Bound to Love

By Pandakelly

Chapter 6

A/N: I own nothing. Once again I want to thank everyone who has read and reviewed so far. So I have reworked my original plan and now instead of being about 14 chapters there will only be about 3 more chapters; two real chapters and an epilogue. Please message me if your questions are not being answered. As I said in the prequel this story came from a random idea on the internet and while I have thought it out a good deal there are still some blanks that even I am not really sure how to fill, so if you have any suggestions please shoot them my way.

Penny's Point of View

Bringing Sheldon onto the set of her sitcom had been Penny's newest attempt to try and show off Sheldon to her friends. Penny started to develop deep feelings for Sheldon and started to see more and more Sheldon in Jim, by the middle of the book Penny was certain that Sheldon had to know a bit more about the story that graced his pages, especially as more and more Jim-like qualities revealed became more and more apparent. Penny was amazed to find that the more she read the more detailed the story seemed to get, she also found that while she was drawn to the story she felt a stronger pull to hear more and more about the fragments from Sheldon's life. She discovered that Sheldon really couldn't tell her much about himself beyond his owners and his work. It seemed that the more she knew about Jim the less she could uncover about Sheldon.

One day on the set Penny had casually mentioned to one of her co-workers that she had discovered a book that was better than all the other books she had ever read put together and that it seemed totally original and she never wanted it to end. She didn't notice that the male lead; who had been trying to ask her out for months was listening, after wrapping for the day Penny went to retrieve Sheldon from her chair sleeve. Maybe I didn't take him to work with me today she thought after the initial panic set in, thinking through her whole day she remembered that during the lunch break she had finished a particularly hard chapter where Jim explained why he was certain that he would never be able to find true love. Somewhere in that desperation Penny heard for the first time since being introduced to the two men Sheldon instead of Jim's voice.

Penny traced her entire day trying to find Sheldon but after three hours decided that she needed to go home. As she drove through the warm streets one thought kept running through her mind I think I might have feelings for Sheldon and not Jim. As Penny mulled the idea over her own civil war started on one side she really wanted to love Sheldon he made her feel things that she thought she would never be able to feel again but on the other hand she was pretty sure if she told anyone else she loved a book; and that it was not just a fictional character but the actual book that bound that character together, that she would be committed. Try as she might she could shake the pictures of how crazy it would look, walking down the street with Sheldon, talking to him, bringing him with her to her friends parties, the height of the ridiculous images was that of her in a white dress standing across from a book with a bow tie around it, while bow ties were cool they weren't that cool. Penny's thoughts were interrupted when her phone rang, Oh great its him again, how many times do I have to say no to a guy before he takes a hint. "Penny I think we need to talk, met me at the coffee shop across the street in a half an hour'' was all she heard before the click. Not really sure what to expect but thankful that he had asked to meet in a private place Penny walked down to the small coffee shop and ordered a turtle mocha and a blueberry scone.

After a few minutes of checking her emails, Penny notices her co-star walking over to her. As he sat down he thanked her for coming. He then proceeded to ask her about how she feels about the new direction the show is going, specifically the plot twist that the two of them and not the people they were originally with were going to start a romantic relationship. Really she hadn't thought much about it, after fighting for so long to lose her first love interest a new one seemed wrong, but she admitted that she felt that unlike the unhealthy relationships they were forced into the new one seems to have far more benefits. She asked if he had ever read any of the fandom's stories that put the two of them together, he blushed and admitted that he had and that he was glad that the directors were finally going in a direction that seemed to make sense for both of their characters. After a couple moments of idle chit chat Penny bravely asked what he really wanted to talk about, he shifted about in his seat for a few moments before he reached into his shoulder bag and pulled out Sheldon. "You found my book!" Penny exclaimed reaching for Sheldon, as her co-star pulled him back. "Yeah I actually wanted to talk to you about this book." Crap, did he try and read Sheldon. Penny wondered as she tried to stay calm and asked him what about the book.

"First off, you know that this book is really just sentences printed on top of one another for like a hundred pages, right?" He paused and Penny shook her head, "No I remember the minute I picked it up I started reading a story," she replied. "Hmm, you mean right away from page one you had no problem reading the book? Cause I showed this to another friend of mine and he couldn't read anything till like 300 pages into the book." "Did anything else happen while you were reading the book?" Penny asked nervously. "Nah the story just seems to be some loner guy whining that all the women in his life leave him because he has some strange condition. Although my friend said that it was about some scientist who is trying to discover the mysteries of the universe. Also I looked up the publishing date and there is no record of this book ever existing." "I am sorry but that's not my book, I know my book and my book makes sense and starts right away, my book is special." Hysteria was rising within Penny, she felt like she was being attacked memories from her childhood when she would be called a liar surfaced, but Penny needed to protect Sheldon and so after calming down she asked for her book back and was once again met with what could only be a practical joke, Penny stood up and made one final plea and was denied it appeared that the man still had more to say but Penny was finished all she wanted to do was go home and talk to Sheldon, surely Sheldon would know what to do. Making her mind up to do just that Penny snatched Sheldon from the terrible man and stormed out of the coffee shop.

Upon arriving home Penny settled into her favorite chair, caressed Sheldon's cover and opened to a random page. Penny dropped the book as her eyes found the page, the page was filled with words on top of one another, sure she could occasionally pick out a word here or there; Jim, science, and a few other words stood out but the rest was a black nothingness. "Sheldon what happened to you?" She asked when she finally picked him back up and started turning his pages; it seemed that they all were that way except for two. It was like a mad printer had decided that instead of printing a story that spread multiple pages had printed whole stories on one page. it wasn't until she heard the crackle of the fire that she realized Sheldon had not answered her, turning to the image on the front cover, only to find a dead tree.

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