Story : Penny drags Sheldon onto a ship for a possible acting gig trouble ensue and for once not just because of Sheldon.

This will be a multi-chapter story. Also, despite having watched all of BBT I may have errors, please inform if you find any.

Not Beta'd all mistakes are my own.

So here is the 4th chapter as promised and its even shorter then the last couple of ones =/ Believe me it wasn't intentional. I'm going to try to make the next chapter and hopefully the next couple of chapter much longer so, it may be a few days before an update.

I don't think I ever mentioned where I got this plot bunny from. I read the Life of Pi while I was in Spain. Great book definitely worth checking out.

Quick shout out to reviewers: (Your name could be in bold)

Tv: You will not believe how many times I've looked at something and go "Its great but its not Sheldon." Its so extremely frustrating.

Stock: Well peer presure got to me I changed it to M :P, I'm not sure when that chapter will be, a few more things have to be established.

DZ: Thank for the comment :D all the 'Can't waits' make me work faster. Its hard to be doing something and all I can think about is I need to write I need to write.

Convict: How's jail going? I'm glad your intrigued. Good to know even in jail you can get on the interwebz.

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Disclaimer: Much to my dismay I do not own Big Bang Theory or any of the characters.


Over the next couple of days both of them were increasingly worried about the dwindling water supply. It was day 18 and having almost no water was a scary fact. It was very early in the morning and both Sheldon and Penny were already up.

Penny's dress had been working out well for her; it was cool for the most part. In her spare time she had taken some of the scraps from it and made a bandana. Her leg was healing up nicely surprisingly, Sheldon had continued to look after it, making sure it was clean and that a new bandage was applied every day.

Sheldon wasn't as well off as Penny; despite haven taken of his jacket he was still wearing his black pants, white shirt and his socks & shoes. He was sweating during the day at an ungodly rate. He quickly became tired and sluggish. Penny noticed and had yet to bring it up. She had decided to give him a few more days, she hoped he would of came to a solution by now but, with the water issues she couldn't afford to wait any longer. Penny found Sheldon down in the hold he was currently writing in a journal.

"Hey sweetie, can I talk to you?" Sheldon looked up from his journal. He gave Penny a stern look. "Hey Sheldon, can I talk to you?" He nodded and closed the journal.

"What can I help you with?"

"Well, I've noticed that you've been getting a bit more tired and sluggish during the day and I was wondering if maybe you'd let me help you with that?"

"Penny it's nothing to be concerned about I just get a little over heated."

"Sweetie, were running out of water. We need to preserve as much as we can." Sheldon cracked under Penny's gaze; her eyes were becoming Sheldon's arch enemy there was just something about them.

"What did you have in mind?" Penny pulled out a knife, Sheldon gulped.

"I promise I'll be gentle." Penny whispered in Sheldon's ear, as Penny brought the knife to his pants Sheldon freaked.

"No way." Sheldon moved to the side.

"Sheldon you're dying in your clothes. We don't have air conditioning and you're drinking more water."

"I can stop drinking more water." Penny wanted to bang her head into a wall.

"And then you die from dehydration, and you call me stupid." The last part Penny muttered but, Sheldon still heard it.

"I'm a genius."

"If you were a genius you would turn your pants into shorts, your shirt in short sleeves and take of your socks and shoes." Penny had pretty much just dared Sheldon now, Sheldon felt complied to prove himself.

"Fine, do it." Penny quickly changed his pants into shorts and removed the sleeves from his shirt. She also got rid of his shoes and socks. Interestingly enough, even under his supervision he said no more. He felt cooler.

Penny set aside the scraps; she never knew when she might need something.

"Feel better, genius?" Penny tacked on the genius as a little bit of praise. Sheldon nodded, he still wasn't in favor of exposing so much of himself. "You know if we don't get any rain soon this could get bad."

"Indeed. I may have a temporary solution." Penny arched her eye brow. "Well we could use some of the buckets and fill them with salt water." Penny didn't understand where this was going. He continued "We could use some plastic and put it over the top of a bucket then, when the water evaporated it would stick to the plastic. That water would be drinkable because the salt would be left in the bucket." Penny's face light up.

"Sheldon, you're amazing!" They used a bucket and one of the plastic water bottles. They collected the water in the other plastic bottle. They managed to get an ounce of water about every hour to hour and a half but, that was another ounce they had. The rest of the day went fairly smoothly, they both spent most of the time in the hold the only exception was going out to collect the water every hour. Sheldon once again was writing in his journal while Penny drew in hers.

Penny at the time was actually sketching Sheldon. It was going quite well, she was nearly half way done with the rough sketch when Sheldon moved a little bit. Penny growled. Sheldon looked at Penny.

"Is something wrong?"

"No, kinda, not really. It's just that you moved."

"I moved?"

"Yeah, you moved. I was drawing you and you moved."

"You were drawing me?"

"Yeah, but its kinda of more like a sketch of you but…, well yeah." Penny stuttered over her words and ended up blushing.

"May I ask why you were drawing me?"

"Well there really isn't anything else to draw." Snapped Penny.

"O, well can I see it?" Sheldon was already on his feet and heading over to Penny.

"I guess..." She mumbled meekly, she handed the notebook to Sheldon. He opened it to the page and stared at for a few moments.

"I'm surprised you didn't become an artist instead of attempting to become actress." He gave her back the notebook. Penny gaped; did he really just give her a compliment? Sheldon sat back down and readjusted himself multiple times. Penny couldn't figure out what he was trying to do.

"Is this the right position?" Penny looked down at her page and then back up.

"Yep, thanks." Penny enthusiastically went back to drawing. Sheldon resumed writing.


The next day it rained, no one else in the world was more enthralled with the rain then them. They were like dogs that discovered mud puddles or snow.

"Penny, you need to wake up." Sheldon was standing near Penny.

"Sheldoon, itsss still dark out-side." Penny was actually sleeping well and didn't want to be disturbed.

"Penny, it's raining cats and dogs." Sheldon's southern twang entered his voice as he used the idiom. Penny bolted up and sure enough outside it was gently raining. "We should attempt to fill up the water bottles." He nodded toward the corner where they had been keeping the empty 250ml bottles. We should also dump out the sea water from the bucket and fill it up." Penny was trying to go up to the deck but she was blocked by Sheldon.

"Sheldon?" Penny gave him a questioning stare.

"Penny you're injured, the deck will be extremely slippery. I'll go up and you pass me the bottles." Sheldon was up on the deck before Penny could argue with him.

"Alright, I'm ready." Sheldon called a few minutes later. Penny had moved all the bottles closer and they now began the hard and time consuming process of filling all the water bottles. It took them through lunch and into the afternoon to finish. Thankfully it was just a simple rain shower compared to a full blown storm. Sheldon as he came back down pulled one of the rain collectors over the entrance.

At that moment Penny was so happy she could have kissed him. Penny threw her arms around his neck and stared into his deep eyes. She moved closer until suddenly Sheldon's whole entire body shivered.

"Sheldon your freezing." Penny looked him up and down.

"I'ddd say thatsss an astute obbservatttion." His teeth were chattering. "Bazzzingaa." Penny pulled him over to the side and grabbed the blankets.

"Sweetie, you need to take you clothes off." Sheldon had curled himself up in a ball.

"Absssolutely not." Penny shook her head; he was so childish some times.

"Honey, even you know that these" she held up the blankets "will do nothing if you've got your clothes on."

"You arrre notttta takking of my clothes."

"Do I need to tell you how stupid you are being and that your intelligence is failing?" Penny waited, staring straight into his eyes. Sheldon finally conceded. Her eyes really were his arch-enemy. Penny carefully began removing his shirt, despite her best intentions was checking him out. She had only seen Sheldon's chest when he was sick but, she definitely saw some change. Sheldon now sported a tan and his muscles were a tad more defined. He was in no way hunky. Penny gave him a blanket.

Penny began working on his shorts; she got him out of his pants fairly fast. Underneath he was wearing flash boxers instead of his normal white briefs. She blushed and smiled at the same time. She gave him the other blanket and sat next to him. They both listened to the rain hitting the deck. The rain continued into the night, it was much colder in the hold and Penny was definitely feeling it. The rain had made it damp she could almost swear she saw her breath. Sheldon had four other blankets and two were used for keeping some of the things dry, leaving Penny with only with one blanket.

Penny was shivering; she attempted to lock her jaw in order to prevent her teeth from chattering. Sheldon was still up and with his Vulcan hearing heard Penny.

"Your cold?"

"I'm fine." Penny had managed to get a sentence out without her teeth chattering. She really didn't want to concern Sheldon, he had already done so much and he himself was recovering.

"If I insulted your intelligence would it have the same affect?" Penny chuckled a little bit. "That wasn't intended as a joke."

"I think it mighttt be one your best ones yet." She couldn't keep her teeth still. Against his better judgment he scooted closer to Penny and put one of his blankets around her. The blankets prevented Sheldon or Penny from having any real physical contact, which was the only thing that prevented Sheldon from moving.

Penny felt herself getting warmer. She managed to mumble thanks through her chattering teeth. Sheldon didn't reply. They stayed that way through the night and most of the morning and for once each of them sleep through the night.


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