My Blue Eyed Girl Ch.8

As this is all I have done so far of this story this will sadly be the last you see of it until I write the next chapter. As luck would have it I have started and plan to be done with it as soon as I can.

We followed Father Octavian and River into a camp that had been set up by the other soldiers that had come with the Father. At this point it had gotten dark (the Doctor said it had to do with the 11 hour days). It was a bit chilly making me happy that I had on brown jeans and a brown long sleeve shirt that said BROOKLYN NY SOCCER LEAGUE 1963, with a matching brown scarf, mustache earrings, and black converse. I was also carrying a brown leather bag that had a strap that came over my head and shoulder, though I don't know why I brought it.

"The Angel, as far as we know, is still trapped in the ship. 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."

"Good, sir?"

" Catacombs, probably dark ones. Dark catacombs, great!"

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

"Maze of…of the dead?" I shudder starting to feel a small amount of fear.

"You can stop any time you like."

The Doctor put his hand on my arm for a second as if to make me feel better. And to a point it did.

"Father Octavian?"

"Excuse me, sir."

The Doctor started to mess around with some of the things on the table, as though he was trying to get his mind off of what was going on.

" You're letting people call you "sir". You never do that. So, whatever a Weeping Angel is, it's really bad, yeah?"

" Now that's interesting... You're both still here. Which part of "Wait in the TARDIS till I tell you it's safe" was so confusing?"

" Ooh, are you all Mr. Grumpy Face today?"

Amy was being silly trying to get the Doctor to feel better. However it was not working well on him. Me though I thought it was very funny.

"A Weeping Angel, Amy, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life form evolution has ever produced, and one is trapped inside that wreckage, and I'm supposed to climb in with a screwdriver and a torch-and assuming I survive the radiation, and the whole ship doesn't blow up in my face-do something clever which I haven't actually thought of yet. That's my day, that's what I'm up to. Any questions?"

"Is River Song your wife? Cos she's someone from your future, and the way she talks to you, I've never seen anyone do that. She's kinda like, you know, "Heel, boy!" She's Mrs Doctor from the future, isn't she? Is she gonna be your wife one day?"

Of all the things she could have asked him why that? I mean it's not like he would know if she was or anything. But could she be? The beautiful confident women who seems to know so much about him? But then where do I fit in? River seems to be ok with me so who am I, and better yet who is she…?

"Yes. You're right. I am definitely Mr. Grumpy Face today. "

"Doctor? Doctor!" That was River calling.

"Oops. Her indoors."

"Father Octavian"

"Why do they call him Father?" I asked tilting my head.

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

We met back up with River in what she called a drop ship. The ship looked rather big on the outside, but could not fit more than five people when you stepped inside. I almost found it funny how it was the opposite of the lovely TARDIS, who looked so small on the outside but was worlds big on the inside. When I stepped inside the first thing I saw was the grainy image of a Weeping angel, or what I thought was one anyway. It had its back to us, face in its hands, and facing a wall. Overall it was a creepy cite.

"What do you think? 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." River explained.

"Yeah, it's an Angel. Hands covering its face."

"You've encountered the Angels before?" Father Octavian asked with a mix of disbelief and awe.

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

"But it's just a statue." Amy said more than likely thinking the same as me, what harm could it do.

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

"Where did it come from?" I asked, wanting to know more about this thing that even seemed to scare the Doctor.

"Oh, pulled from the ruins of Razbahan, end of last century. It's been in private hands ever since. Dormant all that time." River said to me, as if I knew what time or even where those places are.

"There's a difference between dormant and patient." The Doctor replied before I had the time to ask what time we were in and where Raz-ba-han was.

"What's that mean, it's a statue when you see it?" Amy asked, something I myself should have asked as well.

"The Weeping Angels can only move if they're unseen. So legend has it."

"No, it's not legend, it's a quantum lock. In the sight of any living creature the Angels literally cease to exist. They're just stone. The ultimate defense mechanism." The Doctor explained.

"What, being a stone?"

"Being a stone until you turn your back." The Doctor replied in such a way I felt as if I was about to enter a horror movie.

The Doctor and River stepped out of the jump ship to speak with Octavian. Telling him about the radiation spilling out on the ship as well as filling the Doctor in on the history of Aplans the indigenous life form, who had been dead for four hundred years. And something about humans who were not living on the planet. Leaving Amy and I to listen unneeded and so we went back into the ship to have a look at the video clip. The Angel seemed to have moved from having its hands covering its face to having its face raised from its hands and looking over its shoulder. Looking for all the world like it was meant to be that way.

"Doctor Song? Did you have more than one clip of the Angel?" Amy called as we both looked at the screen in confusion.

"No, just the four seconds." River called back offhandedly, going back to what the Doctor was saying.

Amy and I look at each other for a moment before looking at the screen only to see that the Angel is now turned looking at us. Even as the time stamp moves from 00:11:28:04 and then jumps back to 00:11:24:23. When the blip is over, the the Angel is now closer to the screen, as though it's trying to get a better look at us. At this point, I wouldn't put it past the thing as odd as my last few days have been. And besides it's just a video what harm could it do?

Really no one should ever ask that because something bad always happens when someone asks that. For me and Amy that was the closing of the door. Great!

Amy and I look at each other before Amy grabs the remote, and tries to turn the monitor off. Only to have it turn back on over and over again.

"It's just a recording. It can't move."

"Try telling it that Amy, because it seems to have forgotten." I told her, feeling fear start to creep up my back.

I went to help Amy pull the plug to the monitor, but when we looked up the Angels face was right against the screen scaring us both. Even as the time stamp keeps moving through the four second clip, both of us run the three steps to the door that we can't get open.

"Doctor?" We both call.

When I look back at the screen to see that the once smooth and impassive face of the Angel is now marred with wrinkles and a sinister mouth full of sharp teeth the likes of some kind of wild animal. But it was the eyes, the unseeing, unfeeling eyes that seemed to hold so much distorted joy at Amy and I's fear. That look made what was only the beginnings of fear turn into panic, the kind that makes your heart beat much too fast, like someone was playing with a drum in my chest.

"Doctor! Doctor!" Amy and I called, though my call was a bit more frantic.

"Doctor! It's in the room!" Amy called trying to get the Doctor's attention.

"Amy! Grace!" The Doctor called out, as though just remembering the girls he had left on the drop ship with the image of an Angel.

"Doctor!"

"Are you alright? What's happening?"

"Doctor? Doctor, it's coming out of the television."

"The Angel is here." I call out frantically as I hear the Doctor's sonic.

"Don't take your eyes off it. Keep looking. It can't move if you're looking."

I could hear River and the Doctor talking about some kind of deadlock and how there wasn't meant to be one on the ship. Meaning the Doctor couldn't get us out…

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

"Doctor! Help us!" I called out fearfully as the Angel gets closer and begins to reach out for us.

"Can you turn it off?"

"Doctor."

"The screen. Can you turn it off?"

"We tried." I called back trying to calm myself.

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

"We're not."

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

"Not helpful Doctor, and besides have you ever tried not blinking?" I call back trying in vain to be funny, as I blinked one eye then the other.

Amy took hold of the remote after feeling for where she had set it. She and the Doctor talked about what the Angel was going to do to us. Or more like Amy demanded to know and the Doctor refused to tell her.

"Doctor, what did you say?" I called.

"Don't look at the eyes!"

"No, about images. What did you say about images?" I asked as an idea began to form.

"Whatever holds the image of an Angel, is an Angel." River called out to me.

"Amy turn it off in one, two, three, four." Amy hit the off button and the image fizzles out to static. The Doctor and River push there way into the room through the no longer locked door. As Amy blabbed on about how we froze the blip on the tape I threw myself into the Doctor's arms. Finally feeling safe, though I didn't know why I felt safe in the arms of a man I just met, but I did and right now I could use the feeling of being safe.

"River, hug Amy." The Doctor says as he wraps his arms around me.

"Why?" Amy asked as River hugs her.

"Because I'm busy." The Doctor said and I swear I saw River smirk at us.

There is suddenly an explosion outside of the ship that makes me jump. Then Octavian comes and tells the Doctor that we can get going to the crashed ship.

"Okay, now it starts." The Doctors says as he lets me go and begins to walk away.

Amy and I went to follow the Doctor when I felt something in my eye. I rubbed at it hoping to get it out and make my eye feel better. However when I looked at my hand I swear I saw dust fall from my eye.

"Coming?" River called after Amy and I.

With one look I knew that Amy had had something odd happen to her as well, but after seeing the Angel I just thought I was seeing things so I brushed it off and smiled at River.

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