Hi all. I was watching the Big Bang Theory (seasons 1 & 2) and just got kinda inspired to write this fic. I tried to keep in context with the Characters' actions and speech so hopefully I didn't fail royally.

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing except for the creation of Rosalie Tiberus.

As always, I will probably review my own work and update it where it sounds iffy, but if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to read and review =) Constructive Criticism is always good! Besides I want to know what you think of it.

They heard the keys jingle in the lock before the tall man walked in, his face blank but with eyes that showed some of the emotion hiding within. They seemed both pained and in disbelief. Tossing the keys gently in the bowl near the door, Sheldon Cooper removed his bag and placed it down on his desk chair a tad too rough for his usual self. He glanced briefly at Leonard, Penny, Raj, and Howard before allowing a brief "Hello" to escape his lips as he walked over to the refrigerator. The four in the living room exchanged confused looks.

"What's wrong with him?" Penny asked, turning to look at Leonard. A look of utter confusion passed Leonard's face as he shrugged. Raj whispered into Howard's ear, still unable to speak in front of Penny.

"I have no idea," Wolowitz said, looking at him briefly. He noted the looks on Penny and Leonard's faces. "He asked if perhaps Sheldon finally realized that he has no likelihood of reproducing and creating what he would call a Sheldon two-point-oh," he said, smirking slightly. Leonard shook his head.

"No something is very wrong… he looks like a puppy that's just been handed a bone only to have it ripped from its jaws the moment they wrap around it," he said, sparing a glance over to his roommate. Sheldon held his bottled water tightly and looked as if he were having some internal struggle. Normally, Leonard would think his friend was simply deep in thought over some new breakthrough in his work, but he had noticed the pain hidden deep under his practically emotionless face. Sheldon looked over to the group and watched as each of them looked away and pretended to be speaking about something on the television.

"I know you are talking about me, and I find it quite rude," he noted, walking over to them and sitting in his usual spot.

"Oh honey, we're just worried about you… Are you alright?" Penny said, putting a hand on his shoulder. He turned sharply to stare at her hand until she withdrew it.

"I am quite fine, if you mean physically. There is nothing wrong," he said, placing his water down with a bit too much force again. Leonard pursed his lips a moment.

"No, you're not. Everything about you is not alright," he said, watching his friend closely. "And I don't mean that there's something wrong with you, I mean… well something's different," he said quickly, trying not to offend Sheldon when he was obviously in a delicate state. It was a bit like Spock in the new movie and how he would have sudden boughts of anger if there were a certain trigger, and honestly Leonard had no desire to trigger Sheldon's fury.

"You can tell us what's wrong, we're your friends. Heck, maybe we can even help," Leonard added, smiling in an attempt to cheer his friend up. Sheldon only looked at him blankly.

"Uhura," he said at last, furrowing his brows slightly. Everyone looked at him in confusion. "In the new movie Spock's romantic interest is Uhura, although no such relation exists in the original series, but that's beside the point," he added, seeming to struggle with even the notion.

"And so? I mean Uhura was hot. Hell, I wouldn't mind doing her," Wolowitz said, smiling as if he were a happy puppy. Leonard gave him a look before looking at Sheldon.

"What I think Howard means is, what's this got to do with you, Sheldon?" he said, folding his hands and leaning forward curiously.

"You mean you can't conjecture as to the nature of the metaphorical statement I just made?" Sheldon asked, looking at them in surprise. They were usually so good at picking up on social cues and inferences, especially in comparison to his limited abilities.

"No, we can only make speculation and in truth you've hardly given us enough data to do so. I'm sure our only conclusion, or at least my own, does not seem plausible and therefore I believe we require you to explain it to us in detail," Leonard answered, giving the slightest of shrugs. Sheldon could only look at them, purse his lips, and get up to walk to his room. When the door was slammed shut, Leonard looked almost as if someone had electrocuted him.

"This is so against his nature… something must be really wrong," he said, worried. Raj whispered yet again in Howard's ear, causing the both of them to look solemn.

"Raj agrees that something is wrong, well more so than usual," he said, resting his chin on his palm. Penny was still staring at the hallway that would lead to their friend's room.

"Well he said something about Uhura and… romantic involvement… with someone named Spock?" she offered, although a bit confused on the details.

"Someone named Spock! How can you not know about Spock and Star Trek and I'm getting off track. Okay we need to get him to tell us what's wrong with him, because honestly, I'm a bit afraid for him. He's never looked like this, not even after he discovered that he had messed up in his equations and had to go back into years of research to find the problem," Leonard said, rubbing his temples. He watched as each of them gave him a look.

"Oh alright, I'll talk to him," he said, looking at them exasperated. They each wished him luck before leaving the apartment for their own homes. Penny was the last to leave.

"If you need me, I'm right down the hall," she said pointing as she closed the door. Leonard thanked her silently before walking to Sheldon's bedroom. He knocked gently: there was no response.

"Sheldon? C'mon Sheldon, you need to tell me what's going on," he called through the door.

"I don't need to tell you anything Leonard," Sheldon answered. Leonard sighed before opening the door and peaking in. The sight that met his eyes shocked him entirely. Sheldon was in his bed, in his clothes, and totally wrapped up. His arms were hugging a pillow and he looked entirely… depressed.

"I think you do, because right now you look like you're about ready to jump out your window… and frankly I'm kinda worried about you," he said, sitting at the edge of Sheldon's bed. Sheldon squirmed a bit and burrowed himself under his blankets.

"No one's supposed to be in my room," he muttered unhappily.

"C'mon Sheldon, please? I've never seen you this upset… never… not even when Leslie fixed your equations and pretty much showed you up," he said, trying to get Sheldon to confide.

"Showed me up to what?" he asked, a bit of confusion tingeing his voice.

"It's a… oh never mind. Alright what's up?" he said, pulling the blankets away from his friend's face. Sheldon let out a sound like a wounded animal and attempted to drag the blankets back over his head. "Okay seriously, the only thing I can infer from your earlier statement is that you have a love interest… although I don't see how exactly that is causing such a profound depressed state from you, especially since you've never seemed interested in anyone of either gender in the time I've known you." Sheldon let out a little scoff and sighed.

"Your observations are correct, Leonard. I have never been interested in a romantic sense before… well except when I was in the fourth grade," he admitted, turning his blue eyes away from his friend sheepishly.

"Whoa. I didn't know you were capable of love," Leonard admitted with a bit of a nervous laugh. Sheldon looked at him skeptically.

"Of course I am, what do you take me for a robot?" he asked, his voice squeaking just a bit at the end. He sat up slowly and gently put the pillow back when it usually resided.

"No of course not. I was kidding," he lied, looking at his friend. "Tell me about her… and what she has to do with our present situation." Sheldon looked at him for a moment as if debating whether or not to share this piece of information with him. He was well aware of his personal inability to properly pick up on social cues and that when pursued by a female he was practically blind… but this girl was the only one to ever elicit such a strong emotional desire to be near her that it scared him whenever he was around her.

"Her name was Rosalie… Rosalie Tiberus," he admitted at length. "She had moved to Texas in the middle of the summer and to the shock of everyone, myself included, we became friends. When we went into the fourth grade, we were placed in the same classes and she deemed herself my protector as she would stand up to the bullies who attempted to give me swirlies, wedgies and the like. She was a brilliant girl and I found myself feeling something that was either what you would call love or an extreme case of panic attacks whenever she was around." Leonard listened in awe as Sheldon described the girl he once had feelings for and the reactions her mere presence created. He was still shocked that Sheldon was even able to notice females as anything other than part of the same species.

"Go on," Leonard encouraged, wondering if he should tell the others or if this would be a breach of Sheldon's trust in him.

"Well as you know I have an IQ of 187 and I started college at age 11. Over the years I became more and more involved in my work and I lost contact with her by the time I had my Master's Degree."

"Well then what's bothering you now? Oh god, she's not dead is she?"

"What! No! On the contrary she's very much alive… and here in Pasadena for…," he said breaking off at the last moment and avoiding Leonard's gaze.

"For what Sheldon? You're doing really well in this confiding of your feelings thing," Leonard said, attempting to cheer Sheldon up as well as get the information out.

"Her wedding."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Well… Didn't you say you lost touch with her years ago? How can you assume that she retained feelings for you for all those years? Did you assume she would wait forever for you?"

"No. Nothing of the sort. I simply… am surprised. I did not expect to see or hear from her again and frankly I am more shocked to be feeling such strong emotions toward this situation than I would normally feel."

"Oh Sheldon, it's called heartbreak. Welcome to the world of a normal Human Being… you're finally one of us."

"Oh no! It's worse than I thought!"

"Oh don't overreact! Now do you want anything? Is there anything I can do?"

"I want… to be alone." With that, Sheldon covered his face with the abandoned pillow and Leonard gave his friend one last glance before walking out of the room, careful to close the door behind him gently. He leaned against the wall, staggered to feel such sorrow for Sheldon. He made up his mind in an instant and started rummaging in his pocket for his phone while walking to the door. Grabbing his keys, he sent a text to both Rajesh and Howard to look up the whereabouts of a woman named Rosalie Tiberus. He then walked over to Penny's and knocked quickly before standing there, practically bouncing in anticipation.

"Oh hey Leonard. Everything alright with Sheldon?" she asked as she opened the door.

"You'll never guess in a million years what's the matter with him," he said, a slightly sad smile on his face.

"You're right, I probably won't. What's up?"

"Sheldon's in love."

"I'm sorry. What!"

"Yeah long story. Right now I need your expertise as a woman and frankly I'm going to need a lot of help in order to get her here to see him. I'm also going to need a place to hide when Sheldon realizes what I've done."

"I-Okay just-Well come in and we'll discuss this."

"Uh actually no, we've got to get going if we're going to do this." Penny looked at him skeptically.

"And what exactly are we doing?"

"Crashing a wedding before it happens?"

"Oh you've got to be kidding me."

"I almost wish I were," he admitted, walking toward the stairs.

"Fine, but we're going in your car. Let me just grab my bag and put on some shoes," she said rushing back into her apartment quickly. Leonard waited at the top of the stairs hoping that this wouldn't backfire painfully on any of them. When Penny locked her door and met him, they walked downstairs to his car.

"I've got to grab Raj and Wolowitz. I think it's time we find Spock's Uhura. Kirk out," he said backing up and driving toward Raj's apartment. Penny simply let her confusion caused from the Star Trek analogy go because honestly, she was still in shock from the words 'Sheldon's in love'. Love of all things. She would have believed he had eaten food off the floor before she would have believed that Sheldon was in love. They grabbed Raj in silence and headed to Wolowitz's house.

When Howard got in the car he handed over a piece of paper to Leonard and buckled up.

"Had to pull a few strings but I got the exact coordinates of where she's staying and where her wedding is supposed to be. I even got a satellite photo of the hotel she's staying at and here's a picture of her and her fiancée. She's quite a looker and her fiancée isn't so bad either," he said, smiling proudly as he handed over the rest of the papers. Penny turned around to give him a look.

"Y'know if this wasn't severely helpful, I'd call you a huge creep. Which you are, by the way, don't be mistaken," she said, glaring at him slightly. And with that, Leonard smiled slightly and put in the coordinates into his phone and off they went to do the seemingly impossible.