The Double Minion Catalyst – Chapter 4
Hi guys! Sorry it's been so long! I've been busy! With my dad going on his mission trip and all, I've been dealing with a bout of loneliness. He's really the only person I talk to in RL. Anyways, he comes home tonight! *does happy dance*
So with all that being said, here is my next chapter. Hope that cliffhanger didn't leave you hanging too much ;)
Oh, I own nothing...It's Chuck and Bill's!
"Sheldon?" Amy repeated. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm looking for my pregnant wife who I love very much." he responded. "Thank Jesus, I found her. What is it that you were saying to Penny and Bernadette?"
"We were just saying how odd it was that you didn't make the bed or clean up after yourself yesterday. It's not like you, Sheldon."
"Maybe it's because you stormed out of the apartment and never responded to any of my texts or calls. Amy, I didn't sleep at all last night because I didn't know where you were and what you were up to. It bothered me."
Amy stood up and carefully walked over to Sheldon. She touched his right arm with her left very lightly and looked up at him. "Sheldon, you've got to think rationally about things, which you have to admit, you don't do well when you are upset."
"I was being completely rational." he responded.
Amy scoffed. "Really?" she replied.
"Yes, really."
"Well, Mr. Rational, tell me why you didn't think that I had just walked across the hall to 4B. I mean, it makes the most sense."
"Oh."
"See, you've got to think things through. If you don't you are not going to get anywhere, Sheldon."
Penny gets up from the table and walks to Amy's left. "Hello, Sheldon."
"Hello, Penny. While I am pleased that you and Leonard took care of Amy in her time of need, someone could've informed me of where she was so I wouldn't be worried as much."
"Sheldon, the last thing on our minds last night was that. You wanna know what was on my mind last night?" Penny responded.
Sheldon just looked at her and shook his head in a motion stating for her to continue.
"Ok, last night Amy came knocking on mine and Leonard's door crying, no sobbing, because of something you said to her. Leonard and I were more worried about getting her to calm down than letting you know where she was. Besides, at that moment, I'm quite sure she didn't want you to know where she was anyways."
Bernadette walked to Amy's right while Penny is talking and once Penny finishes says, "Oh, burn."
The look on Sheldon's face suggested that he didn't much care for Bernie's comment. He placed his hands behind his back and looked at Amy and said "Ok, then."
"Sheldon, please forgive me. I just needed some space to think. All of this is coming so fast. I know we planned for the pregnancy, but the last thing we planned for was twins. It scares me. With you talking the way you were yesterday, it scared me."
"That's perfectly understandable, Amy." Sheldon takes his left hand and places it on Amy's right shoulder. "I love you, Amy. I want this to be a happy time in our life."
"I am happy about it, Sheldon. You just scared me with all the talking you were doing. We just found out they exist. I want to get through the next nine months first. I want to meet them, name them, and hold them. After all that, we can decide how we will raise them."
Sheldon shook his head in agreement.
"Let's go back to 4A, there's someone there who wants to visit with us." Amy said.
Bernadette pulled up to 2311 Los Robles and parked her car. Bernie, Penny, Amy, and Sheldon got out of the car and walked into the lobby of the building. They walked up the stairs to the fourth floor.
Sheldon began to grab his key to unlock 4A when Penny stopped him. "Wait a minute, Sheldon. The guys are already here and we all have a surprise for you."
Penny turned the door knob and opened the door. She walked in followed by Amy and Bernadette. Sheldon stood at a standstill at the threshold with a look of shock on his face as to whom he saw sitting on his couch.
"Mother?" was all that could come out of his mouth.
Mrs. Cooper stood up from Sheldon's spot and walked over to Sheldon and hugged him. "Hello, Shellybean, how are you doing today? You don't look like you are doing too well right now."
"Well, considering I spent the night in a state of insomnia because I didn't know where my pregnant wife was, I'm doing fine. Tired, but fine."
"I know, dear. I've been told all about it."
Sheldon finally stepped into the apartment and shut the door behind him. "Mother, why are you here?"
"We will talk about that later. Why don't you go shower and put on some clean clothes, dear. We are going to order dinner and have a nice night, ok."
With a confused look on his face, Sheldon walked through the living room and to the bedroom to get a change of clothes so he could take his shower. He did admit to himself that his mother was right about the freshening up thing.
Back in the living room, Mrs. Cooper walked over and hugged her pregnant daughter-in-law. "Hello, Amy dear, how are you doing? You know, considering the circumstances."
"I'm fine, Mary. Considering what I'm dealing with."
Mrs. Cooper smiled and Amy knew that the smile meant she completely understood what she meant. Mrs. Cooper then walked over and hugged Penny. "Hello, again, Penny dear. How are you doing?"
"I'm doing great, Mrs. Cooper. So glad to see you again. Sad for these circumstances, but what can you do? Right?"
Mrs. Cooper again smiled like she totally got what was being said. Then she moved over to Bernie and hugged her. "Glad to see you again, Bernadette."
"Nice to see you too, Mrs. Cooper." Bernadette squeaked.
Bernadette moved over towards Howard and hugged him. Penny did the same for Leonard.
"Ah, love such a beautiful thing." Raj said holding his beer in his hand.
Howard looked over at his lonely, drunk friend and just shook his head.
Raj didn't know if it was pity or something else, but he didn't like the look that Howard had given him.
While the rest of the gang waited for Sheldon to finish his shower, Leonard ordered the standard meal for a Saturday and left with Penny to pick it up. Mrs. Cooper, Amy, and Bernadette were chatting it up about baby names. Raj, even as drunk as he was, and Howard sat quiet as mice being bored out of their minds with the conversation around them.
Amy stopped talking when she heard Sheldon turn off the water in the bathroom.
"What's wrong, Amy?" Bernie asked.
"I just...I don't feel good." She replied.
"Do you think it was the food court food?" Bernie replied.
Amy nodded and got up and fast walked to the bathroom and knocked. "Sheldon, sweetheart, may I come in?"
"No, Amy. You know the rules."
"Well, this is an emergency. I need to throw up...I think it's the food court food. Besides, it's not like I haven't seen you naked, Sheldon."
"Oh, ok." Sheldon said grumpily.
Amy opened the door and stepped in and quickly closed it again. She ran to the toilet, opened the lid, thanked the lord for Sheldon's cleaning skills, and leaned down just in time for her stomach to begin purging its contents.
Sheldon, who was standing there in nothing but his towel, looked down at his sick wife and couldn't help but squat down beside her and put his arms around her while she emptied the contents of her stomach. This went on and off for another 20 minutes when there was a knock on the bathroom door.
"Amy, dear. Are you alright in there?" Sheldon heard his mother say from the other side of the door.
"She's fine, mother. That food court food must have made her stomach very unhappy." Sheldon replied.
From Sheldon and Amy's point of view, they could hear a faint "Uh, huh" from the other side of the door. "No, Shellybean, I don't think it's that at all. How many weeks is she along?"
"Six, why? And the last time Penny got her to go to the food court and binge, this same thing happened to all three of them; Amy, Penny, and Bernadette. So, I don't know what else this could be, mother."
"Sheldon, can I come in? I think that this is morning sickness. Amy, dear, have you had any symptoms of that yet?"
In between gasps of air and what felt like her diaphragm coming out of her abdomen, Amy said, "No, Mary. I was almost hoping I'd get lucky."
Mrs. Cooper opened the door to find her son kneeling on the floor holding his wife in nothing but a towel. At the moment, everything was peaceful, but both Amy and Sheldon had a feeling another round was coming. A shocked look came on her face because she knew Sheldon, and the man she saw before her was not like the germophobic son she had raised. She stepped over the threshold and into the bathroom. She kneeled down beside Sheldon and Amy and patted Amy on the head. "Are you sure you are ok, Amy dear?"
"Yes, Mary, I'm fine." Amy said very hoarsely. "I do believe that this was exactly what you are saying though, quite contrary to Sheldon's beliefs. Despite, the circumstances, the timing is right for morning sickness to begin." Amy looked up at Sheldon and said, "And as you may have read, Sheldon, it can happen at any time, not just in the morning." Amy still felt very nauseated. "Wait a minute." She leaned back over the toilet and the cycle began again.
Both Mrs. Cooper and Sheldon held Amy while for the next 15 minutes, while she continued to empty what felt like her whole digestive system. Eventually, Mrs. Cooper let go and stood up.
"I'm going to go check on the others. I'm sure she's fine, Shellybean. This stuff happens. Man, while I was pregnant with you and Missy, I spent what felt like days in the bathroom doing nothing but this. It's a normal part of most pregnancies, and especially with twins." Mrs. Cooper walked out of the bathroom and back into the living room.
Amy leaned against Sheldon's shoulder and began to cry. "Sheldon, I don't know if I can take day after day of puking up what feels like my whole digestive system." Amy began to bawl.
All Sheldon could think of to do was hold his wife in his arms and let her cry. "There, there, Sheldon's here." he whispered as he held her.
That's all for this chapter! We'll see what happens next. I do realize that Sheldon and Amy reconciled before Mrs. Cooper could talk to Sheldon, which was my original purpose for writing her in this story. However, I believe that she can give some useful advice to Amy throughout this story, especially regarding the pregnancy. Sometimes you plan things, and then the story rewrites itself. That's kind of what happened here.
Also, I wanted Sheldon holding Amy to be a sweet moment between them. I know it's OOC for Sheldon to do such a thing as hold someone while they throw up, however this is a few years down the road and Sheldon and Amy are very much in love with each other. Men in love do things they normally wouldn't do for their woman. This is what we have here, a man in love.
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