The 95 Degree Destiny
A/N: Well I didn't get any bricks through my window for that last cliffhanger. At least not any big ones. A lot of you guessed correctly on the origin of Sheldon's first "fiancée", so if you did way to go! If you have read any of my stories in the past you should know I hold the Shamy near and dear to my heart and would never hurt them.
Raj and Emily finally felt that something today went right. As they rode their horses on the beach, the sun sank down over the vast blue Pacific, splashing reds and oranges in the sky. The salt breeze blew their hair around and the cries of gulls filled the air. Raj's hip was a little stiff from his earlier fall, but he was enjoying himself way too much to care. He turned to his girl and watched as the setting sun made Emily's hair seem like it was on fire.
The time had come to return the horses to the stable. They were within sight of the barn when one of the horses accidently stepped into a wasp nest built into the ground. The angry wasps defended their damaged home, stinging horse and person indiscriminately. The horses bucked and kicked, then ran off taking Raj and Emily with them holding on for dear life. By the time the horses calmed down Raj and Emily had about half a dozen stings each. They dismounted their spooked mounts gingerly with help from the stable hands.
"Raj, I think we should just pass on going out to dinner and just call it a night. Knowing our luck we'll get food poisoning or end up in the middle of a mob hit." Emily's fair skin was burning from where she was stung.
Raj was ready to end this miserable day. "This day has been a complete failure. I'm so sorry Emily. Our first Valentine's Day was supposed to be magical."
"Don't worry about it Raj. I do think one more stop is in order before we head home. Can we swing by the pharmacy? I seriously doubt that anything could go wrong there." Emily winced as she touched a growing welt on her arm. "But then again, you never know."
Leonard and Penny had endured another encounter with Dr. Lorvis. They had been nice but not too nice, and when they were able to, they made their escape. The hotel was large, but they kept running into him repeatedly. And leaving the hotel wasn't a good option either because of the bad weather. Their only chance to avoid him was to go back to their room. They stayed there until it was time for dinner and made up their own activities.
Sheldon was a very honest person, too honest sometimes. But if you got a little liquor into him it was better than sodium pentathol. One time when he was tipsy during his career crises, Amy put a very drunk Sheldon to bed. As she bent over to put his shoes away he commented on her callipygian posterior. She didn't know if he remembered saying this, but she had never forgotten. Now he was spilling his guts with this Tricia bimbo.
"Sheldon, how come I've never heard of this Tricia bim... er I mean person before?"
"It was a long time ago when I was in school. She was a classmate of mine." Sheldon had a hard time focusing on Amy. "She was bossy. I didn't want her to be my girlfriend but she made me. She would always kiss me in front of everyone and embarrass me. I didn't like it at all." This last bit was whispered as if it were a secret.
Amy had lived a socially awkward life. She had been kissed by a man before Sheldon. Of course it was in exchange for insulin. But she had never expected Sheldon, who claimed he had no romantic interest in anyone until she came along to have a hidden past. "You didn't like it when she kissed you? That seems to be odd, seeing that you were going to get married."
"I never have really liked being kissed." Sheldon swayed slightly. "Until I met you. I like it when you kiss me. And I reeaaallyy like kissing you. A lot. But I think I'm turning into a pervert. Help me Amy, I'm turning into a pervert! I can't stop thinking about you." Sheldon pleaded with Amy.
"It's OK Sheldon, you'll be OK. But I want to know about your fiancée." Amy wanted to steer the conversation back to Tricia, but was pleased about his kissing comment. A lot.
"I don't know about fiancée, but man was she bossy. We met on the first day of school. She walked up to me and kissed my cheek. Good thing I had wet wipes with me. Over the next few weeks she would stalk me and kiss me. I told her to stop but she wouldn't. Though the upside of having her around was she would share her cookies with me and keep the bullies at bay. She was quite an intimidating girl. Then she told me we were going to get married at recess, and I told her 'uh uh'. But she wore me down, but during recess I saw her kissing Tommy Bowman, and then luckily she was his problem, not mine." Sheldon had never told anyone outside his family about this. His family had mostly teased him, especially George Jr.
Amy sat staring at him for a long time flabbergasted. "What grade were you in?"
"Kindergarten. A total waste of time. There I was occupying myself with algebra equations to keep from being bored while the other children learned how to count by gluing lima beans to tongue depressors. Tricia used to throw beans at me and giggle." He hiccupped.
Amy pictured a pint sized but serious Sheldon scrubbing at his face with wet wipes as a tiny little girl chased him around the playground trying to kiss him. Who could be jealous of a five year old? She smirked at her tipsy boyfriend. "Why did you bring her up out of the blue tonight of all nights?"
Sheldon looked at her with glassy eyes. "Even though I told her I wasn't interested in her, and treated her horribly, she was still very nice to me, that was up until she left me for Tommy. I know I have done things that weren't very nice to you in the past. But you've always forgave me and stood by me and I don't know why."
Amy tried to get through to her inebriated boyfriend. "Sheldon, I understand that it's the alcohol making you dysphoric, because I think when you are sober you know why I have stayed with you for so long. It's not just that I love you, but because you are an intelligent, honest, loyal, driven individual. We share similar interests, are like minded and enjoy being challenged by each other. You're confident and sometimes funny on purpose." She smiled at him and he noticed her eyes travel his face."You're a handsome man and yet still boyish at the same time. And I had no choice but to fall madly in love with you." Their dinners came at that point, making a pause in the conversation. When the waiter left Amy reached her hand out and grasped his. "Now do you see why I stayed?"
Sheldon nodded, still a little uncoordinated from two glasses of wine on an empty stomach. "The same can be said about you Amy Farrah Fowler." He gave her a sloppy smile and started to dig into his pasta.
"Now what is all this about being a pervert?" Amy picked up her water and sipped it, hiding a small smirk.
Raj pulled his car into a parking spot by the drugstore and Emily winced as she leaned over and gave him a peck on the cheek. "Do you need anything while I'm in there?"
"Something to make the night not a total loss." Raj squirmed uncomfortably in his seat. One of those nasty hornets and stung him on his lower back and right thigh, and the contact with the seat was agony.
"I'll see what I can do." Emily grimaced, slowly getting out of the car and headed towards the store.
The longer he waited, the more Raj started to wallow in self pity. His first Valentine's Day with Emily was supposed to be romantic and sexy, not fraught with injuries and embarrassment. Not a single thing had gone right. The great ideas he had received from Rachel Ray had resulted in disaster.
Emily returned with a medium sized brown paper bag, looking over her shoulder. "I just literally ran into the oddest guy coming out of the drugstore. We dropped our bags and he hit the floor. I tried apologizing, but he was preoccupied about some woman named Loretta, and how he spent his last 10 bucks to get hammered so he could forget her. He looked a little hammered already." At this point a primer gray, older model Mustang peeled out of the parking lot. "And there he goes. He is going to kill someone. You know what, I got his license plate number, I'm going to report him." Emily grabbed her phone and dialed. "Why don't you take two of the pills now, there is something to wash them down with in there as well. Then when we get home we can take turns rubbing the cream all over our sore naked bodies." She gave Raj a look filled with pure heat. Before he could reciprocate, the police picked up and she started to report the driver.
Raj opened the bag and took out the bottle of pills and stared. He then looked in the bag with an unreadable expression. He folded the top of the bag and handed it back to Emily. Her brows furrowed as she glanced at the bag and continued her phone call. She hung up and looked questioningly at Raj. "Why didn't you take them?"
Raj gestured towards the bag. "Ladies first."
Emily unfolded the top of the bag and reached in and pulled out a box of constipation medicine. She frowned and pulled a bottle of very cheap wine followed by hemorrhoid cream. She was confused for a second, then started to laugh. "Our bags must have gotten mixed up. Poor guy has a lot more problems than just Loretta."
Raj gripped the steering wheel with frustration. "Emily, I'm so sorry. Today was probably the worst Valentine's you have ever had. Can you ever forgive me? He turned his tortured brown eyes to her and braced for the worst.
Emily raised a hand and cradled his jaw with it until he flinched and she realized. "Oh sorry, you got stung there." She took his hand instead and rubbed it gently. "Raj, I can't lie, today has been pretty rough. But I must say, without a doubt, if I live to be a hundred I will never forget this day. It has been by far the most memorable Valentine's Day I have ever had, and I was glad to be miserable with the man I love."
Raj's eyes widened with realization. "That was the first time you told me you loved me." He started rubbing her hand back. "I love you too." Sparks kindled in his deep brown eyes as he gave Emily a look that promised the rest of the evening was going to be unforgettable as well.
Her medical training took over before she became too lost in those dark pools. "Hold on there Romeo. I need to go back in the store and get the Benadryl, water and hydrocortisone cream that Loretta's ex took home by mistake. But I won't be gone long." She kissed him gently on the lips, a kiss he prolonged and deepened until they had steamed up the windows and Emily's hair was tousled. She broke away and smoothed her hair, panting. "You are not making this easy for me. I really need to get that medicine."
"I'll come with you. You know to deflect drunken Benadryl thieves." Raj straitened his vest and opened the car door. He captured her hand in his and kissed it as they strolled into the store.
The quartet of friends in Aspen decided to risk leaving their rooms and sat down to dinner in the crowded restaurant. There were only two tables unoccupied in the whole place, and they were shown to one of them. The waiter went over the specials, and took their orders. They sipped their wine when Leonard raised his glass and proposed a toast. "Here's to good friends, a great weekend and no more Dr. Lorvis." Everyone clinked glasses as a group of people were being seated at the table next to them. A big portly man with a beard turned to one of his dinner companions. "Oliver, you weren't kidding about being a big deal. These people are drinking a toast to you." He guffawed and slapped Dr. Lorvis on the back.
"Yeah, I know them." Dr. Lorvis smiled, his eyes drawn to Penny. "That's Penny."
The table started to cheer. "Penny! Penny!"
The large bearded man stood up and motioned for the others to do so as well. "Any friends of Oliver's are friends of mine. Let's scoot these tables together and make it a party." He started to push the tables together, almost squeezing Bernadette's hand in between.
Leonard was nearing the end of his patience with Dr. Lorvis. "This really isn't necessary."
"Nonsense. It is no trouble at all. And you fine people don't worry about the bill, I'm writing this off as a business expense. I'm Ken, Dr. Ken Jaspers. I went to med school with Oliver here." He held out his hand to Leonard who shook it. "Hey would you like to hear an urologist joke?" Before anyone could answer he started the joke. "What's the difference between a hematologist and an urologist?" He started laughing at his own joke before the punch line.
Leonard politely said, "I don't know."
Ken laughed and replied, "A hematologist pricks your finger…"
The whole table of urologists started roaring in laughter. Oliver leaned over and announced, "Ken is the Carrot Top of the urology world."
"Oh dear God why?" Howard exclaimed.
It all went downhill from there.
"Amy, I don't know what's wrong with me. I used to be in control of all my baser urges, but now…" He leaned over to Amy and whispered, "They seem to control me." He leaned away.
Amy decided to pump Sheldon for as much information that two glasses of wine could buy. Though he was more open about things recently, he still was tight lipped on the more physical aspects of their relationship. "You don't feel pressured by me do you? Remember I told you we are going to go at your speed." Amy looked at him very seriously.
"No." He shook his head wildly. "Yes…" He nodded just as wild.
"I have? I didn't mean to." Amy tried to think of what she had done.
"No, that's the problem. You don't mean to, but you do." He pointed at her. "You and your tight skirts and lip licking. And when you get a Star Trek reference or worse yet you make a Star Trek reference. Wow." Sheldon looked at her with tipsy admiration, silver sparks lighting up fathomless blue eyes.
Amy unconsciously licked her lips. "See, there you go. Bringing my attention to those lips. You're a vixen." Sheldon watched her lips intently for any further movement.
"How long has this been happening for?" Amy asked.
Sheldon blinked, breaking his gaze from the tractor beam that was Amy's lips. "Two years."
"Two years!" Amy was astounded. "I thought it was more recent."
"No you see, I've only been acting on my urges more recently. You have been tempting me for much, much longer. It has been only recently that I have been losing control." Sheldon rubbed his forehead. "But I find trying to deny my urges a Sisyphean undertaking."
Amy's cheeks began to warm as she thought of Sheldon's internal struggle and of him admitting that it was inevitable. "Resistance is futile." She chuckled, picking up her water glass. She put the glass to her lips and almost dropped it as she glanced Sheldon's way. He was eyeing her with a hungry gaze and unmistakable longing. His blue eyes tiny rings around his enlarged pupils. He licked his lips, and Amy had to admit that lip licking was pretty hot.
Bruised, battered and swollen, Emily and Raj made it back to Raj's apartment. Emily immediately headed to the freezer and made up some ice packs to put on their stings. After a while the effects of the Benadryl began to manifest. "What do you say to some sleepy anti-histamine induced sex, a tepid shower for our welts and then we slather hydrocortisone cream on each other and fall asleep?" Emily proposed.
"Mmm hmm. Sounds good." Raj mumbled. They went to the bed, disrobed and lay on the bed naked. They kissed once.
And fell asleep immediately.
After an evening spent with Dr. Lorvis and his college buddies, the two couples had started for the refuge of their hotel rooms. The agreement was to meet in the lobby in the morning and weather permitting fly out of that God forsaken town. They were waiting by the bank of elevators when none other than Dr. Lorvis joined them.
"Penny, if you have a minute I would like to show you something in my hotel room. It won't take but a few minutes." He smiled widely at her.
Howard and Bernadette tried to shrink from the situation. Leonard standing by them started to get agitated. That's when Penny knew, best customer or not, she had to set Dr. Lorvis straight. "Dr. Lorvis, I don't feel comfortable doing that. I have behaved very badly to my fiancé this weekend, putting my needs above his. I love him very much and I need to inform you that I have absolutely no romantic interest in you, only in my husband to be." Penny turned around to where Leonard was standing and placed a big kiss on his lips. It was when she opened her eyes she saw her hands on both sides of Howard's face, his eyes wide and his hands up in mock surrender. Bernie and Leonard mirrored the shocked expression on Howard.
The only one still smiling was Lorvis. "Huh. I thought Howard was already married?"
Amy and Sheldon's dinner was over and she took him back to his apartment. The alcohol that had made Sheldon spill the beans earlier had left his system, and since it was only two glasses of wine, Sheldon remembered everything he said. He was mortified. "Why did I let you talk me into drinking alcohol? You're a bad influence on me. Party girl."
"Sheldon, you didn't say anything you should be embarrassed about. We have been dating for three years. None of this should bother you." She handed him a water. "You should drink this, just to be careful."
"It's embarrassing. I told you I was turning into a pervert." Sheldon hung his head.
Amy sat besides him. "Well if you're a pervert, then I guess I am too."
That got Sheldon's attention. "What do you mean?"
Amy looked down at her feet. "I am not always in charge of my baser urges when you are around. Not at all."
Sheldon eyed her with interest. "For example?"
Amy looked over at her curious boyfriend. "Well, when I get a big whiff of baby powder, my knees get weak."
"I told you its talc, but go on."
"I could lose my soul in the blue of your eyes." Amy looked up and stared deep into his eyes and that familiar thrill went through her.
"A little hippie dippy, but go on." Sheldon felt that way too about her eyes, but wasn't comfortable admitting it.
"When you get excited about physics, your whole body lights up and it make me...um well...excited." Amy colored and looked down at her hands.
"You like it when I talk about physics?" To Sheldon this was a win win.
"Very much so."
Sheldon stilled and looked at her intently. "Really?"
"Yes really. You don't realize it but there are a dozen things a day that you do that make me feel...tingly." Amy still found her hands fascinating.
"My intelligence is...a turn on for you?" Sheldon reached out and lifted her chin, turning her head towards his.
"Well Sheldon, the brain is the main sexual organ." She gathered the courage to look him in the eye. "And you have the biggest brain I know of."
"That's probably true. But you're not so bad yourself, Dr. Fowler. I also am stimulated when you use your dazzling intellect. Only if you use it for good of course." He gave her a hint of a smile, while searching her eyes green depths.
Amy could stand it no longer. She leaned in and gave Sheldon a soft kiss on the lips. She broke away, just before Sheldon recaptured her lips with gusto. He maintained his hand on her chin, guiding her motions as he turned his head from the left to the right, lips meeting and parting with little smacking sounds.
They parted slowly, a charge between them. Amy unconsciously licked her lips. Sheldon noticed and growled, "I told you earlier at dinner, that you make me crazy when you do that." Amy looked at him with heavy-lidded eyes and slowly licked her top, then bottom lip. Sheldon grabbed her waist and devoured her lips, making Amy emit a drawn out, involuntary moan. The moan spurred Sheldon on; he parted his mouth and ran his tongue along the bottom of Amy's full bottom lip. She parted her mouth and met his hot, probing tongue with her own. Amy then moved her hands up to the back of Sheldon's head and ran her fingers through his close cropped hair. Sheldon gasped at this new fascinating sensation as his eyes rolled in the back of his head. Amy broke away and started worshiping Sheldon's pale neck with searing hot kisses.
Things were getting out of control for Sheldon. Embarrassing things. In the trouser region things. "Amy."
"Amy?"
"AMY."
Amy broke free of Sheldon's neck, but not before leaving a telltale mark. He is going to freak out. "Yes?" She panted.
"I'm sorry, but we need to stop. I was enjoying things a little too much." Sheldon's face was crimson and his breath came in short puffs.
"OK Sheldon." Amy sat back on her cushion, catching her own breath, a bit disappointed.
They sat in silence the only, sound their slowing breaths until Sheldon spoke quietly, "I'm still concerned about Leonard. Can you stay the night?"
Amy wasn't expecting that. "You want us to spend the night together?"
"Yes."
She hoped against hope. "In...your bed?"
"No."
"Am I staying in Leonard's room?"
"Not as long as I'm alive. You'll be on the couch, with me."
Amy frowned and tilted her head. "We are both sleeping on the couch?"
Sheldon nodded. "I think that sharing a bed will be too much temptation for us to, excuse the childish phrase, 'Do the dance with no pants.' That and my hands apparently wander when I'm asleep so I want to limit the amount of access they have." He held up his hand and smirked. "I figure if we just cuddle on the couch and happen to fall asleep, it will be a safer alternative, and we can stay together all night." Sheldon hoped she would agree.
"OK Sheldon, as long as you give me something to sleep in." Amy couldn't believe her ears. Sheldon wanted to spend the night with her, yet didn't trust himself enough to not try something in his bed.
"You can wear my Green Lantern shirt, I always thought it would bring out the green in your eyes." Sheldon said quietly, and then turned redder than the Flash shirt he was wearing.
A half hour later the two snuggle bunnies sat curled up together on the couch. Two hours later they fell asleep tangled up in each other.
The next evening the gang got together for dinner. Howard noticed a welt on Raj's jaw. "What happened to you? Did you two crazy kids watch 50 Shades of Gray and Emily got a little carried away with the riding crop?" He chucked and took a big bite of pizza.
"No. It's a wasp sting. Emily and I were stung by wasps on Valentine's Day."
"Raj prefers the wooden paddle over the riding crop anyway." Emily added with a neutral look that made them unsure if she was joking or not.
"Oh my God! That's horrible!" Bernadette exclaimed.
"That was just the tip of the iceberg. I wound up naked and locked out of the changing room at the spa, our lunch got mixed up, and I fell in the shower."
Sheldon shook his head, "If I told you once I told you twice, adhesive ducks."
Emily rubbed Raj's thigh. "The day ended very nicely though as I recall."
"It did indeed." Raj put his hand on hers.
"Well our trip was a disaster from day one. We met up with Dr. Lorvis and his special brand of crazy. We were snowed in the entire trip and tried to keep avoiding him, which was near impossible." Leonard stabbed at a defenseless cherry tomato with malice.
"Well at least you didn't kiss Howard." Penny muttered at Leonard.
"Yeah, Bernie and I just had to watch it happen." Leonard shot back.
"I'm sitting right here guys." Howard threw his pizza down on his plate.
"Hey, there is nothing disturbing about kissing Howard. I do it all the time and he's not half bad." Bernie defended her husband.
"Not half bad, means not half good." Penny spit out.
"Right here!" Howard said loudly.
The group fell into a tense silence until Amy could take no more. "Well, it's been great but I'm going home to shower and change out of yesterdays clothes." She stood up and grabbed her purse before she realized what she had said. She froze and turned to see Sheldon frozen as well, a forkful of salad an inch from his lips.
As one, what Amy said dawned on everybody. They turned to look at her, mouths gaped and eyebrows raised. They then turned in unison to a red faced, wide eyed Sheldon, his fork still orbiting his mouth.
Penny looked at Sheldon's neck and noticed something that she had a lot of expertise in. She squealed, "Oh my God! Is that a hickey?" The rest of the gang craned their necks to see if Sheldon had a love bite. They sat in shocked silence.
Howard shook his head. "I never thought I would see the day that Sheldon Cooper had a hickey."
Sheldon lowered his fork and tried to regain some dignity the only way he knew how. Arrogence."You nosey Rosies need to drop the subject. This is a personal matter, and we don't need to explain ourselves to anyone. Just because Amy spent the last two nights here doesn't…"
"Wait. Amy spent two nights with you? Here? Alone with you in the apartment?" Bernadette was on the edge of her seat.
"Yes. I was upset over Leonard leaving and she came by to comfort me." Sheldon said curtly.
"I bet she did, you dog!" Leonard grinned.
"Just because I spent the night doesn't mean that any hanky panky went on. In fact both times we fell asleep on the couch watching TV." Amy stated in a no nonsense manner. She didn't mention the fact that Sheldon's hands did indeed wander in the night. This morning his right hand was firmly cupping her right butt cheek like a man grabbing a life preserver. And she didn't mention the seven minutes in heaven that culminated in second base after they woke up. "It's none of your business, but nothing happened and I'm tired of this juvenile teasing directed at Sheldon and myself."
The group looked instantly shamed. "Sorry Ames. Can you forgive us?" Penny asked.
"You're forgiven." She turned her attention to her boyfriend. "Now Sheldon, I want you to remember one important thing. Oh!" She had dropped her keys. She bent down to retrieve them, making sure that her curvy posterior was facing a very attentive Sheldon. She stood up again and turned around with a secretive smile. "Goodbye everyone." She gave a small wave and left.
Everyone turned back to Sheldon who had a bemused look on his face. "She didn't tell you what to remember." Emily said to Sheldon, puzzled.
Sheldon seemed lost in his own thoughts still staring at the door. "Oh she told me alright, that vixen. Loud and clear."
The End
A/N: Hope you enjoyed that. Now what would happen if Wolowitz's lab was too cold? Would the story be different? Of course it would! Keep your eyes out for The 53 Degrees Destiny. Reviews are welcome and encouraged. It is also my opinion that people who leave reviews for me are above average in looks, intelligence and personality.