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When Amy woke up the next morning she thought she still was in the lodge and the arm around her waist belonged to Bert. But when she looked around she realized that she was in Sheldon's room. She turned around in the bed to look who the arm belonged to. To her delight it belonged to Sheldon. She looked at the peaceful face and she smiled when she thought about what he said to her last night.
When they arrived at 2311 Los Robles, Sheldon insisted that she would sleep at their apartment that night. He didn't want her to be alone as long as Bert was out there with his freedom and searching for Amy. And most of all, he didn't want to be apart from Amy. He wanted her to be close to him.
She looked at her beautiful boyfriend. How she could be so lucky to have him, she had no idea. She gently stroke her palm over his cheek. As a respond, Sheldon pulled her even closer to him and sniffled in the sent from her hair.
"Good morning Beautiful" Sheldon whispered in her ear.
"Good morning Cuddles" Amy smiled back at him.
"I don't think I ever have slept this good. Not even since before you disappeared" Sheldon said, stroking her hair.
"Neither have I. We should do this more often" She said stroking her palm over his chest.
"I agree." He answered, kissing her forehead, her cheek, the tip of her nose and then her lips. She responded the kiss by placing her hand on his shoulder and pull him closer.
Sheldon pulled back and rested his forehead against hers. "I never want to leave this bed. I want to stay with you here forever."
"Me too." She rested her head against his chest. "I never want to leave you."
He pulled her closer again and kissed the top of her head. They stayed like that for ten more minutes. "Would you like some breakfast?"
"Yes, I'm starving." Amy answered.
"Good, I'll go make some. You can shower if you want to."
"A shower would be perfect. But I don't have any clothes to change too." When they came home during the night, Sheldon had offered her to sleep in one of his t-shirts.
"Right, I understand you don't want to change back to your old clothes. You have worn them for over a week. I will go over to Penny and ask if you can borrow something from her" Sheldon said and left the room.
Sheldon knocked at Penny's door tree times and followed it by her and Leonard's name.
"What do you want Sheldon?" Leonard asked irritated when he opened the door in his robe.
"Good morning to you to!" Sheldon teased. "Amy would like to take a shower but she doesn't have any clothes to change to afterwards. Do you think she can barrow anything from Penny?"
"Sheldon, Penny and I are really tired. We have been driving all night and we would just love to get some sleep without you interrupting us constantly. Can't she barrow something from you instead?" Leonard said, trying to sound as polite as possible.
"Leonard, I thought you were my friend. I thought you were my best friend. But ever since Amy disappeared you have treated my like I am a pain in the ass. Even more than before. I understand I can be difficult sometimes but you have completely ignored my feelings and just thought about yourself and Penny. Would you please put yourself in my situation. What would you do if someone that flirted with Penny, kidnapped her? I thought you were afraid of loosing her, because every time a guy flirts with her, you freak out and think she will leave you and be with him instead. Do you have any understanding at all that I was terrified when Amy was gone. I thought I had lost her forever. That she was gone. I know you would feel the same way if anything like this happened to Penny. If anything happened to her at all. Bert is still out there, in freedom. And we all know that he is after Amy. She isn't safe until the police find him. This is partly Penny's fault, and you tell me that you can't even barrow Amy some clothes? Wouldn't that be the least you could do for her?" Sheldon was furious.
Leonard was speechless. He constantly heard Sheldon lecturing him, but know... it felt different. "You are right Sheldon, I'm sorry. I am your best friend and I haven't acted like that when you needed me. You are completely right, I would have felt the same way if this was Penny instead of Amy. I promise I will be more supporting. Let me see if a can find some clothes." Leonard headed to the bedroom and looked through Penny's drawers for some appropriate clothes for Amy.
He came back with a pair of pink sweatpants and a floral patterned t-shirt.
"Thank you Leonard, do you think it would be wrong to ask for some underwear too?" Sheldon asked carefully.
"No, I go see if there is any clean ones. You know Penny" Leonard said and Sheldon nodded, completely understanding what he meant.
He came back with a pair of black lace undies and a matching bra. "These were the only clean one I could find. I hope it's okay." Leonard said and gave the underwear to Sheldon. Sheldon gulped when he saw the underwear, thinking about Amy wearing them. "I think it's okay, thank you." Sheldon said and left the apartment, heading back to his own.
He heard the shower and knocked on the bathroom door. "Amy, I have some clothes for you" Sheldon called through the door.
"Okay, the door is open. You can put them on the toilet." Amy called back from the shower.
Sheldon slowly opened the door and putted the clothes on the toilet. As fast as he could, he exited the bathroom again and walked down to the kitchen. He started to prepare breakfast but all he could think about was Amy. In the bathroom he could see her naked shadow trough the periodic table shower drapery. And then there was the underwear he knew she would be wearing now. It made him crazy to know what she would wear under her other clothes.
His thought about Amy got interrupted by her. "Sheldon? SHELDON?" Amy called for his attention.
"What? Oh sorry, I didn't hear you. Are the clothes okay?" He asked eying her up and down. She had the clothes he borrowed from across the hallway and a towel around her hair.
"Yes, it's okay. The underwear are a little uncomfortable but I think I get used to it."
"Yeah, sorry about that. It was the only clean one Leonard could find. You know Penny." Sheldon said, trying not to think about her in that way. "Is french toast okay with you?" Sheldon asked.
"Yeah, that sounds delicious." Amy answered, thinking about the crappy food Bert served her.
Sheldon took two plates with french toast and walked to the living room. Amy followed him and sat down on her usual spot next to Sheldon's. He went back to the kitchen to get the two teacups.
"Here you go" He said and gave the yellow cup to Amy.
"Thank you" she said and received the teacup and took a sip.
"Do you want to watch some TV? There is still left twenty minutes of Dr Who" Sheldon asked, reaching for the remote.
"Yes, that would be okay" She answered before she took a bite of her french toast.
When Dr Who was over and the french toast was eaten up, Sheldon turned off the TV again.
"So what do you want to do today?" He asked when he went to the kitchen with the dishes.
"I guess I have to go back to my apartment and check on it. Otherwise I would just like to spend the day with you. If it's okay?" She said, looking hopefully at her boyfriend.
"That is more than okay" he said giving her a kiss on her lips. "All though I don't know how we get there. Your car is still in Carson City."
"Can't Leonard or Penny give us a ride?" Amy asked.
"I don't know. Leonard was kind of mad this morning."
"Why?"
"I really don't know. Ever since you disappeared he have treated me like I'm a pain in the ass. And even more then he usually does. He treated me like I was child for worrying about you. I confronted him earlier this morning when I asked for your clothes."
"Why would he treat you like a child for being worried about me. Can't he feel any sympathy at all? Don't he realize that he would feel the same way if anything happened to Penny?"
"I know, that's what I told him. But he did apologize for his behavior. So maybe he would be okay to drive us there. What do you think about this? We go over to your apartment, get some clothes and other necessaries, then go back here. You can sleep here until you get your car and we can drive you to work?" Sheldon looked at Amy for her opinion.
"That would be okay" she answered smiling at the thought about sleeping close to Sheldon again.
"Great, I go and check with Leonard after I done the dishes and showered. Do you want to use my computer to check your email?"
"Yes, I would like to do that. Oh god, there is so much work I have to catch up on." She said and sighed.
Sheldon walked to her and took her in his arms. "Don't worry about that. We will just relax today and enjoy each other. You don't have to think about that today." He said and kissed the top of her head. "I will go and shower now. My computer is over there. I will try hurry" He said and kissed the tip of her nose before he left to the bathroom.
When he came out from the shower and his regular clothes, they went over to Penny's apartment. They knocked and Penny opened the door with a smile.
"Hey, guys. What's up?" Penny asked.
"Hello Penny, we wondered if either of you could give us a ride to Amy's apartment. She needs to get some clothes and other necessaries. She will be spending the night here again tonight." Sheldon explained to his blond neighbor.
"Yeah, I can give you a ride. I need to get some groceries so I can leave you there and then come back to give you a ride home when I am done shopping. Can you give me ten minutes to get ready?"
"Sure, we wait in the apartment. You come over when you are done. Thank you Penny." Sheldon said and went back to the apartment again with Amy.
They sat down on the couch to wait for Penny. "So what did Bert do to you?" Sheldon asked carefully. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to" He clarified.
Amy waited for a moment before she began to tell Sheldon. "He kept me in a basement of a lodge in the middle of the forest. Barely any furnitures more than a couch, armchair, coffee table, television and a bookshelf. The only light from outside came from a small window at the top of the wall. He said he would keep me there forever. That I was his girlfriend and if I didn't do as he said I would be punished." She said, thinking about the horrible time she spent in that basement.
"Did he punish you in any way?" Sheldon asked.
"He didn't hurt me physically. He kissed me a couple of times but he never took it longer than that, luckily."
"Yes, thank god for that. All though, the kisses was bad enough. I don't want anyone to kiss you. I don't want anyone to do anything with you. You are mine." He said and pulled her closer to him.
"It was so horrible. I was so scared. Scared of many things. Him punishing me. Never see you again. Never see any of my friends again. Never working again. I have even missed this spot, next to you." She said, and a tear felt down her cheek.
Sheldon felt the tear when it dropped from her cheek to his hand. He loosed Amy from his grip and looked at her face. He stroke the tear away with his thumb and pushed her closer to him again. "Amy, don't cry. You are safe now. Even if he still is out there you are safe with me. I will protect you from him. I will protect you with my life. No one will ever take you away from me again. And no one will ever take me away from you. You have to believe me. They will find him soon. He don't have anything to get out from the forest with. He has no car, no money. Nothing."
"You are right Sheldon. He have nothing. But I have that. I have great friends, a job I love and most important, I have you. I would never trade anything against you. You mean everything to me." He looked in her eyes as she spoke to him and when she stopped he kissed her.
After a moment, Amy pushed back and looked at him. "It's just..."
"Just what?" He asked, waiting for her to continue her sentence.
"I was so terribly scared of him. When I was there, I had never been more scared in my life. I saw this thing in his eyes. He looked like he was crazy"
"He is crazy Amy. He insane, deranged, unhinged. He is a lunatic. All those things for ever believe that you would be his girlfriend. Don't you see that?"
"Yes I do see that. That is why I am so scared of him." Amy said.
Sheldon pulled her in closer again. "Don't worry Amy. Everything will be okay" Sheldon said, trying to calm her.
They stayed like that for a moment and then the door opened. "I'm ready to go now" Penny said as she walked in through the door.
"Okay, let's go" Sheldon said and stood up.
Penny left Sheldon and Amy outside her apartment building and then went to the grocery store. They walked in to the building and took the elevator to her floor. When they walked in the hallway to her apartment end reached the last corner they saw that the door was broken.
"Oh no, someone have broken in to my apartment" Amy said as she ran to her door.
"Have they taken anything?" Sheldon asked when she walked in.
"No, it doesn't look like that." Amy answered inside the apartment.
"Are you sure?" Sheldon asked when he walked in.
"Yes, look. It looks exactly like it did when I left it over a week ago." Amy said to him. But before she got a answer from Sheldon she heard a bang and then someone falling to the ground. She turned over and saw Sheldon laying on the floor. Blood sipping out on the carpet from his head. And behind him, she saw Bert.