... Amy plays with two chemicals while Sheldon appears to be drawing equations on a just erased white board.
This shocked Leonard. With surprise, or anger?
"What are you kids think your doing?" Leonard shouts.
This startled Amy as she was just about to pour one bottle of liquid into another, she accidentally dropped the test tube sending it into a splash on the floor and starting to smoke.
"Oh!" Leonard rushed to gently push Amy out of the way to clean the spill, but it was too late, the floor started growing a hole. He stepped back groaning in frustration.
"Amy! What did you do?"
The girl was terrified. Tears immediately fall down her face. She didn't mean to cause trouble and make Leonard upset. She was only curious.
She cries, "I didn't mean it! I'm- I'm so sorry!"
"Great!" He said upset, "This is ruined!" He lost his temper to a petrified young girl. "Didn't I specifically ask you not to touch anything?"
She quickly nodded continuing to cry.
Leonard looked up seeing the equations on the whiteboard that has been changed to messy drawings with a little math in between.
"And Sheldon, did you erase my equations on my whiteboard?" He asked getting ticked off because he worked really hard on it.
"Yes I did," the boy said truthfully.
Then Leonard started to get angry. "Sheldon! That took me months to figure it out! That was my important project for the research team! I was supposed to show it tomorrow!"
"After reading the book on statistics and algebraic equations, I noticed a teeny tiny mistake. Somehow I changed it and that changes the answer," he explains.
Boy, even at the age of five, Sheldon is really strong at math.
Leonard asked pointing at the masterpiece Sheldon made, "And what's with those drawings?"
"I got bored so I drew Star Trek!" Sheldon starts pointing to the drawings on the whiteboard. "See, that's the Enterprise! And that's Spock! And Captain Kirk! And-"
"Now I have to start over! What will I tell the research team?" He shouts in frustration.
Sheldon immediately frowns looking upset as well.
"I'm sorry..."
"Well 'sorry' isn't going to fix this. Now I have to start all over and Amy, you cannot touch anything! You could've gotten yourself and Sheldon killed if anything like this happens I don't know what I would do! I am very disappointed in both of you for this!"
He instantly regretted raising his voice at them because that was when Sheldon's little heart broke to pieces. His lip quivers and tears fall down to his cheeks like a cascade of water. Then he joins Amy in a crying chorus.
Leonard takes deep breaths letting go of his frustration and saw the two crying children in front of him. He did not want to do.
He crouched to their level and says gently, "Hey... I'm sorry I yelled. I'm just upset."
"I'm so sorry!" Amy wails. "Please don't lock me up!"
"Wait what? Locked up? Amy? Where is this coming from?" Leonard says as he got more concerned again.
Amy replied wanting to get past that, "Nothing! Nothing! Please don't tell my mommy!"
"Don't tell my parents either!" Sheldon cries, "I don't want them to spank me!"
Leonard did not know what to do now. Without even thinking, his arms circled around the two children and pulled them into a hug. They gasp really scared about what the man is about to do to them. He rubs their backs gently wanting to be forgiven.
In Amy's mind she thought. She can start to trust the man and give him a chance. So she snaked her arms slowly around him and relaxed into his shoulder.
Normally, Sheldon doesn't like being touched at all in general, but at times like this, he didn't have a choice when he feels troubled or in desperate need of comfort or human companionship as he never had any friends back in Texas. And very slowly, Sheldon's arms around Leonard as well and continues to sob.
"There, there, everything's going to be alright. You're both not in trouble. It's all my fault anyways. I never should have left you both in the lab in the first place," Leonard says still rubbing their backs to eventually calm down.
"I'm gonna call Penny to come and get you," he said letting go of both of them and pulls out his cell phone.
Sheldon asked wiping his tears, "Are we still in trouble?"
"No, not anymore. This was technically my fault for bringing you here." He dials the number and waits a few rings before Penny answers, "Hey Leonard!"
"Hey Penny? I need you to do an important favor for me."
"Yes?"
"Can you run to the university and pick up the kids for me?" Leonard asked hoping she's say yes.
Penny asked slightly deadpan, "Why? What did they do?"
"Well, I stepped out of my office for a couple minutes leaving them there and when I came back it was chaotic. Penny, I think they're bored. Can you get them and bring them somewhere? Just anyplace that isn't my lab? The mall? The park? Doesn't matter."
Penny answers after a few seconds of thinking. "Ok, be there in a few." She hung up immediately.
Since I was so productive during opening night of BATB, and since ya'll are a good audience, I decided to post another chap in a day! So... Please enjoy and give positive reviews!