"What's that?" River questioned eyeing the device the Doctor was using with his screwdriver.

"Er, readings from a crack in the wall." He replied.

How can a crack in the wall be the end of the universe?" River asked.

"Don't know, but here's what I think. One day there's going to be a very big bang. So big every moment in history, past and future, will crack." He replied.

"Is that possible?" She asked. "How?"

"How can you be engaged, in a manner of speaking?" The Stone asked slightly tilting her head to the side in thought. She was never one to poke her nose into other people's business, of course when it wasn't something interesting or life threatening that is.

"Well," River smirked. "Sucker for a man in uniform."

"Doctor Song's in my personal custody." Octavian replied. "I released her from the Stormcage Containment Facility four days ago and I am legally responsible for her until she's accomplished her mission and earned her pardon." He added making the Stones eyes widen in shock. She never expected River to be that bad. But why was she at Stormcage... what could she have possibly done. "Just so we understand each other." Octavian hissed.

"You were in Stormcage?" The Doctor questioned.

"What?" River frowned. "What is that?" She questioned trying to change the subject.

"The date." The Doctor replied while the Stone frowned still wanting an answer to the Doctors previous question. "The date of the explosion, where the crack begins."

"And for those of us who can't read the base code of the universe?" River asked as the numbers switched and randomised until they reached 26/06/2010

"Amy's time." The Stone whispered her eyes widening a little.

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"It doesn't open it from here, but it's the Primary Flight Deck," Octavian explained eyeing the wall and small hatch. "This has got to be a service hatch or something."

"Hurry up and open it." River hissed aiming her gun at the forest. "Time's running out."

"What?" The Doctors eyes snapped to her. "What did you say? Time's running out, is that what you said?"

"Yeah. I just meant-"

"I know what you meant. Hush." He ordered cutting her off. "But what if it could?"

"What if what could?"

"Time." The Stone murmured her eyes widening, understanding what the Time Lord meant. "What if time could run out?"

"Got it," Octavian called.

"Cracks." The Doctor said nodded at the Time Lady. "Cracks in time. Time running out. No, couldn't be..." he frowned speaking to himself. "Couldn't be. But how is a duck pond a duck pond if there aren't any ducks?"

"And she didn't recognise the Daleks." The Stone added looking at him. "Okay, time can shift."

"Time can change." He said.

"Time can be rewritten." They both whispered their eyes both widening meeting each other. "Oh!"

"Doctor Song, get through, now," Octavian ordered. "Doctor?" He frowned seeing the Time Lord. "Doctor."

"Time can be unwritten." He whispered.

"It's been happening all around us and we haven't even noticed." The Stone sighed shaking her head.

"Doctor, Stone, we have to move," Octavian ordered them.

"The CyberKing. A giant Cyberman walks over all of Victorian London and no one remembers." The Doctor frowned.

"We have to move it. The Angels could be here any second." Octavian warned.

"Never mind the Angels." The Doctor said waving him off. "There's worse here than Angels."

The lights then flickered off then on, the Time Lords spun around their eyes widening at the sight of an angel with its arm around Octavian's neck. "I beg to differ, sir."

"Let him go." The Doctor ordered.

"Well, it can't let me go, sir, can it?" Octavian said his brow forming a line of sweat. "Not while you're looking at it."

"We can't stop looking at it, it'll kill you." The Stone whispered.

"It's going to kill me anyway." He replied. "Think it through. There's no way out of this. You both have to leave me."

"Can't you wriggle out?" The Doctor asked.

"No, it's too tight. You have to leave me, sir, ma'am." Octavian replied. "There's nothing you can do."

"There must be something." The Doctor murmured in thought.

"Sir, there's nothing you can do." Octavian firmly told him.

"You're dead if we leave you." The Stone said.

"Yes." He nodded. "Yes, I'm dead. And before you go-"

"We're not going." The Stone firmly cut in.

"Listen to me, it's important." Octavian sharply replied. "You can't trust her."

"Trust who?" The Time Lady frowned.

"River Song." The Stones eyes widened, she had her thoughts especially when the woman changed the subject from Stormcage to what the Doctor was doing. "You think you know her, but you don't. You don't understand who or what she is."

"Then tell us." The Time Lady shakily replied the Doctor taking her hand in comfort. She trusted River without question, it was only natural given that she too had foreknowledge at one point and knew just how hard it was to keep secrets.

"I've told you more than I should." He replied. "Now please, you have to go. It's your duty to your friends."

"Just tell me..." the Stone said before swallowing her voice becoming soft and less harsh as the Doctor gently squeezed her hand. "Why she was in Stormcage?"

"She killed a woman and then a man. Good people. Heroes to many."

"Who?" The Stone whispered.

"You don't want to know, ma'am. You really don't." Octavian looked at them a look of plead in his eyes.

"Who did she kill?" The Doctor questioned.

"Sir, the Angels are coming. You have to leave me."

"You'll die." The Doctor protested again.

"I will die in the knowledge that my courage did not desert me at the end. For that, I thank God, and bless the path that takes you to safety."

"I wish I'd known you better." The Stone thickly swallowed.

"I think, ma'am, you know me at my best."

"Ready?" The Doctor asked tightening his grip on the Stones' hand.

"Content," Octavian replied. The Time Lords darted and dived through the hatch the Stone wincing at the sickening crunch behind them as the Doctor slammed the hatch shut.

"There's a teleport." River said from the controls, not looking up to notice the missing person in the room. "If I can get it to work. we can beam the others here." She then looked up frowning. "Where's Octavian?"

"Octavian's dead. So is that teleport. You're wasting your time." The Doctor said. "I'm going to need your communicator."

"Perhaps I can make that teleport work..." the Stone muttered narrowing her eyes at the Doctor when he opened his mouth to tell her it was pointless. He had learned after knowing the Stone for centuries that it was better to keep his mouth shut than to miss judge the Time Lady when it came to computers and technology.

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"...Please say you're there." They heard through the communicator.

The Stones head snapped from the controls to meet the Doctors. "But that..." she breathed her eyes fixated on on the communicator.

"Hello?" Amy called. "Hello?"

"Amy?" The Doctor spoke through. "Amy? Is that you?"

"Doctor?" She asked.

"Where are you?" He questioned. "Are the Clerics with you?"

"They've gone." She tearfully replied. The Stone bit her lip in slight anger before her face saddened hearing Amy continues. There was a light and they walked into the light. Doctor, they didn't even remember each other."

"No, they wouldn't." He shook his head while the Stone looked down making herself busy with the controls, trying to fix the teleport device.

"What is that light?" Amy asked.

"Time running out. Amy, I'm sorry, I made a mistake. I should never have left you there."

"We." The Stone corrected shooting him a look to say it was both of their faults not just his.

"Well, what do I do now?" The redhead asked.

"You come to us. The Primary Flight Deck, the other end of the forest."

"I can't see." Amy reminded him. "I can't open my eyes."

"Turn on the spot." He said flashing his sonic at the communicator.

"Sorry, what?" Amy asked.

"Just do it." He ordered. "Turn on the spot. When the communicator sounds like my screwdriver, that means you're facing the right way. Follow the sound. You have to start moving now. There's Time Energy spilling out of that crack, and you have to stay ahead of it."

"But the Angels, they're everywhere."

"I'm sorry, I really am, but the Angels can only kill you."

"What does the Time Energy do?"

"Just keep moving!" He shouted. The Stone winced at the anger in his voice. He blamed himself and was making it worse by shouting.

"Sweetheart." She whispered gently placing a hand on his shoulder feeling him slightly flinch before he leant into her touch. "Shouting won't help." She softly reminded slowly reaching and taking the communicator out of his hand. "Let me talk to her, I'll explain it."

"Tell me." The Time Lady sharply took a breath hearing Amy whimpering from the other end of the device.

"If the Time Energy catches up with you, you'll never have been born." The Stone carefully explained keeping herself calm. "It will erase every moment of your existence. You will never have lived at all. Now, Amelia." She closed her eyes wishing she could go back and help the redhead not leaving her alone. "You need to keep your eyes shut and please keep moving."

"It's never going to work." River shot the Time Lords a look from the controls the Stone was at a moment before.

"What else have you got!" The Doctor shouted making the curly haired blonde flinch. "River! Tell me!"

"Doctor!" The Stone snapped her features showing the boiling anger that she desperately tried to hide. She let out a shaky sigh pinching the bridge of her nose. "Doctor..." she whispered trying to stay calm. "I'm just as upset and worried as you are sweetheart, we need to stay calm."

"What's that?" River asked changing the conversation back to the one from before.

"The Angels running from the fire. They came here to feed on the Time Energy, now it's going to feed on them."

"Amy, listen to me." The Doctor cut in. "I'm sending a bit of software to your communicator." He explained flashing her screwdriver at it. "It's a proximity detector. it'll beep if there's something in your way. You just manoeuvre till the beeping stops. Because, Amy, this is important." He said not able to stress it enough. "The forest is full of Angels. You're going to have to walk like you can see."

"Well, what do you mean?" She asked.

"Look, just keep moving." He ordered.

"That Time Energy, what's it going to do?" River questioned.

"Er, keep eating."

"How do we stop it?"

"Feed it." The Stone replied.

"Feed it what?"

"Perhaps a big, complicated space-time event would shut it up for a while."

"Like what, for instance?"

"Well..." the Stone glanced at the Doctor who squeezed her hand. "The Doctor and I would stop it."

Amy frowned hearing a beeping noise. "What's that?"

"It's a warning." The Stone calmly replied. "Amy... There are Angels around you now." She let out a shaky breath. "You have to listen to us. This is going to be hard but we both know you can do it."

"The Angels are scared and running, and right now they're not that interested in you." The Doctor explained, the Stone moved back over to try and finish the teleport. "They'll assume you can see them and their instincts will kick in. All you've got to do is walk like you can see. Just don't open your eyes. Walk like you can see." He said. "You're not moving. You have to do this." He ordered his voice raising. "Now. You have to do this!" The Time Lords let out a long sigh hearing Amy's communicator start to beep signalling that she was moving.

They then suddenly heard a crash and Amy's voice came through. "Doctor? I can't find the communicator. I dropped it." She cried. "I can't find it, Doctor. Doctor. Stone!" She screamed.

"Come on." The Stone gritted her teeth flashing the last wire. "Now!" She shouted just as River slammed her hand down on the button.

Amy then suddenly appeared just as River ran to the redhead wrapping an arm around her. "Don't open your eyes." She ordered. "You're on the Flight Deck. The Doctor and the Stone are here. The Stone and I teleported you." She said then smugly looked at the Doctor. "See? The Stone told you she could get it working, never doubt your wife."

"Oh, I never have." He grinned. "Dear, I could bloody kiss you."

"Remember that old saying actions say more than words? Or was that something I just came up with?" She raised a brow before letting out a small yelp not expecting the Time Lord to harshly pull her waist to him, smashing his lips to hers.

"Well..." the Stone lightly coughed her cheeks a deep red after her and the Doctor separated from their long, deep kiss, River smirking at them both.

They then started to frown hearing an alarm start to blare.

"What's that?" River asked looking around.

"The Angels are draining the last of the ship's power, which means the shield's going to release." The Doctor grimly answered just as the bulkhead separating the forest and the primary flight deck. The angels were all staring at the four. A group by the entrance, more scattered around the forest.

"Angel Bob, I presume." The Doctor said staring at one of the angels.

"The Time Field is coming. It will destroy our reality."

"Yeah, and look at you all, running away." He mocked. "What can we do for you?"

"There is a rupture in time. The Angels calculate that if you throw yourself into it, it will close, and they will be saved."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." He nodded. "Could do, could do that. But why?"

"Your friends will also be saved."

"Well, there is that."

"I've travelled in time." River said stepping up. "I'm a complicated space-time event too. Throw me in."

"Oh, be serious. Compared to the Stone and I these Angels are more complicated than you, and it would take every one of them to amount to us, so get a grip."

"Doctor, Stone, I can't let you do this."

The Stone slowly shook her head. "No, seriously, get a grip."

"You're not going to die here!" She protested.

"No, she means it." The Doctor said. "River, Amy, get a grip."

"Oh, you are geniuses." She laughed running over to Amy to help her.

"Sir, Ma'am, the Angels need you to sacrifice yourselves now."

"Thing is, Bob, the Angels are draining all the power from this ship." The Doctor said walking over to the controls with the Stone. "Every last bit of it. And you know what? I think they've forgotten where they're standing. I think they've forgotten the gravity of the situation."

"Or to put it another way, Angels." The Stone smirked grabbing onto the console.

"You hold on tight and don't you let go for anything." River told Amy placing her hands on the console.

"Night, night." The Doctor said to the angels before grabbing the handle next to the Stone laughing with her as the gravity failed and the spaceship tilted, they watched as the angels fell backwards through the forest and into the bright crack before it closed.

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Standing on the beach that the TARDIS landed on before Amy stood wrapped in a blanket.

"Ah. Bruised everywhere." She groaned.

"Me too." The Doctor sighed.

"Me three." The Stone stretched groaning a little from the pain. the Doctor then wrapped an arm around her waist letting her rest her head on his shoulder trying to comfort her a little.

"You two didn't have to climb out with your eyes shut." Amy protested looking at them.

"Neither did you." The Doctor laughed. "I kept saying. The Angels all fell into the Time Field. The Angel in your memory never existed. It can't harm you now."

"Then why do I remember it at all?" Amy asked. "Those guys on the ship didn't remember each other."

"You're a time traveller now. Amy." He grinned. "It changes the way you see the universe, forever. Good, isn't it?"

"And the crack, is that gone too?" She asked after laughing.

"Yeah, for now." He nodded. "But the explosion that caused it is still happening. Somewhere out there, somewhere in time." The Doctor and the Stone walked over to River, the Stone still a little warily of the woman, however, she wasn't going to show it, the woman did help save Amy.

"You two, me, handcuffs." She laughed holding up her hands. "Must it always end this way?"

"What now?" The Doctor asked.

"The prison ship's in orbit. They'll beam me up any second. I might have done enough to earn a pardon this time. We'll see." She smiled.

"Octavian said you killed a woman and then killed a man." The Stone carefully questioned watching Rivers face.

"Yes, I did." She slowly nodded.

"A good man and woman."

"A very good man and woman." She nodded in confirmation. "The best woman I've ever known, the man isn't too bad either." She smirked.

"Who?" The Stone asked raising a brow.

"It's a long story. Sister. It can't be told, it has to be lived. No sneak previews. Well, except for this one." She smirked. "You'll see me again quite soon, when the Pandorica opens."

"The Pandorica. Ha!" The Doctor laughed shaking his head. "That's a fairy tale." He said.

"Doctor, aren't we all?" She smiled. "I'll see you two there."

"We look forward to it." The Stone nodded her eyes shifting to the Doctors as he slowly nodded in agreement.

"I remember it well."

"Bye, River," Amy called from where she was stood.

"See you, Amy." She nodded then looked at her cuffs that beeped. "Oh, I think that's my ride."

"Can we trust you. River Song?" The Doctor asked.

"If you like." She smirked. "Ha, but where's the fun in that?"

"Are you saying I'm not fun?" The Stone questioned.

"Not at all sister, goodbye." She softly smiled then disappeared in a whirl of sand.

"What are you two thinking?" Amy asked after a moment walking up to the Time Lords.

"Time can be rewritten." They both said in unison.

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Standing in the TARDIS the Stone slowly circled the console. "I want to go home," Amy said making the Stone freeze in place and the Doctor look up his eyes meeting the Time Ladys.

"Okay." He slowly nodded not looking at the redhead.

"No, not like that." Amy laughed walking up to the console. "I just, I just want to show you something. You're running from River. I'm running too."

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The Time Lords sat on Amy's bed staring at the wedding dress hanging on the wardrobe door.

"Well." The Doctor muttered.

"Yeah." Amy slowly nodded.

"Blimey."

"I know. This is the same night we left, yeah?"

"We've been gone five minutes." The Stone nodded. "Don't worry it isn't twelve months, I piloted us." She smiled at her joked before frowning a little seeing the way Amy was looking at the Doctor. Amy then picked up the ring box and opened it.

"I'm getting married in the morning." She said as the Doctor took the ring looking at it.

"Why did you leave it here?" He questioned.

"Why did I leave my engagement ring when I ran away with a strange man the night before my wedding?" She asked in a flirtatious voice.

"And my wife." He added a small crease forming on his forehead, she hadn't forgotten the Time Lady before yet did now.

"Hmm. You really are an alien, aren't you." Amy frowned.

"I'm just going to go and find another blazer..." the Stone said pointing at the TARDIS. "I had quite a few things in that ones pockets... need to sort it out." She muttered before leaving shaking her head.

"Who's the lucky fellow?" The Doctor asked after frowning seeing the look on the Time Ladys face as she slipped into the TARDIS.

"You met him," Amy said.

"Ah, the good looking one. Or the other one?" He asked miming a large nose with his hand.

"The other one." Amy grumbled lightly shoving his side.

"Well, he was good too."

"Thanks. So, do you comfort a lot of people on the night before their wedding?" She asked leaning closer towards him.

"Why would you need comforting?" The Doctor asked frowning, being completely oblivious to the look on Amy's face.

"I nearly died. I was alone in the dark, and I nearly died. And it made me think."

"Well, yes, natural. I think sometimes. Well, lots of times, normally the Stone does the logical thinking." He smiled fondly at the thought. "She has always been the most logical out of the two of us, the best with computers as well, then again she was the top in her engineering class."

Amy sighed out of annoyance wishing that the Time Lord would stop mentioning his wife. "About what I want. About who I want. You know what I mean?" She asked leaning closer towards him.

"Yeah." He nodded then frowned shaking his head. "No."

"About who I want."

"Oh right, yeah. No, still not getting it."

"Doctor. In a word. In one very simple word even you can understand." She said quickly leaning over him trying to kiss him as he jumped up from the bed eyes wide in shock and horror.

"No!" He shouted pushing her away. "You're getting married in the morning!"

"Well, the morning's a long time away." She smiled standing up. "What are we going to do about that?" She questioned pinning him against the TARDIS attempting to undo his shirt.

"I'm married!" He shouted pulling his braces back up after she pushed them off.

"She won't mind." Amy flirtatiously murmured.

"Amy, listen to me." He ordered ducking under her arm. "I am nine hundred and seven years old. Do you understand what that means?"

"It's been a while?" She joked.

"No." He shook his head. "The Stone and I did stuff just- never mind." He violently shook his head. "No, no. I'm nine hundred and seven, and look at me." He ordered. "I don't get older, I just change. You get older, I don't, I have a healthy marriage and a brilliant wife who I love, this can't ever work."

"Oh, you are sweet Doctor." Amy laughed. "But I really wasn't suggesting anything quite so long term." She said stepping closer to him only to be pushed away.

"No!" He shouted making her freeze. "You're human. You're Amy. You're getting married in the morning..." he said before blinking. "In the morning."

"Doctor?" Amy questioned not understanding, one moment he was shouting at her and now he was calm.

"It's you." He said as Amy grinned getting herself comfy on her bed. "It's all about you. Everything. It's about you."

"Hold that thought." She said continuing to get comfortable.

"Amy Pond. Mad, impossible, Amy Pond. I don't know why, I have no idea, but quite possibly the single most important thing in the history of the universe is that I get you sorted out right now."

"That's what I've been trying to tell you." She rolled her eyes.

"Come on." He ordered pulling her from the bed and throwing her in the TARDIS.

"Doctor?" She frowned.

"You." He pointed at her angrily. "Stay here and don't touch anything!" He growled. "I need to have a word with my wife." He said making Amy's eyes widen. "And I hope for your sake that she doesn't throw you in a supernova when I tell her what you tried to do!" He shouted before storming off, his mind whirling thinking of how he could possibly start to explain this mess to the Stone, first Amy tried to kiss him and then attempted to seduce him. On the night before her wedding. When he was already married!