Takes place during "Amy over the pond", the story of how Amy moved from King's College London to Cambridge University.
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Sunday December 18th 2016
Amy and Dave woke up in bed together.
"Good morning dear wife"
"Good morning dear husband, thank you for a wonderful time on my birthday yesterday."
"Happy unbirthday Amy, shall I make some tea?"
"Always a good idea."
Dave left the bedroom to make some tea, Amy picked up her phone, there was a text from Penny
Dear Amy, Bernadette gave birth to a daughter, Halley Wolowitz, born 9.30pm 17th December. Happy Birthday, love from Penny.
Dave came in with the tea. "Good news from California Dave, my friend Bernadette gave birth to a baby girl yesterday."
"That's quite a birthday present."
In the afternoon, after she had some flowers sent to Bernadette, Amy started a Skype call with her friends in Pasadena.
"Hello Bestie!"
"Hi Penny, thanks for the news, that is quite a birthday present. How are things."
"Bernadette and baby Halley should be coming home from the hospital tomorrow. Howard is catching up on some sleep before he goes to pick up his family tomorrow morning. Do you want to talk to Leonard?"
"Hi Amy, how is London treating you?"
"Still a great place to live, although the weather is pretty dreadful, I miss my California friends and weather. I am having a good time with Dave."
"How are things at Caltech Leonard?"
"In the New Year I will be promoted to Professor."
"Congratulations Professor Hofstadter, the good news keeps coming from California."
Then Raj joined in the conversation
"Hello Amy, I presume you have heard the news?"
"Yes I have. Hello Rajesh, how are you?"
"Things are good, I have a new girlfriend."
"Wonderful, what does she do?"
"She is a Doctor, a real one like my father, not like us. She delivered Halley yesterday."
"How did you meet?"
"Howard broke his arm in September and couldn't drive Bernadette to her pre-natal classes, so I took her. The gynaecologist was an Indian lady Doctor called Anju, we got talking after the pre-natal classes, I told her about my father and we just clicked. She could be the one Amy!"
"More good news from California. You will be interested to know I went to Cambridge last week for a meeting. We collaborate with the University of Cambridge with our neuroscience work."
"Lucky you, totally looks like Hogwarts doesn't it?"
"That's right, hopefully I will get to spend a bit more time there in the future. How is Sheldon doing?"
Penny appeared on the screen. "Sheldon was at the hospital yesterday but that was his social interaction for the week, he pretty much keeps to himself most of the time these days."
"It has been great to see you all again, please send me a baby picture."
"Sure thing Bestie, lots of love to you and your Dave."
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In the evening Amy and Dave took the Tube into the centre of London to attend a concert. As they sat down on the train someone started to talk to Dave.
"Hello Dave"
"Frances, what are you doing here, I thought you lived in France?"
"I thought you lived in America, are you visiting for Xmas?"
"I live here, this is my wife Amy, her work brought her to England so I came back home. We are living in the old family home with Alfie and Judith."
Amy said "Hello, I am Dave's wife Amy, who might you be?"
"I am Dave's ex-wife Frances. What do you do Amy?"
"I am a neurobiologist, I work at King's College London."
"I work as a restaurant manager, I have just come back to London for good."
Dave said "why did you leave France?"
"My marriage to Pierre fell apart, he couldn't stop chasing women so we got divorced and so I came back home. This is my stop, nice to see you again Dave, goodbye Amy."
