Sheldon's bedroom was a sight to see. The normally quiet and clean space was full of people. The sheets on the bed were rumpled where Amy and Bernadette sat. Blood bandages, changed by Amy for a third time, lay all over the usually pristine floor.

Sheldon had pulled his legs to his chest while everyone else watched him move. It somehow made them anxious to see Sheldon try and fold himself up, make himself smaller, unseen. There was still new blood leaking onto his bandages as he sat there, still.

Until, suddenly, he spoke.

"It's their faul'." He whispered. Penny exchanged a nervous look with Leonard. The others seemed to all shift away. Sheldon looked up, his eyes full of emotion for the first time that day; Anger.

"It's their faul' I'm like this. This-this Freak!" His eyes were flashing now. Raj's hand flew into Howard's. Leonard stood slowly, casting nervous looks at his friends.

"Sheldon, how about you calm down?"

Sheldon slowly pivoted towards Leonard. His movement was so robot-like it was unsettling. He spoke three words in an icy cold voice, his accent dissipating.

"Shut. Up. Leonard."

Everyone stiffened. Bernadette bit her lip nervously.

"Sheldon! You shouldn't talk to your friends like that."

Sheldon whipped around at light speed.

"You should all stop talking." He lifted his hands as though to preach, then faltered, waving them weakly in the air. They came to a stop as he let them fall and clutch his head. His grimaced and started to stand up, his face white and shaking.

"You...should...all stop talking. You...ALL... made me like this...everyone..."

He started to sway back and forth. Leonard reached for his arm to steady him. He missed.

Penny let out a little gasp as Sheldon collapsed on his bedroom floor. His skin was pale and cold,

His eyes shone glazed and wide for a moment, than fluttered shut.

Amy screamed. Bernadette clutched her fiercely as Amy tried to run to Sheldon, tears streaming down her flat cheeks.

"Shhh! Amy, calm down!" Bernadette was yelling, her own face stricken and white.

Leonard leapt forward and pressed his hand to Sheldon's clammy wrist.

"Ok, there's still a pulse. We-We need to call 911."

Howard nodded vigorously, pulling out his iPhone and punching in buttons viscously.

Leonard looked down at his hand and felt his stomach revolt at the red stains decorating his fingers.

"I think he lost a substantial amount of blood. He passed out." He yelled to Howard, who relayed the information to the woman on the 911 line. "He lied to us. He knew he was bleeding too much." Leonard felt himself fall back a little, his stomach churning. "He lied to us."

"311 Los Robles, Northern Pasadena. Yes, we need an ambulance." Howard said loudly, talking a mile a minute. "Get here as soon as you can please, PLEASE."

He hung up and looked wildly at his phone. He flung it to the ground suddenly, as though having a muscle spasm. He met everyone's puzzled expressions with fearful eyes.

"I'm freaking out, OK?" He squeaked, grabbing at his hair with both his hands.

Penny mirrored him, pulling her pigtails away from her face and joining Leonard at Sheldon's side.

"Well...wha-what can we do while we wait?" She said, running her hands through Sheldon's hair. His forhead was covered in cold sweat. She looked frantically from Leonard to Bernadette, to Howard and the hysterical Amy. They just shrugged helplessly.

"I only have a basic understanding of medical remedies. That was always Sheldon's department." Leonard said, unsuccessfully trying to keep the panic from his rising voice.

Penny hid her face in her hands, racking her brain for something to do. She got all her medical information from Doogie Howser. That certainly wasn't going to-

"Elevate-his-head-and-check-for-bruises." A soft, strained monotone broke through the panic.

Everyone turned. Penny's mouth fell open.

It was Raj.

Raj, who was still clinging to Howard's hand. He stood stock still and straight ahead. His eyes were squeezed shut in terror. Again, he spoke, his voice fast and high. It looking like it was causing him great stress.

"Please-elevate-his-head-and-check-for-bruises-this-is-very-difficult-for-me-to-do." He forced out in one breath.

Shaking off their shock, Penny gently lifted his head onto his pillow that Bernadette dropped down onto the floor.

Leonard lost his breath as he looked flippantly from Raj barking short, quick orders to the girls to Amy crying next to a limp and disbelieving Howard.

He heard sirens pierce the air as his mind collapsed in on itself.

He closed his eyes as he heard feet stomping up the stairs.

He wondered why the world had been tipped upside-down as he heard-

"Out of the way, he's stopped breathing!"