Here comes part two, oh, and I know Priya would have been here for this portion of the story but it is my story and I don't like her so I am going to pretend like she never existed.
Part two: The Parenthood Agreement
Amy opens the door to her apartment and flops miserably on the couch. If she was prone to emotional displays then she would have started crying but she tries to compose herself.
"Well Amy, you've never even been with a man, but your knocked up and alone." She says to herself. She had waited around for awhile for Sheldon to get back but had given up and left after about twenty minutes. Amy knew it was to good to be true when she had first suggested the idea to Sheldon she never thought that he would go for it. Amy knew she would never have the traditional love story, that love just was not in the cards for her. Yet she had thought a piece of what she wanted was waiting for in the guise of a lanky physicist who wanted her to mother his highly evolved offspring. Amy still had the baby though even if Sheldon backed out and wanted nothing more to do with the endeavor he could not take the life growing inside her away.
Just as she was about to take out her harp and play a melancholy version of "She's having my baby." There is a knock at her door, a set of three short raps followed by her name at the end of each set. Amy opens the door to find Sheldon standing there holding a mylar balloon in one hand, clutching his messenger bag strap with the other.
"You know your knocking is characteristic of obsessive compulsive disorder." Amy tells him hanging on her door not inviting him inside. She is still very upset at the way he left her earlier in his apartment.
"Is not…" He says simply. "May I come inside?" He asks and he looks so sheepish that she lets him in. "This is for you." He says thrusting the balloon at her, it says congratulations. "All the baby related ones were gender specific." He clarifies when she looks at it oddly.
"Are you sure you feel congratulations are in order?" Amy asks him.
"Of course, this is my child you are carrying and we are entering in on this journey together." Sheldon tells her sitting down.
"I got the feeling you did not want to take this journey with me when you fled your apartment like a mad man."
"I got a bit, overwhelmed by all the new information and I reacted poorly. I thought that the blessed event would take much longer then this. Everything I read seemed to indicate that this could take six months into a year. Then as I walked trying to clear my head I thought of course this me and my offspring we are talking about. I excel at everything and my progeny surely will too. I came back and you has already gone. I would have come after you immediately but I needed to finish this up." He says pulling a bundle of documents from his bag.
"What's that?" Amy says aa he hands Amy the stack of papers.
"This is the Parenthood Agreement,A binding covenant that in its thirty one pages enumerates, illuminates and codifies the responsibilities of Sheldon Lee Cooper - hereinafter referred to as the "Father" and Amy Farrah Fowler hereinafter referred to as the "Mother".
"That is so sweet." Amy coos as she looks over the pages in the agreement.
"I can see how mutual indemnification could be thought of as sweet. I would have presented this too you sooner but I wanted to be sure you were carrying my child first." Sheldon says as he unpacks some things from his bag. "Why don't you peruse the agreement while I set up my notary stamp.
"I thought you were going to back out, and I would have to do this alone." Amy says putting the agreement down.
"Amy we entered in on a contract as soon as I agreed to have you implanted with my seed. I am in this for the long haul, for at least the first eighteen years of the child's life. Are you ready to have me in your life for that long. Of course perhaps I should have asked that before you were carrying my progeny." Sheldon asks her and looking into his clear blue eyes she thinks she is prepared to have him in her life as long as he will be there.
"Sheldon, I knew when I entered into this that I wanted you in my life for a long time. There is no one else I would ever dream of entering in to something like this with."
"Well if you are sure then sign here by your name." He says and Amy signs her name with a flourish and Sheldon signs underneath. "That's it we are now under contract as the parents to this child.
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The next week Amy makes an appointment to go to the doctor's and Sheldon accompanies her per their agreement he is obligated to go to all check-ups and appointments. Even though being at the doctor's makes him very uncomfortable. When the doctor puts the ultrasound machine inside Amy it makes him feel squeamish and he has to take deep breaths before he passes out. As the image lights up on screen as the doctor says "Oh my!"
"What, what is oh my? That does not sound good!" Sheldon says panicked.
"Calm down Sheldon you are making me nervous. What is it? is good or is it bad?"
"Well I guess that depends on your opinion on multiple births." The doctor says moving the wand around. "Here is baby number one, and here…" he says moving the wand slightly."Is baby number two. Congratulations guys you are having twins." Sheldon gives in to his impulses and promptly passes out falling on the floor. Amy looks at the doctor apologetically, he is a twin himself he will get used to the idea.
"Identical twin or fraternal twin?" the doctor asks as she helps him off the floor and sets him in a chair.
"Fraternal." He says weakly "I have a twin sister"
"Well, your babies are going to be identical twins."
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As the weeks pass by it seems to the rest of the gang that Sheldon and Amy are growing closer. At times they seem much closer than any other normal couple in this situation. Of course they are not quite sure how a normal couple in this situation would act. Amy comes over for dinner nearly every night, Sheldon says because as part of their agreement he has to monitor her food intake to make sure she is eating right for fetus development.
Whenever any one asks him exactly what the situation with Amy is he gets testy. When Howard once referred to Amy as his girlfriend he got very upset.
"Amy Farrah Fowler is not my girlfriend, she is a girl who is my friend who happens to be carrying my progeny." He said stomping away.
After dinner one night the guys are all going to be playing a video game. Penny and Bernadette have no interest in watching them play and decide to go out for drinks instead. They invite Amy to join them and Sheldon tells them absolutely not.
"Sheldon, I am going out with Penny and Bernadette you can not tell me that I can't."
"Actually, I can, as part of our parenthood agreement, in the section under gestation. You agree not to drink, smoke, or subject yourself to debauchery."
"We are not going to let her drink or smoke!" Penny says exasperated.
"And we are not going to debauch ourselves." Bernadette tells him.
"Sheldon, have followed many of your strict guidelines but this is my body and my children. I am going." Amy tells him jutting out her chin defiantly.
"If you are so worried, then just go with us and act as her chaperone." Penny says thinking that he will never accept the offer.
"Very well then, let me grab my coat." He says getting up.
"Why did you invite him?" Amy whispers to Penny. "He is going to ruin my buzz."
"Come on sweetie, it is kind of nice how worried he is about you." Penny says tapping her knee as they get up.
At the bar they order their drinks as Sheldon goes to the bathroom to wash his hands. When he gets back he eyes Amy's glass suspiciously.
"Calm down! It is cranberry juice with a twist of lemon in it." She tells him thrusting it under his nose as he sits beside her. "Here sniff."
"Very well." He says sniffing it and setting it back down." It smells pleasant with no trace of alcohol, it is safe for you to consume."
"Speaking of smelling pleasant you smell like baby powder." Amy says leaning over and smelling his shirt.
"It is talc, but I understand your confusion ." He tells her as she stares up at him soppily.
"I am not confused, you are like a sexy toddler." Amy tells him.
"I don't know how to process that. Those pregnancy hormones are making you loopy." He tells her.
"Then maybe you should kiss her!" Bernadette squeals.
"That makes even less sense then what Amy just said." Sheldon tells her.
"So you are carrying his babies, and you two have never even kissed?" Penny asks Amy and Amy shakes her head.
"No, its not like the babies were conceived in the traditional manner." Sheldon says rolling his eyes. Yet remembering Amy's soft hands on him and blushing slightly. He has been hoping it would take a will to conceive so she would have to do it again.
"Have you kissed anyone Sheldon?" Bernadette asks him.
"Besides my mom, my memaw, and my sister no." He tells them.
"You are a scientist aren't you just a little curious?" Penny asks him.
"You can experiment on me if you like." Amy says puckering up and pointing her face at him. The funny thing is, is that he really wants to. That if they were not in a crowded bar across from two cackling hens he might be prone to press his mouth against hers. Yet the time was not right, if he ever was to kiss the mother of his children, it would not be here.
"That's not necessary." He tells her.
The night is more fun then he expected it to be and, after drinks he was somehow convinced to take them dancing. Though he only danced with Amy, keeping his pressed against her belly that is just beginning to take shape under her cardigan. When the night draws to a close he escorts Amy back to her apartment, worried about her making the journey because she seems a bit giddy and wobbly.
"This was so much fun, we should do this more often." She says covering her mouth to cover a loud burp. "Oh, my burps tasted like cranberry juice."
"All this excitement has made your acid reflux act up again, you need to be careful." He tells her concerned.
"Oh phooey, the excitement is not whats making it act up again. It is the fact I am carrying twins that is making it act up. Would you like to come in for a night cap?" she asks him.
"I am going to assume you are not speaking about alcohol, and if your are talking about the hat you don with a nightshirt I have one of those."
"I have yoo-hoo."
"It is hard to say no to yoo-hoo the name literally beckons. Alright I will come in for a bit, even though it is not the healthiest drink for the fetuses, your would do better with chocolate milk."
Sheldon sits down and she goes to the kitchen and hands him the bottle. As he takes a sip he finds that she is staring at him oddly twirling her hair around her fingers.
"Are you okay?" he asks. Setting the bottle down on her coffee table.
"I have been thinking."
"Oh boy, this could be dangerous." He sighs
"Penny was right…"
"There is a sentence you don't hear everyday." he says rolling his eyes. "To what are you speaking of?"
"It is weird that I am going to be the mother of your children and we have never even kissed."
"This pregnancy hormones are messing with your mind, there are plenty of surrogate situations where the father does not kiss the mother of his children." He sighs.
"Is that all I am to you is just your surrogate?" Amy asks wounded.
"No, perhaps not but…" before he can finish his thought her lips are upon his pressing softly against them. He closes his eyes and kisses her back finding he sensation pleasurable, but she pulls away before he can collect more data. "Fascinating." He says as she sits up and covers her mouth again.
"Sheldon please do not take what I am about to do as a testament to what we just did." She says as she gets up and runs to the bathroom. He hears her throwing up nosily in the toilet, and he shakes his head.
"Too much excitement making her reflux act up." He sighs as she goes to the bathroom to hold her hair.