Ok guys, look, I was watching The Isolation Permutation and…Amy does not match Sheldon at all. I mean, she did at first, but now she doesn't fit him at all. Getting drunk and all that shit, I'm sorry but no. It just…it aggravated me for some reason and this came out of it. Of course, this isn't a story of how Sheldon meets a girl that is exactly like him from beginning to end but somewhere in the middle they actually fall in love and have sex and its perfect.

This is more of a product of my aggravation with Amy and a picture I found on Facebook about Loki and his helmet…dear Lord, this was a rant. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy. Please, check my profile for my OC's information and everything. Ya know, to get better acquainted.

Note: Lots of angst and the romance takes awhile to build up but – though I am not usually a boastful person with my writing, honestly – it gets better.

"I said no, especially without being informed."

"Come on Sheldon, it's just my sister and her kid."

"She has a child! Oh good Lord, no, absolutely not."

Leonard sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Look, she's already parking outside the building. I can't tell her to go somewhere else. It's just a couple of days until I can help her find somewhere else to stay close to us. You can handle this."

Sheldon's left eye twitched. Was he hearing Leonard right? He had just invited his sibling over – with her daughter – and said nothing to Sheldon. And it had been almost two weeks since he invited her to stay, not a word about it to his roommate. Sheldon felt slightly betrayed but more so, irked. The roommate agreement…he didn't even want to start repeating that because he already knew it was pointless. Leonard would not give up and then he would be mopey and him being mopey meant a grumpy Sheldon and he didn't want to deal with that.

Both of them looked to the front door as a quiet knock came from the other side; Sheldon cringed when he heard a squeaky little voice say 'Mommy'. Leonard looked over at Sheldon and sighed, looking a little disappointed but the twitching of the corner of his mouth spoke otherwise. He walked over to the door, breathed in, out, and opened it with a big smile on his face – the biggest smile Sheldon had ever seen him give.

On the other side of that door stood a woman even smaller than Leonard.

Her hair was long and dark in color, he wasn't sure if it was dark red or just dark brown, and her eyes were a dull golden color. Freckles covered nearly every inch of the surface of her exposed skin (including her face) and she had these heavy-looking bags in the crook of her right elbow. As Leonard stepped to the side, no doubt inviting her into the apartment (Sheldon couldn't hear over the mental ranting in his ears), Sheldon finally noticed the little girl clutching at the fabric of the young woman's left leg. Even with most of her body shielded, he saw a spitting image of the woman, only her eyes were a dark hazel.

"And Jena, this is my roommate, Sheldon Cooper."

Sheldon finally snapped to. "Dr. Sheldon Cooper," he scoffed.

Leonard rolled his eyes but Jena smiled. "Hello," her voice was soft, low. She looked back at Leonard with a blank face, smile disappearing as soon as it had came. "Leonard, I need to put these bags down…"

Leonard snapped to attention after giving Sheldon a continuously scolding 'Don't say anything rude' look and smiled at his sister. "Right, right. Here, follow me."

Sheldon quickly stepped to the side and watched Leonard lead Jena and her daughter into the back of the apartment. Just as they turned to the corner, Jena's daughter looked back at Sheldon with something like curiosity in her eyes and Sheldon jumped a little. And then she was gone and Sheldon was walking out the door, immediately knocking on Penny's.

Knock, knock, knock.

"Penny!"

Knock, knock, knock.

"Penny!"

Knock, knock, knock.

"Penny!"

He swayed back as the door flung open and there was a scowling Penny dressed in her pajamas. "What do you want Sheldon? It's kind of a –"

"Leonard invited his sister to stay with us and I thought it would be appropriate for you to introduce yourself so she could have knowledge of possible female company during her stay."

Penny blinked, very slowly mind you, and crossed her arms over her chest. "Leonard has a sister," Sheldon nodded. "He never told me that…"

Sheldon huffed. "Well he did not tell me either but here we are. Now, would you please come to the apartment and introduce yourself."

"Alrigh, jeez," Penny grumbled, shutting her door behind her. "But after this, I'm driving you to the store and you're going in to buy me things."

"Why can't you go in?"

"I don't feel like explaining."

"Ah, you're are having your menstrual cycle. I just knew it by the pale color of your skin and angry eyes," he gasped while she glared. "You both have something to start the conversation with."

"Sheldon, I'm not," she sighed and stopped in the middle of his and Leonard's apartment, rubbing her temples. "Never mind, just forget it. Where is she?"

They both peered down the hallway curiously as a door shut and Leonard rounded the corner, picking at his nails. When he noticed Penny, he paused just on the threshold of the hallway entrance. He looked between he both of them, his head tilted back so he was looking down the bridge of his nose.

"Why are you over here," he pointed at Penny.

She pointed at Sheldon with a scowl. "He came and got me," she crossed her arms again. "You never mentioned having a sister."

"Well," he hesitated. "It's a long story. Her name is Jena."

Penny smiled a little. "I would like to meet her," she glimpsed briefly down the hallway. "Is she coming back out or…?"

"She'll be out in a minute," Leonard gestured towards the kitchen. "Thirsty?"

Penny nodded. "Yeah," she shrugged.

Leonard nodded once and opened the fridge, pulling out a random drink and grabbing three glasses from the cabinet, in case Sheldon decided to join them in a beverage. "So, why did Sheldon come get you, anyway?"

She shrugged again and took the drink from Leonard, taking a small sip. "Said something about talking to her…I don't know."

"I'm still here, ya know," he protested in the background.

"We know," Leonard and Penny spoke in unison.

Twenty minutes later, after Sheldon had calmed down enough to sit and Penny had decided to join him on the couch, Leonards sister came from the back room. She had changed out of the clothes she arrived in, now wearing small black shorts and a loose fitting gray shirt. She was running a brush through her hair and paused when she noticed the new face in the room. She and Penny stared at each other for a long moment before Penny decided to break the ice.

She stood and walked around the coffee table, holding out a hand to Jena. "Hi, my name is Penny. I'm Leonard's girlfriend."

That made Jena smile and she took Penny's hand in her free one. "Hi, I'm Jena. Leonard's told me about you."

Penny's lips quirked in the corner and she let go of Jena's hand. "Yeah, well I wish I could say the same."

Jena looked over at Leonard with a quizzical look on her face. "You didn't tell her about me?"

"We didn't even know he had a sister," Sheldon muttered from his spot on the couch.

Leonard felt like he was suffocating in his jacket.

"Well, Jena, you have to understand some of my reasoning."

She waved a hand at him. "Whatever," she let out a breath. "Listen…I'm gonna need someone to watch Rosie tomorrow. You mind?"

He shrugged, holding his glass tightly in both hands. "Yeah, that sounds fine. What's tomorrow? Saturday?"

"Sunday," Jena corrected him; she eyed the rest of the faces in the room and offered a small smile. "I…I think I'm going to bed now. Goodnight, it was nice meeting you, Penny," she paused and looked over at Sheldon, her brow twitching. "Sheldon," she gave a small nod and turned around, walking back down the hallway.

"Well," Penny listened to the door shut. "That wasn't awkward at all."

"Yeah, Jena was never really a people person…" Leonard trailed off, going to dump the rest of his drink into the sink. "I think I'm gonna go get into bed too. It's been a long day trying to get her here. That ok?"

Penny stared at him for a moment and then waved a hand. "Oh sure, that's fine," it wasn't; she was curious about the siblings now. "I'll see you in the morning I guess?"

Leonard nodded and smiled before disappearing into the back. Penny stared after him for a moment longer, lips pursed, and then she looked over at Sheldon. He was still staring where Jena had stood moment ago. That peeked her curiosity but then her stomach growled and he looked up at her. She smiled and set her drink on the counter.

"Come on, you're gonna buy me junkfood."

She's lying on the floor, listening to the door open and close.

Silence.

Can't be fifteen minutes later, the door is opening again and it shuts with a sharp smack. Her fingers tighten around the edge of the blanket and she pulls it up just a little further to her chin, hearing footsteps moving closer towards the door. Rosie isn't near her and that makes her heart race for a moment but she knows her daughter is safe up there with her brother. That is the safest place she can be, by her over protective uncle.

Just as the footsteps reach the edge of the door, another creak says a different door has opened. She breathes a sigh of relief as that door squeaks shut and rolls onto her left side, facing the wall with the window of Leonard's room. He has a sheet up so she can sleep a little easier, though they aren't on ground level; he understands her paranoia. She sleeps on the floor, insisting he take his own bed and not the couch so he will have enough energy to keep up with little Rosie; she doesn't want to sleep in the living room, it scares her.

Everything…scares her.