Authors Note: Thank you for all the reviews, especially the one that bagged me, I feel like a Shenny writer now. For the record I have watched big bang and I do love it, I hate what it has become, Leonard is selfish and only sees Penny as a trophy, Amy and Sheldon will never be truly happy as they are too much alike. Penny and Sheldon work together as characters because they are opposites, she pushes him and he challenges her. Leonard needs a mommy and dumbing down Penny like they have is an insult to blondes, to the wonderful actress Kaley Cuoco and in fact make people hate Johnnie G who is also a very good actor. This is fan fiction there is no rules, respect people, be supportive which means you can say things to help their writing, I like Shenny, deal with it or else go read a story which will make you comfortable. Otherwise I will go all Nebraska on your ass – here ends the rant
Disclaimer Big Bang its characters belong to someone else. The story belongs to me
Present Day
Doc Wallace left the room and went to talk to Nurse Walker
"Well as I suspected Leonard did not just come here today but also must have been to see Sheldon as well"
"Why do you say that Doctor"
"Penny and Sheldon, while in love, were trying very hard to reassure the other that they will do whatever for the other"
"So he succeeded in some respect"
"Yes he did, but my job is now bring them back a notch, they are fiercely loyal to each other and they do care. Penny would defend Sheldon and visa versa. They are both very hurt by what happened and are clinging to each other"
"Will they make it?"
"I believe they can, they have good support from their friends but it will take some effort, at the moment they are in the emotions of Penny's return, I will encourage them, support them, you might say I am on team Shenny as I heard her friend Bernie call it"
"Ok Doc well I am off shift now, when will you be at home"
"In about an hour Ann, just need to write up my notes"
"Ok, I will get dinner ready and pick up Clara from your mom's"
Louise watched as Ann went off to get changed, she had found her true love, maybe she could help Penny and Sheldon realise theirs. She went off to her office to finish her notes after giving any important information to the night shift.
Later than night
Sheldon could not sleep, he was having nightmares, he was dreaming that he had come home from work and found that Penny had left him for Leonard. No matter how hard he tried he could not shake the dream.
He loved Penny, he was sure but he could not shake the feeling that he would lose her to someone else. She would grow bored of his routines and schedules, his pursuit for the Nobel Prize. She would seek the arms of another, He could hear Leonard mocking him, "I told you she would come running back to me", he could even hear Penny saying to him "Love you, are you kidding me, a pathetic man no a pathetic boy like you".
Sheldon sat in his spot and tried to calm his mind, but he could not. There was no one to talk to, no one to quell the fears rising up in him.
"But those things they had said tonight they were real"
"No they weren't" said the ghost of Leonard in his mind "they mean nothing, they are just words, all Penny wants is to get out of there and away from you"
"No that is not true"
"You know it is Sheldon, why would someone like Penny love you"
"She does" Sheldon replied as he began to rock back and forth
"Yes like your quest for the Nobel prize, a dream beyond your reach Sheldon, you are not good enough, there will be someone better"
"No, no, no" Sheldon cried as he rocked himself back to a fitful sleep on the couch
The spectre of Leonard laughing at him in his dreams.
The next morning
Penny waited at the hospital for Sheldon to arrive, when he was 15 minutes late, Penny panicked
Nurse Walker came through the doors when Penny hit the alarm, Penny tears down her face
"He is not here, where is he, has something happened"
"I do not know dear, he has not called"
"Has he decided he could not do anymore?"
"I am sure there is a simple explanation"
"Can you call Howard for me, to find him please?"
Nurse Walker went to the phone at the Nurse's station and called Howard
"Morning"
"Is this Howard"
"Yes"
"This is Anne Walker from the hospital, has something happened to Sheldon"
"Not that I know of"
"Could you check, he has not shown up and Penny is freaking out"
"Will get right on it, how I can get back to you"
"Ring the hospital and ask for extension 423"
"Ok"
Howard raced out the door of his house, he quickly got onto his Vespa and drove as quickly as he could to Sheldon's apartment. Using the emergency key that Sheldon had given him a few months back he entered and looked in horror at the sight before him.
Whiteboards were everywhere, Sheldon was out cold on the couch. Howard checked him and it seemed that he was out cold due to exhaustion. Howard looked around at the boards, there were questions and answers, formulas and graphs, all about Penny and whether she would leave him or not, whether he deserved her or not, was he good enough to have or was he a pathetic loser.
Howard was stunned, he had known Sheldon to be fixated on things but this was just nuts even for Sheldon.
Quickly he pulled out his mobile and dialled the number asking for the extension, he waited to the call was picked up.
"Nurse Walker"
"It's Howard"
"Is he ok"
"Yes he is alive, but I have a question"
"Yes"
"Can the Doc make house calls?"
