A/N: Okay I am back. I have no excuses except I am lazy. It is summer and I am off so I should have plenty of time to write my stories but sadly I found other things to do instead. Anyway I hope some of you are still here and reading. I will be writing this week as I am dog sitting for my sister while she takes my kids on vacation so I am free to do what I can. I thought this would be the last chapter but it is not. There will be one more on this one after this. I forgot about Ramona...I know after the finale we don't want to hear about her but I wrote her in before that was aired.

So here it is...I don't own the characters.

She could care less if there was a ring or not. She just wanted him and knew that he wanted her.

Amy woke up on Monday morning in a good mood. Her mother had tentatively agreed to leave her alone about Joe. She even said she may meet with him and get some closure to their relationship. It had been a good weekend. She went to work in a very good mood.

Sheldon had woken up and felt good about what had happened over the weekend as well. He was happy that the dinner with Joe had gone smoothly. The reunion between his mother and Sandy was terrific. He was looking forward to the week ahead.

The two drove into work talking about their work and how they were looking forward to going to San Francisco.

"So what are we going to do when we go to San Francisco?" Amy asked. "I haven't been since I was little."

"Oh there is Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, and we can ride the cable cars." Sheldon told her excitedly. "Oh and I booked a sunset cruise for us on Sunday. It will take us all around the bay."

"You booked a sunset cruise?" Amy questioned.

"I did." Sheldon said.

"That sounds very romantic." She pointed out.

"You sound surprised." He said.

"Well…" She started. "It's not that you aren't romantic, it's just…"

"Okay okay," He said. "I get it. I don't always show it. Sunday is exactly one year since we met so I thought I would do something special."

"That is very sweet. I look forward to it." She was so glad she met a man who had a good memory for dates. She had seen many movies where men didn't remember important dates. She didn't know if that was normal but since it was in many movies it must be a common thing.

"Me too." He smiled. His plan was to propose on the cruise, possibly when they were admiring the Golden Gate Bridge.

When they arrived at work they made plans to meet at 1 for lunch. Amy headed to her lab and set up for the day. Hannah arrived a short time later followed by her other two colleagues. Amy felt that everyone was looking at her whenever she turned her back. She also heard muffled whispers. She asked Hannah if she knew what was going on but Hannah was as perplexed as she was. She decided to ask them what was going on. She walked back to Dr. Hopkin's office to speak with them. When she got there, she overheard their conversation.

"No wonder he didn't look at other universities and hired her right away." Dr. Gunderson said.

"Now we don't know that he didn't look." Dr. Hopkins said.

"He told me she was the only candidate from UCLA and she was more than qualified. I asked if he had put out the request at other universities and he told me he didn't think it was necessary after meeting her." He told her.

"Well she is very qualified. I can't imagine the only reason she was hired was because of that." She said.

"Because of what?" Amy asked, walking in and not caring that they knew she had overheard the conversation. She wanted to know why they thought others should have been looked at. She thought she was doing a good job. "I couldn't help but overhear you. Dr. Hernandez at UCLA set up an interview with myself and President Seibert. I am aware that I was the only one from UCLA that applied but how is that my fault? I thought I was doing a good job here. Now I find you talking about me behind my back and questioning why no one else was interviewed. I thought I was out of high school. I guess I was wrong." She said and started to leave. She was pissed.

"Amy wait." Dr. Hopkins called.

"No I have been shunned my entire life even in my first job at UCLA. I mean my colleagues were cordial but until Hannah came around I had no friends. I thought I could start from scratch here. I have friends now because of my boyfriend and I felt that helped me talk to people differently. But of course not. I am questioned about why I got the job."

"Amy is President Seibert your father?" Dr. Gunderson came right out and asked her.

"Where did you hear that?" Amy asked shocked. She looked at Hannah, who had walked out of the lab to see what was going on.

"I heard it from Bert in Geology." Dr. Hopkins told her.

"I heard from Kripke." Dr. Gunderson said.

"But where did they hear it?" Amy asked. The two looked at her. "Okay, yes, I am his daughter but honestly I just found out."

"It's true." Hannah told them. "I was there when she found out. It was after our first week here."

"How did you not know he was your father?" Dr. Hopkins asked.

Amy told them the whole story about how she had found out that her dad, Jerry, was her adoptive father and that President Seibert and her mother had been married before and she left him and moved back to California. She left the part about Joe being abusive and let them think what wanted about why he gave up his rights to her.

"What made your mother tell you now?" Dr. Hopkins asked. "I mean, she never felt the need before and then out of the blue she informs you that he was not your father." She said, referring to Jerry Fowler.

"Well that is even a longer story." Amy told them. "You see Sheldon recognized me as a child because apparently I am his long lost friend from childhood, Samantha." She said.

"Excuse me?" Dr. Hopkins asked.

"My mother also changed my name because she always hated the name he gave me." Amy told her. "I was born Samantha Jo Keller, mom changed it to Amy Farrah and when dad adopted me it became Fowler."

"But President Seibert…." Dr. Gunderson started, pointing out his last name.

"Yes he also changed his name." Amy said. She figured she might as well tell them the truth. "He needed to start over as well. He changed his name to Seibert after he left Texas. I was skeptical at first as well but mom confirmed it to me. Now that you know the whole story, can we get back to work."

"Yes, of course. I am sorry Amy. We didn't mean to imply that the only reason you go the job was because of your father. You are doing a wonderful job here and I hope you will stay on after this study is over." Dr. Hopkins told her.

"I am planning on doing just that." Amy said.

They spent the rest of the morning looking at the data from the previous week.

Sheldon was having a great morning. He was able to solve three equations that he had left on his board on Friday and his mood was getting better as it got close to 1:00. Around 12:30, there was a knock on the door. He looked at the clock and thought maybe Amy had found an early stopping point and came down to surprise him.

"Come in." He called, his back turned from the door since he was looking at his whiteboard.

"Are you free for lunch?" Ramona asked him.

Sheldon turned around slowly, not recognizing the voice. His eyes widened as he saw who was standing at his door.

"Ramona?" Sheldon questioned. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I work here now."

"Since when?" Sheldon asked, horrified. He was thinking he may have to speak to his future father-in-law about this move.

"I started on Friday." Ramona said. "I came by to see you but you were with someone."

"Well be that as it may, there is no reason for you to ever come back to this office again. I will be sure that we will never have to work together."

"How would you do that?" Ramona asked. She was hoping he would say Seibert.

"I am a senior theoretical physicist, I think I can pick who I want to work with and who I do not want to work with." He said.

"Well what if I told you that Dr. Gablehauser already told me that I could work on whatever project sounded good to me. I, of course, immediately asked him what you were working on."

"That will not happen." He said. "Besides, I just finished a project and have nothing coming up. As a matter of fact, my girlfriend and I have been talking about collaborating on something real soon." Sheldon lied.

"Oh really? What would that be?" Ramona asked.

"Well recently I have thought about doing some experiments to show that the signal to move a muscle occurs before you even decide to move it. Of course that would happen after my addiction study." Amy said, walking in Sheldon's office. She had no idea who this woman was and why Sheldon was clearly lying to her but she decided to play along.

"That's right. She is going to attempt to pinpoint where consciousness resides in the brain. And that applies to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics." Sheldon told Ramona.

"Oh that is very interesting. I would so want to help you on the math for that." Ramona said.

"Whoa whoa whoa…." Amy said. "First, who are you? And second, why the interest in what Sheldon may or may not work on in the near future. I am still about a month away from finishing my addiction study. And I will have to get approval from Dr. Hopkins and President Seibert before starting it."

"No doubt he will give his approval." Ramona said.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Sheldon asked.

"Okay before she answers that, who are you?" Amy asked again.

"Oh my name is Ramona Nowitski." Ramona told her.

"Did you say Ramona?" Amy asked. "As in Sheldon's ex Ramona?"

"Well technically he never really said we weren't dating anymore." Ramona tried.

"Bullshit!" Sheldon said.

"Sheldon language" Amy exclaimed.

"I'm sorry Amy. She is just a pathological liar. She and I dated briefly about three years ago but she was only using me to get notoriety by sharing credit for my paper."

"That I helped you complete!" Ramona yelled.

"You encouraged me, alienated me from my friends and accused one of my best friends of being in love with me." He said to her. "So yeah, I ended things with you when you wanted your name on my paper. I may have included you if you hadn't persisted that you did the work as well. Then what you said to that lovely student Kathy afterwards."

"I only told her the truth." Ramona said.

"As did I, minutes before you walked in to my office that morning. She was there discussing the paper and you came in calling her all kinds of nasty names. And accused me of moving on. Which by the way was not any of your business."

"Well Gablehauser said I could work on any project I wanted. So I want in on this." She said.

"No." Amy said.

"What do you mean?" Ramona asked sweetly.

"I mean there is no way in hell you will work with me or Sheldon anytime in the near future." Amy explained.

"So I guess you will run to your daddy and tell him I am being mean." Ramona said.

"What did you say?" Sheldon asked.

"Oh all I said was Amy here will go and tell on me to her daddy and she will get her way." Ramona told him.

"And who is my father?" Amy asked.

"Don't play dumb with me. I heard you the other night. Seibert is your father."

"So you are the one that told everyone." Amy said.

"I didn't have to. I told one person." Ramona pointed out.

"Kripke." Amy figured out.

"Kripke knows?" Sheldon asked, shocked.

"Sheldon, everyone knows. This morning Lily and Hugo were talking behind my back and I confronted them. They told me they heard Seibert was my father."

Just as Sheldon was about to say something, there was a knock at his door.

"Enter." Sheldon said.

"You are never going to believe what I just heard." Raj said walking in. He was followed by Howard and Leonard.

"Let me guess, you heard Seibert is my father." Amy said.

"Yeah I heard it from Leslie." He said.

"Professor Crawley asked me if it was true when I ran into him in the cafeteria." Leonard told them.

"Dr. Marks told me the rumor." Howard said.

"This is a disaster." Sheldon said.

"Why?" Amy asked. "People were going to find out eventually. I mean I wish it was a little later than a week after I found out but now that it is out, no big deal."

"No big deal?" Sheldon asked. "Everyone is going to think you get preferential treatment because of this."

"Who cares? We know the truth so that is all that matters. Oh and by the way Ramona, in the case of you, yes I will run to my daddy, as you put it, and ask him to make sure you stay away from Sheldon." Amy looked directly at her. "That is unless you can do it all by yourself."

"Fine!" Ramona said and stormed out of Sheldon's office.

"Wow Amy, good for you." Leonard said.

"Well I think for good measure I may go and talk to Joe." Amy said. "Just to give him a heads up. Because we know she is going to go to Gablehauser. If he has already told her that she can work anywhere then we know she will plead with him for this project, which by the way does not exist, although I wouldn't mind working with you Sheldon."

"Yeah sorry about that. I just wanted nothing to do with her." He said to her.

"That is fine. It is a good thing I can think fast on my feet."

"You made that up?" Sheldon asked astonished.

"Well not exactly. It is something I have been thinking about doing. Like I said, after the addiction study is complete."

"Well I want in then." He said.

"If that is going to be the case we will need to set some serious ground rules." Amy laughed.

"Yeah like no one can use their sexuality to get their way." Sheldon said.

"Um guys, way too much information here." Howard said.

"Oh right sorry." Amy said, laughing. "But rules will be set if we are going to work together and live together."

"Agreed." Sheldon said. "Now shall we go to lunch?"

"Yes." Amy said.

The five went down to the cafeteria. When they walked in, all conversation stopped.

"I was afraid of this." Leonard said.

"Let me take care of this." Sheldon said. "Okay everyone listen up. I have just heard that several of you in here are talking about my girlfriend and her relationship with President Seibert. I just want to say shame on all of you. We're scientists. Our minds should be focused on the advancement of human knowledge, not details about people's personal lives."

"You know what he's right." Bert stood up to speak. "I heard this rumor on Friday and instead of talking to Amy about it, I just spread it around. I am sorry."

"Thank you Bert. You're a good man. It's a shame your girlfriend only sleeps with you once a year." The rest of the cafeteria looked at him.

"Um, that doesn't paint me in the best light." Bert told him.

"Oh right sorry." Sheldon said. "Bert's girlfriend has regular coitus with him. And he is so good, she tips him a dollar. Better?"

"Not really." Bert said and sat back down.

"All right to sum up, focus on science, keep your noses out of other people's business and for a good time call Bert." Sheldon said and he sat down at the table.

"Thank you Sheldon." Amy said.

"Anytime." He said to her.

They finished their lunches, went back to work and finished the rest of the day. No one else bothered Amy or Sheldon about Seibert being Amy's father.

The rest of the work week flew by fast. Amy was really getting excited about the long weekend to San Francisco. The two had decided to fly up on Friday afternoon and come back on the train on Monday. Around two on Friday, Sheldon walked down to Amy's office. On his way he ran into Dr. Gablehauser.

"Dr. Cooper can I have a word?" He asked Sheldon.

"Actually, I am kind of in a hurry. I have to get down to Amy's office. We have a 5 o'clock flight this afternoon." Sheldon said.

"Okay well this won't take long, so I will walk with you."

"That is fine, what can I do for you?" Sheldon asked.

"Well Dr. Nowitski came to see me on Wednesday about a project that you and Dr. Fowler are collaborating on."

"Well sir, we haven't even been approved for the study yet. And to be honest, I don't want to work with Dr. Nowitski. It has nothing to do with her degrees or any of that, just so you know. A few years back she encouraged me on a paper I wrote and then wanted to share credit with me."

"I take it that didn't go her way." Dr. Gablehauser said.

"No. I kicked her out of my apartment and promptly ended my relationship with her. To be honest, I am not sure what her intentions are towards me now. She did not take the break up well. She even tried to tell Amy that I never ended the relationship the other day. I have a feeling she would like to start something up again."

"She knows about Amy and still wants a relationship with you?" He asked.

"I don't know and I am not really in the mood to find out. So if Amy and I do get approved to do this project, I do not want her working with us."

"I was going to tell you that I wasn't going to allow it anyway since Amy still is working on the addiction study. I was going to have you work with her on a grant for a new fusion reactor."

"I thought Barry Kripke was doing that." Sheldon said.

"He was but I told him that he would have to work with you since you had plans to do that as well and he didn't have any interest but now you have a project planned so maybe I will have Dr. Nowitski work with Dr. Kripke on the proposal."

"That sounds good but like I said we have not been approved."

"You will be. I talked to President Seibert and he has already said it sounds like a good idea. Apparently Amy also has talked to him and told him all about her idea."

"Well that is great. Now sir, I really must get going before Amy sends out a search party."

"Of course. Have a nice weekend, Dr. Cooper."

"You as well, Dr. Gablehauser."

Sheldon walked into Amy's office. She was just hanging up her lab coat and grabbing her purse when he arrived.

"Ready to go?" He asked.

"Absolutely." She said.

The two left the building and headed out for a long romantic weekend.

One more to go and there will be a romantic proposal. I didn't want to make Ramona like the show, although when I wrote her in originally I was thinking about going there with her. After the finale I just wanted her to stir up some trouble. I hope you like that I have incorporated all seasons into this story and having Ramona work with Kripke on the grant Sheldon originally worked on seemed to be a good compromise.

Anyway if you liked it please leave me a review.

Thanks.