Thank you to notjustsomekindofnerd for proof reading this for me, the plot thickens...
Raj enters the hospitals ER and approaches the front desk and he hears his name being called. Amy is sitting in on one of the chairs in the waiting room her arms crossed over her purse.
"Hey Amy is he okay?" Raj asks walking over to Amy.
"He is okay, a little mad that they are going to release him as soon as his test results come back. They are fairly sure they will all be negative since he is up and ordering nurses around." Amy says.
"Did they kick you out of the room?"
"No, I left for a minute to get a drink and wait for you I am going to go back in a minute."
"What do they think happened? Food poisoning or something like that?"
"No, it came on to suddenly for food poisoning and after they flushed his system he woke up and seemed fine so it isn't a virus or anything. I almost feel bad for taking him in but you should have seen him when he first fell ill, he was pitiful. He vomited all over himself and his bathroom and he was so weak he could barely stand."
"It's so weird, I was just talking with Emily and she said something about how he needed to be taken down a peg. I think she is still pretty upset with him for calling her a red-haired she devil. I don't know why that would upset her though she just told me that she was a witch."
"Wait, repeat that?" Amy says
"Emily claims she is a witch well Wiccan but it's the same thing. I tell you Amy the more I know her, the weirder she gets."
"That is fascinating and we can talk more about that later but what I was interested in was the part where she said Sheldon should be taken down a peg. Do you think she would do something that would intentionally harm him?" before Raj can answer her a harried looking nurse comes out from the back.
"Mrs. Cooper? Is there a Mrs. Cooper out here your husband is demanding to speak with you," the nurse says and Amy gets up and raises her hand.
"I am right here. Tell him I will be back in a minute." Amy calls rising up.
" ?" Raj asks curiously.
"It's a long story. Listen you don't have to stay it appears that he is doing much better now."
"No it's okay I can stay for a while. You might need my help if they deny him some procedure and he threatens the hospital staff."
"Thank you Rajesh." Amy says sincerely and she heads to the back disappearing behind the doors. Raj starts to think about what Amy said about Emily intentionally harming Sheldon. Would she do something like that he thinks, he would like to think not, but anything seems possible with her anymore. Then his phone rings and he sees that it is a message from Penny. He opens it up thinking that it will be a text about Sheldon and his well-being but is shocked when he opens up the message.
"I don't think this was meant for me," he says looking at the picture one more time before deleting it and putting the phone back in his pocket." Let's hope that was meant for Leonard," he says quietly to himself.
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Amy walks back behind the curtain of Sheldon's hospital room and there is a nurse in there with him taking his vitals. The nurse turns around and looks relieved to see her standing there.
"Ah, there you are Mrs. Cooper, I am happy to report that your husband is doing much better, he has been asking for you."
"Yes, Mrs. Cooper wherever have you been?" Sheldon asks raising his eyebrows questioningly. A little thrill goes through her at him calling her Mrs. Cooper as she plays along.
"I was getting a drink and waiting for Raj to arrive." Amy tells him and the nurse finishes up and turns to Amy.
"His vitals are good, and all his screens came back negative so after the doctor looks at him one more time he should be free to go." The nurse smiles and then heads out of the room.
"Why is Raj here?" Sheldon asks huffily. "He is the least useful in a situation like this."
"I am aware that he is the weakest link however I could not get a hold of Leonard and Penny." Amy tells him, just then both of their phones ring. Sheldon grabs his from the side table and Amy pulls hers out of her purse.
"It's Penny," they both say together.
"Oh dear lord!" Sheldon says setting the phone down in disgust.
"Oh my!" Amy exclaims her eyes popping out. "Did you get the same message as me." Amy asks tentatively .
"You mean a not so tasteful nude, yes I believe we got the same message." Sheldon sighs crossing his arms over his chest. "Can you believe that they are going to release me soon? Did you even bring up the possibly of me being poisoned?"
"As a matter of fact it is a yes in both accounts. What I can't believe is that you are not upset by the picture Penny just sent out."
"Well, to be fair this is not the first topless shot she has accidentally sent me. Leonard and I used to have phone numbers that were just one digit off so I would often accidentally be the recipient of bawdy texts and unwelcome photos. I suppose in this instance she has just sent the photo to all her contacts somehow."
"That's not good she could be in big trouble with her work if everyone she has in her phone received the text."
"Hmmm… That is a problem, not as big a problem as me being released from the hospital with toxins still invading my body however!" Sheldon yells and Amy rolls her eyes, it is going to be a long night.
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Leonard and Penny are at Penny's apartment watching a movie together, the nights Leonard spends at Penny's place has increased to three nights a week. Leonard noticed that Amy did not leave with the rest of their friends like she usually does. He wonders if maybe they are spending more nights together since the blanket fort. Curiosity gets the better of him and he gets up to text Sheldon, if Amy is still there at midnight then she is staying the night. Leonard switches on his phone he had it turned off so that Sheldon would not annoy them during their alone time. The first text he sees is from Penny from about an hour ago. He opens it up and shakes his head. If she wanted to get something going all she had to do was ask she knows that.
"Sweetie, I appreciate the gesture but you already have my full attention." Leonard tells Penny as he walks up behind her and kisses her.
"What are you talking about?" Penny asks turning away from the tv to look up at him.
"You don't have to play coy with me I got the picture you just sent me," he says flirtatiously.
"I did not send you anything in fact I think I left my phone at your place." Penny says absently.
"You mean you did not just send this about two minutes ago?" Leonard asks holding out his phone to her and Penny gasps. Looking at the picture of her completely nude accept for splashes of body paint.
"Leonard you took this one of me when we were playing with the body paints. Is it possible that you sent this to yourself by accident?"
"No, I took this on your phone because I had left my phone at the apartment, I had forgotten completely about this until now," he says concerned now checking his phone for anything else odd. Leonard plays around with his phone and sees he has three texts from Amy. He checks them and his face grows more and more concerned.
"What's wrong?" Penny asks
"Amy had to take Sheldon to the hospital, food poisoning or something."
"Should we go?"
"No her next message says Raj is there and everything is under control, she also says that both her and Sheldon received your nude text."
"What the fuck?" Penny exclaims grabbing Leonard's phone from him. "Leonard look at the forward on this text, this thing went out to everyone on my contact list! Oh my god that means my boss and all my clients received this too. What am I going to do!" Penny screams stomping out of the apartment and going over to Leonard's where she starts tearing the place apart looking for her phone. It is nowhere in the living room, nowhere in Leonard's room, she goes into the bathroom to see if it is there and almost throws up at the sight of the floor and wall sprayed with vomit. "Well two things I know for sure, Amy was not lying about Sheldon being sick and my phone is nowhere in this apartment." Penny tells Leonard sitting in Sheldon's spot and covering her face with her hands.
"Do you think you left it in your car, when you and Emily went to go get dinner?" Leonard asks.
"We did not take my car we took Raj's car." Penny tells him and then her head snaps up to attention.
"Emily! She did this! I know she did, she hates me and she is trying to get back at me."
"Penny, I think you are being paranoid, I don't think she hates you enough to steal your cell phone and send nude photos of you to everyone. That is crazy, I mean all you did was get naked and make out with her boyfriend almost four years ago. I mean it happened in my bed and even I don't care about it anymore." Leonard tells her.
"You don't understand that girl is crazy, I just know it. Next time I see her I am going to show her what happens to crazy weirdos like her in Nebraska."
"Penny you have no proof that it was her who did this. Besides what are you going to do, tie her up and leave her in a corn field?"
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Emily looks on with delight as Penny's phone blows up with messages as she reads the highlight reel from them.
"Penny, I think I got this by mistake and so did Howie, worried about you." That is from Bernadette. Amy sent a similar curt response to her that both Sheldon and her received the photo and was she alright. Then came the juicy ones.
"Penny, I hope this is your idea of a joke, but if it is it is not funny." From her Father.
"Penny, wow, you are my ex-wife you can't send me stuff like this." From Zack. Raj had told her all about that little snafu, maybe Penny didn't need her help ruining her life.
"Penny, come to my office first thing in the morning." From Dan that must be her boss, Emily thinks as she cackles with delight. Then she goes to her room and opens up her closet door.
"Altar, what a gullible weenie." Emily snorts as she gazes fondly at the collection she has gathered there. She knows now that Raj wouldn't dare open the door, his fear of the occult almost bordered on the pathological. Emily switches the phone off and sets it on a shelf in the closet right next to the drivers license that used to belong to Kasey. Emily looks at her collection of newspaper articles she has gathered:
Local Man found murdered in Car.
Can you locate this Woman? This woman was the last person to see Ryan Kowalski Alive. Beside the headline is a police sketch artists rendering of her. Insulting really, her nose is not nearly that sharp.
Kowalski case runs cold as Police run out of leads. 'The police are never going to find any leads either,' Emily giggles.
FBI agent Matthew Broome reported missing, wife pleads for answers. 'Oh poor Isabelle where oh where for art thou Romeo?' No one crushed her heart and lived to tell tale, all she had to do was call and tell him she was outside his kids school and Prince Valiant had come rushing. Now he was in a shallow grave in a forest in Virginia.
Agent still missing, no new leads.
There was no article for Kasey no one questions when a washed up want to be starlet is found in her bathtub with her wrists slashed. Drugs in her system, a string of failed endeavors, unlucky in love, alone far from home and nothing to show for her life. Just another Hollywood causality, tragic but happened so often it was cliché.
The systematic break down that Emily had worked on Kasey's psyche was her magnum opus. Every job she got Emily found a way to get her fired. Every boyfriend she had, Emily took away. Emily stole her mail, broke into her apartment and did quiet things that made her feel like she was losing her mind. Emily had been a ghost, a poltergeist haunting Kasey, making her uneasy until she broke completely. Emily had not even had to get her hands dirty Kasey had done all the dirty work by herself.
That had been her plan with Penny to break her down to take away all she had until she was nothing. The bitch was proving to be very resilient however, and her quiet campaign to break her had gone largely unnoticed. Her apartment was so messy and Penny so carefree she never noticed when things went missing or were changed around. No matter how many complaints she lodged her job at The Cheesecake Factory seemed to be hers as long as she wanted it. No matter how many acting jobs she was denied she still got right back out there. That's when she decided she needed to infiltrate her circle of friends and find what she could take that would truly break her. Emily was so close to completing her mission and when blondie breaks it is going to be epic she thinks.
"Emily, are you here," she hears her roommate call from the living room.
"In my bedroom, I am coming," she shouts shutting her closet door and going to the living room. "What's up?"
"Emily, we need to talk, in case you have not noticed I have been spending more and more time out of the apartment. It is because I can't stand living with you anymore."
"Wow, that's harsh."
"But it's true, you have become increasingly difficult to live with. Your moods are erratic and you keep me up all night with your night terrors. The other day there was a towel covered in blood in the hamper…"
"Raj cut himself…"
"I don't care what Raj did, it still isn't normal! Emily this is my place, my dad's name is on the lease and I am asking you to move out. I will give you enough time to find a new place and get your stuff together but you have got to go."
"Kelsey, are you sure you want to do this? I am sorry if I have been a little off the wall lately."
"Lately, Emily you have always been off the wall, but it's just not fun anymore."
"Oh Kelsey, you really don't want to do this." Emily says her smile and voice reaching dangerous levels of sweetness.
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Amy drives Sheldon home after he is released from the hospital he is not happy about being sent home. Raj had texted Amy just before they were released and told her he had to bail, that Emily had called him really upset and he had to go to her. It is nearly one o'clock in the morning and Amy is exhausted, she does not know how she will function at work.
"Well I am going to drop you off at home and then try and get some rest."
"You could get some rest at my place."
"Sheldon your couch is not very comfortable."
"I was not suggesting that… Besides I think I might of had an epiphany regarding your Emily mystery."
"Oh really," Amy says pulling into a parking space.
"Yes, but you are going to have to come upstairs to find out," he says raising his eyebrows.