Leonard's Mother Visits

by NatashaS99

After Leonard's mother comes for a surprise visit, she becomes much closer to Sheldon. Amy becomes upset as he spends more time with Leonard's mother than he has done with her, causing much controversy between them. Meanwhile, Howard visits Bernadette's parents for dinner but this results in an argument between him and her dad, and she is forced to choose between them or him.

2. Chapter 2

the next day

"did you hear that your brother just won another Nobel prize?" Leonard's mother told him. Leonard forced a smile "that's great! would you like some tea?" he said as an attempt to try and avoid the subject of his very successful siblings. "if you make it correctly then yes" his mother replied. A few minutes later Leonard came back from the kitchen with the tea, hoping that he got it right. Before drinking it his mother questioned him on how he had made it. "Is it two percent milk?, loose not bagged?, Oolong?, steeped three minutes?, warmed separately?, is the sugar raw?" she inquired, to which Leonard nodded and sat down awkwardly on the seat next to her.

After Leonard and his mother conversed for a short period of time Sheldon, Raj and Howard came to join them. They all found themselves sitting on the sofa with nothing to talk about, until Sheldon asked "how is your work in neuroscience doing?" to which she replied "currently I am focusing on behavioral patterns, I would find it very helpful if I could study your brain to aid my study if that is a possibility?" Sheldon pondered on whether he should accept or not, as he liked getting his brain scanned however he was due to meet with Amy in half an hour to go to the cinema. "I suppose" Sheldon answered, however he felt a great deal of guilt that he had abandoned Amy.

meanwhile outside the house of Bernadette's parents

"Don't worry, I'm sure it will go fine. Remember last time you were really worried and in the end it turned out to be fine" Bernadette told Howard, "I'm not sure your parents will still like me though, and even if they do I'm going to still be nervous every time I come over here" He explained. "Bernadette, Howard, is that you?" Called a voice from the house, which was probably Bernadette's father. "yes, it's us" they replied, almost in synchronization but a little off. Bernadette's mother opened the door and welcomed them "How nice to see you both together, we have something very important to discuss with you and it will affect you both" Howard and Bernadette exchanged worried looks.

Soon afterwards her father came downstairs to greet them, "dinner is almost done, you can already sit at the table if you like" he said while gesturing towards a large oak table. "okay" they said, and sat down into the dining chairs, unusually both of Bernadette's parents were being very kind towards them, and even when Bernadette spilt the wine and Howard knocked over a chair they didn't mind. Once everyone had finished their roast beef and potatoes, they looked Howard and Bernadette in the eyes "we have something important to discuss with you listen carefully."