When Amy arrived home, she almost collided with Leonard.
"Oh, sorry Leonard." She muttered.
"Don't worry about it; what's wrong? You seem down." Leonard asked, dropping the keys in the bowl.
"Just work stuff." Amy replied. "I won't bore you with it."
"Hey, you're my friend and Sheldon's wife. You can always talk to me." Leonard insisted.
Amy looked around. "Where is Sheldon?"
"Oh he and Penny went shopping."
Amy frowned, and felt a stab of jealousy. "Oh."
Leonard looked at her. "I know…Sheldon shopping!"
Penny wouldn't do that to me; she's my best friend. And Sheldon wouldn't because he's my husband.
Amy shrugged it off.
"So did you want to talk about what happened?" Leonard asked.
Amy sat next to him on the couch and took a breath. "Well I was in the primate lab at work, and there was this little monkey. He wasn't even adolescent yet, and it just upset me that this little baby monkey was going to have antidepressants tested on him…I started crying…He was just a little baby!" Amy burst into tears again.
Leonard put his arm around her comfortingly. "I'm sorry Amy…I guess those feelings are all part of your pregnancy hormones."
"Well no, I mean, humans are primates too aren't we? I could walk away from there, but that poor baby monkey can't and neither can his mom; she's probably screaming at us to let her baby go. I know I would if I was her. I just felt so awful. What if that was my child?" Amy sobbed.
Leonard nodded. "Did you say anything?"
"I got moved into a different department, and the baby and his mother got removed from the testing area and taken to the local zoo." Amy answered. "From now on, they're only using post-adolescent males so that they don't get babies and mothers again."
"Well, that's great! Your actions did a great thing today Amy!" Leonard grinned reassuringly, giving her shoulder a squeeze.
At that moment, the door opened and Sheldon and Penny walked in, laughing between them.
Amy glared at him, and he noticed her sitting on the couch.
"Leonard, please stop manhandling my woman." Sheldon said.
"I'm comforting her; she's upset." Leonard protested.
"Don't talk as if I'm not here! And you can talk, Sheldon! You went out shopping with another woman!" Amy snapped. "And you look very happy about it!"
Penny blinked. "Ames, it's okay. He only needed my advice."
Amy huffed.
"Um…I'm going to go back to my apartment then…Leonard, you coming?" Penny said, turning around.
Leonard hurried after his girlfriend and shut the door behind him.
Sheldon stood staring at Amy sadly. "Are you insinuating that I was cheating on you with Penny?"
Amy shut her eyes. "No…I don't know." She placed her hands over her eyes. "You went shopping with her; you hate shopping! Not to mention how cosy you looked when you walked in."
"We were not cosy! And that's pretty rich coming from you; allowing Leonard, my best friend and roommate, to fondle you."
"He was not fondling me, Sheldon! For God's sake! I had a horrible time at work and he was comforting me." Amy sighed.
Sheldon relaxed and sat next to her, wondering if he should ask her to move from his spot.
He decided against it.
"What happened?" He asked gently.
Amy repeated what she had told Leonard, and the tears started to flow again.
"Oh God, I keep crying when I talk about it. I'm such an idiot!"
"No you're not an idiot! Was it a maternal or hormonal reaction?" Sheldon asked, sliding his arms around her waist.
"Both, I think. I didn't think the mood swings would start until I was further along." Amy responded.
Sheldon shrugged. "Obviously I'm no expert on that, but I think it depends on the woman."
Amy nodded.
Sheldon looked down at the bag he had brought in. "I really wasn't with Penny in the way that you thought I was. I can only just tolerate her being a best friend; I could never be a lover of hers!" He grimaced. "Besides, it's you I love."
"I know…And I wasn't doing anything with Leonard. I wouldn't...It's always been you." Amy blushed.
Sheldon kissed her softly.
"Get anything good? New games? Comic books? Food?" Amy asked.
"No to all." Sheldon replied, leaning forward and dragging the bags closer. "These are for you." He passed two of the bags to Amy.
"More stuff for me? That's two days in a row; you don't have to!" Amy smiled.
"I want to." Sheldon replied, proceeding to pull a new superhero shirt out of one of his bags, and some movies out of the other.
Amy pulled something soft out of one of the bags and looked at it.
She laughed.
"So me and the baby match, right?" She held up a maternity shirt against herself.
The shirt was the maternity version of the baby sleepsuit he had bought the day before, spelling out: MoThEr Gee-K.
"I love it! Thank you Sheldon." She kissed him lovingly.
"Penny helped me pick it out, and the other clothes in there…It took us ages to find. Oh, and there is actually some food in there…But no comic books or games." Sheldon said.
Amy smiled at him. "What happened to you?"
Sheldon frowned, questioningly.
"When did you become so sweet?" Amy asked.
"I've always been sweet…I just didn't have anyone worth showing it to." Sheldon shrugged. "Well, that and I didn't really know how to."
"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone!" Amy winked.
"So what area of study did you get moved to at work?" Sheldon asked.
"I'm still on brain slicing." Amy laughed, "But they knew I needed something else to focus on other than the primates…So they put me in the Human Cognitive Behaviour research team. I need to have my induction on Monday."
Sheldon nodded. "Not bad. At least you won't come face to face with any babies there!"
"No; they don't allow it. Not there anyway." Amy shook her head.
"Well, don't tell anyone I said this either but…I'm proud of you for doing that." Sheldon said quietly.
"Thank you," Amy smiled, "And don't worry; my lips are sealed."
She leaned over to kiss Sheldon.
"Well, except for when I'm doing that!"
..
That weekend, there was a knock on the door, which Amy answered.
"Hey Amy! Are you busy?" Bernadette smiled, standing in the doorway.
"Hello Bernadette. No, come on in!" Amy invited, holding the door open wider. "What brings you here?"
"I just wondered how you were doing." Bernadette asked, cheerfully. "And also to take you for a fun girl's day out! Minus Penny though, because she's working."
"That sounds like fun! What did you have in mind?" Amy grinned.
"I was thinking we could go for brunch and then look around the mall."
"Great! I'll let Sheldon know."
Amy hurried into the bedroom where Sheldon was sorting through his comic books.
"Sheldon; Bernadette was at the door. She's invited me for brunch and to go shopping. Do you mind?"
"Not at all…But you won't be drinking, will you?" Sheldon asked.
Amy shook her head. "Nope. Just boring old fruit juice for me."
"Okay…But I was hoping we could spend some time together." Sheldon replied.
"Well, how about I go in Victoria's Secret and pick out some nice…garments…that we can spend some time together with?" Amy asked in a hushed voice.
"Deal! Have fun with Bernadette, and be careful!" The physicist replied, kissing Amy on the lips, and tickling her lightly on her stomach.
As Amy emerged from the back of the apartment minutes later with her purse and jacket, she grinned at her blonde friend. "Okay, let's go!"
..
Amy and Bernadette sat in the little restaurant that they had had brunch in before, when they were with Penny.
"This is wonderful!" Amy said appreciatively, finishing the last bite of her food.
"Still hungry? You're eating for two now, after all." Bernadette grinned.
"Well, not quite; I'm five weeks pregnant now, which is still barely anything!" Amy laughed. "I don't even show yet!"
Bernadette smiled. "Sheldon's taking it so well!"
"He wanted a baby, we agreed to try! It was actually his idea." Amy replied.
Bernadette's eyes flew wide. "Wow, really? What have you done with the old Sheldon?" She laughed.
"He's still there." Amy replied, taking a sip of her orange juice. "In part."
"Have you told your mother yet?" Bernie asked.
"No…We haven't told his either. That will be fun!" Amy groaned.
"I thought you liked Sheldon's mother?"
"Oh no, I do…It's just, well, you know how she is. At least we can say we haven't created a baby before marriage or 'sin' as she calls it."
"Um…You kind of did sin though." Bernadette pointed out.
"Little bit." Amy grinned. "But that's not important; we're married now, and surely she must know that Sheldon and I were sleeping together?"
"Maybe. I mean it's not like you'd only ever have sex after marriage; this is the 21st century after all!" Bernie added. "Mind you this is Sheldon we're talking about."
Amy frowned at her friend.
"Sorry…Sorry, that came out wrong." Bernadette said, quickly.
"No, I know what you meant. Anyway, on that subject; I need to get a killer undergarment from Victoria's Secret that will really get his motor running tonight!" Amy grinned, impishly.
"Say no more…Actually; I know another place that does better stuff, if you're into that kinda thing!" Bernadette answered, grinning back, just as devilishly.
Amy gasped. "OOH! Tell me!"
Bernie leaned over to whisper in her ear, and Amy leaned back, with a smile on her face.
"Why are we still sitting here!? Let's pay the bill and go buy the underwear that will excite and arouse our husbands until Kingdom come!" Amy called over the waiter for the bill.
"Uh…Amy, was that 'Kingdom come' pun intentional?" Bernie whispered.
"Of course!"
..
Later that evening, Amy arrived home and found a note from Sheldon written fifteen minutes earlier.
Amy –I have gone out to get Pizza. We have the apartment to ourselves tonight. Be back in about twenty minutes. Sheldon xx
Amy grinned and ran back to the bedroom.
..
"Amy? I'm home!" Sheldon called out, letting himself in five minutes later.
"Hello?" He called out again.
He heard movement from one of the back rooms and nervously moved forward to investigate.
Realising that his room was dark, he switched the light on, and his eyes instantly grew wide.
"Hello, Dr Cooper. I've been waiting for you to come home." Amy purred.
Sheldon immediately felt himself getting an erection.
"Dear Lord…I have never seen anything so hot in my entire life!"
..
A/N: ;) ;) – That is all.
Will update soon!
