Early Arrivals
Penny in blue jeans and a dark red top sat on her couch thumbing through a magazine. The single knock of the door caused her to look up, set the magazine on the coffee table then head for the apartment door. She opened it to reveal Amy and Bernadette. Amy had on a brown skirt and camel haired sweater with a yellow blouse beneath. Bernadette in a pink flowered dress with a blue sweater followed her into the apartment.
Penny smiled at them both as they came in, "You guys are early. Leonard isn't even home from work yet with Sheldon."
Amy looked pensive and Bernadette serious, the petite blonde sat on the couch, "Amy has an emergency, she wouldn't tell me what it is until we were all together."
Amy sat next to Bernadette on the couch. She was stone faced, looking straight ahead, "I think we should have a glass of wine first"
Penny nodded then headed for the kitchen. She retrieved a bottle of white wine from the refrigerator and poured three glasses. Penny brought two glasses to the girls then got her own from the kitchen. She sat in the chair opposite the couch, "Okay so what's the big emergency?"
Penny started sipping her wine as Amy spoke, "I may be pregnant"
Penny sprayed the wine from both her mouth and nose. She then proceeded to cough as Bernadette wiped the spewed wine from her glasses and face.
"Have you ever heard the expression say it don't spray it"
Penny's mouth was hanging open, she stuttered several times, "So you and Sheldon finally had sex? I'm talking coitus as Sheldon would say, the dirty deed, the horizontal mambo. When did this happen? You weren't using protection?"
Amy waited for her to finish, "Yes we had sex over the Thanksgiving day weekend. It was kind of an experiment but there was a glitch."
Bernadette looked over at Amy, "What kind of glitch?"
Penny had here hand to her mouth, her eyes big. Amy turned toward Bernadette, "A technical malfunction with the condom. Its structural integrity failed at a very inopportune moment."
Penny put her hand down, "The condom broke?"
Amy nodded, "Leaked actually, we didn't discover this until Sheldon tested it after we were finished."
Penny's eyes were huge again, "He tested it?"
Amy was nodding again, "Yes it failed a hydrostatic test at a very low pressure, so there is a possibility I may have become impregnated."
Penny continued to look puzzled, "Thanksgiving was three weeks ago and your just getting around to telling us."
Amy took a sip of her wine, "Sheldon just tested it this afternoon, he texted me the results."
Bernadette shook her head, "What are you going to do"
Amy took a pregnancy test out of her purse, "I going to find out. I just didn't want to do it alone."
Penny smiled a comforting smile, "Good idea we'll wait here why you do it."
Amy looked chagrinned, "You don't want to come along to make sure I do it right, kind of a quality control"
Bernadette patted her on the leg, "That's alright Amy just follow the directions and it will be fine. Penny and I will wait here"
Amy stood and started toward Penny's bathroom, "Suit your selves"
Penny just shook her head and took another sip of her wine. Bernadette looked over at her, "Penny could I get a towel, you covered me in wine"
Penny looked embarrassed, "Sure, sorry about that"
The Home Commute
Leonard looked out the car window while shaking his head. In the rear window a line cars could be seen behind him. His green and white recycle t-shirt could be seen under his dark green hoody and jacket. Sheldon was beside him in the passenger seat in his red flash t-shirt with the large yellow lightning bolt. Sheldon's face was drawn his teeth clenched.
Leonard leaned to his right and left looking forward, "Must be a breakdown or an accident, we should have taken Pine."
Sheldon did not respond. Leonard looked over at his roommate and friend. He stared at him for several moments furling his brow, "What's wrong Sheldon it shouldn't be too much longer. Didn't you go before we left work?"
Sheldon turned almost in a trance toward Leonard, "What? Oh yes I went before we left."
Leonard face looked puzzled, "Then what's wrong, you look agitated"
Sheldon looked straight ahead, "I'm scared Leonard. I may have made a huge error. I should have never let Amy talk me into it."
Leonard looked impatient now, "Talked you into what?"
Sheldon nodded to himself, "Coitus Leonard, we had coitus and the condom was defective."
Leonard seemed shocked, "Defective? Then you use another one, what happened?"
Sheldon looked over at him now, "I took the condom we used to Howard's lab today and tested it. It failed at a very low PSI, I may have impregnated Amy."
Leonard did a double take then looked up as the traffic started moving, "What was the PSI when it broke?"
Sheldon just shook his head, "At .997 it started to leak."
Leonard nodded as he drove, "Did you use a control of an unused condom?"
Sheldon went into a very condescending mode, "Leonard do you think I just carry them around with me like Wolowitz and Raj."
Leonard gave him a sideways glance, "Did you check the manufacturer's site for the specs?"
Sheldon rolled his eyes, "I haven't had time for that. I was too busy texting Amy and then it was time to leave."
Leonard nodded, "Well use your phone and find out"
Sheldon perked up, "I'll do that"
Waiting for stripes
Penny looked over at Amy and the pregnancy test that was face down on the table, "So how much longer?"
Amy looked up from her wine, "It said 5 minutes to be sure."
Penny nodded, "So if you are pregnant what then?"
Amy looked excited, "Then I'm going to have Dr. Sheldon Cooper's baby. I'll have a baby shower and things will have to move along on the relationship with Sheldon. He will be such a great father."
Bernadette didn't sound convinced, "I guess I can see that."
Penny looked more shocked, "I can't see Sheldon changing diapers Amy, maybe in a full biohazard suit. Of course that was how I envisioned him finally having sex so I could be wrong."
Bernadette smiled and snickered, "So how did you finally get him to have sex?"
Amy grinned, "I used my feminine charms that Penny has been teaching me."
Penny smiled, "You got him drunk?"
Amy just nodded, "Not in the conventional way, we did have several of my homemade fruit smoothies though."
Penny nodded, "Well good luck going there again after this."
Amy's phone buzzed and she looked up, "It's a text from Sheldon. Oh false alarm, Sheldon found out that condoms are only supposed to keep from leaking at a much lower pressure." Amy reached over and picked up the pregnancy test, "Nope, no baby, darn."
Penny looked happy though, "Well Amy you can always spike the eggnog at Christmas."
Bernadette got her yuck face, "Yeah there's always that."
First half of Episode 19, Hope you liked it. For those of you wondering condoms are tested to not burst up to .14 PSI. That's why you can blow them up and use them as a toy in a pinch. On another note a reader has asked me how often I update this fiction. There really is no schedule, I write every day. When I feel like writing Winding Road I do. I can tell you that I write two chapters in row, the whole episode pretty quickly. The next half of the episode is always out within a day or so. You can follow me on twitter of the blog if you don't want to follow on fanfiction. Twitter is slightlyoffkey, the blog is ellipticalthreads dot com.
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