TheDarkestShinobi: Thanks for all of the positive feedback! If you are here for the smut, it'll come in the next two chapters, don't worry!

Sometimes a dom likes to pick out what their sub wears, and I didn't know if Sheldon would but I feel like Amy would like it, so I threw that in!

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She had expected it to be awkward after the spanking, but Sheldon had been surprisingly tender; that day and the next morning when she woke up to him between her legs. It has been a few weeks since then and they've fallen into a pattern that is great for him and enough for her, it doesn't take Amy very long to notice it.

Sheldon should text her tomorrow morning. Every 6th day, she will receive a text in the morning telling her what color to wear. To which she replies with a picture of her in said color. They have dates every Friday, every Anything Can Happen Thursday and every other Wednesday. Never on Tuesdays, and Amy admits she's sad she can't beat the BBQ bacon cheeseburger. She is welcome to join of course, but she can't steal him away from them. Friday dates end up with him spending the night at her place. On Thursdays it was a coin toss and Wednesday's were days he needed to be dropped off home.

Sheldon will do almost anything she asks. This strikes her as odd. Before they took that last step, everything with Sheldon was pulling teeth. She had to ask and beg, demand and then play dirty. Now she just had to ask. He would even come over if she asked nicely enough. He did say they would be more but she didn't expect such drastic and pleasant changes. Then again, she had changed too. She's become a neat part of his schedule. A big, important, part but a part nonetheless. She's stopped taking him out of his comfort zone. She learned to respect his boundaries.

She could feel it in more than her relationship with Sheldon. She's been more confident in general life, more outgoing in her research and happier. Things with Sheldon were going so well that it was affecting her whole life for the better. It was with that thought that she drifted off to sleep.

…

Wear pink

She reads her text in the morning as she towels off and debates what to wear. She opens her closet to find the pink button up Penny made her buy last time they went shopping. It was just a little too tight for her to consider professional but it should be fine for today. As she brushes her hair she smiles in the mirror because she likes doing these small little things for him. The shirt is too nice to wear with her normal skirts so she pulls out a crisp black skirt from the back to go with it.

She tilts her head looking at herself in the mirror and smiles. She wants to look really pretty for him today now. She runs back to her closet and drops to her knees to dig for the heels her mother sent her last year. The black three inch heels were nothing compared to what Penny would wear, but it was much more than she usually did. Thankfully they fit well and she opened her small makeup bag to find her pink lipstick. She applied it before walking back out to her mirror and giggled at the sight of herself. She snaps a photo of herself and sends it to him with the caption 'Pretty 'n Pink'

His response is immediate.

I hope you're happy. You're going to be a distraction for me all day Amy Farrah Fowler.

She grins so wide she could split her lip. She grabs her sensible shoes and slips into them. She'd put the heels on for Sheldon later. It is a Wednesday, but they had a date last Wednesday.

Maybe we could see each other tonight; we haven't had a date this week.

She crosses her fingers as she grabs her bag and keys before heading out for work. Along the way she greets her landlord, who smiles at her for the first time in a long time. It makes her giddy. Her phone buzzes and she pulls it up after her seatbelt is on.

Penny is planning on surprising you and Bernadette with a dinner date.

She frowns. The curse of popularity has struck. She'd never thought she'd have to choose between her friends and a boy before, it is exhilarating.

Can I see you after?

It would have to be your place, I don't think I can see you and not have you today.

Hoo! Now it's going to be her who is distracted all day.

…

"Amy?"

She understands the question, her hair is thrown up in a high ponytail (The monkeys are really irritable today-she wasn't taking any chances) and the outfit is unusual for her. The short sleeved shirt and lack of stockings made her self-conscious the second she walked in, but nobody had commented on it so she assumed she had been fine. She turns in her chair with a smile on her face.

"Yes, Robert." He smiles in a way Amy hadn't seen before as he leaned against the doorway crossing his legs.

"Do you have a presentation today?" She blushes. She can't remember the last time she's been complimented by a colleague.

"No, just wanted to wear pink today." She turns back to her computer and hears him draw closer.

"It's a nice look for you." He comments as he sits on the desk behind her. "Now, you said you noticed something interesting in the adrenaline response?"

"Right, yes," she pulls up another file and moves to the side so he can see from his spot.

"Amy!" She looks up from her computer as Penny approaches the doorway, "thank God, I was sure I was lost." She shakes her head and Robert chuckles.

"Not much space to get lost." Penny shifts her sight to him with a small smile.

"Hi, I'm here to pick Amy up," she got the feeling he was too, with the way he looked at her. It wasn't the leering kind of looks she got but one of fondness, "unless you are staying late." Amy stands as she shakes her head.

"No. I believe the explanation I gave was sufficient." She looks to him and he nods.

"As always, Amy." He smiles, "I'll leave you to this." He exits the room and Penny lets her jaw drop as she approaches Amy.

"Well, he is attractive." Amy shrugs.

"I guess, aren't you with Leonard now?" Amy leans over to get her bag.

"And just look at you!" She smiles as she turns Amy around to look at her, Amy blushes again. "What inspired this?"

"You know," Amy wiggles a bit. "I might see Sheldon tonight."

"Oh, sweetie," Penny sounds sympathetic "He doesn't appreciate you, he won't even notice." Amy frowns. He will. Of course he will. He already has. "Anyway," Penny hops up on Amy's desk "are you going to use him to make Sheldon jealous?"

"No." she shakes her head. "Why would I do that?"

"You should." She purses her lips and nods. "Nothing spurs a man to action like jealousy; Leonard is so prone to jealousy I don't have to try." Amy frowns but doesn't say anything. "The real reason I came over was to invite you to dinner."

"Oh?" she feigns surprise which Penny doesn't fall for.

"So it's obvious, sue me." She giggles and Amy follows suit, "come on, at this rate, B might beat us."

…

Amy can't remember the last time she's laughed so hard, but that is what bashing ex-boyfriends were all about.

"Then he told me he wanted to wait before sex," Bernadette continues sipping on her martini, "I was like bud, use it or lose it!" Bernadette seems to sober up when Amy stops laughing. "Yeah, I guess it's kind of like you and Sheldon."

"So Amy, is Sheldon going to use it" Penny leans over flirtatiously "or lose it?" Amy stares into her glass.

"Guys," she says quietly. Why do they think so little of her, these are her best friends right?

"I mean you guys don't do anything." Amy was going to interject and tell them about all the wonderful things they do. The wonderful things they have been doing for two months now. They wouldn't believe her, and maybe they don't disserve to know. Bernadette laughs.

"Everything has to be in a contract, it's funny; funnier than any of my ex stories." Do they not think she can last with Sheldon? Do they think that he will become an ex story? She grabs her bag as the tears begin to form. Penny's laughter dies seeing the hurt on Amy's face.

"Wait." She starts reaching for Amy but Amy is already out of her chair. She's glad she didn't have much to drink. "Amy!" They both call her name but she doesn't care. She is running; her sensible shoes make sure neither of them could catch her before she reaches her car.

Although she's not quite sure she should be driving.

…

Sheldon hears three knocks on the door, quick and even, and he knows its Amy. He rises from his bed to see what's wrong, because she would have text him if things were okay. Leonard beats him to the door and lets his mouth drop at the sight of her.

"Sheldon!" he calls and Sheldon rounds the hallway to see Amy and tears staining her cheeks, an image that should never be in his head and will never fade. Her cheeks and hair show signs of her running. He tosses his key ring to Leonard without taking his eyes off of her. This is unacceptable. Leonard barely catches the keys and Sheldon feels words rise up.

"Get out," he looks over and says to Leonard before looking back to Amy and then holding his arms out. She sprints into them and almost knocks him over with her hug. Leonard frowns as he watches Sheldon use one arm to squeeze her and the other to smooth down her hair as he talks to her. Sheldon kisses the top of her head and Leonard glances at the key to Penny's apartment and closes the door behind him.

"We're a joke!" Amy cries out as she hears the door slam. Leonard stops on the other side and listens. "Penny laughed at us!" Sheldon shushes her as Leonard places his hand on the door eavesdropping. "They all think so, even if they don't say it." Sheldon feels the change from anger to soothing, but Amy is still crying. Someone has made his Amy cry.

"I don't think our relationship is a joke," he says softly and Leonard bites his lip before shaking his head, he was guilty of that too. "Do you?"

"No," she responds.

"You know, for me, what we have is extremely intimate, and it has been for a long time."

"Sheldon…"

"Let me talk." Leonard pulls back at Sheldon's tone before placing his ear back on the door. "They think they are better than you because they brag about their intercourse with their boyfriends, correct?" his voice is rough. Leonard knows he's mad. One step away from supervillain. It's nice to know he cares that much for Amy.

"Well, yeah."

"I have seen their dating styles, how they claim their love one month and jump from person to person the next." Leonard sat down next to the door as Sheldon's voice softens. "I have heard the arguments about nothing; seen passion die before it's built. The lies and manipulation brushed off as passion. We aren't like that. I can't see a universe where there is anyone for me but you." He sighs and Leonard feels anger at himself and the others. "It's hard for me to open up, it has always been, and that is why you are being insulted, but when you look at relationships like that, when you consider that you and I will likely," he doesn't finish the thought, he doesn't have to.

"Yeah," she cedes, "that kind of makes theirs the joke, doesn't it?" She sniffs and Leonard stands, hearing enough of their moment and walks into Penny's apartment.

…

"Leonard?" Penny asks as she opens the door to see him on her couch reading Ender's Game. He places the book down and she's glad someone's read it because she hadn't. "What are you doing here?"

"Sheldon kicked me out for the night because Amy came to the door in tears." Penny sighs and holds out her hands, annoyed.

"It was just a joke, I'm sorry she can't-"

"Stop." He cut her off. "Listen, we've both been doing it for a while, making Sheldon a joke because of who he is and how he is." Leonard stands. "He let us get away with it because frankly he doesn't care what we think, he knows who and what he is." He shrugs, "he knows he's smart enough for a Nobel for Pete's sake but Amy," he shakes his head, "she never signed on for that from us." Penny lets her bag fall to the floor as she rubs her forehead.

"I know." They both sigh.

"She thinks you guys think her relationship is a joke." She shakes her head in disbelief.

"Hold on, Mr. Righteous, you were alongside me joking about it before!" She points a finger at him. "The probability is 0!" He looks up before back at her.

"She was hysterically crying Penny." He shakes his head. "There is no excuse for that, we have to stop." He looks away "besides, their relationship isn't a joke."

"It kind of is." She holds her arms out wide as she makes her case.

"It isn't!" He shouts. "This is." She freezes and so does he when he realizes what he said.

"What?" Her voice cracks. He runs with it, because the truth isn't stopping now.

"On again, off again, can't tell you I love you or miss you without you getting flightly. You're sending me so many mixed signals I have whiplash."

"What, you'd rather have what they do?" She feels close to tears.

"Being on the same page, growing together, not lying to each other or playing mind games with others, yes!" He is panting. He should grab his inhaler. He takes a deep breath. "Does it strike you that they are likely going to get married?" He shakes his head. "They have been the couple that has been together the longest, and they are the couple that's most likely to stay with each other. They don't make fun of each other or hurt each other."

"What, you need a contract for me to prove that I love you? I'm just as confused as you are in this."

"I'm never confused when it comes to you! I," Leonard pauses, "you," she lets her mouth hang open, "you just said you" his eyes are wide.

"uh huh," she looks away and considers running.

"That's the first time you ever-"

"Yeah," He could make a big deal out of this, honestly he wants to cry. It would be too much for Penny so he smiles. He pretends his heart isn't trying to beat out of his chest. He pretends he doesn't want to ask her to marry him again.

"So, on again?" he asks and she laughs.

"Yeah, and I guess we can take from the Shamy and stay on the same page."

TDS: thoughts?