A/N: I had a hard time finding a good ending place with this chapter. There were so many ways I thought about taking the mom story but I think it ended up okay. Hope you all like what I did with it.
As always I don't own the characters I just like to take them out to play.
"Who the heck is knocking at 9:30 on a Saturday morning?" Sheldon complained, walking to the door. "We know it can't be Penny or Leonard. They are never up before 11:00 on Saturdays."
"Only one way to find out." Amy said. "Open the door."
Sheldon opened the door and came face to face with Amy's mother.
"Mom!" Amy jumped up from the couch. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh well I thought maybe we could go out shopping and then maybe I can take the two of you to dinner." Sandy Fowler said to her daughter.
"You are joking right?" Amy was getting angry. Her mother knew she had plans and she was once again trying to interfere in her life.
"Whatever do you mean?" She asked, feigning ignorance.
"You know damn well I have plans tonight. And yet you decided to drive two hours on a Saturday morning to ask me to go shopping. Well I am sorry to tell you mother, you have wasted your time, money and gas coming here this morning." Amy was practically yelling at her.
"Now Amy I had to come. You are making a terrible mistake."
"No mom you made the mistake. I am a grown woman. I made my decision. Why can't you accept that?"
"Because your father is a horrible person."
"He was a horrible person." Sheldon got involved in the argument.
"Sheldon you need to stay out of this. This is between me and Amy."
"Actually I am very much involved. I am going with her. I have known Joe Seibert for a long time now."
"I knew it!" Sandy yelled.
"Not again, mom. Sheldon had nothing to do with me meeting Joe." Amy sighed, rehashing this yet again was getting tiresome.
"But he said…." She started and Sheldon interrupted.
"Yes I said I have known him for a long time. And longer than I actually knew. You see I remember you from when you lived down the road from us. Of course you are all more than twenty years older so I didn't recognize you. But I do remember. And I remember Amy or Samantha as she was known to me then. I don't remember you being unhappy. Every time you brought her over to play, you and my mother would sit in the living room drinking sweet tea and talk. I remember hearing the two of you laughing quite a bit. Maybe you were hiding what happened to you, which I am sure you were, but you were always happy at my house."
"I was because your mother is such a sweetheart. Your father was as well." Sandy told him.
"And I don't ever remember Amy being unhappy from you two fighting. She was always happy to come over and play with my science stuff. So you kept her from the horror that was going on in your life."
"I protected her." Sandy said. "You will understand when you have children. You will do anything to protect them. That is why I am here."
"But that is what I am trying to say. You raised Amy to be a wonderful woman. She is strong and brave because of you. Now as I was saying I have known Joe for a long time. He has never really liked me. And he knew who I was almost from the beginning, he told us. He even sent me to the North Pole and was happy about it. But the one thing I do know, is that the man has never shown any anger towards anyone one. Annoyance, yes, especially towards me, but never anger. Even when he had to let someone from the physics department go, due to funding, I heard nothing but good things about how President Seibert treated them. I understand your apprehension, believe me, we are all a bit nervous about this dinner, but don't you think it is Amy's right to make a judgment for herself about her own father?" Sheldon finished. Amy walked up to him and gave him a kiss.
"Thank you." She said to him.
"But…" Sandy started again, but then stopped. "I suppose you are right. I just worry that she will be hurt."
"I understand mom. But I am a grown woman and I can handle myself. Plus I have Sheldon."
"I know you do." Sandy asked.
"Sheldon will make sure I am okay, I promise."
"I guess I don't have a choice, do I?" Sandy finally conceited. She had another plan to stop this dinner.
"You really don't." Amy said, sternly.
"Well since I drove all this way, how about I take you out to a late breakfast." She suggested.
"We would like that." Amy told her. "Just give us a few minutes to get ready."
Sheldon followed Amy back to their room.
"I can't believe she drove all this way to try and stop me." Amy said once the door was closed.
"She is just trying to protect you." Sheldon told her.
"I know but something is telling me there is more to this trip than what she said.
"You think she is hiding something?" He asked.
"I don't know. It just seems so unlike her to come this far just to stop me from going to dinner. The problem is I am not sure what else there could be. I mean Joe told us the same story as mom so what could it be?"
"We could ask her." Sheldon suggested.
"Would she tell us though?"
"Only one way to find out." Sheldon said and left the room. Amy followed. When he got to the living room, Sandy was sitting on the couch.
"You ready to go?" She asked.
"Before we do, I have a question." Sheldon said.
"What is that?" Sandy asked.
"What are you hiding?" Sheldon said outright.
"Sheldon!" Amy yelled.
"What? There is no sense beating around the bush." He said to her.
"I don't know what you mean by hiding. You know why I am here. And now that I made my decision that you are grown adults capable of making your own decisions I just want to take you out to breakfast."
"Okay mom, what is it?" Amy said, deciding Sheldon was right. There was no reason to walk on eggshells around her.
"I honestly don't know what you are talking about." Sandy said to her.
"Fine don't tell us then. Let's just go to breakfast." Amy said.
"Are you sure?" Sheldon asked.
"She isn't going to tell us. Let's just trust her like she trusts us and then go to Joe's. Hopefully whatever she is hiding doesn't come out there." Amy said.
"Good let's go." Sandy said. "What's good around here?"
"When we go out for breakfast, we always go to Art and Science Café." Amy told her.
"Of course you do." Sandy laughed.
"Well shall we go?" Sheldon asked.
"Yes let's get going." Amy said.
The three left the apartment and headed to the café. They had a nice breakfast and then Sandy suggested she take Amy shopping for a little while afterwards. They dropped Sheldon off and headed out. Once he was gone, Sandy drove towards the mall.
"So how have you guys doing? Any plans for a wedding?" Sandy asked.
"Mom! We just moved in together." Amy told her.
"I know. I wish you had waited until you were married though."
"Oh mom you are so old fashioned."
"I may be but I still I hope you are planning marriage."
"I don't even know if Sheldon is interested in marriage. And I am very happy with the current arrangement. I don't need to be married."
"I don't believe you." Sandy said.
"I love Sheldon and he loves me. That is all that matters. Would I like to be married someday, absolutely, but I am not going to push him into something he may not want."
"But Amy…" Sandy started but Amy cut her off.
"Mom why can't you be happy for me? Is this the real reason you came here? Are you trying to pressure Sheldon into marrying me?"
"Well…" Sandy said.
"Mom! If and when Sheldon is ready to ask, he will ask. Please don't pressure him or me."
"Okay, okay." She said. "Can't blame a mother for trying."
"I guess I can't but trust me mom, I am happy." Amy told her.
"I know you are. I just want more for you."
"Well we have talked about marriage. But mom, honestly we have not even been together for a year."
"Well maybe he is going to ask you on your anniversary."
"I don't think so. We are going to San Francisco."
"That is very romantic. Maybe he has plans to ask you there."
"Oh I doubt it. We have been planning this for months. Now can we drop this subject?"
"Fine, but I think you are underestimating Sheldon." Sandy said knowingly. Sheldon had called her two weeks prior asking if he could ask Amy to marry him. She just wanted to get Amy's feel for marriage. "But you would say yes if he asked, right?" She just had to know.
"Of course I would." Amy answered. "Now drop it."
"Okay, okay. Let's get you home." Sandy said.
The two drove home in relative silence. When they got to the apartment, Sandy just dropped her off. She decided not to try and stop her from going to Joe's again.
"Call me tomorrow and let me know how it went."
"I will." Amy said, breathing a sigh of relief that she was not asked not to go again.
Amy walked up the stairs to her apartment and found Sheldon and Leonard playing video games. She waved then closed the door and went to Penny's.
"The guys are playing video games, mind if I hang out here for a little while?" Amy asked.
"Sure, I am getting ready for work. I have to be in at 4:00." Penny answered. "What time are you going to your dad's?"
"Dinner is at 6:00." She answered.
"Are you nervous?" Penny asked.
"A little. My mother showing up today did not help."
"Yeah Sheldon was telling us. She drove all this way to get you not to go?"
"That was part of it. The other part was to pester me about marriage."
"Marriage?" Penny asked.
"Yeah she feels that since Sheldon and I are living together now, we should get married. I told her I was perfectly happy with the way things are." Amy told her.
"Oh come on now. We both know you and Sheldon were discussing getting married a few weeks ago at Howard and Bernadette's wedding plus you told us that you would like to get married to him."
"I do but if I told my mom that she would start pestering him about it. We both know that when Sheldon gets bugged about something, he does just the opposite."
"So true."
"So I don't want my mom calling him every other day asking when he is going to pop the question." Amy told her.
"I get that. So why is she so worried about you getting married?"
"She says she just wants me happy. It is the dating thing all over again. She has been like this for most of my adult life. Remember I never really had any friends growing up and mom pushed me into dating once I was in college. I went out on a total of two second dates before meeting Sheldon."
"Have you ever thought maybe there is someone else out there?" Penny asked seriously.
"Absolutely not!" Amy said. "Why would you even ask that question?" Amy was upset.
"Well sweetie, you have never been with anyone else." Penny said to her.
"I am aware of that. But there is absolutely no way I should be with anyone but Sheldon. I am not you. I don't need to be with lots of guys in order to find the one that is right in front of me." Amy was very angry. Before Penny could say anything else, she stormed out of the apartment and made her way back into her apartment. She screamed in frustration once she was in there.
"Whoa." Leonard said, surprised. "What did Penny say?" He knew that could be the only thing that made Amy this upset or she would have expressed herself earlier when she had returned from shopping with her mom.
"She asked if I was sure that Sheldon was the one for me." Amy told him.
"She asked what?" Sheldon stood up and headed to the door.
"Let me handle this." Leonard said. "I am sorry Amy." He said, opening the door. Penny was standing on the other side.
"Unless you are here to apologize, you can leave." Sheldon said.
"I am. Amy I am sorry. You are right. I should never have asked you that question. Everyone can see that you and Sheldon are meant for each other. I don't know what I was thinking. And you are right about the other thing."
"What other thing?" g asked.
"Don't worry about it." Amy told him.
"Okay then. I think I will get going and let you guys get ready for your dinner. Good luck tonight." He said. "Come on Penny. Let's leave them alone."
"Again I am sorry." Penny said, closing the door behind them.
"We can ban her from the apartment if you want." Sheldon told her once they were gone.
"No we can't. She apologized. It is fine." Amy said.
"I can't believe she said those things to you." Sheldon said.
"I know but she doesn't seem to understand why I don't want to play the field more."
"Have you ever thought about it?" He asked.
"Not since meeting you." She answered. "You are it for me. I thought we established this a few weeks ago."
"We did. I just want to make sure you haven't changed your mind. Now why did she even bring that up?"
"Oh well mom started in on me about living with you while not married."
"What?" He said.
"Oh come on. This didn't surprise me in the least. She may look like she approves but she would much prefer that we were married instead of living in sin."
"She sounds like my mom. I haven't even told my mom yet." Sheldon admitted.
"What?!" Amy screamed. "I've been here for a month."
"Technically you still have your apartment."
"For another week." He pointed out. "I will tell her when she comes back from her cruise."
"Sheldon when was the last time you spoke with her?" She asked.
"About a month ago." He admitted.
"So does she know about me?" She asked.
"Um, well, I was going to tell her but she was prattling on and on about some gossip from her church then about her trip and then Meemaw showed up and she had to go. I never got around to telling her."
"So she has no idea that we know I am Samantha and we found my father."
"No. But she is stopping here after her trip." He told her.
"She is?" Amy was surprised by this news.
"I thought I told you." He said.
"No you didn't but that is fine. I guess we can tell her everything then. Maybe my mom can come and see her also."
"She would like that I am sure. So shall we get ready to go?" Sheldon said, looking at the time.
"I guess we should."
The two got ready and headed out of the apartment. They arrived at Seibert's house just before six. Amy was nervous as she knocked on the door.
Like I said I had no idea how to stop this chapter so I have part of the next one already written. I hope to have it completed by the end of next week if not sooner. If you are following either one of my other stories, fear not, I have not abandoned them. I just am trying to concentrate on one at a time for a bit. If something comes to me with the others I will go back.
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