A/N: Okay all here is the Lucy chapter. What has she been up to and how is she going to handle a move to California(I mean we got to get her there if she is to meet Raj) Here is the details of her last 16 years as well as some correspondence with Sheldon.

As always I don't own any of these characters I take them out to play.

March 1995

"Hey kids we have something we need to tell you." Jason Spencer started the conversation.

"Is mom having a baby?" Michael asked.

"Where would you get an idea like that?" Julia asked her son.

"Well Trevor was telling us the other day that his parent's came to him and his brothers and announced they were having a baby. His youngest brother is ten. I thought maybe you were going to tell us the same thing." Michael explained.

"No it is nothing like that dear." Julia told them.

"Are you getting divorced?" Lucy finally spoke up.

"Absolutely not!" Jason said. "The truth is NASA has asked me to work at the facility in Cape Canaveral."

"That is in Florida!" Lucy yelled.

"Yes it is." Jason said. "They want me there as soon as possible but your mother and I were discussing it and we decided…"

"We are moving again?" Michael asked. "I thought you said when we moved here in July that it would be the last time."

"I thought it would be. I had no idea they would need me in Florida." Jason told them. "Look I am sorry, I know you like it here."

"Like it here? Not really." Lucy said.

"Lucy, listen." Julia tried but then realized what she had said. "You don't care if we are moving?"

"I care but I am angrier because we can't move now. Don't you understand? Sheldon is in Germany right now. How can I leave without saying goodbye?" Lucy asked.

"Well if you would let us finish we were going to tell you that dad is going to be leaving in about two weeks. We are going to let you finish out the school year and then we will move towards the end of June. Dad can look for a house and I may fly out there to help on weekends." She told them.

"So I will be able to say goodbye to Sheldon?" Lucy asked.

"Really is that all you are thinking about?" Michael said to her. "What about Missy?"

"What about her?" Lucy asked. Since Sheldon had left, Missy had treated her like crap. "It's not like she has given me the time of day since Sheldon left."

"Because you won't let her." Michael screamed at her. "She has tried to be your friend! But you always run away."

"That is so not true!" Lucy yelled back. "She shunned me shortly after he left. She doesn't speak to me no matter how many times I say hi to her in the halls. She acts as if I don't exist."

"Alright enough you two!" Julia yelled at her children.

"But mom it is so true." Michael started but he was cut off by his mother.

"I said enough. Lucy I don't think you gave Missy a chance after Sheldon left."

"Mom, I did try. She started out trying to be my friend, just like Mike said, but then she started dating Mark Turner. His crowd was never nice to Sheldon. When Missy told them how she knew me and she would say I dated Sheldon, they thought it would be fun to make fun of me. Missy never stopped them. She just laughed right along with them. Sheldon told me in one of my letters from him she used to do the same to him. I still say hi to her but now she just ignores me." Lucy told them all.

"Lucy I didn't know. Missy just told me you were always running away from her and her friends. She said you were antisocial like Sheldon."

"Yes because whenever I would try they would find a way to make me into a joke. I have spent more time eating in the bathroom than anywhere else in that school. It is humiliating. So while I am upset we are moving again, I can handle it because I can tell Sheldon goodbye. We have been writing each other every week." Lucy said.

"I am sorry you will be leaving your friend." Jason said to his daughter.

"It is okay dad. Sheldon will be leaving for California in August so we would only have had two months before he left for good." Lucy said. "This is probably better anyway."

"Thank you for understanding." Julia said. "What about you Mike? Are you okay with us leaving again?"

"I don't have a choice but yeah I guess I am." He answered.

Lucy was remembering the day she was told she was moving to Florida as she was packing her bags in yet another move. This time she was helping the company she was working for set up shop in California. It was a great opportunity. She had known for a month and still hadn't found the courage to tell Sheldon. Now she was leaving in two days and he had no idea. They had continued to write each other. It was a weekly thing with the two of them. She still felt as though Sheldon was still her best friend.

At the high school in Florida, she made a couple of friends. They were outcasts like her. Sheldon told her she should try and find some friends, possibly by joining a club of some sort. She decided to join the sci-fi club at school. The group consisted of two girls and five boys. The boys reminded her of Sheldon only not as smart and one of the girls apparently was only there because her brother was the president. She didn't seem to fit in at all but had been told by her mother that she had to join to boost female membership. After Lucy joined she quit. The group had two other females and didn't need her. Emily Watkins, the other girl, became her best friend. They would hang out together after school and watch all the new sci-fi shows that came on. They also loved to watch the old ones. Lucy found out that Emily loved Wil Wheaton as much as she did and enjoyed watching Next Generation together in repeats.

She remembered telling Emily all about Sheldon.

"So you had an actual college boyfriend?" Emily asked her.

"I did. But he was the same age as me." Lucy answered.

"So your boyfriend was 14 and in college?" She asked stunned.

"He was. He is now seventeen and earned his first doctorate about a year ago."

"Is he some kind of genius?"

"Yes he is. He graduated high school at 11! Can you believe that?" Lucy said.

"Unbelievable. And he didn't date older girls?" Emily asked.

"No, he never had a girlfriend before me."

"So did you….you know?" Emily asked.

"Know what?" Lucy asked confused.

"Did you have sex?" Emily asked her.

"Emily! I was 14! No we did not have sex. We barely kissed with tongues and we only did that twice." She said appalled. "Why would you think that?"

"Well you said he was in college."

"Did you also hear the part about him also being 14? I am pretty sure you did. Sheldon isn't like that."

"Oh well too bad." Emily said.

"Why is that too bad?" Lucy asked.

"If you have had sex we could have something to talk more about." She said.

"Have you had sex?" Lucy asked.

"Oh no. I have never had a boyfriend let alone done that." Emily told her.

"Then why did you ask if I did?" Lucy asked her.

"Well at first I thought since he was in college but now you have nixed that. Maybe he just wanted to or you did." Emily said.

"No, it wasn't like that with Sheldon. He and I spent time together like we do."

"Don't get any ideas. I am not kissing you." Emily laughed.

"Well of course not silly. But anyway," She continued, "We met when I moved down the street from him and then we were partners in cotillion."

"What's cotillion?" Emily asked her.

"Oh it's all these old fashion dances. We were supposed to become sophisticated young men and ladies." Lucy answered. "The truth is Sheldon was an amazing dance partner. When we danced we talked and we found out we loved Doctor Who. So he asked me one day if I would like to come over to watch. Then a few weeks later asked if I would like to go on a date with him."

"How long did you date?"

"Almost six months. He moved to Germany right after Christmas the year I met him. Then my father told us we were moving here and I saw him twice before we left."

"Did you guys hook up?" Emily asked and seeing Lucy's face. "I meant did you kiss then? Or was it just a friendship thing?"

"When he came back at Easter we went out to the movies and dinner. I told him we were moving again and he was upset but since he would be moving in August we knew we weren't going to see much of each other as it was. We did kiss that night. It was actually the first time he tried kissing me with his tongue. He had never done that."

"You dated for 6 months and never French kissed?" Emily was shocked. "I did that with my neighbor once and we weren't even dating."

"You French kissed someone you weren't dating?" Lucy asked.

"I lost a bet to my friend at the time." Emily admitted. "Not that I regret it. At least I can say I have that experience even if I don't have a boyfriend."

"I guess that is true." Lucy said. "We French kissed again right before he went back to Germany. When he came back in June right before I left we just kissed goodbye and hugged for a very long time."

"Oh that is sad." Emily said.

"Well it was because I was leaving my best friend. But I knew we weren't meant to be together forever and so did he. He is going to win a Nobel Prize someday. At least that is what he tells people."

"Wow." Emily was impressed.

"I know. I can say I know him when he does win it. We still correspond weekly."

"And you are sure you are not dating?" Emily asked, seriously.

"Emily, I have been here for three years and we have not seen each other since I left Texas. We just write every week. He tells me about his school and work and I do the same. I told him I got accepted into Florida State to study computer science and he was very happy for me. He has his first doctorate and will get his second in May. I couldn't be happier for him. He is going to stay on at Caltech and study string theory. Don't ask what that is. Sheldon tried to explain it to me but his way of explaining physics is to go back to ancient Greece."

"That is so cool that you guys still talk." Emily said. "Have you thought about exchanging phone numbers?"

"Well long distance rates are ridiculous." Lucy said. "Besides, he has more important things to do than to put aside time to talk to me. I am very happy writing him every week. When I go to school, I am going to get an email address so we can write that way. It will be quicker."

"That is a good idea. Who knows maybe someday you will get to move to California and see each other again." Emily said.

"I doubt it. I think my life is here in Florida." Lucy said.

Lucy remembered telling Emily the week before about her move and she was asking again about Sheldon. It had been 16 years since they had seen each other. Sheldon had sent her a copy of the Physics Journal he was featured in during her senior year in college and she remembered seeing his picture. He was just as handsome as she remembered. She showed Emily and she gawked for a while.

"That was your boyfriend?" Emily asked amazed.

"Yes why?"

"I don't know. I guess I pictured someone like Sammy Draper when you said nerdy. I was not expecting someone so cute."

"I never said he looked like a nerd. Just that he was a nerd. I know he is cute." Lucy told her.

"And you guys are really not still going out?" Emily asked.

"It has been seven years! Of course we are not dating. Don't you think if we were one of us would have visited the other. Don't you think you would have met him by now?"

"I suppose so."

"Good now let me get back to studying. If I don't do well on this final I may not graduate."

It had been another five years before he sent another picture of himself. He was featured on yet another cover for a magazine. She told him she was happy for him. She had sent some of her just so he could see her. She told him he was more than allowed to throw them away so he wouldn't seem attached to someone. He told her he had no interest in dating at all. She did wander sometimes if he was thinking they were still an item. She never once mentioned the many dates she had gone on that never panned out to much. Then she received an email about how the guys had all found out about her and now they were trying to set him up with any woman they could find.

She remembered the emails about Ramona, the graduate student and Martha from a mixer. She laughed out loud at his emails about her.

She wanted to have coitus! With me! The first night we met! Lucy I can't believe there women like that.

She told him not all women were like that and he would someday find a woman who thought exactly like him. He asked her if she had been speaking to Missy because that is the same thing she said to him. Lucy assured him she hadn't spoken to Missy since well before she left for Florida. She did have news on the Michael front though. He had decided to go back to Galveston because he felt he missed an opportunity with Missy when they were fourteen and he wasn't going to chance it again if she was single. She had found out that they had started dating almost immediately when he got back. Missy had never told him but she always had a crush on him but thought it would be weird to be dating the brother of her brother's girlfriend so she never said anything. Sheldon was somewhat confused by the pairing but he had no interest in telling her again whom she could date.

The two continued to email back and forth usually weekly. Lucy remembered about a month prior getting an email about Leonard and Penny breaking up and Wil Wheaton having something to do with it. She still couldn't believe her friend knew Wil Wheaton. She would never ever tell him how much of a crush she had on him when she saw him in Stand by Me even though he was considerably older than she was. Watching Next Generation repeats with Emily, she understood why Sheldon idolized the guy. She remembered getting a letter after they moved to Florida that he was going to go to some Trek convention and meet him. He was so excited. She found out the following week that he hadn't bothered coming and Sheldon had made him public enemy number one or something along those lines. After the break-up he didn't know if he should still be friends with Penny and he snuck around seeing her. Lucy told him he wasn't in high school and if he wanted to remain friends with her, he should be able. Apparently Leonard didn't care so the sneaking around was for nothing.

As she was finishing her last box of the evening she heard the unmistakable sound that was a notification she had email. She thought maybe it was from work letting her know the flight numbers for her plane on Saturday. She put the last item in the box and looked at her computer. The email was from Sheldon. She knew then she had to let him know of her impending move. She was going to be in Glendale which she realized was only about a ten minute drive from Pasadena. She was hoping she would be able to see him again.

Lucy,

Well they did it again. This time they put my name on a dating website. And then threatened me with a dirty sock. I am now forced to go on this blind date at a coffee shop. I hate coffee. They said I can drink hot chocolate. It's May. I don't drink hot chocolate in May! I can't even begin to imagine that this woman will be any different than all the others they have tried setting me up. Help what am I going to do?

Love

Sheldon

Lucy laughed at the thought of Sheldon on a blind date with some girl from a dating website. The women she had known who put their names on those things were usually desperate. Her mother had tried to get her to put her name on one. She thought Lucy needed companionship. She always seemed so lonely. Lucy told her she was not desperate enough to find some desperate guy or worse some jerk looking to just get lucky. It was never going to happen. She couldn't help but smile at Sheldon's predicament. But she had to answer him.

Sheldon,

Care to fill me in on the dirty sock?

If you end up having to go I wish you good luck. I can't see you falling for someone like that though. First I know how you think. You probably believe the math involved in something like that is complete um….let me think….mumbo jumbo….no a better word….hokum. That's it. Complete hokum. Anyway, I think you should go for it and report back to me so we can have a good laugh about it after. I haven't had a good laugh from you in a while. Not since Martha and the coitus.

Let me know how it works out. By the way I have news but I want your story first.

Lucy.

She hit send and started looking at the rest of her email. She knew if he was around he would answer the email quickly. Sure enough not even ten minutes later he had responded.

Okay so the dirty sock, the email started.

We were up on the roof about a week ago and whilst up there I found a dirty sock just laying up there. Who would put one sock up on the roof? It was disgusting. Well I had my friend Raj remove it and throw it out. Now he says he has hidden the dirty sock in my apartment. I have looked everywhere for the last two days and now I am being forced into this date. Do you really think I should go? And you are right the math is complete hokum. That is what the guys wrote on my profile and some woman still wants to meet me. I can't believe it. I am going but only because of the possibility the sock is still in my apartment.

I will let you know so we can laugh (Or maybe just you) about the experience.

Now what is your news? I want to know. You better get back to me quickly with this information. You know how much I hate surprises.

Love,

Sheldon.

She knew she couldn't put it off any longer. She had known for a month she was moving and never bothered to tell him. If he found that part out he would probably be disappointed in her. It was too late to change that so she wrote him back immediately.

Sheldon,

So here it goes. I am moving to California. To be more specific, Glendale. The company where I design websites has opened a branch in California and they asked for volunteers to help start up the company. Since you live out there I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to come out and finally see you in your element. I would understand if you don't want to see me. I get it you have a life and all and a blast from the past is just an inconvenience so I don't even have to know where you live.

Okay that's it. I am moving on Saturday. Good luck on your date and your life.

Love

Lucy.

She sent the email and then immediately regretted it. Why had she acted like he hated her? He had never given any indication that he wouldn't want to see her. In fact he had said once if she ever got out to California to look him up. She was about to send another one apologizing when his response came through.

Lucy,

I am not sure why you seem to think I wouldn't be happy about the fact you will be close by. I still consider you one of my closest friends even if we haven't seen each other. If I didn't think so I certainly would not be sending emails weekly to you. Obviously since I have this silly date on Saturday we can't see each other plus the fact that you will need to get settled. How about once you have settled in we get together for dinner, just you and me, and catch up.

I'll email you either way on Sunday about this date.

Sheldon.

Lucy was ecstatic. Sheldon knew her in and out and knew she didn't hate him. And he didn't hate her. He wanted to see her. She wondered what life in California would be like with a friend already. She only really had Emily and her parents in Florida so maybe she could find real friends with Sheldon and his gang. She sent a quick message to Sheldon saying she looked forward to hearing about the date and she would be sure to get in touch with him after she was settled. She shut down her computer and went to bed. In two days she would be starting a new life but she would have an old friend to help her along.

So Lucy is on her way to California and Sheldon is meeting a certain green eyed vixen. How will they cope when they see each other and how will Sheldon react to Amy? Next chapter will be sooner rather than later.

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Now I need to rant for a minute so if you don't want to read it that is fine this is why I waited until the end of the chapter to do it. I have on many of my stories recommended others as well. If you don't want to read them it is fine they are just recommendations. I was working on a crossover with a friend and it has since been taken down do to some horrible threats about her story. I don't think it was anyone here but I will most likely be reposting it with a different outcome. I haven't exactly decided what and I have complete permission of the original writer to make it my own. If you want to read it I will be glad to have the followers. If you don't I am okay with that as well.

Now the second part of my rant is about the stories I read. I like to read all stories that are well written. I am not a big fan of character bashing and if the story tends to take that way I leave it alone. I also will review a story I enjoy. This is my business and no one else's. I don't care if you write canon or not. If it is good I read it and review it using my name. If you wish to unfollow me because of something I read or review...your loss but please don't judge me because of this. I have blocked more than one person for harassing me about my choice in stories. Sometimes I feel people need to think outside of the box but to each his own and I don't judge you so don't judge me.

End of rant.