"When we did the ultrasound, we saw that you have fluid in your stomach," he paused. Sheldon turned to see Amy. He took her hand in fear that she would reject him again, but she squeezed it tightly instead.
"It is dangerous? What about the baby? " Asked Amy trying to get up, her husband put a hand tenderly on her shoulder to prevent her from getting up.
"It is recommended that you remain in bed, Mrs. Cooper," said the doctor.
"It's Dr. Fowler, please," Amy's face darkened. She was worried about the health of her baby and what she wanted most at that moment was Sheldon by her side. But he surely was there because their friends forced him to do the right thing and if that was the reason, she would rather be alone. So she let go of her husband's hand. Amy felt his gaze on her, but she refused to look back at him.
"My apologies, Dr. Fowler. And to answer your question, it is nothing serious -said the doctor because of the look of concern of the future parents-A local anesthetic will be applied to make an incision and insert a needle to ...
"Are you going to stick a needle in her stomach?" Sheldon asked horrified. "What if by accident the needle touches the baby and ...?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Cooper," the doctor smiled kindly and Amy was surprised that Sheldon didn't correct him like she did. "At this moment the babies are very small, about the size of a grape so it would be unlikely that ...
"Excuse me for interrupting you, but…" Amy stood up before her husband could stop her "Did you just say the babies? Like ... more than one? "
"Oh…" Dr. Mont scratched the back of his head somewhat embarrassed "Yes, that was the other news I was going to give you. When we did the ultrasound I thought I saw two fetuses, but due to the liquid in your stomach it was very difficult for me to be sure that there were indeed two."
"And how are you sure there are two?" Sheldon asked nervously. He put a hand on the bed where Amy was to try to support himself since he felt that at any moment her legs would give him away.
"Normally it would be confirmed at the time of doing the ultrasound, but as I told you because of the liquid it was more difficult and among the studies that they did, I asked for a blood test to see her levels of hcg hormone that are quite high, which means that you two are going to be parents of twins- he added looking at Amy-I guess it's your first pregnancy.
"Yes" Amy confirmed "Why?"
"You are about eight weeks pregnant so you must have a lot of nausea and dizziness or be constantly tired" Amy nodded "A woman who was already pregnant before might notice that her symptoms are strong, but since this is her first pregnancy it is obviously you couldn't tell the difference."
"My hus… Sheldon and I won the Nobel Prize a few months ago and I have been traveling around the country ever since. I thought I was feeling tired lately because of that and ... a few days ago my nausea started was when I realized that I might be pregnant."
-Well, first I want to congratulate you both on the Nobel.
"Thank you," said Amy, smiling slightly.
"And I also want to tell you Dr. Fowler that maybe you should stay home for at least a month to rest," he said. "Then you should come in for a checkup once a month."
"But after that will I be able to continue giving lectures?"
"Yes. But if you can avoid traveling continuously it would be the best for you and the babies."
"Very good. Thank you so much doctor. "
"I have to leave you for a few minutes. When I'm back I'll proceed to remove the liquid from your stomach" The doctor extended a hand to Sheldon " In the meanwhile you can talk about your babies" Sheldon raised his hand to take the doctor's but as he did so he felt him go sideways. The last thing he remembers was hitting his forehead against something.
When he opened his eyes the first thing he saw was the ceiling of the room. He tried to get up quickly, but he felt dizzy. He felt that his head was going to explode so he put a hand to his forehead.
"What happened?" He asked when he saw that he had a bandage on his forehead.
"The doctor was giving you information about Amy's condition, you fainted and hit your head, so they brought you here to suture the wound on your forehead," Howard answered.
He was about to stand up when he felt a blow to his chest. "Hey! Why was that? "He complained looking at Bernadette that she did not seem happy.
"I saw that you're fine, so I can already say everything I think of you," she said without taking her eyes off him. She tried to hit him again, but Howard stopped her.
"Sweetheart, the doctor told us he should rest," her husband reminded her. That made her stop but the way she looked at Sheldon didn't change.
"You're an idiot!" She exclaimed, walking to the opposite side of the room. Sheldon figured it was to prevent her from hitting him again "First you say a lot of horrible things to your wife and now that she needs your support you are not brave enough to be with her. "
"I know," Sheldon admitted, looking down, "I made a mistake saying those things to Amy and ...
"Do you want her to forgive you?" Bernadette teased with annoyance.
"Yes, I wanted to tell her that I made a mistake but the doctor arrived and... "
-How simple, right? You accuse her of horrible things, she leaves you and now suddenly it turns out that you want her to forgive you. She won't admit it but yesterday she barely ate what we gave her and she spent her time locked in the guest room crying. When we saw her before going to work today her eyes were puffy from crying. So I'm not going to let you get close to her and hurt her even more than you already did."
"Do you think everything that happened is easy for me? " His voice cracked at the thought of all the suffering he had caused her wife because of his mistake "I feel like the worst man on earth for having said all those things. Now I know that I am wrong and she did not cheat on me ... "
"Wow, you finally realized it. We all believed in her when she told us that she was not cheating on you "Bernadette claimed." You were the only one to believe that Amy could cheat on you. "
"You didn't see what I saw," Sheldon said, increasingly annoyed. He had never liked Penny and Bernadette getting into his relationship with Amy. He now understood that they did it because they cared about her, and he was grateful that they were good friends with her. But he needed to talk to his wife, not Bernadette "I'll go find Amy."
"She doesn't want to see you." It was Howard who spoke. He stood in front of the door to prevent his friend from leaving the room.
"I need to talk to her," Sheldon insisted. "She needs me there."
"Amy needs to rest and be calm and she won't be able to do it if you go and accuse her of something she didn't do."
"I already told you I was wrong!" His friends looked at him surprised but they did not move "I'm sorry, I…" he started to breathe hard so he sat on the edge of the bed " I want to be with my wife, and you were right" he said looking at Bernadette "I must have been brave to her, but instead I fainted."
"You can't go with her" Howard put a hand on his shoulder "If you faint because they are going to make a small incision... "
"I didn't faint because of that"
"Then what happened? "
Sheldon bit his lip. It was obvious that his friends didn't know about babies and he wondered if Amy still didn't want to share the news. But he has to tell them. They didn't seem to have any intention of letting him out and he needed to get back to his wife.
"I fainted because the doctor confirmed that Amy is pregnant," he paused to assess their reaction and then added, "with twins."
"Wow, that's... "
"A lot to process," Howard said and his wife nodded.
"Yeah, that's why I need to be with Amy. Can you let me out?" Sheldon pleaded, standing up.
"Okay." Bernadette motioned for Wolowitz to step aside. He was about to leave when the woman put a hand on his arm to stop him. "But I warn you that if you make Amy suffer again, the twins will be the only children you can have after what I'll do to you."
Sheldon swallowed saliva "If I hurt Amy again… I'll just go with you so you can do whatever you want with me" he said before leaving that room.
When the elevator door closed, Sheldon realized that he did not know what he was going to say to his wife to forgive him. In a few seconds the door opened again and he saw that he had reached the floor where Amy was.
He stood for a couple of minutes in front of the door of his wife's room. "Come on Cooper, you can do this" he told himself before knocking on the door just once.
"Come in," answered his wife. Surely she thought he was some nurse since she would not be amused if he came back. He walked into the room and seeing the expression on her face she realized that he was correct. She was not at all happy to see him.
"What are you doing here?" Sheldon asked, noticing the presence of Stuart who was sitting in a chair next to Amy's bed.
-Raj called me to tell me what had happened. When I arrived Leonard just had left to go to his house to see Penny and the doctor showed up to tell us what had happened to you. Howard and Bernadette came to see Amy and I stayed with you while you were unconscious, but minutes later they came to the room where you were and asked me to come with Amy" Stuart explained.
"Thanks for being with Amy," Sheldon said sincerely. "But please leave us alone. I need to talk to her. "
"Sure" Stuart got up from the chair ready to leave.
"Don't go," Amy asked kindly. "Sheldon is the one who has to go."
"Okay…" Stuart stopped in the middle of the room. Apparently something had happened between the couple in front of him, but like him he was always the last to know that he was happening.
"I'm not going to leave here until I talk to you."
"Why do you want to talk to me?" Asked Amy. "To tell me that Leonard and the others were the ones who forced you to come to the hospital? Or maybe to tell me that my supposed lover is the one who should be here with me? "
"What?" Stuart blushed when he saw that they looked at him "I'm sorry, I ... I shouldn't have interrupted but who said you have a lover? That is totally ridiculous. We all know how much you love Sheldon and would be unable to cheat on him.
Sheldon squeezed his eyes shut for a second hearing what Stuart said. When he opened his eyes he saw a tear slide down the right eye of his wife. She quickly wiped away the tear.
"It's funny that you say that, Stuart" Amy smiled sadly "Because it was Sheldon himself who accused me of having cheat on him."
"Amy ... "
"Get out of here, Sheldon." The smile had disappeared from Stuart's face as he looked at the man in front of him.
"I'm not leaving," he repeated. He tried to get closer to Amy, but Stuart got between them.
"She doesn't want you here," he said, pushing him back.
"Don't make me call security," her wife warned, grabbing the control that was next to her. He knew that if she presses it some nurse would come to the room and they would take him out of there.
"Okay" Sheldon took a few steps back "Call them, it doesn't matter if they drag me out of here, but just give me a couple of minutes" he begged "I have to explain that I was wrong. I know you didn't cheat on me. "
"Fine" she said after a few seconds in silence "You have two minutes for whatever you are going to say and after that time, I will yell or do whatever it takes to get you out of the room and ask them not allow you to return, understood?
"Yes."
"I'll be out here in case you need anything," Stuart told her before leaving the room.
"So you finally realized that I didn't lie to you. How? "
"I'll explain everything, but ..." he pointed to the chair next to her bed. "Can I sit down?"
"No," she answered, "I don't want you near me."
Sheldon inhale deeply. He felt that at any moment his legs would fail him again, but he had to be strong if he wanted to settle things between his wife and him.
He began by explaining how when he got to the cafeteria where they had agreed to meet, he realized that it was closed, after several attempts he managed to open the door, only to find out a man dancing with a woman he had thought was her. Seeing the scene in front of him, he had felt ill and fled from the place.
Then they had argued in the apartment of their friends and she had left. He spent all of Sunday trying to obtain information about her whereabouts without success. Before going to work he had ambushed Leonard and convinced him to accompany him to the cafeteria to find out what had really happened.
"We were about to leave the place, when you, or so we believed at first, appeared in the cafeteria. Leonard looked so surprised when he saw you come in, for a moment he also believed that you were cheating on me, but then he noticed something that I didn't. The woman in front of us put her hair behind her ear and Leonard realized that she had a mole that you don't have - he paused briefly ""I still didn't quite understand that everything that had happened was because of…. because I mistook you for a woman extremely similar to you, when… I received the call to inform me that you had been brought to the hospital. I have never been so scared in my life as I was at that moment. "
"Okay"
"So you think it was all a terrible mess?" Sheldon asked hopefully.
"Yes, I believe you," she answered.
"Oh, Amy. That's wonderful" Sheldon ran to where her wife was laying and tried to hug her. But she pushed him with all the strength she had to stop him "What's wrong?"
"You still ask? After everything you told me? "
"But ... I explained to you," Sheldon said confused. "It was all a…"
"Yes, you explained to me that you saw a woman similar to me and instead of finding out if she was me or not, you drew your own conclusions and accused me of horrible things. "
"Amy ... "
"And when I explained that I wasn't even in that place, you refused to believe me. "
"You asked me to meet you at that place and when I got there, your car was already there, so I go into the cafeteria and see a woman identical to you. What did you want me to think? "He tried to defend himself" All the evidence pointed to you being the one in the arms of that man.
"Did you try to talk to this woman you thought was me?"
"We only exchanged a few words. I couldn't stand the way you were... the way she looked at that man, so I got away from there as fast as I could."
"And when I got to the apartment and you started saying that I wanted a divorce, didn't you realize that I had no idea what you were talking about? "
"Well…"
"You thought I was pretending, isn't it? "
"Yes" he admitted.
"Very good. I'm going to ask you another question and I want you to answer me with total sincerity" Amy inhaled deeply "And didn't you stop to think, even for a second, that the woman you saw was not me? "
"No" he whispered "During our discussion I was convinced that it was you I saw, but afterwards..."
"Get out of here."
"Amy, after I calmed down, I had time to think things through clearly and... "
"GET OUT!" Yelled his wife.
At that moment several things happened at the same time. He tried to approach her while Stuart entered the room accompanied by two nurses. Between a woman and a man, they took him out of there. The last thing Sheldon saw was Amy crying on Stuart's shoulder as he watched him in disappointment.