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// Winter Quay  
// Story: The Angels Take Manehattan 
// by Steve Stevenson 
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Amy stood, tapping in numbers on the tracking device while the doctor sat with his wife.
"Why did you lie to me?"
River sat for a while, and contemplated for a while.
"When one is married to an ageless god who insists on the face of a twelve-year-old, one does one's best to hide the damage." she recited, as if speaking a well known proverb. He gently picked up her hoof, and held it in his.
"It must hurt." he whispered.
"Yes. The hoof is pretty bad too." The Doctor looked at her in pain, as if she had stabbed him, but she didn't look back. He rubbed her hoof, and it started to glow.
"No. no no no, you stop that. STOP IT!" she hissed in pain. But before she could finish, her hoof was healed.
"There you go." he responded, kissing her hoof, "Hows that?"
"Well, let’s see shall we?" and she slapped him, "that was a stupid waste of regeneration energy! Nothing is gained by you being a sentimental idiot!"
"River!"
"Oh! You embarrass me!" and she stormed out the building. Amy took her glasses off and walked up to the Doctor.
"Tell you what, stick to the science part." she slammed the two gadgets in his lap, and walked out after River.
The Mother and Daughter stood in silence for a while.
"Okay, why did you lie?" Amy asked. River stood, not looking at her mom.
"Never let him see the damage." Amy walked up and rubbed her shoulder. River turned to her mom.
"And never let him see you age. He doesn't like endings." River informed. Before Amy could say anything, The Doctor was outside.
"Got him! He’s in a place called Winter Quay." he called. They hopped in the car out front, and zoomed of, weaving their way around the city. They pulled up to an apartment complex.
"Why would they send him here? Why not zap him back in time like they normally do?" River asked, slamming the car door behind her.
"We'll know that when we know what this place is." the Doctor replied. They ran up to the building, ready to burst through the doors. But before they had even raised a hoof to open them, they swung open. They rushed to the lift, but it was all ready there, waiting for them. They all piled in, and it zoomed up. It stopped in front of a large hallway full of doors.
"Rory?" Amy called.
"He's close." River responded, close behind her mother. The Doctor, of course, wasn't listening to the two of them. He was too busy paying attention to the Pegasus statue at the end of the hall. Amy turned into a room, and found Rory, and hugged him. Just as the Doctor and River were about to enter the room, the lights flickered. The Pegasus at the end of the hall was smiling!! The Doctor stopped River, and lifted his hoof towards it.
"Why is it smiling?" she asked. He said nothing, but looked at the door. Rory's initials were written on the buzzer!!
"AMY! RORY!!" The Doctor yelled, and rushed into the small apartment.
"Get out of here!! Don’t look at anything!!" he hurriedly spat, but it was too late. They were already looking into the next room.
"Who’s that?" Amy asked, and walked towards the stallion lying on the bed.
"Amy. Amy please..." he wheezed. She slowly walked towards him, not saying a word. She slipped her hoof in his, and a horrible realization came over her.
"Rory?" she whispered. He nodded his head, and coughed. Amy turned her head back to her still youthful husband.
"He's you."  
Rory turned away. He couldn't watch.
The old Rory panted, and with his last breath, he muttered the one word that had kept him alive for all those years. "Amy."
And he leaned back down on his pillow, and breathed no more. Rory Williams was dead.