"Where is he? He wasn't in our apartment," Amy asked as she entered apartment 4A with Penny and Bernadette close behind her.
Leonard pointed down the hallway, "He's in his old room. Before you go in there, you should know that he said he didn't want to worry you, which is why he hasn't said anything to you about it. He also didn't want you to cancel girls' night since you'd been looking forward to it all day. The only suggestion he agreed with was for him to lie down in his old room."
Amy made her way to Sheldon's former room and stopped in front of the closed door, taking a breath before knocking lightly. She waited a moment for a response; when she didn't hear anything, she slowly opened the door. Sheldon was curled up on the bed and picked up his head when he saw it was Amy entering the room. "What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Leonard told Penny that you needed me. You weren't in our apartment when we got back from dinner, so I came looking for you. What's going on?" She asked as she crawled on the bed behind him and wrapped her arms around him.
Not moving, Sheldon responded, "I didn't feel like being around the guys tonight, so they suggested I lie down for a little while. I just needed some time to myself, like you had earlier this week."
Amy propped herself up on her elbow to see Sheldon's face as he twisted his neck to try to look at her. "You know you don't have to keep how you're feeling bottled up, right? I'm sorry I forced you to go to work this week so I could be alone, but why didn't you say something sooner?"
"I didn't want you to worry about me. I was trying to make this easier for you. I thought I could make myself think I was doing better than I really am. Amy, I was going to be a father and now I'm not. Howard and Leonard get to be fathers and I don't. How is that fair? I know I'll be a much better father than either of them ever will," Sheldon, who hadn't cried since Sunday morning, was now sobbing.
"I know you'll be a great father. It's just going to take us a little longer than we thought. Do you know how much it killed me during dinner tonight to listen to Penny complain about how Bernadette and I were able to have wine but she couldn't? She didn't even want to have a baby until she got pregnant." Amy continued to hug him, trying to quiet his sobs. She felt his breathing begin to steady after several minutes. "As comfortable as I am here with you now, do you want to go across the hall? We can go to bed early. I think we both need it after the week we've had. I can go in the living room and ask the guys and Bernie to leave before we head across the hall if you don't want to see everyone."
"No, it will be fine. I'd rather they all see that I'll be okay than them speculating how I'm doing." Sheldon sat up and hugged Amy back. After ending the embrace, he put out his hand for Amy to take, "Let's go home." No one said anything as the couple crossed the living room, but everyone watched as they opened the door to go across the hall.
The couple proceeded to put on their pajamas in silence. They crawled into bed and wrapped their arms around one another before either of them spoke again. "I was thinking," Amy started. "We turn off our phones for the weekend and spend two days together. We stay in our pajamas, order take out, nap, and just try to relax a little. This has been the week from hell and I think we need that time together."
"That sounds great. I like the way you think," Sheldon replied as he snuggled down into the blankets.
Amy reached behind her to turn off the light and relaxed into Sheldon again. "I'll let Penny know in the morning so they aren't worried about us and trying to come over to check on us all weekend."