My Friend Rachel

by Dts17

During one Anything Can Happen Thursday, Howard drags his 3 friends out to a nightclub where Sheldon runs into an old childhood friend of his named Rachel Wayneburg who's now a CDC nurse and catches up with her. But little does he know that his feelings will go way beyond friendship when he discovers his friend's dark relationship with her boyfriend. Sheldon/Rachel pairing.

8. Chapter 8

Chapter 8

" Mmm…", Aymee softly moaned as she slowly began to wake up a few hours later from her nap with everyone standing around her again, watching her as she slowly started to sit up on the air mattress at first with concerned looks but then looks of relief as smiles began to spread across their faces. The heart monitor and pulse reader that she was still hooked up to was still beeping at a steady normal pace.

" Hey look you guys, she's waking up!", Stuart exclaimed with a smile.

" Yeah we can all see that you dingus!", Howard shot back as he smacked his friend upside the head causing him to shriek, " Ow! Wolowitz!" as he started to rub the side of his head where his friend just assaulted him.

" Will you two putzes just cut it out and shut up?! You're being too loud!", Bernadette hissed at the two men as she gave them each a dirty look that said, ' Quit it or feel my wrath!'

" Well he started it!", Howard shot back as he pointed at Stuart.

" Oh balls!", Penny hissed as she rolled her eyes.

" Penny please, not now! That is not needed!", Dr. Gravis hissed. He then walked over to Aymee, knelt down, and asked, " Hello Aymee, how are you feeling?"

" I'm actually feeling a lot better. Thank you for asking Dr. Gravis.", Aymee said with a slight smile as she was slowly blinking her eyes.

" Well good because for a moment there we were all scared that we gonna lose you.", Dr. Gravis said.

" Well that wouldn't have been good now would it?", Aymee asked.

" No it would not. You are way too young for that still.", Dr. Gravis said as he shook his head.

" That's agreed!", all the other adults said together as they nodded their heads.

" Aymee!", Skipper, Nova, and Delaney exclaimed as they ran to their friend and hugged her.

" Ah, stop! You guys are crushing me!", Aymee shrieked as she felt like the air was being squeezed out of her lungs by the way her friends were embracing her which was a little too tight.

" Oh sorry Aymee. We were just really worried about you for a second.", Delaney said as they let go of their friend.

" Yeah no joke! When we saw you go down like that at the courthouse we didn't even know what to think! That was seriously really scary!", Skipper and Nova said.

" Yeah I know. I didn't even know what was happening to my family and I, either, to be honest until Dr. Gravis said something about it.", Aymee said.

" True. You guys want to go do something else now?", Delaney asked.

" Yes.", Nova, Aymee, and Skipper said as they nodded their heads.

" You can Delaney after you come with me first!", Rachel scolded.

" Aw biscuits!", Delaney hissed as her mother picked her up and carried her out of the room and into the bathroom. Then a short while later after Dr. Gravis released Aymee from the monitor when she was stable enough, him and the others then took Aymee to the motel where her family just checked themselves in at to be reunited with them.

" Hi Mom, Dad, and Mayghen. I'm back from the CDC.", Aymee said when she entered the room with everyone else following in behind her.

" Oh thank god you're alright Aymee!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell exclaimed in relief as they threw their arms around their youngest daughter, kissing her head repeatedly.

" Yeah seriously sis, you scared the living hell out of us! Are you ok?!", Mayghen exclaimed in relief as she embraced her sister as well.

" Yeah I'm fine Mayghen, I just needed to take a nap is all.", Aymee said as her family then let go of her after a few minutes.

" Well what do we do now?! We can't go home, otherwise this whole living nightmare that we just went through will start back up all over again!", Mr. Atwell asked in concern.

" Yeah that's very much agreed here! What's the plan now?!", Rachel, Sheldon, Leonard, Mrs. Cooper, Missy, Georgie, Meemaw, Jonah, Reese, Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis, Joy, Ivan, Mara, Howard, Bernadette, Gene, Amy, Penny, Raj, Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Wayneburg, Mr. and Mrs. Walkerson, Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield, Kensley, Kez, Charly, Mayghen, Aymee, Mrs. Atwell, Delaney, Nova, and Skipper asked in concern.

" Well, firstly I think we should let the Atwells stay here at this motel for a few days to detox from the effects of those turbines near their home and then after that I say we all go over there so I can take some good accurate Infrasound readings with my meter to see just exactly what we're dealing with. Does everybody agree on that?", Dr. Gravis asked.

" Yes.", Rachel, Sheldon, Leonard, Mrs. Cooper, Missy, Georgie, Meemaw, Jonah, Reese, Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis, Joy, Ivan, Mara, Howard, Bernadette, Gene, Amy, Penny, Raj, Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Wayneburg, Mr. and Mrs. Walkerson, Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield, Kensley, Kez, Charly, Mayghen, Aymee, Mrs. Atwell, Delaney, Nova, Skipper, and Mr. Atwell said simultaneously.

" Alright, we got ourselves a plan then people.", Dr. Gravis said. They continued their conversations with each other before they went their separate ways again. Then a few days later shortly after the Atwells checked out of their motel room, everyone suddenly found themselves piled into Dr. Gravis's very large van that was heading over to the Atwell residence so that he could get an accurate reading of the Infrasound levels around the property that were coming from the wind turbines that were sitting directly behind the home at an approximate footage of 1,630 feet as Mr. Atwell previously described. They all each had ear protection over their ears except for Dr. Gravis who had to keep his ears unplugged for that moment because he was driving and he had to make sure that he could hear emergency vehicle sirens if they were approaching. But once they got there and stepped out of the vehicle just as Dr. Gravis was putting on his own ear protection before he grabbed his Infrasound meter there was a series of screaming and shouting over the noise of the turbines with the others screaming, " AHHHH OH MY GOD!" and Sheldon screaming, " GOOD LORD!" as they were all placing their hands on top of the ear protection that they were already wearing.

*Wind turbines making jet engine like sounds*

*Dr. Gravis's Infrasound meter screaming loudly and repetitively, beedo beedo beedo beedo beedo!*

" My god, what the hell is that?! It sounds like a freaking jet engine!", Penny screamed loudly over the turbine noise as she was pressing her hands against her ear protection that was covering her ears.

" Yeah thanks for pointing out the obvious Penny! For god sakes this is so loud!", Leonard screamed loudly while doing the same thing that his girlfriend along with everyone else except for Dr. Gravis who was holding his screaming meter as it was recording the very high levels of Infrasound.

" We totally agree with that Leonard! This is torture!", the other adults all screamed loudly over the noise too.

" Will you people shut up for a second! I'm taking a reading here! Good gravy, these Infrasound levels are off the charts already and this is from us just standing here in the front yard! Wait here for a moment everyone, I'm going to go into the backyard for a second to check the levels back there!", Dr. Gravis shouted over the turbine noise and his screaming meter at the others before he sprinted around to the backyard of the house where the turbines were at and the moment he did so he found that the levels were so bad that they began to push his meter to its capacity.

" Yeah this is insane! This is absolutely downright ridiculously insane! It's a lot worse than I thought or could have ever imagined!", Dr. Gravis shouted as the others joined him back there shortly after he started taking readings while standing almost to the base of the first turbine. In addition to the noise there was also the very intense shadow flicker that was sweeping across the entire landscape and over the house.

" Yeah you're telling me Dr. Gravis, this is horrible! There's that shadow flicker too, ahhh! Cover your eyes and look away you guys!", Rachel screamed as she almost got blinded in the face by the shadow flicker forcing her to turn away from it and cover her eyes. Some of the others started doing the same thing too.

" This is worse than anyone could ever imagine!", Stuart screamed.

" Yeah you think, you putz?! Ow my eyes, and my ears!", Bernadette screamed.

" Lord in Heaven would y'all just calm down! None of this is helping us!", Mrs. Cooper shouted.

" Yeah you think we don't know that Ma?! Geez Louise!", Georgie shouted.

" Georgie, enough!", Mrs. Cooper shouted.

" Nice going you wildhog!", Missy shouted at her brother.

" Missy shut up!", Georgie shouted at his sister.

" Both of you shut up because this is ridiculous!", Sheldon shouted at his two siblings.

" YOU SHUT UP SHELDON!", Howard, Raj, Reese, Mara, Joy, and Ivan shouted.

" Alright you know what people, that's it! I'm officially making a call even though I'm afraid I have to do it, but unfortunately it's for everyone's safety! More specifically for you 4 since you live here!", Dr. Gravis shouted as he pointed at the Atwells.

" Well what call are you making here exactly Dr. Gravis?! Because we don't understand where you're going with this!", Mr. Atwell shouted as he stood next to his wife and their two daughters as well as everyone else.

" Ok I'm going to say this as loudly and clearly as I can to the 4 of you! BY ORDER OF THE CDC I'M OFFICIALLY NOW DECLARING THAT THIS PROPERTY AND THIS HOUSE AS VERY UNSAFE TO LIVE IN AND THEREFORE YOU MUST VACATE IT IMMEDIATELY!", Dr. Gravis shouted over the noise.

" WHAT?!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell, Mayghen, and Aymee as well as everyone else shouted in complete shock.

" You're seriously forcing us out of our house right now Dr. Gravis?!", Mayghen shouted.

" Yes I am Mayghen Justina Atwell because this is dangerous! These levels are absolutely pushing my meter to its capacity! I don't want to have to do that to you folks but unfortunately I have no choice! This is for your safety and everyone else here including myself! So here's what's going to happen, all of us are going to pitch in right now to clear out this entire house and then we're going to get the hell away from here! I'm afraid to say it, but, this house is now CONDEMNED!", Dr. Gravis shouted.

" CONDEMNED?!", Delaney, Skipper, and Nova shouted in shock.

" Great! Thanks a lot Dad! You just got us kicked out of our house by CDC order and now we're basically homeless! This is seriously the worst day ever!", Mayghen shouted at her father.

" Mayghen don't yell at your father like that! None of this is his fault!", Mrs. Atwell shouted.

" Yeah well it sure seems like it Mom! Son of a bitch!", Mayghen shouted.

" Mayghen stop yelling at our parents! This isn't helping!", Aymee shouted at her older sister.

" Alright that's enough! Let's all get inside, pack everything up, and get out of here! That's an order!", Dr. Gravis shouted.

" Yeah well where the hell are we gonna go?! We can't just stay on the streets of Pasadena!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell shouted.

" Exactly, which is why you 4 are going to stay with me at my house for the time being until we can figure out where you're going to go next! I'm not that stupid! I don't just force people out of their homes for health safety reasons to make them homeless! I'm not that kind of person to do that because that's wrong!", Dr. Gravis shouted.

" You're letting us stay with you?!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell, Mayghen, and Aymee shouted in complete shock.

" Yes, I got like 5 bedrooms in my house! The other four I'm not even using because I live alone due to the fact that I've been divorced from my wife Kellyn for a long time now and she's living out in Hawaii!", Dr. Gravis shouted.

" Alright, thank you!", Mr. Atwell shouted.

" No problem! Now let's all get everything out of this house and get the heck out of dodge!", Dr. Gravis shouted before they all raced into the house, going through each and every room, dragging things out onto the lawn before they packed everything up into the van and just before they left Dr. Gravis boarded up the entire house and CDC red tagged it so that when he eventually would notify the construction company about what the problem was, they would be able to see that the house is indeed empty and that they could just bulldoze it over so that nobody else could live there and be subjected to the very high and harmful levels of the Infrasound energy waves that were coming from the wind turbines behind it.

" Ohhh!", Rachel, Sheldon, Leonard, Mrs. Cooper, Missy, Georgie, Meemaw, Jonah, Reese, Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis, Joy, Ivan, Mara, Howard, Bernadette, Gene, Amy, Penny, Raj, Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Wayneburg, Mr. and Mrs. Walkerson, Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield, Kensley, Kez, Charly, Mayghen, Aymee, Mrs. Atwell, Delaney, Nova, Skipper, and Mr. Atwell said simultaneously as they all let out huge sighs of relief the moment they were getting further and further away from the house with the turbine noise diminishing as they then all took their ear protection off except for Dr. Gravis who already had his off because he was driving again. He also had his meter turned off as well.

" Is everybody alright?", Dr. Gravis asked.

" Yeah, we're fine Dr. Gravis!", the other adults said as they started to calm down along with the 4 teenage girls that were piled in there with them. The entire van was also packed full of the Atwells belongings that they had all just removed from their house that had now been condemned by Dr. Gravis due to the wind turbine danger that was sitting way too close to it.

" For cripes sake, that was awful!", Raj hissed.

" Yeah I'll say Raj! I felt like my eardrums were going to explode, it was so loud! I also agree with your decision to vacate the property Dr. Gravis because we were sitting way too close to those turbines back there!", Howard hissed.

" Exactly, Howard! Just like you described Martin, we were sitting at exactly 1,630 feet from that! Almost right up to the edge of where your property line ends to which you could say that they were practically right in your backyard! That is way too close and a complete crime against humanity!", Dr. Gravis said in concern.

" Yeah, you're right! I'm so stupid!", Mr. Atwell hissed.

" Exactly Dad, that's what I was trying to tell you! It's your fault that you got us kicked out in the first place!", Mayghen hissed.

" Mayghen, I said stop it! It's not your father's fault!", Mrs. Atwell scolded her.

" No Terry, Mayghen's right! I screwed the f**k up and blindly purchased a property online without first seeing it in person! The listing never mentioned anything about this so I just assumed everything was fine because I liked the location, but, obviously that wasn't the case! We almost lost our youngest daughter a few days ago because of this! Do you have any idea how that makes me feel right now?! It makes me feel like I'm a terrible husband and father for putting my family in harm's way in the first place!", Mr. Atwell hissed before he cried, " I don't deserve you three! At all!" as he buried his face into his hands. Looks of sympathy began to spread across everyone's faces as Mrs. Atwell, Mayghen, and Aymee just embraced Mr. Atwell while he continued to cry into his hands.

" Dad, it's ok! I'm sorry I said that to you! I was just upset and I wasn't thinking right!", Mayghen cried into her father's shoulder.

" No Mayghen, it's fine! I needed to hear that anyway! What I did was so highly irresponsible and I don't think I could ever forgive myself for this!", Mr. Atwell cried.

" Yeah but it's not your fault pal, everyone makes stupid mistakes once in a while. It's just how life is.", Leonard sadly said.

" That's very true Leonard. Look, we're all very sorry that you folks lost your home over this, but, Heavenly Father the only thing that matters here is that you 4 as well as the rest of us, are all ok.", Mrs. Cooper sadly said.

" That's right.", the others sadly said together as they nodded their heads in agreement with each other.

" I guess so.", Mr. Atwell sadly said as his crying started to subside.

" Look, Dad everything's going to eventually be peaches and cream. We may have lost our home for now but the only thing that matters right now is that we're still together.", Aymee sadly said.

" Yeah, exactly. We should all be grateful for that. Let's also not forget about the fact that Dr. Gravis here basically just saved our lives. Because believe it or not if you really think about it, if he hadn't forced us out today like he did then we probably wouldn't have been alive to be talking about this. That turbine noise was so intolerable that if we had continued to live there, it would have just kept us up all night long and made us so sleep-deprived that we would have died from a lack of sleep. Does that make sense to you?", Mrs. Atwell sadly asked.

" Yes.", Mayghen, Mr. Atwell, and Aymee sadly said as they nodded their heads.

" So, what's going to happen now?", Skipper asked as she was trying to lightened up the mood just a bit.

" Well Skipper, pretty much what's going to happen now is that all the other residents living in the surrounding homes are going to be forced out as well, but, I'm going to make sure they all have somewhere else to go because like I said I don't just force people out like that without giving them another roof over their heads, that's wrong. And then what's going to happen is once all those homes are vacated too just like the Atwells, a construction crew is going to come in there and knock all of them down to prevent others from moving into them and exposing themselves to a very dangerous environment.", Dr. Gravis said with a sigh.

" Well I guess that makes sense, because, who the hell would want to be exposed to all that noise anyway? Dim-witted clowns?", Penny asked as she shook her head.

" Very likely.", everybody said. The car ride lasted for about a while before Dr. Gravis finally pulled up into his driveway at his house. They all then got out and walked inside after Dr. Gravis remotely disarmed his security system using his phone.

" Welcome to my mansion people. Well except for you Gene and my sister Chantel because you two have already been here before.", Dr. Gravis said with a smile when he opened the front door to his house and they all stepped inside with Jonah wheeling himself inside using his wheelchair.

" Yeah that's true.", Gene and Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis said as they nodded their heads.

" Holy crap!", Sheldon, Rachel, Leonard, Penny, Delaney, Aymee, Skipper, Nova, Amy, Bernadette, Howard, Raj, Mara, Jonah, Kez, Charly, Kensley, Joy, Ivan, Reese, Mrs. Cooper, Georgie, Missy, Stuart, Meemaw, Mayghen, Mr. and Mrs. Atwell, Mr. and Mrs. Wayneburg, Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield, and Mr. and Mrs. Walkerson exclaimed in shock as they looked around Dr. Gravis's very large house.

" Dude, this place is enormous!", Leonard, Raj, Howard, and Stuart exclaimed in total shock at just how much square footage there was in their CDC doctor friend's home.

" Yeah it is! It looks like a freakin' hotel in here to be honest with you!", Kez exclaimed in shock.

" I know it may seem like that to you all but it's not unfortunately. It's just a very large mansion.", Dr. Gravis said as he then walked around his house showing everything off to the others to which they were all impressed by the amount of space as well as the amount of home inventory he had.

" Ok I am like absolutely speechless right now! This is seriously a great place you have Dr. Gravis! Thank you so much for inviting all of us to come in here and see this!", Rachel exclaimed with a smile as she stared at her boss.

" Of course Rachel and thank you. You guys are all more than welcome to come over here anytime you want when I'm home. Just call me ahead of time so that I know when to expect you to show up. That way you won't scare the hell out of me or my security guy that's monitoring my place.", Dr. Gravis said with a smile and a giddy laugh.

" You have your own personal security guard?!", Leonard asked in shock.

" Well, he's not really considered a personal security guard Leonard because he doesn't come to my house. He's more like a personal security dispatcher meaning he just listens to my audio recorders and watches the video footage from the several security cameras I have installed in here from his dispatch center and if he hears or sees anybody that he thinks is not supposed to be in my home he basically just shouts at them through a loudspeaker telling them to get out and then he calls the authorities for me but only if I tell him to.", Dr. Gravis said.

" Security dispatch center? What name?", Bernadette asked.

" Life Alert Security.", Dr. Gravis said.

" Life Alert? Isn't that supposed to be mainly an emergency service for senior citizens that live alone?", Charly asked as she tucked her hair behind her ear.

" Yes it is Charly but the reason I have it as well as my sister is because our father is the main user of it and we're all connected through an emergency contact network. Our father has both medical and security while my sister and I just have the security portion of it. But even though that's our set up we still get notified through the network if something happens to our father, whether it is a heart attack, a fall or any other type of emergency. It's really kind of convenient if ask me.", Dr. Gravis said as he nodded his head. The conversations continued for a little while longer before they all moved the Atwells belongings into the house. Then while the adults continued to talk to each other downstairs Delaney, Aymee, Skipper, and Nova decided to hang out in Aymee's brand new room listening to music on Delaney's iPod. The song that was playing was Numb Little Bug by Em Beihold.

" Do you ever get a little bit tired of life?! Like you're not really happy but you don't wanna die! Like you're hangin' by a thread but you gotta survive! 'Cause you gotta survive!", Nova, Skipper, Aymee, and Delaney sang the words of the song as they were dancing around the room with each other.

" Man, this is awesome!", Skipper exclaimed.

" Yeah I totally agree with that Skipper, although it sucks that my family and I lost our home because of stupid wind turbines but whatever! At least this is better than us being completely homeless!", Aymee exclaimed with a giddy laugh.

" Yeah absolutely Aymee! You 4 are probably going to totally like staying here with my godfather. He's really nice.", Delaney said with a smile.

" Well considering the fact that he willingly took in 4 complete strangers into his home after he condemned our home for being unsafe I would definitely say that is nice Delaney.", Aymee said with a smile.

" Yeah well you know what's going to be nice now little sis?! Me giving you an airplane! Surprise attack Aymee Twistera!", Mayghen suddenly exclaimed with a laugh as she came running into her younger sister's room and threw her up onto her shoulders before she started spinning around with her making her shriek with a laugh, " Oh what the hell Mayghen Justina! Ahhh!" as she immediately spread her arms out like an airplane making her friends all laugh in amusement while watching the two Atwell sisters fool around with each other as the Numb Little Bug song kept playing on Delaney's iPod.

" Well you totally asked for it from your sister in the first place dude!", Nova laughed in amusement, shaking her head at her friend who was still being spun around on her older sister's shoulders.

" Oh shut up Nova Racy Butterfield! That's not helping!", Aymee laughed as Mayghen kept spinning her around on her shoulders while she was laughing in amusement as well.

" Ok airplane in reverse sis!", Mayghen laughed as she suddenly started spinning around the other way making Aymee laugh, " Oh my god Mayghen, you're killing me with this! I so freaking love you big sis!"

" I freaking love you too little sis! As long as we're together with our parents I don't care where the hell we reside!", Mayghen laughed.

" Yeah as long as it's not anywhere near a freaking wind farm like our very recent former one was that we just got kicked out of today by the CDC!", Aymee laughed.

" That's true!", Mayghen, Nova, Delaney, and Skipper laughed.

" Well what is going on in here up in this room?!", Dr. Gravis asked with a giddy laugh when he suddenly walked into the room with the other adults.

" We're just having some fun in here listening to music on my iPod Uncle Doctor Gravis! Aymee's older sister Mayghen suddenly came in here a bit ago and decided to fool around with Aymee on her shoulders! It's seriously really funny!", Delaney laughed.

" Instresting. So you girls are trying to lighten the mood in here, is that what we're all hearing?", Sheldon asked with a smile as he crossed his arms.

" Yeah! It's better than all of us getting upset about what just happened to the Atwells!", Skipper said with a giddy laugh.

" Yeah, that's true. Are you all really having that much in here?", Howard asked.

" Yes!", Skipper, Mayghen, Delaney, Nova, and Aymee laughed as they nodded their heads.

" Well what is this that you're listening to in here?", Rachel, Amy, Penny, and Bernadette asked.

" Numb Little Bug by Em Beihold. It's actually a pretty good song, I just descovered it like a few days ago shortly after Aymee woke up from her nap and started feeling better after she got sick from the wind turbine exposure.", Delaney said.

" Is there a meaning behind this song or something?", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis asked.

" Yeah there actually is Chantel because I've actually heard it before. Basically it's about how the singer of this song feels while she's on these antidepressants for anxiety. The song describes her as feeling numb and like she can't breathe sometimes. I'm really actually not going to lie, it is a really good song just like Delaney described.", Mara said as she nodded her head.

" Ok yeah we see it Mara.", the other adults all said together as they all listened to the song lyrics. But as the music continued to play and the conversations continued among them something else happened that none of them were expecting either. A car door was suddenly heard shutting outside of the house in the driveway causing some heads to start turning towards the window as if they were curious as to what was going on.

" Uh… Dr. Gravis someone just pulled up into your driveway and it looks like another woman just got out of it.", Leonard said as he went to the window to see who just arrived.

" Wait, what Leonard?! Let me see.", Dr. Gravis asked in shock as he walked over to the window as well where his friend was standing and looked out as well with others gathering behind them. Sure enough just like Leonard said there was another SUV sitting in the driveway with another woman starting to walk up to the front door of the house after she just got out of it. He had a clear idea of who it was because he had seen that face before several years ago when they got divorced.

" Oh son of a bi**h are you freaking kidding me right now?! It's my ex-wife Kellyn! What the hell is she doing here?!", Dr. Gravis hissed in frustration when he saw his ex-wife Kellyn Leilana Gravis walking up to the door, getting ready to ring the doorbell.

" John just stay in here with the others for a few, I will go talk to her to see what she wants because I know for a fact that if you do it, it's not going to end well between you two. So just let me go handle this.", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis said in a serious tone as she placed her hand on her brother's shoulder.

" Alright Chantel you're right, just go ahead.", Dr. Gravis said with a sigh as he looked at his sister.

" Thank you. I'll be back in a few minutes you guys.", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis said with a sigh as she then stormed out of the room and down the stairs hissing under her breath, " F**k! This is so not the time for this!" about the current situation that was going on and once she got to the front door she ripped it open and stepped out onto the porch coming face-to-face with her ex-sister in-law just before she was about to ring the doorbell.

" Hi Chantel.", Kellyn said with a sigh as she stood there with her car keys in her hand.

" What do you want Kellyn? This isn't a good time for you to be here at the moment.", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis hissed under breath.

" Look, I just want to talk to John for a moment and then I'll leave ok.", Kellyn said as she sighed again.

" About what?! The fact that you were basically trying to force my brother several years ago to uproot his entire facility and move it out to Hawaii when you got that travel agency job offer, completely ignoring his wishes to remain here in an area that he's comfortable with?! Look if you think you just come back after several years of divorce between you and my brother and try to apologize for that you are so sadly mistaken! Because in my opinion doing what you did in the first place to him like a complete prima-donna was very shallow and disrespectful to our whole family and I really don't appreciate it!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis said in somewhat of an angry, annoyed tone as she narrowed her eyes at the witch who completely wrecked the once great family relationship that they all once had together before she did what she did that Dr. Gravis's sister just mentioned.

" Ok… I deserve that, but, I really am sorry for everything that happened between all of us and I realized that I made a huge mistake. I'm here because I was hoping to be able to at least try to rekindle something with John. I really do feel bad about the way things ended and pretty much all I'm asking for is just another possible second chance. I just recently moved back here to California due to the fact that the travel agency that I worked with fired me due to them finding someone else that was apparently more qualified than me but that's not the point. Look, can I please just talk to John for a few minutes Chantel? I've been feeling very depressed lately about this whole thing and I just want to have a few minutes to talk things out the right way, the way I should've talked them out to begin with before everything got too ugly.", Kellyn pleaded with her ex-sister in-law in a nearly cracking voice as she continued standing there on the porch of her former home that she once shared with her ex-husband.

" Excuse me?! You must think I'm really stupid if you think for one second I'm going to believe that and let you come into this house just to start more ridiculous sh*t that is really not needed here at all at the moment! I hate to break it to ya but you so lost your opportunity for that a long time ago! John's got a new girlfriend named Mary Cooper in his life now who to be honest I think is so much nicer than you and not to mention he's also got a beautiful goddaughter who is a very sweet teenage girl with Autism named Delaney Oaklynn Cooper who's actually this woman's granddaughter because her son Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper and her daughter in-law Rachel Sandy Cooper, CDC RN because she works for my brother and is great friends with him, are this girl's parents! They're all currently inside with him and our other friends/extended family members just trying to have a great conversation with each other due to the fact that he had to just evict a family of 4 who are some new friends of ours out of their home today because of the fact that they were living too close to a wind farm that was basically in the backyard of their house and they didn't even know it! We're all really not in the mood to discuss this and so I would advise you to leave right now before you make me want to break your neck and make you eat dirt after I kick your ass off this porch! So get out of here now Kellyn Leilana!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis shouted in anger as she pointed her finger back at Kellyn's car before she stormed back into the house and slammed the door shut in her face before she could say anything else. Kellyn then just let out a frustrated sigh with a dropped open mouth before she walked back to her car and drove away.

" Well took care of that problem! You're welcome!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis hissed when she came back upstairs to rejoin her brother and everyone else.

" Well that was fast Chantel! What did you say to her?", Dr. Gravis asked as he stared at his sister.

" I basically told her to f**k off and go away John! The bitch came back here because she said that she wanted to try rekindling something with you and so I told her how it was and slammed the door in her face! I seriously can't believe she had the nerve to come here after several years of being away from you and this whole family to say things like that! That really pisses me off that she would stoop that low!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis hissed under her breath in anger as she shook her head and crossed her arms.

" Yeah and you know what that really pisses me off too that she would even think that was remotely ok to do in the first place! Seriously, who the hell does she think she is?! She's the one that destroyed our marriage between her and I when she basically tried to force me to move with her out to Hawaii several years ago because of that travel agency job offer that she got without giving me the chance to express my desire to keep my facility stationed here in California due to the fact that it's an area where I feel more comfortable in and now all of a sudden she wants to come back and say that she's sorry?! That's complete bullshit!", Dr. Gravis hissed in anger.

" Yes it very much is, I totally agree with you! That woman clearly has some serious issues if she thinks that we're just going to suddenly forget about what she did to us in the first place and let her back in only for her to start the same old crap up again! That's so disrespectful and so unappreciated!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis hissed in anger.

" That's how your marriage ended between you and this woman?!", the others asked in shock as they stared at Dr. Gravis.

" Yes, unfortunately that's how things ended between Kellyn and I several years ago. This was before you 4 came to work for me and way before any of these other previous events that happened to all of us. It was a very bitter situation that I'd rather not talk more about at the moment.", Dr. Gravis said with a sigh as he pointed at Rachel, Ivan, Mara, and Joy.

" We totally get it, it's not our place to ask about that kind of stuff anyway.", Mr. Atwell said as he and the others acknowledged the fact that Dr. Gravis didn't wish to explain any further about what happened between himself and his ex-wife such a long time ago at that perticular time.

" Yes that's true, thank you.", Dr. Gravis said.

" No problem, although you and Chantel probably should've just let me at the bi**h because I would've just gone all Nebraska on her a** in two seconds flat with my Slugger bat!", Penny said with a giddy laugh making everyone else start laughing in amusement at what she said she would've done to Dr. Gravis's ex-wife if she had been the one to answer the door first instead of Chantel.

" You just really love taking things to the extreme don't you Penny?!", Dr. Gravis asked with a giddy laugh.

" Only when it's complete asshole idiots who are screwing with my friends for no reason and continuously doing so to no end Dr. Gravis! Trust me, this bitch here takes crap from no one!", Penny laughed as she pointed at herself.

" And that's what I love about you Penny!", Leonard laughed as he walked up to his girlfriend.

" Of course you do Leonard and I love you too!", Penny laughed as she kissed her boyfriend.

" Yeah take crap from nobody, bi**hes!", Delaney exclaimed with a laugh as she threw her hands in the air making her friends laugh while all the adults which also included her parents gave her disapproving looks as they scolded, " Delaney Oaklynn Cooper!"

" Sorry.", Delaney said with a smirk.

" Oh nice one dude!", Aymee, Skipper, and Nova laughed as they started smacking hands with each other.

" Do not repeat any of that, please! That's very inappropriate!", Sheldon scolded Delaney.

" Ok I get it Dad, I'm sorry.", Delaney said as she stood there looking somewhat down at her feet instead of looking up at her father.

" Thank you.", Sheldon scolded. The visit continued for a few more hours before everyone else left for the evening leaving the Atwells to spend their first night at their new residence in Dr. Gravis's mansion with him and at first it seemed a bit awkward but then they eventually were able to fall asleep after they noticed how much quieter it was due to the fact that there was no jet-engine like wind power noise coming through the walls of the house like it was at their old house which was a very nice thing to not have to deal with. They were able to sleep through the entire night before the sun came up the next morning, shining brightly in through the windows. Mrs. Atwell was the first one to sit up in bed with the sun pouring in behind her and her husband as she yawned and stretched her arms followed by her husband sitting up shortly after that, yawning as well.

" Well good morning Terry, how did you sleep?", Mr. Atwell asked with a smile as he looked at his wife.

" Good morning Martin. I slept really good, how about you?", Mrs. Atwell asked with a smile as she stared back at her husband too.

" Me too. Oh this was wonderful.", Mr. Atwell said.

" Yes it was. So much quieter than our old house. No wind power noise.", Mrs. Atwell said.

" That's true. How do you think our girls slept?", Mr. Atwell asked his wife about their two daughters.

" I'm not sure, let's go find out.", Mrs. Atwell said as the two of them got out of bed and opened their bedroom door, stepping out into the hallway just as Aymee and Mayghen were getting up and emerging from their rooms too.

" Good morning Mom, good morning Dad.", Mayghen and Aymee said to their parents as they were yawning and stretching their arms.

" Good morning girls, how did you sleep?", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell asked with smiles on their faces.

" We slept good, how about you?", Aymee and Mayghen asked.

" Really good also.", Mrs. and Mr. Atwell said.

" That's good.", Mayghen and Aymee said before they started looking at their phones to see what time it was which the time displayed on their phone screens said 9:30 A.M. It was at this time that all 4 of them began to smell something very good coming their way from downstairs in the kitchen to which they could only assume that it was Dr. Gravis making breakfast for all 5 of them. They decided to head down the stairs to see what was up.

*sounds of sizzling eggs and bacon as well as a pop splatter*

" Oh shit! Ow ow ow, howling hound dogs that hurts!"

*sounds of running water followed by more sizzling*

" You ok in here pal?", Mr. Atwell asked in concern when he suddenly entered the kitchen with his wife and their two daughters to see what was going on.

" Yeah I'm fine Martin, just making breakfast for all of us. Good morning.", Dr. Gravis said with a smile as he continued stirring the eggs and flipping the bacon in the frying pan on the stovetop after he treated his hand injury and wrapped it with a bandage.

" Good morning Dr. Gravis.", the Atwells said with smiles on their faces.

" What were you screaming about in here a second ago?", Mayghen asked in concern.

" I just accidentally splattered some hot bacon grease on my hand Mayghen, nothing too bad.", Dr. Gravis said as he held up his bandaged hand.

" Ah, got it.", Mayghen said.

" So how did you all sleep last night?", Dr. Gravis asked.

" We actually slept pretty good, much better than when we were at our old house.", Aymee said.

" Well that's really good to hear. I'm telling you it was that Infrasound exposure that was causing all those problems in the first place. It's very irritating and harmful, especially if you're exposed to that much of it at once.", Dr. Gravis said.

" True. Not to mention that shadow flicker was insanely ridiculous as well. It was such a nightmare and making our eyes very sensitive to the light.", Mrs. Atwell said as she nodded her head.

" Exactly Terry. That's why nobody should be living near wind turbines anyway, point blank period. They can cause a whole lot of negative health problems to not just people but also to animals as well.", Dr. Gravis said.

" Yeah that was my stupid fault! Bought the property blindly and didn't even realize what I was getting us into to begin with!", Mr. Atwell said with a giddy laugh.

" Yes I would definitely say that you made a pretty big goof Dad! But at least that's a lesson for next time!", Mayghen laughed.

" Yes that's very much true Mayghen! I am never going to do anything like that ever again! I'll make sure to see the property in person before I make the purchase, that way we shouldn't have any potential health hazard exposures whether it be a wind farm, solar farm, cell phone towers, etc!", Mr. Atwell laughed.

" Oh yeah, don't even mention cell phone towers Martin, that's even worse! We would just be getting zapped from every which way with radiation and we wouldn't be able to do things that normal people would do on a daily basis such as watching tv, talking on the phone, and listening to music because we would just be getting ocean static all day long and that would just be really annoying!", Mrs. Atwell laughed.

" Yes ocean static is not fun, I can tell you that much.", Dr. Gravis said as he nodded his head. He then finished making the food and dumped it into two separate bowls before he carried them to the table which was already set for 5 people which consisted of himself and the 4 Atwells.

" Ok breakfast is ready, come and get it.", Dr. Gravis said as he sat down at the table and started helping himself to some food.

" Sweet!", Mayghen and Aymee exclaimed as they raced to the table with their parents walking behind them before they all sat down to help themselves as well.

" This is really good.", Mayghen said as she was eating her breakfast along with the others.

" Well thank you, glad you like it Mayghen.", Dr. Gravis said. They continued to talk to each other and eat their breakfast before they started cleaning up the table. Shortly after that, Dr. Gravis's phone started ringing.

Ring ring ring!

" Is that someone calling you Dr. Gravis?", Mrs. Atwell asked.

" Yes it is Terry, hold on one second. Hello?", Dr. Gravis said before he answered his phone. What he was immediately met with on the other end was another woman's sobbing voice saying, " Dr. Gravis?! You there?! It's Joy!"

" Yeah, I'm here Joy. What's going on? Are you ok?", Dr. Gravis asked in concern as he listened to Joy's very sad voice.

" No, my heart's in freakin' pieces right now! I've just been sobbing for the past 45 minutes while telling everybody else about what just happened!", Joy sobbed as she blew her nose with a tissue.

" Well what is it? Did something happen between you and Raj that I don't know about?!", Dr. Gravis asked as he started to get more and more concerned about what this could possibly be that Joy was so upset about.

" No, everything's fine between Raj and I! We didn't have any kind of fight with each other or anything like that and there's nothing wrong with our dogs either, they're fine too! This is more about my parents, more specifically my mom!", Joy sobbed as she blew her nose again.

" Oh no, what happened?", Dr. Gravis sadly asked.

" My dad called me about 45 minutes ago and said that my mom just passed away unexpectedly in her sleep last night! He woke up this morning to find that the bed sheets were soaking wet and thought that my mom had wet the bed or something and was still sleeping which was not unusual at first because my mom does do that occasionally, but, anyway my dad thought that at first and so he went to the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee like he does every morning and he usually just sits there at the table waiting for my mom which she usually gets up about 20 minutes after he does and so when that didn't happen my dad immediately knew something was wrong! So he went to go check on her and that's when he discovered that she wasn't even alive anymore! Seriously, this is the worst pain imaginable! I feel like someone just drowned me in water!", Joy sobbed.

" Oh my god Joy, I'm so sorry that happened to you and your father. I wish there was something I could say to make this any better for you two but unfortunately there's nothing else I can say except for I'm just really sorry.", Dr. Gravis sadly said with a sigh.

" Thank you! This feels like a bad dream or something, like it's not even real! I seriously don't know what to do right now!", Joy sobbed.

" I know, believe me it's not easy going through something like this. I went through the same thing with my own mother when I was younger, except she passed away from cancer.", Dr. Gravis sadly said as he shook his head.

" Yeah well at least that was expected but this with my own mother just came out of nowhere, with no warning at all! She was perfectly fine when I talked to her on the phone last night before I went to bed! She sounded good, like really good! There was no indication that there was anything wrong with her whatsoever! This just doesn't make any logical sense, like at all!", Joy sobbed.

" I know and you're right, it doesn't make sense but I'm sure if you and your father get an autopsy done at the medical examiner's office we'll all find out exactly what happened but it will probably take a while for the results to come back. It may take weeks up to several months depending on the situation.", Dr. Gravis sadly said.

" Ok… thank you for listening to me vent about this because I seriously don't know what to do right now! I'm so speechless that I just feel really numb at the moment!", Joy sobbed.

" Of course, I totally understand Joy. We'll talk more about this at work in a little bit here, alright? Just try to get yourself together as best as you can and believe me if you need to take a few breaks throughout the day you are more than welcome to do so at anytime you want in the breakroom. You can even have your father sitting in there with you too if it will help you in anyway. The very last thing I need at the moment is you getting overwhelmed.", Dr. Gravis sadly said.

" Ok, thank you very much Dr. Gravis! I appreciate it!", Joy sobbed.

" No problem. Just drink a glass of water right now so that you don't get dehydrated and I'll see you in a few minutes at work.", Dr. Gravis sadly said.

" Ok I will, bye!", Joy sobbed.

" Bye.", Dr. Gravis sadly said before he hung up the phone. He then let out a sad sigh and said, " Fuck." as he pressed his hand against his forehead, massaging it with his fingers while he leaned against his kitchen counter.

" What happened?", Aymee asked in concern.

" Yeah is there something wrong? What was that talk about someone doing an autopsy?", Mr. Atwell asked in concern.

" That was Joy Melinda Churchill calling me to tell me in a very upset voice that she just found out from her father Walter Franklin Churchill that her mother Katrina Aspen Churchill just passed away unexpectedly in her sleep last night.", Dr. Gravis sadly said with another sigh.

" Oh my god!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell gasped in horror and shock.

" That's awful!", Mayghen gasped in horror.

" Yeah I agree! Was she sick or something by any chance?!", Aymee gasped in horror.

" No this just happened completely without warning Aymee. Like there was no indication that this was coming at all. Joy said that when she talked to her mother on the phone last night before she went to bed everything sounded perfectly normal with her.", Dr. Gravis sadly said as he shook his head.

" Oh man I can only imagine the complete heartache that she must be going through now, especially after she just lost someone that she loved with no warning like that. That poor sweet woman.", Mrs. Atwell sadly said as she shook her head.

" Exactly.", Dr. Gravis sadly said.

Raj and Joy's apartment…

*Cinnamon and Brown Sugar's sad whines ring out while curled up on the bed next to Joy who was still sobbing as she was gently petting them*

" I know you're sad too but it's gonna be ok! Mommy here loves you two so much!", Joy sobbed as she kissed the two dogs on their heads while she continued to cuddle with them in an effort to relieve some of her pain that she was feeling over the fact that she just lost her mother.

" Here Joy, drink this.", Raj sadly said to his girlfriend with tears coming down his face when he walked back into their bedroom with a glass of water and handed it to her.

" Thank you Raj! This just really sucks! Why?! Why did this have to happen?! I didn't do anything to deserve this! This isn't fair!", Joy cried as she sat up and took the glass of water from her boyfriend before she began to slowly sip on it while tears were still streaming down her face.

" I know it's going to be alright. We'll all get through this unexpected tragedy together, one day at a time.", Raj sadly said with tears in his eyes as he sat next to his girlfriend on their bed. Joy then set the glass of water down on the night stand, leaned over, and embraced him as she cried, " I love you Raj! You're seriously the best thing I could've ever asked for in my entire life!"

" I love you too Joy. You too.", Raj sadly said as he kissed her while they both had tears still coming down their faces. The two of them stayed like that for a few minutes before Joy finally forced herself to get ready for work and during the car ride to the CDC while Raj was driving her she called her father again and told him that he could be there too in the breakroom for emotional support if she needed a few minutes throughout the day to collect herself. He said that he would be there in a few minutes before they hung up with each other after they told each other that they loved one another. Within minutes after Raj dropped her off and asked her if she was going to be ok to which she said she would, Dr. Gravis showed up along with Mara, Ivan, and Rachel. They came inside to find Joy trying to gather as much strength as she could behind the counter at the nurse's station while blowing her nose with tissues. The other employees were sympathetic too and decided to go about their business after Joy told them all that she'd be fine and that they could continue doing their shifts.

" Come here girl, it's alright. Just let it out.", Rachel sadly said as she walked up to Joy behind the counter along with the other 4 and just threw her arms around her as she started to cry too with the others doing the same thing.

" Thank you Rachel! It means so much to me that you guys are here to support me, especially at a time like this when I need it most! I seriously feel like someone just threw a ton of bricks at me right now! This is so unbelievable!", Joy cried into her friend's shoulder.

" It's going be ok Joy! I know this sucks, we all know it sucks that your mom died so unexpectedly like that but the only thing we can hope for is that she went peacefully and didn't suffer!", Mara cried.

" Yeah that's true Mara but I don't understand why this had to happen at all! Like I said I feel like someone just hit me with bricks and beat on my chest really hard with a mallet! I absolutely hate life right now! Just… god Mom why?!", Joy sobbed.

" It's alright.", Ivan and Dr. Gravis sadly said as they were embracing her too after Rachel and Mara let go.

" Joy, I'm here sweetheart! Come here!", Mr. Churchill cried as he suddenly walked into the facility and walked behind the counter to where his daughter was with her friends.

" Oh god… Dad!", Joy sobbed as she pulled away from Ivan and Dr. Gravis before she ran up to her father and just threw herself into him as he was embracing her and crying as well.

" This is just total bullfighting sh*t and completely unfair! I'm already missing her so much that it's not even funny right now!", Joy sobbed into her father's chest.

" I know honey, me too! But she'll always be with us in spirit and our hearts! Oh I love you so much Joy, your mother did too!", Mr. Churchill cried as he kissed his daughter's head.

" I know and I love you too Dad!", Joy cried.

" Alright, well I think we should let your father go sit down in the breakroom for a few minutes now while we all try to get started on our work shifts. Please feel free to take a break throughout the day at anytime you want Joy to talk to your father and just keep each other company if that will help you two feel any better about what just happened to you.", Dr. Gravis sadly said as he stepped in making Joy and her father release each other.

" Good idea!", Joy sniffled as she blew her nose again after Ivan handed her a tissue and gently rubbed her shoulder.

" I'll be right in here if you need me Joy.", Mr. Churchill sniffled as he pointed at the breakroom and started heading towards it to go sit down in there.

" Ok, thanks Dad.", Joy sniffled as she began to try to pull herself together enough for her to be able to do her job. The other 4 gathered themselves together as best as they could and started working as well. As hard as it was to do Joy managed to keep it together for the first 25 minutes before she felt like she was losing herself again and decided to take her first break of the day to go be with her father in the breakroom. They cried together as they embraced each other before they started talking for a bit and then they cried some more all the while the song Purple Rain by Prince & The Revolution started playing in the background to which then turned into it playing from Joy's phone, due to the fact that her mother loved that song, later that same day at the funeral home with everyone there for emotional support during the cremation of Mrs. Churchill shortly after an autopsy on her was performed and her finger prints as well as some hair clippings were taken due to the fact that those were her final wishes. Raj's family was even there too which was very appreciated by Joy and her father, especially Raj because he was very grateful to know that his family cared that much to just drop everything on a dime and fly out there just to support his girlfriend and her father in their time of unexpected grief over losing someone they loved so suddenly the night before without any reason as to why.

" I love you so much Mom, I'll never forget you! Please wait for us up there!", Joy cried as she rested her head on her father's shoulder while the two of them stood behind the glass window with the others gathered behind them looking at the crematorium as tears were streaming from their faces. The song was still playing from Joy's phone too as Mayghen was standing a little bit off to the side with her arms draped around her younger sister Aymee and the three other girls Delaney, Nova, and Skipper who were all shedding tears too over this sad touching moment.

" Yes, please wait for us my love! Rest in peace my sweet beautiful Kat, I love you so much!", Mr. Churchill cried as he kissed his fingers and pressed them on the glass for a brief moment to kiss his wife Katrina goodbye while he had his other arm wrapped around his daughter Joy, gently squeezing her against his side.

" God bless your sweet hearts, I am so sorry for your sudden loss of your beautiful wife and mother like this! This is just absolutely breaking my heart for y'all!", Mrs. Cooper cried as she embraced Joy and Mr. Churchill when she came up behind them.

" Thank you so much! This really means a lot to us!", Mr. Churchill and Joy cried as they were embracing her back with the song still playing from Joy's phone.

" Come here bitch!", Penny cried as she suddenly walked up too after Mrs. Cooper released her grip on Joy and her father and just pulled Joy in for a huge embrace with the other women joining her while Mr. Wayneburg just pulled Mr. Churchill in for a huge embrace as well while the man just continued to cry over losing his wife. There was a lot of tears being shed among everyone as they all just embraced each other over the Purple Rain song that was still playing.

" We're so sorry this happened to you and your father Joy! This sucks so hard!", Bernadette cried.

" Yes it does Bernadette! I can't even believe this is real and that my mom's not here anymore!", Joy cried.

" Aunt Joy!", Delaney cried as she suddenly came running over to her after she pulled away from her friends and Mayghen.

" Delaney!", Joy cried as she was suddenly knocked off her feet and onto the floor when her niece came spearing into her, letting all the waterworks go as Joy continued to cry and embraced her too.

" I'm so sorry for everything that just happened! This is horrible!", Delaney cried into Joy's chest.

" I know sweetie and I appreciate it, but I'll be ok! We all will! Oh I love you so much!", Joy cried as she sat on the floor with her arms wrapped around her niece as tight as she could.

" I love you too!", Delaney cried.

" Come here sweetheart! It's ok!", Rachel cried as she suddenly sat down on the floor next to Joy and took her daughter Delaney from her into her arms just as Sheldon surprisingly joined them too.

" Mom!", Delaney cried into mother's chest with her arms wrapped around her.

" Shhh, it's alright! Calm down!", Rachel cried as she was rubbing gentle circles on her daughter's back with Sheldon doing the same thing as he sat next to his wife on the floor while the three of them were sitting next to Joy who was still bawling her eyes out. Delaney just continued to cry due to the fact everyone else around her was very upset too which made her very upset even though she still didn't have a clue of what cremation even meant yet because of her Autism.

" What does cremation even mean?!", Delaney sniffled.

" It means that a deceased person's body is being burned to ashes inside a very large hot oven called a crematorium, that's what that thing is in there that Mrs. Churchill's remains are in at the moment.", Sheldon sadly said with tears in his eyes to his special needs teenage daughter as he pointed to the glass window that the crematorium was sitting behind.

" But why's that happening though?!", Delaney sniffled.

" Because that's what her wishes were Delaney that she put in her will! Most people write one at some point in their life just in case if anything happens to them so that their surviving family members know what their final wishes are for the handlement of their bodies. Some people want to be buried in the ground, others in a wall, some want to donate their bodies for scientific research, and some choose cremation which is exactly what Joy's mom wanted.", Rachel sadly said with tears in her eyes.

" That's so sad though! I don't like it!", Delaney cried.

" Yes you're right, that is sad but unfortunately it happens all the time everyday. One person comes into this world while another one leaves it. It's just how life is.", Dr. Gravis sadly said when he joined them.

" That is true Dr. Gravis but it just sucks so much! Literally I just talked to her last night on the phone, minutes before I went to bed! She was absolutely fine and there was nothing wrong with her! Now all of a sudden she's just gone like that with no explanation as to why that happened yet! It makes no sense!", Joy cried as she moved over by where her boss who was also her friend was sitting.

" I know Joy, like I said it's not easy going through something like this but it's going to be ok eventually. You just got to keep moving forward in life and not let tragedies like this tear you apart even though it's hard to do. Life doesn't stop because things suck.", Dr. Gravis sadly said as he put his arm around her, letting her lean her head against his shoulder as she continued to cry.

" I feel like I want to smash my head into a door right now! This hurts my heart so much that I can't even stand it!", Joy cried.

" Well good Lord, don't do that woman! That won't be good for any of us to have to see that!", Sheldon shot back in concern with tears in his eyes as he sat next to Rachel with their daughter Delaney sitting in her lap.

" I was being sarcastic Sheldon, I'm not going to actually do that! I'm just describing the intense pain I'm feeling at the moment over losing my mother so unexpectedly last night! This is the worst feeling I've ever felt in my life! Not only do I have to take care of myself now I also have to now take care of my dad who's going to be living completely alone without my mother!", Joy cried.

" WHY KATRINA ASPEN CHURCHILL?! Why did you do this to us?! Why did you just leave so suddenly, tearing a huge void into our hearts like this?! I don't get it, none of us do!", Mr. Churchill sobbed as he was sitting in a chair, leaning over himself as some of the others were gently rubbing his back with their hands.

" Dad just stop, calm down! You're making this worse, not only for me but everyone else around us too!", Joy cried as she snapped her head in her father's direction.

" Yeah I actually agree with that, let's just all go back to the house for a moment and just take a minute to collect ourselves because this is obviously not a good setting to be in right now.", Sheldon sadly said as he stood up.

" Yeah I agree too, come on let's go.", Rachel sadly said as she stood up with Delaney making everyone else get up too just as Joy shut the song off on her phone before they all left the funeral home to go back to the Cooper household.

" You two gonna be ok?", Penny sadly asked Joy and her father as they were all sitting in the living room at the house with mugs of hot chocolate in their hands after Sheldon and Rachel made it for everyone else including themselves.

" Yeah, we'll be fine.", Joy sadly said with a sigh as she nodded her head before she took a sip of her hot chocolate.

" Yes, thank you Penny.", Mr. Churchill sadly said as he did the same thing.

" Well just know that we are all here for you.", Dr. Koothrappali, Raj's father sadly said as he sat next to his wife and their other grown adult children.

" Yes, every single one of us. We're all here for whatever you need.", Mrs. Koothrappali, Raj's mother sadly said as she was nodding her head along with everyone else in the room.

" Well thank you, that really means a lot to us.", Mr. Churchill sadly said as Joy was nodding her head.

" Ok well not to be rude or anything, but, what was up with that Purple Rain song that you were playing on your phone Joy?", Howard sadly asked.

" I was playing it Howard because it's a song that my mother really loved. She would sing it every time she heard it playing, no matter where we were. So I thought it made perfect sense to play it for her one more time.", Joy sadly said.

" It's true, Katrina had the most beautiful voice ever. Within minutes of her opening her mouth she would have had an entire crowd looking at her. Like no joke, here's a video that I took of her singing that Purple Rain song in front of a huge crowd while we were on vacation one time in Salt Lake City, Utah. We were celebrating our wedding anniversary.", Mr. Churchill sadly said as he hooked his phone up to the flat screen tv in the living room after he turned both of them on and pressed play on a very specific video of Mrs. Churchill singing that exact same song that Joy was playing on her phone at the funeral home in front of a large crowd of people who were gathered in the downtown area of Salt Lake City for some festival going on at that particular time when she was suddenly picked out of everyone else to come up there and sing something due to the dj thinking that she looked like 'a good looking woman who could really get a crowd going' to which Mr. Churchill thought was very hilarious at the time.

" Wow.", Sheldon sadly said as he was watching the tv screen with the others while the video was playing. In the video it showed everything that Mr. Churchill described about his wife because in addition to the huge crowd of people staring at her there was also several people way in the back that were walking by, turning their heads to look at her too as she was singing the song she loved so much.

" That's amazing.", Leonard and Howard sadly said as they shook their heads.

" Oh balls, I think I'm gonna cry again!", Penny sadly said as she began to start crying again along with Joy and some of the other women.

" Bestie!", Amy cried as she was embracing Penny.

" Oh god just stop ladies, this isn't helping!", Bernadette cried as she was embracing both of them.

" We know that Bernadette but we can't help it! Our friend Joy just lost her mother! This is awful!", Penny and Amy cried.

" It's alright ladies, just calm down.", Ivan sadly said with a few tears coming down his face as he then embraced all three of them.

" I love you Dad!", Joy cried as she embraced her father again when he started to cry again.

" I love you too Joy!", Mr. Churchill cried as he was embracing his daughter back while the video of his wife was still playing on the tv screen. Raj then came up to them moments later and embraced both of them with tears in his eyes again too. The three of them stood there crying into each other for a few minutes before Raj let go of them as the two of them then let go of each other.

" I'm so sorry you guys.", Reese sadly said with tears in her eyes when she wallked up to them too and hugged both of them as well.

" Thank you Reese!", Joy cried. Then once the video was over and everyone managed to collect themselves somewhat again Mr. Churchill decided to play another video of his wife but this one was a bit more upbeat in an attempt to lift everyone's spirits. It showed Mrs. Churchill with a child-like smirk on her face as she stood in the kitchen at their house tapping on the pots and pans with a wooden spoon in her hand as she stood in front the stove while cooking something all while a Youtube music file called Payday was playing in the background. This instantly began to make everyone start laughing a bit at just how funny she actually was when she was still around.

" Oh son of a Chewbacca bi**h! You got be kidding me!", Stuart laughed as he was throwing his head back.

" Yeah you're telling me Stuart, this is so freaking hilarious! Oh balls Mrs. Katrina Churchill, you're killing us here with this graveyard comedy!", Penny laughed as she was waving her hand around.

" You got that right Penny! I can't even feel my ribs right now!", Amy laughed.

" Neither can I! Oh my god!", Bernadette laughed as she was waving both her hands around making everyone else start laughing even harder.

" Now see Heavenly Father this is what we're really supposed to be doing after someone we love passes away! Keeping their memory alive by reliving their happy, hilarious moments with each other! This I'm sure is what Katrina wants us to do instead of being all sad that she's gone the whole time!", Mrs. Cooper laughed.

" Yeah I think so Mrs. Cooper! Thank you so much for the graveyard laughs Mom! This is awesome!", Joy laughed as she shook her head while staring up at the ceiling.

" That's my Kat! Always being funny every chance she gets! Oh thank you so much for that honey! Miss you and love you!", Mr. Churchill laughed.

" Oh man, just seeing this now of your wife just brings this whole mood right up! I can't take this, this is seriously the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life!", Jonah laughed as he was pounding his non-injured fist into his non-injured leg while sitting in his wheelchair.

" Yeah you got that right buddy! This is absolutely… oh my god I can't even say it!", Kez laughed as he slapped his hand on his friend's shoulder before he stumbled over to the couch like a drunken sailor and fell into it, laughing it up in histerics while the others including the 4 teenage girls were continuously laughing it up as well.

" Oh my god, just stop it Kez! You're killing me here!", Charly laughed as she was watching her husband hamming it up on the couch.

" Charly please, not now!", Kez laughed.

" For god sakes, we all went from being sad to freaking laughing! This is great!", Leonard laughed.

" Yes that's exactly what's going on Leonard because it's Katrina's lingering spirit from beyond the grave that's bringing this mood up! She doesn't want us sitting down here being sad that she's not here anymore!", Dr. Gravis laughed.

" Oh she's doing something alright Dr. Gravis! Oh Lord, I can't stand this! This is too much!", Sheldon laughed as he was having a hard time standing up while repeatedly slapping his chest with his hand.

" Sheldon Lee!", Rachel laughed as she smacked her husband on the shoulder.

" Not now Rachel Sandy!", Sheldon laughed as he was batting his hand back at his wife.

" Oh geez Louise! Mom, Dad, just stop it! You're killing me!", Delaney laughed as she threw her head back and fell over, hammering her fist into the floor while her three best friends were still laughing it up as well.

" Is that YouTube music that's playing in the background there Walter?!", Mr. Atwell laughed.

" Yes it is Martin! Katrina had it playing on the laptop while she was cooking something in the kitchen to which I can't remember what it was but then she started acting a bit silly to it and started tapping the wooden spoon on the pots and pans so I just decided to record that on video because I thought it was really funny at the time! She really knew how to make everyone laugh! And for me at that moment it took everything I had to not start laughing while I was recording it!", Mr. Churchill laughed. The video ended shortly after that making everyone start to calm down a bit while they continued to talk to each other and share stories after Rachel took Delaney to her room to change her again. Then later that night after everyone had gone their separate ways Raj and Joy were about to turn in for the night at their apartment and as they were climbing in their bed together with the two dogs jumping up there to cuddle with them Raj asked in concern, " Are you going to be ok Joy?"

" Yeah, I'll be fine Raj. Let's just try to get some sleep.", Joy sadly said with a sigh before she let out a yawn.

" Well alright, good night. I love you.", Raj sadly said.

" Good night, I love you too.", Joy sadly said as she kissed her boyfriend good night before the two of them fell asleep after Joy shut the bed side lamp off. However, in the middle of the night, Joy suddenly woke up with another wave of sadness starting to hit her due to the fact that her mind was still thinking about her mother and so rather than disturbing Raj who was fast asleep along with the two dogs she decided to get up from the bed in the darkness of their bedroom, throw on her dark green fleece hoodie jacket over her t-shirt and shorts as well as a pair of black flip flops that she slipped onto her feet before she grabbed her keys and her phone and left the apartment, surprisingly without waking up her boyfriend and the two dogs. She then walked out of the building in the dark and started wandering the streets in the pouring rain that was coming down due to the fact that the meteorologists were calling for rainfall that evening at a 60% chance. As Joy kept walking through the rain that was beginning to soak her clothes she soon found herself listening to A Place Nearby written by Lene Marlin on her phone and when she got down near a river out in the woods somewhere that was next to a big oak tree with the rain continuously pouring down on her and the song was still playing on her phone she completely let herself go again, bawling her eyes out as she threw herself against the tree hugging it as tight as she could before she let go of it and started kicking up anything that was around her for a few minutes. She then slid her back down the trunk of the tree and just sat there in the mud, continuously sobbing to no end. Joy never thought that losing her mother the way she did with no warning at all would be so painful to her heart but unfortunately she was dead wrong. It was absolutely the most intense pain that she ever thought she would ever feel in her entire life due to the fact that she was so close to her. Her mother was like her best friend and after what just happened Joy felt like she couldn't breathe knowing that she would never see her again.

" I want you back! I want you back so much right now Mom! This hurts so much, more than you will ever know!", Joy sobbed as she was looking up at the sky while the rain kept pouring down. Meanwhile back at their apartment Raj suddenly began to get thirsty and so he woke up to go get a glass of water only to find that his girlfriend Joy wasn't there next to him in the bed anymore. Thinking that she maybe just got up to go to the bathroom he headed there only to find that the light was off and the door was open which immediately began to send a wave of panic through his body when he realized that she wasn't anywhere in their apartment.

Ring ring ring!

" Hello?", Leonard asked in a soft groggy voice when he was woken up out of a dead sleep by his phone ringing and answered it.

" Leonard, it's Raj! This is an emergency! Are you there?!", Raj screamed in a panic through the other end.

" Yeah I'm here… what the hell is going on Raj? It's after 4:30 in the morning.", Leonard groggily asked.

" Dude, this is serious! I'm freaking the hell out so much right now that I feel like I'm going to hit a wall any second! Son of a bi**h!", Raj panically screamed.

" Ok well is it Raj?! What is so important right now that you had to interrupt my sleep for no reason?! Tell me now or I swear to God I will come over there and slap you silly!", Leonard hissed as he rolled his eyes when he sat up in his bed at Rachel and Sheldon's house.

" Dude this is not for no reason at all! I CAN'T FIND MY GIRLFRIEND!", Raj screamed as he could feel his chest start to pound and his breathing starting to get a bit fast.

" WHAT?!", Leonard suddenly shrieked out loud which caught the attention of his girlfriend Penny as well as their goddaughter Delaney and their two best friends Rachel and Sheldon who immediately barged into Leonard's room with Penny, Sheldon, and Rachel hissing, " What the hell are you screaming about in here Leonard?! It's after 4:30 A.M!"

" Yeah seriously Uncle Leonard, what is it?!", Delaney shrieked.

" Will you all shut up for a moment! For god sakes Raj, what do you mean you can't find Joy?!", Leonard hissed at the other 4 before he put his phone back to his ear to scream into it again.

" I mean I can't find her anywhere in our apartment right now! It's like Joy just walked off in the night and I tried calling her and texting her several times but she won't pick up, like at all! I'm so scared that she's going to do something to herself and the very last thing I want happening right now is to lose my girlfriend too after we just lost her mother! Please, you guys have to help me here because if anything happens to that girl I don't know what I'm gonna do and then her father's going to have my head served on a silver platter!", Raj screamed as he was pacing back and forth in his and Joy's living room at their apartment.

" Ok ok don't panic dude! We'll get the others together and set out for a massive search party! There's no way in hell that we're gonna lose another Churchill family member here, that's a promise!", Leonard shrieked.

" Yeah I completely agree here! Please hurry because I'm literally about to lose my fucking mind!", Raj screamed before he hung up the phone.

" Shit!", Leonard hissed as he jumped out of bed and started frantically throwing on his shoes before he grabbed his keys making Penny shriek, " What the hell is going on here Leonard?! Why are you suddenly freaking out like a banshee?!"

" Penny not now! All of us have to go right now! Raj just called me and said that Joy's missing and she's not answering her phone at all!", Leonard shrieked.

" What?!", Sheldon and Penny shrieked in shock.

" Oh god! JOY?!", Rachel screamed as she quickly grabbed her keys and raced out the door into the pouring rain with her husband, their daughter and their two friends following after her despite Sheldon's fear of the rain as they jumped into Leonard's car and sped off down the street as fast as they could to try to find their missing family member. Slowly but surely and one by one Howard, Bernadette, Missy, Georgie, Mrs. Cooper, Stuart, Amy, Kensley, Mara, Jonah, Reese, Skipper, Nova, Mr. and Mrs. Walkerson, Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield, Meemaw, Mr. and Mrs. Wayneburg, Gene, Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis, Raj's entire family, Mr. Churchill, Kez, Charly, and Ivan were all notified of the situation as well as the entire FBI HQ after Reese contacted them to join in the search as well.

Ring ring ring!

" Hello, talk to me?", Dr. Gravis said in a groggy voice when he sat in his bed and answered his phone.

" Dr. Gravis, it's Ivan Codillas Buxbee! Get the hell up now and get the Atwells up as well, this is not a drill! I repeat, IT'S NOT A DRILL!", Ivan screamed at his boss and friend through the other end of the phone.

" Oh god, what is it now Ivan?! It's really late in the evening! I'm trying to sleep! Just take two pills and call me in the morning!", Dr. Gravis scolded.

" DUDE, THIS IS SERIOUS CHIZ RIGHT NOW! MY BEST FRIEND IS MISSING! GET YOUR BUTT UP AND COME OUT TO JOIN THE SEARCH PARTY NOW!", Ivan screamed.

" Oh for the love of sausage gravy, are you serious right now?! Joy's missing?!", Dr. Gravis shrieked in concern.

" Yes, she's missing! We tried calling and texting her at least several times already and she's not answering any of us! Plus, it's raining cats and dogs out here! Get out here now! This is not a joke and if something happens to my best friend Joy then I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do! She's been my best friend ever since I met her at work after the very first day that you hired us as well as Rachel and Mara!", Ivan screamed.

" Alright alright just calm down Buxbee! I'm getting up now and we'll be there as soon as we can! Just don't panic!", Dr. Gravis shrieked before he hung up and quickly got out of bed and as he ran out of his bedroom and down the stairs hissing under his breath, " Fucking son of a bitch!" this immediately caught the attention of the Atwells who all woke up to follow him down there to see what was going on.

" What is going on here Dr. Gravis?!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell, Aymee, and Mayghen asked in concern.

" We need to leave now! Ivan just called me in a huge panic and told me that Joy's missing! She's not answering anybody, not through calls, texts, etc! Nothing!", Dr. Gravis screamed before he grabbed his keys and ran out the door.

" What?! Oh my god!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell, Aymee, and Mayghen shrieked in a panic as they raced out the door after him too and got into his van as he backed out of the driveway and sped off.

" Joy Melinda Churchill you better answer your godd*mn phone right now, this is Dr. John Herald Gravis! You are freaking the hell out of every single one of us because we can't get a hold of you what so ever! This is really not funny and we're all worried sick about you! Call or text back now so that we're not all sitting here wondering if you're dead or alive!", Dr. Gravis hissed in a panic into his phone when he put it on the speaker system after it immediately went to Joy's voicemail when he called her phone. When everybody all eventually met up with each other they began to run all over the city, up and down the streets screaming her name in the pouring rain.

" Joy, where are you?! Are you ok?!", Penny, Amy, and Bernadette screamed.

" Yeah yo Churchill, where the likes of you at?! This isn't funny! Come out wherever you're hiding!", Jonah shouted.

" Yeah, come on baby girl where are ya?! You're freaking us out sweetheart!", Mr. Churchill screamed for his daughter as he felt like his heart was about to break all over again due to the fact that he just lost his wife so unexpectedly and didn't want to end up losing his daughter the same way too.

" Oh good Lord this is awful, I want to go back inside this instant! This is killing me!", Sheldon screamed as his body was shaking in fear from the rain hitting him.

" Sheldon not now, we're in a crisis situation here! Our friend Joy is missing and we don't know where the hell she is right now or if she's even ok! JOY MELINDA CHURCHILL WHERE ARE YOU?!", Leonard shouted.

" Joy!", some of the others were shouting out. They all did that for several hours until finally when the sun came up the next morning after the rain had stopped they were wandering through the woods until Ivan suddenly spotted someone sitting in the mud against a big oak tree near the river and upon closer inspection he saw that it was his best friend Joy who they had all been worried sick about for the entire night before.

" Oh my god you guys, I found her! Joy!", Ivan screamed as he pointed his finger over by the tree and raced over there.

" Oh Heavenly Father, thank you Lord!", Mrs. Cooper screamed as she and the others followed after Ivan.

" Mmm…", Joy moaned as she was shivering from the cool morning air due to the fact that her clothes were still soaking wet from being pelted by the rain the night before when she walked off into the night after she left hers and her boyfriend's apartment.

" Joy can you hear me?! Say something! It's Ivan!", Ivan asked in concern as he was kneeling in front her, gently tapping her face with his hands as her head continue to lull back and forth while she was slowly blinking her eyes and moaning.

" Mm… Ivan?", Joy moaned when she tried to focus her vision for a second and saw her best friend's worried facial expression staring back at her.

" Yeah it's me. Oh thank god you're alright!", Ivan said with a sigh of relief as he threw his arms around her.

" Joy where the hell have you been?! We've been out here looking for you all night in the pouring rain!", Dr. Gravis scolded in relief as he butted in and hugged her too.

" Yeah seriously, you scared the living beeswax out of us! We thought you were dead!", Rachel, Sheldon, Mara, Penny, Amy, Bernadette, Howard, Stuart, Reese, Leonard, and Missy shrieked in relief.

" I know and I'm sorry. I was just having another emotional moment while listening to A Place Nearby on my phone. I guess it finally died within the night and why it's not turning on right now.", Joy sadly said with a sigh as she picked up her phone just as she began to feel some more tears coming.

" Yeah but why did you just walk away from our apartment without saying anything?! You seriously scared me and everyone else here half to death Joy!", Raj shrieked as he stared at his girlfriend.

" I know that Raj but I didn't want to disturb you! So that's why I just left and I had every intention of coming back after a few minutes by myself but I guess it just didn't happen that way!", Joy sadly said as she started to cry again.

" Yeah clearly it didn't!", Penny hissed.

" Penny not now! Look Joy, I don't care if you disturb me for any reason what so ever! The only thing I care about is YOU! You're my girlfriend and I love you! The last thing I want is to lose you too after we just lost your mother!", Raj shrieked as he got down in front of his girlfriend, looking at her straight in the face while gently gripping her shoulders with his hands before he embraced her as she just continued to cry.

" I know and I love you too! I don't want to be out here anymore, I just want to go home now!", Joy cried into her boyfriend's chest.

" Yeah I think that's a good idea, let's get out of here y'all! Good Lord woman, you are so soaking wet right now!", Sheldon shrieked as he and the others carefully pulled Joy to her feet and walked her away from the river to take her home to the apartment that she shared with Raj and their two dogs Cinnamon and Brown Sugar. Then shortly after she was given a bath and dried off before being redressed in some dry clothes Ivan said, " Hey do you guys mind if you give Joy and I a minute alone in the bedroom to talk for a moment?"

" Not at all Ivan, go ahead.", the other adults said before Rachel decided to heat up a bowl of dry rice in the microwave for a few minutes and placed Joy's phone into it when she took it out, setting it on the counter so that the rice could draw the moisture out of the phone enough for it to be safely plugged into the charger to charge it up due to it being completely dead.

" Thanks. Come on Joy, let's go talk for a second.", Ivan said as he walked into his best friend's bedroom that she shared with her boyfriend Raj.

" Ok Ivan.", Joy sadly said with a sigh as she followed him in there and shut the door behind her.

" Look, we all get it that this is a difficult time for you right now, but, you can't just leave in the middle of the night like that without saying anything to anybody about where you're going. Especially when it's pouring rain out.", Ivan said in concern with a sigh as he stood at least two feet in front of Joy who was leaning against the bedroom door.

" I know and I'm really sorry about that. You're right about the fact that this is a difficult time for me, a very difficult one because my mother was just like you, my best friend… I'm sorry Buxbee, I just…!", Joy sadly said before she shook her head and pressed her fist against her mouth as she started to cry again.

" It's ok bestie, come here.", Ivan sadly said as he pulled her into an embrace, letting her cry into his chest while some tears started to slide down his face again as well.

" I just want to hear her voice one more time! I'd give anything just to go back to that last conversation I had with her on the phone before this all happened! It's not fair and it's just complete bull!", Joy cried into her best friend's chest as he was gently rubbing her back with his hands in a circular motion.

" I know and my heart's just breaking for you over this, but, everything's going to be ok! She's watching over you now as well as your dad and every single one of us from Heaven! She knows that we all loved her very much, that's not going to go away! Same with the memories, they're not going to go away either!", Ivan cried.

" Thank you for being here for me Ivan, you're seriously the greatest best friend I've ever had in my entire life!", Joy cried.

" Back at you dude!", Ivan cried. The two of them stood like that crying into each other for a few minutes before they let go and began to try composing themselves while blowing their noses with tissues.

" Do you feel a little better Joy?", Ivan asked as he sniffed.

" Yeah, at least a little bit Ivan, but, I'm feeling really exhausted now.", Joy softly said as she sniffed too. Her eyes at this point were red and she began to show dark circles underneath her eyes, indicating that she really needed to get some more rest at that moment.

" Yeah I'm not surprised, you've been up all night crying. Why don't you take a nap, I think the rest of us are probably going to do the same out in the living room because we've been up all night looking for you in the first place.", Ivan said in a concerned voice.

" Yeah I think that's probably a good idea.", Joy softly said as Ivan then gently picked her up and carried her over to the bed, pulling the covers back as he then gently eased her into it.

" Here you go bestie, a nice dose of GHB to knock you right out. Sweet dreams.", Ivan softly said with a slight smile as he injected a shot of GHB into his best friend's arm to knock her out so that she could get some more much needed rest after she been up all night long out in the elements, crying over the sudden death of her mother.

" Thank you…", Joy moaned as she began to doze off after Ivan covered her up to her chest with the bed spread and he walked out of the room shutting the door behind him.

" Is she ok now Ivan?", Raj asked in concern.

" Yeah she's fine now Raj, I just knocked her out with a shot of GHB and now she's sleeping.", Ivan said with a sigh.

" Good.", everyone else said.

" I don't know about any of you idiots but I'm exhausted.", Penny said as she let out a yawn.

" I think we all are bestie.", Amy said with a yawn.

" Yeah, let's just all crash in the living room for a while.", Howard said as he yawned too. One by one everybody else started to yawn too and shortly after Sheldon took Delaney into the bathroom to change her diaper they came back out and crashed in the living room with everyone else doing the same due to the fact that they had been up the whole rest of the night looking for Joy and were extremely exhausted. Then a few hours later after the others woke back up and started talking out in the living room Joy finally woke up and emerged from the bedroom to join everyone again.

" Hi everybody.", Joy said as she was blinking her eyes.

" Hi Joy.", some of the others said.

" Well look who finally decided to join us again. Are you feeling better sweetheart?", Mr. Churchill asked as he approached his daughter.

" Yeah, a little bit better Dad. Thanks for asking.", Joy said with a sigh.

" Well good because you really did scare the bejesus out of all of us. None of us were sure of what the hell even happened to you in the first place after your boyfriend Raj called every single one of us last night freaking the crap out about the fact that he couldn't find you and that you weren't answering any of your calls and text messages that were being sent to you.", Mr. Churchill said as he embraced her and kissed her head.

" Yeah literally, no joke Joy. We were all very scared that something really bad happened to you and that we were going to end up finding you dead too which is not something that we want to think about for at least a long time yet because we all just went through the complete heartbreak over losing your mother so suddenly and not mention that we almost lost Jonah like twice. Once after his unexpected truck wreck and two, because of a sudden heart attack. We have had three close calls already and we don't want to add anymore to our life.", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis said in concern.

" Um have you guys forgotten that you almost lost me too due to me getting sick from that wind turbine Infrasound exposure?! I was freaking laying on the courthouse hallway floor half-dead basically because I was so exhausted that I couldn't even stand up! Remember that you yahoos?!", Aymee laughed as she placed her hands on her hips, shaking her head around and narrowing her eyes at all of them.

" Yes we get it Aymee Twistera Atwell!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell, Mayghen, Dr. Gravis, Joy, Mr. Churchill, Delaney, Skipper, Nova, Mara, Jonah, Reese, Blazer and the other FBI agents, Rachel, Sheldon, Mrs. Cooper, Georgie, Meemaw, Missy, Penny, Leonard, Howard, Raj, Ivan, Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis, Kez, Charly, Amy, Gene, Raj's family, Stuart, Bernadette, Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield, and Mr. and Mrs. Walkerson scolded as they all stared at her.

" Ok, I was just making sure you all haven't lost your marbles!", Aymee laughed as she put her hands up.

" Yeah we get it but that doesn't mean that we can't just forget about what's currently happening right now. We're in mourning right now due to the fact that we just lost a family member so suddenly without warning.", Nova said with a sad expression on her face as she stared at her friend.

" You're right, that was totally uncalled for on my part Nova. Sorry.", Aymee said with a sad sigh after she calmed down.

" It's alright Aymee, you were just trying to lighten the mood.", Nova sadly said.

" This just really sucks… I want my wife back!", Mr. Churchill sadly said as he buried his face into his hands and started to cry again.

" Dad stop, you're just making this worse than it already is! You're not the only one here that wants Mom back, I do too as well as everyone else here that's with us! Especially me because like I just told my best friend Ivan in the bedroom a few hours ago, that, I'd give anything just to go back to that last phone conversation I had with Mom before she so unexpectedly left us in the middle of the night! Like if somehow and someway somebody was able to bring a piece of that back so that it sounds as if she's talking directly to me again, it would honestly make me feel a whole lot better than I am right now but I don't think that's possible which really sucks!", Joy cried as she embraced her father again.

" Well hold on wait a second you two, I completely almost forgot about this! Howard come with me to the lab for a moment!", Raj suddenly interjected when he remembered something special that him and Howard had done previously in secret for a while with federal permission of course just in case if something like this happened.

" Oh, yeah totally Raj! We'll be right back in a few minutes you guys!", Howard shrieked as he and Raj suddenly bolted out of the apartment and slammed the door shut behind them making everyone stop and stare, wondering what was going on except for Reese and her comrads because they knew what was up and what this was.

Leonard and Howard's lab at Caltech…

" Alright where are those phone recordings of Mrs. Katrina Aspen Churchill man?! What drawer did you put them in?!", Raj shrieked as he started searching through drawers when they got to the laboratory a few moments later.

" Hold on a second, I'm thinking here dude! Ah ha, I found them!", Howard shrieked as he searched through another drawer and found the two voice boxes he was looking for before he grabbed them and ran out the door screaming, " Move it you a**hole!"

" I'm coming, will you chill out!", Raj screamed as he ran after his best friend, slamming the door shut behind them before they ran out of the building, jumped back into Howard's car and sped off back to Raj and Joy's apartment.

" Oh I so hope this works man because I seriously don't want to keep seeing my girlfriend and her father crying and being so hurt over this!", Raj hissed as his heart back to race while he was crossing his fingers.

" It's gonna work buddy, it has to! Because believe me, I don't want to keep seeing this either! This is too painful to watch!", Howard hissed.

" You got that right!", Raj hissed. When they finally got back to the apartment they ran in and Howard exclaimed practically all out of breath, " We're back you guys!"

" Yeah and we got something very special here that we almost completely forgot about doing!", Raj exclaimed as he was trying to catch his breath too.

" What is going on here?", some of the others asked in confusion as they were staring at each other and the two men who looked like they were about to pass out.

" Yeah seriously what is going on and what is this?", Joy and Mr. Churchill sadly asked when they started trying to compose themselves while staring at the devices that Howard then just handed them.

" Well, with the FBI's permission previously for a while Raj and I secretly recorded… well, here just listen to this.", Howard said in a serious voice as he walked up and pressed the button on the device that Joy had in her hand and within a few seconds while everyone went completely silent Mrs. Churchill's voice suddenly said, " Hello, Joy? It's Mom." which made everyone gasp in shock including Joy and her father.

" H-hi Mom… how are you?", Joy studdered when she leaned over the device a bit to talk into it. There was a slight pause before her mother said, " I'm good sweetheart, how are you?" which immediately made her burst into happy tears as well as her father because to them this felt like they were talking directly to their deceased loved one from beyond the grave.

" Oh Lord in Heaven this is beautiful!", Mrs. Cooper happily cried.

" Yeah I couldn't agree more with that! Oh god I can't feel myself!", Penny happily cried.

" Are these previous phone conversations that we had with Katrina?!", Mr. Churchill happily cried.

" Yeah they are Mr. Churchill! The one you got are the conversations that you had with your wife and the one that Joy's got are conversations that she had with her mother! Reese and the other agents gave Howard and I permission to secretly record these and put them in these special voice boxes for you so that it makes you feel like you're still talking to her even though she's not physically here anymore!", Raj happily cried.

" Oh my god Raj, Howard, this is seriously the greatest gift that you two could've ever given us! I'm so speechless right now that you guys were able to do this! This is exactly what I just said I wanted! Thank you so much, I love this!", Joy happily cried as she threw her arms around Raj and Howard while still holding the voice box in her hand.

" Yes, thank you! This is just unbelievable and truly cherish worthy!", Mr. Churchill happily cried as he did the same thing.

" You're very welcome. See?! Told you it would work Raj!", Howard said before he exclaimed that last part in Raj's direction with a smile on his face.

" Success! Score dude!", Raj exclaimed as they high fived each other while everyone around them just cried happy tears with each other.

" You feel better now?!", Reese happily cried when she walked up to Joy.

" Yes Reese, I feel a whole lot better now! Just hearing my mom's voice through this device as if she's directly speaking to me again from beyond the grave… it feels like I have her back and that I can talk to her anytime I want to when I'm feeling sad about her being gone! This just makes my grief a whole lot easier to deal with now!", Joy happily cried as she gently fingered the voice box around in her hand. A soft smile began to spread across her face as she held the device against her chest as if she was hugging her mother again.

" Well that's very good to hear!", Reese happily cried as she embraced her friend.

" Oh my god, this is something truly special that I will never forget. And here I thought this would never be possible.", Joy said with a smile as her happy tears kept flowing from her eyes.

" Well never say never bestie.", Ivan happily cried as he walked up to her, took out his phone, and started playing the song Never Say Never by Justin Bieber feat. Jaden Smith on it.

" Oh Buxbee you're such a lovable dork sometimes!", Joy exclaimed with a giddy laugh as she playfully punched her best friend in the shoulder.

" Oh you want to start something like that with me Churchill?! I don't think so! You're so gonna get it now, come here!", Ivan laughed as he started playfully smacking her back after she put the voice box down on the coffee table and he set his phone down next it while the song kept playing.

" Hey, that's a great idea Buxbee! Playful slap fight!", Leonard laughed as he threw the first playful slap at his girlfriend Penny who immediately exclaimed with a giddy laugh, " Oh you really started it now Hofstadter! Come here you asthmatic dumb a**!" before she started playfully slapping him back making everyone else start playfully slapping each other, laughing in amusement as the song kept playing from Ivan's phone. Cinnamon and Brown Sugar were happily chasing each other around, letting out happy barks in the midst of this huge playful slap fight among everyone else. In that moment it seemed that everyone's spirits had been lifted just by one simple act of kindness given to the Churchills from Howard and Raj who gave them a seemingly possible chance to speak to the one person they loved again who was no longer there with them.

" Best playful slap fight ever!", Mara laughed.

" Yeah you said it honey, this is great! Look out Kez, here comes another one at ya buddy!", Jonah laughed as he playfully swung his non-injured hand again at Kez, hitting him in the face.

" Oh yeah well here comes another one back at you too Jonah! Fire in the hole!", Kez laughed as he sent another playful slap back at his friend who was still sitting in his wheelchair.

" Oh you wish to talk about giving out fire in the holes at the moment?! Well I'll give you one that you'll never forget! Take this Kazinski!", Sheldon laughed as he came up behind Kez and surprise attacked him with another playful slap right on the back of his head before he darted away with an amusing smirk on his face.

" Ow! Ok you're gonna get it for that one Cooper! Come back here!", Kez laughed as he started chasing after Sheldon.

" Ok Kez, Sheldon, knock it off! This is getting ridiculous now and you guys are going to hurt each other!", Charly laughed as she then sprinted after them.

" Yeah I totally agree with that one Charly! Come on you guys stop it! This is really getting childish now, not in front of the girls!", Rachel laughed as she joined in the chase too after the song on Ivan's phone then switched to The Space Between by Dave Matthews Band.

" Alright playtime's over here people! I'm shutting this down with a little something like this, incoming!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he suddenly shoved his way in between Rachel, Charly, Kez, and Sheldon before he playfully whacked Rachel in the face with a throw pillow that he just grabbed from the couch making everyone start gasping in surprise while they were still all laughing it up in amusement.

" Ooooh you did not just go there Dr. Gravis! I'm so gonna get you for that! It's on dude!", Rachel laughed as she grabbed another pillow and whacked him back with it which immediately started an all out child-like pillow fight between the employer and employee, making the situation very funny to everybody who was watching this which was exactly what they all knew that this is what Mrs. Churchill would have wanted to see if she was still alive.

" Yeah get each other Mom and Uncle Doctor Gravis! Show each other what you're made of! This is awesome!", Delaney laughed as she watched her mother and godfather pillow-duking it out with each other.

" Yeah it is, hold on for a second! Ivan let's turn your phone off because I think I got a better song for this!", Mara laughed.

" Ok sure Mara, what is it?!", Ivan laughed. Mara then shut Ivan's phone off, took out her phone, and started playing It's On from the Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam soundtrack which instantly caused more laughter to ring out with Rachel laughing at the top of her lungs towards Mara while she was whacking Dr. Gravis with the pillow she had in her hand all the while she was running away from him at the same that he was whacking her, " I'M GONNA KILL YOU FOR THIS SCOTTSDALE!"

" I don't think so Rachel, I'm gonna kill you first! Come back here!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he kept chasing her.

" In your dreams Dr. John Herald Gravis! You're minced meat!", Rachel laughed as she kept running away from him.

" Nice one honey!", Jonah laughed as he stared at his wife Mara who was laughing it up in amusement.

" Thanks Jonah, I thought this song was appropriate because Rachel's the one that said, " It's on dude!" to Dr. Gravis in the first place which made me think of this!", Mara laughed as she kissed her husband.

" You crazy fucking bitch! This is so totally appropriate! Oh balls, you're such a riot Mara June Scottsdale!", Penny laughed as she slapped her thigh.

" Thanks Penny!", Mara laughed.

" Oh this is really killing me now Wesley! I can't get enough of seeing how much fun our daughter Rachel is having right now!", Mrs. Wayneburg laughed as she stood next to her husband.

" I couldn't agree more with you on that Kara! This is priceless! Good time sweetheart!", Mr. Wayneburg laughed as he was giving Rachel a thumbs up.

" Dad shut up! Oh crap, not my face Dr. Gravis! Get away!", Rachel laughed as she was running away from her boss/friend while still putting up her defenses with the pillow she had in her hand like a teenage girl who was at a sleepover party with her friends.

" Nice way to start something between your friends sis!", Kensley laughed as she slapped Mara's shoulder.

" Thanks for that Kensley! It's what I do best!", Mara laughed.

" This really just makes everything better for me and my father right now! Thanks for that galfriend!", Joy laughed as she came up next to Mara.

" No problem Joy! Glad you're feeling better!", Mara laughed.

" Yeah this is what's up you homies!", Howard laughed.

" You got that right wingman!", Raj laughed as he smacked hands with Howard again.

" For god sakes, here we go again with another happy, hilarious moment! This is so much better than tears and sadness!", Leonard laughed, shaking his head.

" You got that right Leonard! This is so fun for me to watch my brother John make a complete fool out of himself, but in a good way!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis laughed.

" I heard that over there sis!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he kept chasing after Rachel, whacking her with the pillow in his hand.

" You were supposed to bro! That's the whole point to what I said!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis laughed.

" Hey Aunt Mara can you put this on repeat please?! This is awesome!", Delaney exclaimed.

" Sure, whatever you want Delaney!", Mara laughed as she put the song on her phone on repeat so that it would play over and over again.

" Sweet! Dance party time!", Delaney exclaimed as she started dancing around the living room to the music.

" Yeah!", Aymee, Skipper, and Nova exclaimed as they joined in with her, bumping their backs into hers while all 4 of them began to sing the words to the song.

" Good Lord, I so love this huge family of ours!", Sheldon laughed as he shook his head.

" I couldn't have said that better myself Sheldon! Oh god, get away from me Dr. Gravis! You ain't knocking me out of this frame!", Rachel laughed as she kept running away and whacking her pillow back at Dr. Gravis who was still chasing her while whacking her with his pillow and laughing in amusement.

" That's what you think CDC Registered Nurse Rachel Sandy Cooper! I'll knock you out of whatever the hell kind of frame I want here because not only are you my employee but you're also my very good friend who I care about and love very much! I'm calling the shots here and so I say you're going down!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he kept chasing her around Raj and Joy's apartment.

" Not gonna happen dude! You're so going down since you were the one who started this child's play in the first place! Fire the torpedoes!", Rachel laughed as she turned around and really started unleashing a pillow whacking frenzy on him.

" Oh yeah?! I'll fire them right back at you! You see how that works?!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he started doing the same thing back at her.

" Yeah I see it but I don't think you're gonna see this coming Dr. Gravis! Flying squirrel attack!", Rachel laughed as she suddenly tossed her pillow aside and launched herself at him, knocking him to the floor to which he laughed, " Oh for the love of sausage gravy, Rachel!" as they immediately began rolling around on the floor with each other as if they were wrestling.

" Well you asked for it man!", Leonard laughed.

" Oh just shut up Dr. Leonard Hofstadter! Your comments aren't helping right now!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he continued rolling around on the floor with Rachel.

" Ok ok you guys, we should probably take a little breather for a bit before somebody gets hurt! I think we're getting a little bit too carried away here!", Reese laughed as she was waving her hands around making everyone else pretty much start ceasing what they were doing while trying to catch their breaths.

" Yeah that's probably a good idea Agent Kelly because I can't even feel my chest now at the moment! Oh wow, that was so much fun!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he started to pull himself up off the floor while helping Rachel stand up as well all the while both of them were trying to catch their breath too.

" You got that right! I seriously don't think I've ever fooled around this much like that before since Sheldon and I were kids!", Rachel laughed as she was still trying to catch her breath while Mara turned the music off, making everybody sit back down so that they could chill out for a while.

" Well Heavenly Father are you alright Dr. John Gravis?!", Mrs. Cooper asked in concern as she stared at her boyfriend who was sitting next to her, still trying to catch his breath.

" Yes I'm fine Mary, I think I just overdid myself for the moment.", Dr. Gravis sighed as he leaned his head back for a moment before he kissed her. The two of them then grabbed each other's hand with smiles on their faces as Mrs. Cooper then leaned her head against his shoulder.

" Well Lord in Heaven, ain't this sweet? You two certainly look like a perfect match made in Heaven together.", Meemaw said with a smile as she looked at the touching scene going on between her daughter and Dr. Gravis.

" Mom, please! Don't embarrass me!", Mrs. Cooper shot back at her mother.

" Who says that she's embarrassing you?! She just thinks we look cute together!", Dr. Gravis said with a giddy laugh.

" Well I can't argue with that because it's true.", Mrs. Cooper said with a smile as she let out a sigh.

" Totally true. Couldn't have said that better myself.", Gene said with a smirk.

" Oh would you seriously please just SHUT UP Gene! Stop embarrassing me!", Dr. Gravis laughed, shaking his head at his friend.

" Dude I'm not embarrassing you! I was just agreeing with what Mary said! Chill out!", Gene laughed.

" Oh don't you go around telling me to chill out bud because I'm going to pound your head out like a pancake for saying that!", Dr. Gravis laughed.

" Oh pulease, I think you and I both know that you wouldn't actually do that to me John! We've been friends with each other for over 40 years!", Gene laughed as he batted his hand towards his friend.

" Dude I was being sarcastic! Of course I wouldn't do that to you! Like you said, we've been friends for over 40 years and that's not going to change any time soon!", Dr. Gravis laughed.

" Good to know Gravis!", Gene laughed.

" Oh shut up Brownstein!", Dr. Gravis laughed causing everyone else to start laughing too. Then as the conversations continued among the others Ivan suddenly walked up to Reese and asked, " Hey, Reese? Do you mind if we talk out in the hallway for a moment?"

" No I don't mind at all Ivan. Sure.", Reese said as she shook her head before she followed Ivan outside the apartment into the hallway and shut the door behind them while the others were still inside, pretty much distracted by conversation.

" So, what's this about? Is there something that you wanted to tell me?", Reese asked as she stood in front of her her friend with her back against the apartment door.

" Yeah there is… look I… oh fuck!", Ivan started to say before he hissed under his breath, shaking his head as he then leaned in and kissed her out of nowhere which left her completely shocked when he broke the kiss a few moments later.

" What was that for Buxbee? Did you just kiss me?", Reese asked in shock as she stared at him.

" Yes I did. Look, I'm not really good with words here but I'm just going to say it anyway… I like you Reese.", Ivan said as he could feel his heart start to race.

" You like me?", Reese asked in shock.

" Yes, I've actually liked you since I first met you. I've just been really shy about it because… I've never had a girlfriend before and I don't know I just…", Ivan said in a nervous tone but was suddenly interrupted by Reese kissing him back.

" Well I've never had a boyfriend either, but, I think you just became the first one for me Ivan Codillas Buxbee.", Reese said with a smile when she broke the kiss a few moments later, staring romantically into Ivan's eyes with her arms wrapped around his shoulders.

" I like the sound of that Special Agent Reese Hermione Kelly. I think you just might be my very first girlfriend too.", Ivan said with a smile as the two resumed kissing each other. At first their make-out session started out in the hallway but then it backed up into the apartment when Reese reached behind herself and flung open the door causing everyone to start staring in complete shock at the male CDC nurse and female FBI agent who were basically in the throws of sucking on each other's faces as they suddenly pulled each other towards the second bedroom in Raj and Joy's apartment before they locked themselves in there shortly after Reese grabbed a condom from the bathroom. The song You Get What You Give by New Radicals started playing in the background during this as well.

" For god sakes?!", Leonard exclaimed in shock.

" Leonard Hofstadter, zip it! Lord in Heaven, what is this?! Ivan Buxbee, Agent Kelly, you two better not be sinning in there or so help me Lord I will thump the bejesus out of both of your heads with the Holy Bible for this nonsense!", Mrs. Cooper scolded Leonard before she scolded over her shoulder towards the other bedroom as she kept sitting on the couch next to Dr. Gravis in the living room.

" Just let it go for the moment Mary, I'm sure they'll come out eventually after what people would say they're 'getting it on' with each other! Plus, I don't think you want to be arrested for assaulting an FBI agent!", Dr. Gravis said with a giddy laugh.

" Oh alright Dr. Gravis, I suppose you have a point there with that.", Mrs. Cooper said with a sigh before she kissed him again.

" Exactly, I do!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he kissed her back again.

" What's going on with Uncle Ivan and Aunt Reese? Are they…?", Delaney started to ask but then Rachel said, " Yes yes, you don't need to know what they're doing with each other right now Delaney. Someday when you're a grown woman and in a relationship with someone you'll understand what that is."

" Now hold on wait a second Rachel, maybe we should tell her so that she knows that it's not something for her to do anytime soon until she's a grown woman if and when she gets a boyfriend.", Sheldon said as he looked at his wife.

" Sheldon she's a 15 year old girl with Autism. She does not need to know the meaning of what coitus is right now.", Rachel hissed as she narrowed her eyes at her husband.

" What's a coitus? I don't get it.", Delaney asked in confusion as she stared at her parents.

" Bazinga! You don't need to get it right now sweetheart, I was joking. We're not going to tell you about this until you're much older.", Sheldon said to his daughter as he shook his head.

" Well ok Dad!", Delaney exclaimed with a smile.

*Reese's gleeful girly shrieks ring out from behind the closed bedroom door followed by a bunch of thumping noises as well as gasping from the two individuals kissing each other*

" Man it sounds like Ivan's really having his way with her in there! Score you hot dogs!", Raj laughed in amusement as he held his arms up like a football field goal.

" You got that right! I had a feeling that those two were going to do that too at some point, just like you and Joy did!", Howard laughed with a stupid smirk.

" Dude, please! Not in front of her father! That's not cool man!", Raj hissed back at his best friend.

" It's alright Raj, I totally get it! I don't care what you do with my daughter as long as you treat her with respect! My wife Katrina didn't really care about what you two did with each other when she was still around either considering the fact that you and Joy are grown consenting adults sharing an apartment together with two dogs! This is the kind of thing that we wanted to happen for our daughter in the first place!", Mr. Churchill laughed in amusement as he stared at his daughter's boyfriend.

" Well that's good to know because I really love your daughter anyway! Thank you Mr. Churchill!", Raj exclaimed with a smile as he stared at his girlfriend's father.

" No problem pal!", Mr. Churchill laughed. The bedroom door then swung open a few minutes later with the music fading out from the background as everyone then stared at the open doorway where Ivan and Reese were standing, leaning on each other. Their clothes were all disheveled and Ivan had lipstick stains all over his face.

" What's up chumps?", Reese said with a satisfied smirk on her face as she was then trying to catch her breath.

" Yeah, what she said.", Ivan said with the exact same smirk as he was trying to catch his breath as well.

" Woah baby!", Delaney, Aymee, Skipper, and Nova exclaimed in shock which immediately earned them some scolding from Rachel, Sheldon, Mr. and Mrs. Atwell, Mr. and Mrs. Walkerson, and Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield saying, " Girls!" as they were narrowing their eyes at them.

" What?! What did we even say?!", Skipper shot back.

" Do not say that, that's not appropriate for your age right now!", Mr. Walkerson scolded.

" Ok, fine.", Skipper said with a sigh.

" What was up with that Agent Kelly?", Blazer asked his federal agent partner.

" Well, to answer your question Agent Moody… it appears that I just picked my cupcake.", Reese breathlessly said before she looked at Ivan romantically with a smile as she crossed her arms in front of her.

" Hell yeah she did, she picked it real good! In fact, excuse me for a moment people!", Ivan said with a smile as he slunk away out into the hallway again and shut the door behind him but no sooner that he did that he was heard doing the Mexican Hat dance again while exclaiming at the top of his voice, " I FINALLY GOT A GIRLFRIEND! THIS ROCKS!" which immediately made everyone inside the apartment start laughing in amusement at this including Reese herself.

" D*mn, you look like you really got some bestie!", Mara laughed as she stared at her best friend.

" Oh hell to the yes I did Mara, I got something that you wouldn't believe! Ain't no other man touching me now except for that stud out there because this bitch is officially now off the market! Any other man that tries to get with me now is just gonna get sprayed in the face with mace!", Reese said in a satisfied voice as she tossed the used condom in the trash and pointed her finger at the door before she pointed at herself.

" Oh to hell they will! You hear that?! Back off other jacks, this bi**h is now mine!", Ivan exclaimed when he came running back into the apartment and pulled his friend Reese who was now his girlfriend into the side of his body.

" Oh just shut up and come here Ivan!", Reese laughed as she pulled him in for another kiss.

" Well that came out of nowhere! We were so not expecting this!", Amy laughed.

" Yeah totally not expecting this! Congratulations you guys!", some of the others exclaimed.

" Thank you!", Ivan and Reese exclaimed.

" Well wait a minute you guys, I don't think you're going to expect this coming either. This is something that I've been keeping in for a while and well… oh son of a Chewbacca bi**h, screw it!", Stuart started to say but hissed under his breath as he then just kissed Chantel in front of everyone causing them all to gasp in complete shock, including Chantel herself when Stuart broke the kiss a few moments later.

" What the hell Stuart?!", all of the other adults except for Chantel exclaimed in shock as they stared at him.

" Dude, did you just kiss me?!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis exclaimed in shock as she stared at him.

" Oh was that what I did?! I-I'm so sorry, I didn't know what the freak I was doing I was just…!", Stuart studdered nervously but Chantel just exclaimed, " Stuart that was nothing, let me show you what a real kiss is! Come here!" before she grabbed him by the front of his shirt and pulled him towards her to kiss him very romantically in front of everybody which completely shocked them again by what they were seeing going on between the stand-offish comic book store owner and Dr. Gravis's honorable army sargeant sister.

" Bam, another score! We got two new couples in here now! This is awesome!", Raj exclaimed.

" Yeah you bet it is Raj! To Reese and Ivan and to Chantel and Stuart!", Leonard exclaimed which immediately received a celebration to that.

" I'm fine with this but if you ever break my sister's heart then I'll kill you dude.", Dr. Gravis said in a serious tone as he narrowed his eyes at his friend Stuart.

" I totally get it Dr. Gravis.", Stuart said in a nervous tone.

" Man I seriously can't get enough of this Mara! This day just turned into a whole bunch of surprises! My father and I got a seemingly possible chance to talk to my mom again beyond the grave and not to mention your best friend and my best friend hooked up with each other as well as our friend Stuart hooking up with our boss/friend's sister who's also friends with us too! This is awesome!", Joy exclaimed as she walked up to Mara.

" I know, right?! It's insane Joy! I seriously can't believe how great this day turned into in the end! Hopefully we'll have some more fun adventures with each other going forward!", Mara exclaimed.

" I hope so too! What about you Rachel?!", Joy exclaimed as she threw her head into Rachel's direction.

" Me too!", Rachel exclaimed as she joined the other two nurses and the three of them then did a fist bump explosion with each other. But little did everyone know that someone was secretly watching them through the webcam of Raj's laptop on a giant computer screen at an abandoned warehouse that was somewhere on the far west end of the city of Pasadena.

" That's what they think, those fools! Oh you two Gravis siblings are so going to pay for everything you did to me! You think you just create me from your childhood imagination 2 months after your pathetic mother's death and then completely ghost me for several years as if I never existed at all?! I don't think so! Prepare to taste the imaginary turned real-life wrath of Professor Sidman Revolto Skelter, Dr. John Herald Gravis and Army Sgt. Chantel Roxanne Gravis as well as your other pathetic friends/extended family members! Muah ha ha ha ha ha ha!", Professor Skelter, an evil mad scientist evilly laughed as he kept watching his two enemies Dr. Gravis and his sister Chantel on the screen interacting with everyone else and each other. It was at this point that Delaney had her iPod playing The Power Squadron's Pocketful of Sunshine feat. Maria C, making everyone celebrate to it.

" I seriously love the hell out of you people!", Dr. Gravis exclaimed with an amusing smirk on his face.

" You and me both bro! You guys are awesome!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis exclaimed.

" So are you!", everyone else exclaimed over the music.

" Come here Rachel, Ivan, Joy, and Dr. Gravis! I got something to say here!", Mara exclaimed as she was motioning her hands for her work friends to come towards her.

" Sure what is it?!", Dr. Gravis, Rachel, Joy, and Ivan exclaimed as they started shaking their way to the beat of the music over to her as she gathered them into somewhat of a big group hug while shaking herself to the beat of the music as well.

" I just want to say… that you guys are seriously the best work friends I've ever had in my life!", Mara exclaimed as she began to shed some happy tears.

" Same here Mara June Scottsdale!", Rachel, Dr. Gravis, Ivan, and Joy exclaimed as they began to do the same thing with Mara then joining in with all 4 of them exclaiming, " CDC family for life!"

" That Mara June Scottsdale girl appears to be a big loud mouth! She's probably going to be a big problem for me to deal with, same with Rachel Sandy Cooper, Joy Melinda Churchill, and Ivan Codillas Buxbee! I can already tell that these 4 are going to be huge interferences in my way of my plan to destroy their boss and his sister once and for all which is not something I appreciate! But wait a minute, what's this?!", Professor Skelter evilly said to himself as he was watching the 4 CDC nurses and the CDC doctor on the big computer screen in his warehouse, looking like they were really having fun with the music but the moment he saw Sheldon and Delaney come into view as well was when he began to get a very sinister look on his face.

" Mind if we cut in here for a moment y'all?!", Sheldon exclaimed.

" No we don't mind at all Sheldon!", Joy, Rachel, Dr. Gravis, Mara, and Ivan exclaimed as they kept dancing together to the music.

" Good Lord this is exhilarating, nice music Delaney!", Sheldon exclaimed as he was surprisingly having a lot of fun with himself to the music again too even though he said he doesn't dance.

" Thanks Dad! I so love playing music anyway, it's so much fun!", Delaney exclaimed as she was dancing around like crazy to the music she was playing on her iPod in front of her parents, her godfather, her two aunts, and her uncle.

" Oh this is really interesting, I think I just found the starting point to Phase 1 in my plan! It's Rachel's stupid husband Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper and their precious autistic teenage daughter Delaney Oaklynn Cooper! The possiblities are endless with what I can do with these two, especially Delaney! Yeah that's right John, I know about the fact that she's your goddaughter as well as she's the goddaughter of pathetic Dr. Leonard Hofstadter and his stupid girlfriend Penny and that you three care about her very much! I also know that your stupid sister cares about her too which makes this more fun for me because I think I just found the perfect way to break you two! That little girl is going to be the key to bringing you two down and nobody is going to stop me! So enjoy your precious happy moments together because it's gonna be your last! Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!", Professor Skelter laughed evilly as he kept watching the scene in front of him on his computer screen.

" Out of my way you putzes! Here I come!", Bernadette exclaimed from the background as she was dancing around like a crazy lady.

" Oh no, not another loud mouth! That simply won't do me any favors! Whoever said that has also got to go away, permanently!", Professor Skelter evilly shouted behind his computer screen.

" Oh balls Bernadette, you are so weird!", Penny laughed.

" Well so are you Penny!", Bernadette laughed.

" Of course, Dr. Bernadette MaryAnn Rostenkowski-Wolowitz! I should have already know that she's the one that said that!", Professor Skelter evilly shouted as he slammed his fist down onto his computer desk.

" Bernie would you and Penny just shut up! You're not helping the cause right now!", Howard exclaimed in the background at his wife.

" Howie, can it!", Bernadette exclaimed back at him.

" Great, there's her stupid husband Howard Joel Wolowitz yapping his mouth in the background too! Oh this is really pissing me off! Tisk, tisk, tisk!", Professor Skelter evilly shouted.

" Ok you guys why don't we all just can it and enjoy each other's company! We don't need a bunch of who what being thrown around at each other right now! Good gravy!", Reese laughed in the background as she was dancing around like an idiot.

" Agent Kelly just shut up and let it go!", Blazer laughed in the background.

" Excuse me but why don't you shut up and let it go too Agent Moody! My god!", Reese laughed.

" Are you f**king kidding me right now?! Those two Gravis sibling clowns are friends with the FBI?! I'm gonna… oh those two are so dead for this!", Professor Skelter evilly shouted as he slammed his fist down on his desk again. He couldn't believe that his enemies were already one step ahead of him by making friends with the FBI which to him spelled out immediate trouble because he knew that his evil plan was not going to go down that easy.

" Dance party!", Nova, Aymee, and Skipper exclaimed as they suddenly jumped into view of the screen and started dancing around with Delaney.

" Oh you know it Nova, Skipper, and Aymee! This is awesome!", Delaney exclaimed. Then all 4 teenage girls exclaimed, " Best friends forever!" as they kept dancing around like giddy butterflies to the music.

" Drats, I knew there had to be another flaw in this plan! It's those stupid best friends of Delaney's! Nova Racy Butterfield, Skipper Leah Walkerson, and Aymee Twistera Atwell! I'm going to kill those girls if it's the last thing I do! They're not going to interfere with my evil plans! No way no how!", Professor Skelter evilly shouted as he slammed his fist down again. As he kept watching the screen in anger he then saw Delaney grab Raj's desk chair, jump into it, and started spinning around it making her friends start dancing around her exclaiming, " Yay, another spinning dance party! This is awesome! You're the best Delaney Oaklynn Cooper!"

" Thank you people, good night!", Delaney exclaimed as she kept spinning around, shaking her shoulders and swinging her arms around to the music that was still playing on her iPod.

" Oh for god sakes, here we go again with another one! This is great!", Leonard laughed in amusement from the background.

" It sure is Leonard!", Penny laughed in amusement as she then kissed him on the lips with a satisfied smirk on her face before the two of them kept dancing to the music together.

" I so love this little girl and her friends bro! Thank you so much for bringing me into their life in the first place!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis exclaimed as she entered the frame too a second later and stood next to her brother, putting her arm around his shoulder as they were still dancing to the music too.

" No problem sis, I love them too and I love you!", Dr. Gravis exclaimed.

" I love you too!", Army Sgt. Chantel Gravis exclaimed with a giddy laugh as the two siblings kept leaning on each other while still shaking to themselves to the beat of the song.

" I'm so glad that we moved here to this city with our daughters Aymee and Mayghen in the first place Martin! These people are all such riots!", Mrs. Atwell laughed in amusement as she stared at her husband.

" You got that right Terry! I couldn't agree more with that!", Mr. Atwell laughed in amusement as he kissed his wife while they continue to dance together to the music along with everyone else.

" Big mistake, fools! You're going to wish you never said that! Oh this is making me so mad right now! I WILL DESTROY ALL OF YOU IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, WHICH INCLUDES THAT STUPID LONG TIME FRIEND OF YOURS GENE BROWNSTEIN, JOHN! DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT TOO BECAUSE I DO! YOU'RE ALL GOING TO BE HISTORY WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, I WILL SEE TO THAT!", Professor Skelter evilly shouted as he kept watching the party going on from behind his computer screen and saw Gene suddenly come into view dancing like a weirdo making Dr. Gravis playfully smack his friend over the head before Professor Skelter slammed his fist down one more time but this time on the button that turns off the screen. The party continued at Raj and Joy's apartment with the two dogs running around playing for a little while longer before everyone went their separate ways for the evening with the exception of Chantel who decided to follow Stuart to his comic book store to spend the night with him while Dr. Gravis and the Atwells, after Chantel told her brother about where she was going, picked up some Chinese food for dinner before they headed back to the mansion.

" Chinese take-out, great way to end the evening.", Dr. Gravis said with a smile as he was helping himself to some fried rice and sweet and sour chicken while he was sitting at his table with his 4 house guests that he took in after he condemned their house for being unsafe a couple days ago.

" Yeah, totally. Can't argue with that Dr. Gravis, this is good.", Mayghen said with a smile as she stabbed her fork into a piece of chicken, dipping it into the sauce that was on her plate while sitting next to her younger teenage sister Aymee across from him as he was sitting next to their parents.

" Agreed, great idea Dad. At least you do something right this time.", Aymee said with a stupid smirk as she looked at her father who was sitting between her mother and Dr. Gravis on the other side of the table.

" Hardy har har, very funny Aymee.", Mr. Atwell sarcastically said with a giddy laugh as he rolled his eyes at his youngest daughter.

" Ok Martin, let's cut it out with the sarcasm for now honey. Let's just all enjoy a nice family dinner together in our new home thanks to Dr. Gravis kindly taking us into his home a couple days due to the fact that SOMEBODY here blindly moved us into a heavily Infrasound polluted deathtrap in the first place!", Mrs. Atwell said with a giddy laugh as she briefly pointed at Dr. Gravis who was still sitting on the other side of her husband at the table.

" Yeah Dad, get with the times muchacho!", Mayghen laughed making Aymee start laughing, " Oh that's a good one Mayghen!" as well while the two Atwell sisters started pounding their fists on the table in amusement. Even Dr. Gravis and Mrs. Atwell started laughing in amusement too while Dr. Gravis laughed, " Yeah I'd say your eldest daughter Mayghen really told you man! Oh that just really killed me!" as he briefly pointed at Mr. Atwell before he started pounding his fist on the table a little bit too.

" Me too! Oh my god I love our little family here!", Mrs. Atwell laughed as she suddenly threw her head down on the table, pounding her fist into it as well.

" Ok ok you all made your point about my stupidity! Can you all please just stop laughing at my expense about it now!", Mr. Atwell interjected in somewhat of an embarrassed tone in his voice as he was waving his arms around to try to get his wife, their two daughters, and Dr. Gravis to stop laughing at him.

" Oh relax Martin, we're just messing with you bud! We know that you didn't do that on purpose, you just made a mistake! Everyone makes mistakes once in a while, that's what you call life!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he was playfully smacking Mr. Atwell on the shoulder before himself and the other three female Atwells started to calm down.

" Yeah I guess you're right.", Mr. Atwell said before he started laughing it up at himself, pounding his fist on the table causing the other 4 to start back up with their laughter and fist pounding as well.

" See, now you're getting the idea! We all got to laugh at ourselves once in a while, otherwise this entire world of chaos that we live in would just be completely boring!", Dr. Gravis laughed as he leaned back in his chair.

" That's so true Dr. Gravis! Oh my god I can't stand this!", Aymee laughed as she was throwing her head down on the table and slamming her fist down as hard as she could on it.

" Me too, but I think we should all calm down now before we end up choking ourselves to death! Let's just continue eating dinner so that we can go to bed shortly afterwards!", Mayghen laughed before she started settling down.

" Yeah I think that's a good idea Mayghen.", Mr. Atwell said as he was trying to catch his breath.

" Agreed.", Aymee and Mrs. Atwell said while trying to catch their breaths as well.

" You know to be honest, I will say that this is the best decision I made with taking you 4 into my home. I haven't had this much fun since my childhood and my divorce several years ago. Having moments like this really just bring back a whole bunch of memories for me.", Dr. Gravis said with a smile.

" Well we're just glad that we get to help bring joy into your life. We really also appreciate you saving our lives from a huge health hazard that we didn't even know was there in the first place when we first moved in there.", Mrs. Atwell said with a smile.

" Of course Terry. You 4 are all really nice folks and I really would have hated to see you all end up on the street in the first place. The 4 of you are more than welcome to stay here with me for as long as you want, whether it's temporary or permanent. I don't care, I enjoy the company.", Dr. Gravis said with a smile.

" Well, we really appreciate it. Thank you.", Mr. Atwell said with a smile as his wife and their two daughters nodded their heads in agreement.

" Don't mention it Martin.", Dr. Gravis said.

Ring ring ring!

" Um Dr. Gravis, I think your phone's ringing.", Mayghen said as she pointed across the table at him.

" Oh, thank you for pointing that out Mayghen, excuse me a moment people. Talk to me.", Dr. Gravis said before he picked up his phone and answered it.

" Ring a ding ding John, it's your old man here! Where's your sister Army Sgt. Chantel Roxanne Gravis?!", Mr. Raymond Keith Gravis suddenly answered in somewhat of a concerned elderly man's voice.

" Dad?! What are you calling me for right now and why are you asking me about where my sister is at?! What are you doing?!", Dr. Gravis asked his father in confusion.

" Boy I'm asking you because I just pulled up here at your sister's house for to maybe have a few minute visit with her but I'm currently leaning on my cane up here on the front porch and the front door is locked with no lights on inside the house and Chantel's car is not in the driveway either! Not to mention she's also not answering her phone because I've tried calling her several times already! So I need a straight forward answer here Dr. John Herald Gravis! Please tell me that your sister's ok because if she's not I'm going to be very upset and worried as hell!", Mr. Gravis scolded his CDC doctor son in a very concerned tone about where his army sargeant daughter was at.

" She's fine Dad, she's just spending the night with Stuart at his comic book store and she'll be back tomorrow morning! They just got together tonight at Raj and Joy's apartment! Calm the fuck down you crazy old coot!", Dr. Gravis shot back as he rolled his eyes.

" John are you absolutely sure about that?! Because the last thing I want to be worrying about at the moment is my son and daughter being in danger or something like that!", Mr. Gravis scolded in a concerned voice.

" What kind of danger are you talking about?! I don't understand where you're going with this! Everything is fine!", Dr. Gravis shot back in confusion as he shook his head.

" I'm talking about that Professor Sidman Revolto Skelter dude that you and your sister Chantel conjured up together when you were kids! Doesn't that ring a bell to you?!", Mr. Gravis scolded in concern.

" Not really! Dad for crying out loud, Professor Sidman Revolto Skelter is not real! He was just a figment of our imagination! Chantel and I were just dumb kids back then with nothing to do one Saturday afternoon! Plus, this was just a way for us to deal with our grief over losing Mom!", Dr. Gravis hissed at his father through the phone as he rolled his eyes again.

" Ok you have a point there but still it's stuff like that is what worries the dickens out of me about you and your sister a lot! You two are the only family I have left in this world because like you just said your mother Susan Lorck Gravis is gone and has been for a long time now, but, that's not the point! The point is I want to be aware of where you two are at anytime I decide to come knocking on your doors! Do I make myself clear on that boy?!", Mr. Gravis scolded his son through the phone as he thumped his cane in the background on Chantel's front porch.

" Yes I get it! Look, can I please just call you back tomorrow?! I'm in the middle of having a nice family dinner at my house with a family of 4 nice young folks that I just took in a couple days ago after I evicted and condemned their house for being unsafe due to the fact that they were living too close to a wind farm and were unknowingly exposing themselves to very high levels of Infrasound! Just go home but be careful when driving, take two pills and call me in the morning! Ok!", Dr. Gravis hissed.

" Alright, fine! I will leave it at this and drive home John! But I'm warning you right now, if I don't hear from either you or Chantel sometime tomorrow then I'm really going to come looking for you two and when I do find you I'm gonna smack you two so hard over the head with my cane that you won't be able to recollect what happened to you because it's what you two will get for freaking the bi**hin' hell out of me in the first place!", Mr. Gravis scolded.

" Ok ok I get it Dad! Please don't hit us with your cane! I'll make sure to call you tomorrow!", Dr. Gravis shrieked.

" Ok good, make sure you do because if you don't you're really gonna get it from me!", Mr. Gravis scolded.

" Alright, goodbye!", Dr. Gravis hissed before he hung up on his senior citizen father and hissed under his breath again, " Buckwheats!"

" Is everything alright Dr. Gravis?", Mr. Atwell asked in concern as he looked at his friend.

" Yes, everything's fine Martin. That was just my father calling me freaking out about my sister. Apparently he decided to drive over to her house tonight to visit with her for a few minutes but apparently she forgot to tell him that she was going to be spending the night with Stuart and so he decided to start screaming at me about something ridiculous from mine and my sister's childhood to which we hardly remember this at all now.", Dr. Gravis said with a sigh.

" You mean Professor Sidman Revolto Skelter?! Who the hell is that?!", Mayghen asked in confusion as she stared at the CDC doctor sitting in front of her on the other side of the table.

" Well to answer your question Mayghen while we're all still on the topic of stupidity and like I said Chantel and I hardly remember this at all, but, a long time ago when we were kids we did the stupidest thing ever and that was creating an imaginary mad scientist enemy that we named Professor Sidman Revolto Skelter. This was like 2 months after our mother's passing and we got bored one Saturday afternoon because it was raining outside with thunderstorms going on so we couldn't go anywhere at that time, but anyway we ended up creating this guy in our imagination which honestly was meant to be a grief coping mechanism because of the fact that we didn't have our mother anymore and we were sad about it so ever since then it became kind of like our favorite thing to do after school. We would just be in the middle of watching tv or doing something else and all of a sudden we would pretend like this guy was attacking us and so we would have these imaginary fights with him which went on for a number of years until we got to be about 15 to 16 years old and we were in our sophmore year of high school. From then on we just basically grew out of the whole imaginary stuff and so we pretty much just forgot about him because at the time we had other interests with our groups of friends which brings us to today.", Dr. Gravis said with a sigh.

" Ok… that's the weirdest story I've ever heard in my life, but, you know what I would do if this guy was actually real Dr. Gravis?", Aymee asked.

" What? What would you do Aymee?", Dr. Gravis asked.

" I'd take my fist and sock one right in his big fat face, saying how much of a big stupid jerk he is for messing with you and your sister in the first place!", Aymee laughed in amusement.

" Yeah and I would totally do that too! Good one sis!", Mayghen laughed in amusement as she smacked hands with her sister.

" Thanks sis!", Aymee laughed.

" That's very clever girls, but, I think I got something better that I would do to this guy if he was actually real.", Mr. Atwell said.

" Which is what honey?", Mrs. Atwell asked as she stared at her husband.

" I would just take a flame-throwing blow torch and torch the hell out of him while calling him a psychopathic dragon troll for screwing with our friends to begin with, but hey, that's just me!", Mr. Atwell laughed in amusement making the other 4 start laughing it up again like crazy too at what he just said that he'd do to Professor Skelter if the dude was real but little did he and the other 4 know that Professor Skelter was watching them laughing it up with each other while they were still eating dinner through one of the indoor security cameras that was pointing at the table.

" So that Mr. Martin Atwell fool thinks he can set me on fire with a blow torch?! I don't think so! You ain't seen nothing of what I could really do to you yet you idiot, same goes for your stupid wife Terry and your two dumb daughters Aymee and Mayghen! You 4 and Dr. John Herald Gravis are really in for a whole world of pain and misery once I get my hands on you! I will destroy all of you and all of your pathetic friends, which includes your stupid sister and your stupid father, John!", Professor Skelter evilly shouted from behind his computer screen again at his warehouse after he turned it back on when his eavesdrop recorder heard everything that was being said before he turned the screen back off again. The Atwells and Dr. Gravis continued to laugh it up with each other until Aymee began to suddenly not feel very good.

" Oh god…", Aymee said as she began feel like her stomach was getting upset.

" What? What is it sweetheart?", Mr. Atwell asked in concern as he looked at his daughter.

" I don't know, I'm suddenly starting to not feel very good.", Aymee said with a little bit of discomfort on her face.

" Well maybe you just ate too much. You know what it's actually getting a little late now, why don't we just clean up the dishes and head to bed.", Mrs. Atwell said in concern.

" Yeah I think that's probably a good idea Terry. Let's just all clean this up.", Dr. Gravis said as he stood up with the Atwells doing the same thing, cleaning up the table with him as they then put the rest of the Chinese food away in the fridge before they all said good night to each other and went to bed. But in the middle of the night however Aymee suddenly woke up with the urge to throw up and ran into the bathroom, covering her mouth with her hand before she knelt down in front of the toilet and regurgitated everything that she had eaten that night which immediately caught the attention of her parents, her older sister, and Dr. Gravis who all came rushing in there to see what was going on.

" Oh my god, Aymee are you alright?!", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell, and Mayghen asked in concern.

" No! I think I'm sick! Oh this is horrible!", Aymee shrieked as she threw up again into the toilet before she started to cry.

" Well what symptoms are you experiencing at the moment? Any congestion in your chest or something like that by any chance?", Dr. Gravis asked in concern as he was kneeling to the side and slightly behind while rubbing gentle circles on her back.

" No congestion Dr. Gravis, just a sudden wonky stomach! What the heck does this mean?!", Aymee cried as she threw up into the toilet again.

" I think it means you just came down with a case of food poisoning.", Dr. Gravis said in concern.

" Food poisoning?! Is she going to be ok?!", Mrs. Atwell asked in concern as she stared at her friend.

" Yes she'll be fine in about a day or two Terry. It's not anything that serious.", Dr. Gravis said.

" Ok well that's at least good to hear.", Mayghen said as she let out a sigh of relief.

" No it isn't Mayghen, it sucks! I don't want to be sick!", Aymee cried as she threw up again.

" Shhh, I know you don't Aymee. Nobody ever does but you're going to be fine. Like I said this should only last for about a day or two, you just need some rest and some Pepto Bismol.", Dr. Gravis said as he carried her back to her room and placed her in her bed. He then put a biohazard bucket next to the bed which immediately made Aymee roll over and start throwing up into it causing her sister Mayghen to grab her hair in a bundle, holding it back so that she wouldn't get vomit on it.

" Oh this really sucks! Somebody make this stop please!", Aymee cried as she kept throwing up into the bucket.

" It's ok sweetheart.", Mrs. Atwell said in a soothing voice as she started gently rubbing her youngest daughter's back with her hand.

" Just wait here for a moment, I'll be right back.", Dr. Gravis said as he then left the room for a moment and came back a short time later with a paper dixie cup filled with some Pepto Bismol and a syringe filled with water as well as one of Delaney's disposable adult sized diapers that he kept extras of in one of the hallway closets just in case if Delaney ever needed them if she came over there and had ran out of them in her diaper bag.

" Alright, now hold still for a second. This isn't going to hurt at all.", Dr. Gravis said as he set the dixie cup and water filled syringe on the night stand next to the bed and opened the brief up before he placed it underneath her bottom after he slipped her shorts off.

" Wait, what is this?! What are you doing to me?!", Aymee cried as she started to freak out a bit.

" Aymee calm down, he's not hurting you. He's just having you wear a diaper just so you're more comfortable throughout the rest of the night. Your best friend Delaney wears them too.", Mr. Atwell said.

" I know that Dad but I'm scared! I haven't had to wear them since I was a baby!", Aymee cried.

" Yes well this is only temporary in your situation until the toxins get flushed out of your system. This way you can stay in bed for next day or two and not have to worry about going back and forth to the bathroom, disrupting your sleep. Believe me, you're not going to be like Delaney who has to wear them for the rest of her life.", Dr. Gravis said as he finished wrapping the diaper around Aymee's lower abdomen and slipped her shorts back on over it.

" Well at least that makes me feel better. Mmm.", Aymee said as she stopped crying and moaned in comfort with a slight smile on her face.

" See? That feels comfortable doesn't it?", Dr. Gravis asked with a smile.

" Yeah it does. I can totally see why my best friend Delaney likes wearing these. I feel like I could just go to sleep now.", Aymee said in a soft voice as she began to feel her eyes getting heavy.

" Well you can in just a second Aymee. Why don't you take this Pepto Bismol first so that your stomach can settle a little bit while you're sleeping.", Dr. Gravis said as he picked up the syringe and dixie cup from the night stand.

" Ok Dr. Gravis.", Aymee softly said as she sat up in bed. Dr. Gravis then rinsed her mouth out with the water-filled syringe, making her spit into the biohazard bucket that she threw up in before he handed her the medicine in the dixie cup. She took slow sips of it until it was all gone to prevent her from throwing up again.

" Is that better sweetie?", Dr. Gravis asked as he discarded the used items into the trash can and gently tucked Aymee back in under the covers.

" Yes, thank you.", Aymee softly said as she relaxed herself underneath the covers.

" Well good. Good night.", Dr. Gravis said as he kissed her head.

" Good night.", Aymee softly said as she let out a yawn.

" Feel better soon sis, I love you.", Mayghen said as she kissed her little sister's head too.

" Thank you Mayghen, I love you too. Good night Mom and Dad, love you.", Aymee softly said.

" Good night Aymee, we love you too. Feel better.", Mr. and Mrs. Atwell said as they kissed their daughter's head before they walked out of the room with Mayghen and Dr. Gravis and shut the light off.

" Thank you.", Aymee softly said before she fell asleep. Then shortly after Mayghen and Mr. Atwell went back to bed again Mrs. Atwell pulled Dr. Gravis aside in the hallway and said with a smile, " Thank you so much for letting us stay here with you. You really make us feel like we're safe here."

" My pleasure Terry and how so?", Dr. Gravis asked with a smile.

" Well… there's one thing that still has been haunting me ever since we moved here to this area because we used to live up in the Sierra Foothills area but since you revealed something from your past I feel like it's only fair for me to share something too. There's a very important reason for why we had to move here and that's because I… I unfortunately have become a victim of very dangerous criminal stalking from an abusive ex-boyfriend of mine who's name is Dirk Conroy Russell. He's been sending threatening voicemails and text messages to not only me but to my husband and our two daughters as well for several years now ever since I broke up with him. With me he was saying things like, " If I ever catch you with another man I'm going to kill you!" or he said that he would hit me in the head with a shovel and bury me out in the middle of nowhere. And then with my husband Martin and our daughters Mayghen and Aymee he made threats to burn our house down, frame Martin for some horrible crime to get him thrown in jail, take Mayghen and Aymee's heads off with a baseball bat, just very evil Devilish stuff which scares the living hell out of me because I don't want us to have to keep living in fear of whether or not we're going to live to see another day!", Mrs. Atwell sadly said before she started to cry.

" Oh my god, Terry! That's awful!", Dr. Gravis gasped in horror as he put his hands on her shoulders.

" I know Dr. Gravis and I just don't know what to do anymore! I can't even tell you how many times I've told this guy to go away and leave me alone but it's like he's obsessed with me and wants to keep making my life a living hell even though we've been broken up for several years already and I'm now married with two daughters! It makes me feel like it's my fault for being involved with this guy in the first place because my entire family is in harm's way which is ironic to say the least because we've already been in harm's way due to unknowingly living so close to that wind farm! Martin ended up finding that place listed on Zillow and blindly bought it after I told him to look up listings that were far away from the Sierra Foothills area due to the fact that he wanted to make sure that Dirk wasn't spying on us which I really hope for our sake that he wasn't because I can't even tell you how much that man scares me now!", Mrs. Atwell cried.

" Terry it's not your fault that this happened! Dirk's the one that fucked up and treated you like that for no reason! He's obviously got some very sick mental illness that he can't control and there's just not much anybody can do about it except for trying to avoid him! From what you just told me he sounds like a very dangerous man and nobody should be associating with him what so ever!", Dr. Gravis said in concern as he embraced her.

" You're right buddy, I don't want to see his face ever again for as long as I live!", Mrs. Atwell cried into her friend's shoulder for a little while before they pulled away and headed back to bed after they said good night to each other.

To be continued…