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Day of the Moon (part 1)

The Doctor sat, shackled to a chair as they built the perfect prison around him, just like they'd planned. It was all going to plan. Well, all except for the fact that his mate had actually disappeared. Not to mention the fact that Shadow hadn't been able to calm down for a single moment since Haylen had been gone.

He honestly had no idea where the Angel had gotten off to. Back in the warehouse, before everything went mad, things had been tense. It hadn't been made any better by bringing Canton with them, but it had been for the best in the end.

He did have some regret for the way that his plan had had to be applied to Shadow. The winged panther had gone mad when Haylen's grace had overwhelmed them, and they'd ended up having to restrain her bodily to stop her from going after her best friend. When they'd chained him up, they'd also had to chain her up, and it had gone about as well as one might imagine trying to chain a panther would.

Some of the despairing attitude he was projecting to the world was real, he could admit. He was really very worried about his mate. The other man had gone completely mad when he'd seen one of the skeletal creatures, or so they could only assume, since his grace had exploded outward and blinded the lot of them. Even outside the tunnel, they'd seen it. It had thoroughly distracted him from Amy's surprise declaration that she was pregnant.

Which was just one more thing to worry about, he thought as he tried not to let it get to him.

A low growl from beside him had him lifting his head in time to see the door unsealing once more.

The Doctor blinked as the cell door opened, and two body bags were dragged in. Canton followed, a swagger to his step that looked more than real. Kudos to Canton, he thought with just a touch of irritation.

'Is there a reason you're doing this?' he asked sharply, like he didn't already know.

Canton took a moment, a mean little smile forming on his face as he did. 'I want you to know where you stand.'

'In a cell,' the Doctor shot back.

'In the perfect cell,' Canton corrected with a nod to the walls surrounding them. 'Nothing can penetrate these walls. Not a sound, not a radio wave, not the tiniest particle of anything.'

The Doctor tried very hard not to roll his eyes. He knew all of this, in fact, it had been his idea, and they were very close to having it work out just the way he wanted it to.

The last of the soldiers filed out of the door, and Canton shut it behind them, not even reacting to the way it disappeared once it was shut.

'In here, you're literally cut off from the rest of the universe.' He paused, a bit dramatically, if you asked the Doctor. 'So I guess they can't hear us, right?'

'Good work, Canton!' the Doctor cheered, 'Door sealed?'

'You bet,' the man agreed quickly.

With those words, the Doctor jumped up, shaking off the shackles and pulling the straight-jacket off as quickly as he could. There wasn't a moment to waste, not when his Angel was properly missing - not fake missing, the way that his other companions had been, and River still was, but missing-missing.

He discarded those rambling thoughts as the body bags sat up, rushing over to help unzip them while their occupants gasped for breath. The head of dirty blond hair that appeared as he pulled the zipper down the first body bag had more than a little relief settling his harried movement, and he looked into the human's eyes, a hand on the man's cheek to get his attention.

'Are you okay?' he asked quickly.

Rory's answer was lost as Amy's body bag was unzipped by Canton, but that didn't bother either of them. The Doctor pulled his companion against him for a moment to reassure himself that he hadn't been hurt.