The Littlest Timelord: Cracks in Time

Chapter 15

A/N - First chapter of "Flesh and Stone". I love writing mummy River.

"Up. Look up", the Doctor told them.

Elise pulled her head from River's neck and looked up. Her mouth dropped open as everyone stumbled to their feet.

"Are you okay?" River asked Amy.

"What happened?" "We jumped".

"Jumped where?"

"Up. Up. Look up", the Doctor repeated.

"Where are we?" Amy asked.

"Exactly where we were", River told her.

"No we're not".

"Move your feet", the Doctor told her.

Amy moved and he knelt down to sonic a circular hatch. "Doctor, what am I looking at? Explain".

"Oh, come on, Amy, think. The ship crashed with the power still on, yeah? So what else is still on? 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 told him.

"They're feeding on the radiation from the wreckage, draining all the power from the ship, restoring themselves. Within an hour, they'll be an army".

The hatch opened as one of the lights surrounding the hatch exploded.

"They're taking out the lights. Look at them. Look at the Angels. Into the ship, now. Quickly, all of you", the Doctor ordered.

"How?" Amy asked.

The Doctor jumped through the hatch into the ship.

"Doctor!"

The Doctor appeared to be standing in a vertical corridor. "It's just a corridor. The gravity orientates to the floor. Now, in here, all of you. Don't take your eyes off the Angels. Move, move, move. River! Pass Elise through first".

River lowered the small Timelord into her father's hands.

"Hello there", he said, kissing her cheek. He lowered her into the harness again as the group dropped down into the corridor. The Doctor rushed over to a control panel and pulled out his sonic screwdriver to start working on it.

"The Angels. Presumably they can jump up too?" Octavian asked.

The hatch closed.

"They're here, now", the Doctor told him, "In the dark, we're finished".

A door on the other side of them started to close.

"Run!" the Doctor yelled.

"This whole place is a death trap", Octavian said as the door closed.

"No, it's a time bomb. Well, it's a death trap and a time bomb. And now it's a dead end. Nobody panic. Oh, just me then. What's through here?"

"Secondary flight deck", River told him.

"Okay. So we've basically run up the inside of a chimney, yeah? So what if the gravity fails?" Amy asked.

"I've thought about that", the Doctor said.

"And?"

"And we'll all plunge to our deaths. See? I've thought about it. The security protocols are still live. There's no way to override them. It's impossible".