Thank you for the reviews, follows, and favorites. I'm glad you have liked it so far. I'll try to keep it good as the story progresses. Since this is after all a big bang theory fan fiction I'm going to try to mix humor, romance, and drama. :0 xD I promised you more Shamy so here it is. Felt like it was a bit short so sorry if it was.
Couple spoilers from: The Cooper/Kripke Inversion
Disclaimer: Don't own TBBT
Chapter 2. Indefinitely Worse Circumstances
Sheldon. The most ingenious, creative, amazing intellectual of today's world was not having a good time right now. His paranoia made him glance from one direction to the next, hoping that either Penny and Leonard would return or Bernadette car would finally show up.
" It's been half an hour. Shouldn't either of them shown up already?" Sheldon impatiently checked his always accurate watch for the 40th time since they had left. He would recheck it every quarter of a minute to check if it miraculously hadn't broken.
" Sheldon. Relax," Amy sighed. " You might not think so, but I believe this whole thing is rather romantic." She shot him a quick grin, which he easily missed because he was checking his watch again.
Although Sheldon didn't understand why such an intellectual like Amy would ever find a situation like this romantic, he didn't remark to her statement. He easily concluded that overexposure to Penny had also made her very chimerical as well as girly.
" I knew I shouldn't have let Leonard be road trip supervisor," Sheldon murmured nervously tapping his foot on the ground. " Why on earth did I let him?"
Amy frowned. When Penny and Leonard left she was hoping on getting some quality time with her boyfriend where despicable things would be done while alone. But then again- her boyfriend wasn't a normal boyfriend.
She let him be for the sake of it, even as he started blabbering about how back in the days of cavemen, the group would always stick together and never elect the weak member to lead the group. He then began pacing from one side of the car to the next as he talked about bad leadership leading to whole kingdoms being lost. Somehow that conversation led to how many hours would it take the police to get here if he set a flaming SOS signal. Finally Amy couldn't take it, she jumped down from the hood of the car and went over to Sheldon. Quickly she grabbed Sheldon hands.
That stopped Sheldon pacing, as he glanced down at their hands. " What are you doing?" he asked, although he didn't take his hand back.
" Comforting you," Amy simply replied, taking note that even a single touch from him send her to deep edge, with a tentative tingle that radiated all over her physical body.
Sheldon hesitated for a while, before deciding that holding Amy's hand does indeed make him relax a bit more. He gently held her hand back, which Amy eagerly squeezed in returned. He can't deny that he enjoyed that part of hand holding sequence. Which reminded him, he had to formerly fix that section in the Relationship Agreement soon, before Amy got the absurd idea to break one of the legitimate guidelines herself.
" Now doesn't that feel better?" she asked him, clearly it made her feel pretty dang good.
" It does, but not by much, " Sheldon responded wondering if he should check his watch again, just to make sure it hadn't run out of battery in the last 5 minutes.
For a moment Amy glared at him for his inconsiderate last comment. Her glare faded when she noticed him shivering a bit. A wide smile spread in her lips.
" Are you cold Sheldon?"
" The temperature in this region of Nevada significantly drops during the night from 50 to 38.9 degrees Fahrenheit and you're asking me if I'm cold?" Sheldon grumbled.
" My apologies that was an obvious answer, may I suggest something?" she tried to keep her excitement down in order for Sheldon to not automatically deny her suggestion. One of Sheldon's eyebrow rose, in between not sure if he should trust her or not.
" Go on," he decided to trust her.
" Think logically Sheldon, it is proven by severe cases of hypothermia that the only way to keep a body warm is indeed to get warmth from another human body, such as exposure to nudity," she grinned despite that look that was passing Sheldon right now. " Since neither of us are in such a dire situation, I suggest we cuddle to keep each other warm,"
Of course Sheldon knew about the warmth fragment, after all it became a necessity back in the artic circle with Leonard, Howard, and Raj. Yet as he looked at Amy eager expression, he knew this meant something else. Something inside of him started to beat rapidly. Was having a girlfriend somehow connected to his cardiac system? He realized, especially after the last couple of months that such the sight of her would send his heart beat to a higher frequency. He's checked his average heart beat constantly after that and it would always rise when Amy was near. Another of the long list of things he still couldn't understand. He remembered last time he cuddled with Amy. It wasn't too bad, aside from her sobbing endlessly until she fell asleep. Unfortunately that felt different right now. He was used to Amy hugging him by now, but cuddling meant he had to actually play a part too.
" Counter proposal, how about I go back in the car and you keep guard outside, while I unpack all my coats?'' Sheldon replied, although he didn't feel too confident about this proposal.
" Sheldon-," Amy began.
" All right," he sighed, giving in. He didn't necessarily see any harm in just a quick cuddle to keep warm while waiting for the others.
" Really?" Amy was taken aback. She was almost positive that he wouldn't give in that easily.
" Sure why not," he shrugged, pretending like it was no big deal, but his cardiac system was at it again.
" Second base here we come," Amy gleefully sang while her arms tightly wrapped around him as she nestled her face into his rigid tense chest.
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" Wait Lucy! Come back!" Raj struggled to follow her.
Lucy must be a skilled runner. She was blazing through the trees with incredible speed.
" Stop please!" Raj could hardly see her from the distance, until suddenly she vanished. Oh no, Raj thought to himself once he realize that he no longer saw her. This was a bad idea, tagging Lucy along on a trip was definitely a bad idea. He should've kept an eye out the moment she started to look panic. Now, she was running loose in the middle of no where.
" Pssss," a hush whisper came from above a tree.
Raj looked up to see that Lucy had somehow manage to climbed on an incredible high branch. Relief wash over him as he found her, then worry. How on earth was he going to get her down from there.
" Lucy it's all right. Come down," Raj told her as gently as he could.
Lucy shook her head. " Oh no-no….I'm sorry I-I think it's safer up here," she anxiously held on to the branch. " Besides I'm not sure I can get down again. I'm terrified of heights."
" I'll be fa-fa-," Raj began to stutter. A word couldn't escape him anymore.
" Raj?"
" I-I'll-I," he held up a finger for her to wait. The alcohol he had consumed earlier was wearing off. A very bad sign indeed. Now what was he going to do?
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It took Sheldon a course of several minutes, before his body started to un-tense from having Amy so near. He had his arms around her, but there was still a fraction of space that separated his arm from entirely touching her. He felt awkward, a bit uncomfortable, and at the same time he didn't feel like it was that bad. On the plus side to all this, at least Amy wasn't crying. She had the smile of a pre-schooled kid who just learned how to spell their name for the first time. The task he learned at the age of 2. Amy nestled her head closer to Sheldon, cozying herself even more.
What am I? Her teddy bear? I am Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper , THE Dr. Cooper and I refuse to become someone snuggle bunny. Sheldon thought to himself frustrated just as Amy turned her head up to him.
Sheldon stiffened, almost positive that somehow Amy knew exactly what he was thinking.
" Sheldon I have a bit of an inquiry," Amy glanced back down now. " Lately when I would go out with Penny and Bernadette for a girls night and we'd share our daily dose of irrelevant, but necessary girl chatter; They would ask if our time for sexual intercourse had happen yet. In which I would answer no, then they would, like a pair of mischievous hyenas , giggle and say that it'll come sooner than I think. Also that I should pay a visit to the University more often."
" No!" Sheldon automatically denied, knowing exactly what this whole thing was about.
Amy eyebrows crossed in bewilderment.
" The University is under a stressful era, maybe visiting the University isn't an excellent idea. Besides apart from myself there are unimportant people in there who don't have a nickel for science, their course of studies are rather insignificant," Sheldon quickly tried diverted the conversation to another subject. " They ramble about the most brainless things. So I advice you that whatever rumor they are spreading around might not be accurately….true."
" I see," Amy nodded. " Although as a neurobiologist I'm intrigue by the sense of a socially crumbling university due to overstress."
Sheldon hope that the university would go talking about other things pretty soon, before they came back from Colorado. That is if they even get to Colorado. It probability dwindling by the second.
" What is the rumor?" Amy decided to engage in the gossip.
" It's irrelevant," Sheldon automatically responded. He thank whatever deity up there that it was night time now, because otherwise Amy would definitely have noticed his flushed face.
" I would like to know,'' Amy insisted, knowing she hit the stem. She glanced up at him. Her eyes locking on to his in a firm expression. " Since after all Penny did mention it while asking about my sex life."
Sheldon thought it over. He remembered it too well that day he told Penny about the possibility of engaging with Amy in coitus.
" Are you ever going to sleep with Amy?" Penny had blurted out.
Sheldon and Leonard both glanced up at her in synchronized utter surprise, by her completely unexpected blurt.
" That's awfully personal," Sheldon responded defiantly.
" We don't ask Sheldon things like that," Leonard anxiously turned to Penny.
" Maybe you don't, but I do," Penny bluntly said to Leonard, dead straight on getting an answer from Sheldon. " What's the deal?"
Leonard and Penny attention were now directly drawn to him. He swallowed the last piece of his meal, deciding that he rather get this talk over with. He hadn't expected someone to ask that question ever in his life. But Penny was Penny, she was that odd one of the whole group. He thought it over quickly.
" Well. Word around the university is that is I'm giving her sex organs a proper jostling," Sheldon replied, unable to hide a slight smile from forming in his face.
" All right, Come on be serious you guys have been going out a long time. She would clearly love to have a sexual relationship with you. So…what are you doing?" Penny wondered.
" All right we're down the rabbit hole. What ARE you doing?" Leonard inputted as well, wondering the same exact thing.
It was then that he realized they were actually looking for a serious answer.
" Well first of all I'm quite fond of Amy," he genuinely began.
" Then what's the problem?" Both Penny and Leonard were giving him puzzled looks.
Sheldon sighed , hating that he'll have to explain himself " Penny, All my life I've been uncomfortable with the sort of physical contact that comes easily to others," he contemplated " Hand shaking, hugging, prostate exams."
Leonard was now giving him a look that easily read. " Since when are prostate exams ever easy for anyone?" but Sheldon ignored it and continued.
" -But I'm working on it. You know, just recently I had to put vapor rub on Amy's chest. A year ago that would be unthinkable," Sheldon asserted.
" Now you know how I feel when I do it to you," Leonard put in his input again.
" Okay hang on, are you saying you and Amy might actually get...," Penny tried to think of the right word. " Physical?"
Precisely a day after Amy had hugged him, after being completely humiliated that Kripke work had exceeded his own. Amy's hug that day did comfort him. Though he would never say that out loud. So when Kripke blamed his work on the fact that Sheldon had a girlfriend. Sheldon decided to go along with it, engaging in the start of the rumor that he was frequently having intercourse with Amy. The rumor spread widely all over the university. He didn't necessarily mind the rumor at all. It was definitely an excellent excuse. Maybe even the merge act of engaging in coitus with Amy could benefit in more than one way.
" It's a possibility," Sheldon replied, before getting up for a drink. His mouth had suddenly felt dry. Behind him he heard the sounds of an audible gasp, and a hard slap.
Amy was still waiting for a respond.
Sheldon thought of a way to answer her, but at the same time avoid what happened in the university.
" Amy," He started. " You know our relationship is one of a series of critical complexities. Our relationship centers more on the greatest aspect of our bodies. Our minds. Nevertheless after the last couple of months the experiences we have shared did alter some sections in the Relationship Agreement that might need to be modified."
" Are you suggesting that we change some aspects to the Relationship Agreement!" Amy looked too enthusiastic about the whole thing.
" Only minor details," Sheldon was quick to clarified.
" As in the classified section on sexual intercourse?" Amy fervently grinned.
" Um. No I wasn't talking about that section" Sheldon glanced away now, cursing Leonard for getting him into this mess and Howard for not showing up either. Both of them should've shown up by now. " I'm going to look for Leonard and Penny!" he informed suddenly, pulling apart from Amy and making his way towards the direction he last saw Penny and Leonard go.
" So much for romantic," Amy mutter, reluctantly following him.
A minute later both Sheldon and Amy we're walking at an incredible slow pace.
" Perhaps waiting in the car was indeed a better alternative," Amy told him when she realized that he was incredibly tense and twitching at every little sound. He was using a thick stick as a sort of protection.
" Nonsense, staying in the car was the worst thing we could do. Any outrageous hippie could come by. The world is full of lunatics," Sheldon twitched at the rustling sound of leaves.
" I bet," Amy sarcastically mumbled, stumbling behind him.
As they walked Amy still couldn't get over the last conversation. She honestly can't believe Sheldon sometimes. For someone so smart, you'd think he'd take the multiple hints she would give him about moving their relationship forward. She had tried everything to gain his affections towards her. Frankly she wasn't too sure if they worked or not. Yet again, Sheldon did surprise her from time to time. Maybe she'll just have to wait longer for him to finally realize that their relationship can't be kept at the same variable for long, it needed to change. Whether for better or for worst. She had to make Sheldon progress, but how? Maybe she's the one that needed to try harder.
" Drats," Sheldon stopped abruptly.
" What's wrong?" Amy focused her attention back to him.
" My Emergency Kit is back at the car. We'll have to go back," Sheldon responded.
A sudden noise was coming from the side. Sheldon hands suddenly went behind Amy, as she used her as a shield when the two creatures appeared.
Out of the bushes came Howard and Bernadette.
" Sheldon? Amy-," Bernadette frowned.
" Oh it's just you two," Sheldon took his hands away from Amy.
" Did you just used me as your own personal shield!" Amy gasped, twirling around to face Sheldon.
" Um-,"
" Why are you guys out here? Where's Leonard and Penny?" Bernadette glanced around.
" Don't tell me you two were thrown out the car, because that was completely my idea to do one day," Howard groaned.
" No the car broke. Penny and Leonard went to go find assistance," Amy explained.
" Your car broke too? Huh…what a strange day," Howard murmured.
" Too?" Sheldon managed to catch. " That must be it then."
" What must be it?"
" Somebody from our group is a traitor. They meant for this to happen in order to intervene us from going to Colorado," Sheldon rationalized narrowing his eyes suspiciously.
" Or it could've been a just a coincidence," Howard replied.
" Howard please. In what universe do coincidence such as these happen to a coexistent
group of intellectual and their friend Howard," Sheldon inputted.
" And you wonder why anyone would want to kill you Sheldon," Howard mumbled irritated.
" That thought still puzzles me as well," Sheldon was oblivious to the sarcasm.
" Where's Raj and Lucy?" Amy asked.
" Lucy had a panic attack. She took off running, Raj running after her," Bernadette told Amy while Howard and Sheldon argued about the usual intellectual debate.
" Poor thing. She's like a baby fawn, timid, shaky, and unstable learning the bright new world. While Raj is like a foreign socially troubled mute cougar without a mating call. Then BAM-suddenly they encounter but he has no way of attracting the fawn without scaring her first," Amy shook her head thinking of it in her head.
"Huh? Honestly Amy I think travel makes you more than just constipated " a voice echoed behind them. " It makes you weirder too."
Both Amy and Bernadette jerked from the surprise. Penny stepped out, moving a branch from out of the way. Leonard close behind her.
" Bestie! You returned!"
" Did you find any help?" Sheldon askeed hopeful and personally relieved.
" No, bad luck guys it seems like we are going to be stranded for the rest of the night here," Leonard said from behind her.
Sheldon gulped, could his night get any worse. Just as he said that a rumble came from above.
Of course it can get worse, but maybe not for Amy :). Please Review for a faster update. ( I'm motivated to write by reviews you see). Anyway tune in for the next chapter to see what happens next. By the way Enud! XD I am flattered you are reading this?! Your story is amazing.
Hint for next chapter: More uncomfortable situations ( wink wink)
