Winona waited on edge, breath held in, for Sheldon's reaction. She'd been terrified to even tell him, given that she was his one and only lover - she was pretty sure she knew him well enough to believe that unless the woman initiated any kind of physical relationship all others he would remain celibate - but there was no denying the fact that three weeks after she'd ended it with Sheldon, she'd skipped a period, and was now facing this horribly difficult conversation. It would be hard with anyone she'd broken up with but Sheldon...he'd been difficult to let go, and Fate, it seemed, was not without a sense of humour.

As she relieved all these emotions of the last two months, she felt a small ray of hope glint through her dark and murky thoughts when Sheldon smiled a little.

"Good for you, I believe you have many natural nurturing skills to make a good mother," he said as he sipped his coffee.

Winona smiled as overwhelming relief flooding her veins. Then came the great big anvil on her head.

"I don't understand why you'd be telling this to me, though. We went our separate ways almost three months ago."

Winona could only stare in dumbfounded disbelief. Was he really that much of a dunce with women? Had he not had anyone around him go through this? Or was he truly just innocent as to how a relationship like theirs might have complications? Taking pity on him, she reached across the table, put her hand on his arm just as she had done with him when she'd first kissed him.

"Sheldon," she said as gently as possible, "I told you because it's your baby too."

Winona waited once again as Sheldon sat stock still in his seat. All his movement seemed to have stopped, including his breathing. She waved a hand in front of his face, but there was no reaction from him whatsoever.

"Sheldon please say something." But the only response was silence. Biting her lip, Winona dug out her cellphone and dialled the only person she thought could help.

"Penny, hi. Listen, I've got a problem."


Penny waited at the front doors of the building, her teeth chattering a little in the cool September air of California. She hadn't had the time to ask Winona any questions of what the hell was going on, but from the sounds of things, it would become quite apparant as to why when they arrived her assistance would be needed.

At least it got her out of her appartment, and not thinking about how things had turned out with Leonard. She knew he still had a crush on her, but things had just gone so horribly wrong at the end of their date - and the funny thing was, it had been tricky to go back to being friends but they were still managing to do it somehow. She'd even agreed to go to Halo night the following night with the guys to 'fill in' when one needed a break for the bathroom or whatever. Maybe she could even find a little time with Leonard to really talk to him and find out if there wasn't some way to fix what little romantic history they had together, maybe-

Her thoughts were shattered when Winona came screeching into the parking lot. Though she was many things, in Penny's opinion a good driver was not one of them. She bounded forward ready to help, them stopped dead when she saw Winona helping a nearly catatonic Sheldon out of the passenger's seat.

"Oh my god, what happened, Noni?"

Winona grunted under the strain of the geek's dead weight, his arm slung across her shoulders. "I told him I'm pregnant with his child."

Penny gasped. "Oh my God! You're having a baby? And with Sheldon? Are you sure?"

"Yeah, three EPT tests and a doctor don't lie, and I know it's his because he's the only guy I've had sex with since Mike and I broke up, and there's no way it'd be Mike's. Now help me out here."

Penny rushed forward to take the balance of Sheldon's weight - at least he could still move his feet - and they rushed him up the stairs as quickly as they could to his apartment. As Penny suspected, the rest of the guys were playing video games - this time it appeared to be Wolowitz versus Hofstadter in Wii boxing - but all action stopped when they saw the women all but dragging Sheldon into the apartment.

"What the hell happened to him?" Leonard asked in disbelief as they deposited Sheldon into the overstuffed cream armchair.

"Two girls that attractive touching him? I think they broke his brain," Howard offered, turning to watch the spectacle.

Laughing, Winona slumped onto the couch and snagged a bottle of water off the table. "No, no, nothing like that. Remember how Sheldon and I were involved a few months ago?"

"Oh we all remember," Leonard agreed, as Raj took the Wii remote from him and prepared for the next round. "Why?"

"I'm pregnant," Winona offered with a sigh of great weight.

"Pregnant," Sheldon echoed, "She said pregnant."

"I told him tonight, and that's all he's been able to say since I told him," Winona said, gesturing at the skinny scientist, still registering the looks of complete shock and confoundment on his friends' faces.

Raj whispered something to Howard, who nodded in agreement. "Yeah, you definitely broke his brain."