Weeping Angels - 25 Months

‘Um, well, I’m not sure how much I can say,’ said the future Rory hesitantly. ‘You know, spoilers and stuff. But we were all in this field, on the South Downs, on the night of the tenth of April 2003, and the Weeping Angels were there too, and well, I got zapped.’

‘Zapped?’ said Rory.

‘Back to 2001. Which was a bit of a head-scratcher, to say the least.’

‘And then you came and found us?’ asked the Doctor.

‘Not quite. First I had to hang around for a month waiting for you to turn up.’

‘What?’

‘I was sent back to the first of May. Four weeks I’ve been stuck in the past waiting for you!’ Future Rory sighed indignantly. ‘I seem to spend half my life waiting for people!’

‘Still, four weeks,’ said the Doctor. ‘Give you a chance to catch up on old times and stuff.’

‘You try being dumped in the past with no money, no job, and nowhere to live! I could hardly go back to Leadworth, could I?’

‘I’m sure you coped admirably. No need to go into the grisly details.’

‘Hang on,’ said Rory. ‘If this is going to happen to me, I’d quite like to hear the grisly details, thank you very much. Give me some idea what I’m in for.’

‘That’s precisely why you mustn’t know,’ said the Doctor. ‘And why your future self mustn’t tell you. You’ve heard too much as it is.’ He returned to future Rory. ‘Let me get this straight. It was the night of the tenth of April 2003, when you were touched by the Angel?’

‘Yeah.’

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Touched by an Angel, Chapter 15