Sheldon Swifties LIX: "The X-Advisors…"
Summary: Like my Immortal Beloved bits in my Buffyverse stories, these are fragments and short bits, some longer…Just to fiddle with ideas, possibly forming longer tales later.
(Note: "Postmodern Jukebox" and their magnificent vintage versions of songs can be heard on You Tube.)
Disclaimer: All is Chuck's…
Part IV…
"So, you're a Neurobiologist…" Stein nodded to an Amy rather pleased to catch that capital N in his tone…Nervously balancing in her heels.
At last…A physicist…Er, Physicist…Who shows a little collegial regard for my field.
"Back at Princeton I did consider Biophysics, with a concentration on Neurophysiology…Mainly due to your grandmother...Her focus was Neurophysiology then, before she concentrated on Physiological Psychology for that Nobel." warm smile that she couldn't resist smiling back at… "Dear God she was quite a woman…As well as a marvelous scientist and teacher…I don't mind telling you mine was one of many hearts broken when she returned in fall semester 1960 with your grandfather in tow. So she is well, is she?"
"She's not bad for ninety-six, a bit of arthritis and colds…She still writes a bit, back at her farm in Maine." Amy, catching herself to glance back…Hmmn…What did I forget?
Oh…Sheldon…Gulp, looking back to see him with Penny…Glaring her way.
"Cooper seems almost human these days…" Stein grinned, looking over as well… "Are these developments all do to you, Dr. Praetorius? And please tell me you get that ancient film reference…?"
"I've seen 'Bride of Frankenstein'." She smiled, nodding.
"Thank God for Turner Classic Movies…Bridging the gap between generations. You know I speak to my students and now some of them know more about the films of my generation than I do?" Stein smiled. "I actually have to bone up to impress the young ladies…But then, apart from science-fiction I didn't watch many films as a boy. I was a bit like Cooper in that I generally isolated myself in those days from cultural stimuli…Believed that hogwash about the need to devote every faculty to the work. Thank goodness I got over that and learned to have a life."
"Really…?" Amy eyed his smile.
He does have a very charming… Uh…
"A bit, I say…No one is more than a bit like Sheldon Cooper." Wry smile…
"Well…Sheldon has expanded his interests…And I've found it is kind of nice to have a social life. We're quite the 'smart set', actually, these days…" attempt at sophisticated tone. No…Not at all the kind you find stuck in the lab every weekend as much for lack of things to do as real work.
"I'm very glad to hear it. And I'm sure this miracle is solely due…To you." Steady gaze…
Uh…
Uh…Oh…No, no…No…Oh… No oh! She insisted to herself.
"My God, Howard…Sheldon's looking almost healthy with rage…" Bernadette noted, from where she sat by Lucy, anxious look over to Sheldon, then to Howard, standing beside her, looking over as well…
Whoa…I think I even see a slight pinking in those cadaverously pale cheeks…
"Howard, you've got to do something before he kills someone! Namely one of our guests of honor…" Bernadette, aghast as Sheldon, still beside Penny, furiously eyed Dr. Stein as Stein happily chatted up Amy who seemed rather flattered by the attention, not to mention pleased at the numerous references to her grandmother, Dr. Margaret Fowler-Horowitz, once both instructor and object of desire for her companion.
"Bernie…" sigh. "If Penny can't hold him back…" he eyed her. Raj, standing by Lucy, nodding…
The both of us couldn't do so well as restraining bouncers…
"Ok…" she saw the wisdom of that … "But maybe you could distract him with your streetwise patter while she decks him unconscious and we carry him out to a safe place for the rest of the evening?"
Hmmn…Howard, pondering…Nod…
"Let me go!" Sheldon hissed to Penny… "I'm going to channel my dad and knock that effete British sidewinder of a so-called physicist back across the pond…That's the Atlantic Ocean, in case…"
"I know what it means, Sheldon…" she glared. "And I'm just standing on your foot."
"With those giant wooden shoe feet and leaden Nebraskan calves?…" he groaned.
Leonard!…She hissed, waving…
A lil' help here!
"I think Ms. Penny wants you, Leonard…" Dr. Francis noted to him, Leonard glancing over…
Hmmn…Oh, well…Something with Sheldon, as usual…
"Oh, she's ok…Anyway, I was wondering if you'd be willing to look over my latest data on the control of particle streams in semi-solids."
"Yes, I remember that last paper of yours…A fine piece of work." Francis nodded, rather eager. "I was actually hoping to talk to you about doing something further along those lines together during my time here…Forgive me for letting the prospect of encountering the mad doctor over there leaving me fogey." Wry grin…
"I see Luke Hofstadter has found his true father…" Howard grinned to Raj as they watched Leonard excitedly chattering to Dr. Francis. Francis seeming equally enthused…
"Howard…" Bernadette urged…
"Ok…" he put up a hand… "Distractive patter coming up…" he headed for Sheldon.
"Does he do that? Whatever you tell him?" Lucy asked, eyeing Howard. Raj eyeing Bernadette…
"He loves me." Bernadette, simply…Warm beam. "And don't you ever tell him but I'd do the same…If he needed me to…" She rose to follow Howard... Lucy nodding to Raj a moment later to his beam, both moving to follow as well...
"Maybe I'd better rejoin Sheldon…" Amy, another worried glance Sheldonward…
Sheldon, by dint of intense narrowed glare, now clearly contemplating mind-blowing possibilities ala scanner movies…Penny now trying to hold his hand while appearing nonchalant…
"Sheldon, calm down…" she tried.
"Leggo, you big bully…" he hissed, twisting desperately. "Amy refused to say anything against her bestie but Bernadette told us you were a bully in high school."
"Reformed but I could revert in your case…" she glared… "Now behave …"
"I think he's getting upset…" Amy noted, increasing anxiety…
"My dear…" Stein airily waved a hand...Lowering voice to confidential whisper… "I think you should let your Othello feel a few pangs...It's good for the relationship…He may have changed in some ways but I'm sure I'm not far from the mark to suggest he's generally not the most attentive of mates…?"
"Oh, Sheldon is very…" she gulped feeling the clasping of her hand.
"Come…Suppose we let Sheldon stew just a little in his own juices.…It's good for him as well…" shrewd grin… "While you tell me more of my ole Maggie…"
"He's…Whispering…" Sheldon, trembling with shocked rage…Turning to grab a drink from the tray of a passing waiter and gulping half of it down…
"I'm sure he's just…Sheldon?" Penny, startled as Sheldon deftly slipped his foot out from under her, using a slight levering move.
"Uh-oh…His classic 'creator' opening…The confidential whisper…" Howard explained to Bernadette who frowned at him…
"What, did you take a semester away at Princeton and study this under him? 'Hitting 101'?" she eyed him.
"Lets just say You Tube has a full series on his wisdom, compiled by his more attentive students…" Raj noted. "Just look up 'Stein: The Science and Art of the Hit…' in ten parts…"
"And who could possibly have wanted to waste time documenting a how-to-lech series for geeks?" Bernadette eyed Howard…Who bowed…
"That would be me. Though I did disguise my voice and used an alias…Jock Sean McStudly, mum a' Scotland at your Majesty's service." He put on Sean Connery voice.
"I provide guest commentary…" Raj noted eagerly.
"Not any more…" Lucy spoke up calmly, startling the others, cool narrow stare at Raj.
"Deleted by Monday…" Raj, nervously. Bernadette nodding to Lucy…
That's the way, girl…
Of course, I'll have to pull an all-nighter to watch the whole thing before I have Howard delete it.
"Hofstadter…" a worried Siebert had come over to Leonard, still eagerly expostulating to an interested Dr. Francis on his latest experimental series… "I think your puppy is about to do a bad thing on the rug is that is our beloved campus…" he indicated Sheldon now advancing to Amy and Stein…
Amy, glancing Leonardward now…
I think…Maybe…
He nodded… "Just a moment, Dr. Francis, President Siebert?" he stepped over…To the just returned from break bandleader who nodded at his whisper…
"Sheldon…" Penny had hurried after him after recovering from the shock…
Sheldon Cooper…
Sheldon?…Cooper?...Got loose from me?
"The band is starting up again and you promised me a dance…" she tried, urgently.
"Sheldon…" Amy, pleading tone at his dark look. "Dr. Stein has been telling me so much about you that I really needed to know…" anxious stare…
Sudden pause.
Dear God…What am I doing? I've waited years for a moment like this…
And Dr. Stein is 77…He'd hardly hurt Sheldon…
Much…
I hope…
"Cooper? Anything wrong?" Stein, slightly sly mocking tone, rather amused at Sheldon's obvious jealousy.
"No…" slowly, tone of cold rage. "But…If…Dr. Fowler…Would…Consider…"
"And we're back…And I believe…" the bandleader smiled out at the crowd, eyes seeking out… "We have a special guest vocalist joining us tonight. Could we have a big hand for Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler?"
Sheldon blinking…
Amy nervously stepping forward as Penny, Raj, Lucy stared, startled from their respective spots…While Bernadette and Howard grinned. Penny catching their mutual grins…President Siebert, Dr. Gablehauser, and various assorted faculty and staff familiar with Amy staring…
Guys?...What is up, here…The mutual questioning…
"Howard?" Amy looked to him. He nodding as Bernadette patted him…
Penny, Raj, Lucy…What is…?
Leonard, Cheshire cat grin…
Just wait…
Sheldon stepped by Howard…Gulping the last of his drink down…
"It's all right, Howard. I'll take over." He stepped by Amy. She giving Leonard anxious look…
"Sheldon…" Leonard hissed to him, pulling at him… "Please…You know Amy's been working on this since I got Siebert and Gablehauser to let me chair the entertainment committee for tonight. I told you she wanted to surprise us…This is really for you as much as all of us, come on, don't ruin it."
"Sheldon?" Penny, uncertain…But accepting Leonard's urgent look to her for support.
Sheldon frowning, putting up a hand…
"Amy? I know I may have groused about this all week when you rehearsed but I know the music. Do you trust me?" he stared at her. "I won't let you down." Steady look…
She eyed him… Pause…He, calm now, smiling, nodding…Offering a hand which she took…Turning to Howard again, expectantly.
"It's on the keyboard." Howard nodded with smile… "Go to it, buddy…"
Patting a nervous Bernadette.
"It's ok, Leonard." Amy nodded…Letting Sheldon lead her to the stage…
"Leonard?" Penny, anxiously…As Amy took position next to the band's vocalist who beamed at her…
Sheldon politely waiting for the keyboardist to move…
Stein moving to Leonard…
"Are they really going to…?" he began…
Sheldon, eyeing score, playing on cue as the band started…
Amy in duet with the band vocalist…Warm smile out to the crowd, catching her friends one by one…Stiff at first but starting to sway and swing with the other…
"So you are…Tonight I wanna show you off…eh, eh, eh…
We're gonna party like it's 1942…I wanna show the finer things in life to you… So just forget about the world, we're young tonight…
I'm coming for ya, I'm coming for ya…" grin to a solemn Sheldon at keyboard. Snap of fingers in time with her partner…
Utterly open-mouthed astonishment from the gang…Excepting Lucy who was unsure whether geniuses were to be expected to display incredible musical ability as a matter of course…
And Leonard, impresario of the evening who gave shrewd grin to Penny's sidelong stare…
"Did you…?" she asked…
"Amy wanted to do something special…" he beamed. "And these guys were grateful for a little extra financial support…"
You…Little…She beamed…
Drs. Stein and Francis each respectively eyeing Amy with admiration and rather genuine interest…
Deep growl…"Cause all...I need
Is a beauty and a beat…" beam to Sheldon…Who nodded solemnly…Slightest of smiles…
"Who can make my life complete
It's all about you,
When the music makes you move
Baby, do it like you do
Cause...
Body rock, girl, I can feel your body rock (eh, eh, eh)…" swaying, nod to her singing partner…
"Amy!" Penny, Bernadette both wiping tears, cheering…
"Take a bow, you're on the hottest ticket now, oh (eh, eh, eh)…"
The band vocalist stepping back to leave it to Amy…
"We gonna party like it's 1942…I'm coming for ya, I'm coming for ya...
Cause all I need
Is a beauty and a beat
Who can make my life complete
It's all about you,
When the music makes you move
Baby, do it like you do…"
The vocalist rejoining her…
Switch to rapid staccato style…Faster and faster…
"In time, neuron ink lines, couldn't slice it on my incline…" grin to Sheldon…Who gave mock frown…
"World tours, it's mine, ten little letters, on a big sign
Justin Bieber, you know I'mma hit 'em with the ether
Buns out, wiener, but I gotta keep an eye out for Selener
Beauty, beauty and the beast
Beauty from the east, beautiful confessions of the priest
Beast, beauty from the streets, we don't get deceased
Every time a beauty on the beats
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go, let's go)
Body rock,I wanna feel your body rock…" pause…
Big finish…
"Cause all...I need
Is a beauty and a beat
Who can make my life complete
It's all... (all I need is you) about you,
When the music makes you move
Baby, do it like you do
Whoa oh…oh, oh…Cause all I need is a beauty and a beat…
Who can make my life complete…"
"Holy Krishna…" Raj shook head…Eyeing Howard… "Our little Internet Amy…"
"And they call Stein, 'the Creator'…" Howard, winking…Holding hand for a high five to Raj…
The audience cheering as Amy, teary, embraced Sheldon rising from his keyboard, the band applauding them as well…
"Holy crap…" a deep and rather Katie Sackoff voice next to Howard and Leonard, rather startling them.
"Dad? Is that really Sheldon Cooper up there?" she turned to Stein whose attention was solely focused on Amy…The audience still applauding as Amy broke a moment from Sheldon to embrace the vocalist who patted her, beaming…Returning to embrace Sheldon as he rose…
"Sheldon!" Leonard beamed…Thumbs up to Sheldon's nod…
"And who's the one all over him…?" frown…
Jesus…Sorry, Ma…Howard stared at the vision before him…
All right, God of my fathers, I get the cosmic practical joke…My bathroom fantasies come to life…
Right in front of my wife…
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Bernadette blanched, catching sight.
I've watched Galactica enough trying to get her right…She eyed Howard who shrugged…
I did say… "The spitting image"…
