Jenny opened her eyes to Sheldon's ever smiling face and... cold! The metal table underneath her felt cold!

"It works!" she shouted happily as she slid off the table.

"Yeah, but you should take a look in the mirror," he said. She noticed that he looked extremely nervous and wasn't looking directly at her, which was odd.

Oh, God! What did he do? she thought, suddenly worried.

What she saw in the mirror made her jaw drop. The new coating of plasmium looked like real human skin. In fact, with the exception of a few slim seams where different components were stored inside her torso, she looked almost completely human. He'd even changed her old metal pig-tails for a single pony-tail made of synthetic blonde hair. She reached up to touch it, and smiled as she actually felt the feather light touch of it against her fingertips.

"You gave me hair too," she said, smiling.

"Um... yeah... its not real hair... I had to make it fireproof," he said sheepishly.

Jenny's eyes were suddenly drawn downward to another patch of hair near the junction of her thighs.

"Why did you put this here, Sheldon?" she asked, lightly touching the patch of blonde curls.

"That's... um... well I thought... I mean, it was kind of presumptuous of me, but..." he began to stutter and turned away. Come on, man. Get it together. You designed and installed it for crying out loud! Why can't you look at her? he chastised himself silently.

"What is it, Sheldon?" she asked firmly.

"It's a artificial genital apparatus, complete with pleasure nodes in all the correct places, lubricant cells set for emotional triggers, and synthetic pubic hair," he said in a rush, "I figured if I was gonna give you the ability to feel, I'd do a complete job of it. If you don't like it..." he trailed off.

"What's it for?" she asked, her curiousity piqued.

"Well... it's for... um... sex."

"But robots can't reproduce, Sheldon. Even if I had a uterus, I don't have any DNA. Why would I want to have sex?" she asked, not noticing Sheldon's nervousness because she was examining her new feature.

"Humans don't just have sex to reproduce, Jenny. Sometimes people who love each other have sex because... well...because it feels good," he said weakly.

"Like... when people kiss?" she asked, glancing at him. Only then did she realize that he had his back turned and was blushing furiously. He looked like he was about to faint.

"Kind of, but it's a little more serious than just kissing, Jen. People usually have to be pretty serious about a relationship to take it to that level," he said, wiping his nose, which had just suddenly begun to bleed from the stress of the situation.

Jenny was silent for a moment, then smiled, "This is so wonderful, Sheldon! Thank you!" she ran over to him and did something she'd seen other girls do when they were happy. She gave him a hug. He fainted.

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She tugged at the hem of her t-shirt to make sure it was still covering her properly. She wasn't used to having to wear clothing, but now that she had something to cover, they were very important.

Just then she saw Brad coming around the corner, "Hey Brad!" she shouted, waving. He looked momentairly confused, but came over anyway.

"Jenny?" he asked, smiling, "Sheldon told me he had something big for your birthday, but I didn't think it would be a new exo-skin!" he said looking her over.

"Well, its not exactly. He coated my body with a polymer that allows me to have a sense of touch. A real sense of touch, not just pain and tickling," she said happily.

Brad whistled, "Wow, that is big," he said with a laugh, "That's great, Jen. Really great."

"He also added on some new features, like the hair and... he added on fully functional genitalia," she said proudly.

Brad looked shocked for a moment, but recovered quickly, "So it wasn't just a present for you, huh? That sly dog!" said Brad with a chuckle, "but Jenn, could you not mention that part when my guest gets here?"

"Yeah, sure... who is it?" asked Jenny. She had to consciously force herself not to pout. She'd hoped to spend some time alone with Brad. Maybe now that she was an almost fully functional woman, he'd actually be interested in her. She couldn't help but hope.

"Here she is now," he said, gesturing to the woman that was approaching, "Jenny, I know this is sudden, but I'd like you to meet Amber, my fiance," he said, wrapping an arm around the sweet looking brunette.

"Hello, Jenny. Brad talks about you all the time. It's an honor to meet our local superhero," she said kindly.

Jenny felt her emotion chip breaking. She did a quick scan of the girl, hoping she was an alien or a member of the cluster in disguise, but she wasn't. Just a regular human girl.

"I... I have to go, Brad. Emergency," she said, backing toward the door. As an afterthought, she turned to the girl and said, "It was an honor to meet you, Amber. Congratulations."

And in a flash she was gone. Brad and Amber watched the glow of her jets disappear into the distance.

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He's engaged! Engaged! Oh, I'm such an idiot! Why would he want to be with a robot when he can have a real woman like Amber! she thought sadly. Where am I going to go? She didn't want to go back to the old house. Since her mom had left to live on the mars space station, the old house felt so empty. She felt liquid leaking from the corners of her eyes and touched her cheeks. Apparently Sheldon had added more features than she'd thought. Tear ducts too.

That's what decided her. She'd go to the lab. It was as much a home to her as the old house was, and she could always count on Sheldon to understand.

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He was startled by the sound of the lab door being ripped off its hinges. He turned around just in time to see Jenny come running in and trip over a pile of wires. She collapsed onto the floor crying. Sheldon ran forward and began to inspect her for damage, only belatedly realizing that he'd designed her body to withstand much greater impacts than that without a scratch. Whatever was wrong, it wasn't because of a tiny fall.

"What's wrong, Jenn?" he asked, looking at her tear stained face. He felt his heart begin to break at seeing her cry and began to regret the tear duct upgrade.

"He's... engaged... she's beautiful... Oh, Sheldon, I'm an idiot!" sobbed Jenny, leaning into his arms.

He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close, letting her cry into his lab coat.