The Lizard-Spock Expansion

Claire was sitting on the floor of Sheldon's apartment, two books open on his coffee table with a notebook in her lap. She was comparing two versions of Arthurian legend, from 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' to 'the Wife of Bath's Tale' in the Canterbury tales, wanting to lead her class in a discussion regarding the role of a knight's honor, chivalry, the role of women, and the lessons that the stories were meant to teach. She was very familiar with both legends, but she just wanted to get some specific quotes to use to guide the discussions later. She had her glasses perched on her nose, with a small frown on her face as she moved on to making a parallelogram for the stories.

"Oh look, Saturn 3 is on!" Sheldon was saying as he flipped through the channels on the TV.

"I don't want to watch Saturn 3," Raj huffed, "Deep Space Nine is better."

Claire looked up and had to laugh a little, she'd built a miniature fort on the table to block Raj's view of her. It was something she'd started to think of ever since the Quiz Bowl she'd been dragged into a while ago. Leonard had mentioned that Raj was ok speaking when the women blended in with the men in the audience, and he'd been sitting far enough away from Leslie that he wasn't looking at her or able to see her, which let him speak. She was trying to apply that in real life, if Raj couldn't see her, he seemed better able to talk even when she was there.

"How is Deep Space Nine better than Saturn 3?" Sheldon scoffed.

"Simple subtraction will tell you it's six better."

Claire snorted, "Tell that to Henry VIII."

"Compromise," Leonard called, "Watch Babylon 5."

"In what sense is that a compromise?" Sheldon turned to him from his place on the couch.

"Well, five is partway between three…never mind."

Claire shook her head, "If you want a real partway between the two, watch Episode Six of Star Wars," she suggested.

"I don't want to watch Star Wars," Raj complained, "We always watch Star Wars."

Claire shrugged, "You could always watch America's Next Top Model," she teased.

Leonard groaned, "You know we all agreed not to watch it again."

They'd had to, after the fiasco that had happened when they'd gotten a bit too invested in it and how Howard and Raj had nearly gotten arrested for actually finding the Model House, they'd all taken a pact not to watch the show in the boys' apartment again.

"I'll tell you what, how about we go rock-paper-scissors?" Raj suggested.

"Ooh, I don't think so," Sheldon shook his head, "No, anecdotal evidence suggests that in the game of rock-paper-scissors, players familiar with each other will tie 75 to 80 percent of the time due to the limited number of outcomes."

"So teach them our version," Claire called absently.

Sheldon looked at her with a frown, "But that's OUR version."

Claire glanced up and smiled, peering just a bit over the top of her mini-wall to look at Sheldon, "And I give you full permission to share it with your friends, Shelly. It's too good a game to keep just between the two of us."

Leonard eyed her a moment for her words as she ducked back down behind the wall, getting the feeling it wasn't really THAT good a game, but sensing that Claire didn't want to be the only one Sheldon could play it with. Either way, a new game was always fun.

"Very well," Sheldon sighed and looked at Raj and Leonard, "Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock."

"…what?" Raj asked.

"It's very simple," Sheldon began to explain, using various hand gestures to show how it worked, "Look, scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard. Lizard poisons Spock. Spock smashes scissors. Scissors decapitates lizard. Lizard eats paper. Paper disproves Spock. Spock vaporizes rock. And as it always has, rock crushes scissors."

Claire had to shake her head at that, Sheldon had a bit more of a complex way to explain it than she did. She preferred to go the more traditional route and just list that:

Scissors cuts paper and lizard,
Paper covers rock and disproves Spock,
Rock crushes scissors and lizard,
Lizard poisons Spock and eats paper,
Spock smashes scissors and rock, and that was it.

She felt like there should be at least one more object in there to make it match the original three of paper, rock, and scissors, but the logistics of working that out was a little too complicated to explain to others so they'd kept it at just the 5 objects.

"Ok," Raj nodded, as did Leonard, "I think I got it."

Claire leaned over to peer around her mini-fort to watch the proceedings, Sheldon and Raj facing each other on the couch and starting at once, "Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock!"

She laughed when they both held up the Vulcan hand sign synonymous with Spock as their choice.

Just then Howard entered the room…wearing an eye patch, "Hello, boys. My Lady," he winked at Claire.

Sheldon let out a long suffering sigh, "Claire is not your lady," he huffed.

Leonard gave Sheldon an odd look for that. The 'not your lady' he fully expected, especially when it came to Howard. But the emphasis Sheldon had put on 'your' was something he was NOT expecting. It almost sounded like Sheldon was making a statement that Claire was Sheldon's…but that couldn't be right. This was SHELDON. So, maybe he should have expected it just a bit, Sheldon had already made it very clear he did not like sharing Claire with anyone…

Leonard shook his head and focused on a much safer topic (though safe was relative at this moment given who the topic related to), Howard's eye patch, "Ahoy, matey?"

Howard smirked at that, "Noticed the eye patch, did you? It's all part of a technique I've been studying for picking up women. You employ a visual display designed to make yourself distinctive and memorable."

"Oh yes, like the male peacock with brilliant plumage or the rutting baboon with engorged hindquarters," Sheldon remarked.

"Or in this case, the bar mitzvah boy with pinkeye," Leonard quipped.

"I'm thinking more if Nick Fury and Patchy the Pirate had a Jewish baby," Claire called out, waving her hand from behind her fort of books.

"Mock me if you will, but it works," Howard countered, "You show up at a club in something distinctive, scope out your target and toss out some negs."

"You try to use negs on anyone, Howie, and they'll punch you in the face," Claire warned him, "Girls are smarter than you think we are!"

"What are negs?" Raj looked between the two.

But it was Howard that answered, "A neg is a negative compliment that throws a pretty woman off her game, like 'Normally, I'm not turned on by big teeth, but on you, they work.' I've got a whole list of 'em. Who wants to be my wingman?"

Leonard nodded, understanding Claire's remark now, "You're not gonna need wingman, you're gonna need a paramedic."

There was a knock on the door as Penny entered, dressed in her Cheesecake Factory uniform, ready for work, when she spotted Howard quickly, "Howard, your scooter's blocking my car…" and THEN noticed the patch, "Aw, did you get pinkeye again?"

"Step one, she notices the eye patch," Howard moved to demonstrate, "May I say, Penny, not a lot of women could look as hot as you do with such greasy hair?"

Penny gave him an unamused look, reaching out to grip the patch and pull it away from his face, letting it snap back to sting him, "Yeah, just move your stupid scooter before I pick it up and throw it in the dumpster."

"Ow…" Howard muttered.

Claire laughed, "Told you so, Howie!"

~8~

It had only been a few hours since Howard had left, Claire hadn't moved much from her book-fort, save to get up a short while ago and grab her laptop, pushing her glasses onto her head as she began typing up some potential research ideas she'd gotten in her comparison of the two stories. Not much else had changed in the apartment save that now, instead of Raj and Sheldon arguing over what to watch, it was Sheldon and Leonard.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not going to watch the Clone Wars TV series until I've seen the Clone Wars movie," Sheldon was saying, "I prefer to let George Lucas disappoint me in the order he intended."

"Well, I want to watch it now," Leonard argued.

"Then I believe we've arrived at another quintessential rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock moment."

Leonard seemed ready to consider actually going through with it, before he gave up, "Watch whatever you want."

Raj laughed, "I saw what you did there."

Sheldon frowned and looked at him, "What did I do? I didn't do anything, right Claire?"

"Uh huh, right, yeah," Claire mumbled, frowning at her screen as she typed.

Leonard moved over to the phone as it began to ring, "Hello. Hey, Howard. What's wrong? Ok. Ok, we'll be right there."

"What happened?" Sheldon asked.

"Howard's at the Mars Rover lab. He says he's in trouble. Defcon 5."

"Defcon 5," Sheldon scoffed, "Well, there's no need to rush."

Leonard rounded on him, "What?"

"Defcon 5 means no danger. Defcon 1 is a crisis."

"How can 5 not be worse than 1?"

"Yeah," Raj agreed, "Star Trek V, worse than I."

"Ok, first of all, that's a comparison of quality, not intensity," Sheldon countered, "Secondly, Star Trek I is orders-of-magnitude worse than Star Trek V."

Raj scoffed, "Are you joking? Star Trek V is the standard against which all badness is measured. And I'm sure Claire would agree with me, right?"

"Uh huh, right, yeah," she repeated.

"Hardly," Sheldon rolled his eyes, "Star Trek V has specific failures in writing and direction, while Star Trek I fails across the board, art direction, costuming, music, sound editing."

"Can we just forget I said Defcon and go?" Leonard huffed, turning to Claire when Sheldon appeared ready to continue arguing with him, "Claire, a little help here?"

"Uh huh, right, yeah…"

Leonard shook his head, realizing she wasn't really paying any attention at all to what they were arguing about, though, given that she'd grown up with Sheldon, he expected she'd be a pro at tuning people out.

"Guys, look, Howard needs our help and he wouldn't call us if it wasn't serious, we need to go."

"Alright, alright," Sheldon sighed, getting up as Leonard grabbed his keys.

"Star Trek V!" Raj muttered, wanting the last word.

Sheldon shook his head and looked at Claire, "If we're not back before you retire for the night, please lock the door behind you."

"Uh huh, right, yeah…"

Leonard watched as Sheldon paused at that and finally seemed to notice that Claire wasn't listening. Sheldon glanced at her and sighed to himself, walking over to her and moving behind her, crouching down to cover her eyes with his hands.

"Guess who?" Sheldon asked.

Claire sighed as well, nearly seeming to sag, "I was in the zone again, wasn't I?"

Sheldon removed his hands and let them fall to her shoulders, giving them a light squeeze, "And I promised to stop you."

They were both people passionate about their chosen fields of study and both very prone to getting far too focused on what they were researching at any given moment, even more so when they were on the cusp of a breakthrough. They had made a promise that, if they ever got too locked in, that they'd make sure the other stopped and took care of themselves no matter how much they might argue or fight it. It wasn't so bad for him, he'd stare at his whiteboards, but Claire did a lot of her work with her nose in a book or sitting in the dark and typing on her computer. She always got headaches when she did either for too long and, since they didn't know how long it would take to fix whatever it was Howard had done, he didn't want to risk leaving and coming back hours later to see her in the same spot.

Claire patted his hand, smiling up at him, "Thank you, Shelly," she told him, reaching out to shut her laptop and take a breath, "I'm gonna eat, freshen up, and maybe watch a show or something before I get back to this. Promise."

Sheldon nodded, patting her shoulders before he stood and headed back to the others who were just staring at him, "What?" he asked, "I thought we were supposed to be helping Howard, not standing around catching flies with our mouths. Honestly."

Leonard shook his head, not about to argue when Sheldon actually seemed willing to go, and just turned to leave with the others.

~8~

Claire was sitting on the armrest of the couch, beside Sheldon, as they were watching the news. Sheldon was, for once, quieter than normal, not that Claire blamed him. Whatever Howard had done last night had taken a good portion of it to rectify and she knew Sheldon either got cranky or quiet when he hadn't had enough sleep. It seemed he was more on the quiet side this time, which was probably a blessing. If the others handled a change in sleeping habits as well as Sheldon did, they'd have a set of very short tempered men in the same room as a man they barely tolerated on a good day.

They were watching a news program, one Howard had insisted on, one Sheldon hadn't argued against, which was suspicious in its own right.

"A NASA spokesman states that due to the loss of data, they will most likely be unable to determine the cause of the Mars Rover's malfunction," a reporter was announcing, "This is not the first time an exploratory mission to Mars has ended in disappointment."

"Thank God for Plan B," Howard muttered.

Penny frowned at that, a sense of familiarity striking her, "Howard, didn't you say you worked on the Mars Rover?"

"No, you're mistaken."

"Yeah, when we first met, you said that if I went out with you, I could drive a car on Mars."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"I don't either," Claire murmured, "I was never offered a chance to drive the Mars Rover."

Howard scoffed at that, "Yeah, because your BFF over there threatened to tell my mother about my less than Kosher diet if I tried."

Claire looked at Sheldon for that, confused, "Why would you…"

"It's never 'just driving a car' with Howard," Penny answered at a guess, "I wouldn't be surprised if it was a line he used to pick up girls."

"Got it," Claire grimaced at the thought, more than a little creeped out to think of Howard ever trying to pick her up in that way…and very grateful to Sheldon for protecting her from that.

Sheldon, however, instead of remarking on that, merely stood slowly, having heard someone 'psst'ing him from the hall, "Will you all excuse me? Leonard is subtly signaling that he'd like to talk to me in private."

"Now that I think about it," Penny continued as Sheldon stepped into the back hall, "That's definitely what you said. You started by asking if I was from Mars because my ass was out of this world."

"Well, that does sound like me, but no," Howard coughed.

"Mhmm," Claire eyed the man suspiciously.

"What?" he shook his head.

"So the Rover just happened to fall into a ditch the same night that you called the guys all frantic and needing help with your emergency?"

Howard gaped at her a moment, clearly unaware that Claire had still been in the room when he'd called Leonard, "Whaaaat?" he tried to play it off, though his laughter sounded far too forced, "You think that…that, what, just because I had a hot date last night and…and MAYBE used the fact that I worked on the Mars Rover in the past and…might have had some sort of emergency last night that it means, what, I…I took a pretty girl to the control room to let her use the Rover hoping it would get me laid and drove it into a ditch and then had to erase all the evidence I was even there? Psshht," he waved it off, "You're crazy."

Claire and Penny exchanged a look at that, both amused and completely not believing a word Howard had said about that not being what happened. It was SO exactly what happened and what they'd expect from a horndog like Howard Wolowitz.

"I'm going out for a while!" Leonard called, saving Howard from their interrogation as he headed back from the hall and for the door, quickly leaving before they could really say anything at all.

"Ok?" Howard shook his head.

Sheldon stood there at the edge of the small half-circle they'd made around the couch to stare at them, "Doesn't anyone want to know where he's going?"

Penny looked at the others before shrugging, playing along, "Ok, where is he going?"

"Leonard is going to…the office."

Claire shook her head at how Sheldon had over-exaggerated 'the office' at the end of his sentence. It was clearly a cover for something. But…he wasn't exhibiting the same traits he normally did when someone made him an unwilling holder of a secret or when he was forced to lie, so he genuinely didn't know where Leonard had gone. And it wasn't any of her business to pry either, nor did anyone else seem to really care.

So she patted the seat next to her, Sheldon's spot, "Come on Shelly, have a seat."

"Ooh, can we watch Project Runway?" Penny looked at the others.

"No," was all Sheldon said, before taking the remote and picking a show to watch.

~8~

Claire looked up as Penny entered the apartment from having gone to collect her laundry, the girl shutting the door and just resting against it a moment with a frown on her face.

"Everything ok, Pen?" she called, closing the textbook in front of her with a pen in place to come back to later.

"Huh, what?" Penny glanced up, almost like she'd forgotten Claire was in the room, "Oh, yeah, fine."

Claire crossed her arms and turned on her chair to face her more, and gave her a look she usually reserved just for Sheldon when he was trying to put one past her.

"Damn it," Penny huffed, feeling unnerved by it and putting her laundry basket down so she could plop onto the couch, "Leonard was doing his laundry."

"Ok…" Claire spoke slowly, "Not unusual."

"He was washing some new shirts."

"Bout time he updated his wardrobe."

"Yeah, except the last time he did that was when WE were dating."

"I'm not sure one date qualifies as 'dating' Pen."

"It does, a date means we were dating for that date at least so we were dating."

Claire held up her hands in surrender, getting up to go sit beside Penny on the couch, "So who is she?" she asked, understanding now why Penny seemed so out of sorts. Finding out Leonard might already have another girlfriend, or at least be back on the dating scene was hitting the blonde harder than she probably thought it would.

"A doctor," Penny sighed, "And not like a doctor like them all sciencey and stuff but an actual doctor doctor."

"Um, I think a doctor doctor is still a sciencey doctor cos…"

"Not really the point," Penny cut in gently, "You should have heard him talking about her. How she's a surgical resident and smart and pretty and somehow also dating Wolowitz…"

Claire blinked at that, "She's two timing Howard with Leonard?"

That did NOT seem like something Leonard would do to a friend, let his girlfriend cheat with him. Granted, it WAS Howard and for all she knew he probably got it in his head that they were officially dating after just one 'Rover drive' but still…if Howard really thought they were dating, then it was not cool of Leonard to do this. But, again, Leonard wasn't the sort to do it if Howard really WAS dating this doctor girl.

Oh that was going to do her head round in circles trying to work out who was in the right.

She didn't really have to though, that wasn't her main concern right now, Penny was. The girl was obviously upset about it and whether Howard was being cuckolded or Leonard was being a terrible friend wasn't the point, the point was Penny and making sure she'd be alright.

She liked this, in a very generic sense, that this time it was Penny on one side and not-Sheldon on the other. It made it easier to take a side and be supportive, Penny, all the way. Well, unless it was Penny who did something wrong, but still she'd be a bit more kind in how she'd phrase her disappointment. When it was Penny vs. Sheldon, that was where it got really bad, so this? This was easy compared to the last fight that happened.

"I have no idea," Penny remarked, "Apparently Howard thinks he's dating this girl, but she's more into Leonard. Normally I would've said that Leonard was a jerk to date someone who was dating one of his friends behind his back, but it's Wolowitz and he probably came on way too strong and thought her 'back off' face was a 'come hither' one."

Claire nodded, that did seem like a realistic thing that could happen.

Penny sighed, "He slept with her already."

"Howard?"

"Leonard," Penny corrected, "And I told him that was great. Said 'good for you' like I was happy about it. I shoulda just left it with Wolowitz."

"Pen…"

"I know," Penny groaned, able to hear it in the reluctance in Claire's tone what the girl was going to say, "I know. None of this would be happening if I'd gone through with really dating-dating Leonard."

Claire reached out to put her arm around Penny's shoulder, letting the girl rest against her for comfort, "There's no saying it'll work out for them."

Penny scoffed, "Yeah, the smart, sciencey, pretty girl against the dumb, ditzy, blonde."

"Hey," Claire pulled back a little at Penny's words, hearing the smallest sign of a sniffle in her voice, "You are not dumb or ditzy…you may not be a real blonde either for all I know…"

"Hey," Penny mock shoved her for the last one, "Real blonde."

"Alright, you got me there then, but you are by no means dumb, Penny, and you're far from ditzy. I've seen ditzy, I grew up around ditzy. You've never asked me how many calories are in water," she gave Penny a pointed look.

Penny frowned and turned to her, "People really asked…"

"I told you, ditz central where I lived," she reminded the woman, "Trailer park in Texas with Sheldon as a best friend? No shortage of him pointing out exactly who was a ditz. He even made a scale for it to rate them."

Penny laughed a little, that sounded like Sheldon.

"And you are SO smart, Pen," Claire continued, "Maybe not with science, but with so many other things, half of them can't be quantified. Like…how well you can read people and situations. Your empathy and sympathy. You've got an amazing memory too, Pen, all those lines and scenes you memorize for your auditions? You might give Shelly a run for his money if he didn't have that eidetic memory going on. You remember a lot of things that are interesting to you. And you're teaching me to cook! You can't teach if you don't know what you're talking about. You've got people skills and street smarts that the guys don't have and could never have even if they combined. Just cos this doctor girl might be smart in medicine doesn't mean she's smart in other areas."

"Yeah, but…"

"Look at me," Claire offered, "I got that fancy PhD, in books. But ask me to cook or pick an outfit or even choose what I want to eat for dinner and I'm a mess. My room changes around more than the milk in the fridge does. You set me off talking about Chaucer or Shakespeare and yeah, I sound smart, but ask me about the reason why music is so important in a movie and I got nothing. I bet you could answer that though."

Penny smiled, her mind already racing through the numerous reasons why music was incorporated into movies and why they began at certain points or waited to another moment, "Yeah."

"See?" Claire nudge her, "You are such a smart person Pen, just in different ways than this doctor girl. Just like the guys are all smart about something, but dumb as stumps in other areas."

"Yeah," Penny repeated with a laugh, "Last week Leonard asked me to help him check the oil in his car. It was brown."

"Ooh," Claire winced at that, not needing any kind of knowledge of cars to tell that was probably bad just based on how Penny said it.

Penny looked at her, "You really think I'm smart?"

Claire nodded, "I been around a lot of different people, Pen, and I can tell you there are a lot of different forms of intelligence and ways to be smart. And you are definitely smart in your own way, just like I am, and Leonard is and Sheldon and all the others."

"Thanks," Penny murmured, falling quiet a moment, "You really think they won't last?"

Claire could only shrug, "I can't see the future, but I do know that Leonard has been sweet on you from the moment I met him and, if Shelly wasn't just exaggerating how annoying he found Leonard, he's been sweet on you from the second he laid eyes on you. That sorta feeling isn't gonna go away over night or any time soon."

Penny started to smile slyly at that, "We still talking about ME?" she nudged Claire.

Claire rolled her eyes, "Yes," she insisted, knowing that if she didn't keep this about Penny the girl would want to talk to her about Sheldon and her rising feelings for him. Penny could be a bit…pushy when she wanted to be and right now, after this discussion, she really would rather not go in that direction just yet, "And besides," she continued, "Sometimes being too alike can make a relationship harder. You need variety, someone to challenge you, someone to make you think about things different."

"Like you and Sheldon?" Penny half-sing-songed at her, teasingly.

"Like you and Leonard," Claire pushed back, "You both make each other try new things and think about new things, I don't think he's gonna be getting much of that from this doctor lady."

Penny was quiet as she considered those words, they were true. In the time she'd known Leonard…he made her want to be smarter, to really think about finishing her education, to understand more about the world around her. And she liked to think that she helped Leonard with his confidence, with his ability to talk to other people, and maybe even with his standing up to Sheldon.

"If it doesn't work out though," Claire looked at Penny, "You're really gonna have to think about what you want with Leonard," she explained, "You can't keep feeling like this each time he gets a girl's attention if the girl you want him to be with is YOU."

"You're right," Penny murmured, "Thanks."

Claire smiled, "No problem at all."

~8~

Claire was visiting the boys' apartment a few nights later, Penny working a shift at the Cheesecake Factory. She'd been caught up with her classes and hadn't had a chance to see Sheldon since shortly after her talk with Penny and was being briefed on everything that had happened involving Leonard and Howard. Apparently Howard had found out about Leonard and the girl, Stephanie she'd learned, and had taken to pretending both were dead to him. Until Stephanie offered him a chance to date her roommate who had gotten out of a bad break up.

She was currently hearing the proof of that exact date, and how terribly it had apparently gone, as Howard was trying to leave the girl a message as they all gathered in the apartment.

"So, anyway, Lisa, I just wanted to tell you again how much I enjoyed the other night, and again, I'm sorry for how it ended. But again, if you could let me know about Friday. My mother needs a head count so she can know how big a brisket to get."

"Howard," Leonard called, seeing something on the news, "Howard, look at this."

"Anyway, call me. It's Howard."

He hung up quickly and joined them all as a reporter brought up the latest, "The possibility of life on Mars has long fascinated scientists and laypersons alike. It's unclear how the Mars Rover got into the crevice, but one thing's certain, the data which it has sent back contain the first clear indications that there may have been life on Mars. It's a scientific discovery that has staggering implications for all mankind. Unfortunately, we'll never know who's responsible."

Howard just stared at the screen, "Son of a bitch."

Claire just shook her head, reaching out to pat his arm, "Maybe next time just take them to a nice restaurant…or Medieval Times, that works too."

A/N: Sorry this is a little later than when I normally try to get the chapter up, had a job interview earlier that I was preparing for. Don't think it went well, but at least it was something :)

But awww, Sheldon and Claire looking out for each other, and Penny and Claire looking out for each other too :') My heart can't take it lol :) I had an interesting time writing Stephanie's episode chapters, I hope you'll enjoy them :)

Also just a tiny note for anyone interested, I've worked out how I'll be updating the movie-stories now that I've finished Thor/Athena for Ragnarok. I'll be posting Captain America: The First Avenger for Steve's OC hopefully within the week (at the latest 2 weeks) and then alternating between Cap and other movie stories, like finishing Thor's Infinity War, going with Cora's Star Trek, and so on ;) So we may be getting a new OC and a new Series very soon ;)

Some notes on reviews...

I really like how Claire fits into the group too :) She and Leonard are definitely going to be spending some more time together as the series goes, they'll basically be dating each other's 'best friends' at one point ;) But oh yes, Penny is certainly going to be bringing up the roommate situation in some key moments ;)

Yup, Amy will be a part of the series in later stories. She'll actually play a very big role in the changes to Claire and Sheldon's friendship/relationship, but I won't say how ;)

Oh yes, some romance and jealousy will be coming up, but I can't say who will experience what or when ;)

I can't say exactly what Claire's character would be, but you're very close in the healing category ;)