Chapter 4

Sheldon sighed; he had been waiting for nearly 2 hours on the ground near Amy's apartment. He was starting to think that it may have been a better idea to have gone home with Leonard, but then he quickly remembered that he would probably have offered to take care of a hung over Penny so it didn't concern him much. He wished he would've brought his D.S., as he really wanted to play Mario, but sadly all he had was his can of disinfectant that he kept turning over and over in his hand for the past two hours. He had debated on calling Leonard for a ride home, but then he remembered he had forgotten his phone at his office. He knew that unless he wanted to take the buss home, he would be stuck there until Amy arrived. There was no option for a taxi this time, as Sheldon had no money on him. All he could do now was wait.

Amy had had a drive to her apartment that was uninterrupted and went by very fast. The whole time her mind had been racing as to what Sheldon wanted to discuss with her. She felt the tears start to well up again and this time she could not hold them in. She really did not want to cry right now, because she didn't want Sheldon to see that she had been crying. None the less, she couldn't stop the tears from flowing as she sang one of her song that she usually sang whilst playing the harp. "Everybody hurts. And sometimes everybody cries. 'Cuz everybody huuuuurrrrrrrttttssss..." There was no stopping the tears now.The rest of the car ride was similar to this, and it felt like ages that she was driving. Finally, she safely pulled into her parking lot, got to her car and was greeted by Sheldon who stood and opened the door for her, a big grin on his face, at least until he saw that she had been crying, then it turned into a deep frown. "Amy, what's wrong?" He asked her. "Is it your hangover? I knew Penny shouldn't have taken you out last night." Part of Amy was touched that Sheldon cared about her so much, but then she remembered why he was standing in front of her, and she was upset all over again. She sighed before replying to her boyfriend. "No Sheldon, Penny did no harm by taking me out last night and no, I am not upset because of my hang over." A look of confusion swept across Sheldon's face as he stood there holding the door for her. "Then what is it?" She really didn't want to come out and say it, so she simply replied with "You know. Come on, I believe you wanted to discuss some things with me." She passed Sheldon rather quickly and gracefully started gliding up the stairs to her apartment, leaving a slightly confused and aroused Sheldon behind her.

He recovered from his momentarily shocked state and hurriedly followed Amy up the stairs. Their feet were in sync going up the steps and he was rather pleased with this. When Amy had led Sheldon to her apartment, whilst unlocking it, she apologized to him. "Sheldon, I am so sorry that you had to wait for me for such a long period of time. If I would've known that you were going to stop by, I would've texted you and told you that I wasn't going to be here." She glanced at Sheldon's face to see if he was showing any kind of anger in his expression, but he seemed to be all ears and his eyes held the deepest sympathy she had ever saw. Once she had opened the door, she stepped inside, and closed it in front of Sheldon. She knew he would be happy with this, as he loved to do his routine of knocks. She waited for a moment until she heard the *Knock Knock Knock*"Amy." *Knock Knock Knock*"Amy." *Knock Knock Knock*"Amy." And had opened the door to a smiling Sheldon. Why was he so happy? He was about t loose her. This only made her hurt inside. She decided to push her hurt father into her body as she asked Sheldon "Would you like something to drink? I have Strawberry Quick, Yoo-hoo or water? Perhaps a diet coke?" She knew her voice sounded shaky and she just wished he would get this over with. He seemed to ponder over his choices for a moment, before deciding that he would prefer to take a bottle of Yoo-hoo. Amy stumbled her way over to her refrigerator, pulled the pink fluid from it and handed it to Sheldon. He smiled at her and replied with "Thank you Amy." in a rather pleasant tone. Whatever act Dr. Cooper was holding up, it sure was stressing Amy out. Sheldon took a sip from his bottle and sat down in his spot on the couch and patted the spot next to him, in indication for Amy to sit there. Amy felt awkward at all costs, so she chose to sit on the opposite end of the couch. Sheldon visibly frowned at this.

"Amy?" He asked. "Why are you sitting so far away from me?" He held a look of concern on his face and Amy was at a loss for words. "Uh, I just thought it would make matters easier for you." That was the best she could think of. Sheldon seemed to consider this, before responding with "But Amy that would most certainly not make matters easier for me. What would make matters easier for me is if you sat as close as possible." Why was Sheldon torturing her like this? She mentally groaned, but complied, sliding ever so slightly closer to Sheldon. However, that would not do. He wrapped his arm around her and pulled her in close to him. Amy felt a ping of guilt in her heart. Right now she hated him and could not understand why he was allowing all this physical contact. It was only making matters worse. "Amy." Sheldon said after a moment of silence." I have a proposal for you." Great. Amy thought. This was not going to end well. "Which is…?" She inquired. "Lately, I've had these thoughts." Sheldon paused. Thoughts about what? Amy thought. "I've had thoughts about you… In a certain aspect I knew thought I'd ever feel…." Amy cut him off. This was so confusing; she didn't know where he was going with this. She did know that she didn't want to hear any more. "Sheldon, Look." She stated. Sheldon quickly complied and met her gaze, only to find hers as if she was shooting ice cold daggers his way. He felt uncomfortable and squirmed in his seat. "To make it easier for you, why don't you just get the paper and have me sign it so we can be done with this and just forget it ever happened?" Sheldon's face now held a look of horror. "What paper? Why would I want you to sign it? So we can be done with what? Forget about what?" He had tears welling up in his eyes, because he knew perfectly well that Amy was talking about their relationship agreement and he could not figure out what he did wrong.

"Seriously Sheldon?" Amy asked. "You're going to make me say it? Fine. Go get the Relationship Agreement, have me sign it and we can terminate this thing right now." Sheldon was beyond horrified. He looked at Amy now as if she just grew several arms and had a monkey growing out of her ear. "What did I do?" He asked. "I don't wish to terminate our relationship Amy, all I wish to do is to make you happy." Before Amy could reply, Sheldon got up off of his spot on the couch, walked over to his messenger bag which was resting on the back of a chair near the door, pulled out a stack of papers and came back to her, handing the papers to her. Her jaw dropped open and Sheldon stood in front of her, locking his gaze on the papers so she wouldn't notice the tears welling in his eyes. "Sheldon…" Amy whispered. "You don't…" "I don't what Amy?" Sheldon questioned. "You don't want to terminate the Relationship?" She asked him, meeting his gaze and noticing the tears starting to form in his eyes. She was too shocked for tears. Sheldon's face returned to a look of confusion. "No…." He stated. "You do though." One tear slid from his eye and down his cheek, and he turned to look away from her. "Look at me Sheldon Lee Cooper." She commanded. He complied, and she saw he not only had one tear now, but several, just pouring out. "I don't want to terminate the Relationship." Again, Sheldon's face masked confusion. "What? You just said you did?"

"Look, earlier Leonard told me you wanted to discuss some things with me, and I thought the worst. I thought I may have pushed you the other day when I had drunkenly asked you how much it would take you to by a bottle of hooch and have your way with me at the hotel across the street."

*Flashback*

Amy was hurt when Penny and Bernadette went bridesmaids shopping without her, and this only resulted in the intake of alcohol. At the time she had thought about bringing her problems to Sheldon, but she knew he would be reluctant to help her. Penny's advice was ringing in her ears. "When you're upset, just do what I do. Drink alcohol." Her hypothesis was correct, as he would have been reluctant to help her. However, he did care for her and he got really upset when he would not get a hold of Amy, so he turned to Leonard for help. "I can't seem to get in touch with Amy! I tried e-mail, video chat, tweeting her, posting on her Facebook wall, texting her... Nothing!" A look of confusion had swept across Leonard's face. "You tried calling her on the telephone?" It was hard to believe that the brilliant Dr. Cooper did not think of calling his girlfriend on the telephone to find out where she was. Sheldon simply replied with "The telephone...!" He paused for a moment. "No... Leonard, in your own simple way, you may be the wisest of us all." When calling her on the telephone did not work, he knew Amy had been emotional. It also helped him figure it out because of the events that happened the previous night between them when the event first occurred. Now, Sheldon was standing by the door of his apartment, ready to open it and yell at Leonard and Howard for what they did. Upon barging in, he stated to the two of them "The two of you need to get your women in line!" to which Leonard replied with "What?" It was completely evident that Leonard was confused, so Sheldon decided to explain.

"Last night, I was strong armed into an evening of harp music and spooning with an emotional Amy Farrah Fowler, this on a night that I had originally designated for solving the space time geometry in higher spin gravity and building my Lego death star. And why? Because your gal pals Penny and Bernadette went out shopping for some wedding nonsense without Amy, an action they took with no thought or regard as to how it would affect me, the future of string theory, or my Lego fun time!" Leonard sat there, slightly amused that Sheldon had gotten so upset, and slightly guilty because he knew that the girls had been planning that and he hadn't informed Amy. "What do you want us to do about it?" Howard questioned, whilst Leonard thought. He wasn't exactly jumping with joy right now; he just wished he could get out of there. Sheldon looked outright insulted, and nearly scoffed at Howard. "You clearly weren't listening to my topic sentence: Get your women in line! You make them apologize to Amy and set things right! I am a man of science, not someone's snuggle bunny!" Leonard had heard that, whilst deep in thought, and struggled to stifle back a giggle. He then turned serious felt this was not fair. "Why do I have to talk to Penny? She's not my girlfriend." A ping of hurt ran through his chest, but he chose to ignore it. Sheldon chose to state the obvious to Leonard's question. "You invited her to lunch four years ago. Everything about her is on you, you make it so!" All Leonard did was scoff at his room mate.

"Amy, we're really sorry." Bernadette said, sympathy masking her voice. "Yeah, we feel awful." Penny had agreed. Amy was not hearing any of it, she felt hurt, lonely, and confused. "Don't. I'll be okay. You're not the first girls I thought were friends with me who ended up shunning me. It's like elementary school, junior high, high school, undergrad, grad school and that semester abroad in Norway all over again." Shuddering at the thought, Amy deeply sighed and turned her attention toward the two women standing in front of her. With the apology gone horribly wrong, after the two girls had left Amy decided to go to a near by liquor store and purchase a bottle of alcohol. She then walked into the empty parking lot that she was nearest to and began chugging the bottle. She stopped after a moment, and slowed her pace.

She was now nearing towards the end of the bottle and she wasn't exactly sober. She had seen Sheldon approaching and she got the biggest grin on her face and she greeted him with "Hey, Cuddles!" Leonard was with him, as he had driven him and he looked confused. He turned to Sheldon. "Cuddles?" Sheldon scoffed at him. "Yes, we cuddled. Grow up, Leonard." He turned his attention back towards Amy. Both the guys were looking at her now and it felt good to her. She flashed a drunken smile towards Sheldon and asked him "Sheldon! What would it take for you to go into that liquor store, buy a bottle of hooch, take me to that hotel across the street and have your way with me?" She giggled and Leonard pursed his lips, whilst turning his attention towards Sheldon as well. "Yeah, Sheldon, what would it take?"

Sheldon was visibly uncomfortable as he glanced from Leonard to Amy and back to Leonard. "I'm begging both of you, please, stop!" He requested, raising his tone slightly. It was because of this that Amy felt she may have pushed him. However, she was too drunk to care at the time and Leonard had helped her up off of the curve with Sheldon's help and together they managed to help a staggering Amy to her car.

*Present*

"So, I thought you may have wanted to terminate the Agreement and I was just trying to make it easier for you." At this point, Amy had tears of her own forming but she forced them back. "Amy." Sheldon said gently. "Sit down and I will finish telling you what I wished to discuss with you." Amy complied and sat closer to Sheldon now. "Again, lately I have had these thoughts about you that I have told myself I would never have about anyone. Thoughts about being with you, holding you, kissing you, cuddling. I'll admit the first time I tried any of these things, I was frightened." Sheldon paused and met Amy's gaze, holding it for about 3 seconds while he fought the urge to kiss her right then. "I realize I cannot run from my fears forever. I have also realized that doing those things would make you happy Amy, and that's all I want to do is make you happy, so I will not object to putting these aspects in our Agreement under a Physical relationship section that has been currently marked off." Amy was at a loss for words for the second time that night. Sheldon waited for her to reply and he did not seem to be in a hurry, so she chose her words carefully. "Sheldon, I would love to add those to our Relationship." She paused. "But I want to do those things with you because you want to, not because you just want to make me happy and it's in a contract that says you have to. I want you to be happy too, I need you to be happy."

Sheldon seemed to have considered her argument before continuing. "Amy, that's just the thing. I do want to do this with you, that's what my thoughts have been about most recently. It does indeed make me happy." He decided to skip the part about his unexpected arousal that very morning to avoid humiliation. He stretched his hand out and gently laid it upon Amy's cheek, rubbing it ever so slightly. He could feel her hot tears against his hand. He felt terrible for making her cry. He hoped maybe the new compromise they had reached would help make up for this. Suddenly, Sheldon leaned closer to the still shocked Amy until their foreheads were touching and his lips were only centimeters away from hers. For a moment, Amy thought for sure he was going to kiss her. Then, he panicked and shot up off of the couch and ran out of the room, calling to Amy over his shoulder "It's not in the agreement yet!"

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