1) Immortal Girls and Friendly Nerds

"Pack your bags" Angela ordered Claire as she stepped inside the large gleaning room. She was a short woman, but walked with the grace and confidence that rose to the ceiling. Her glossy brown hair swept across her forehead at opposite angles, and her eyes were large and intelligent. The only sign that she was aging was the crow's feet at the edges of her eyes.

Claire followed, she looked nothing like her grandmother, and her hair was a golden blonde which curled into locks. Her eyes were in fact like her grandmothers but there were no signs of aging on her, why would there be since she was only eight teen? She was an average height too.

Apart from their silent beauty, they looked normal.

But that couldn't have been further from the truth.

"What are you planning?" Claire demanded, she knew scheming was Angela's first nature.

Angela dismissed her granddaughter and slipped her gloves off her thin bony fingers "It's nothing to concern yourself with, now, why don't you start packing your bags. I've bought you new clothes from Paris too. See if they fit you"

"Don't pretend it's nothing" Claire warned "I know your planning something, and I will find out about it sooner or later"

Angela paused taking off her jacket to consider "The government know about us. Some fool told the president in person" she almost cringed getting out the words "Nathan told him"

Claire blinked in disbelief "Nathan? He wouldn't do that, he wouldn't do that to us"

Angela smiled and cupped Claire's face "Denial gets us nowhere dear" she draped her jacket over an engraved hook "It was a foolish thing to do. I hope Nathan understands the mess he's gotten everyone into"

"What will happen? To people... like us?"

She spoke casually but the word shook her to the core "The government don't understand us, and if they're good at doing anything, it's destroying what they don't understand" she looked to Claire with doughy eyes "They will hunt us, and kill everyone in their path until they either understand us, or we die"

Claire felt numb "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to do what I always do; protect my family. Which is why you need to pack your bags and get out of here. Your car will be here soon"

"What? You're sending me away?" Claire asked in disbelief "You've just told me that my father betrayed me now you're sending me away like everything is hunky dory?"

Again Angela ignored her "You'll be staying with your cousin, he lives in Manhattan and he's low profile"

"I don't have a cousin"

"Of course you do. Your mother, Meredith, she had a sister whose son lives in place where no one will even suspect your there"

"I'm not going" Claire said, she tried to be defiant. But against a person like her grandmother, she didn't know if it would hold.

"Yes you are dear, whether you like it or not"

Claire couldn't see any way she would win "What's his name?"

"Sheldon Cooper" Angela smiled "And he is in the fortunate position of not knowing you exist"

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"Oh!" Penny squealed, her blonde hair springing with her joy "I actually know this part!"

She was watching a Superman movie with her neighbours, room was littered with comics, and on the coffee table surround by plush sofas was Chinese food. Penny was enjoying the fact that she could actually communicate this part of the film with them now.

Sometimes it sucked to have super geniuses as friends.

But one of them had to protest. This one was tall, so much that it was like his entire body was stretched out of proportion. He had a thin layer of dark brown hair, and sat upright in his favourite spot on the couch. Sheldon frowned in annoyance, and turned to Penny "Do you know that excluding the slight burst of laughter, and the terrified screams of fright, that traditionally classic films, such as the one we are currently watching; are watched in silence?"

Penny didn't understand "Yeah, why?"

"Well" said Sheldon slowly so she would get it "The sudden high squeals of excitement you make while watching films aren't silent; which destroys the culture of movie watching"

"So? I'm just expressing emotion" she changed her tone to a patronising level "It's something people do"

Sheldon titled his head to understand, while Penny then turned to Lenard.

"What I don't get is why you super geniuses watch these movies that aren't..." she stopped to find to right word "...Super geniususy"

Lenard was the opposite of Sheldon. He was "vertically challenged" his dark brown hair was combed out of his thick glasses. "It not that bad. Look!" he said pointing to the screen "I bet lots of people have proven that it might be accurate that a building would fall at that angle toward a mother and her innocent baby"

"Yeah" said Penny sarcastically "And I bet lots of people have proven that it might be accurate that a flying alien in spandex saves the mother and her innocent baby"

"Alright" Howard stepped in. His Justin Bieber combed hair and crooked nose were his trade mark features "It's not like it's based on truth. I mean, it's not like any human could actually survive the stuff Superman does-"

He was interrupted by a knock on the door.

The crowd stared at each other in confusion, no one was expecting anyone. Sheldon jolted up and paced over to the door. He pulled it aside to reveal a young girl with gorgeous blonde hair, and a suitcase at her side.

"Yes?" Sheldon asked, completely ignoring the looks of the girl the other guys were drooling over.

"I'm looking for Dr Cooper, is he staying here?" the girl asked

"Yes, not only is he staying here, he is talking to you this very moment"

"What?"

Sheldon sighed "I am Dr Sheldon Cooper, I was trying to make witty banter, but now I see that was lost on you"

"Oh" she said confused "Well, my name is Claire Bennet, and I was hoping I could stay here for a while, until some family issues get sorted"

Before Sheldon could react Howard jumped at the occasion "Well then, bienvenu as they say in the beautiful language of French"

Raj, the Indian man with skin like caramel and black hair parted to the side, stood up and whispered in Howards ear.

Howard looked at his friend as if he were crazy "You're telling me, that if this was your house you wouldn't invite the homeless hotty into your home?"

Raj considered it, then shook his to ignore what he just whispered earlier.

"Woah, woah, woah!" Lenard stopped the excitement "We can't just let some stranger into our house. No matter how..." he glanced at Penny who was eyeing him carefully "...helpless she looks"

"I was hoping I could stay since I'm Sheldon's cousin" Claire tried to reason with the bunch of geeks

"I don't have cousin" Sheldon countered

Claire explained "Your aunt, Meredith, she's my mother. When I was born she died in a fire, and I was adopted. I only recently found out about you"

The guys stared at Sheldon to make the Judge, he thought about it "Well, my aunt Meredith did die along with my uncle eighteen years ago, and she was known for her lovely blonde hair which you have seemed to inherit"

"That's nice" Howard said "But can we skip her hair colour to where she might be staying?"

Sheldon sighed "Fine, she can stay, but she'll have to sign the "Temporary Room-mate Agreement Sheet""

Howard grinned and rushed forward to collect her bags "I'm Howard, but you can called me The Wolowitz. Capital T. You may know me from various scientific magazines?"

Claire smiled nervously "Nice to meet you. I think"

"By the way, are there any other long-lost Coopers out there? Just encase they also need a place to stay of course"

Claire smiled grimly thinking of Nathan, Peter, Angela, Arthur, her father...

"Let's hope not" she told them.