Chapter 1: The Knock Out Game
It was dark, the tall slender man was making his way back to his house, Due to the impervious fight with his girlfriend, alone. He hated walking alone, he would jump with every pin drop. His senses were heighten, his reflexes reacted to ever noise, he was terrified. "Home is just right around the corner..." he mumbled to himself, just a few more minutes and..." he paused in his tracks as a group of men approached him, maybe harmless, he wasn't sure. The group passed him, he sighed, than in a quick second one of them turned around and hit the physicist over the head, and everything went dark.
"Sheldon should spend the night at Amy's more often." A blonde women jumped into bed and quickly and pulled the covers over her slender body.
"I agree..." A dark haired fellow replied and leaned over and kissed her both smiles meeting. They laid in bed enjoying the silence, no ritual knocking, no wanting what Sheldon want's, no egotistical logic that Sheldon only thought was right, none. "He must be staying over at Amy's again, and I must say I'm quite proud of him." Leonard was quite pleased at the progress his roommates relationship had taken, Staying over the night in the same bed, cuddling, light petting, kissing, no sex, not yet. He knew his roommate was not ready for sex, but in time he saw it coming.
"Yes, Amy texted me and told me how thrilled she was to have Sheldon over." Penny reached over her boyfriend and pulled him close, "but tonight it's just us." The laid there for a few minutes enjoying the silence as the two drifted off to sleep.
Buzz...buzz...buzz...
"Leonard, will you just check it? It's been going off for like an hour!"
"Fine." He un-rapped himself from his embraced and noticed how stiff he was, he must not have moved for almost a couple of hours, he stretched and grabbed his phone. "Hello?"
The voice on the other end was panicked. "Are you Leonard Hoftsetter?"
"Yes."
"We've been trying to reach you for an hour, we can not get a hold of his family..."
"Sheldon's?"
"Yes. So you know Sheldon Cooper?"
Leonard paused, he wasn't sure if he should answer truthfully, the last time he got a call so late in the evening his roommate was playing in a deep ball pit, Leonard signed remembering, "What did he do?"
"He is at Huntington Memorial hospital, you need to get down here quick."
"Yes! Oh God, yes, his he all right?" his breath quicken.
"I can not tell you that...wait, hold on..." There was a pause, Leonard could feel his heart beating faster, sweat coming down from his forehead. The blonde next to him stirred, "Honey, what's the matter." She sat up and noticed his breath had quicken and his eyes looked like they were just about to pop out.
"Sheldon's at the hospital, I'm on hold...oh wait." Penny watched as Leonard frantically seemed to answer whoever was on the other end. "Yes, go ahead and do the craniotomy, I give permission, I'm heading down."