„Shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot!" Sheldon screamed, jumping up and down in his spot on the sofa.
„I am trying but it's hard with your roommate screaming in the background" Leonard grumbled back with a lot of annoyance in his voice, before he proceeded mauling the controller.
„Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand yesssss!" The lanky physicist jumped right onto his feet and did a gesture of victory.
„It's scary how happy you can get when I just killed someone" Leonard adjusted his glasses and looked back at the screen.
„Well Leonard, you know…" Sheldon sat back down. „That is not the lust to kill or some morbid satisfaction… it's a natural reflex to be happy when seeing that an enemy is hors de combat! It's always been like that, ever since human beings had to protect themselves from animals or other human beings that weren't well affected! That I always have to explain things like that to you, really Leonard. Didn't you pay attention at community college? No offense…"
„None taken, Sheldon…"
The door got kicked open and Penny rushed into the apartment, a worried look on her face, her car keys in one hand, the phone in the other, pressing it firmly against her ear.
Leonard and Sheldon shared a quizzically look, then both of them looked back at their neighbour to hopefully find out who she was talking to and why she had just disturbed their Halo time.
„Alright, Ames. Don't worry. I'm just gonna grab Sheldon and then we're gonna be there. I'll hurry!"
Penny hung up, took the controller out of Sheldon's hand without a further comment and tossed it on the sofa.
„What's the matter?" Sheldon asked with a look on the controller, before he leaned back and crossed over his legs.
He really hoped that his current attitude showed Penny what he just had thought: No one simply „grabbed" Sheldon Lee Cooper and brought him anywhere without telling him the reason.
Of course it could have been a surprise party… but Sheldon couldn't think of any reason why there should have been one. Maybe because he was such a great physicist? One way or another, that party should have taken place a lot earlier!
„Amy's at the hospital" Penny explained in a peeved tone.
Sheldon jumped up so fast that he almost got a knot into his long legs. Then he stood there for an awkward second, turning left and right, and then he finally ran towards the door. Just a tad before he opened it, he turned around hysterically. „What are you waiting for? Bring me to her!"
„Wow, Sheldon, relax. She just broke her leg!"
„She broke her leg?"
Sheldon got so hectical that he didn't even manage to open the door. Penny wandered over quickly to help him. As soon as he was out the apartment he rushed down the stairs.
„See you later" Penny sighed towards Leonard and closed the door behind her.
Amy, who had her head leaned back on the huge hospital bed she was sitting on, raised it, as she heard someone run, breathe and scream hysterically outside.
„Amy Farrah Fowler", she heard. „Where is Amy Farrah Fowler."
„Sir, calm down!"
„Calm down? Excuse me, who are you to tell me to calm down? Have you ever even heard about the relationship agreement between me and … HEY… HHEEEEYYY!" The sound of his voice moved further away.
Amy tried to catch a look but it was impossible with the big green curtain that robbed her the view on one side of her bed.
Just a minute later Penny came in with a slightly stressed smile. „Hey Ames"
„Hello Penny. What happened to Sheldon?"
„You heard him, huh?" Penny sighed and put her bag down. „They thought he went psychotic and put him into some room to sedate him a little."
She flailed around with her hands and it was like a gesture to wipe that topic off. „So what the hell happened, Amy?"
„One of the test monkeys got pissed because I ran out of cigarettes. So he slapped a stick on my head and just as I turned around to see what was going on, he tossed a banana pile and I slipped and fell."
„Oh, ouch" Penny wrinkled her nose and bit her lower lip by the thought of how painful that must have been.
„Been through harder things. So, can we grab Sheldon and just go home?" Amy let herself slip down into the wheelchair one of the doctors had already prepared next to the bed.
„Alright, let's see if we can find him"
Sheldon was sitting in the backseat, happily smiling, his eyes falling from time to time. Apparently they had given him something to really calm him down, so much, that he had even forgotten his girlfriend got injured.
Penny kept looking at the rearview mirror to check if Sheldon was alright, then she looked at Amy from time to time.
It was awfully quiet in the car and Penny hated that so she decided to turn the radio on. As soon as she had pressed the little button, „I'm walking on sunshine" blasted out of the speakers and seconds later also out of Sheldon.
Penny and Amy both grinned about his performance in the backseat. Just a mile before arriving back home he completely blacked out though and started snoring in the backseat. Amy turned the radio off.
„So, how are you gonna get upstairs without the elevator?" Penny looked at her best friend and the crutches. „Do you think you're gonna be strong enough to get up there?"
„I'm a girl from Glendale" Amy said as she opened the car door. „That's a child's play"
„What are we gonna do with him though?" Penny said, pointin at the back seat in which Sheldon still was sleeping like a baby.
„We'll just leave him here. I guess he's gonna come up when he's well rested enough." Amy took her crutches and limped over to the door. Penny shrugged, closed the car door and followed her best friend.
„Ohh no. What happened, Amy?", were Leonard's first words when the young neurobiologist entered the apartment.
While Amy told Leonard about the test monkey and his banana pile, Penny set up some coffee for her best friend and her boyfriend.
Amy sat down and put her leg on the couch table, before she released a sigh of relief.
„Uhm… where's Sheldon?" Leonard sat back down as well.
„They had to give him an injection against the hysterical fit he had" Penny explained bluntly.
Leonard contracted his eyebrows and nodded, while his girlfriend put the coffee mugs on the couch table and sat down next to Amy.
„Did I disturb your Halo time?" Amy asked, staring at the controllers, that were still lying around.
„Ah, nevermind" Leonard stopped her with a wave of his hand. „So where are you gonna stay?"
„She is gonna stay here" No one had realized that Sheldon had entered the apartment and stood there with a weird look on his face and shaky knees.
The three friends turned towards him and faced him for a second, before Penny told him to sit down. Sheldon walked over to his spot and let himself fall, making the same sound of relief Amy had done a few minutes before.
Leonard and Penny looked at each other and smiled.
Then Leonard turned back to his best friend. „So uhm, what exactly did you mean by ‚She's gonna stay here'?"
„That she is gonna stay here, Leonard."
„But we don't have an available bed"
„Guys, it's okay" Amy tried to stop the conversation. „I am going to go back home, don't worry."
Sheldon looked at her as if he had just found out she had betrayed him. „Amy. The relationship agreement explicitly says that, if one of us is injured or sick, the other one has to take care of them!"
„Then why don't you just go over and stay at Amy's place?"
„PENNY, DON'T…" Leonard tossed his head back with a suffering expression on his face.
„Well, Penny" Sheldon started one of his great explanation speeches. „As you may have noticed I never sleep somewhere else. Except that one time when we went to the Arctic and when I visit my Meemaw. Other than that, my bed is the only place where I am sleeping. Despite that fact, I am in my familiar surroundings here which gives me a better opportunity to care for my girlfriend in every way that I possibly can."
Penny nodded. „So I suppose she's gonna sleep in your room"
Sheldon laughed out loud. „Oh Penny, stop the joking"
Amy commented on that with a little grunt.
„She is going to sleep in Leonard's room"
Leonard, who had just taken a sip from his coffee, choked, coughed and put his mug back down.
„What?", he asked with a thin voice.
„Well, you can live with Penny until Amy is capable of living on her own again"
Neither Leonard nor Penny were too excited about this plan but it probably made no sense arguing about that anyway.
It was defined in the relationship agreement. And everyone knew what Sheldon thought about changing agreements…