So I got my wisdom teeth out today. I'll spare all my lovely readers the details, aside from the fact that the lack of pain right now is really blowing my mind. Five guys came out of the same surgery before me and I beat three of them in being cleared to go home. So I'm relieved about that, but kinda bored right now since my head hurts a bit if there is a lot of noise, so I'll write instead of watching T.V. At least until Big Brother is on… :P
So here's your next chapter. This just shows some others interacting and sets up for some of what's to come. It will likely be the only chapter in this fic without Penny.
So sorry if this chapter is incoherent! I still own nothing.
"…which in turn leaves Somalia with no famine."
"Careful," Leonard said, "if that opinion gets out people will be rushing to kill every white tailed deer in Tennessee in revenge for the world's issues."
"As much as it is their fault, that would prove to be quite a challenge," Amy said. "But I won't publish my theory. It won't do any good now, the damage was done three hundred years ago."
Leonard shook his head slowly. "I still don't fully understand that game."
"Understandable," Sheldon said to Amy in a low voice. They smirked.
"Have you guys talked to Penny?" Leonard asked, grabbing his mug and moving from the kitchen to his chair.
"I last spoke with her two days ago. She said she's spending time with Sheldon's mother right now that needs to be spent, but she promises that she won't be birthing the baby in Texas. Oddly enough, she keeps telling me that she needs to talk to me, but says it has to be in person."
"Well, maybe some things can't be discussed over the phone," Leonard suggested.
Shamy looked at each other, then back to Leonard. "The phone's entire purpose is talking," Amy said.
"Well," Sheldon started.
"I know," Amy said, "nowadays the cellular phone is used for games, internet, texting, watching movies, and a large amount of other things, but Alexander Graham Bell's sole purpose was voice to voice communication. Saying that Penny cannot speak to me over the phone is irony at its best. Or worst, depending on how you look at it."
"Well, maybe she wants to be face to face with you when she talks."
"We have video on our phones," Amy said. "But of course, Penny's brain operates on a much more primitive level than Sheldon's or mine, so she may be wanting the old fashioned form of communication. Of course, while video chatting is younger than she is, telephones are much, much older, so I still fail to see the…"
"Amy, I get it."
Sheldon leaned over to Amy. "I bet that's what he said in school so the teachers would, as Howard would say 'get off his back'."
"No, that's what Howard would say. I have a PhD."
"Leonard," Amy said, "I don't think that's as funny when Howard is not present."
Sheldon glanced between his roommate and his girl friend. "Actually, Amy, when you've known Howard as long as Leonard and I have, that is always funny." He glanced back at Leonard and gave a quick, airy laugh. "Now if you'll all excuse me, I have to go and void my bladder."
"You are most certainly excused." Leonard muttered as Sheldon got up.
He turned, looking confused. "I wasn't asking for your permission."
"So…Amy," Leonard said, shifting his weight to look from where Sheldon had been standing to her. "You miss Penny?"
She nodded. "I do." Her eyebrows twitched slightly. "Do you miss Penny?"
He looked down and nodded. "Yeah."
"Bernadette does too. She informed me three hours ago," Amy reported, nodding and looking proud that she had such information to provide.
"I bet she does," Leonard said. "Some of us have known each other longer than others, but we're kind of a…a unit. Yeah, a unit, we've sort of become that…after a while…" He stopped making hand motions and looked at the neurobiologist. "Do you sort of know what I'm talking about?"
"Yes," Amy said. "I never had friends in school, so as an adult capable of maintaining relationships with people I have found myself a group for the first time in my life. Part of it, yes, is embarrassing that I enjoy living at that level of life, but unlike Sheldon I understand that everyone needs it. At least to some extent."
"That's very true," Leonard said. He looked down at his hands. "Penny's been there a week already. How long do you think she'll stay?"
"Well," Amy said, "she told me that Sheldon's mother took her to church and she was less than entertained, but she told you in that text that she spent two days ago with Missy, correct?"
"Oh," Leonard said, remembering the conversation, "yes, she did, that's right."
"Okay…" Amy paused, looking up at the sky. "I don't have enough information to calculate. I'd guess at least another week, though. Especially since she enjoys Mrs. Cooper's company, she feels that the grandmother should be allowed to spend time with her and the child although it's yet unborn, and according to Sheldon, Mrs. Cooper would be 'ecstatic to have her in the home'."
"Does she have a doctor down there?" Leonard asked.
Amy shrugged. "She'll be back. She's on the large side for how far she is in gestation, insomnia will come; she'll want to be back in her home. It's just…" she allowed her voice to sound mysterious, "a question of when."
Leonard gave a small smirk. "Well, if she's gone too long we'll have to drive out to Texas and get her," he joked.
"Most definitely," Amy said, not joking at all.
Hope you can still enjoy my writing while I'm on four medications. :) I'd love reviews.