Chapter 12

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Lucy stumbled into a wall as she landed somewhere in the Doctors time stream. She brought a hand to her face and rubbed her forehead as she waited for her eyes to clear. When they did, she saw a red headed woman in a red jumper facing away from her. Lucy looked past the girl to see what she was looking at, and saw a giant screen in a smallish metal room with an image of a stone statue on it.

Lucys heart clenched and her eyes widened as she realised where and when she was. She moved her hand down the wall she was leaning against and nudged a box, which caused it to fall and bang against the metal floor loudly.

The woman who Lucy realised was Amy gasped and turned around in fright.

"Oh! You scared me," She exclaimed with a hand over her heart.

"You have to go," Lucy said blankly without looking away from the screen.

"What? Why?" Amy asked confused "And how did you get in here?"

"I... I just got here," Lucy dodged the question. She couldn't think well enough to come up with a proper answer. All she knew was that she had to get Amy out of that room before the door closed.

Amy narrowed her eyes in suspicion and put here hands on her hips, "That's good, but who are you,"

"Just go and get the Doctor. Please," Lucy said as her hands started to shake, "Tell him, it's the angel. Tell him it's here."

Amy looked at her sceptically before she turned and left to find the Doctor.

Lucy let out a sigh of relief as Amy left. She was safe. Though her happy thoughts were shattered when she herd the door close behind her. She swallowed as she stared at the Angel looking back at her through the screen.

Don't look at the eyes. Anything but the eyes.

Lucy tried to remember how Amy had stopped the Angel in the show but her brain wasn't working properly and she couldn't think.

About a minute passed of agonising silence before she heard something on the other side of the door.

"Hello?" Lucy heard a muffled voice say from the other side of the door.

"Doctor?" Lucy asked as she backed up so she was standing next to the door. She could hear the fear in her voice as she desperately hoped the voice belonged to the Doctor.

"Lucy?" The Doctor asked as he recognised her voice, "What are you doing in there?"

Lucy let out a sigh of relief. "Trying to stop an Angel from climbing out of a screen," Lucy replied as nonchalantly as she could, but she knew he could hear how scared she was.

There wasn't a reply and Lucy started to panic.

"Doctor?"

"Yes yes, I'm here. It's going to be okay. Your going to be okay," he tried to reassure her, but sounded like he was trying to reassure himself as well.

"Doctor, I can't remember. I can't remember what I'm supposed to do," Lucy said in panic as she started to freak out.

"That's okay, that's fine." The Doctor said, trying to keep her calm.

Lucy then heard mumbling from behind the door, and she waited for the Doctor to say something else. At this point her eyes had started to water from being held open for so long. She tried to keep them open, but her eyes closed of their own accord and she blinked.

Lucy let out a sob as she saw the Angel standing in front of the screen.

"Doctor, it's in the room!" Lucy shouted in terror as she tried to open the door.

"Don't blink Lucy. Do not blink!" The Doctor ordered.

"What do I do?" She asked as she started to hyperventilate.

"Don't take your eyes off it. It can't move if you're looking!" The Doctor called. She could hear his sonic as he tried to open the door, and him say something about a dead lock.

"Doctor what do I do!" Lucy could feel her self panicking. Her hands were shaking and her head was starting to feel funny. She couldn't focus.

"Can you turn it off? The screen, can you turn it off?" He called through the door.

Lucy took a deep breath to steady herself. She started to move towards the desk were the remote was and called out, "Hang on."

She grabbed the remote off the desk and walked back to the door, not looking away from the angel for a moment. She tried to turn the screen off but if kept turning itself back on.

"It just keeps turning back on."

Lucy flinched as the Doctor let out a frustrated yelled and hit the door.

"The book. Where's the book?" The Doctor asked hurriedly before she heard him run to find it.

Lucy backed away until she hit the back wall and slid down it. She sat huddled on the floor and clutched the remote to her chest as she stared at the angel. She could hear River speaking to Amy outside but couldn't focus on what they were saying.

She heard the Doctor get back from where ever he ran off to.

"Lucy, not the eyes. Look at the Angel but don't look at the eyes!"

She heard Amy ask why she couldn't look at the eyes and the doctor replied with, "The eyes are not the windows of the soul, they are the doors. Beware what may enter there."

Lucy tried not to look. She really did, but it was like something was pulling her gaze to the Angels eyes.

She tried to think, to figure out how she was supposed to stop it. Eyes. Images. Windows. Doors…. Wait. Images.

"Doctor, what did it say about images. The book. What did it say?" Lucy asked.

"Whatever holds the image of an Angel is an Angel," River said as she heard the sonic again.

Lucy clutched the remote tighter in her fist. Whatever holds the image of an angel. She watched as the projected image of the Angel flicker every few seconds before she gasped.

"Four seconds," Lucy whispered. It's four seconds then a blip. Amy froze it on the blip.

Lucy put one hand behind her and pushed herself up. She stood with her back against the back wall and held the remote out in front of her.

"Okay you can do this," she whispered to her self. She drew in a deep breath before she started counting softly.

"One, two, three, Four."

On four, she pressed the pause button on the remote. The projection of the Angel glitched before the screen shut down and took the Angel with it.

Lucy sighed and closed her eyes in relief as she heard the door unlock and open.

Before she could turn around to face the door, someone barrelled into her and enveloped her in a bone crushing hug. She stiffened for a moment before she saw a shoulder covered in a tweed jacket, and relaxed a tiny bit. She let her head fall onto the Doctors shoulder and wrapped her arms around him. Lucy took a shaky breath as she tried to calm down from what just happened. When she had stopped shaking, she let go on the Doctor and stepped back.

"Are you alright?" He asked sincerely as he looked into her eyes.

Lucy gave him a small smile and nodded her head, not quite trusting her voice to be stable yet. He studied her for a moment longer, seeming to not quite believe her, before he turned around to check out the screen to make sure the Angel wouldn't come back out of it.

"Was that the Angel?" Amy asked, slightly confused about what just happened.

"That was a projection of the Angel," The Doctor said while he sonic some cables," It's reaching out, getting a good look at us. It's no longer dormant."

River and Amy exchanged a worried glance while Lucy started to fiddle with her fingers nervously. This was going to be a difficult one, Lucy thought.

Suddenly, there was a large explosion outside that was followed by shouts.

"I think they blew through the cliff face," She said quietly.

"Okay. Now it starts," The Doctor said almost as softly as Lucy. He was aware how serious the situation was and could tell by how scared Lucy was that this was going to be a particularly nasty adventure.

He took one last look at her before he hurried out of the room. Amy followed after him, but River stayed with Lucy and walked with her over to the Bishop to make sure she was okay.

"Bishop," River called to get his attention. He turned to face the two and nodded at River.

"Doctor Song. Who's this?" He asked as he looked at Lucy.

"This is Lucy," River said meaningfully, like The Bishop should know who she is.

"Father Octavian. It's a privilege. I wasn't aware you would be joining us on this mission," He shook her hand as he introduced himself.

"Um, I wasn't either…" Lucy said, a little confused at how he knew who she was.

River interjected before the Bishop could said anything more.

"This is very early in her time stream. She hasn't been travelling with the Doctor very long,"

"She doesn't know much about the situation yet," River said, a bit like she was trying to imply that she was talking about something other than the mission.

Lucy furrowed her eyebrows at this and looked between River and Father Octavian, and observed the silent conversation they seemed to be having. Lucy shook her head and brushed it off, but made a mental note to ask River about it later.

Before anything else could be said, The Doctor jogged up to them and grabbed a hold of Lucys hand.

"Come one. We're going in now," he said to all of them before he pulled Lucy towards the cliff where they would enter the maze.

She glanced up at the Doctor and took note of how his jaw was clenched and how he had a determined look in his eyes.

"Are you alright?" she asked him after a moments deliberation, "You seem tense."

He looked down at her with that same look before it quickly morphed in to a grin.

"What do you mean? It's not like we're about to climb up into a burning spaceship with a creature that could potentially kill us," He joked, seeming to try and lighten the mood.

Lucy just smiled as they reached the cliff face.

Here we go, she thought as she watch the clerics being lowered down into the maze.

A/N

Hello Readers. I'm back!

I have to apologise for being away for so long. I haven't been in the best headspace for quite a while. I failed my final year of school and that really put a large dent in my self confidence and self worth. But I'm slowly getting better and I've gotten over it to the point I don't have a break down every time I think about it. But still, I shouldn't have left this story for so long and forgotten about it. But I'm back now.

I might not post every week, but I'll make an effort to post as often as I can. I won't forget about you again. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It's a little short, but I was feeling inspired and wanted to get something up so I could kick myself into gear and force myself to start writing again. The next ones will hopefully be longer. Thank you so much for reading. Please leave a review and tell what you thought of it!

Until next time,

- Artemis