My Blue Eyed Girl Ch. 7

Part two of the Time of Angels! Hope you like it!

The Doctor and River who we had yet to be properly introduced to were working to follow the ship that River had come from. River seemed to know the controls rather well and was even bear foot having hung her red heels on the control screen to move around better. A good idea because we were rocking about rather hard.

"They've gone into warp drive, we're losing them! Stay close!"

"I'm trying!"

"Use the stabilisers."

"There aren't any stabilisers!"

" The blue switches!"

" The blue ones don't do anything, they're just...blue."

" Yes, they're blue. They're the blue stabilisers!"

I looked at the blue switches that the Doctor and River had been arguing about. By this time I had gotten over to them and switched them on. Getting a smile and a "See?" from River. However, the Doctor pouted at me like I told him he couldn't have a puppy, but the ship had stopped jerking so I could live with it.

"Yeah, well, it's just boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers. They're blue boring-ers."

"Doctor, how come she can fly the TARDIS?" Amy asked.

We both looked at the Doctor expectantly.

"You call that flying the TARDIS? Ha!" He said sitting down and pouting.

"Well we're not dead so ya I would." I mumbled under my breathe.

It must not have been as soft as I had hoped because the Doctor looked up giving me an odd look.

"OK. 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."

" Parked us? We haven't landed."

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

"But it didn't make the noise."

"What noise?"

" You know, the... Vworp Vworp."

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

I giggled putting my hand over my mouth to try and hide it.

"Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise. Come along, Pond, Grace, let's have a look."

We began to follow him until River yelled after us.

"No, wait! Environment checks."

"Oh, yes, sorry! Quite right. Environment checks."

The Doctor opens the door sticking his head out and licking his finger.

" Nice out."

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

"We're on Alfava Metraxis, the seventh planet of the Dundra System. Oxygen-rich atmosphere, toxins in the soft band, 11-hour day, and...' putting his head back out again "chances of rain later."

"He thinks he's so hot when he does that." River said as she eyed me with a knowing grin.

"How come you can fly the TARDIS?" I asked.

This had been on my mind since she had stepped foot in the TARDIS. The Doctor did not seem like the kind of man to teach someone to use his baby, but even more the TARDIS didn't seem like she would let just anyone drive her. So who was this River, and why could she drive the TARDIS like she was born to?

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

"Well, yeah." The Doctor said smugly.

Would he have given her lessons? Did he? And why? Why her? Not that it mattered much it's not like I wanted to learn or anything.

" It's a shame you were busy that day." River picked up her shoes as she headed for the door still talking.

"Right then, why did they land here?"

"They didn't land."

"Sorry?"

"You should've checked the Home Box - it crashed."

The Doctor followed River to the door closing it before turning on his heel and heading back to the console. Was he leaving her? I may not know her very well, but he couldn't just leave her here all alone on some planet!

"Explain! Who is that and how did she do that museum thing?" Amy demanded.

"It's a long story and I don't know most of it. Off we go!"

"Wait! Doctor we can't just leave her here!" I yelled at him.

"She's got where she wants to go, let's go where we want to go." Was all I got back.

"Are you basically running away?" Amy asked looking at the Doctor as if he had gone mad.

"Yep"

"Why?"

"Cos she's the future, my future."

The Doctor looked so very sad in that moment. You couldn't see it on his face but in his eyes you could see a sadness that was both old and new. And it made me sad to see it.

"Can you run away from that?" Amy asked looking confused.

"I can run away from anything I like. Time is not the boss of me."

"Time is the boss of everyone Doctor you just have more of it than most." I said softly.

Both Amy and the Doctor looked at me. Amy looked like I had grown a second head.

However, the Doctor's eyes softened just a bit and he even looked like he may speak until something seemed to occur to Amy.

"Hang on, is that a planet out there?"

"Yes, of course, it's a planet."

"You promised me a planet. Five minutes?"

The Doctor looked like he may say no, but even I had to admit a planet sounded like fun. So, I turned to the Doctor and looked up at him.

"Come on Doctor I'd like to see it too!"

"Ok, five minutes!"

"Yes!" both Amy and I cried as we ran for the door.

" But that's all, cos I'm telling you now, that woman is not dragging me into anything!"

The Doctor followed after us out of the TARDIS into a beach. It looked and even felt very much like any beach on earth. But as I turned off to one side of the TARDIS I saw the ship we had been following. It had, in fact, crashed into a large and old mountain, no structure it was a building of some sort. The ship is on fire and debris are still falling as we all stand looking at it.

"What caused it to crash? Not me."

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

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

" About what?"

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

River begins to type into a handheld of some kind.

The Doctor starts to come back to me and Amy. Likely to make us leave as we had had our five minuets. But I knew that I didn't want to leave. I wanted to know who this River was, and what had happened to the ship. I also had a feeling I was not the only one.

" Aren't you going to introduce us?" I asked.

"Amy Pond, Annika Van Tijd, Professor River Song."

Turning to look at us, River gives us a knowing look.

"Ahhh, I'm going to be a Professor some day, am I?"

The Doctor winces but says nothing in correction.

"How exciting! Spoilers!"

"Yeah, but who is she and how did she do that? She just left you a note in a museum!" Amy demanded.

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

"We know." Amy and I giggle.

"It's hilarious, isn't it?"

"I'm nobody's taxi service!" The Doctor says with a laugh that was not at all happiness.

"I'm not gonna be there to catch you every time you feel like jumping out of a space ship."

" And you are so wrong. There's one survivor. There's a thing in the belly of that ship that can't ever die. Now he's listening! You lot in orbit yet? Yeah, I saw it land. I'm at the crash site. Try and home in on my signal. Doctor, can you sonic me? I need to boost the signal so we can use it as a beacon."

River holds up the device she had been messing with. The Doctor takes out his sonic screwdriver and points it. Because it seemed that even if he didn't want to help her he couldn't say no. I wonder why that is? In thanks she dropped into a small curtsey that made me smile.

" Ooh, Doctor! You soniced her!" Amy giggled a bit like a schoolgirl.

" We have a minute. Shall we? Where were we up to? Have we done the Bone Meadows? I see Grace and I have only just met so hi!"

River had pulled out a book bound in blue and looked oddly like the TARDIS. She was looking through the pages and looking at the Doctor and I like we knew what she meant. And maybe the Doctor did but I had no idea. Not how she knew me or how she knew to call me Grace something only those closes got to call me.

"What's the book?" I asked stepping closer.

"Stay away from it." Came from the Doctor with more force then I think he meant, but I jumped back from it feeling kind of hurt that he used that tone with me.

River gave the Doctor a look he didn't seem to understand. Then looked at me and smiled.

"It's our diary Grace. In it is my past and your and the Doctors future. We never meet in the right order. Time travel." She seemed to know what I was going to ask without me asking it. Maybe she did know me. The Doctor, however, did not seem happy that she answered me.

Out of nowhere four columns of dust appear and disappear leaving four soldiers. One of them came over to River and began to talk to her none too happy about something.

"You promised me an army, Doctor Song."

"No. I promised you the equivalent of an army. This is the Doctor and… Annika."

"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, what do you know of the Weeping Angels?"

The Doctor tenses and looks at River, fixing her with a look that said she better not be lying to him. It kind of scared me.