River Song: Hello Sweetie

Pictures Of Ponds

Pictures Of Ponds

Amy's cooking breakfast when the Tardis materializes in her living room. It's quite a shock, and she burns the eggs. "Rory!" She shouts. "Come downstairs!" The door of the Tardis opens and River and the Doctor walk out together. Amy squeals and completely forgets about her burned breakfast. She runs into her living room and launches herself at the married pair. "Hello Amy!" The Doctor says happily. "What's going on in here?" Rory asks blearily as he stumbles through the door. "Rory!" The Doctor cries. "Get over here, join the family hug!" Rory shakes his head a bit and Amy pulls him in anyways. There's a moment of hugging, and they are all laughing as they pull away. There's a bright flash and once Amy regains vision, she sees the Doctor holding a camera. "Why on earth do you have a camera? And why are you taking pictures? I look hideous!" She cries. "I didn't get this camera on earth." He says matter-of-factly. "And you don't look hideous." "I'm in my pajamas!" She says as she tries to wrestle the camera from his grip. He holds it above his head and after a while Amy gives up in defeat. "Sorry mum, he won't give this up. I already tried last night. He's stubborn." River says with a long suffering sigh. The Doctor sticks his tongue out at her. "Oi! There's nothing wrong with taking pictures! And how can I resist? There's a bunch of smiling Ponds, how can I NOT take a picture?" Amy smiles at that. There's a funny, burning smell and Amy gasps in horror. "The eggs!" She cries and runs into the kitchen. The eggs are a blackened mess and thoroughly inedible. "Thanks a lot, Raggedy Man." She moans. "How is this my fault?" The Doctor cries indignantly as he, River, and Rory traipse into the kitchen. "You distracted me!" She accuses. "How?" "You parked the Tardis in my living room!" She says in exasperation. "She does have a point." Rory says as he walks to Amy's side, poking at the still smoking pan. She kisses him on the cheek and he proceeds to look thoroughly pleased with himself. "We wouldn't have landed in the living room if you had just let me drive, Sweetie." River says teasingly. "When did this become 'pick on the Doctor'?" He whines. River kisses him on the neck and he blushes, thoroughly shutting up while looking extremely happy. "Forget about the pan, Amy." The Doctor says. "River and I have breakfast made in the Tardis." Amy raises a skeptical brow. "You made it?" The Doctor pouts. "You don't trust me with breakfast?" She crosses her arms and he sighs. "Fine. No, I did not make it. River and I popped to Paris before coming here." "Well then what are we waiting for?" Amy asks as she pushes past him. "Let's eat breakfast!"

Amy sighs in satisfaction as she pushes away from the table. They are in the second kitchen of the Tardis, eating a perfectly delicious breakfast of crepes and strawberries. "That was so good." Amy says contentedly. "So, when are you two?" Rory asks, pointing his fork in the Doctor and River's direction. "I forgot to ask before." "First night at Stormcage." River says. "I took her to Calderon Beta." The Doctor says proudly. "You don't have to tell them that." River says hurriedly. "Why not? It's a cool place. Anyways, there's a four-hundred year old tree there, on the highest mountain in the middle of the sea-" "You really don't have to go on." River says, biting her lip. "Why on earth not? All I was going to say was that there were the most stars in all of history seen on that night. It was so bright we could read by the light of the stars alone, only we didn't read...oh..." His voice trails off and he blushes. River blushes as well and Amy and Rory stare at her reddened cheeks in amazement. The Doctor takes a picture. River snaps one of the Doctor's braces and he yelps. "Don't take a picture of that." River hisses. The Doctor rubs his chest. "Well I doubt it's ever going to happen again and I wanted to savor that precious memory over and over again." "And you needed to take a photo?" "Yes." She scowls at him and he laughs nervously. Amy graciously changes the subject. "So, are we going to sit and scowl all day, or are we going to have an adventure?" The Doctor jumps up. "Let's go see Sterling 5! Oh, that's a marvelous planet! There are natural geysers of melted silver! And the jewelry they have there! Oh, Sterlings have such amazing and delicate craftsmanship!" He babbles on as he walks out the kitchen and River follows him. Amy and Rory sit in the kitchen for a little while, waiting. They hear an "Eep!" and a "River!" And they smile as they hear River laugh.

Amy walks into the Tardis' kitchen for a late night snack. Sterling 5 had been extraordinarily shiny and wonderful, and for once nothing had gone wrong. They had come back into the Tardis exhausted from a day of being normal tourists, and Amy and Rory had immediately gone to their room to sleep. Amy had woken up from a grumbling stomach, and as she peruses the contents of the fridge, she hears murmuring from the console room. She completely forgets about her hunger and pads down the halls. When she reaches the console room, she sees the Doctor and River underneath the glass floor. They don't see her. The Doctor is poking about the wires of the Tardis while River is holding his sonic and tools, handing him whatever he asks for and giving him some cheeky advice. It is adorably domestic and Amy quietly sighs at the sight. She sees the Doctor's camera on the seat by the monitor, he had been insistent on bringing it to Sterling 5, and she picks it up. She gets as close to the happy couple as she can without giving herself away, and she takes a picture. She looks at the screen to see if the photo turned out all right. And there they are, her Raggedy Doctor and her daughter, smiling at each other as she hands him his sonic. Amy notices that the camera can email pictures and sends the photo to herself. She makes a mental note to have it framed. She sets the camera back onto the seat and walks back to her and Rory's room. "River?" The Doctor asks once Amy is gone. "Yes, Sweetie?" "You do realize Amy was here, and she took a photo of us?" River chuckles. "Of course. I plan on taking revenge by snapping a shot of her sleeping." The Doctor grins at her. "River Song, you bad, bad girl." "You'd best believe it Sweetie." She says cheekily and winks at him. His smile grows even fonder at her and she blushes again slightly. She mentally curses him for it. "What?" She asks a bit self-consciously. The Doctor stands up and wraps his arms around her waist. She subconsciously melts into him and inches her way closer to his lips. "Your parents are on board." The Doctor whispers against her lips. "I like to live on the edge." She whispers back. "You can say that again." He mutters, and then they are kissing. He hears a click. "Go to bed, Amy." He mumbles. He hears a giggle and then she walks away again. "I'm going to have to keep my camera away from her. She's so flash-happy." He says jokingly. "Like you're one to talk." River scoffs, still held tightly in his arms. "Well it's my camera. I get to take as many pictures as I want. And if all the pictures are of my beautiful wife, then so be it." He reasons. River rolls her eyes and he kisses her again. They pull away after a while, and both of them are smiling. "River?" "Yes?" He holds her close and whispers in her ear, "I'm so very glad you married me"

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Clara is wandering aimlessly through the Tardis, alone. The Doctor had to fix a couple of things and left her to explore on her own. She finds a library and looks at the shelves. There are hundreds of books and she could spend hours just reading the titles of them. She sees a photo album on the middle shelf and flips it open. There are photos of a red-haired woman and a man that had to be her husband. He had quite the nose, but was still very handsome. It's Amy and Rory, she realizes. Clara smiles at their pictures. They look very happy together, she decides. She flips through more pages and laughs at the pictures of the Doctor. There are multiple photos of him giving the camera a thumbs up. She flips through more of the album and sees the rest the photos are of River. River smiling, River laughing, even of River scowling! She doesn't know if she's simply seeing through the Doctor's eyes, but every photo of River is beautiful. She shines in every one of the pictures, even the ones with her mouth open because she's in the middle of saying something. Her personal favorite picture of River is closer to the back. River looks the same, but her eyes seem younger. She's blushing. It's something Clara would never have imagined River doing, but is enchanted by it nonetheless. She goes through the entire album and sees pictures of all of them together, or of them in different groups. She slowly turns the pages of kissing photos. She falls in love with the photo of Amy and Rory hugging River, and the Doctor hugging all of them. Underneath the photo there is a caption. Only one word, but it makes Clara's breath catch. Underneath the photo, it says, "Family."