make it one," Angel breathed a moment before the hum of the engines powered down and the door they'd come through reopened so they could see the cavern outside.
"The hull is breached and the power's failing," Octavian yelled.
The lights went out completely before flickering back on and an angel arm reached though the opening, "Sir!" a Cleric shouted, spotting it, when the lights went out and stayed off, "Incoming!"
"Doctor!" Amy gasped, "Lights."
The Doctor turned and flashed the sonic at a few wires by River, the lights coming on briefly to reveal an angel climbing in, to flicker and reveal four angels inside the corridor with them.
"Clerics, keep watching them," Octavian glared at the statues.
"And don't look at their eyes," the Doctor called, looking at the sonic, "Anywhere else. Not the eyes. I've isolated the lighting grid. They can't drain the power now."
"Good work, Doctor."
"Yes. good. Good in many ways, good you like it so far..."
"So far?" Amy gave him a look.
"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."
"Good, fine, do it," Octavian ordered.
"Including the lights. All of them. I'll need to turn out the lights."
"How long for?"
"Fraction of a second, maybe longer. Maybe quite a bit longer."
"Maybe?"
"I'm guessing. We're being attacked by statues in a crashed ship, there isn't a manual for this!"
"Doctor, we lost the torches," Amy reminded him, "We'll be in total darkness."
"I might be able to help," Angel said, stepping over beside River and placing both her hands on the wires running from a control box. She closed her eyes and focused, her hands starting to glow a soft gold, the white lights above them slowly turning gold as well. She had thought, since the Vortex was really like pure energy that, perhaps, she could use some of it to power the lights herself. If the power source was her and that was it, then it would be independent of the power channeling through the door. She remembered when they'd been facing the Elemental Shade, how the torch she'd been holding had started to take on a more golden light, she'd hoped it might work the same and so it seemed like it was.
"Brilliant!" the Doctor cheered, grinning madly at that. It was brilliant! She was brilliant! Well, she was always brilliant really. Literally, she glowed, she was glowing at the moment too. If she was supplying the power to the lights then he could divert the other power to the controls. He turned around, about to start on just that when Octavian called out.
"Wait!" the Doctor paused as the man turned to River, not wanting to waste time trying to get the door open when they weren't sure what would be lurking within the ship, for all he knew the man was about to lead them to another dead end, "Dr. Song, I lost a good Cleric today. You trust this man?"
"I absolutely trust him," River said firmly.
"He's not some kind of madman then?"
River stared at him a moment, "I absolutely trust him."
"Excuse me," the Doctor went back to the door.
Octavian pulled River a little off to the side, speaking quietly to her so Angel couldn't hear, being the nearest to them, though he doubted he had much to worry about, she was rather focused, her face scrunched in concentration of keeping the lights going, "I'm taking your word, because you seem to be the only one who can manage this guy, at the moment," he gave her a meaningful look which set her lips into a pursed line, "But that only works so long as neither he nor the Angel know who you are or what you'll do. You cost me even a single man more, and I might just tell them," it had been a part of the bargain, her help in exchange for their silence of the future that was waiting for the Doctor, "Understood?"
"Understood," River nodded, yanking her arm away from him with a glare.
"Ok," Octavian stepped back, "Doctor, we've got your back."
"Bless you," the Doctor smiled, "Bishop."
"Combat distance, ten feet," he turned to the Clerics, "If the lights go down, continuous fire. Full spread over the hostiles. Do not stop firing if the lights should go out. Shot gun protocol, we don't have bullets to waste."
"Amy, when I say, the wheel should release," the Doctor turned Amy to kneel her by a wheel in the door they needed to get through, "Spin it clockwise, four turns."
"Ten," she nodded.
"No, four, four turns."
"Yeah, four, I heard you."
"Ready!" the Doctor placed the sonic on a circuit.
"Yes," Angel nodded, the lights becoming more golden, brighter as she prepared for what was coming.
"On my count then," Octavian called, praying the girl could keep the lights on long enough because, in a moment, the only thing powering them would be her, "God be with us all. Three...two...one!"
The Doctor flicked the sonic and the lights flickered for only a second before Angel got them powered again. She gripped the wires tightly, pouring the energy into them, not wanting to give up, not wanting to let the angels force the lights off. It was like a battle of wills, four of them against her, but she was determined, she would not let them harm anyone in that small space, she would not let them get another cleric, another young boy to use his last moments against them. She would fight as hard as she could and as long as she could to keep them all safe, even River Song.
And so, she didn't even see said Song, watching her with narrowed, jealous eyes as the Time Lady fought to keep them all safe, fought to give the Doctor more time...and succeeded. Damn the Vortex inside her. It wasn't fair that someone like Angel had all that power and barely ever used it, she found herself torn at times. Torn between wishing for that power, to be just as unique, as powerful, as capable of impressing the Doctor with feats using it as Angel seemed to be. She knew the Doctor must think Angel special to have such power and be uncorrupted by it. But, in the same breath, she was certain the girl would be terrifying, having all that power at her disposal, and that if she ever grew angry or displeased with something she could obliterate it, like her, for all her remarks and comments and attitude towards her. But the Angel was her namesake, she wouldn't ever use the power to harm someone.
And that sickened her.
The girl was a saint, and the Doctor was a lonely God, the perfect pair. In a way she kept trying to bait the girl, the Doctor seemed to be convinced that Angel had all the control in the world over the Vortex, she knew it was a lie. Just once, just one tiny violent or cruel act from the girl, one lash out using the Vortex and that would be all the Doctor needed to see that Angel could be corrupted by that power. She was sure of it. No one was that pure. That was all he needed to realize that Angel wasn't the perfect Time Lady she portrayed herself to be. That would be all he needed to see her for what she truly was. And that would be all he needed to turn away from the Time Lady for good. If she could just get the woman to show her true colors instead of hiding behind the protective, nearly maternal mask she wore.
There was no way, in her mind, that someone like Angel could genuinely exist.
"Turn!" the Doctor yelled to Amy, still sonicing the controls.
"Doctor, quickly!" River added, shaking herself out of her thoughts and going to help Amy. The sooner they got through the door, the sooner Angel could stop being the hero.
"It's opening, it's working!" Amy smiled as the door moved enough for her and River to slip through, River actually seeming to pull her on by the hand first.
"Fall back!" Octavian commanded.
The Clerics moved through the doorway, followed by Octavian. The Doctor looked over, seeing Angel still focused on keeping the lights going long enough for them to all make it through. He quickly ran to her side, ignoring River and Amy's shouts for him to hurry, and grabbed Angel's arm, pulling her through after him and slamming the door shut with the sonic just as the lights went out.
Immediately, he turned to her, seeing her panting, and lifted her head with both hands so she would look at him, checking her eyes quickly to see if she was alright, his hearts racing. He could see a strain on her face, the fine sheen of sweat on her brow, she was panting and shaking a little bit from the effort she'd used to keep them all safe, but nothing too bad.
"Are you ok?" he asked her, his hearts pounding away in his chest, feeling himself shaking as well as he eyed her, unable to look away really, not till he knew she was completely fine, until she reassured him she was ok.
He felt like he was panting too, like he couldn't breathe. When he'd turned around and saw her still there, within reach of the angels...his hearts stopped and he felt himself go numb. He'd had to get her out of there! And even now, even with the door separating them, even with the time being of the essence, and the humans shouting at him from down the hall...he couldn't take a step away from her.
"Doctor!" River called as she struggled to get the next door open, the controls being locked as well.
"Angel?" he whispered instead, growing worried as she didn't say anything. Of its own accord his thumb began to stroke her cheek, his eyes searching hers as he took a step closer to her, not even realizing he was doing that, that his other hand had dropped down to her hand and taken it, that he was tugging her closer, that he was staring into her eyes.
Angel took a breath, "I'm fine," she nodded.
"Doctor!" River snapped.
The Doctor glanced over at her and back to Angel, taking just a small step back, as though realizing he'd gotten a bit too close to her, "You're sure?" he asked.
"Yeah," she reassured him, smiling just a bit at his concern, at least she was still a little important to him, "Cross my hearts," she crossed them.
"Good," he nodded as well, before looking at her once more and turning to dash down the hall, Angel following, to the other door, opening it with the sonic for the others to go through, ushering Angel through before him this time.
"Doctor, quickly!" River yelled from the other side.
"Doctor!" Angel shouted as well.
He ran through, joining them as the door shut behind him. He looked around, seeing they were on a flight deck in major disrepair with exposed wires all over the console before he ran over to the controls.
"Doctor!" Amy gasped as a hatch lock spun. Octavian placed a magnetic device on the door, stopping it, "What are you doing?"
"Magnetized the door," Octavian said, "Nothing could turn that wheel now."
"Yeah?" the Doctor nearly rolled his eyes as the wheel started to turn, slowly.
"Dear God!"
"Ah, now you're getting it! You've bought us time though, that's good. I am good with time."
"Doctor!" Amy pointed as another wheel spun.
"Seal that door!" Octavian called, "Seal it now!" a Cleric placed another device on that one as well.
"We're surrounded!" River said as a third door began to spin.
"Seal it, seal that door!" a second Cleric sealed the door too, "Doctor, how long have we got?"
"Five minutes," Angel answered for him.
"Maximum," he agreed.
"Nine," Amy seemed to correct, which made both Angel and the Doctor look at her sharply.
"Five."
"Five, right yeah."
"Why d'you say nine?"
"I didn't."
"We need another way out of here," River remarked, looking around.
"There isn't one," Octavian said.
"Yeah, there is, course there is," the Doctor cut in, "This is a galaxy class ship, goes for years between planet-falls. So…" he pointed at them with a snap of his fingers, "What do they need?"
"Of course!" River's eyes widened.
"Of course, what?" Amy shook her head, "What do they need?"
"Can we get in there?" Octavian frowned.
"Get in where?" Angel asked, feeling the familiar sense of...disappointment in herself at not knowing what they were talking about. This ship wasn't a TARDIS, she wasn't familiar with it, she didn't have a clue what it could be.
"Well, it's a sealed unit, but they must have installed it somehow," the Doctor replied, "This whole wall should slide up," he turned to the wall behind him and pressed on it, "There's clamps. Release the clamps!" he used the sonic on them.
"What's through there?" Amy looked at him, "What do they need?"
"They need to breathe," River stated as the door slowly rose to reveal a forest, lush with vegetation and trees.
"But that's...that's a..."
"It's an oxygen factory."
"It's a forest."
"Yeah, it's a forest, it's an oxygen factory."
"And, if we're lucky, an escape route," the Doctor nodded.
"Eight," Amy smiled.
"What did you say?" River looked at her, Angel frowning too, she would have thought she'd imagined it, that Amy had said 'great' if not for River having heard 'eight' as well.
"Nothing," she shook her head.
"Is there another exit?" the Doctor turned to Octavian, "Scan the architecture, we don't have time to get lost in there."
"I can..." Angel began to offer her assistance in leading them through, her feelings had often got them where they needed to go in the past.
But Octavian had already entered the forest with a, "On it, stay where you are until I've checked the Rad levels."
Angel sighed, she supposed it would probably be better to actually have a map. She'd said it often enough that she couldn't see everything. She would never forgive herself is she was wrong and they ended up trapped or coming face-to-face with a Weeping Angel because of her.
"But trees!" Amy shook her head, "On a spaceship?"
"Oh, more than trees, way better than trees," the Doctor laughed, "You're going to love this," he stepped into the forest, "Treeborgs..." and opened a section of peat moss to reveal circuitry, "Trees plus technology. Branches become cables, become sensors on the hull. A forest sucking in starlight, breathing out air. It even rains. There's a whole mini-climate. It is an eco-pod running through the heart of the ship. A forest in a bottle, on a spaceship, in a maze. Have I impressed you yet, Amy Pond?"
Amy nodded, "Seven."
"Seven?" Angel looked at her as the Doctor frowned, joining them back on the flight deck.
"Sorry, what?" Amy turned to her.
"You said seven," the Doctor moved closer, turning Amy's face to study it closely.
"No. I didn't," she leaned back.
"But you did," Angel told her softly, eyeing her as well.
"Doctor!" Octavian shouted, "There's an exit, far end of the ship, into the Primary Flight Deck."
"Good, that's where we need to go," the Doctor nodded.
"Plotting a safe path."
"Quick as you like!" he murmured, still examining Amy.
"Doctor?" Bob called over the comm., "Excuse me. Hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir."
"Ah," the Doctor sat down on a chair, "There you are, Angel Bob. How's life?" he winced mockingly, "Sorry, bad subject."
"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 things with you?"
Angel smiled a bit at that, thinking of the TARDIS, a ship that was slightly a mess in terms of things that needed fixing, nice to be in, with consoles, and jump seats that were very comfy. It didn't have a forest exactly, but it did have a garden, which she had been taking care of since the flowers began to grow. It was lovely.
"The angels are feasting, sir," Bob continued, "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?"
"We have no need of comfy chairs."
"I made him say comfy chairs!"
Amy chuckled, "Six."
The Doctor stood quickly, "Ok, well, enough chat. Here's what I want to know: what have you done to Amy?"
"There is something in her eye," Bob stated.
"What's in her eye?"
"We are."
"What's he talking about?" Amy shook her head, "Doctor, I'm five," she frowned when everyone turned to her and blinked, realizing she'd said five, "I mean, five. Fine! I'm fine."
"You're counting," Angel whispered, making her way over to Amy and putting an arm around her.
She may not have liked all her little jokes and teases about the Doctor and River being husband and wife, but she could tell Amy was starting to get scared now, she didn't want that. It was her fault too, in a way, if she'd just been quicker, seen that vision sooner, this wouldn't have happened and Amy would be ok. She swallowed, she didn't want to tell the Doctor what had happened to Amy, she had seen Amy in the forest when he discovered the angel in the girl's mind, she wanted to get Amy as far away from this flight deck as possible and safe before anything else.
"Counting?"
"You're counting down," the Doctor nodded, "From ten. You have been for a couple of minutes."
"Why?"
"I don't know."
"Well, counting down to what?"
"I don't know."
"We shall take her," Bob said, "We shall take all of you. We shall have dominion over all time and space."
"Get a life, Bob," the Doctor called into the comm., sitting down again, "Oops, sorry again. There's power on this ship, but nowhere near that much."
"With respect, sir, there is more power on this ship than you yet understand."
River gasped when a horrible and rather loud screeching began over them, "Dear God, what is it?"
"They're back!" Octavian called as they all looked around, trying to see where it was coming from...Angel, however, felt her gaze being pulled to the back of the room...
"It's hard to put in your terms, Dr. Song," Bob remarked, "But, as best I understand it, the angels are laughing."
"Laughing?" the Doctor asked him.
"Because you haven't noticed yet. The Doctor in the TARDIS hasn't noticed. But your own Angel certainly has," the Doctor stood and looked over at Angel to see her staring, wide eyed, at something behind him. He turned slowly to see a glowing crack high in the wall, very large, and very exactly shaped, just like the crack on the wall of Amy's bedroom.
"That's...that's like the crack from my bedroom wall from when I was a little girl," Amy breathed as the Doctor ran back to it to examine it.
"Yes," he breathed.
"Ok, enough, we're moving out!" Octavian frowned.
"Agreed," River nodded before turning around, "Doctor?"
"Yeah," he waved her off, using the sonic on the crack as Angel stepped to his side, looking at it with a slightly green look to her face, feeling even more ill due to the size of it all, distortions in time, cracks in time had always affected her, "Fine!"
"What are you doing?"
"Right with you."
"We're not leaving without you!"
"Oh, yes you are. Bishop?"
"Miss Pond, Dr. Song, now!" Octavian ordered.
River grabbed Amy's arm and pulled her to the forest, knowing she and Amy would be dragged out by the men if it came to it.
"Doctor, come on! Angel!" Amy shouted.
"So, what are you?" the Doctor breathed, looking at the scan on the sonic, "Oh, that's bad. Ah, that's extremely very not good," he pressed his ear against the wall, listening.
"Doctor…" Angel whispered, a slight tremor in her voice.
He looked at her to see her looking at the deck with wide eyes, and with good reason, they were now surrounded by angels, "Do not blink," he ordered as he climbed over the console to get past them, Angel walking around it just as one grabbed him by his jacket collar and Angel by the back of her belt.
~8~
Octavian and the Clerics walked through the forest slowly, River and Amy safely in the middle of them when Amy began to slow, an almost sick look on her face.
"Amy?" River asked, walking over to her and grabbing her arm as she stumbled, "Amy, what's wrong?"
~8~
"Why are we not dead then?" the Doctor asked as he turned nervously to see the angels with their hands up at the crack, feeding off of it, "Good, and not so good. Oh, this isn't even a little bit good. I mean, is that it? Is that the power that brought you here?"
"It's time energy," Angel murmured, shifting as she subtly reached for the front clasp of her belt, very grateful the buckle was in front of her.
The Doctor glanced over, seeing what she was doing, and slowly started to wiggle out of his jacket, "You can't feed on that," he agreed, "That's the power, that's the fire at the end of the Universe. I'll tell you something else..." there was a loud rumbling, "Never let me talk!" he ran off into the forest, his jacket in the hands of the angels along with Angel's belt as she followed.
A/N: I am so sad :( I went to upload the TW crossover into Doc Manager...and it turns out, when my computer had crashed a few days ago (and I thought nothing of it), it erased all my most recent documents, which was basically all my editing for TW and a few work papers. The chapters are completely gone :'( So now I have to write them all over again! -sigh- sometimes I hate technology.
But on a semi-lighter note, getting back to the chapter, we got a little more insight to River's thoughts on Angel here, not very nice is she :( But yay! Angel got to have a hand in saving everyone and we got a concerned-Doctor moment ^-^ I could see River being jealous that other humans and aliens can't handle the Vortex like Angel can, sort of like that will always be one thing that Angel has over her that makes her more unique and she hates that. Even if Angel doesn't always use it. I'm not sure if River's little almost-plan to bait Angel into attacking her with the Vortex is realistic, I tried to explain it as it would be a way to set the Doctor against the TL if he thought River was the innocent party. But then again...she was a psychopath for most of her life, she would probably be prepared to use desperate measures to ensure she gets what she wants :)
I am literally counting down the days till Rory! Monday woo! :)
Some notes on reviews...
I can say that there will be a few lines that River will have at the end of this episode that will definitely concern Angel about the future and the Doctor's memory }:) Oh Angel's own Mating instinct will be in a bit of turmoil at certain parts of the story definitely, I sort of almost don't even want to imagine what that would mean for someone who also has the Vortex in them :) Lol, I could see Evy having words with River or giving her the cold shoulder and the Professor punching her or dangling her from a high window or something lol :)
Lol, I have a feeling that might escalate to wanting to murder River by the end of this episode }:) Won't say why though :) The Thella relationship will be...complicated. So I can't say if they'll be together without him remembering or not. Here he seems to genuinely care about her wellbeing (which might lead to more) but...he also seems to be starting to find River's challenging nature interesting :( We'll have to wait and see :) Lol, I actually HAVE considered doing a Rory/OC story, just because I really hated how Amy treated him. I sort of picture it to be like...Mels was Amy's best friend and the OC would be Rory's best friend who is (of course) in love with Rory, but he doesn't notice because he's in love with Amy. And one day (probably because of something to do with the Doctor, perhaps a twist where Amy goes with him after Zero instead of 2 years later) Rory's complaining about how Amy never notices him and just stabbing her in the heart every time he talks about Amy to the point where she just starts crying/yelling at him about how he's her Amy and he just sort of stares at her till she runs off (mortally embarrassed) and avoids him till he corners her. I could see Rory as the sort where, finding that out, he'd give it a shot with the OC and be surprised that they are actually perfect for each other...and then Amy comes back and it's a big old mess of feels. Lol, just a small idea that I tossed around. Not sure if I'll get to it, but it exists somewhere in my mind :)
Hmm...I'm not sure if the Silence would see Angel as more of a threat, like River mentioned in this chapter, she won't really ever attack someone or use the Vortex. I couldn't even really see her going out and doing what the Doctor does if not for the Doctor dragging her along. She'd probably just try to start her own TARDIS farm and work on TARDISes all day if not for him. I think the Silence might see him as more of a threat because he's done so much and will do so much more and...when Angel appears it's usually to help, when the Doctor appears, you never know what's coming or what sort of mood he's in (helpful, playful, oncoming storm, etc) :) I think, if Angel was less polite and kind, she'd definitely be an enormous threat to them :)
I'm glad you like the DW OC stories and the Professor as well :) I think Angel would love a hug...she'll just have to wait till Monday to get it ;)
Is it bad that I'm sort of happy that it hurts to read the story? :) I'm excited for Rory too, I agree, they're both like the odd ones out now and unnoticed by the people they love. There's NO romance between Angel and Rory, no worries there :) I can say that Angel will have a line in Vampires of Venice that will hint at the relationship she'll have with Rory :) We'll have to wait and see what River does in the future, who she kills. It could be Angel, because she'd have the opportunity. Could be the Doctor because (if) he remembers Angel by then because he won't let anyone hurt her. It could be both :)
Lo, I'm glad you liked that little part in the beginning of the chapter where he just held her :) Had a little hint of something like it here with him being worried about her ;) I SO cannot wait for Rory so we can see more of him being jealous/possessive too :) I miss the fluff too :( So I think we'll be seeing a bit of it made up for in Amy/Rory :)
Oh Rory will be uber-protective of Angel once he finds out what happened :) He's her companion, she's his Pilot, he'll have a big role in their relationship being balanced, where they look out for each other instead of one constantly in danger and needing rescuing and Angel will be a big part in making Rory the man he becomes :)
It might have something to do with the cracks, Angel will have plenty of theories to sort through :) I semi-wish 11 remembered her too, just because I picture him as being even more mushy than 10 was :) We'll have to wait and see :)
Tiny little good thing happened here :) Angel got to show her Vortex powers and help save the humans, AND the Doctor was concerned about her :) We'll see even more of her doing good in the rest of the episode too :) And happy birthday! (there's another note at the bottom that's a proper shout-out :))
Oh Rory will have words with his daughter about Angel as well. The relationship he forms with Angel will make things tense within the Pond family if he doesn't :) ...though that same relationship might just make River more irritated than she is, but we'll have to see :)
Lol, I like that, Moffatmind :) That's an interesting theory :) I almost feel like, if that's the case, Angel would disappear completely, since she'd never have been rescued, or have met him. I think, if he was the one erased, it would affect Angel more. One theory was that Angel is erased in the future, but since it hasn't happened yet, the moment is just echoing back in the form of 'how can he Mate to her if she was never born' which is blocking the Mating bonds. I think, if Angel was erased completely, and he did forget her, the same might be true for Angel if he was erased, with her forgetting him. I love the theory though, we'll have to see which theories are correct :) I can say I know what it is, but I'm not telling }:)
I'm so sorry about your dad! :( I don't pray anymore no (when your grandparents pass from cancer, and then your mother and all her siblings end up with cancer as well you sort of...can't muster it, or at least I can't). But I really do hope he gets better :) I hope everything works out and everything is ok :)
I can say Amy is definitely confused by Angel's patience with River and how the woman treats her, which we'll see at a later point in the episode :) But, nope, not Moffat :) Just a simple Jersey girl :) Lol, that's a great video! I'm so adding it to my tumblr this weekend :)
Lol, River is really rude isn't she? I can say that she'll definitely be going for the jugular in terms of future knowledge but utilizing her 'spoilers' with Angel at the end of this episode }:)
We saw a bit more here of the Doctor worried about Angel and we'll see a bit more of it also in the future :) I can say there will be times where they have a few conversations about things yup :) I definitely try to give the OCs their own ways of saying things :) I think the only OC I have that uses some of the Doctor's lines is the Professor, but it's mostly because they're so close and have known each other for so long they almost share a brain :) As for River...there's definitely more to her dislike of Angel than meets the eye ;) His amnesia will definitely be a mystery, Angel will have quite a few theories on it, it could have to do with them being Mates, we'll see a few more theories popping up because of River so it'll just be a matter of time to see which one is right :)
And a Happy Birthday to Sophia Alice Rosalie Potter! I hope you have an amazing day! :)