He leaned against the street lamp looking at their house. He watched the small family hop up the stairs. There were two little boys with them, one was around five and the other was three.
The five year old tugged on Mickey's jacket trying to get his attention as Mickey pressed the bell. The three year old held Martha's hand tightly glancing up at his Mother, who was carrying what looked like a plastic bag with salad inside of it.
The door swung open as he saw Amy and Rory welcome the family in. Amy reached down and picked up the three year old boy swinging him around in the air.
The five year old ran into the house past the Ponds, seemly perfectly at home. The rest of the family followed afterwards and the door closed behind them.
He stood up from where he was leaning and walked across the street. He glanced around him making sure that no one saw him. He ran up to the window, hiding behind of one of the bushes.
He could see the dining room from where he was crouching. The Smiths walked in, taking the jackets off of themselves and their kids. They all sat down to the table as Amy sat a casserole down in the middle of the table.
Amy and Rory sat at the head of the table while Martha sat next to Mickey on one side of the table and their kids sat across them. The five year old yanked on Rory's sleeve and started to talk to him as Amy stood up to get something from the kitchen.
"Oh stop barking I'll let you out." Amy said as she walked over to the gated area where they kept their dog. He was a golden retriever and they had named him Doctor. At first his name had been a joke until they thought of a proper one, but for some reason Doctor had ended up sticking.
The time lord had visited them several times after they had gotten the dog and each time they had referred to him as Sam and just suggested that he didn't know its own name. The dog, however, did know his name.
Doctor bolted out the laundry room and into the dining room in search of table scraps. She turned around and pulled the pie out of the oven and sat it down on the counter, turning off the timer. It had become a weekly thing for the families to have dinner together every Sunday night. It was something that she had grown to look forward to.
She walked back into the dining room and noticed that the dog was pacing back in forth by the window whining. "What's wrong with him?" She asked sitting down looking over at Rory.
"I don't know. Maybe there's something out there?"
"No," Amy said shaking her head, "he'd been barking if something was out there."
The Doctor ducked behind the window as soon as the dog saw him. "Shhhhh go away!" The Doctor whispered in a hushed voice. The dog whined as the time lord tried to shoo him away. "Well I don't care if you want to play I don't want them to see me. Can't you see that I'm trying to spy on them?" The Dog whined again and started to paw at the window, "No, I'm not going to play with you right now, maybe next time, now shoo!"
Amy watched as the dog immediately stopped whining and ran out of the room. She shrugged and walked over to the window and glanced out. She didn't see anything. Maybe Doctor had seen a squirrel or something. She walked back over to the table and sat down.
"Thanks for inviting us over again Amy." Martha said as they all started to eat.
"Oh anytime, and I can't believe how big Jackson is! I swear it's only been a week but he seems like he's grown so much!"
Martha nodded, "yeah he eats so much, more than Jonathan did when he was Jackson's age. Speaking of children have you talked to River recently?"
The Doctor watched as the two families ate dinner together. Satisfied that both families were okay he started to make his way back to the Tardis. When he finally made it back Amy's dog was sitting in front of the invisible police box.
"What? How'd you find the Tardis? It's on stealth mode." The Doctor said surprised to find the dog. The dog barked and the Doctor let out a sigh, "right, of course you smelled it. Now come on, go back to Amy uh—what ever your name is."
The dog let out another bark in reply, "Doctor? Really? Oh Amelia Pond of course you would name a dog after me. Jackie wouldn't name Tony after me, but I guess a dog is something. Well then Doctor go back home." Doctor let out a whine and looked up at the time lord with puppy eyes. "Fine, you can come with me on this one trip, but then I'm taking you straight home. Okay?"
The Doctor opened the door to the Tardis and the dog ran in sat down in the chair next to the console. "Well, you seem to be quite at home here don't you?"