'I love you, it's ruining my life' - Taylor Swift
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"Your world would be much better off if you lost me."
"Don't say things like that. What difference does it even make? Either way, I'm travelling with you, and I'm in danger. One way we'll both just...
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The ground is hard. Cherry winces as she lands on the solid surface, and a strange groan, followed by a string of obscenities, leaves her lips. She struggles to stand up on the metal floor, wobbling on the rubber soles of her boots until the Doctor appears at her side and places his hands on her waist. He straightens her up, helping her to regain her balance, and then smiles giddily at her when she meets his eye.
"What?" Cherry eyes him suspiciously as she runs a hand through her hair, pushing any misplaced strands out of her face.
"I told you, Cherry," he muses, motioning above their heads with both his hands. "There's always a way out."
Cherry's eyes flicker up for a moment and then back to the Doctor, and then she whips her head back up, doing a double take as she realises, they are standing upside down. "Oh my God!" she gasps, her eyes wide. She blindly reaches out for the Doctor, grabbing his arms for support as she processes what she is seeing. They're all standing or lying as not all of them are on their feet yet, on the hull of the Byzantium, hanging above the angels below them. "How on earth..."
"Pretty cool, right?" the Doctor straightens his bowtie, smirking at Cherry's amazed expression. She glances back down at him, her eyes sparkling and lips tugging up into a smile, and he beams at her. She struggles to articulate any words, and he places his hand on her shoulder as he walks by her. "I know."
"Are you okay?" River asks Amy, helping her to her feet.
"What happened?" Amy glances around, trying to make sense of their surroundings.
"We jumped," River answers, as the lights start to flicker around them.
"Jumped where?" Amy presses, stumbling as she stands up straight.
"Up, up! Look up!" the Doctor tells everyone, and they all squint in the flickering light, trying to make out their surroundings.
"Where are we?"
"Exactly where we were," River explains to Amy, who still looks thoroughly lost.
"No, we're not," she denies, shaking her head. The Doctor lightly pushes her away from a circular dip in the ground, which is surrounded by six small spotlights, and he crouches before it, taking out his sonic screwdriver and using it on the shape.
"Doctor, what am I looking at? Explain," Amy still doesn't seem to grasp that they are currently standing upside down on the hull of the crashed ship, which previously towered thirty feet above them.
"Oh, come on, Amy, think. The ship crashed with the power still on, yeah? So what else is still on?" the Doctor spells it out for her. "The artificial gravity. One good jump, and up we fell. Shot out the grav globe to give us an updraft, and here we are."
"Doctor, the statues. They look more like Angels now," Octavian points to the statues below them with his gun. Some of them are beginning to grow wings or fix their broken limbs, and Cherry's stomach flips.
