Amy pulled her keys out to open her door when she got home, and found Sheldon sitting under her door.
"What are you doing here?"
"You were out with Stewart wernt you?" He accused her
Amy stood indignatly. "What if I was?" Amy said coyly. "Whats it to you?"
Sheldon was unrelented. "Amy, were no longer a couple, and youre free to go out with any one you like, I cant stop you from having a good time with a gentlemen caller." He said remorselessly. He couldn't help but sound judgemental.
Sheldon stood up and wasn't sure what to do now.
"Its none of your business." She said opening the door. "You didn't answer my question." Amy said folding her arms. "What are you doing here Sheldon?"
When asked directly, usually Sheldon had an answer for everything. It had just occurred to him, he had no idea why he was here, only that he wanted to be near her for some reason…that didn't seem like a good reason.
Sheldon cleared his throat. "Im here, to…um…" He thought fast. "Collect my property." He said triumphantly. "You possess my Flash flash drive, one batman t shirt blue, one justice leauge t shirt, red, - two pairs of socks arigile, one Metal Men comic book, issue 37, my box set of Dr Who, one original novelisation of starwars episode four, my set of various hexagonigal Barry Allen wrenches, my green lantern power ring, my super string theormy text book, a perpetual motion dark matter detection equipment, my spyglass, three pairs of Khaki Trousers, my model of the milenium falcon, my copy of the portrait of dorian grey, … and my amazing spiderman towel." He ratteled off.
Amy looked at him with remorse. It really was over. It was hard to accept for her that he didn't want her back or even wanted to be in her life. She sighed and shook her head. "Fine." She opened the door to her apartment and tossed her keys on the nearby table. She looked about for a box for Sheldon's things and found it diffucult to locate one. It was amazing how many of his things had made there way over to her place given Sheldon's penchant for meticuleness. She looked sadly at her bedside table, with the picture of the two of them smiling happily at the camera. That was the weekend they had attented a symposium on Uetrium. She found his power ring on her dresser, next to his small stack of comics, hed let her read.
She decided to toss everything in a shopping bag, after shed managed to track down all of Sheldon's things, she passed her jewelry box, and the tiara hed given to her.
He was standing in her door way just… gazing at her.
"Im sorry, Ill hurry." She said assuming he was getting impatient.
"No." Sheldon said softly. "You also have one more thing that I gave to you." He said scratching the top of his hand.
"Whats that?" She said absent mindedly looking about for his things
"I know its an old fashioned notion, and that Ive never been one to endulge in such petty social convention, and perhaps it dosent even mean anything anymore…."
"uh-huh" Amy was looking around for his comic book distracted.
"Its just that, its something I gave to you that while holding no real intrinsic value on any kind of market, to me its infinataely valuable."
Amy rolled her eyes. "Oh yeah, what is it - your Darth Vader helmet? that's not here, Koothrapali has that. You left it there when you were having some sort of space war thing…"
"What? No. I was talking about my heart."
Amy stopped dead, and wheeled around. "What did you just say?"
"I said, I gave you my heart, and Im very unhappy with how you've treated it so far."
Amy's breath caught in her chest. "Sheldon….I …" She had no idea what to say to him, shed never heard him express himself this way, let alone say it with such candor.
"Do you care for me Sheldon?" She said finally
Sheldon took a step closer to her. "Of course I do. Isnt that what Ive been trying to say this whole time?" He said exhasperted. "For heavens sake do you have any idea that I - ?" He stammered. "What I …I mean is…." He stood there troubled, and unable to finish his sentence. Sheldon Cooper, a man who literally had a lobg winded explaination for anything, who went on and on about any manner of subjects found he was speechless. Hse had that effect on him,
Amy smiled. She stepped toward him and tossed the bag of stuff on the nearby chair, and looked up at him.
"Sheldon…" She stood there wanting despartly to throw her arms around him and hold him tight but she knew better than to do so with him.
They both stood there close to each other, but not touching. She wanted him to kiss her so badly, but all he did was stand there awkwardly. "Ill uh…come back for my stuff another night, youre busy." He said finally.
"If you want, you can keep your stuff here, ya know…I mean its a lot of stuff to carry all at once, and … I don't mind." She said looking at the floor.
Sheldon's eyes brightened and he swallowed hard. He simply looked in her eyes, and found he didn't want to move from the spot he was in.
"Very well, Im glad we got that settled Dr Fowler." Sheldon said clearing his throat. Snapping back to reality. "Goodnight, have a pleasant evening." He said bowing his head and shut the door.
"Goodnight Dr Cooper." She said after him.
Amy stood therewith a strange little smile on her face. Try as she might she just couldn't stay mad at the big lug.