"Don't give me that!" Clara snapped as she, Gabrielle, the Doctor and Danny came through the corridor into the Tardis control room. "You didn't have to grab me like *that.* You were so copping a feel. Does the Doctor know you pitch for both teams?"

"Clara, for the last time, it was an accident," Gabrielle said. "I did not intend to grab your breasts when I caught you. And my relationship with the Doctor is not like that."

"Oh, you're a lezzie and he's your male friend. I get it."

"No, you don't!"

Danny turned to the Doctor. "So, Doctor, why did I agree to come along this time?"

"Change of scene?" the Doctor said. "Giving me the benefit of the doubt? Nothing interesting on the tele?"

"And how is watching my girlfriend fight with your…friend about how Gabby saved Clara's life better than reruns?"

"I was just asking myself the same-"

The console speaker crackled. "Doctor?" Kate's voice said. "Can you read me?"

The Doctor was only too glad to answer (though he hoped it didn't show). "Yes, Kate! How may we help you?"

"There's been an incursion over New York harbor. We've alerted the Americans, though no response yet. Our satellites are having trouble imaging it. Can you get eyes on it?"

The Doctor worked the console. "On our way…here we are. We're partially materialized; they won't see us." He opened the doors. The Tardis hovered above New York harbor with a view of the Manhattan skyline. A huge metal sphere about the diameter of a football field hovered above the harbor.

The Doctor said, "That's a Sontaran fast attack cruiser." He went back to the console. "Standard armaments. But the energy signature…that thing has a Gallifreyan time core on board?"

Danny's battle-trained eyes inspected the alien spacecraft. "She looks like she's been through one heluva fight. Or am I wrong?"

"No," the Doctor said, "you're right. She just barely managed to get here. Wherever and whenever she came from, she might not make the trip back."

"Assuming they're supposed to." Danny spotted movement off at an angle. "Fighters coming in. Looks like they're firing missiles."

"Great," the Doctor said. "Their missiles will bounce off the ship's shields and then I'll have to-"

The missiles struck the ship and flames erupted out of it. As the American fighters peeled off, the ship wobbled in place, belching smoke. Another fireball burst out of it and it fell into the water.

"…do absolutely nothing," the Doctor finished. He went back to the console. "Their reactor scrammed and dumped all its fuel into the time vortex – another Time Lord safety measure. No survivors-"

"Doctor!" Gabrielle called from the door. She was pointing. "Look!"

The Doctor joined Gabrielle, Danny, and Clara at the door. Gabrielle was pointing at a huge skyscraper near the southern tip of Manhattan Island. It seemed to grow out of a complex of smaller buildings and domes. But what grabbed the Doctor's attention was the sign on top of it:

WINTER QUAY

Danny Blurted, "You said it was destroyed."

"Its timeline was," the Doctor said. "It never existed in the first place. And it wasn't that big in 1938."

"Yet there it is-" Danny started.

Gabrielle rushed to the console and programmed coordinates. "Transiting to Calvary Cemetery. I have an awful feeling about this."

As soon as the Tardis materialized in the cemetery, the foursome rushed out and found the row the Williamses grave was in. Their headstone and been righted. It read:

'IN LOVING MEMORY

'RORY AURTHUR WILLIAMS

'AGED 70

'AND HIS LOVING WIFE

'AMELIA WILLIAMS

'AGED 29'

The Doctor shook his head. "No, that's not right. He was 82, and she was 87-"

Gabrielle blanched. "No, it is right. Those are the ages they were at when they died at Winter Quay in the…oh no…"

The Doctor started to say, "We have to get back to UNIT-"

A female voice called, "Gabrielle!"

They turned and saw a red-headed woman walking towards them. Only her hair was in the style of the weeping angels'. And so were her silver-trimmed clothes.

And she had wings…

Gabrielle breathed, "Lucielle."

"Gabrielle," Lucielle said. "You have this one chance to come back to us."

Gabrielle didn't think twice. "Into the Tardis. Now!"

Everyone piled into the Tardis. Gabrielle closed the doors as the Doctor worked the controls. Gabrielle didn't entirely relax until the Tardis was in flight.

Danny chose his words carefully: "I hope you all realize that I am trying to keep an open mind and give all concerned who aren't human the benefit of the doubt. But Gabrielle, I thought you were the only angel who didn't turn to stone, and then only because of the Doctor."

Gabrielle leaned heavily on the console. "It is said that the archangels have the secret of how to move when looked upon, and that they share their power with their loyal retainers."

"'It is said,'" Danny mocked.

"I never saw it myself!" Gabrielle protested. "Not until now. And I'm two billion years old."

"All right," Clara said. "Your friend, Lucielle? Is she a 'loyal retainer' now?"

Gabrielle nodded. "The silver trim on her clothes connotes that rank."

Clara arched her eyebrows. "Seems she's moved up in the world."

"That's the least of our problems." Gabrielle looked at the Doctor. "If Michelle or any one of the other archangels is on Earth, Doctor, there's no underestimating the danger she and her soldiers pose to this planet and everyone on it."

The Doctor worked the controls. "Setting course for UNIT HQ."