A/N: I am so overwhelmed by the support for this story. So sorry to tell some of you but Heidi is here to cause a bit of trouble. Enjoy! Oh and after tonight's finale, I hope you like the Shamy here.
As always thanks to Boys3allC for all your help, there were lots of mistakes in this chapter.
I wish I owned this:
"Sheldon?" The woman said again in a thick accent. Since it had taken him so long to turn around she questioned that it was him again.
As Sheldon turned around his eyes got wide as he took in the appearance of a statuesque blonde figure. "Heidi?" He said recognizing her instantly.
Heidi ran over to him and threw her arms around him hugging him tightly around the middle. "I can't believe it is really you." She gushed.
Amy cleared her throat standing next to Sheldon and having an up close look at the woman. She did not want to appear jealous but she wasn't sure who this woman thought she was throwing herself at her boyfriend. The woman finally released him and turned to look at the diminutive woman standing next to him.
"Oh, right Heidi, I'd like you to meet my girlfriend Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler." He said taking Amy's hand and introducing Amy to the woman. "Amy, this is Heidi Frisch, we met when I wteaching in Germany." Sheldon said to her. Amy knew exactly who Heidi was the moment he said Germany. She felt self-conscious Heidi was gorgeous. She looked like a model with her blue eyes and blonde hair. How was she supposed to compete with her?
"It's very nice to meet you." Heidi said. "You are a lucky woman. Sheldon is one of a kind." She commented looking at Sheldon appreciatively.
"Yes he is." She said smiling. Maybe it wouldn't be too bad. Maybe she would just want to see what he was up to and then be gone.
"So are you here for the symposium?" Heidi asked.
"Yes we are doing a panel discussion on Science and Society. It's tomorrow afternoon." Sheldon answered.
"So you are doing it together?" Heidi asked, gesturing between the two of them.
"Well us and our friends over there." Sheldon answered.
"Well I will have to check it out." She said. "I've got to run. Maybe we can get together later and catch up?" She asked him the innuendo in her voice was not lost on Amy who decides to speak up.
"Oh well we have plans." Amy cut in grabbing Sheldon's arm as she noticed that Heidi was getting closer and closer to him.
"We do?" Sheldon asked. He did not know of anything they had planned. He would have loved to catch up with Heidi. He hadn't seen her in fifteen years Heidi had been a brilliant scientist. He was curious where her research had taken her...
"Yes we do." Amy said. She did not like this woman encroaching on her
boyfriend. She would do everything in her power to keep her away from him. This rush of jealousy and feeling territorial was new to Amy. She felt like a lioness defending her position in the pride.
"Oh well maybe some other time then." Sheldon said to her. He waved as she walked away from him. Then he turned to Amy. "What plans do we have?"
"We don't have any. I just didn't like the way that woman was looking at you. And before you give me any explanation, I know who she is. You told me all about her remember?"
"Of course I remember. I just fail to see what the issue is." Amy could tell he was not being obtuse. He just has no idea the effect he had on women.
"Sheldon, she was flirting with you." Amy pointed out.
"No she wasn't. She is just an old friend." Sheldon said, looking after where Heidi had just walked. He had not thought that she was being flirtatious. He certainly had not been flirting with her.
"She was more than a friend." Amy said and he could tell she was distraught though he couldn't imagine why How could someone like Amy ever be threatened by someone like Heidi?
"Listen you do not have to worry about Heidi. I am with you, not her." Sheldon assured her.
"I don't know maybe after just looking at her, I don't understand why you are with me." She said hanging her head and he placed his hands on her shoulders.
"Amy, I was fifteen when I met Heidi. So if we are really looking at things in perspective then we must think that my teenage hormones were on high alert. I wasn't looking for what was on the inside with her but I only noticed the outside."
"I know, that is what I am saying Sheldon, look at me and then look at her." Amy said to him, gesturing at her body. He could not believe what he was hearing from her. How could she not see it? He took her hand and lightly tilted her chin up so that she was looking into his eyes.
"You are beautiful." Sheldon said to her gazing into her eyes. She was the most beautiful creature in the world to him...
"You think I'm beautiful?" Amy asked him gulping slightly. She couldn't believe he had said that to her. No one ever told her before that she was beautiful, the way he was looking at her right now almost made her believe it...
"I do." Sheldon answered. "You have true beauty that will never go away. You are beautiful on the inside and the out. So please don't worry about Heidi. I don't want her anymore, it is only you."
"Thank you Sheldon." Amy said.
"So shall we go to our room?" Sheldon said holding out his hand to her. They walked away towards the elevators which led to their room.
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They didn't see her but Heidi stood in the distance watching the couple talking about her. She could tell Amy didn't like her immediately; Heidi had that effect on women. Of course, Heidi knew she had no reason to like her. She had openly been flirting with her boyfriend and Sheldon was just as clueless about it now as he had been fifteen years prior. Back then it had taken months for Sheldon to get clued in to her advances. Heidi had to practically hand him a written invitation to get him to sleep with her.
However his little girlfriend was not as clueless as Sheldon was. She had known exactly what her intentions were, Heidi heard Amy telling him about it. Then Sheldon saying that it didn't matter that she was flirting, because he was with her.
Then he told her she was beautiful. Heidi couldn't believe it, that tiny drab thing. To Heidi Amy was just a dowdy poorly dressed woman. She looked more like she was eighty then in her late twenties A man such as Dr. Sheldon Cooper deserved much better on his arm. Although Heidi also heard Sheldon say her beauty was even more with her mind.
Well if Heidi had anything to do with it, Sheldon would see that she was more than just a pretty face. The problem was Amy seemed to be staying with Sheldon in his room. Heidi had been hoping that they were in different rooms but since they were dating she figured it was only logical they were staying together. She needed to figure out a way to get the two of them apart so she could work her magic with Sheldon again. She wanted to make him remember how he had fallen in love with her all those years ago.
Heidi got very lucky when she heard one of the two girls she had seen arrive with them call Amy as they were walking to the elevator. She overheard them talking about getting together to go for manicures and Amy agreed to meet them in an hour. Heidi couldn't believe her luck, a chance like would not present itself again. She figured Sheldon would be alone in his room and she could go and see him. Then with any luck she would be able to get him back.
Heidi had missed him from the moment he left on that airplane fifteen years prior. Dr. Sheldon Cooper had been the one who got away, maybe everyone felt like that about their first loves. Though Heidi swore it was different with him, he had been handsome and brilliant, her professor at only age fifteen. Heidi vowed that if she ever got to go to the states that she would find him. Upon landing she had vague plans of looking him up after the symposium. She had heard that he was an experimental physicist at Caltech. Heidi never expected him to be at this symposium. When he was teaching it was always beneath him to do panels, but then she saw his name on the program of events and she knew destiny was intervening.
Heidi had to get to her room and plan. If this were to work things had to go just so. She wanted to make it so Amy would come back and see her with Sheldon. So she went ahead of them to the nail place. She decided she could use with a pedicure and she would know when they arrived and would be finished before they were. She got there and was sitting with her feet soaking when the three women walked in. She saw them checking out colors of nail polish and talking. The smaller blonde handed Amy a color and she saw her shake her head in agreement. They then came into the main part of the salon. Amy spotted her and blanched her face going ghostly pale, as she whispered something into the taller blonde's ear and she saw them all look at her. She could only imagine what was said as the smaller blonde gave her the evil eye. Heidi finished her pedicure some time later and left the salon. Then She headed up to Sheldon's room on a mission.
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Sheldon was upset that Amy had agreed to go get manicures with the girls. He had planned out a whole day of them together, but she explained they had all night to spend together so he reluctantly accepted. She left about an hour after they checked in and Sheldon was left alone in his room. Leonard, Raj and Howard decided to check out the hotel bar while the girls were at the salon but Sheldon didn't want to go. He decided he would spend the time apart making sure his speech for the next day was ready.
About forty-five minutes after the girls left there was a knock on his door. Odd he thought He wasn't expecting anyone but figured maybe Amy had left her key in the room. He walked over to the door and answered it. He was surprised to find Heidi standing on the other side.
"Heidi what are you doing here?" He asked her in surprise standing in the doorway blocking the entrance.
"Well I saw your 'girlfriend' at the salon and figured it was safe to come and visit you." She said peeking around his shoulder.
"I'm not sure that is such a good idea." He said. The last thing he needed was Amy to feel even more insecure knowing he had been visiting with Heidi. "What do you want?"
"I've missed you." She said smiling and tilting her head at a coquettish angle. "I have thought about you almost every day since you left."
"Heidi, it's been fifteen years. I find it improbable that you could possibly have missed me for that long."
"That is where you are wrong. I never wanted you to leave all those years ago."
"You know I had to go. I needed to finish my studies."
"Didn't you miss me?" Heidi said pouting.
"Of course I did for a while. I was quite torn up when I first got home but I moved on. It was never meant to be. We were very young. You were my first love. I won't ever forget you but I am with Amy now and she is my everything."
"That girl is your everything? You can't tell me that. She is so…." Heidi was going to say dowdy but Sheldon cut her off.
"She is so beautiful, both in and out. She isn't worried about what other people think about her or any other shallow thing girl's think about. She is her own person."
"Yet she is getting a manicure." Heidi pointed out.
"Yes but because she wants to not because social pressure dictates she get one, unlike you who got one every other week if I recall. She is hanging out with her friends and having a good time."
"Come on Sheldon, you can't tell me that she is anything like me." Heidi said walking closer to him so she is just inches from his face.
"She isn't and that is what makes her so special. She doesn't need approval to be herself. She is perfect just the way she is."
Heidi was standing in the doorway of Sheldon's room trying to coax her way in but Sheldon was having none of it. He was standing like a statue in the entry way his arm crossed. Then she heard the girls coming up the hallway towards the room. She knew now was the time to act.
"Sheldon come on, you know I am better for you than she is. Does she kiss you like this?" Heidi said and pulled him toward her and kissed him with all her might, pressing her lips against his tightly closed mouth and wrapping her hands around his neck just as Amy was coming around the corner and saw what happened.
Sheldon had no idea what happened. One minute he was defending his relationship with Amy the next he had Heidi's lips on him. He pushed Heidi away. "What the hell are you doing?" He screamed but heard and saw Amy at the exact same time.
Sheldon?" Amy questioned practically crying. She turned and ran in the direction she had come from.
Heidi tried to block Sheldon from running after her. "Where are you going?" She said.
"Get the hell out of my way. I want nothing to do with you. You are my past. Amy is my present. I just hope you haven't messed things up." He said to her coldly and ran down the hall after Amy. "I suggest you aren't anywhere near here when I get back with Amy." He called back over his shoulder.
Heidi was left standing in the hall facing Penny and Bernadette who looked like they were about to kill her.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Penny said to her. Bernadette was right behind her as they approached her. "Did you really think that Sheldon would go for you a two bit floosy that doesn't seem to care if he is happy? Obviously you don't know Sheldon as well as you think you do."
"Sheldon doesn't know what he wants. He can't possibly want that woman."
"Are you talking about Amy? She is more woman than you will ever be."
Penny said to her. "I think you should leave."
Heidi began to protest but Bernadette stepped up. "You heard her, leave." She said. Heidi didn't think twice. Even though she was half her size, Bernadette didn't look like someone to mess with. She left without saying another word.
"Do you believe the nerve of some people?" Penny said.
"I just hope Sheldon finds her. It is a good thing she warned us about that woman or we may have tried to talk her into pedicures too. How did Amy know she would try something?" Bernadette asked.
"She just knew." Penny said.
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At the spa:
Amy was super excited to get manicures with her friends. She had never had one before. She knew Sheldon wanted to spend some extra time with her in the room but she told him they had all night. She had a good feeling about this weekend. She thought maybe they could increase their intimacy and she needed advice from the girls. She also wanted some pampering after the run in with Heidi. For some reason she just didn't trust the woman to stay away from Sheldon.
"So Amy what color polish do you want to get?" Penny asked her.
"Oh I don't know, maybe something light. I don't want to overdo it my first time." She answered.
Bernadette handed her a pale purple polish. "What about this?" She asked.
"Oh I like that." Amy said.
"Well what do you say? Manicures and pedicures or just one?" Penny asked.
"They are paid for correct?" Penny clarified.
"Yes, I say we do both." Bernadette said.
"Sounds good to me." Amy said but just as she agreed she saw out of the corner of her eye, Heidi was sitting in a seat soaking her feet. She blanched when she saw her. Penny noticed the color drain out of Amy and walked over to her.
"Hey are you okay?" Penny asked.
"No see that woman sitting getting a pedicure?"
"Yeah. What about her?" Penny looked over.
"She is Sheldon's ex, Heidi." Amy told her.
"That's Heidi?" Penny said shocked. Heidi was not what she pictured when she heard the words Sheldon and girlfriend.
"Yeah and she was practically drooling all over him when she spoke with him." Amy said.
"Oh sweetie you have nothing to worry about. Sheldon is crazy about you." Penny told her, patting her on the arm. Sheldon just was not the type to two time.
"I know that. It's her I don't trust." Amy hissed back.
"Do you want to leave?" Penny asked.
"No let's get our manicures." Amy answered. She was determined not to let this woman get in the way of her wonderful weekend she had planned.
"Yeah no need to let her ruin our good time." Bernadette said.
The three ladies made their way to the tables to get manicures. Amy kept an eye on Heidi the entire time.
"I still can't believe that is Heidi. I guess I never pictured Sheldon with someone like her." Penny said.
"Yeah it makes you wonder what he saw in her." Bernadette said.
"It makes me wonder what he sees in me." Amy commented.
"Amy, please, you are ten times that woman, trust me." Penny said. Bernadette nodded in agreement.
"Girls like that are just looks. Believe me I know and Sheldon he wants his woman to have substance. Besides you are very pretty, and I know that Sheldon thinks you are."
"Well Sheldon did tell me I was beautiful." Amy said.
"See, he was young when he was with her. He was probably a just a walking bundle of hormones." Bernadette said. "You are so much more than she is; you are what he wants now."
They watched her finish her pedicure. She looked over at them and smiled icily. Then she was gone.
"I still don't trust her." Amy said.
"Do you want to go?" Bernadette asked. They hadn't started their pedicures but were just finishing the manicures.
"If you don't mind. Maybe we can come back tomorrow and get the pedicures." She said.
"Sure sweetie, not a problem." Penny said understanding the need to stake your claim on a man.
The girls left the salon and made their way back to the elevators and headed directly to Sheldon and Amy's room. . They were all staying on the same floor so they walked back together. They rounded the corner and were met with quite the surprise. Heidi was at Sheldon and Amy's door and she was kissing Sheldon. It was clear to Bernadette and Penny that Sheldon was not participating in the kiss and he was clearly taken off guard but all Amy saw was the kiss.
"Sheldon?" Amy started practically crying. She turned and ran down the hall from the direction they came.
Amy didn't know where she was going but she knew she had to get away. How could she have been so stupid to believe him? She berated herself/ She should have known Sheldon was still interested in Heidi She was everything that Amy wasn't , so much prettier and taller and judging by her lips on his mouth she had no problem with physical contact.. Of course he was interested in Heidi over her Amy heard him calling her name but she kept running. Amy didn't even want to wait for the elevator so she found the stairs. She ran all the way down to the first floor and continued through the lobby. She didn't hear Sheldon coming down after her so figured he gave up. She ran through the bar and towards the other side.
Amy kept running until she got to the pool of the hotel. She was glad that the pool was empty. She needed to be alone. Amy found a spot at the edge of the pool trying not to get wet. She sat down and took her shoes off. She was grateful she hadn't worn her tights today since she was getting a pedicure. She put her feet into the water and sighed. The cool water was calming.
She wasn't sure what to do next. She could not stay with Sheldon after that She figured she could stay with Penny for the duration of the weekend but what would happen next? She was so confused. She felt herself tearing up and willed the tears to stay in. She didn't want to cry but she couldn't help it. The tears just flowed out. Is this what falling in love felt like? Did love feel like a punch to the gut? Did love make you want to cry? Her mother always told her that love hurt. She just never told her it would hurt this much.
"Why did I agree to be his girlfriend?" She said out loud to no one. "This is it, I am done with men." The tears just kept coming and coming. She couldn't stop crying. She felt a hand on her shoulder a few minutes later. She looked up to see Sheldon.
"Is this seat taken?" He asked her as he sat down beside her, taking off his shoes, rolling up his pant legs and dangling his feet in the water
"What do you want? Shouldn't you be with your girlfriend?" She said sarcastically.
"I am with my girlfriend." He said to her playfully bumping into her shoulder.
"You know what I mean." Amy said.
"You are my girlfriend. I thought we discussed this already. e. Heidi is my past, a past I have no desire to revisit. You are my now, my future, my everything. I don't want anything to do with Heidi and if you had stayed long enough you would have heard me tell her that."
"But you were kissing." She protested.
"No, she kissed me." Sheldon said. "I didn't invite her to do that. Amy don't you understand, it's you I want to be with. Heidi invited herself to our room. She tried to tell me that she was better for me than you. I told her she was wrong. I love you for all the right reasons. I loved her for all the wrong ones." He said not even realizing the magnitude of what he just said.
"You love me?" She questioned. She didn't know what was happening. Sheldon had just told her that he loved her. She wasn't sure if she should say it back. She wasn't sure she was actually in love with him. Sure he made her feel like no man had ever made her feel. But no man had ever made her feel anything before, so she had no comparison of her feelings. Amy did not make declarations lightly and while what was stirring inside of her might be love; she wanted to be sure before she said it back.
"Um, yes?" He said as a question. "Listen, you don't have to say it back if you aren't ready. I have known for a while that I was in love with you. Probably back to when I bought all those cats to replace you."
"But we had only known each other for a few weeks then." Amy said quietly
"When I have a feeling I know it. And I know I love you." Sheldon said. He looked at her. He could tell that she was thinking about what to say. "You don't have to say anything just…." But he was cut off by her soft lips descending on his. It was the first time she had kissed him on the lips and he was thrilled. He desperately wanted to deepen the kiss, to fully taste her mouth. Yet he didn't want to scare her and have her run away again, so he gently kissed her back. She pulled away a few seconds later and smiled up at him
"That was nice" She said to him shyly.
"I agree, very nice." He said. "So does this mean you believe me when I tell you that you are the only woman for me?"
"Yes." She said.
"Good, now let's go back to our room. We have some making up to do." Sheldon said standing up. Then he pulled her up from the edge of the pool and bent down and handed her discarded shoes. As he put himself back to rights Amy watched on, her heart thrumming, wondering what he meant by making up and finding herself eager to find out.
I wanted to wait for the ILY from Sheldon but it fit here so well...don't worry it won't take much longer for Amy to realize those feelings she is getting are also love. So I think a marriage proposal is coming up next...sorry not Shamy quite yet but how about a Howardette proposal?
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