Upon arriving at the hospital, Amy had been sent straight through to have a scan and run some tests. After a short while, the doctor returned to her for the final time.
"Well Amy, it is just Braxton Hicks. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do other than relax and get through it. If you have something in particular that soothes you, then make sure you do it so that you can relax." The doctor told her.
Amy sighed with relief. "Thank God."
"Braxton Hicks prepare you for real life contractions, so this time it wasn't the real thing. This means unfortunately you will have to go back home again."
"That's fine, I'm sorry for wasting your time." She said.
"Amy, please don't apologize. You did the right thing and wasted nobody's time. If Braxton Hicks are painful, of course you should consult someone. If you get any kind of bleeding or discharge, come straight back." The doctor said.
"I will. Thank you Doctor."
Amy, Sheldon and Penny all piled back into Penny's car.
"Do you want to go back to your party or do you want to go home?" Penny asked.
Amy looked at Sheldon.
"Home please." Amy replied.
"Of course sweetie, I'll go back and explain to the others what happened. They're all here until the weekend, so you can always see them at some point before then." Penny smiled.
As Penny dropped Amy and Sheldon back at the apartment building, Amy thanked her best friend.
"No problem, you just focus on getting some rest." Penny smiled.
Sheldon walked with Amy up the stairs and unlocked the apartment door, where Scooby came rushing over, barking excitedly.
Sheldon fed him, before flopping back in his spot, sighing and loosening his tie.
Amy had gone into the bedroom and emerged minutes later with two packages and a card for Sheldon.
"Happy Anniversary." She smiled.
Sheldon opened his card and then moved onto the flat package.
He pulled out the frame and grinned when he saw the wedding photos from Florida, and then he spotted the 3D scan pictures. "Wait…Are they…?"
Amy nodded. "The twins, yes."
"You got a 3D scan?"
"Yep." Amy smiled.
"I can almost make out their faces! Wow…" Sheldon marvelled. "They're perfect."
"Don't forget your other present!" Amy grinned, patting the wrapping paper.
"Oh, of course! Sorry…" Sheldon replied as he carefully placed the photo frame down next to him.
He tore open the wrapping and gasped. "You got me a custom made suit?!"
"Look on the breast pocket." Amy smiled.
Sheldon looked and widened his eyes. "The Flash logo! Oh Amy, thank you!" He hugged her tight before releasing her and trying on the blazer over his shirt.
"It's the perfect size!" He said.
"Yeah, Leonard gave me your measurements." Amy responded. "I'm just sorry that my gifts to you aren't up to scratch with the ones you got me…Plus the ceremony and the prom theme." She said, putting a hand to her new necklace.
"Amy, these are perfect. I'm not worried about monetary value, and you completely deserved today. It's the least I could do after all the things you always did for me." Sheldon said, seriously. "Besides…You're giving me two healthy daughters and the rest of your life, and that's all I really want."
..
Amy was sitting in the living room that weekend, reading a magazine and eating white fudge Flipz with Scooby lazing next to her, when she heard a crash come from the back of the apartment.
Scooby jumped out of his skin, and Amy rose to her feet, wandering out the back to explore.
"Sheldon?"
"In here."
She walked into Leonard's former room and found Sheldon struggling with one of the cribs.
"I may need some help. Please could you call Leonard?" Sheldon asked.
Amy smiled and folded her arms.
"I seem to remember a couple of months ago, you saying: 'they look easy to assemble.' About these very cribs!"
"Amy, please?" Sheldon asked again.
"Alright, I'll be right back." She walked out of the room and picked up her cell phone to text Leonard.
Within minutes he was over. "Hey Amy. Where is he?" Leonard asked.
"In your old room." She replied.
Leonard smiled and nodded, as the two of them walked back to the back bedrooms.
"Oh good Leonard, you're here. Can you help me?" Sheldon asked.
"Sure. What's wrong?" Leonard knelt down, peering at the diagrams.
"Well, it says here to slot piece B onto piece A. I did, but it doesn't look right, and it fell apart." Sheldon replied, high-pitched. "It's not working!"
"Okay, okay, calm down." Leonard said, "You put this part round the wrong way, and of course it would fall apart; you need to put screws in it to hold it together!"
"Oh…"
"Give it here." Leonard said, taking what was meant to be the bottom of the crib, and one of the side railings. He turned the side railing over and slotted the thin part into the correct slot on the bottom of the crib, and screwed it all in place. "There. What next?"
"The bottom end." Sheldon replied, reading the diagram whilst holding up some smaller wooden railings.
"I'm going to make a drink, would you two like anything?" Amy asked.
"Water please." They said in unison.
Amy wandered into the kitchen and switched the kettle on, and then took two bottles of water out of the fridge from the large cardboard crate of bottled water they kept in there.
She grabbed a plastic plate from the cupboard and tipped some cookies onto it, before taking the refreshments back into the bedroom.
"Thank you." The two men said, appreciatively.
They had managed to build the crib by now, and just needed to add the legs and the baby mattress before starting on the second one.
"How are you after yesterday?" Leonard asked, looking up at Amy.
"Better thank you. The pains died down after a while and then just completely vanished." She replied.
"Yes, and then we decided it wouldn't be right if we didn't engage in coitus on our anniversary, so we had it…Twice!" Sheldon finished.
"That position that Julie taught us really is comfortable for pregnant women." Amy smiled at the thought.
"And romantic." Sheldon finished.
"Definitely romantic." Amy agreed.
"Um, guys…I'd rather not hear more about your sex life thank you. Not after last time." Leonard said, as he screwed one of the legs into place.
"Sorry. Hey Sheldon, is there anything I can do to help here?" Amy asked.
"Oh no, we've got it." He replied, smiling kindly at her.
"Oh…"
"Why don't you relax, Vixen? We'll be finished soon so I can join you."
"Sure." Amy replied, feeling useless.
She sighed and turned to walk away, when Sheldon stopped her.
"On second thought…You could help by making a list of things we still need to get."
Amy grinned. "Great!" She walked into hers and Sheldon's room to pick up a notebook and pen, before returning to the nursery room and seating herself on Leonard's old bed.
The bed was sold, and waiting to be picked up in the next few days, so Amy made the most of it, curling her legs up beside her.
"We need a changing station and changing mat." She said aloud, "We need a baby bath or two…diaper rash cream, baby wipes, and my all-time favorite scented thing…Baby powder."
Leonard frowned. "Why do you like the smell of baby powder?"
"Allow me to answer this one," Sheldon piped up, "Amy once said that I smell like baby powder. It's actually talc, but…"
"Uh Sheldon, no it isn't." Leonard said, ignoring Sheldon's raised eyebrows which were designed to hint at his friend to stop speaking. "You use baby powder when you come out of the shower. After living with you for so many years, it was kind of hard not to see the label that you cleverly turned around in the bathroom cupboard."
Sheldon glared at Leonard.
"You just revealed my darkest secret to Amy."
"That's your darkest secret?" Amy chuckled.
"Fine, well what's yours?" Sheldon asked, folding his arms.
"You kind of already know." Amy said, "I was technically engaged before we married. Remember? The Saudi Arabian prince who funded some of my lab equipment when I worked at UCLA."
Sheldon felt like a bucket of icy water had just been tipped over him.
He swallowed. "That…I do not remember." He croaked.
How could he have forgotten that!?
"I definitely told you." Amy frowned.
"So…You were promised to another man the entire time we were together? And when we were engaged?!" Sheldon asked.
"Yes. Well, no, not really. It was just an agreement to get funding, but we never agreed to act upon it. It was just for show."
"Oh, well as long as he knows that you are now married to another man and bearing his progenies, that's fine, I suppose."
"Um…"
Sheldon shot her a look. "You haven't told him have you?"
"Well, I'm sure he…"
"So all this time, you never really belonged to me?" Sheldon asked shakily.
"Yes! I did…I do! Sheldon, I never belonged to him!" Amy promised.
"As seeing as you no longer work for UCLA, why are you not informing him?" Sheldon asked.
"I haven't had a chance to. Besides, he knows my contract ended on my terms, which terminates the agreement I had with him; I just assumed that also cut off all supposed 'ties' I had with him. He deleted me off Facebook for a start!" Amy responded. "I took down all the camel race photos, and the photos taken in Riyadh all those years ago."
Sheldon looked at her.
"Did you love him?" He asked quietly.
"No." Amy shook her head. "Never. It was literally for the funding; he offered to help me, I never went to him. I love you, Sheldon."
Sheldon was about to open his mouth and say something, but Leonard stood up.
"Okay, can I say something?" He didn't wait for a reply. "Not so long ago, Amy thought that Sheldon had some kind of history with Ramona, which he didn't. Now Sheldon thinks Amy has some kind of history with this prince guy, and she doesn't. Both of you need to quit being so paranoid; you are both each other's first everything; everyone knows that, and you know that! And damn it you are so good together. Don't let stupid things like people you never even dated get in the way. Hell, you're married and have already renewed your vows, you have two very beautiful daughters on the way…The past is the past, and nothing even happened with these people, and you both know that, so for God's sake will both of you just kiss and make up and stop being so damn paranoid over absolutely nothing?!"
Amy and Sheldon stood staring at Leonard.
"He's right." Amy spoke first. "I can tell Faisal if you want me to, but he already knows because the university told him. He also saw me change my Facebook status out in Florida. I just never told him myself because I was too busy focusing on my future with you."
Sheldon smiled. "Leonard is right. You don't need to tell this prince anything Amy. And I'm sorry for questioning you."
"I'm sorry too." Amy replied, as she and Sheldon kissed.
"Okaaay, crisis averted. Can we carry on with this nursery now?" Leonard asked, impatiently.
"Of course." Sheldon replied, breaking away from Amy's lips. "Oh, Amy…I was wondering if I could paint a superhero mural in the babies' nursery for the longest time, but as seeing as now we're having two girls, they'd need to be superheroines. Is that okay?"
Amy shrugged. "Sure, as long as you make it tasteful and try to reduce their breast sizes, so that they don't encourage our daughters to have a negative self-image when they get older, go right ahead."
Sheldon and Leonard looked at each other.
"Okay, just Supergirl logos it is!" Leonard said.
"Oh come on, we need to include Wonderwoman and Catwoman in there somewhere!" Sheldon protested. "Amy, can't we just paint them how they are?"
"No."
"But…"
"No Sheldon."
"It's safer to just paint their logos on the wall." Leonard compromised.
Sheldon sighed. "Fine…Can I at least buy them little baby Catwoman or Wonderwoman or Batgirl or Supergirl costumes?"
"They have those?" Amy asked.
"Yes, look! They're too cute." Sheldon replied, as he tapped away on his phone and showed Amy the eBay listing.
"Awww!" She grinned, "Okay, let's get one of each!"
"Yes!" Sheldon punched the air. "We are going to have the most spoilt children ever!"