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Hollie and Amy watched the Doctor as he wandered past different museum pieces behind the glass cases, scanning the labels on each one as he went past. "Wrong." He commented to himself and the girls as he walked past a casing on his left before looking at the one on his right and commenting the same thing: "Wrong." He went past another and tilted his head at it as he stopped for a moment and read the text. "Little bit right, mostly wrong. I love museums." He spun around, a grin on his face as Hollie and Amy both tried to keep up with the giddy Time Lord.

"Yeah, great." Amy dryly commented following him past another. "Can we go to a planet now? Big space ship? Churchill's bunker? You promised us a planet next."

"Amy, this isn't any old asteroid." The Doctor replied. "It's the Delerium Archive, the final resting place of the headless monks. The biggest museum ever."

"You've got a time machine." Amy groaned. "What do you need museums for?"

The Doctor ignored the ginger's question as he continued to walk past the items on display. "Wrong." He frowned seeing another. "Very wrong." His eyes lit up as he walked past a casing with a label he recognised on the side. "Ooo, one of mine." He nodded to his left before spotting something similar on his right. "Also one of mine."

"Oh, I see." Amy suddenly cut in. "It's how you keep score."

The Doctor stopped next to a very old box with strange symbols on the sides. "Oh great, an old box," Amy muttered frowning at it as the Doctor looked at it with intent.

"It's from one of the old starliners." He explained. "A Home Box."

"What's a Home Box?"

"Like a black box on a plane, except it homes. Anything happens to the ship, the Home Box flies home with all the flight data."

"So?"

"The writing, the graffiti." He gestured to it. "Old High Gallifreyan. The lost language of the Time Lords." Amy frowned at him not understanding. "There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars and raise up empires, and topple gods."

"What does it say?"

The Doctor sighed and looked up. "Hello, sweetie."

"What?" Hollie looked up at him.

The Doctor stared at her and frowned. "You've been keeping quiet." He walked over to the blonde. "Are you okay?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" She frowned.

"You've been quiet since we left Churchill and London."

Hollie shrugged. "Just been thinking."

The Doctor sighed. "If it was the Daleks-"

"It wasn't them." She shook her head. "Just-" She paused for a second and bit her lip before sighing and shaking her head. "Just nothing, it doesn't matter."

The Doctor frowned and glanced at Amy for a second who shrugged at the Time Lord. "Okay." He nodded and clapped his hands together. "But if you ever want to talk about it, I'm here."

"Me too." Amy smiled lightly shoving her best friend. "And don't you forget it."

Hollie cracked a smile and chuckled at her ginger friend a moment before they both looked at the Doctor as an alarm blared, the box no longer in the case but rather in his hands.

"What are you doing!" Amy shouted as she watched guards run around a corner and head straight for them.

"Taking the box, now run!"

The girls didn't need to be told twice and headed back to the TARDIS with the Doctor, the guards headed straight for them but missed the three by seconds as they slipped into the box. The Doctor handed it to Hollie before running to the console and dematerialising the TARDIS, stopping the guards from banging on the TARDIS door.

"Why are we stealing that box?" Hollie asked, following the Doctor towards the console.

"Because someone on a spaceship twelve thousand years ago is trying to attract my attention." He explained as he attached different wires to the box before setting it on the console and pulling the scanner towards himself and Hollie. "Let's see if we can get the security playback working." The Time Lord muttered while Amy walked up behind them and frowned at the screen, a woman with large curly blonde hair stood in a corridor on what looked like a space ship, a door right behind her.

The woman winked at the camera as a male spoke off-screen: "The party's over, Doctor Song. Yet still you're on board."

"Sorry, Alistair." The woman replied. "I needed to see what was in your vault. Do you all know what's down there?" She questioned. "Any of you? Because I'll tell you something. This ship won't reach its destination."

"Wait till she runs," Alistair replied, seemingly talking to at least one other person. "Don't make it look like an execution."

"Triple seven five." The blonde added. "Slash three four nine by ten. Zero twelve slash acorn." She smiled. "Oh, and I could do with an air corridor."

The Doctor suddenly ran around the console making Hollie jump and Amy frown at the Time Lord. "What was that?" Amy asked. "What did she say?"

"Coordinates." The Doctor simply replied. The two friends stared as the Doctor then ran to the TARDIS doors a moment before he opened them and a blonde with large curly hair fell into the TARDIS or rather onto the Doctor, causing the Time Lord to fall backwards.

The two stared at each other for a moment before the woman stood up and the Doctor got up himself a moment later.

"River?" The Doctor questioned as the woman ran to the TARDIS console.

"Follow that ship." She ordered making the Doctor run to the console as well to help. "They've gone into warp drive." She stated. "We're losing them. Stay close."

"I'm trying." He snapped.

"Use the stabilizers."

"There aren't any stabilizers." He replied.

"The blue switches." She rolled her eyes and looked at Hollie. "Honestly Holliekins, have you not taught him anything."

The blonde's eyes widened and she snapped her face to her friend who stared back at her in shock. "Hollie do you know her?"

"No..." She replied watching the woman while the Doctor grumbled at the curly-haired woman. "Oh, the blue ones don't do anything, they're just blue."

"Yes, they're blue." She huffed. "Look, they're the blue stabilisers." She pointed at them before pressing the blue button. The shaking TARDIS suddenly stilled and the Doctor grumbled his annoyance as the woman rolled her eyes. "See?"

"Yeah. Well, it's just boring now, isn't it?" He shot her a look. "They're boring-ers. They're blue boring-ers."

"Doctor," Hollie spoke up, carefully watching the woman. "How come she can fly the TARDIS?"

The Doctor scoffed. "You call that flying the TARDIS? Ha!"

"Okay." She cut in, shooting the Doctor a slightly annoyed look. "I've mapped the probability vectors, done a fold-back on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination, and parked us right alongside." She looked at Hollie grinning smugly.

"Parked us?" The Doctor scoffed. "We haven't landed."

"Of course we've landed. I just landed her."

"But, it didn't make the noise." He frowned.

River looked over at him. "What noise?

"You know..." He stared at her, "the..." He then began to make a wheezing noise.

Hollie laughed and Amy looked between the two as River shook her head.

"It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on."

"Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise." He pointed at the Hollie, narrowing his eyes at her. "Hollie stop laughing at me. Come along, Let's have a look." He headed towards the doors.

"No, wait." River walked towards the scanner. "Environment checks."

"Oh yes, sorry." He rolled his eyes. "Quite right. Environment checks." The Doctor then poked his head out of the TARDIS before pulling it back into the TARDIS and looking at River. "Nice out."

"We're somewhere in the Garn Belt. There's an atmosphere. Early indications suggest that-"

"We're on Alfava Metraxis," the Doctor cut in, "the seventh planet of the Dundra System. Oxygen rich atmosphere, all toxins in the soft band, eleven hour day and chances of rain later."

River sighed in annoyance and looked at Hollie. "He thinks he's so hot when he does that." She complained.

Hollie frowned and tilted her head. "The Doctor told me only he could fly the TARDIS?" She crossed her arms. "How come you can as well?"

"Oh, I had lessons from the very best." She winked.

"Well, yeah." The Doctor smugly grinned and sat down a chair by the console.

"It's a shame you were busy that day." River called making the Doctor glare at her. "Right then, why did they land here?"

"They didn't land." The Doctor answered and stood up after a moment.

"Sorry?" River looked at him.

"You should've checked the Home Box. It crashed." He explained.

River shook her head and headed towards the doors before heading outside.

Amy leaned against the console with the Doctor and Hollie. "Explain," Amy stated crossing her arms. "Who is that and how did she do that museum thing?"

"It's a long story and I don't know most of it." He answered and turned around. "Off we go."

"What are you doing?" Hollie frowned.

"Leaving. She's got where she wants to go, let's go where we want to go."

"Are you just going to run away?" Hollie questioned.

"Yep." He nodded. "You should try it sometime."

"Why are you running away?" Amy asked.

"Because she's the future." He replied. "My future."

"Can you run away from that?" Hollie asked.

"I can run away from anything I like." He looked over at the blonde. "Time is not the boss of me."

"Hang on," Amy blinked, her eyes lighting up and a smile growing on her face, "is that a planet out there?"

"Yes," The Doctor scoffed, "of course it's a planet."

"We're not going now." Hollie giggled.

The Doctor sighed and bowed his head after realising his mistake. "You promised me a planet." Amy grinned. "Five minutes?"

"Okay," He nodded reluctantly, "five minutes."

"Yes!" Amy cheered.

"But that's all," He pointed at the ginger, "because I'm telling you now, that woman is not dragging me into anything."

Hollie shook her head and followed the Doctor out of the TARDIS with Amy, the two friends walked up to River who stared at the large ship with flames and smoke coming off different parts of it. "What caused it to crash?" Amy questioned.

"Not me." The curly-haired blonde answered.

"Nah, the airlock would've sealed seconds after you blew it." The Doctor cut in. "According to the Home Box, the warp engines had a phase shift. No survivors."

"A phase shift would have to be sabotage." She shrugged. "I did warn them."

"About what?"

"Well, at least the building was empty." She muttered. "Aplan temple. Unoccupied for centuries."

Hollie looked at the other blonde, not sure if she was just strange or if she had seen her somewhere before, perhaps there was a photo of her in the TARDIS library, it was the only place apart from the console room she had been in. "Sorry." She shook her head and blinked her thoughts away. "Who are you."

The woman stared at her, her face almost falling at the question. "Sorry-" She forced a smile, who am I Doctor?"

The Time Lord sighed and gestured to the girls. "Hollie Aria, Amy Pond, Professor River Song."

"Ah, I'm going to be a Professor someday, am I?" She grinned and the Doctor closed his eyes in annoyance. "How exciting. Spoilers." She laughed.

"Yeah, but who are and how did you do that?" Hollie frowned. "You left him a note in a museum?"

River smiled. "Two things always guaranteed to show up in a museum. The Home Box of category four starliner and sooner or later, him. It's how he keeps score."

Amy snorted. "I know."

"It's hilarious, isn't it?" She replied.

The Doctor shook his head and pointed at River. "I'm nobody's taxi service. I'm not going to be there to catch you every time you feel like jumping out of a space ship."

"And you are so wrong." She laughed. "When you know who I know you'll jump at the chance."

Both the Doctor and Hollie frowned when River glanced between them both before she looked at Amy and smiled, shaking her head before she looked back at the ship. "There's one survivor. There's a thing in the belly of that ship that can't ever die." The Doctor stared at River. The blonde woman smirked and glanced at Hollie. "Now he's listening."

The woman walked away, typing on her device before holding it to her ear like a phone. "You lot in orbit yet?" She spoke into it, pausing for a moment as there was an answer. "Yeah, I saw it land. I'm at the crash site. Try and home in on my signal." She held the device into the air and turned into the direction of the Doctor. "Doctor, can you sonic me?" She called out. "I need to boost the signal so we can use it as a beacon."

The Doctor sighed and reluctantly pointed his sonic at Rivers device. River did a small nod in thanks before turning away, talking into her device again. "Ooo, Doctor, you sonicked her." Amy whispered to the Doctor in a flirty tone."

The Doctor looked at Amy and shook her head as River walked over to them after ending her call. "We have a minute." She pulled out a small book with a TARDIS-like front and back cover. "Shall we?" The Doctor didn't reply and River opened up the book. "Where are we up to? Have we done the Bone Meadows?"

"What's the book?" Amy asked as Hollie went to look over Rivers shoulder making the blonde pull the book away and the Doctor give her a warning look.

"Stay away from it."

"Why?" Hollie frowned with a chuckle. "It's only a book?"

"It's Her diary."

"A diary?" Hollie frowned.

"Our diary." River corrected, looking at Hollie and then the Doctor as he cut in.

"Her past, my future." He sighed. "Time travel. We keep meeting in the wrong order."

The four looked to the right of them as four small tornados kicked up some way away from them before four soldiers wearing camouflage and holding guns appeared in the tornados place. "You promised me an army, Doctor Song." One of the now soldiers walked up to the group.

"No, I promised you the equivalent of an army." River corrected, turning her head slightly in the Doctors direction as she kept her gaze on the soldier. "This is the Doctor."

The Time Lord gave a salute to the man as the soldier shook the Doctors hand. "Father Octavian, Sir. Bishop, second class. Twenty clerics at my command." He announced. "The troops are already in the dropship and landing shortly. Doctor Song was helping us with a covert investigation." He looked towards River for a moment. "Has Doctor Song explained what we're dealing with?"

"Doctor," River looked at the Time Lord. "What do you know of the Weeping Angels?"

The Doctor instantly snapped his head towards River, a slightly shocked expression plastered on his face, Hollie and Amy both looked at each other out of confusion.

"Crying angels?" Hollie frowned.

×××

Now in the large dropship with the rest of the troops the Doctor followed Father Octavian, Hollie and Amy behind him. "The Angel, as far as we know, is still trapped in the ship." The Father explained. "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, 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 sarcastically replied.

"Good, sir?" Father Octavian questioned.

"Catacombs." The Time Lord answered, not looking at the man. "Probably dark ones. Dark catacombs. Great."

"Technically, I think it's called a maze of the dead."

"You can stop any time you like."

"Father Octavian?" A soldier called the man over.

"Excuse me, sir." The Father nodded and headed off.

The Doctor scanned an open box of equipment with his sonic as Amy smiled and leaned against the table. "You're letting people call you sir." She noticed. "You never do that. So, whatever a Weeping Angel is, it's really bad, yeah?"

"Now that's interesting." The Doctor commented looking at his sonic for a moment before turning towards Amy who was now sitting on the table and Hollie stood beside her friend. "You're both still here. Which part of wait in the TARDIS till I tell you both it's safe was so confusing?"

Hollie shrugged. "It wasn't confusing. We're here to help."

The Doctor shook his head and looked at the blonde. "A Weeping Angel, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life-form evolution has ever produced," he then looked at Amy, "so yes, Amy to answer your question: a Weeping Angel is really bad and right now one of them is trapped inside that wreckage and I'm supposed to climb in after it with a screwdriver and a torch, and assuming I survive the radiation long enough and assuming the whole ship doesn't explode in my face, do something incredibly clever which I haven't actually thought of yet. That's my day. That's what I'm up to."

The two girls blinked as the Doctor asked: "Any questions?"

Hollie frowned and crossed her arms in thought while Amy suddenly spoke up: "Is River Song your wife?"

Hollie snorted and the Doctor shot her an annoyed glare, instantly making the blonde shut up. "Because she's someone from your future," Amy continued, ignoring the annoyed look on the Doctors face, "and the way she talks to you, I've never seen anyone do that. She's kind of like, you know... heel, boy." The Doctor didn't reply as Amy kept talking. "She's Mrs Doctor from the future, isn't she? Is she going to be your wife one day?"

"Yes, you're right." The Doctor answered making both girls speak. "It wasn't confusing." He looked at Hollie. "It was just plain stupid for you both to follow me." He huffed.

"Doctor!" River suddenly called from a nearby dropship. "Doctor?"

"Oops." Amy laughed. "Her indoors."

"Father Octavian." River also called out.

Hollie frowned. "Wait." She looked at the Time Lord. "Why do they call him Father?"

"He's their Bishop, they're his Clerics." The Doctor explained. "It's the fifty-first Century. The Church has moved on."

The Doctor followed River towards the dropship with Hollie and Amy following. The group stared as the black and white recording flickered for a second before looping back around today. "What do you think?" The Doctor looked at the screen, the grey angel turned away from the camera, hands covering its face. "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." The Doctor answered. "Hands covering its face."

"You've encountered the Angels before?" Father Octavian looked at the Doctor as the Time Lord crossed his arms, leaning against the large screen on the wall.

"Once, on Earth, a long time ago. But those were scavengers, barely surviving."

"But it's just a statue." Amy frowned.

"It's a statue when you see it." River replied.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Hollie questioned.

River opened her mouth to answer as the Doctor cut in:

"Where did it come from?"

"Oh, pulled from the ruins of Razbahan, end of last century. It's been in private hands ever since. Dormant all that time."

"There's a difference between dormant and patient."

"I'm still confused." Hollie crossed her arms. "What do you mean, 'it's a statue when you see it?' how can it not be a statue?"

"The Weeping Angels can only move if they're unseen." The Doctor explained. "It's called a quantum lock. In the sight of any living creature the Angels literally cease to exist. They're just stone. The ultimate defence mechanism."

"What, being a stone?" Amy added.

"Being a stone until you turn your back." The Doctor stared at the screen before looking at the two girls and smiling. "See why I wanted you both to wait in the TARDIS now?" He headed outside the dropship, River and Father Octavian following. "The hyperdrive would've split on impact." He explained. "That whole ship's going to be flooded with drive burn radiation, cracked electrons, gravity storms. Deadly to almost any living thing."

"Deadly to an Angel?" Father hoped.

"Dinner to an Angel." The Time Lord clapped his hands together. "The longer we leave it there, the stronger it will grow. Who built that temple? Are they still around?"

"The Aplans." River read off her device. "Indigenous life form. They died out four hundred years ago."

Father Octavian then cut in: "Two hundred years later, the planet was terraformed. Currently there are six billion human colonists."

"Whoo!" The Doctor cheered. "You lot, you're everywhere. You're like rabbits. I'll never get done saving you."

"Sir, if there is a clear and present danger to the local population-"

"Oh, there is." The Doctor cut the Father off. "Bad as it gets. Bishop, lock and load."

"Verger, how are we doing with those explosives?" Father Octavian asked a man before he looked over at River. "Doctor Song, with me."

"Two minutes." River called back. "Doctor, Holliekins. I need you."

Hollie and the Doctor looked at each other as the blonde slowly walked over, looking back at Amy for a moment before frowning. "Holliekins?" The Time Lord questioned with a tilted his. "What?"

"Anybody need me?" Amy said aloud. Hollie winced and mouthed an apology to Amy as she followed the Doctor.

"I found this." River placed a book down onto a table as the Doctor and Hollie joined her. "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 flicked through the pages. "Not bad. Bit slow in the middle. Didn't you hate his girlfriend?" He looked at River and shook his head. "No. No, hang on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait."

"Doctor Song?" Amy called from the dropship while the Doctor sniffed the book. "Did you have more than one clip of the Angel?"

"No, just the four seconds." She answered.

"This book is wrong." The Doctor replied. "What's wrong with this book? It's wrong."

"It smells?" Hollie guessed with the shrug.

River smiled. "You really are trying aren't you?"

"What?" Hollie stared at her. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing." River replied. "Doesn't matter." She looked from Hollie to the Doctor.

"What?" He glared at her.

"It's so strange when you two go all babyface." She looked between them. "How early is this for you?"

"Two?" The Doctor frowned. "What do you mean two? Wait, you know Holls?"

River laughed. "Now that's a spoiler for another day." The Doctor frowned and looked at Hollie who just stared at River. "Neither of you know who I am yet, do you?"

"How do you know who we are, actually no, let me rephrase that, how do you know who I am? I don't always look the same."

"I've got pictures of all your faces." She explained. "You never show up in the right order, though. I need the spotter's guide and I know three people who are excellent at providing me with one."

"Pictures." The Doctor opened the book again, ignoring the rest of Rivers words. "Why aren't there any pictures?"

Hollie frowned. "It's old?"

"This whole book, it's a warning about the Weeping Angels though," he replied, "so why no pictures?" The Doctor asked. "Why not show us what to look out for?"

"Surely there is a reason?" Hollie guessed.

River nodded. "There was a bit about images. What was that?"

"Yes. Hang on." The Doctor flipped through the pages before reading aloud. "That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel."

"What does that mean?" River frowned. "An image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel."

"But that means..." Hollie's eyes widened suddenly remembering where her best friend was waiting."

"Amy!" The Doctor and Hollie both shouted as the ginger cried out.

"Doctor! It's in the room!"

"Amy!" The Doctor ran up to the door and attempted to pull it open.

"Doctor!"

"Are you all right? What's happening?"

"Doctor? Doctor, it's coming out of the television. The Angel is here."

"Don't take your eyes off it." He announced, pulling out his screwdriver and pointing it at the screen. "Keep looking. It can't move if you're looking."

"What's wrong?" River asked as the Doctor pulled down a hatch next to the keypad. "Deadlocked."

"But you told me that your screwdriver always works!" Hollie protested.

"Yeah well. I lied."

"There is no deadlock." River stated as the Doctor shouted to the ginger stuck inside:

"Don't blink, Amy. Don't even blink."

"What are you doing?" River asked watching the Doctor mess with the wires.

"Cutting the power. It's using the screen, I'm turning the screen off." He pulled multiple screens out. "No good, it's deadlocked the whole system."

"There's no deadlock."

"There is now."

"Stop arguing!" Hollie shouted at them both. "My friend is stuck in there!"

"Help me!" Amy shouted.

"Can you turn it off?" The Doctor questioned.

"Doctor."

"The screen." He added. "Can you turn it off?"

"I tried."

"Try again but don't take your eyes off the Angel."

"I'm not!" She argued.

"Each time it moves, it'll move faster. Don't even blink."

"I'm not blinking. Have you ever tried not blinking?" She asked before shouting to them: "It just keeps switching back on."

"Yeah, it's the Angel."

"But it's just a recording." Amy frowned.

"No, anything that takes the image of an Angel is an Angel." The Time Lord countered before looking at River who had started to use a blow torch in an attempt to get inside the room. "What are you doing?"

"I'm trying to cut through." She explained before shaking her head. "It's not even warm."

"There is no way in. It's not physically possible."

"There must be some way!" Hollie protested.

"Doctor, what's it going to do to me?"

"Just keep looking at it. Don't stop looking."

"Just tell me." She quietly replied.

The Doctor's eyes widened as he continued messing with the wires. "Holls get the book!"

The blonde instantly ran over to the table, picking the book up before running back over to the Doctor who grabbed the book and leaned against the dropship, he closed his eyes in annoyance for a second. "

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

"Why?" Both Hollie and Amy questioned.

"What is it?" River looked over at him.

"The eyes are not the windows of the soul." He read aloud. "They are the doors. Beware what may enter there."

"Doctor, what did you say?" Amy asked.

"Don't look at the eyes!" The Doctor and Hollie shouted back.

"No, about images." She groaned in annoyance. "What did you say about images?"

"Whatever holds the image of an Angel, is an Angel." River recited for her.

"One, two, three, four." They heard Amy count before the door suddenly opened. The Doctor, River and Hollie burst into the dropship as the monitor switched off.

"I froze it." Amy panted, stumbling slightly as Hollie engulfed her in a tight hug. "There was a sort of blip on the tape and I froze it on the blip." She explained while the Doctor ran to the monitor, pulling the wire out and scanning it with his sonic. "It wasn't the image of an Angel anymore. That was good, yeah? It was, wasn't it? That was pretty good."

"That was amazing." River nodded.

The Doctor smiled slightly. "Thank you Hollie."

"For what?" The blonde frowned.

"Hugging Amy, I'm busy."

"I'm fine." Amy shook her head, reassuring herself, as well as her friend.

"You're brilliant." River added and Amy grinned.

"Thanks. I kind of creamed it, didn't I?"

"You did have me worried for a second." Hollie admitted.

Amy gave a small laugh. "You can't get rid of me Holls."

"I don't indend in it." She snorted.

"So it was here?" River looked at the Doctor who let go of the wire to read his sonic. "That was the Angel?"

"That was a projection of the Angel." He corrected. "It's reaching out, getting a good look at us. It's no longer dormant."

They all looked to the door as a loud explosion erupted from outside. "Doctor!" Father Octavian called from outside. "We're through!

The Doctor blew out a breath and looked at Hollie. "Okay, now it starts."

"It starts?" Hollie frowned following him.

"You thought that was scary?" He raised a brow. "Just you wait Holls."

The blonde shook her head. "I'm ready."

"Good." He nodded.

"Coming?" River looked back at Amy before heading out.

"Yeah, coming." She nodded. "There's just something in my eye."

×××

The Doctor headed down the rope ladder after Father Octavian and the troops, Amy went down next with River and then Hollie last.

"Do we have a gravity globe?" The Doctor asked, looking at Father Octavian.

"Grav globe." The Father instructed a moment before a Cleric handed the Doctor the globe.

"Where are we?" Amy asked. "What is this?"

"It's an Aplan Mortarium," River explained, "sometimes called a Maze of the Dead."

"What's that?" Hollie questioned.

"Well, if you happen to be a creature of living stone..." He began before kicking the globe into the air, watching as it lit up the space around them. "The perfect hiding place."

"I guess this makes it a bit trickier." Father Octavian stated looking up at the different stone statues scattered around them.

"A bit, yeah."

"A stone Angel on the loose amongst stone statues. A lot harder than I'd prayed for."

"A needle in a haystack." River added.

"A needle that looks like hay." The Doctor continued on from the woman. "A hay-like needle of death. A hay-like needle of death in a haystack of, er, statues." River gave him a look. "No? Okay, yours was fine."

"Right. Check every single statue in this chamber. " Father Octavian ordered the men. "You know what you're looking for. Complete visual inspection. One question. How do we fight it?"

"We find it, and hope." The Doctor replied.

"You mean you don't have a plan?" Hollie questioned.

"No." He stated. "No, because as far as I know there is no way to really stop the weeping angels, you can't kill it because it's just stone when you look at it and you can't kill stone."

"They don't know yet, do they?" Father Octavian whispered to River as the Doctor continued to explain to Hollie. "Who and what you are."

"It's too early in his time stream." River explained. "And she's only just met me."

"Well, make sure neither of them work it out, or he's not going to help us."

"I won't let you down." River replied. "Believe you me, I have no intention of going back to prison."

"Sir?" A man spoke up, bringing Father Octavian's attention away from River. "Side chamber. One visible exit."

"Check it out." He nodded. "Angelo, go with him."

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