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Ah, careful! [frowns and sulks a bit. he's rather like a little boy squirming away from the peroxide]

Stop that! [prods a particularly sensitive area, using the touch to scan him for any injuries] Why did you go in there alone, even after I asked you not to?

[stops trying to wiggle away but he's possibly pouting] I wanted to see what they were up to.

[ignores his pout - she's used to them] And that couldn't wait a day or two until you found someone to go with you?

I was going to ask this bloke following me around but Lucia said not to tell him about it.

So you opted to go alone, instead. Even though you knew it was dangerous. Even though I'd warned you.

Well...yeah but I'm not hurt. It went well enough.

That is not the point! I suggest you not do it again or I'll ensure you can't. Are we understood?

I can handle myself. I've gone on adventures without companions.

But I was there with you. I am not now.

Actually, there was this one time with the weeping angels and getting stuck in the 60's.

...what?

The Weeping Angels got a hold of me and Martha and zapped us back into the 60's, leaving you in 2007.

[just...cannot fathom this] How is that possible? Forty years...? But wasn't your Martha human? How could she have lived to join back up with me? I don't... [completely stumped]

Well, a friend in the future managed to send you back to the past, so it was only, ooooh, five months?

...you let someone else inside me? Again? Who was it this time? Another insipid human?

Actually, she only went in you long enough to activate the emergency return protocol.

[huffs, but can't really argue that. so she switches tactics] If you weren't always so careless, you'd not have gotten transported back in time, anyway.

The weeping angels are different. They've been around forever. Not something I was expecting to face.

If they've been around forever, why aren't they in my databanks?

I always thought they were a rumour. Never had enough on them to make an entry in the databank.

I don't suppose you could tell me about them now, then?

[ponders for a moment] Just don't show me this part, eh? I doubt I'll stumble across it anyway but....well, weeping angels! There's probably a better name for them but that's the one I came up with. They look like those weeping angel statues in churches and gardens. Been around since, oooh, well. Very very very early in the universe. Older than most species. They feed off potential energy, the energy of stolen moments in time. To do that, all they need to do is catch someone and that person is instantly displaced in time, losing all that potential they had. Very nice assassins. Obvious why they wanted you, then, eh? All the potential of time and space. But! They have a very key weakness. They're quantum locked. That's why they cover their faces, you see. They can't risk looking at each other. But all you have to do is keep your eyes on them. Can't even blink. If you blink, well...

Don't worry, I won't let you see this. And I'll try not to act on the knowledge in a way that would alter the time stream. [frowns faintly] Is it even possible to displace me in time? I have the ability to exist in all times, after all. I could just go back after they'd transported me. Unless...unless they took that ability from me in the process? But even by displacing you, Doctor...you have lifetimes ahead of you. It didn't have any adverse affects on your lifespan, did it?

At any rate, I take it you defeated them by using the quantum lock to your advantage?

[shakes his head] Time...since the Time War ended, time and space has been very fluid. A wobbly mess. They were able to displace Martha and I back into the 60's but you stayed where you were. I think I'm all right, though. Time abilities have always been lessened on me. Most I lost was a few years off my life.

Yep! I had Sally working in the future to bring you back. I gave her the emergency return protocol disc but I left out the code for transporting her. So! As you were disappearing, the angels spotted her and surrounded you to get to her. But they surrounded you. Four sides and four angels. [grins]