A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews! That was seriously the hardest chapter I've ever written; it was just so awkward lol! But the fact you all liked it made my day, and it made me laugh reading the reviews. Thanks again, you lot are the best!
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Two more weeks had passed, and today was the day when Amy was going to find out whether the twins were boys, girls or one of each.
She patiently waited for Sheldon to meet her at home before they travelled to the doctors together.
He turned up six minutes early as they waited for the cab.
Amy's baby bump had gotten so big now that Sheldon hadn't wanted her to drive for safety reasons, and she had been more than happy to agree.
Being 20 weeks pregnant with twins was putting strain on Amy's back and legs, so she was resting a lot of the time, which also meant early maternity leave.
"Ugh…I wish I could just go to sleep and then wake up when they're born." She complained, rubbing her swollen stomach.
"You're halfway there." Sheldon replied, kissing her cheek. "Another 20 weeks and they'll be here."
"Actually it will be less than that," Amy replied. "Twins are usually born earlier than one baby would be."
"Oh." Sheldon suddenly felt nervous. "You don't mean like this soon, do you?"
"Oh no way!" Amy shook her head. "Maybe 35 weeks; something like that. But no matter how early they're born, do you realize that when I'm seven and a half months pregnant, it will be our one year wedding anniversary, and I won't even be able to celebrate!"
Sheldon frowned.
"I thought we would just celebrate by ourselves, with some take out, maybe share a bubble bath together if you'd like that…"
Amy blinked at him. "Really?"
"Well, if you would like to."
"Honestly Sheldon, I'd love for that to be a normal day with you. But our first anniversary should be a big deal." Amy looked sad. "Stupid pregnancy!"
Sheldon had an idea, instantly.
He considered sharing his idea with Amy but decided not to.
At that moment, Amy received a text.
"The cab's here."
She gathered up her bag and jacket, as she and Sheldon left the building.
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"So what are you hoping for?" Dr Farrow asked, squeezing the gel onto Amy's abdomen.
"Just two healthy babies." Sheldon said. "Gender is irrelevant."
"Yeah, we haven't spoken about it." Amy replied, "We never even thought about whether we wanted a boy or girl. It never crossed our minds, to be honest."
Dr Farrow smiled. "You two are going to be fantastic parents. I can tell already."
Amy and Sheldon grinned at each other as they waited.
"There's the first baby." Dr Farrow announced, rolling the wand over one side.
The sound of two heartbeats echoed through the room, as the image of the first twin filled the screen.
Dr Farrow took some screen grabs on the monitor.
The baby was very active, responding to the vibrations coming from the wand over Amy's stomach.
"Do you want to find out the sex of the babies today?" Dr Farrow asked.
Amy looked at Sheldon.
He pushed his lips to the side, and wrinkled his nose. "It would help for buying clothes and baby stuff..." He said, eventually.
Amy nodded. "Yeah that's true. We'd like to know." She agreed.
"Okay…Well this one is a girl." Dr Farrow announced.
She moved the wand to the other side, where the second baby was blowing bubbles.
Sheldon was watching the monitor and laughed. "We have a joker here!"
Dr Farrow laughed and replied; "We see a lot of cheeky babies blowing bubbles in utero. It's not uncommon."
"Ah, a cheeky little fox. Like mother like child." Sheldon smiled.
"Hey! At least it's breathing." Amy added, chuckling.
She lightly patted her bump, and baby number two moved in response.
Dr Farrow laughed. "You have a couple of smarty-pants in there!"
"So what's the sex of this baby?" Sheldon asked.
"I don't know, it won't move its legs." Dr Farrow replied. "Tap again, Amy. See if it responds."
Amy tapped lightly on the side of her stomach, and the baby responded.
"Got it!" Dr Farrow replied. "Ready?"
"Ready." Sheldon and Amy replied.
"Two girls." Dr Farrow announced as she printed out the scan photos. "Congratulations!"
"Aww!" Amy squealed excitedly.
"I'm outnumbered!" Sheldon grinned.
"Is that a problem?" Amy giggled, "It's a little late to exchange one! I'm past the thirty-day guarantee."
Sheldon laughed. "Not a problem at all. That just means you aren't the only woman in my life anymore."
"Surprisingly, I'm okay with that." Amy replied as she sat up and kissed him lovingly on the lips, as they both placed their hands on her stomach.
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That evening, Penny and Bernadette met with Amy at Penny's apartment for a Girls' Night.
"I'd like to raise a toast to Amy, and of course Sheldon, to congratulate them on expecting twin girls!" Penny grinned, as she held up her glass. "Two cute, tiny new additions to Girls' Night!"
"To Amy and Sheldon!" Bernadette repeated, as the three women clinked their glasses.
As soon as Amy had told her friends the news, they had squealed excitedly and arranged a special pink themed Girls' Night.
There were pink balloons, mostly pink snacks, and Penny had even bought some Pink Lemonade for all of them, and hidden away all the alcohol in her apartment.
"If Amy can't drink, then neither can we." She had said, as she poured the pink lemonade into the glasses earlier that evening.
"Thank you Penny." Amy smiled, "This is so cool! What should we do?"
"I think we should play Truth or Dare!" Bernadette grinned. "Amy gets to answer first because it's her night…So Amy, truth or dare?"
"Truth." Amy answered.
"Okay, I have one for ya!" Penny said, "How big is Sheldon?"
Amy frowned. "Uh he's 6ft 2…"
"No we already know that. We mean…You know…How big is his…"
"Oh!" Amy's eyes flew wide. "I'm not telling you that! He would kill me."
"You have to tell." Bernadette laughed. "It's the rules!"
Amy shifted uncomfortably. "Can I use a visual aid?"
"You're not gonna get him to drop his pants are you?" Penny frowned.
"No way! That's for my eyes, and my eyes only! No… you know what they say about hands?" Amy asked.
"Yeah…"
Amy held one hand up, and made an 'L' shape with it. "Distance from his thumb to the top of his index finger."
She put her hand down and whipped out her phone, sending a text.
"You'll see what I mean." She said, as she placed he phone back down.
The girls frowned, but then they heard the door over the hall open, before Sheldon's signature knock sounded at Penny's door.
Penny stood to answer it.
"Hi Penny, hi Bernadette... Amy, here are the chips you asked me to bring over." Sheldon said, stepping in. "Do you need anything else?"
"Actually, yes. Could you make the loser sign at these two?" Amy asked.
Sheldon frowned. "Why?"
"Because they lost at a game we were playing." Amy lied, smoothly.
"Oh…Sure."
He obliged, and the girl's mouths fell wide open.
Amy grinned smugly, as Sheldon dropped a kiss on her lips. "Love you Amy, see you later. Bye losers!"
And with that, he had exited Penny's apartment and gone back to 4A.
"Holy crap!" Penny commented. "No wonder he's the horse in your roleplay!"
Amy raised her eyebrows and winked. "So…Who's next?"
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Over the hall, Sheldon had sat back down in his spot, as Howard pulled out his phone and played the whip sound app on his phone.
Raj and Leonard giggled.
"Grow up, Wolowitz." Sheldon replied, tiredly.
"She text you just to ask you to take some chips over the hall for her, and you did. You know the drill." Howard replied.
"So if Bernadette was pregnant, you wouldn't cater to her needs?" Sheldon asked.
"Yeah Howard. Wouldn't you?" Leonard asked, suddenly changing sides.
"Well, yes, but…"
At that, Leonard played the whip sound on his own phone, making Raj and Sheldon laugh this time.
Howard just glared.
"So, I bet you're excited, huh Sheldon?" Raj asked. "Having two baby girls; that's two more women that will have you wrapped around their fingers."
"He could look at it that way," Leonard nodded, "Or he could look at it as two more women that won't sleep with you."
Sheldon glared at Leonard, as Howard was sent into hysterics.
"Those are my daughters you're talking about." Sheldon warned.
"Yeah Leonard!" Raj retorted, "And just for the record, they would love to sleep with me; I'm like a forbidden piece of foreign fruit."
Sheldon cast his glare to Raj now. "I am warning you all. If one more sexual remark is made about my unborn daughters, I won't hesitate to hurt you."
"Oooh!" Raj and Howard mocked.
Leonard remained silent, knowing fully well what would happen.
"Well I guess they could look up to Raj as another daddy figure…A sugar daddy!" Howard joked.
"Don't you mean a brown sugar daddy?" Raj corrected.
They both laughed out loud, missing Sheldon's angered expression.
"You're going to pay for that…"
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"Okay, Penny chose dare…" Bernadette said, as she and Amy leaned forward. "Penny, I dare you to…"
Bernadette was cut off by yelling from across the hall.
The girls all frowned at each other.
"What in the world?" Amy said, as they all stood up and made their way across the hall.
Opening the door, Amy squealed and recoiled, almost falling over.
Penny caught her and steadied her, as they watched Sheldon, Howard and Raj all rolling on the floor, swiping at each other.
At long last, Sheldon had managed to pin them both down.
Leonard was still sat in his chair, acting like nothing was happening.
He looked up.
"Oh, hi ladies." He raised his eyebrows. "To be fair, he did warn them to stop."
"Wait, what's going on?" Penny demanded.
"They made sexual remarks about mine and Amy's unborn babies. I told them to stop, and they didn't. So now they are facing the consequences." Sheldon explained, throwing his head back to avoid Howard's hand which was flying towards his face.
"Howard, what did you say about Sheldon and Amy's little girls?" Bernadette growled, folding her arms.
"Nothing." Howard croaked.
"Fine, I'll just leave you here so Sheldon can strangle you." Bernie shrugged, as she turned around.
"Okay, okay…I'll tell you." Howard said.
He told Bernadette what he and Raj had said, and the girls' eyes all flew wide.
"Howie! How could you!" Bernadette roared.
"Oh no they did not!" Amy added, angrily.
"Yeah Sheldon, you tear them apart!" Penny added.
"Howard, Raj…You can't go around saying things like that about people's children! How would you like it if someone said that about our children? If we ever have them, that is." Bernadette shook her head.
"I'd kill them." Howard replied.
Bernadette raised an eyebrow.
"Well, I'd hack their computer at least, and leave a very harmful virus." Howard corrected.
"Stop talking!" Sheldon snapped. "Which reminds me, Leonard. Don't sit there all smug; you made a remark too. Your turn will come when I'm done with these two!"
"Wait, you said something too?" Penny folded her arms.
"Yeah, but it wasn't to insult Sheldon or Amy or their babies; it was more of an insult to Raj. Either way Sheldon, I'm very sorry that I said it." Leonard said.
"Okay…You're forgiven." Sheldon sighed, as Raj and Howard tried to wriggle free.
Sheldon tightened his grip. "I don't think so. Remember how many times I've beaten you both at arm wrestling? I may not have much upper body strength compared to other men, but against you two, there's really no competition."
"Look, Sheldon. We're truly sorry about what we said. We'd never do anything inappropriate to your daughters." Howard said, eventually, and Sheldon reluctantly let them go.
"Right Raj?" Howard nudged his best friend as he dusted himself off.
"Of course." Raj nodded. "Not until they're like eighteen anyway."
"Oh, that is it!" Sheldon raged, as he chased Raj out of the apartment and down the flights of stairs.
Everyone gathered at the top of the stairs, and heard what sounded like Raj being tackled to the floor, and the two men rolling down the stairs, exchanging heated words.
Leonard finally waltzed over to join the rest of the group, shaking his head.
"So…Girl's Night going well?" He asked Penny, breaking the stunned silence.
"Yeah. We had some nice food, played truth or dare, saw some good entertainment…" Penny replied.
Leonard nodded.
"Amy I am so sorry about those two." Bernadette apologized.
"Don't worry," Amy shrugged, "It's kind of nice to see Sheldon defending his family."
At that moment, Sheldon emerged on the staircase, limping a little, with messed up hair and bruises.
Raj followed him, looking even worse, with a cut lip and a black eye.
"Say it." Sheldon said breathlessly, as he folded his arms, swaying a little.
"I'm sorry that I made inappropriate comments about your daughters. It was wrong of me and I would never lay a finger on them." Raj said.
"And…?"
Raj sighed. "And Sheldon Cooper is the alpha male, and I am his lowly minion."
Sheldon nodded, triumphantly as he stalked into the apartment before falling over and passing out, as Raj fainted next to him shortly after.
Leonard shook his head. "Unbelievable."
Amy raised her eyebrows. "And that's the father of my children..."