Amy woke up an hour with Sheldon's arms wrapped around her, and her stomach grumbling, 'Guess I was hungry' she thought. She looked up to see Sheldon peacefully sleeping, she kissed him softly on his cheek and shuffled out of bed. She grabbed her phone and went out to the living room. She didn't feel like cooking so she ordered a pizza for the both of them, hopefully Sheldon should wake up by time the pizza gets here.
She checked her email to see that President Siebert had messaged her about having a meeting when she returned to work. She was just about to reply when Sheldon came out of the bedroom and sat next to her on the couch. "What are you doing?" he asked
"I just ordered us something to eat, and just checking my email."
"Alright. How do you feel? Are you okay?"
She shrugged, "I guess I'm alright. Like what you said it's just a setback. At least we now know what's wrong with my body."
"Amy" he sighed "none of this is your fault. You have to believe that."
"I know. I just" a knock at the door cut off the rest of her sentence, "Pizza's here" she said
Amy got up and paid the delivery guy. She sat back down and put the pizza on the coffee table. "It's just hard ok. My two best friends got pregnant with no effort, and I thought it would be the same for us but we were trying and didn't even know until I lost it." Sheldon wrapped his arm around her "I know. At the risk of sounding redundant, Its going to be ok, we'll get pass this.
She nodded her head, "I know we will. Now lets eat before the pizza gets cold."
Soon their short sick leave was up and they returned to work. Sheldon went to his office while Amy went to President Siebert's office for her meeting,
"Good morning Dr. Fowler" he greeted her, "please have a seat"
"Did I do something wrong?" Amy asked
"Oh no. I just wanted to speak to you about a job position. The board and myself were thinking of letting you be an undergrad Biology professor. Our hope is that if we have a highly acclaimed woman in science who also happens to be a Nobel Prize winner, more girls might be interested in STEM programs. You will still maintain the same salary and you can still take part in research projects, -once it doesn't clash with your new teaching schedule."
Amy chewed on her bottom lip, "When will I start?"
"Hopefully by Wednesday, as the fall semester will start today."
"okay. I would do it."
He clapped his hands together, "Excellent. So we have made an office available in the Biology building which I'm sure you're familiar with. That will be all." Amy nodded and left to find Sheldon.
"So, you'll be teaching a class?" Sheldon asked. Amy nodded. "Good luck the last time I taught a class it was horrendous and those were grad students, I doubt undergrads will be any better."
"Maybe they might be" Amy was cut off by her phone ringing
"Hey Leonard. She what? Ok no problem we would be there soon." She hung up the phone "Penny's water broke while they were taking a walk. They got to the hospital but forgot the bag, so we have to get it and meet them there." She explained to Sheldon while picking up her bag.
Penny was dilating very quick because by time Sheldon and Amy arrived at the hospital, she was already at 6 cm. A short three hours later Amy and Sheldon got to meet their godson, Luke Wyatt Hofstadter. Amy was the first to hold him, and she couldn't deny how much he looked like Leonard, his already thick eyebrows were already pulled down in confusion. The only feature he had of Penny were his green eyes. Amy couldn't help but wonder what their child could have looked like, if they ever get. Would they look more like her or Sheldon, have her wavy hair or his straight one. She felt tears burning her eyes just thinking about it. She felt like she was about to have a panic attack, she all but threw the baby into Sheldon's arms. "I thought I could do this, but I can't" she said before running out the room.