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"'New York growled at my window, but I was ready for it. My stocking seams were straight, my lipstick was combat-ready, and I was packing cleavage that could fell an ox at 20 feet,'" the Doctor said, reading a book as he, Rose and Amy were sitting on a large rock in Central Park.
Rose was wearing her glasses over her eyes with Amy doing the same with round glasses as she was reading a newspaper, while Rose was reading a history book as Rory was lying next to Amy with a picnic basket sitting next to the Time Lord.
"Doctor, you're doing it again," Amy told him.
"She's right, love," Rose said, agreeing with their ginger companion as she adjusted her glasses and looked up from her book, "Can you tone it down just a little bit?"
"I'm reading!" The Doctor told them from over Amy's shoulder.
"Out loud," Amy stated, "Please, could you not like Rose asked you to do?"
"There's something different about you, Amy, isn't there?" The Doctor asked Amy as he looked at her.
"What's the book?" Rory inquired as he looked up at the Time Lord.
"Melody Malone," the Doctor answered, "She's a private detective in old-town New York."
"Old-town New York? Sounds more like you're reading a book set in the 1930s, Doctor," Rose said as she looked at her husband with a smirk on her face, "That era was a time of significant change for the city, with the construction of iconic buildings like the Empire State Building. That reminds me, remember when the Daleks used it to create a new race of Dalek-Humans in 1931 when we went there with Martha?"
"I sure do," the Doctor answered, "That was back in my Tenth incarnation and you were in your Second incarnation. And soon after that we reunited with Jack, who inadvertently caused us along with Martha to travel to the year 100 trillion where our old friend, the Master, was hiding as a human like you were when I reunited with you."
"It sure was," Rose said, agreeing with him, "But let's not forget the cultural shifts brought about to the city by the Great Depression and the end of Prohibition. It was a fascinating period in history, to say the least."
"She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips and a vulnerable side she keeps well-hidden," Amy muttered, sarcastically.
"Oh, you've read it?" The Doctor asked her as he looked at her with the corner of his eye.
"No, you read it. Aloud," Amy reminded him, "And then went 'Yowzah.'"
"Yeah, you keep doing that, Doctor," Rose said, agreeing with Amy, "Can you please stop doing that? It's getting kinda annoying."
"You know, only you could fancy someone in a book," Rory stated as he sat up and looked at the Time Lord.
"I'm just reading," the Doctor argued, "I just like the cover."
"Ooh! Can we see the cover?" Amy requested as she quickly turned around towards him and leaned over his left shoulder.
"Yeah, can we see it, Doctor?" Rose said, agreeing with Amy as she turned around towards him as well.
"No. No. I'm busy," the Doctor answered, "It's your hair, Amy." He then sniffed her, "Is it your hair?"
"Oh, shut up. It's the glasses. I'm wearing reading glasses now like Rose's current incarnation does from time to time," Amy explained, "On my nose. See? There you go."
"Ah, the glasses," Rose muttered with a smirk as she pushed her own pair with her right hand, "They do have a certain charm, don't they?"
"I don't like them. They make your eyes look all liney," the Doctor told Amy as he stared at her before he lifted up Amy's glasses with his left hand and stared at her again for a split second before looking away, "No, actually. Sorry." He then dropped her glasses, "They're fine. Carry on."
"O-kay," Rory said as he stood up, "I'm going to go and get us some more coffee. Who wants more coffee? Me too! I'll go!" He then turned to leave.
"Rory?" Amy called out to her husband, causing him to stop walking away from them, "Do I have noticeable lines on my eyes now?"
"Yes," the Doctor and Rose both answered at the same time.
"No," Rory told his wife.
"You didn't look," Amy stated as she looked at him.
"I noticed them earlier," Rory explained as he turned back around towards her, "Didn't notice them. I specifically remember not noticing them."
"You walk among fire pits, centurion," Amy said, flirtatiously.
"Do I have to come over there?" Rory asked Amy as he walked over towards her.
"You can, if you like," Amy answered.
"Well, we have company," Rory stated as he squatted next to her.
"I'll get a babysitter," Amy joked before she and Rory passionately kissed each other.
"Do you know, it is so humiliating when you do that," the Doctor sighed as he looked at Amy and Rory as they stopped kissing each other, "I mean me, and Rose barely kiss each other when we're in front of the two of you."
"Ah, but Doctor, we've always been a bit more private with our affections, haven't we?" Rose reminded her husband with a playful smirk on her face, "Besides, we've had our fair share of public displays back in the day. Remember that time on New Earth when I was still chameleon-arched and ended up being possessed by Cassandra? And let's not forget that incident on Starship UK after Amy stopped you from comatosing the Star Whale. Poor Amy walked in on us at quite the moment, didn't she?"
"I guess you're right," the Doctor muttered as he went back to reading his book.
"Coffee?" Rory asked Amy.
"Coffee," Amy answered as she giggled before he left them.
"Can I have a go?" The Doctor asked Amy as he took her glasses with his right hand and put them on, "Oh!" He then held the book out before he brought it close towards him, "Actually, that is much better. That is exciting."
"See, Doctor? There's a reason we wear these," Rose said as she tapped her own glasses with a smirk with her right hand's index finger, "They're not just for show. And who knows, maybe they'll help you tone down your dramatic readings a bit. And remember when you used to wear glasses in your last incarnation when analysing things. You looked quite distinguished and hot with them on. Maybe you should consider making them a permanent part of your look again."
"Read to me," Amy requested.
"I thought you didn't like my reading aloud," the Doctor reminded her.
"She didn't exactly hate you reading aloud, love," Rose assured him, "She was just getting irritated with your constant use of the word 'Yowza.'"
"Rose is right," Amy said, agreeing with the Time Lady, "Shut up and read me a story. Just don't go 'Yowzah!'"
The three of them then sat back-to-back as they all laughed.
"Ah!" The Doctor exclaimed as he ripped out the book's last page with his right hand.
"Why did you do that, Doctor?" Amy asked the Time Lord.
"Oh, I always rip out the last page of a book," the Doctor answered, "Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings."
"Funny you should mention that, Doctor," Rose said as she looked at him with a thoughtful look on her face, "I've found myself doing the same thing from time to time, especially with books that aren't nonfiction like history or science books. It's like a little rebellion against the inevitable, isn't it? But you know, when I was chameleon-arched, I never did that. I always read books cover to cover, last page and all. Guess some things do change with each incarnation, don't they?"
"They sure do, Arkytior," the Doctor muttered, agreeing with her as he put the page of the book in the basket and continued to read aloud to them, "'As I crossed the street, I saw the thin guy, but he didn't see me."'
"I guess that's how it began," the Doctor went on reading the book as Rory crossed a busy street with four cups of coffee in his hands.
Rory reentered Central Park at the corner of the park at South and Fifth Avenue, and by the Plaza Hotel. He crossed through the park and arrived by the Bethesda Fountain. On the base of the fountain are cherubs.
The nurse walked past the fountain towards the underpass as he heard the sound of childish giggling and scampering. Rory turned around, only to see the face of one of the cherubs had its mouth open, showing its teeth. He then turned back and continued through the underpass. The cupid was now gone from the fountain. As he entered the underpass, Rory heard more giggling and scampering, causing him to turn around, but like before, he saw nothing.
"'I followed the skinny guy for two more blocks before he turned…'" the Doctor said as he continued reading the book.
On the Bow Bridge, not far from where Rory was, the Doctor continued reading from the book as Amy was playing Pooh Sticks, while Rose was looking up at her husband and had her glasses removed from her eyes and inside her jacket's pocket.
"'…and I could ask exactly what he was doing here," the Doctor went on reading the book, "He looked a little scared, so I gave him my best smile and my bluest eyes.'"
"And beware of the 'yowzah,'" Amy reminded him, "Do not, at this point, yowz."
"Like she said, be careful of saying that, Doctor," Rose said, agreeing with Amy when the Doctor suddenly jumped down from the railing, intrigued by something in the book.
"Doctor? What did the skinny guy say?" Amy asked the Doctor as she ran over to him.
"Doctor, what's wrong?" Rose inquired as she noticed the sudden change in his demeanour, "You look like you've just seen a ghost. Is there something in the book that's bothering you."
"'He said, 'I just went to get coffees for the Doctor, Rose, and Amy,'" the Doctor answered as he continued reading the book again, "'Hello, River.'"
On a street at night in New York City, River was standing there and was dressed as a private eye, complete with an overcoat and fedora.
"Hello, Dad," River greeted Rory as she lifted her head up to look at him.
"Where am I?" Rory asked his daughter, "How the hell did I get here?"
"I haven't the faintest idea," River told him as a figure walked behind Rory, "But you'll probably want to put your hands up."
Rory then turned around and saw a man with light skin, brown hair and eyes, wearing a suit and fedora over his head and aiming a revolver at him. As soon as he saw the man aiming his gun at him, he dropped the coffee and put his hands up. Another man, this one with dark skin, brown eyes and black hair, also wearing a suit and fedora over his head walked over towards River from behind.
"Melody Malone?" The man with dark skin greeted River.
"You're Melody?!" Rory said with shock in his voice.
"Get in," the man ordered the nurse as a car suddenly broke to a halt between him and River.
"What's River doing in a book?" Amy asked both Gallifreyans as they were walking across Broadway in Times Square, "What's Rory doing in a book?"
"He went to get coffee. Pay attention," the Doctor urged her.
"Just listen to the Doctor on this, will ya, Amy?" Rose asked their ginger companion.
"Thanks, Arkytior," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife.
"He went to get coffee and turned up in a book," Amy stated with confusion in her voice, "How does that work?"
"I don't know!" The Doctor answered as he, Rose and Amy soon walked along the bank of the East River by the Brooklyn Bridge as they approached the TARDIS, "We're in New York!"
"But don't worry, Amy, we'll find out how he turned up in a book," Rose assured Amy.
"What is going on?" Rory asked River as they got into the back seat of the car.
"Where did you get this book, Doctor?" Amy asked the Doctor as they and Rose were now standing inside the TARDIS as both Gallifreyans were standing around the console and setting its controls as she held the book in her hands with her reading glasses back over her eyes again.
"It was in my jacket," the Doctor answered.
"How did it get there?" Amy asked him.
"Yeah, how did a book suddenly turn up in your jacket?" Rose said, agreeing with their ginger companion as she giggled.
"How does anything get there?" The Doctor retorted, "I've given up asking. Date. Date. Does she mention a date? When is this happening?"
"Yes, hang on," Amy muttered as she flipped through the book's pages, "Uh… ooh! April 3, 1938."
"You didn't come here in the TARDIS, obviously," River told Rory as the car they were in drove through the streets of New York City.
"Why?" Rory asked her.
"You couldn't have," River answered.
"Couldn't have?" The Doctor repeated with disbelief in his voice as he heard what Amy read from the book and appeared over her right shoulder, causing her to gasp, "What does she mean, 'couldn't have?'"
"This city's full of time distortions," River answered her father's question as the car they were in drove past Grand Central station, "Be impossible to land the TARDIS here. Like trying to land a plane in a blizzard. Even I couldn't do it."
"Even who couldn't do it?!" The Doctor asked with disbelief in his voice.
"Don't you unfriend her," Amy told him, "She's only in a book."
"And River does have a point about time distortions," Rose stated, "They're not just anomalies, they're like storms in the fabric of time itself. Landing the TARDIS in one would be like trying to dock a ship in a hurricane. It's risky, unpredictable, and could potentially cause a lot of damage. We need to be careful."
"Ha ha. 1938. Easy one," the Doctor said before he flipped the TARDIS' dematerialisation lever to set the TARDIS in motion, only for it to spark and rock, throwing Amy, Rose and the Doctor to the console's rails.
The TARDIS tried to materialise in the air near the Brooklyn Bridge but was forced back into the time vortex itself.
Inside the TARDIS, an alarm sounded off as a warning appears on the monitor before it came to a stop.
"What was that?" Amy asked both Gallifreyans
"1938. We just bounced off it," the Doctor answered.
"And this is what happens when you try to break through a time distortion with a TARDIS by normal means," Rose added.
"Well, how did you get here?" Rory asked his daughter as the car they were in continued to travel through the streets of New York City.
"Jack's Vortex Manipulator," River answered as she showed him her wrist, "My husband let me borrow it for a while. Less bulky than a TARDIS. A motorbike through traffic. You?"
"I'm... not sure," Rory said with uncertainty in his voice before the car pulled into a gated courtyard with angels lined along the courtyard's roof.
The TARDIS had materialised in the middle of a cemetery with the Empire State Building in the distance.
"The Weeping Angels," Amy realised as she exited the TARDIS followed by Rose and the Doctor as the Time Lord held a fire extinguisher in his right hand.
"It makes sense," the Doctor told her as he closed the TARDIS' doors.
"Yeah, it does make sense, love," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"It makes what?" Amy asked them with confusion in her voice.
"Remember what I said when we were dealing with them just before we entered the Byzantium?" Rose reminded her, "We along with Martha were once sent back in time to 1969 by them and leaving the TARDIS where we were before we had a woman named Sally help us get the TARDIS back."
"She's right," the Doctor said, agreeing with her, "That's what happened to Rory. That's what the Angels do. It's their preferred form of attack. They zap you back in time, let you live to death." He then used the fire extinguisher on the TARDIS with Rose standing next to the TARDIS on the other side as Amy looked through the novel.
"Well, we've got a time machine," Amy reminded them, "We can just go and get him."
"With a time distortion, it'll be like River said 'tricky,'" Rose told her.
And well, tried that, if you've noticed, and we are back where we started, in 2012!" The Doctor added, agreeing with her.
"We didn't start in a graveyard," Amy told them, "What are we doing here?"
"Don't know. Probably causally linked, somehow," the Doctor surmised, "Doesn't matter." He then yelled into the TARDIS, "Extractor fans on!"
"Do as he says and turn them on, old girl!" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Well, we're going to get there, somehow," Amy told them, "We're in the rest of the book."
"In what?" The Doctor asked her.
"What do you mean by that?" Rose asked her at the same time.
"Page 43, you're going to break something, Doctor," Amy told them.
"I'm what?" The Doctor asked her.
"'Doctor, why do you have to break mine?' I asked the Doctor. He frowned and said, 'Because Amy read it in a book and, now, I have no choice,'" Amy said, reading aloud.
"Stop! No! No! Stop!" The Doctor ordered her as he ran over towards her and took the book from her, "You can't read ahead. You mustn't and-and you can't do that."
"He's right, you mustn't read ahead, Amy," Rose said, agreeing with her husband as she followed her husband.
"But we've already been reading it," Amy reminded them.
"Just the stuff that's happening now, in parallel with us," the Doctor explained, "That's as far as we go."
"And not much further," Rose added, agreeing with him.
"It could help us find Rory," Amy told them.
"And if you read ahead and find that Rory dies?" The Doctor asked her, "This isn't any old future, Amy, it's ours. Once we know what's coming, it's fixed. I'm going to break something because you told me that I'm going to do it. No choice now."
"Time can be rewritten," Amy reminded him.
"Yes, most points in time can be rewritten, but not always," "Remember when me and the Doctor faked our deaths at Lake Silencio? River tried to change the events of that day, and it almost caused a total collapse of time. Every moment in history happened at once. It was only after she agreed to fulfil her role in the fixed event and that she and Jack got married was time able to right itself. So, you see, while some things in time can be rewritten, there are others that are fixed and must always happen."
"And you can't rewrite it once you've read it," the Doctor added as he took Amy's left hand with his right hand as the three of them ran for the TARDIS, "Once we know it's coming, it's written in stone."
As the three of them reentered the TARDIS, neither of them saw that in the foreground, one of the gravestones read 'In Loving Memory Rory Arthur Williams.'
Back in 1938, Rory and River were 'escorted' into a mansion by the two men. They stop at the foot of the stairs. On a stand near the stairwell was a large Chinese vase on a stand bearing writing.
"Ah, early Qin Dynasty, I'd say," River surmised as she stared at the vase.
"Correct," they heard a masculine voice say before River and Rory looked up to see a man that appeared to be in his mid-fifties to mid-sixties with light skin, grey hair with a receding hairline and brown eyes, wearing a pinstriped suit in the style of what an Italian Mafia boss would wear during the thirties named Grayle, standing on the first floor landing above them, "Are you an archaeologist as well as a detective?"
Back inside the TARDIS, the Doctor was standing around the console on top of it as he was turning a wheel attached to the column with his right hand, while Rose and Amy stood next to each other and looked up at him.
"Okay, landing a plane in a time-binding blizzard. I could push through, but, if I'm out by a nanosecond, the engines will phase and I'll shatter the planet," the Doctor stated before he looked down at Amy, "I need landing lights."
"Landing lights?" Amy repeated with confusion in her voice.
"He means a signal to lock on to so he could break through the time distortion," Rose explained.
"Exactly," the Doctor said, agreeing with her, "What did she say, early what dynasty?"
"Like he said, which Chinese dynasty was it?" Rose asked their ginger companion.
"Early Qin, just as you say," Grayle confirmed as he walked down the stairs, "You're very well-informed."
"And you're very afraid," River retorted, "That's an awful lot of locks for one door."
She then looked at the front door behind them as there were at least four locks on it as she walked away from him. Rory looked at all the Chinese porcelain, shocked when he could read the characters as one of them read 'Rapture of Summer.'
"River, I'm translating," Rory told his daughter.
"It's a gift of the TARDIS," River explained, "It hangs around."
"This one. Put him somewhere uncomfortable," Grayle ordered one of his men as he pointed at Rory with his left hand's index finger and looked at him as Rory shrugged in an 'of course' motion.
"With the babies, sir?" The man with dark skin asked him.
"Yes. Why not?" Grayle answered, "Give him to the babies."
The man with dark skin then grabbed Rory by his left arm with his right hand and pulled him from the room.
The door to the mansion's cellar opened as in the light there was an ornate chandelier hanging from the ceiling. Plaster was peeling from the walls showing brick underneath. The man with dark skin then threw Rory down the stairs.
"The lights are out. You'll last longer with these," the man told Rory as he threw him a box of matches.
"What do you care?" Rory asked him.
"It's funnier," the man answered with a scoff before he left the cellar and shut the door behind him, leaving Rory in the dark and as soon as the door locked, the nurse heard a childish giggling and scraping sound around him.
"Hello?" Rory called out to the sound.
The TARDIS materialised in the midst of a busy studio in 221 BC in China during the Qin dynasty, where an older man with light tan skin, grey hair and brown eyes directed his apprentices.
"Ah, hello," the Doctor greeted the man as he entered the studio, "Yes." Rose and Amy then stepped out as the man looked at them and spoke in Chinese as the Doctor held up his psychic paper with his right hand, "Special permission from the emperor."
In Grayle's study within the mafia boss' mansion, River removed her trench coat to reveal a slinky black dress and saw the words 'Yowzah' on a Chinese vase in front of her.
"Hello, Doctor," River muttered to herself before she turned around to face Grayle, "Let's see. Crime boss with a collecting fetish." She then walked over to a window, "Whatever you don't want anyone else to see has got to be your favourite. Or, possibly, your girlfriend." She then opened the curtain to reveal a Weeping Angel, poised to attack, however, it was chained and manacled with its face being deformed, as if it was attacked, "So, girlfriend, then." She then opened her husband's vortex manipulator and began typing on it.
"What are you doing?" Grayle asked her.
"Oh, you know, texting a friend," River answered.
Inside the TARDIS, the words 'Yowzah: Signal Located' appeared on the monitor before the Doctor and Rose ran over to the monitor at the sound of the alarm beeping.
"Landing lights. We have a signal," the Doctor announced, "Locking on."
"And about time, too," Rose muttered as the Doctor set the TARDIS to track River's signal.
"These things are all over, but people don't seem to notice," Grayle stated as he and River stared at the Angel, "It never moves while you're looking."
"Oh, I know how they work," River told him.
"So I understand," Grayle muttered, "Melody Malone, the detective who investigates Angels."
"Badly damaged," River stated as she took a few steps towards the Angel.
"I wanted to know if it could feel pain," Grayle explained.
"You realise it's screaming? The others can hear," River told him as she turned to face him, "Is that why you need all the locks?"
Grayle then suddenly switched off the lights with his right hand's index finger before he turned it back on again to show that the Angel was now gripping River's right wrist, causing her to gasp in shock.
"You're going to tell me all about these creatures," the crime boss told her, "And you're going to do it quickly." He then turned the lights off with his right hand's index finger again as she gasped again.
In the cellar, Rory lit a match and shuddered as he stood up and looked around nervously as he heard more giggling and scampering.
"Hello, is someone there?" Rory called out to the giggling and scampering sound.
Rory walked forward and saw three cherub statues lying on the floor. The match suddenly went out and in the dark, there was more scampering. The nurse lit another match and now there were four cherub statues poised to attack. Rory backed away and dropped the match. He then lit yet another match as the cherubs had now moved towards him in an attempt to block him from the stairs as Rory kept his back against the wall at the base of the stairs as his match went out.
"Come on! Come on!" Rory muttered to himself before the match lit up as Rory slowly turned his head to the left and saw that there was a cupid there with its mouth puckered before it blew out the match.
Back in Grayle's study, the crime boss turned the light back on as the Angel was still gripping River's wrist.
"The Angels are predators. They're deadly," River told Grayle, "What do you want with them?"
"I'm a collector," Grayle explained, "What collector could resist these? I'm only human."
"That's exactly what they're thinking," River stated when the lights began to flicker as the house began to shake right before they heard the TARDIS' engines.
"What's that? What's happening? Is it an earthquake?" Grayle asked her before River smiled to herself.
Inside the TARDIS, the ship's engines stalled as it rocked before Rose grabbed Amy with both of her hands to keep her upright.
"What is it?!" Grayle demanded as he looked around for the source of what was happening and the sound of the TARDIS' engines.
Inside the mansion's front hall, the TARDIS struggled to materialise.
"Oh, Doctor," River muttered to herself, "You could burn New York."
"What does that mean?!" Grayle asked her.
"It means, Mr. Grayle, just you wait till my friends get here," River answered.
As the TARDIS finally materialised within the front hall, the extra energy of its landing sent Grayle flying into another room with a scream.
Inside the TARDIS, Amy ran for the door, stopping to look back at the Doctor and Rose.
"Come on," Amy urged both Gallifreyans.
"We're coming," Rose replied as she followed her.
"And so am I," the Doctor muttered as he also followed their ginger companion before she opened the TARDIS' doors and ran out of the TARDIS and up the stairs.
"Rory? Rory! Rory?!" Amy called out to her husband as she ran up the stairs.
"Don't worry, Amy, we'll find him," Rose assured her before she and the Doctor saw Grayle lying unconscious in the room that he was flung into.
"Sorry, we're late, River," the Doctor apologised to River as he looked at her in the study across from them, "Traffic was hell." He then knelt to check on Grayle, "Shock." He then stood back up, "He'll be fine."
"He'll be up and about in a bit," Rose added as she looked at the unconscious form of Grayle, "But preferably after we leave."
"Not if I can get loose," River argued before the Doctor walked into the study with Rose following him and stood behind her.
"So where are we now, Dr. Song?" The Doctor asked her, "How's prison?"
"Yeah, how's Stormcage, River?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Oh, I was pardoned ages ago," River answered, "And it's 'Professor' Song to you, Doctor."
"Pardoned?" The Doctor and Rose both asked her with surprise in their voices as they looked at her.
"Mmm! Turns out the couple I killed never existed, in the first place. Apparently, there's no record of them," River explained, "It's almost as if someone's gone around, deleting themselves from every database in the universe."
"Well, you said we'd got too big," the Doctor reminded her.
"Dorium said the same thing, didn't he? That we'd become too big, too noticeable. So we took his advice to heart," Rose added, "We decided to… disappear for a while. It seems to have worked, considering your pardon, River."
"And, now, no one's ever heard of either of you," River stated, "Didn't you both used to be people?"
"Weren't you the woman who killed the Doctor and Rose Smith?" The Doctor asked her as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver with his right hand and activated it as he scanned the Angel with it.
"Doctor who?" River asked him, causing both Gallifreyans to chuckle.
"I never get tired of hearing those words," Rose admitted with a smile on her face.
"You and me both, Arkytior," the Doctor said, agreeing with her as he flicked his screwdriver open and checked its readings, "She's holding you very tight."
"At least she didn't send me back in time," River told him.
"I doubt she's strong enough," the Doctor stated.
"Yeah, I don't think she's strong either," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Well, I need a hand back," River told both Gallifreyans, "So which is it going to be, Doctor, are you going to break my wrist or hers?" The Doctor and Rose both looked at her as Amy stood in the doorway, "Oh, no. Really? Why do you have to break mine?"
"Because Amy read it in a book and, now, I have no choice," the Doctor answered before he turned towards Amy, "You see?"
"This is what happens when you read ahead," Rose added.
"Well, what book?" River asked them with confusion in her voice.
"Your book," the Doctor answered, crossly as he pulled it out of his jacket's pocket with his right hand, "Which you haven't written yet, so we can't read!"
"I see. I don't like the cover much," River muttered as the Doctor sat down on a chair behind them.
"But if River's going to write that book, she'd make it useful, yeah?" Amy asked them.
"Well, I'll certainly try," River stated, "But we can't read ahead. It's too dangerous."
"We already discussed that with her, River," Rose told her, "But I'm sure whatever you write will be more than just useful. It'll be a page-turner."
"She's right, I know, but there must be something we can look at," Amy stated, agreeing with the Time Lady.
"What, a page of handy hints, previews, spoiler-free?" The Doctor asked them.
"Chapter titles," Amy suggested.
"Good suggestion, Amy," Rose said, agreeing with her as the Doctor snapped his left hand's fingers and points before looking at the chapter pages and saw that one was titled 'The Roman in the Cellar.'
"He's in the cellar," the Doctor told them.
"Give me," Amy requested the Doctor as she extended her left hand out towards the Time Lord.
The Doctor then reached into his inside jacket pocket and pulled his sonic screwdriver back out and tossed it to Amy. She caught it with both of her hands with it activating for a split second and ran out. The Doctor then got up and smiled at River before he ran over to Rose and kissed her on the cheek before they headed after Amy when he suddenly stopped at the door.
"Doctor? Doctor, what is it?" River asked him, "What's wrong? Tell me."
"What is it, Theta?" Rose said, agreeing with the archeologist as she walked back over to him as the Doctor gripped the back of a chair as he was still reading the chapter pages.
"Doctor. Doctor, what is it?" River asked the Time Lord, "Tell us."
The last chapter was titled 'Amelia's Last Farewell' and as he saw that, the Doctor gripped the book as if he wanted to throw it.
"Okay, I know that face," River told him, "Calm down! Calm down!"
"Like she said, calm down, love," Rose urged her husband, "Even I've been like that at times."
"No!" The Doctor yelled as he threw the book on the chair and stormed for the door.
"Talk to me! Doctor!" River urged the Time Lord.
"No!" The Doctor yelled as he walked back over to River, "You get your wrist out. You get your wrist out without breaking it." He then walked back towards the door.
"How?" River asked him.
"I don't know," the Doctor answered as he continued walking towards the door, "Just do it! Change the future!"
"Don't worry, River. I'll look after him. We've been through worse, and we always make it through. Together," Rose assured River as she followed her husband out of the room before River looked at her wrist.
The door to the cellar opened as Amy ran down the stairs with the Doctor's sonic screwdriver in left hand as he had it activated and used it as a torch.
"Rory?" Amy called out to her husband.
At the base of the stairs, the beam from the screwdriver reveals the cherubs. The Doctor and Rose both came down the stairs behind her.
"No!" The Doctor said, surprising Amy as she screamed, "They're Angels! Baby Angels."
"Baby Angels are the rarest form of Weeping Angels to find," Rose added.
In front of the cherubs on the floor were the burned-out matches and empty box.
"Did they get Rory? Where is he?" Amy asked them, "Did they take him?"
"Yes, I think so, yes," the Doctor answered.
"I'm afraid he's right, Amy. The Angels must have taken Rory," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "But don't worry, we'll find him." They heard the baby Angels giggling and scampering as they ran back up the stairs and out the door of the cellar.
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