I've been putting this one off for a while, I honestly don't want it to end, I've been writing Amy and Rory's characters for so long now that it's going to be strange to not write for them. Anyways if you somehow can, enjoy the first half of 'The Angels Take Manhatten.'

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The Time Lords sat on a picnic blanket. The Stones head resting on the Doctors lap and Jenny sat cross-legged next to them. Amy and Rory sat on their own blanket right next to the Time Lords. "New York growled at my window, but I was ready for it." The Doctor read from the book in his hands. "My stocking seams were straight, my lipstick was combat-ready, and I was packing cleavage that could fell an ox at twenty feet."

"Sweetheart." The Stone muttered not even looking away from her own book in her hands that rested on her very noticeable bump. It had been at least thirteen out of the eighteen months she would be pregnant for, to any human they might have guessed she looked six months pregnant. It had got to the point now where the Doctor wouldn't let her do anything by herself in fear of something happening to her or the child which was exactly the reason why they were sat in central park in new york and not running about on an alien planet. "You're doing it again."

"I'm reading!" He protested looking down at her.

"Aloud." Both Amy and the Time Lady replied together.

"Please could you not?" Amy added.

The Doctor squinted his eyes at Amy. "There's something different about you, isn't there?"

"What's the book?" Rory questioned.

"Melody Malone." He replied. "She's a private detective in old town New York."

Amy smirked slightly. "She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips, and a vulnerable side she keeps well hidden."

"Oh, you've read it?" He asked the ginger human.

"You read it," Jenny added. "Aloud." She chuckled at her father. "And then went yowzah!"

"Only you could fancy someone in a book." Rory shook his head.

"I'm married." He protested, narrowing his eyes in defence. "And I'm reading it. I just like the cover."

"Ooo, can we see the cover?" Amy teased.

"No, no, I'm busy." The Stone chuckled and took the book from him looking at the cover before frowning.

"The woman looks a little like me when I was all Welsh."

"Oh yes." The Doctor nodded. "She does, doesn't she? Minus the curly hair of course."

"Doesn't look much like a Melody though." Jenny hummed.

"Can I see?" Amy asked.

The Doctor frowned at Amy and blinked. "It's your hair!" He frowned again slightly unsure. "Is it your hair?"

"Oh, shut up." She huffed. "It's the glasses. I'm wearing reading glasses now, on my nose, see?" She pointed at them. "There you go."

"I don't like them." He protested. "They make your eyes look all liney."

"Oh dear..." the Stone muttered forcing herself to sit up.

The Doctor lifted the glasses up as he looked closely at Amy before his eyes widened and he dropped the glasses back onto her nose. "No, actually, sorry. They're fine. Carry on."

"Okay, I'm going to go and get us some more coffee." Rory jumped up. "Who wants more coffee? Me too." He raised his hand just as the Doctor did as well. "I'll go!"

"Can I have a hot chocolate please?" The Stone asked. "Can't be having caffeine right now."

"Of course." He nodded.

"Rory, do I have noticeable lines on my eyes now?" Amy questioned.

"Yes." The Doctor nodded and winced when the Stone jabbed his arm and shot him a dangerous look.

"No," Rory replied, his back turned to her.

She narrowed her eyes. "You didn't look."

"I noticed them earlier." He quickly shook his head. "Didn't notice them." He spun around to face her. "I specifically remember not noticing them."

"You walk among fire pits, Centurion."

"Do I have to come over there?" He questioned.

"You can if you like." She flirtatiously replied.

"Well, we have company." He said walking over.

"I'll get a babysitter," Amy said before they kissed.

"Oh, do you know, it is so humiliating when you do that." The Doctor groaned at them.

"He says with his pregnant wife sat next to him," Amy remarked to Rory after pulling away from her husband.

The Stone shook her head and whispered something into the Doctors ear. His eyes widened with his cheeks and ears going a light shade of red. "Fair enough."

Rory raised a brow at them both not really wanting to know what the Time Lady had said to her husband. "Coffee?" He asked Amy.

"Coffee." Amy nodded and watched him leave.

"Can I have a go?" The Doctor asked Amy. She nodded and handed the glasses over.

The Doctor placed them on his nose and blinked at the page. "Oh, actually, that is much better. That is exciting."

"They make you look adorable." The Stone said kissing his cheek. "Not That you're not-" she reassured, getting cut off when he kissed her, she hummed in contentment and then lied back down with her head in his lap.

"And you say about me and Rory." Amy rolled her eyes sitting back to back with the Doctor. "Now read to us," Amy ordered.

"I thought you didn't like my reading aloud." He raised a brow.

"No, but I do." The Stone smiled up at her husband.

"Just don't go yowzah." Jenny giggled lying down looking at the sky.

The Doctor chuckled at his daughter and tore out the last page of the book. The Stone sighed at him. "Sorry, dear." He murmured, leaning down to kiss her forehead glad that she didn't try to murder him.

"Why did you do that?" Amy asked.

The Stone huffed at her husband. "He always rips out the last page of a book.

"Then it doesn't have to end." He added. "I hate endings." He placed the page in the picnic basket and opened the book to the page he read last. One hand held the book while the other was in the Stones' hair, rubbing soothing circles into her scalp. "As I crossed the street, I saw the thin guy, but he didn't see me." He read aloud. "I guess that's how it began."

Amy stood up and walked over to the bridge that went over the river as he continued. Jenny then joined her with the older Time Lords behind, the Doctor helping his wife to stand.

"I followed the skinny guy for two more blocks before he turned and I could ask exactly what he was doing here. He looked a little scared, so I gave him my best smile and my bluest eyes."

"Beware the yowzah," Amy warned pointing a small stick at him before tossing it into the river. "Do not, at this point, yowzah." The Doctor froze in his place staring at the book. "Doctor?" Amy frowned. "What did the skinny guy say?"

The Time Lord swallowed. "He said, 'I just went to get coffees for the Doctor, the Stone, Amy and Jenny. Hello, River.'"

"We need to get to the TARDIS." The Stones face drained of all colour. "Right now."

"I second that." The Doctor nodded his grip firm on her hand as they headed back to the time machine.

"What's River doing in a book?" Amy frowned when they walked inside. "What's Rory doing in a book?"

"He went to get coffee." The Stone answered.

"Pay attention." The Doctor ordered.

"He went to get coffee and turned up in a book." Amy said thinking back to what the Doctor said was in the book. She frowned glancing at both Time Lords for a moment. "How does that work?"

"I don't know." The Doctor shrugged. "We're in New York!" He waved his hands about blaming the city for what was happening.

Amy held the book up. "Where did you get this book?"

He shrugged. "It was in my jacket."

"How did it get there?"

"I thought the Stone put it there by accident."

"As if I would be that careless with a book." She snorted at him.

He shrugged at her. "Well, how does anything else get there. I've given up asking." He clicked his fingers, "Date, date. Does she mention a date? When is this happening?"

Amy flipped through the pages and stopped. "Yes, hang on. Oh, April 3rd, 1938."

"You didn't come here in the TARDIS, obviously." Amy read aloud. "Why? He couldn't have."

The Doctor looked at the human while he moved around the console. The Stone on the other side with Jenny following her. "Couldn't have? What does she mean? Couldn't have?"

"This city's full of time distortions." Amy continued reading. "It'd be impossible to land the TARDIS here. Like trying to land a plane in a blizzard. Even the Stone couldn't do it."

"Excuse me." He blinked, sounding slightly offended as his brows furrowed. "What is she saying about my wife."

"Don't you two fall out now." Amy sighed shaking her head. "She's only in a book."

"1938." The Doctor added ignoring her comment. "Easy one." He pulled a lever, the TARDIS shook and sparked in time with the scanner that read 'temporal distortions'. Amy gripped onto the railing while the Stone, Jenny and the Doctor grabbed hold of the console.

"What was that?"

"1938." Jenny guessed looking at the scanner.

The Stone nodded, her face slightly green. "We just bounced off it."

"Are you okay dear?" The Doctor worryingly looked at her.

"Just..." she closed her eyes for a moment, leaning onto the TARDIS console. "The TARDIS got a bit too shaky there."

The Doctor nodded, wrapping an arm around her and kissing her temple.

"So how did you get here?" Amy continued reading. "Vortex manipulator. Less bulky than a TARDIS. A motorbike through traffic. You?" She looked up at the Time Lords. "I'm not sure."

The TARDIS suddenly had smoke filling it with a fire on the console. They quickly headed out, standing in a graveyard, the Doctor sprayed a fire extinguisher inside the TARDIS. "I thought it was." The Stone muttered shaking her head. It has to be the Weeping Angels."

"The Weeping Angels?" Amy frowned.

"Yes." The Doctor nodded. "It makes sense."

"It makes what?"

"That's what happened to Rory." She explained. "It's what the Angels do."

"Their preferred form of attack." The Doctor cut in. "They zap you back in time, let you live to death."

"Well, we've got a time machine. We can just go and get him."

"Well, tried that, if you've noticed, and we are back where we started in 2012." He huffed. "Can't use Jenny's vortex manipulator because someone broke it." He narrowed his eyes at the blonde.

"Doctor." The Stone warned.

"Yes, dear." He muttered.

Amy looked around confused. "We didn't start in a graveyard. What are we doing here?"

The Doctor shrugged. "Don't know. Probably causally linked somehow. Doesn't matter." He opened the TARDIS door. "Extractor fans on!"

"Well, we're going to get there somehow." She replied. "We're in the rest of the book."

"Doing what?"

"Page 43, the Stone's going to break something."

"She's what?"

"'Why do you have to break mine', I asked the Stone." Amy read. "She frowned and said, 'Because Amy read it in a book and now I have no choice.'"

Their eyes widened in horror while Jenny looked at the human shocked. "Stop! No! No! Stop!" The Doctor shouted grabbing the book from her. "You can't read ahead. You mustn't. And you can't do that".

"But we've already been reading it." She protested.

"We've been reading what has been happening now." The Stone explained. "It's in parallel with us, we cannot go ahead any further."

"But it could help us find Rory."

"But he could die," Jenny said, "couldn't he?"

"Yes." The Doctor nodded at her. "Exactly right, if we read ahead and find out it happens then it happens for good. This isn't any old future, Amy, it's ours."

"I'm going to break something because you told me that I'm going to do it." The Stone sighed shaking her head. "I've got no choice now."

"Time can be rewritten."

"Not once you've read it." She answered. "Once we know what's coming, it's written in stone."

They stepped back into the TARDIS. "Ah. Early Qin dynasty, I'd say." Amy read to them. "Correct. Are you an archaeologist as well as a detective?"

"Okay, landing a plane in a timey wimey blizzard." The Doctor muttered walking around the console. "We could push through, but if we're out by a nanosecond, the engines will phase and we'll shatter the planet. We need landing lights."

"Landing lights?" Amy frowned.

"Yes, we need a signal to lock on to. What did she say? Early what dynasty?"

"Early Qin," Amy repeated.

The Stone nodded and pulled down a lever.

"Okay." The Doctor ran out of the TARDIS after it materialised.

A few minutes later he ran back in and headed to the console. "Ready?" He looked at the Stone and Jenny.

"What." The blonde blinked bewildered.

"Well, we need your help, Jen."

"My help?" She repeated pointing at herself. "You two can fly the TARDIS fine. I don't want to mess up and shatter the Earth, dad."

The Doctor shook his head walking around to step in front of his daughter, "your mum didn't feel well after how bumpy the TARDIS got last time, I don't want her getting any worse and you fly her fine as well. We taught you everything we know about the TARDIS and how to fly her. You fly her brilliantly, Jenny. We wouldn't ask if we didn't think you were ready."

"Okay." Jenny slowly nodded and headed to the scanner, the Stone following. The scanner then lit up with the word 'yowzah' written on it. The Doctor grinned at the Stone and Jenny. The Doctor and his daughter ran around the console. flipping levers and pressing a combination of buttons as they went. The TARDIS shook and sparked before landing throwing the four onto the floor.

"Doctor." The Stone groaned.

"Yes, dear?"

"Can we just agree to have a day in next time? Go to the swimming pool or something."

"Yes, dear." He replied before standing up and helping her to stand as well.

Amy jumped up and ran out of the TARDIS. Come on!" She shouted back to them.

"Are you okay?" The Doctor questioned, eyes quickly scanning her to see any signs of discomfort or distress.

"I'm good." She smiled brushing herself off before a hand gently rested on her stomach. "We're both okay."

The Doctors face grew soft. He bent down and kissed her stomach. "Good." He murmured, gently restng his hand there.

She was never going to get bored of him doing that. Jenny chuckled at her parents and followed them out of the TARDIS a moment later.

The Stone raised a brow at their location that looked like the hallway to a very wealthy house. "Oh." She blinked at the male body on the floor. "Well, he's breathing." She noted, watching his chest rise before it fell.

"Well, that isn't a surprise." The Doctor said looking into the other room where River was stood, an angel in chains holding her left wrist.

"He won't be breathing if I can get loose." The curly-haired woman remarked with a smirk.

"Hello, River" The Stone smirked back.

"Hello, sister." She smiled. "Doctor," River nodded at him. "Jenny."

"So where are we now, Doctor Song?" The Doctor raised a brow as he stepped into the room. "How's prison?"

She shrugged as they walked up to her. "Oh, I was pardoned ages ago. And it's Professor Song now."

Jenny frowned remembering that her Aunt was in Storm Cage. "Pardoned?"

"Mmm. Turns out the people I killed never existed in the first place. Apparently, there's no record of him or her. It's almost as if two people have gone around deleting themselves from every database in the universe." She looked to the Time Lord, giving them both knowing looks.

"Well, we have a daughter now." The Stone shrugged. "And another one on the way." She smiled.

River stared at her before she noticed the large swollen belly, how had she missed that before? "No..." She breathed.

"Yes." She whispered. The Doctor smiled and gently rested a hand on the Stone's stomach as he kissed his wife's cheek.

River chuckled slightly, her face warming considering the situation she was currently in. "Congratulations." She looked at them both. "You will tell me as soon as they're born." She gave the Doctor a pointed look. If he acted anything like he did when neither of the Time Lords knew who River really was the Doctor was definitely going to try and keep his son or daughter away from the woman for as long as possible.

"Oh, we will." The Doctor reassured with a nod. "The Stone already made me promise that."

"But going back to our conversation." She looked at them. "Didn't you both used to be somebody?"

"Weren't you the woman who killed the Doctor and the Stone?" The Time Lady replied.

"Doctor who?" She smirked. "What Stone?"

Jenny eyed the angel. "She's holding you very tight."

River nodded at her niece. "At least she didn't send me back in time."

"I doubt she's strong enough." The Stone added.

"Well, I need a hand back, so which is it going to be? Are you going to break my wrist or hers?" The Stone went very pale and River sighed. "Oh, no. Really?" She sighed as the Time Lady averted her eyes, not able to look at her sister who closed her eyes. "Why do you have to break mine?"

"Because Amy read it in a book, and now I have no choice." The Stone whispered, her eyes closing in distress at the very thought, she then looked over to where Amy stood in the doorway. "You see?"

"What book?" River asked.

"Your book." The Doctor brought it out of his pocket and held it up to her. "Which you haven't written yet, so we can't read."

"I see. The cover looks like you, sister." River hummed before she slightly tilted her head, eyes studying the cover. "Well, the last you when you were Welsh."

"Yeah, I did wonder why that was the cover." The Stone frowned.

"Probably to interest him." The blonde with her hand in the angel snorted as her eyes looked over to the Doctor who fidgeted slightly.

"But if River's going to write that book, she'd make it useful, yeah?" Amy questioned as the Time Lords sat down, the Doctors arm around his wife.

"I'll certainly try. But we can't read ahead," She reminded. "It's too dangerous."

"I know, but there must be something we can look at."

"What, a page of handy hints, previews, spoiler free?" The Doctor suggested.

Jenny frowned as Amy did. They then looked at each other and grinned as the same idea came into both of their heads. "Chapter titles."

The Doctor thought for a moment and then pointed at his daughter and mother in law. "He's in the cellar."

"Gimme!" Any ordered. The Stone threw her sonic at Amy who then ran out in search of Rory.

The Time Lord grinned at their discovery and stood up. The Stone picked up the book and went to put it in her pocket. She froze.

"Stone?" River frowned at her.

"Dear?" The Doctor gave her a worried look, he quickly moved to her side as she brought the book out. He took it off her and scanned the first page. "No..." He whispered shaking his head as his eyes fell on the final chaper title. 'Amelia and Rory's Last Farewell.'

"Mum?" Jenny looked at her parents. "Dad?"

"No!" He shouted hitting his head with the book. He threw it into his pocket and went to storm out. His hand tightly holding the Stones.

"Calm down!" River shouted at them. "Talk to me!"

"No!" The Stone shook her head storming up to her sister. "Get your wrist out without breaking it!"

"How?"

"I don't know." She hissed while shrugging not even wanting to look at River due to how angry and upset she felt. "Just do it. Change the future!"

Jenny stared at her parents as they left. She then glanced at River who sighed and lowered her head. "Go." She ordered. "I don't think watching me get out of this will be a pretty sight."

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We haven't even got to the end and I'm already sad. I should have the second part out soon, I might just finish this book before I go and upload anything for my two other fics purely to get this one done and dusted. I can't believe we're almost at the end.