Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Out of A Hat (It's Magic)
by:muaaimoi
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Summary: In which Sheldon makes magic out of science and Penny is far more than a lovely assistant. Shenny love. Pretty fluffy and AU.
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Mary Cooper was not sure what alarmed her more. When Her six year old talked in tongues about science, or when he awed his siblings with magic. The explanation about how they were one in the same went quite over her head. It didn't help that she'd learned to tune Sheldon out while he droned on and on about whatever had most recently caught his attention.
Sheldon could never understand why trying to explain his experiments sent his siblings running. And ignoring them as he went about his business resulted in clapping and awed looks. An increase in sample size using the children at school revealed similar results. Further study revealed that they believed him capable of magic. Any attempts to explain that it was all science was summarily ignored. No one seemed to understand his explanations.
Then Missy insisted on hiring a magician for their eighth birthday.
Sheldon discovered that Magicians were an absolute waste of perfectly good scientists. They were much better payed however. And if he put on enough shows he could afford his own uranium. It was more than enough incentive to keep the explanations of his feats to himself.
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Penny stretches her arms over her head. Her back hurts , just a twinge, but enough that there is no way in hell she's going to attempt to cook when she can eat out. Moving was such a bitch. But she was still avoiding most of the new people she'd met in California. She'd met most of them as Kurt's girlfriend and she doesn't want to explain the disaster that led her to dumping her ex. It's not like she'd had a lot of stuff to move anyway, just easier to do it herself and avoid having to put up with unwanted opinions. She's halfway down the stairs before she's bowled over by a tall idiot with a cape.
"Watch it!" She cries. She'd almost fallen down the stairs. And it wasn't like she was insured or anything.
The tall idiot turns back to her, blue eyes zeroing in on her face with disturbing intensity. Penny has a brief flutter of hope that he's some kind of agent. Maybe a casting director. Someone who will help her get every acting job she's ever wanted. Then she remembers the cape. It's hard to forget the cape. But some shred of hope remains, insists that he's about to offer her a movie role. Aren't Hollywood people supposed to be eccentric or something?
"Would you like to make a hundred dollars in two hours?" He asks, instead. Penny glared, anger flushing her face. Did she look like a prostitute? She was debating kicking the guy in the balls when he went on."I require an assistant, my last one had a family emergency she was unwilling to ignore and I require an attractive female to please my audience's eye whilst I awe and amaze them with what they believe to be 'magic,'" he does the finger quotes and everything. It makes her smile, both the compliment about her looks and the knowledge that he's thankfully not a creep propositioning her. Or at least, not trying pay her to sleep with him.
Besides. A hundred bucks to stand there and look pretty? Penny is so all over that!
That's how it starts.
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I hate giving up on such a fun idea. I loved the thought of Sheldon as a stage magician and Penny just kind of taking over because she's the better performer until he's basically her lovely assistant, mastermind or no. I have no idea why my brain refuses to add to this, but it's been years and perhaps someone else will pick this up.