A sequel to "The Biophysical Relationship Evolution", "The Biophysical Relationship Continuation" and "The Biophysical Relationship Development". Part 11, return. Everything belongs to Chuck Lorre and friends

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The plane touched down at LAX, as the plane slowed down and pulled off the runway the Captain announced

"Welcome to Los Angeles where local time is 5.30pm, the temperature is 72 degrees Fahrenheit and the weather is sunny. Thank you for flying British Airways."

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Two days later Sheldon and Bernadette both returned to Caltech. Even though Bernadette had been in contact with Caltech most days during her time in Cambridge and Andrea and Jane had been running her research group she was still overwhelmed with work when she got back to her office. She ended up putting a do not disturb sign on her office door for two days, only Andrea and Jane were allowed access. Bernadette was very glad to make it to the weekend.

At the weekend there was the big reunion with the social group. The Hofstadters brought back Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, who immediately hid themselves away in the spare room. Marie Hofstadter was heartbroken to lose her Kitty Cats. Next day Sheldon took the Hofstadters to the cat shelter. Marie couldn't believe her four year old eyes to see so many Kitty Cats.

Uncle Sheldon then said to Marie "Aunt Bernadette and I were very grateful to you for looking after our Kitty Cats when we were away. We think you should get your own Kitty Cat, do you want to play with these cats and find one you like to come home with you?"

Some of the shelter cats ran away when Marie ran up to them but one little female kitten took an immediate liking to Marie. After about 10 minutes it was obvious who Marie's new feline friend was going to be.

Leonard: "So Marie, what do you want to call your new kitten?"

Marie: "Kitty!"

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Next Monday Bernadette had her first research group meeting since her return.

Bernadette: "Hello everybody, we had a wonderful time in Cambridge but it is good to be back. In spite of all the hard work that Jane and Andrea had done looking after the research group in my absence and all my email and Skype contacts you wouldn't believe how much paperwork was waiting for me on my return. I had to spend my first two days back just catching up with admin.

It is good to see two new faces here, our new Ph.D students. So would they like to formally introduce themselves."

"Hello I am James Malone from Seattle, I did my first degree at the University of Washington and I have just joined Professor Rostenkowski-Cooper's research group as a Ph.D student."

"Hi, I'm Jessica Chambers from San Diego, I did my first degree at UCLA and I have also just joined Professor Rostenkowski-Cooper's research group as a Ph.D student."

Bernadette: "Welcome Jessica and James, please call me Bernadette, Professor Rostenkowski-Cooper is a bit of a mouthful. Just to explain to our newcomers that I make myself as available to help as much as I can during the work week but I am always here for our group meeting on Monday at 3.00pm. Normally I ask everyone to talk about what they had been doing since the last meeting but that obviously is impractical after 6 months away. So if Jennifer, Luther and Sally can individually come and see me for an hour to have a chat about things at 10.00am for over the the next 3 days. Decide amongst yourselves who comes on which day.

I had a meeting with Professor Tom Kariuki this morning, for the newcomers he is Assistant Dean of Biological Sciences here at Caltech. I inherited the research group from him when he was promoted, Andrea was one of his last Ph.D students. Professor Kariuki did his Ph.D at Cambridge University in England, it is thanks to him we have this Caltech-Cambridge collaboration which took me to Cambridge for 6 months. I am pleased to tell you that we will be getting another visiting Ph.D student from Cambridge in the New Year.

OK, this weeks meeting has been short and sweet, things should be back to normal next week. If Jessica and James would like to stay behind so we can chat about their projects and get to know each other. The rest of you can get back to work."