Bound to Love

By Pandakelly

Chapter 8

A/N: Wow the last chapter before the epilogue hope you guys have enjoyed this as much as I have. Spoilers this will have another cliff hanger, please just bear with me I promise it will be worth the wait. Even though I at times imagine myself as River Song I sadly am not her and therefore do not have the ability to travel with the Doctor back in time and create The Big Bang Theory, in other words I own nothing.

Sheldon's Point of View

Sheldon was miserable, he had no one to talk to, all the other books had started to avoid him and he hated the small dark used bookstore that he had been abandoned in. Everything seemed to remind him of Penny, and as the days turned to months his heart into smaller pieces of itself. After a year Sheldon was finally able to get up in the morning without Penny coming to mind immediately and a month later he found that he was able to work again, but his work was less enjoyable, he found himself distracted easily and after a while he started to hear a voice screaming at him, whenever he stood in front of his white boards. At first he was able to simply ignore the voice but the closer he got to the end of his work the louder and closer the voice seemed to be. The voice seemed quite happy to call Sheldon names, how dare my own mind tease me Sheldon thought after a particularly vicious afternoon.

"That's it, you will listen to me one way or another Sheldon Lee. I am done playing Mr. Nice Guy." Sheldon was stunned to discover a person attached to his angry voice when he turned toward the noise. The owner of the voice had to be Sheldon's doppelganger; he was everything that Sheldon was not, he looked like he had never seen the sun and spent a good deal of his time in comic bookstores, but under all of that the man possessed an air of confidence that Sheldon had lost many years before.

"So now that I've got your attention," the man said with a small smile, "What the heck did you do to that poor girl?"

Sheldon had dealt with too many poor girls to really be certain whom this stranger was talking about and decided to wait till he provided more information.

"Don't play dumb Sheldon it really isn't believable, Penny you fool, why did you let her go? You do realize that she was perfect right, and that for the first time someone was willing to pick you over me."

Sheldon felt tears well up in his eyes as the part of himself he had sectioned off so many years ago spoke. Could it be true he wondered, it had been decades since his first owner had chosen Jim over Sheldon. The two halves of Sheldon's psyche separated after that and wagged a war. But over the years Sheldon forgot all about Jim and allowed him full run of the story printed on his pages, Sheldon had to take a step back as all the memories of competing and losing, of Jim taunting him, of Jim playing on his owner's weakness. Sheldon knew instantly that Jim had protected him from Penny's co-star a year ago. Sheldon knew that he really loved Penny and that Jim seemed to feel the same way and was mad at Sheldon for allowing her to leave, "What can I do now, she is gone forever. I know I messed up but maybe it's time we join back together." Sheldon suggested sheepishly, Jim's smile erased the decades of pain. The last thing before the bright flash that Sheldon remembered was offering Jim his hand.

Penny's Point of View

Ireland had been good for Penny; she enjoyed the countryside and had finally taken up writing. The time away had allowed her to work out her issues with her parents, and love. While she hadn't started dating she had almost gone a few dates. Penny found that as the months dragged on, she truly missed Sheldon, by that time she could no longer deny that what they had was real, but they had both hurt each other too much. Penny was also fairly certain that Sheldon would have a new owner by now. Realizing that she had truly lost the great love of her life Penny threw all her time and energy into writing, her first series was about a man who seemed to fall in love with every women that he met and the one woman who changed all that. The series was a best seller worldwide, she was already on her second book tour when she was invited to speak at small bookstore just outside of Houston Texas, the owner seemed very passionate about her books, Penny agreed after the two hour long conversation was wrapping it, the man seemed to be a very neat person and they had a lot in common.

Two weeks later Penny's plane landed and she made her way towards baggage claim, thankful that Dublin international did its customs checks before international flights.(* A/N they seriously do this I have flown out twice) Penny searched the names written on various papers scanning twice before she dropped her bags and put her hand to her mouth, written in bright colors was Queen P.

Haha…another cliff hanger… I know I am evil… anyway just one more chapter; which will be the epilogue. please review