A/N: Sorry about the delay to this story, but I had older fictions I wanted to work on, including PR. For my Bones fans out there, don't you worry. I will write a B & B story again and will include BBT in some way.

BTW, thanks to Hazelra7 who gave great insight to a crappy first draft, including a couple of dialogue suggestions. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own BBT, just takes the characters out to play. Hope this story helps with the upcoming final episodes.

"So what are we talking, ten bucks?"

Penny looked at her friend. "No, Amy. I don't want any money. The fact that you and Sheldon thought that I should be tested as a lab experiment shows me just how little you think of me!"

Amy saw her friend's eyes watering and knew she screwed up. "Penny—"

"No. I-I'll just talk to you later." The blonde said before she went back into her apartment and slammed her door.

Amy felt remorseful and knew that she owed her friend an apology. However, right now she needed to talk to her boyfriend…and give him a buttock kicking.

Inside, Sheldon heard the girls talking and felt guilty. He wanted to make Amy feel bad as he did earlier when Kripke was talking to them, but instead he felt worse. Before he could ponder further, he heard the door knob move.

Sheldon quickly finished pulling up his pants and zipped them. "I'm not decent!"

The door opened quickly and Amy charged through before closing the door. "You sure aren't at this moment, Sheldon Lee Cooper! Why did you tell Penny about the experiments? You did explain to her that we were only using her and Leonard as controls to measure a human baseline, right?"

Amy heard no response, but she wasn't surprised. "Of course, you didn't."

"I had to tell her, Amy."

"Why?! We originally agreed not to so the experiment would not be compromised while in motion. When it was concluded we decided to keep it between us."

Sheldon got fed up. "Because she kept telling I had to just 'let it go'. She told me to visualize my frustration as a pen, and then let it go. Why would let go of this pen?"

He held up what looked like an imaginary pen. "This is not just any pen. This is a great pen because it's my pen! Let it go…how completely stupid is that?"

Amy folded her arms against her chest as she realized what he was talking about. "Quite smart actually. Visualization is considered by many to be an effective means in letting go of stupid issues…like me assisting Kripke with a mathematical issue!"

"You gave him the tool to make me—I mean Dark Matter—look bad!"

Amy didn't miss Sheldon's Freudian slip. "How did I make you look bad?"

"Dark Matter may be new, but it's shy and doesn't like its feelings hurt when you help the popular and overhyped String Theory—"

Amy walked closer and noted that Sheldon wouldn't look her in the eye. "No, Sheldon. You initially said it made you look bad. Tell me how giving a suggestion to one scientist did that? He was your enemy but he helped us with Fun with Flags, so what's your problem?"

Sheldon couldn't find the words to use, so he went with what he knew. "You gave him your mathematics! You're supposed to only give me your mathematics!"

Amy stood for a moment stunned as she realized what the real issue was. Usually, she would be excited for this type of result. However, she was upset because instead of just confronting her with his real issue, Sheldon's anger led to him to hurt one, soon to be two people. Her fury overtook her and she dropped a bombshell.

"You mean like how you gave Kripke details on how we used your model rocket next to your bed for coitus?!"

All the color drained from Sheldon's face. He meant to tell her a long time ago, but kept putting it off. Penny told him a long time ago he should tell her before someone else did, but he was afraid to. Now the time he was dreading came to fruition.

"I-I…Um—"

"What's the matter, Doctor Cooper, cat got your tongue?"

"Um…"

"Of course, my boyfriend wouldn't make up the fact of us having sex as the reason his work may not compare to his colleague's, would he? Because that would be insulting to his girlfriend and make her reputation less that what she actually deserved."

Sheldon could see the hurt in his girlfriend's eyes. "Amy—"

For the neurobiologist, feelings that she thought had been dealt with rose back to the surface with a vengeance and she needed to get away.

"I came here to talk to you because I felt guilty for upsetting you, Sheldon, but right now, I sure as hell don't want to be around you."

'Oh no…' Sheldon thought. "Amy, wait."

"No. You used me as a scapegoat then and you used me again now to soothe your precious ego and gain the upper hand. I'm out of here."

"Amy, don't go!"

"Take one step closer and I'll get your model rocket and put it where your dark matter doesn't shine!"

Before Sheldon could respond, Amy stormed out of the apartment, leaving him behind. Suddenly he had a grimace as he unconsciously gripped his butt cheeks together.

"That would hurt."

When Amy got home a short time later, she was almost over her mad. She forgave him for it soon after he returned from his trip, but bringing it up hurt her again.

She remembered that day she found out about her boyfriend's lies.

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It was July and she was upset for missing Sheldon's call the night before. Before she knew it, she was in his office, graciously let in by Alex. After a promise to lock up, Amy was alone.

She turned around his white board to look at his train. She knew how protective he was of that picture and the fact he let her gaze upon it was a huge extension of trust for the physicist. She was so into her thoughts she didn't hear Barry Kripke walk in until she heard his Elmer Fudd accent.

"Hey, if it isn't the lovely Doctor Amy Fowler. What brings you here? Missing Sheldon and his model rocket? Must be if you are looking at that train he won't anyone look at."

Startled, she turned around and saw the physicist with what Penny would call a 'shit eating grin'. "No, I came in here to get something for Sheldon. What are you talking about with his model rocket?"

Barry walked closer. "You can drop the innocent act with me. I know about all about how your freaky sex life made his research for our grant application a while back not as good as it should have been. He said when you two get together, and I quote, "Boy Howdy, is it magic."

The scientist laughed. "Man…a model rocket. I bet you can't wait to use that with Cooper when he gets back. I need to find someone like you soooo bad."

Amy felt her stomach drop as she realized what the other scientist was saying. She remembered that time and how Sheldon was depressed when he spoke to her about Kripke's research being better than his. The nausea competed with the sudden rage that flowed inside of her as she realized what her boyfriend did. She had a comeback on the tip of her tongue when she saw it.

Barry Kripke's look of satisfaction at one-upping her boyfriend.

As much as she wanted to deny it, her love for Sheldon superseded the need to correct Kripke's thoughts.

"Barry, if I were you, I would set my sights lower. I'm one of a rare breed of genius and imagination, much like my Sheldon. You will never find someone like me. Now, please show yourself out."

Looking in the drawers, she grabbed the first thing she saw, a flash drive in an attempt to hold her shaking hands steady. She closed the drawer and headed towards the door, giving the stunned physicist a shove outside. When she was alone, Amy quickly walked away before she lost her composure in a public place.

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After her unfortunate encounter with Kripke, Amy prepared a scathing lecture to give to Sheldon when he got home, but when the time came, she almost immediately noted a change in his demeanor. When they talked the night he came home and she laid down the law with him, he seemed truly sorry for hurting her. It was then she knew that things were different between them and that the past didn't matter…at least then.

Since Sheldon's return, when she stood up for herself, he seemed to have more respect for her. He also made more of an effort in their relationship, including in the area of intimacy.

On their last date night, Sheldon shocked the hell out of her in a very pleasant way.

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The couple were on Amy's couch making out. Only a week earlier they experimented with French kissing and each discovered that the other was quite talented with their tongues.

To her delight, Sheldon eventually pushed her down on the couch with him on top of her. She couldn't help but moan at feeling his body weight along with his warmth. His hands caressed her above her clothes and above the waist.

Suddenly, Sheldon's left hand pulled her blouse from her skirt and through three layers of clothes, made its way to Amy's right side of her body. Feeling the heat from his hand made her moan, which seemed to fuel Sheldon's actions as he made gentle circles in that area before slowly moving up to right below her bra.

She thought she was going to lose her mind as his hand felt like pure electricity through her. Amy almost exploded as he traveled back towards her abdomen and caressed her gently. It was her most hated area of her body part, but somehow that thought was taken over a feeling of slight dampness that resulted from that touch.

Just when Amy thought it wouldn't get any better, Sheldon caressed her left breast on top of her bra cup. She heard his growl before he came up for a breath of air and his lips traveled to her neck towards her carotid artery.

"I love feeling your heart beat, Amy."

Sheldon's words make Amy feel like her bra was a strait jacket as she internally begged for him to put his hand under the cup. She remained speechless from her boyfriend's machinations, but managed to move her hands down towards his posterior where she caressed him before wrapping her right leg around his left, pulling him closer.

He groaned before his hand roughly pushed underneath the bra cup, causing her to see stars. Between Sheldon's talented hands on her breast and lips on her neck, Amy what she considered her first true orgasm as she soaked her panties.

"Ooohhh God, Sheldon!"

Sheldon heard his girlfriend's guttural moan and looked up. When he saw her flushed face and erratic breathing, he mentally referenced the book he got from Leonard and Penny and realized where it came from.

"Did you…you know?"

"Yes, Doctor Cooper, I did. Congratulations."

'She had an orgasm. I GAVE HER AN ORGASM!' He yelled internally before putting on a face of stone, but very unsuccessful.

He knew he should be disgusted because Amy potentially leaked body fluids on him, but he wasn't. Instead, his confidence shot up at the fact his girlfriend peaked from his touch. From what he had heard over the years from his friends, sometimes they had struck out in this endeavor.

Sheldon finished his thoughts and looked at his girlfriend with a satisfied smile. "Of course. I excel at everything."

"Of course, Doctor Cooper." It was then she saw the time. "Sheldon, it's after ten. I should get you home. On our next date, I will make sure to reciprocate the favor."

His eyes lit up at the thought, which didn't go unnoticed by Amy. "Of course, Doctor Fowler. Ours is an equal relationship now, of course."

"Give me just a minute." Amy said before she disappeared into her bedroom. She discarded her soaked panties and put on a clean pair. When done, she came back out into the living room, grabbed her purse and keys, and left the apartment with Sheldon.

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Needing to unwind, she sat on the couch and turned on the television. She needed to numb her brain for a while. Turning on the television, she saw an old episode of Bones. Seeing that made her think of Penny, who got her hooked on that show in the first place. Quickly changing the channel, she found Pride and Prejudice on BBC America. Settling in, she got comfortable and watched.

It would do her boyfriend some good to sit for a while and think about this actions.

Sheldon sat in silence.

'She knows. I'm not a good boyfriend.'

Until a year ago, he declared to anyone that he didn't need coitus, kissing, and touching, but it was a lie. He wanted kissing…touching…and coitus, but only with Amy.

During his trip last summer, he finally admitted to himself he was not only in love with her, but attracted to her body as well as her brain.

This fact made him weak like his friends, which he hated. After his return though, he realized he didn't care anymore because to his surprise, he enjoyed the naughty feelings his cute little lump of wool brought out in him. However, they also scared the crap out of him.

Several times, he wanted to ask her to stay the night, but he was afraid that their recent forays into intimacy would go beyond making out. Sometimes he was ready for coitus, and other times he wasn't, frustrating him to no end.

He sat there thinking about why he would do something so vile as to tell Kripke he was fornicating with his girlfriend to protect his insufficient research. Then he knew.

He was a selfish idiot.

He wanted to take Penny's advice to be honest, but always chickened out. When he and Amy finally expressed how they felt about each other, he got even more scared. He knew that he would die without her.

His stupid arrogance had felt like a lead in his gut, but on the other hand, he was never as happy as he was the last few months with Amy. Nothing could take her away from him.

Then Kripke brought his girlfriend that bottle of wine.

Was it really just a 'thank you' or was it more? He knew that wine was something shared with friends, like Amy did with the girls. However, he also knew that Penny shared it with Leonard, that Bernadette shared it with Wolowicz, and that Raj shared it with Emily. Wine was when not shared with friends, an item used as a precursor to coitus for a couple.

Was that it? Was the inferior physicist wanting to share a glass with his neurobiologist in an attempt to court her away from him?

Sheldon felt all his insecurities come back with a vengeance. He remembered from his friends' history with their significant others that a gift of wine lead to other things, like flowers.

If there was a second time, how would Amy help him? In return, would Barry give her the one thing he wasn't ready to give?

Would she leave him behind?

Suddenly, he felt water behind his eyes and a few drops fell. He tried to wipe them away and sniffled quickly, but it was too late as several more fell as his thoughts were racing. He wanted to tell Amy why her working with him upset him so much, but he couldn't get the words out. How could he tell her though? He didn't want her to look at him as less that a Homo novus.

Sheldon Cooper is nothing but eloquent and intelligent.

It was then he thought about what Amy said when he came back. 'Sheldon, it's okay with me that you're not perfect.'

Suddenly, he knew that he could tell his girlfriend anything. She was the one person in this world who never made fun of him or make him feel stupid for his feelings. Amy would try to change his mind if she felt it was necessary, but in the end, she always supported him.

Blowing his nose, he composed himself as he grabbed his phone and sent a message to Leonard to come get him. Less than a minute later, he felt a buzz and almost died when he saw a picture of his roommate and Raj with Nathan Fillion. When he read the message he exhaled.

Don't stalk him, Sheldon! Raj & I r heading back to c shop. Call gf to pick u up.

"LeVar Burton didn't file a restraining order so nyah!" Sheldon sneered before sticking his tongue out at the phone.

His roommate was violating the Roommate Agreement, but he would deal with that later. Right now, he needed to find transportation and his bus pants were in his hamper. He thought about asking Penny but she was annoyed with him and Amy. Suddenly, he heard Penny's door close and thought of a solution.

"Don't you worry, my lovely moth. Your blazing flame is coming to you."

After Pride and Prejudice ended, Amy sat nursing a cup of chamomile tea while playing with her Hulu Plus. Seeing that the latest episode of 'Dancing With the Stars' on she selected it. After the ads played and the show started, she watched each of the stars with the dancers and she marveled at each couple.

'Dancing with my Sweet Baboo, we would kick their asses if given a chance.'

"Ugh!" Amy growled as she thought about him again. It was what led her to realize it was almost 3:30 PM. Sheldon and her were expected at Stuart's comic shop to help set up later, but she didn't want to go. She wanted her boyfriend to stew a little bit longer. It was good for him. As she smiled at the thought, she heard it.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. 'Amy'

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK 'Amy'

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK 'Amy'

She rolled her eyes for a moment and considered ignoring him, but he beat her to the punch.

'I know you are in there Amy Farrah Fowler.'

Resigned, Amy got up and opened her door. When she saw her boyfriend's slightly reddened eyes, the last residual of her anger was gone. When she took in the entire scene, she saw her her tall, Texan boyfriend standing with Penny's bike with a basket and flowers on it.

"Why do you have Penny's bike?"

"I borrowed it."

It took all she had to not burst out laughing, but her mirth quickly died with one look into her boyfriend's blue eyes before it was blocked out by her heart beating rapidly. "W-what are you doing here, Sheldon?"

Sheldon felt his stomach drop as he forgot the speech he wanted to say to her, only getting out the following words.

"You're pretty and sexy and alluring and I don't want Kripke to take your math away from me."

He took Amy's stunned look and slightly opened mouth to mean she was annoyed. "Son of a biscuit! I meant to say that…I had a speech planned…I was going to say…I'm sorry…."

Before Sheldon could speak more, Amy threw her arms around him. "You're handsome and sexy and alluring, too. I don't want a girl to take your math away from me, either."

After a moment, Sheldon realized where he was. "Amy, can we go inside? Some things should not be advertised like Penny and Leonard always do."

Amy laughed. 'There's my Sheldon.'

Amy backed up as Sheldon wheeled the bike inside. She barely turned around after shutting the door when her boyfriend pushed her against it and kissed her feverishly while muttering "I'm so sorry…I'm so sorry…I was being a feminine hygiene product…I love you."

She was caught up in the moment before she reluctantly pushed her boyfriend away to look at him. "Sheldon, you were jealous, okay, but you weren't a douche. Who told you about…Penny, right?"

Sheldon nodded. "Yes I was and I'm not just talking about today. I told Kripke we were having coitus to save face. I made you look cheap when you aren't."

Amy exhaled as she remembered their fight. "Well, I kept your secret."

Sheldon was stunned. "Why? How did you find out anyway?"

Amy took one step closer. "I helped you because I love you. As for how I found out, remember the night last summer when you couldn't reach me?"

"Yes, you said that three monkeys escaped their cages and wreaked havoc in the lab because the grad student in charge that night was making out with his girlfriend in the decontamination shower."

"Now ex-grad student, but I digress. I went to your office the next day because I missed you. While I was looking at your train, Barry showed up and insinuated that we would be using your model rocket in a vulgar manner when you returned. At least you described our non-existent lovemaking as 'magic'"

Sheldon felt his insides boil. 'How dare that wannabe physicist Barry Kripke say such vile things to HIS Amy! He would show that troglodyte what would happen when a man talked to his girlfriend that way. He would—'

"I'm sure after you finish plotting Kripke's demise in your brain, your next question will be why I would help him. The answer is I didn't help him, I helped science."

Sheldon's brain was momentarily stunned before the wheels turned again. 'Of course she would put science ahead of her own feelings. It's one of the reasons why I love her so much.'

He came back to reality when he saw his girlfriend watching him. "I'm sorry I made you look bad. A good boyfriend doesn't do that." He gulped for a moment before continuing. "He doesn't sell his girlfriend out either because he is in a pique about an inferior male."

Amy saw he recognized what he did wrong. Sheldon of up to several months ago wouldn't have resorted to hoofing it over to her apartment and confess his feelings, much less admit he wasn't perfect. For that, she could accept his apology.

"It's all right, Sheldon and you're not a douche."

Sheldon had a confused look on his face intermingled with flushed cheeks. "But I acted like an ass."

"You did, but to be considered a douche is to be a special caliber of an ass that you could never be Sheldon Cooper. Besides, a feminine hygiene product would never steal his neighbor's girly bike and ride fifteen miles over so he could apologize."

She exhaled before continuing. "I'm sorry that my helping Barry upset you so much. I just figured that you were done with string theory. All I did was give him an idea and some math suggestions. That's it. I don't see how it warranted a bottle of wine as a thank you, but it's appreciated just the same."

Sheldon felt bad. "Don't apologize, Amy. You were just looking out for the better good of science. I just get nervous when substandard men give you attention."

Amy smirked. "Only substandard men?"

Sheldon's face turned into one of annoyance. "Of course substandard. There is no one better than Doctor Sheldon Lee Cooper. In fact—"

"Sheldon! I was just kidding, okay?" Amy said before she bent to pick up a small flower that fell from the bike basket.

The physicist visibly sighed in relief before in his full view was her beautiful posterior. Suddenly, other forces were in their midst.

"Amy, get up."

She had just picked up the flower and was about to attach it to the basket when she was suddenly pulled into her boyfriend's arms and saw his eyes turn into a deep navy blue. "Hoo!"

"How much time until we have to be at the comic shop?" Sheldon asked in a gravel voice.

"A-about thirty minutes. Why?"

"I think we're going to be late." Sheldon croaked as he saw the green in Amy's eyes go from jade to emerald.

Amy was mesmerized. "I-I guess we will be. I hope Stuart understands."

"He better."

Those were Sheldon's last words as they came together in a rush before the physicist slammed the other scientist into the door. Teeth clashed as hands roamed over bodies. Before they knew it, Sheldon was naked from his pants up while Amy only had her bra on with her skirt and tights.

After a few more moments of them making out, Sheldon stopped panting heavily. "Amy, there's something I've been thinking about of late. I'm still not ready for coitus, but do you trust me?"

The neurobiologist's cylinders were malfunctioning except for one, but remembered something she saw with Sheldon recently. Smirking, she spoke. "Implicitly"

'Oh my God, she quoted Star Trek!' Sheldon's brain managed to process before his right arm went under his girlfriend's rear end and picked her up.

"Hoo!" Amy said breathlessly.

"Wrap your legs around me!"

Amy could only comply and when she was secured around Sheldon, he carried her to the island separating her living room from her kitchen. After kicking a stool out of the way he dropped her on the counter before he kissed her again. His main gustatory muscle made a trail of her lips. When Amy granted access their tongues commingled together in a dance that stripped their minds clean.

The neurobiologist couldn't control her hands as they explored the muscles of his back. She knew that her boyfriend filled out his T-shirts more over the last year and a half and he recently confessed to his secret hobby of hackey sack. As far as she was concerned, he could do it until the day she died if it made his physique this good.

Suddenly, she felt his lips leave and barely registered the cold when his lips made a sensuous trail down her neck until he found her carotid artery. He started nibbling and licking, making Amy's panties damp with satisfaction.

Sheldon's hands made their way to his girlfriend's breasts. After a few minutes of massaging and reveling in their warmness through the cups, he needed more. On instinct, his hands moved to the back to unhook it like he had seen in the movies, but it was difficult. He was about to give up when he felt her smaller hands on top of his before they were moved to the front.

He felt stupid until he felt his chin moved up and all he could see was a sea of green and the smile that he loved in between taking in a breath. All of his confidence, along with his horniness came back as he unsnapped the opening and gazed into the beauty of Amy Farrah Fowler's breasts without a barrier for the first time. When he moved to caress them, he was instantly jolted by her moans and needed to hear more of those sounds.

Looking down, a dark red bud taunted him relentlessly. Ignoring the voice in his head saying it was dirty, he took it in his mouth and sucked it lightly.

"Oh shit, Sheldon!" Amy groaned.

Inspired his girlfriend's uncharacteristic curse at his actions and feeling her squeeze him with her legs, he looped one arm around her waist and the other around her shoulder. Pulling her close, he sucked the nipple like the cherry popsicles of his youth. His girlfriend's gentle caresses on his back turned into nail digging, only fueling the flame more.

Before Sheldon knew it, he was grinding against Amy's core as she held him close on the kitchen counter. The friction felt delicious for both and his hands were itching to touch her special place, but he wasn't ready for that.

Besides, the familiar tinging in his spine told him he was getting close.

"Amy, I'm close. Really close." He said in a breathy tone.

For Amy, she was almost at her peak and wanted it now. Determined, she squeezed Sheldon further until their naked torsos touched each other and their lips were back on each other. Suddenly, she was seeing stars as her nails dug deep into her boyfriend's back, drawing minute amounts of blood.

Sheldon simultaneously felt Amy's nails and her wetness through her tights. He felt her shiver but when he looked into her eyes it was the burst of a new, deeper green that broke his tenuous control as his excitement burst out of him to merge with the wet spot already on him. Touch, taste, hearing, and smell became a jumble as the physicist rode out what he now knew was his first true orgasm.

The couple held each other tight as their bodies recovered and each came back to reality. They came together in a kiss before returning to hold each other while on the kitchen counter. The room was silent until Sheldon finally spoke up.

"So this is what it's like when couples fight and make up. When we have coitus, Boy Howdy is it going to be magic."

Amy responded by bursting out in laughter, which was followed by Sheldon cracking up.

Some may comment on the fact that Barry's dialogue is normal, but with the effort it would have taken to change the phonetics of the dialogue, it was too much of a pain. Besides, I think readers have enough of imagination to think of Elmer Fudd.

For the purists, please forgive me and hope you enjoyed the rest.