Falling asleep that night was proving itself to be a very difficult task. Amy got ready for bed the exact same way as she always did; first by brushing her teeth, flossing, rinsing, washing her face, brushing her hair and finally by getting into her scheduled night pajamas, tonight being her Monday Night pajamas. Despite following her routine to the letter, sleep did not overcome her within the first 10 minutes of her head hitting the pillow. Instead, her mind was engulfed with the idea of Sheldon becoming aroused by her touch, as Penny had suggested.
"Did he really like me touching him?" –she thought to herself. It was something that she always fantasized about, however, like she had told Penny earlier in the evening, had conceded to the fact that him liking and wanting her to touch him would never happen. "Even if he did like it, how am I supposed to continue to pursue this course of action if, knowing Sheldon, will never conceive to the fact that he enjoyed human contact and therefore, became...aroused, and want me to continue to practice similar activities?"
Letting her mind wander into the confusing situation that was her relationship with Sheldon, Amy drifted into a gentle sleep.
Driving back home to her apartment, Penny was flabbergasted by the idea of Sheldon Cooper, the Sheldon Lee Cooper becoming excited by Amy's touch. "Maybe him being aroused is a bit of a stretch", - she thought to herself. "But then why did he bolt out of bed that fast?" Penny felt that by the action of him jumping out of his bed at such an alarming rate, the possibility of him being aroused was a perfectly good explanation. "It's probably never happened to him before, so I guess he could become quite startled like a scared deer." Contemplating it some more, Penny couldn't wait to tell Leonard once reaching their apartment building. Walking, but more close to running up the stairs, Penny pulled out her phone,
Come to my apartment NOW! – she texted to Leonard.
Having other plans in mind, Leonard rushed out of his apartment in anticipation to get to hers, meeting her at the top of the stairs in front of his door.
"You will never believe this! Come with me", she said, almost jumping out of her skin while pulling him into her apartment, slamming the door behind him.
"What, what's wrong? Is everything fine with Amy?" he said anxiously.
"Yes, that's why I wanted you to come over here."
"Oh", Leonard said with a shred of disappointment, hoping the reasoning as to why he was at Penny's was different. "Well, that's great. Where was she tonight? What happened between her and Sheldon?"
"Oh my God, you will never believe me. Sit down first since I know Sheldon and his sexuality tends to stump and startle you."
"Dear God, what's wrong?" he asked.
Jumping out of her seat, Penny literally could not contain her excitement. "Absolutely nothing!" she said, grinning from ear to ear.
"Wait, what do you mean nothing? Something is obviously wrong. Why else would Sheldon be avoiding everyone quite to the degree that he has been for the last couple days, and why else would Amy not come for dinner tonight?"
Staring at Leonard, trying to restrain herself, Penny looked at him trying her best not to giggle in sheer excitement, "Sheldon is a real boy after all", she said being as serious as she could.
"What are you talking about?"
"Shelly became aroused!"
Jaw dropping, eyes popping with eyebrows as high up his forehead as they could go, Leonard at first did not know what to say. "No", he said with a large expulsion of air.
"Mhmm. I was talking to Amy, and at first, we just thought that he was mad at her but she continued to tell me about her day with him and him becoming excited is the only explanation."
"How could you be so sure?"
Retelling the events of Sheldon and Amy's day to Leonard, the realization of what had happened to his best friend began to sink in.
"Oh my God, he was aroused!" Leonard said, with a tone of disbelief.
"I know! It's unbelievable!"
"Well, now what?" he asked.
"I told Amy to try and see him tomorrow and just move past the whole Saturday situation."
"Then what?"
"Sheldon won't know what hit him", she said with a guilty smile spread across her face.
Getting up out of his bed, Sheldon was very tired and wanted to keep sleeping; thinking about the lack of control that he recently had over his body was disturbing him, and throughout the night was trying to come up with ways to ignore it's horrifying pleas, however, not knowing how much success his plans would work over ignoring his bodies requests until putting them to the test. Eating his breakfast, showering, getting dressed, brushing his teeth, combing his hair, tying up his shoes, slugging over his side bag and waiting for Leonard; partaking in his morning routine that he had always done, however, his mind was elsewhere. Sauntering down the stairs with Leonard was quieter than usual; Leonard staring at Sheldon with a perplexed stare, wondering why his tall friend wasn't excited about his day's activities, which included using the Linear Accelerator at the university, as well as going to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner that evening. Not wanting to push his buttons, Leonard stayed quiet for the remainder of the journey to work, replaying the conversation he had had with Penny the night before, and every once in a while, glancing over to his friend, who was staring out the side window.
Entering his office, Sheldon faced Raj, who was sitting at his desk, feet propped up resting on the desk while reading one of his own journals.
"Good morning, Sheldon!"
"Morning, Raj", he said unenthusiastically.
"What's wrong, dude? Where's Leonard?"
"Nothing is wrong, and I'm assuming he went to work in his lab with his laser, God knows what for."
Taking a seat in his chair, Sheldon looked at his daily schedule. "Oh, I'm in the lab today working with the Linear Accelerator. Drat", he thought to himself while letting out an exasperated sigh.
"Sheldon, what's wrong?" Raj said, almost in a pleading tone.
"Well, my schedule says I'm working with the Linear Accelerator today, but to be honest, I'm not prepared to do so. But if I don't work on it I won't be able to use it again for at least another month."
"Just go down to lab and see if anyone wants to trade times with you."
"I guess."
Getting out of his office and getting away from, what seemed to Sheldon as a bombardment of stares and questions from Raj, was exactly what he needed. He had only been at the university for 15 minutes and already was trying to devise a plan that would keep him out of his office and away from nosey eyes all day. Emerging out of the corridor and walking into the lab, Sheldon looked at the signup sheet and saw his name next to today's date. Sighing, he looked ahead to future weeks, seeing if he was able to switch with anyone else. He saw Leslie Winkle's name "Dear Lord, I am not going to talk to that woman today, or ever if I can help it" he thought to himself. Looking further down the list, he saw Barry Kripke's name, scheduled in exactly 4 weeks time. "Well, he beats Leslie, that's for sure". Walking into Kripke's office, Sheldon immediately regretted his decision; asking a favour from someone like Kripke was going to be a demoralizing task on Sheldon's pride and superiority.
"Wewl, hewo there Cooper. What bwings you here?" Barry said.
"Kripke! I came here today to ask you for a favour", Sheldon said.
"Oh, wewl looky here. You need a favour fwom Bawy Kripke. What is it? I can almost guawantee I'm going to say no", Barry said with a smirk on his face.
Looking down at his shoes, Sheldon could feel the blood rushing to his face, "Well, Kripke, today I'm scheduled to use the Linear Accelerator but I can't use it today because I am not prepared. I was wondering if you would perhaps like to switch your day with mine?
Looking at Sheldon with disappointment, Barry let out a sigh, "Darn it."
"What's wrong Kripke?"
"Wewl, I'm twying to piss you off, but I weawlly need to use the Accelewator as soon as possible. Huuuh. Fine Cooper, you got yourself a deal."
Feeling somewhat accomplished, Sheldon walked out of the lab headed in the opposite direction as Kripke, who had just switched Sheldon's name with his own. "Well, that took 15 minutes. Only another 6 and a half hours to go until I can go home", Sheldon thought to himself, still wanting to avoid his office.
As lunch time approached, Sheldon had been avoiding his office entirely since leaving it earlier that morning; he had visited Leonard in his lab while he was conducting experiments with the laser, had visited Howard who was currently building an electronic device to better secure astronauts while sleeping in their bunks, and also had taken countless trips to the washroom, therefore, using over half of his bottle hand sanitizer. Despite being anxious for lunch to occur all day, as it was approaching, Sheldon was becoming more and more nervous about its arrival because he didn't want to see Raj, who would most likely play a game of 20 Questions as to where he had been all morning. Coming up with ideas on where to go for lunch, Sheldon was unsure as to where to spend the hour. "Well, I could go out to eat? Perhaps the mall? But that would take way too long and I'm not wearing my bus pants." Pondering the possibilities, Sheldon came up with another alternative, "I guess I could visit Amy in her lab", he thought to himself undecidedly. However wanting to see Amy, he didn't want their topic of conversation to be about the events of Saturday, "I need to make sure her focus is on something else so she does not question me on what happened," he thought, "And I can also try out my new methods to avoid that unpleasant occurrence that happened the last time I saw her." Pleased with his plans, Sheldon walked out of the building, walking to the other side of campus where Amy's lab was situated.
Entering the building, Sheldon was becoming more and more nervous as he approached her lab. As he stood in front of her lab door, a mix of feelings enveloped Sheldon "Control yourself, Sheldon. There is no reason to feel this way; you are just visiting your girlfriend in her lab. Nothing to be nervous about," he thought cautiously while taking a deep breath of encouragement.
*Knock *Knock *Knock -Amy
*Knock *Knock *Knock -Amy
*Knock *Knock *Knock -Amy
"Come in", he heard, coming from the other side of the door.
Opening the door, Sheldon immediately saw Amy who was sitting on a stool beside her work table; with the contents of a brain placed across the table with various tools close by while wearing a white lab coat.
"Hello, Sheldon", Amy said as nonchalantly as she could, as her heart started pounding.
"Hello, Amy", he said with a little smile.
"What brings you here, Sheldon?" Amy said, as she could see a small look of disappointment cross his face. "It's not that I don't want you here, I was just wondering why you didn't text me", she added.
"My apologies, Amy. I am here because I wanted to visit you on my lunch break."
"I see. Well, I have already taken my break so do you mind if I continue working while you eat your lunch?"
"Oh, not at all, Amy. I enjoy watching you work", he said while looking down at his side bag pulling out a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
"He enjoys watching me work?" Amy thought as she could feel her heart flutter. "So, how has your day been so far?" she asked him.
"Alright", while taking bites from his sandwich. "I was going to work with the Linear Accelerator today but I changed my scheduled time with Kripke's."
"Why?"
Looking up at her suddenly, Sheldon didn't want to tell her that she was in fact the main reason as to why he wasn't prepared to work with the equipment that day, "Oh, just didn't feel up to it today." "Not completely untrue", he thought to himself.
"That's too bad", she said while slicing the scalpel through the right frontal lobe of the brain.
Looking down at her hands, he noticed how delicately she was holding the brain with one hand and the scalpel with the other. As she prodded the brain with the scalpel, her grip became tighter, and then loosened again when she was finished with that portion of brain matter. Watching her hands glide majestically across the table, Sheldon studying them intently as they worked with purpose yet seemed so tiny and fine. "Come on Cooper, stop gawking. Just think about something else. How about the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox?" he thought to himself to alter his focus from her hands to absolutely anything else.
Continuing with her work, Amy divided the brain into sixteenths and placed them methodically across her silver tray as strands of hair fell in front of her face. Trying to push her hair back with the back of her hands and wrists, Amy was having no success with getting her hair out of her way.
"Sheldon, can you move my hair for me? I don't want to take my gloves off."
Looking at her timidly, Sheldon placed his sandwich down on the plastic baggy he had, wiped his hands with a wet wipe and cautiously moved his hand up towards her face and moved her hair by tucking it behind her ears. Feeling her skin under his own, he couldn't help but think of how warm and soft her skin was while gently placing the random strands behind her ear. While lightly feeling her skin, he noticed that he had been gliding his fingers softly on the side of her face, right where ear and cheek meet, but quickly stopping, and placing his hands in his lap while fiddling with his nails.
As Amy stared at Sheldon, who was looking down at his fingers, he was becoming a nice shade of pink. Trying to break the silence, Amy looked away from him to continue working on the brain, "Thank you, Sheldon. Now I can see what I'm doing", she said with a slight chuckling, trying to ease the tension.
Eating the rest of his sandwich in silence, Sheldon did not look up to look Amy in the eyes for the rest of his lunch. Instead, every other minute, he would continue to watch her hands as they did their work, still slicing the brain into smaller and smaller sections; still entranced by them, the same way he had been before.
"Sheldon?" Amy said puzzled.
Snapping out of it, "Mhmmm. Yes Amy?" he said
"Are you alright? I called your name twice."
"Sorry, I was thinking about you...your work", he said as his cheeks went red this time.
"Ok. Well, I wanted to ask you what we are planning on doing this coming Thursday?"
Sheldon thought through his mental calendar, "Date Night Thursday?"
"Well yes."
"What do you propose?"
"Perhaps, I can make you dinner and we watch a movie at my apartment?" she suggested.
"Alright", he said, still looking down, now playing with the zipper on his windbreaker, and slowly getting off the stool. "Well, I'd best be off, Amy", he said opening the door.
"See you Thursday, Sheldon", Amy said, while staring at Sheldon, who was now bright red while looking down at the floor while shutting the door behind him.
The door clicked shut and Sheldon was gone. Slicing the last portion of the brain, Amy slipped off her gloves and smiled as she picked up her phone.
Sheldon Cooper- 1 Message –she read as her hand slid across the screen.
I am very much looking forward to Date Night Thursday. Text me on Thursday for what time you want me to be at your apartment. – the message read.
I will, Sheldon. Have a good day. – she responded.
Going through her contacts, she tapped on Penny's name.
"Hey, Ames. How's it going?" Penny said, on the other end of the phone.
"Hey bestie. Operation Cooper Coupons is a go!" she said, giggling into the phone.
"Oh my God! Great! I'm so excited! Come to my apartment after work so we can plan things for Thursday!" Penny said, with an almost maniacal smile wile giggling uncontrollably.
"Can't wait bestie! See you then."
Author's Notes- Please review! Smut is on the way. I don't want to be too hasty ;)