I just want to let all ya"ll know that all the research I have done for this story will lead to my murder conviction if any one close to me is killed. Also I would like like to thank Vamplover669 who has been promoted to my research assitant. Additionally this is a short update but there is more to come.
Everyone has left apartment 4A except for Sheldon and Amy who are still working on their research project on Emily. Racking their brains as they might they can not figure out how someone would just pop into existence, they have not told the other what thy have learned not wanting to raise unnecessary alarms.
"Maybe she was married before and Sweeney is not her maiden name." Amy muses.
"Even if that were the case there would be records prior to the name change once I looked her up, in this case there is nothing. Ugghhhh" Sheldon says suddenly grabbing his stomach.
"Something wrong?" Amy asks concerned as she looks at him he looks ghostly pale and there is a fine sheen of sweat covering his face.
"Be right back." He grunts getting up and running to the bathroom she hears the door slam then him vomiting loudly. Amy waits for him to return but just hears him vomit again and she gets concerned and goes to the door.
"Sheldon are you alright?" she asks worried
"Do I sound alright?" he snaps
"No, do you need my help?" she asks.
"No." then she hears what sounds like him trying to get up and falling again. "Okay ,Yes." He says weakly and she opens the door. It reeks inside and it looks like he missed the toilet on is first is crumpled on the ground arms thrown around the toilet his face slick with sweat.
"Oh god Sheldon." She rushes over to him and feels his head he is burning up. "I am taking you to the hospital."
"Okay" he agrees.
"Can you stand up on your own?" she asks and he tries but has trouble so she helps him up and throws his arm around her neck and drags him out of the bathroom. He props him in the corner while she gets her purse and continues to drag him down all four flights of stairs until they reach her car, which tonight by the grace of god she had been lucky enough to be able to park right out drive is a haze by the time they arrive at the hospital he is almost incoherent. Amy signs him in and is allowed to go back with him as he his wheeled in the back on a gurney. Amy waits for what feels like hours but in actuality is a little over thirty minutes before the doctor comes in. The doctor comes back and examines him and asks Amy questions about his condition.
"So Mrs. Cooper." The Doctor begins looking at his chart and Amy flushes but does not correct him. Not wanting their lack of marital status to be her ticket out of the room."Can you tell me when the last time he ate was and when the symptoms started?"
"We ate dinner at around 7:30 Chinese food and then around 9:00 he started feeling sick, it hit him very suddenly." Amy tells the doctor.
"Was he complaining about any discomfort earlier in the day?"
"No,he was perfectly fine and then it just hit him like a wrecking ball." Amy sighs looking at his still sweaty face and tightly closed eyes.
"I think we can rule out food poisoning the duration between when he ate and when he started feeling sick is too short." The doctor says prodding Sheldon's stomach gently and eliciting a weak moan from him. Amy decides to ask a question that has been bothering her since she discovered him in the bathroom.
"Does it look like he could have been poisoned?" she asks"I am a scientist and I once read a study ethylene glycol poisoning, some of his symptoms seem similar."
"Well anti-freeze poisoning is not very common anymore. They started adding color and odor to to it so that accidental ingestion does not happen any more, Do you think he has been poisoned? Would there be anyone around him that would want to harm him? " The doctor would be suspicious of her but poisoners don't usually take their victims in and stay by their side.
"I don't think anyone would want to harm him." Amy lies admitting her suspicions right now would involve the police and there is simply not enough evidence right now to start pointing fingers. If she is wrong her accusation could be costly without proof.
"We will run some tests, put him on an IV drip to keep him hydrated." The doctor tells her flipping her chart closed and walking out of the room. Amy smooths down his sweaty hair and vows to him that she will stay by his side all night if she has too.
Amy tries to call Leonard and Penny to let them know where they are but it Penny's goes straight to voicemail and so does Leonard's. Then she calls Bernadette who wishes her luck and promises to check on her in the morning. Then she calls Raj who vows to come and stay by her side even though she tells him it is not necessary. Though she would enjoy the company when Sheldon wakes up and starts flipping out about being in the hospital .
Then she takes out her IPad and continues the research she was doing before Sheldon fell ill the urgency to uncover this mystery never greater.
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Raj walks hand in hand with Emily down Colorado boulevard until they approach the Colorado street bridge. The bridge curves over the river bed with lamps located at regular intervals. The bridge has a very romantic and old charm that Raj enjoys.
"Isn't the bridge romantic, it looks like something out of those old french movies Amy likes to watch."
"Yeah did you know over one hundred people have committed suicide from it, plummeting the one hundred fifty feet to the ground below. They call it the suicide bridge,even though they have put up barriers to prevent it now." Emily tells him smiling
"A little less romantic." Raj remarks, her penchant for the macabre starting to grate on his nerves.
"No it is very romantic thinking of all the star crossed lovers flinging themselves off the bridge to their deaths. Not letting life stand in the way of love, there is supposedly the ghosts of two such lovers that haunt the bridge desperately searching for each other."
"I don't think that is romantic that is terrible, even in death they cant be together."
"It is romantic because they are spending their entire afterlife searching for each other they are never giving up hope that they will be together. Anyway speaking of ghosts I am excited for the séance at Howard's house." Emily tells him.
"I am sure you are." Raj sighs.
"You know as a Wiccan I think I could be an asset on contacting Howard's mother there is a candle color combination…" Emily begins but Raj cuts her off.
"Wait you are a witch?" Raj says disbelieving what he is hearing. Religion had never come up between them and he just assumed that she was either some form of Christian or nothing like Sheldon was.
"No not a witch a Wiccan it is a nature religion, we are very in tune with God and the Goddess. I mean you have seen my altar in my closet I don't know why you are surprised." Emily remarks.
"I told you I never looked into your closet, what do you mean by altar. Like you do sacrifices and stuff like that?"
"No, my altar is where I light my candles, dry my herbs, do my spells write in my book of shadows . You know you are very close minded about all of this." Emily says affronted. "Almost as close minded as your tall skinny friend. And he is about as high and mighty and not attuned to the goddess as I have ever seen." Emily as Raj sighs his girlfriend just keeps getting weirder by the minute he does not know how much more he can handle.
"I don't know Sheldon is pretty enlightened on most subjects as part of his Phd in philosophy he took a few courses in world religion. He knows more about Hinduism than I do,hell he could probably school you in witchcraft."
"First off again it is called being a Wiccan,it is not witchcraft. There is a difference in being educated and being enlightened,there is not doubt Sheldon has knowledge in spades. It is how he choses to use it and comport himself that I take issue ought to knock him down a few pegs, you know humble him a little." Emily says and Raj swears he sees a evil little glint in her eyes then his phone ring and he picks it up.
"Oh my god, where? Okay I am coming." He says concerned and then hangs up the phone. "Sheldon is in the hospital" Raj tells her
"Whats wrong? Is he sick?" Emily asks him.
"I don't know,Amy is with him, she does not know much.I am going to go over there to see him"
"You want me to go with you?" she asks
"No, I don't think he would want you to see him sick, he probably does not want me to see him sick but Amy is going to have her hands full so I am going to go help her." Ray says turning back around and heading for his car. "Could you do me a favor though, could you go knock on Penny's door and let her know? Amy says she tried to call her and could not get through to either her or Leonard." Raj says as he gets into his car.
"Sure, no problem." Emily says and watches as Raj drives off. "Imagine Penny not answering her phone." Emily say to herself as she takes Penny's pink cased phone out of her purse and giggles.
Then she calls an uber and goes home to her apartment, very pleased with how her evening went. One annoying dork in the hospital, sure she feels a little bad about it. It had been a prank really, all it should have done was make him sit on or kneel in front of the toilet the rest of the evening. The man needed to be praying to the porcelain God, not thinking he was a god, it was not her fault he was a hypochondriac and ran to the doctors for every booboo and ouchy.
Then there was the coup of Penny's phone that she had left so woefully unattended. It was like stealing candy from a baby how easy it had been. Emily checks around the apartment when she arrives to make sure her roommate is still gone. Tonight had been so wonderful that she wants to relish it alone, the coast is clear and it does not surprise her. Kelsey has been making it a habit to spend as little time in the apartment as possible. Which is good for Emily and her strange proclivities
Emily pulls out the phone again and begins going through the contacts. "Still quite the social butterfly I see." Emily comments to herself. Then she goes through the pictures,lots of pics of her nails and of her shoes."Shallow as always." Emily muses looking at pic after boring pic. Then she fines one that strikes her interest and she cackles to herself. "Oh yes, this one will do just nicely."Emily smiles evilly as she embeds the picture in an email and sends it to all of her contacts on her phone.
