Author's Note.

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Leonard looked in complete shock and horror at the scene before him.

Sheldon was sitting on the edge of his bed, knife in hand, blood flowing from a cut on his wrist.

"What the hell are you doing?" Leonard cried out when he could finally manage a complete sentence.

"I'm self harming, Leonard," Sheldon was looking at the ground, seemingly ashamed of getting caught.

"Are you out of your fucking mind dude? Why would you do that?"

"Cutting oneself is simply a way to release tension and negative feelings as the sensation of physical pain will mask your emotional pain therefore giving you a temporary calm."

"But you of all people should know better. I mean, you could die from that! Or end up in the hospital. You know how much you hate hospitals."

"I used to do it all the time as a child and I was fine. I suppose all the fighting that has occured lately brought back this old habit of mine. Besides, I don't cut deep enough for it to be a problem."

"It doesn't matter. You shouldn't be starting this again!"

"What I do is my own business and you should stay out of it, Leonard. Please leave."

"Yeah but_"

"Leave!" Sheldon snapped.

Leonard did leave, reluctantly. He couldn't believe that Sheldon of all people would resort to cutting himself. Sheldon, who was afraid of hospitals, wasn't he afraid of infection? Leonard knew something was definitely wrong. He spent the rest of the night worrying about Sheldon and thinking about Penny.

The next night, Howard came over to Leonard and Sheldon's apartment wearing hip clothing for once.

"How do I look?" he asked after Leonard let him inside.

"Wow, what are you dressed up for?"

"I'm hitting the club tonight! Amber's going to be there and I'm ready to get in her pants."

Raj walked in shortly after, also wearing hip attire.

"How do I look?" he asked with a grin.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Howard snapped.

"I'm going to the club tonight, what are you doing here?"

"No, you're not going, I'm going! I thought we agreed we wouldn't go at the same time anymore."

"I'm going and nobody can stop me!"

"You stay here and I'll go."

Leonard got an idea. "Why don't we all go? I think I know how I can get Penny back."

"Dude, she's not coming back just give it up," Raj said.

"This will so work!" Leonard said excitedly. "At the club, I'll ask out some random drunk chick and then tomorrow I'll bring her around Penny. When Penny sees me with another girl, she'll want me back."

"So you'll try to make Penny jealous?"

"Exactly."

At the club, Howard and Amber were in deep conversation about Star Trek.

"I've seen all five of the Star Trek television series," Amber was saying.

"Actually, there's six," Howard corrected her. "There's The Original Series, The Animated Series, then there's The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine_"

"And the last two are Voyager and Enterprise!" Raj cut in. He was suddenly standing next to them.

"Raj? What the hell?" Howard hissed.

"Oh that's right!" Amber giggled. "I haven't seen Enterprise."

"Hang on a second," Howard told her. He dragged Raj away from Amber. "Dude, are you drunk?"

"Yep! And tonight I'm going to make Amber mine," Raj said, his words slurring. "You mad?"

"What did I tell you about staying away from her?"

"Dude, I don't give a shit."

Throughout the night, Raj and Amber were talking and laughing non stop while Howard was just sitting there awkwardly.

When Raj got up to get more alcohol, Amber said "Yo Howard, you never told me your friend was so awesome! He's like, the coolest guy I've ever met!"

"He's not usually like this," Howard said, feeling jealous. "He usually can't talk to_"

"Party time!" Raj interrupted him and set some drinks down on the table.

"Yeah, let's party sexy!" Amber pushed Raj down onto his seat and started giving him a lap dance.

"Fuck this," Howard muttered. He decided to go find Leonard.

Leonard was sitting near the bar when Howard walked up to him.

"Any luck finding a new girlfriend?" Howard asked, sitting down next to him.

"Yep. Her name is Chelsea and we've been officially dating for one hour."

"Is she hot?"

"You bet. Penny will freak when she sees her."

"How did you get her to go out with you this fast?"

"She was so drunk she'd probably say yes to anybody. I can't wait to see the look on Penny's face!"

"Do you think Chelsea would be interested in a threesome with us?" Howard asked hopefully.

"Yes. But I'm not!"

"Oh. Whatever." Howard was disappointed.

That same night, Penny was laying in her bed but she couldn't sleep. She had to much on her mind. She'd gotten back from dinner with Tyler a few hours ago. This morning, she found his watch in the only place that she hadn't looked yesterday. Under her bed. She figured she had knocked it off of her nightstand by accident. He'd been pretty nice to her after she'd given it back to him but the whole time all he talked about was his car and his motorcycle, which Penny found boring.

While he was talking, she started thinking about Leonard. She was thinking about how she would rather be on a date with him instead of Tyler. She told herself to stop, he would just be talking about science or Star Trek or something, which she also found boring. But still, it was what she liked about him. And he never hurt her and she never had to feel scared around him. This was when she realized that dumping Leonard had been a huge mistake.

The next day at Leonard and Sheldon's apartment, Leonard had asked Chelsea over. They and Sheldon were sitting on the couch.

Leonard had begged Sheldon to ask Penny over. He did, and she reluctantly said yes. She was sitting on a chair as were Howard and Raj, who were discussing last night's events.

"So Amber doesn't know that Raj is afraid to talk to women," Howard was saying. "She only likes him more than me because he's deceiving her into thinking that he's always that cool around them."

Raj whispered something to him.

"I know you are but what am I?" Howard shot back.

Raj whispered something again.

"Don't bring my mother into this!" Howard snapped.

While they were going at it, Leonard waited for the perfect time to put his plan into action. When Penny looked over at him, he started hardcore making out with Chelsea.

He opened his eyes slightly to see Penny glaring at him.

After about 30 seconds, they pulled apart.

"You know, for a nerd, you're an excellent kisser," Chelsea said, snuggling up next to him.

"Yeah, I know." Leonard nudged Sheldon, who was sitting next to him on the couch. "Sheldon!"

"Yes Leonard?"

"Remember our plan?"

Sheldon was looking at him confused.

"What we talked about earlier? What I told you to say?" Leonard was getting impatient.

"Oh yes." Sheldon cleared his throat. "Gee Leonard," he said loudly. "You and Chelsea make an excellent couple. You two were made for each other. I bet your relationship will extend far into the near future."

"Why thank you, Sheldon," Leonard said, grinning.

"I'm just commenting on what I've observed."

Penny rolled her eyes and tried to ignore them.

Shortly after, Sheldon was in his room and Leonard walked in to discuss Penny.

"How did I do?" Sheldon asked.

"Great. Did Penny look mad?"

"She did look quite infuriated."

"Awesome. Now go ask her if she's jealous. Ask her how she feels about Chelsea."

"Leonard, I'm a physicist not a psychologist. Now go ask her yourself."

"Yeah right." Leonard went back out to find Penny was gone. "Where'd she go?"

Howard shrugged. "She just got up and left. She seemed really pissed off for some reason."

"Yes! It's working!" Leonard went back into Sheldon's room to tell him.

"What's working?" Chelsea asked.

"Uh... nothing," Howard said.

"Hey Sheldon, I think our plan is working!" Leonard declared, grinning.

"Our plan?" Sheldon asked. "It's your plan, and I think it's quite childish. I only participate because you force me to. You shouldn't be doing this to attract the attention of Penny. There's much more important things for you to be considering, such as science and..."

He went on and on but Leonard wasn't listening. He was focused on something else.

"Hey Sheldon, what's that?" He pointed to Sheldon's wrist. There was the cut from the other day, as well as a few more.

"That? Oh, that's nothing." Sheldon covered it up with his hand.

"Sheldon..." Leonard prodded, knowing Sheldon wouldn't be able to lie about it. "Were you cutting yourself again?"

"Yes. It's simply a method of relieving stress."

"What for? Nobody was yelling."

"Just any stress, Leonard. Anything from not being able to solve an equation to you leaving the bathroom mirror filthy."

"That's ridiculous. You're seriously over reacting. You need to stop."

"There's nothing wrong with doing it occasionally."

"You did it like 5 times since yesterday!"

"I'm under quite a bit of stress right now. Just leave me alone, Leonard."

"As long as you promise you won't cut yourself anymore."

"I can't promise that. But I will cut you!" Sheldon pulled a knife out of his drawer and pointed it at Leonard.

"Dude what the fuck!" Leonard backed up against the wall in fear.

"Bazinga!" Sheldon put the knife away.

"Holy shit. Don't ever do that again! Seriously."

"I'm sorry Leonard. I couldn't resist. Now remove yourself from my room."

Leonard decided trying to talk to Sheldon was useless. He just hoped that Sheldon would be careful.

Penny had left the apartment upset. She couldn't believe Leonard already had a new girlfriend. She hadn't thought Leonard would be able to get over her that easily. Not that it was surprising after what she'd said to him the other day. How could he just show off that whore in front of me like that, I mean, awkward! It's not like I'm showing Tyler off in front of him! And the hoe says he's a good kisser, well, I taught him how to kiss like that.

She walked into her apartment. Once she looked inside, memories about Tyler came flooding back. She remembered him hitting her, kicking her, screaming at her. Then she thought about all the good times that she had with Leonard. Then she thought about Chelsea. She knew she couldn't get Leonard back. She was stuck with Tyler. What have I done? She sat down on her couch and buried her head in her hands.

Author's Note.

So I had a dream about this show last night. I was on the set and I was going to be in the show. It was pretty epic (:

Anyways, the next chapter will be more eventful.

Tell me what you think so far? (: