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The Doctor and Rose were at a museum with Amy and the museum looked like it was based on the plans of a medieval church. The Doctor strode through, pointing at the displays and giving their opinions and Rose followed and Amy was bored as she followed.
"Wrong. Wrong," the Doctor said talking about the artifacts in glass casing "Bit right, mostly wrong. I love museums."
"I love museums as well," Rose said "After all I was a historian back on Gallifrey."
"What, seriously?" Amy asked her, surprised. "You're a historian?"
"Yeah, I was," Rose answered.
"Yeah, great. Anyway, Doctor, can we go to a planet now? Big spaceship? Churchill's bunker? You promised me a planet next," Amy said.
"Amy, this isn't any old asteroid," the Doctor said "It's the Delerium Archive, the final resting place of the headless monks, The biggest museum ever."
"Doctor, Amy does make a point we did promise to take her to a planet after dealing with the Daleks," Rose said.
"You've got a time machine," Amy said "What do you need museums for?"
"Wrong. Very wrong. Ooo, one of ours. Also one of ours .
"It's how he keeps score," Rose said and the Doctor notices a square box in glass casing and Then Rose notices the box "Is that what I think it is?"
"Oh great, an old box," Amy muttered sarcastically as she walked towards the glass casing.
"You're correct, Rose," the Doctor said "It's a home box.
"And, what's a Home Box?" Amy asked, confusedly.
"Like a black box on a plane, except it homes," the Doctor explained "Anything happens to the ship, the Home Box flies home with all the flight data."
"So?" Amy asked.
"The writing, the graffiti on the box is Old High Gallifreyan," Rose answered "The lost language of the Time Lords. Only a select few in the academy were ever taught the language, including me and the Doctor."
"There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars and raise up empires, and topple gods," the Doctor said.
"What does it say?" Amy asked.
The Doctor and Rose knew who it was from "Hello, Doctor. Hello, Rose," the Doctor read the writing on the home box and the Doctor took out his Sonic screwdriver and uses it on the casing to take the home box.
Alarm bells rang as the Doctor and Rose ran through the museum, the home box tucked under the Doctor's arm. Amy was racing beside them. They rushed into the Tardis as two guards chased after them.
"Why are we doing this?" Amy asked as the Doctor hooked the home box to monitor.
"'cause someone on a spaceship 12,000 years ago is trying to attract our attention," the Doctor said. "Let's see if we can get the security playback working."
A grainy black and white footage of River winking at the camera appeared on the monitor. It then switched to River with her back to the camera facing a door. , "The party's over, Doctor Song… yet still you're on board,"A man on the monitor said.
River turned to face the man. "Sorry, Alistair. I needed to see what was in your vault. Do you all know what's down there? Any of you? Because I'll tell you something. This ship won't reach its destination."
"Wait till she runs," Alistair said "Don't make it look like an execution."
River looked at her watch, "Triple-seven, five… slash, three, four, nine by ten." The Doctor, Rose and Amy exchanged a look. "Zero, twelve, slash, acorn. Oh, and I could do with an air corridor."
"What was that, what did she say?" Amy asked as Rose began to type on the keyboard.
"Amy, those were Co-ordinates," Rose said.
The Doctor let out a whoop before running to open the Tardis doors. He reached out and pulled River in and they both landed on the floor, groaning.
"Doctor?" Amy asked.
"River?" The Doctor said and they got up and watched the ship that River was on fly away.
"Follow that ship," River said
The Doctor Rose and River were all working the controls while Amy stood back and watched. River was barefoot. "They've gone into warp drive, we're losing them! Stay close!" River cried.
"I'm trying," the Doctor said.
"He's right, River," Rose said, "We both are trying."
"Use the stabilisers," River suggested.
"There aren't any stabilisers," the Doctor said as he pulled a lever on the console down.
"The blue switches," River explained
"Oh, the blue ones don't do anything, they're just blue," the Doctor said.
"Doctor, River is correct," Rose said "the blue switches are stabilizers." She presses them and the Tardis stops shaking as it lands.
"See? What Rose did?" River said "She pressed the blue stabilizers and the Tardis stabilized."
"Yeah. Well, it's just boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers. They're blue boring-ers," the Doctor said, fidgeting with the switch that was the blue stabilizers and was frustrated at River at how she knew to pilot a Tardis.
"Doctor, how come she can fly the Tardis?" Amy asked the Doctor.
"I was wondering the same thing," Rose said "She never mentioned that when met her in 'The Library'."
"You call that flying the Tardis? Ha!" The Doctor scoffs at River and he walked over to the captain chair and sat down to sulk as River and Rose shared a smile.
"Okay. I've mapped the probability vectors, done a fold-back on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination, and parked us right along side," River said as she lands the Tardis.
"Parked us?" The Doctor said, confusedly "We haven't landed."
"Of course we've landed," River said. "I just landed her."
"But it didn't make the noise," the Doctor said.
"What noise?" Both Rose and River asked him at the same time.
"You know, the..." He said as he tried to attempt to make the Tardis's wheezing, groaning sound as best as he could.
Rose rolled her eyes. "Oh, brother," she said "Doctor, it's not supposed to make that noise. We both leave the brakes on."
"Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise," the Doctor replied "Come along, Pond, let's have a look." He walks away
"No, wait! Environment checks," River said and he stops and looks at her.
"Oh yes, sorry. Quite right," he said "Environment checks." He walks to the door and opens the door and pokes his head out "Nice out."
River, Rose and Amy we're looking at the scanner "We're somewhere in the Garn Belt," River said "There's an atmosphere. Early indications suggest that…"
"We're on Alfava Metraxis, the seventh planet of the Dundra System," the Doctor said "Oxygen-rich atmosphere, toxins in the soft band, 11-hour day, and..." He put his head out the door. "-chances of rain later."
"He thinks he's so hot when he does that," River muttered.
"Tell me about it," Rose said "and he is hot when he does that." The Doctor blushes as Rose said that and he joins them at the console and sat back down in the captain chair.
"How come you can fly the Tardis?" Amy asked River.
"I was wondering the same thing," Rose said.
"Oh, I had lessons from the very best," River said.
"Well, yeah," the Doctor said, smugly.
"It's a shame you and Rose were both busy that day," River said and took her red high heels off the scanner and walked towards the door "Right then, why did they land here?"
"They didn't land," the Doctor said from the Captain's chair.
"Sorry?" River asked.
"You should've checked the Home Box," the Doctor said as he got up and followed her "It crashed."
River leaves walks out the Tardis and the Doctor closes the door behind her and he walks back to the console and Amy follows him.
"One of you better explain," Amy said "Who is that and how did she do that museum thing?"
"It's a long story and we don't know most of it," the Doctor said. "Off we go."
The Doctor sets the co-ordinates "Doctor, what are you doing?" Amy asked the Time Lord
"Leaving," he explained, "She's got where she wants to go, let's go where we want to go."
"Are you basically running away?" Amy asked.
"Yep," he is Amy," Rose said.
"Why?"
"Because she's the future," he explained "Someone that's important in our future."
"Can you both run away from that?" Amy said.
"We can run away from anything I like," he said. "Time is not the boss of me."
"Rose cleared her throat "12 months late!" Rose cried.
"You're never gonna let that go are you," Rose?" He asked.
"Nope!" She smirked.
"Hang on, is that a planet out there?" Amy asked.
"Yes, of course it's a planet," he said.
"Doctor, we did promise her planet," Rose said.
"Okay," he said giving in "only because I love you, Rose and it will be only five minutes." He kissed her on the lips.
"Yes!" Amy said excitedly as the two gallifreyans kissed each other.
"But that's all," he said as he starts to follow then out "because I'm telling you both now, that woman is not dragging me into anything!"
The ship they were following had crashed on top of a very large and very old stone structure. It was burning in areas and bits of debris had fallen to the ground around the Tardis. Rose, the Doctor, Amy and River stood there, looking up at it. "What caused it to crash?" River asked "Not me."
"Nah, the airlock would've sealed seconds after you blew it," the Doctor said "According to the Home Box, the warp engines had a phase-shift. No survivors."
"A phase-shift would have to be sabotage," River said "I did warn them."
"About what?" Rose asked
River shrugged,"Well, at least the building was empty," River said "Aplan temple. Unoccupied for centuries." She began to key something into a handheld device.
Rose walked back to Amy, who asked, "Aren't either of you going to introduce us?"
"Amy Pond," he gestured from Amy and then to River "Professor River Song."
River faced them and gasps in surprise "I'm going to be a Professor some day, am I?" The Doctor winced at the slip while Rose had a facepalm expression. "How exciting!" River chuckled. "Spoilers!" She said as she turned her attention back to what she was doing.
Amy whispered, "Yeah, but who is she and how did she do that? She just left you two a note in a museum!"
The Doctor walked off while Rose walked to River, who explained, "Two things always guaranteed to show up in a museum: The Home Box of category four starliner and, sooner or later, and him. It's how he keeps score."
"I already told her, River," Rose said.
"I know," Amy said, laughing at the same time.
"It's hilarious, isn't it?" River asked.
The Doctor sulked walking around and he approaches them, laughing sarcastically "We're nobody's taxi service!" She turned to River. "I'm not gonna be there to catch you every time you feel like jumping out of a spaceship."
River sighed, "And you are so wrong," River said "There's one survivor. There's a thing in the belly of that ship that can't ever die. Now he's listening!" She spoke into the device. "You lot in orbit yet? Yeah, I saw it land. I'm at the crash site. Try and home in on my signal." She held up her device. "Doctor, Rose, can one of you sonic me? I need to boost the signal so we can use it as a beacon."
The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and used it on River's communication device. She dropped a small curtsey. "Ooh, Doctor! You sonicked her," Amy teased.
"Shut up, Amy, he said "She's just a friend of mine and as well as a friend of Rose," he said
"We have a minute," River said as she took out her diary "Shall we?" She opened her diary. "Where were we up to? Have we done the Bone Meadows?"
"What's the book?" Amy asked, approaching River.
"Stay away from it," the Doctor warned.
"What is it though?" Amy persisted.
"Her diary," he said.
"Our diary," River corrected.
"Her past, our...future friend. Time travel," he explained "Me and Rose both keep meeting in the wrong order."
Four columns of swirling 'dust' appeared then turned into four Cleric soldiers in desert camouflage uniforms.
One of the soldiers approached River. "You promised me an army, Doctor Song."
"No. I promised you the equivalent of an army. I'm giving you the equivalent of an army," River said "This is the Doctor and his wife, Rose." The Doctor gave lighthearted salute.
The soldier shook their hands. "Father Octavian, sir. Bishop, second class. 20 clerics at my command. The troops are already in the drop ship and landing shortly. Doctor Song was helping us with a covert investigation. Has Doctor Song explained what we're dealing with?"
"Doctor, Rose what do you both know of the Weeping Angels?" River suddenly asked and both the Doctor and Rose faced her immediately, tense.
A transport ship had arrived and the soldiers had already set up camp. Octavian strode across the ground followed by the Doctor, Rose and Amy.
"The Angel, as far as we know, is still trapped in the ship, Octavian said "Our mission is to get inside and neutralise it. We can't get through up top, we'd be too close to the drives. According to this-" He showed them a device "-behind the cliff face, there's a network of catacombs leading right up to the temple. We can blow through the base of the cliffs, get into the entrance chamber, then make our way up."
"Oh, good," the Doctor said sarcastically.
"Good, sir?" Octavian asked, confused.
"He was being sarcastic about the catacombs. 'Cause they're probably dark. Dark catacombs."
"Technically, I think it's called a maze of the dead," Octavian told them.
"You can stop any time you like," the Doctor told Octavian.
"Father Octavian?" A cleric called
"Excuse me, sir, ma'am," Octavian said and the Doctor waved off Octavian as he left the three of them. He then used the screwdriver on some of the equipment set up on the table.
"Both of you are letting people call you sir and ma'am," Amy said "You both never do that. So, whatever a Weeping Angel is, it's really bad, yeah?"
"Now that's interesting... You're still here. Which part of 'Wait in the Tardis till we tell you it's safe' was so confusing?" He asked her.
"Ooh, Doctor, are you all Mr Grumpy Face today?" Amy asked.
"A Weeping Angel, Amy, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life form evolution has ever produced, and right now one of them is trapped inside that wreckage and both me and Rose are supposed to climb in after it with two screwdrivers and a torch, and assuming me and Rose survive the radiation long enough and assuming the whole ship doesn't explode in our faces, do something incredibly clever which neither of us haven't actually thought of yet. That's our day. That's what we're up to. Any questions?" The Doctor explained.
"Who is River song? Is she related to one of you 'cause she's someone from your future, and the way she talks to you both, I've never seen anyone do that to you both besides each other. She looks at you both kinda like, you know, 'I love you both but only 'cause I have to.' She's a future relative of one of you in the future, isn't she? Is she going to be one of your relatives?" Amy asked.
"Yes, you're right," the Doctor said ignoring what Amy asked "I am definitely Mister Grumpy Face today."
"Amy, she isn't a relative of ours," Rose said "she's the future wife of a friend of ours named Captain Jack Harkness, he's an immortal that I accidentally brought back to life forever and he flirts with everyone, we might take you to meet him after all this is over."
"Doctor! Rose!" River called from the dropship and was now wearing a camouflage Amy clothes.
"Oops. River and Jack sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g," Amy teased.
"Father Octavian," River called Octavian.
As, the four of them walked to the transport. "Why do they call him Father?" Amy asked.
"He's their Bishop, they're his clerics," he explained "It's the 51st Century, the Church has moved on."
[Drop ship]
On a screen there was a black and white footage of a Weeping Angel, its body at an angle, hands over its eyes. River was controlling the video with a remote. "What do you think? It's from the security cameras in the Byzantium vault. I ripped it when I was on board. Sorry about the quality. It's four seconds. I've put it on loop."
"Yeah, it's an Angel. Hands covering its face," the Doctor said.
"The lonely assassins," Rose said.
"You both encountered the Angels before," Octavian asked them.
"Once, on Earth, a long time ago," the Doctor confirmed "But those were scavengers, barely surviving."
"And we were zapped back in time from 2007 to 1969 with our companion at the time named Martha Jones, a medical student and we had to use DVDs to help us get our Tardis back with the help of a woman named Sally Sparrow," Rose added.
"But it's just a statue," Amy said in confusion.
"It's a statue when you see it," River explained.
"Where did it come from?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh, pulled from the ruins of Razbahan, end of last century," River explained "It's been in private hands ever since. Dormant all that time."
"There's a difference between dormant and patient," the Doctor said.
"What's that mean, it's a statue when you see it?" Amy asked.
"The Weeping Angels can only move if they're unseen," River said "So legend has it."
"No, it's not legend, it's a quantum lock. In the sight of any living creature the Angels literally cease to exist. They're just stone. The ultimate defence mechanism," the Doctor said.
"What, being a stone?" Amy asked.
"Being a stone until you turn your back," the Doctor said.
The Doctor led the others out of the dropship. "The hyperdrive would've split on impact," he said "The whole ship will be flooded with radiation, cracked electrons, gravity storms, deadly to almost any living thing."
"Deadly to an Angel?" Octavian asked.
"Dinner to an Angel. The longer we leave it there, the stronger it will grow," he said "Who built that temple? Are they still around?"
"The Aplans. Indigenous life form," River answered "They died out four hundred years ago."
"Two hundred years later, the planet was terraformed," Octavian added "Currently there are six billion human colonists."
"Whoo! You lot, you're everywhere. You're like rabbits. Me and Rose will never get done saving you," the Doctor said.
"Doctor, to me it's more like bacteria than rabbits," Rose said "As bacteria reproduce every 20 minutes and every living thing evolved out of some form of bacteria."
"Sir, if there is a clear and present danger to the local population…" Octavian starts.
"Oh, there is," the Doctor said interrupting him. "Bad as it gets. Bishop, lock and load."
"Verger, how are we doing with those explosives?" Octavian called out to one of his Clerics "Doctor Song, with me."
"Two minutes," she said to Octavian "Oncoming Storm, Bad Wolf, I need you both."
The Doctor and Rose went with River and Amy stood at the Dropship "Anybody need me? Nobody?" Amy asked as she crossed her arms. A hand reached out from behind her and touched her shoulder. Amy yelped and jumped.
"Oh Rassilon! Your face!" Rose laughed.
"What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with your husband and the future wife of your friend Jack?" Amy asked her.
"No she needs at least one of us," Rose said "Come on in, live a little." She ducked inside and Amy followed.
Amy slowly moved forward, entranced by the Angel on the screen, Rose beside her. Since the last time they looked, it had now moved its hands away from its face.
River showed the Doctor a book. "I found this. Definitive work on the Angels. Well, the only one. Written by a madman, it's barely readable, but I've marked a few passages."
The Doctor finished the book. "Not bad, bit slow in the middle, didn't you hate his girlfriend? No, hang on, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" He sniffed the book.
Rose and Amy popped their heads out of the transport. "Hey River? Did you have more than one clip of the Angel?" Rose asked.
"No, just the four seconds," River replied and both Rose and Amy go back inside the dropship.
"This book is wrong," He said "What's wrong with this book? It's wrong."
Rose and Amy looked at the video again and now the Angel was now facing forward, hands down at its side. Amy bent over and peered closely at the time code. It looped from 11:24 to 11:28 yet the position of the Angel changed. Engrossed, neither Rose nor Amy noticed the door close and lock behind them.
"It's so strange when you go all baby face," River said to the Doctor as he observes the book "How early is this for you and Rose?"
"Very early," he said.
"So neither you or Rose know who I am yet?" River asked.
"How do you know who me and Rose?" He asked her "We don't always look the same."
"I've got pictures of all the faces that you and Rose have," River explained "You both never show up in the right order, though. I need the spotter's guide."
"Pictures," he said "Why aren't there pictures?" He asked talking about the book.
[Drop ship]
Amy picked up the remote for the video and tried to turn it off but it kept coming back on. She set the remote down and peered at the screen. "You're just a recording. You can't move."
"Amy, have you tried the plug to it?" Rose asked her as Rose bends down to find the plug and pull it out but it wouldn't budge and when they both looked back up, the Angel is up close to the camera, but the time stamp is still running through the same four seconds.
Rose, please tell me that the angel hasn't moved?" Amy asked her.
"So, it's not just me then," Rose said and they backed away.
"Doctor?" Amy called as Rose goes to the door and tried to open it but it wouldn't open and saw that the angel had it's mouth open and was now in full predatory mode.
"Theta!" Rose shouts but got no answer
"Doctor!" Amy shouts at the same time.
"This whole book, it's a warning, about the Weeping Angels," the Doctor said "So why no pictures? Why not show us what to look out for?"
"There was a bit about images," River said.
"Yes! Hang on..." The Doctor as he flipped through the book. "'That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel.'"
River asked, "What does that mean?" River asked "'An image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel.'"
The Doctor and River looked at each other and realized what it meant as they heard Rose and Amy shouting from the dropship "Rose and Amy!" They both shouted at the same time and ran to the dropship.
"Doctor!" Amy shouted as she and Rose pounded on the door.
Rose looked to see an image of the Angel becoming solid in the center of the transport. "Amy, keep looking at the Angel," Rose said to Amy in a quiet voice
Amy looked up and her heart sped faster than ever before. "Doctor! It's in the room!"
"Theta!" Rose shouted as she punched numbers into the dropship's keypad.
"Are you all right? What's happening?" The Doctor asked as he ran up to the door.
"Doctor! Doctor, it's coming out of the television," Amy said "The Angel is here."
"Don't take your eyes off it!" He said as he took out his sonic and used it on the keypad. "It can't move if you're looking. What's wrong? It's deadlocked."
"There is no deadlock," River said as she tries to override the controls.
"Don't blink! Both of you, don't even blink! "The Doctor said,
"Theta!" Rose shouted through the door.
"What are you doing?" River asked the Doctor.
"Cutting the power," he said "It's using the screen, I'm turning the screen off. It's no good, it's deadlocked the whole system."
"There's no deadlock," River said repeating herself
The Doctor growled, "There is now," the Doctor said.
"Help us!" Amy shouted "Doctor!"
The Doctor asked, "Rose! Amy! Can you turn it off? The screen, can you turn it off?" The Doctor asked them.
"Yes and we tried," Rose said "And it switched back on immediately."
"Try again," he said "but don't take your eyes off the Angel."
"We're not!" Rose snapped.
The Doctor and River tried harder to override the controls. "Each time it moves, it'll move faster," the Doctor said "Don't even blink."
"I'm not blinking! Have you ever tried not blinking?" Amy said.
Rose whispered, "Amy. You blink, I'll watch the Ange," Rose whispered to Amy and Amy blinked and Rose kept her eyes on the Angel. She fumbled for the remote without taking her eyes off it. She grabbed it and backed away to the door, pulling Amy with her, and tried to switch it off again. It turned itself back on.
"Just as I said, It just keeps switching back on!" Rose said.
"Yeah, it's the Angel," the Doctor told her.
"But it's just a recording," Amy said in confusion
The Doctor recited, "No, anything that takes the image of an Angel is an Angel," he said reciting the quote from the book and noticed that River was cutting the metal of the dropship with a blowtorch "What are you doing?" he asked her.
"I'm trying to cut through," River said "It's not even warm."
"There is no way in, it's not physically possible," the Doctor said.
"Doctor! What's it gonna do to us?" Amy asked terrified.
"Both of you! Just keep looking at it," the Doctor said "Don't stop looking!"
"Rose. Just tell me," Amy asked Rose and she shrugged as she didn't know "Just tell me. Doctor, tell me!"
The Doctor ran for the book and brought it back to just outside the door of the dropship where he sat. "Rose, Amy, not the eyes," he said "Look anywhere but don't look at the eyes."
"Why?" Amy asked as she looks at the eyes of the weeping angel.
"Doctor?" Rose asked as she looks at the wings of the weeping angel.
River asked, "What is it?"
"'The eyes are not the windows of the soul, they are the doors. Beware what may enter there,'" the Doctor said reading a quote from the book.
"Amy, it's looping," Rose said as she saw that it was looping.
"Doctor, what did you say?" Amy asked,
"Don't look at the eyes!" He said.
"No, she's talking about the images," Rose said "what did you say about images?" .
"Whatever holds the image of an angel, is an angel," River said.
"Amy, it's worth a shot," Rose said "We have to try."
Rose gave Amy the remote "OK... Hold this," Amy said as she held the remote out, pointing it at the weeping angel "One, two, three, four..." She hit the pause button while there was static. The image of the Angel froze before turning off, the door suddenly opened and both the Doctor and River came in and the Doctor unplugged the screen.
"I froze it. There was a sort of blip on the tape and I froze it on the blip. It wasn't the image of an Angel any more. That was good, yeah?" Amy asked "It was, wasn't it? That was pretty good.
"It was brilliant," Amy," Rose said.
That was both Brilliant and amazing," River said.
"River, hug Amy and Rose," the Doctor said as he uses his sonic screwdriver on a device.
"Why?" Rose and Amy both asked at the same time.
'cause I'm busy," he said.
"We're fine," Amy said.
"Amy is right, we're both fine," Rose said.
"You both were brilliant," River said as she hugs Amy.
"Thanks," Amy said "Yeah, I kind of creamed it, didn't I?"
"So it was here? That was the Angel?" River asked.
"That was a projection of the Angel," he said as he puts his sonic back in the pocket of his jacket "It's reaching out, getting a good look at us. It's no longer dormant." They suddenly heard an explosion coming from outside and they ran towards the door.
Happy American Independence Day also known as the fourth of July which is tomorrow!
Please review and tell me if I'm making Rose sound like well… Rose Because I still don't know how to write her properly and I need a beta-reader.
This is a message for the guest named Guest Who: Rose knows Winston Churchill 'cause she's met him twice before (I'm talking about the Big Finish audio adventures that I haven't listened to 'called the Churchill years', but in this timeline she was with him through both times the Tenth Doctor met him in the audio adventures). The Doctor told her everything about the Time war his 'Secret/War' Incarnation, the Valeyard and every adventure he's been on without her and I think I'm going to explore more of Rose's life when she was Arkytior during series 7