A/N: Sorry it took so long. I was hoping to get this done yesterday but things just didn't work out. And when I was typing my written work, I changed some things that I had written so I hope you enjoy. I am trying to make the characters as true to life as possible but they are getting a bit OOC.

I don't own it.

Sandy Fowler made her way up the stairs to apartment 4A. She was not pleased. Her husband had refused to come with her. He did not want to meet Sheldon under these circumstances. It wouldn't be fair to him or Amy. Besides he trusted his daughter. If she was comfortable with the agreement then so was he.

She knocked on the door to 4A and was greeted by Leonard.

"Good morning Mrs. Fowler." He said in greeting. "How are you today?"

"Good morning Leonard. I'm doing as well as can be expected considering. How are you?"

"I'm fine. Everything is set up for you on my computer. Mary will be back any moment from church."

"She went to church? Why would she do that? The kids are calling at 11. It's now 10:30, will she be back in time?"

"She left at 8:30; I actually expected her back by now."

Just as Sandy was about to reply, the door opened and Mary walked inside.

"Oh, good morning Sandy. I trust you are well this morning." She said brightly.

"Well is not the word I would use." She answered her.

"I don't understand why you wouldn't be. It is a beautiful morning the Lord has granted us with today."

"Aren't you the least bit apprehensive about the call we are about to receive?" She asked her.

"Now I am not the one who should be feeling that way. It should be our children, but knowing my Shelly there is a perfectly good explanation as to why he needs an agreement to be in a relationship with your daughter."

"Oh I am pretty sure I am aware of the reason. It is to control Amy. She is very naïve when it comes to relationships having never really been in one. I'm sure he was able to manipulate her into signing it. Tell me Mary, how many girlfriends has your son done this to before?" She asked angrily.

"Now wait just a minute." Mary answered back. "My son is not controlling your daughter. He has his quirks. He likes order in his life and I am sure this is just another piece of his ordered life. I am sure he just thinks of this as another way to keep the order."

"Yes by controlling Amy!"

Leonard had gone back to his room to get ready to leave but he soon heard the two women arguing. He thought he should go back and check to see what was happening. When he got back to the living room he saw to very angry women staring each other down.

"My son is not controlling. I raised him better than that. The one we should be worried about is Amy. What kind of girl pushes a man into living with her? We have a name for women like her in my church."

"How dare you!" Sandy screamed at Mary. "My Amy is not that kind of girl. I am sure she has a good reason to want to live with Sheldon."

"Yes to sin, that…" But Leonard cut her off.

"Ladies!" He interrupted. "This is not the time to be fighting or name calling. You need to pull it together. This is not going to help anything."

"Stay out of this Leonard." Mary said to him. "This is not your concern."

"It is my concern as you are fighting over two very dear friends of mine. And I do know what is going on. If you continue to fight you will not get any respect from either of them."

"If you know what is going on why don't you enlighten us." Sandy interjected.

"Now I promised them last night that I would not get involved in their personal affairs. It is up to them how much they share with you, not me. They have a perfectly good explanation; you need to trust me on this one. The fighting will not help you. It will solve nothing."

"Maybe you are right." Mary said. "Let's see what Sheldon and Amy have to say before jumping to any conclusions."

"I suppose I can wait for the details of the agreement." Sandy agreed.

"Good, then if you two are okay, I will be taking my leave. I will be right across the hall at Penny's if you need me for anything."

"Thank you Leonard." Mary said to him.

As soon as he left the computer chimed indicating the call coming in from them. Sandy hit the answer button and Sheldon and Amy appeared on the screen.

"Good morning, mom." Amy said to her mother as she appeared on the screen.

"Good morning, Amy, Sheldon." Sandy said to them. "It is good to see you."

Sheldon and Mary exchanged pleasant greetings as well.

"Well I am sure you are aware of the reason we called you this morning." Sheldon addressed them both.

"Yes and I believe both Sandy and I have a few questions." Mary answered him.

"I am sure you do. But we would first like you to hear our side of the story. We are aware of what you have been told. If after our explanation you still have questions we will be happy to answer them for you. Is this acceptable?"

"Yes." They both answered at once.

Amy started the story about how they had met and how at first they were just friends. She explained how they had a relationship of the mind. She then reminded them both of how they each had met the other.

"Sheldon had apparently lost his mind over our fight, mom. I had to see it for myself." She recalled.

"I did not lose my mind over you. I simply bought 25 cats since they don't argue with a person or question their intellectual authority."

"Oh Shelly, call it what you want, but it was a little creepy. I was so glad Leonard had called me to tell me you had girl troubles. I even asked if she was a real girl, not something you guys cooked up in the lab. After I met Amy, I knew she was perfect for you. I had never met someone so unique in all my life. She was so equally matched for you. But if I had come out and told you, you would never have seen it at all. I had to do something to get you to be friends with her."

"Yes mom we know. You used reverse psychology to get me to become her friend again. Pretty sneaky stuff there don't you think? Although I can't say I am complaining now." He said to her and gave Amy's hand a squeeze. She smiled at him. "But anyway, go ahead and continue, Amy."

"Thank you Sheldon. Shortly after we rekindled our friendship, you were pestering me to go on another date. This time it was with that guy Steve from your work. I had no intention of going on another date for awhile. Dad called and warned me you were on the match making hunt again. He asked me about my relationship with Sheldon. I explained to him that we were only friends but he suggested I ask him to pose as my boyfriend and then maybe you would back off for a bit. As Sheldon had never before met a mother he had no idea what to do or how to act so I coached him on what to say. We know how well that went. He is a terrible liar and I am surprised you even bought any of it at all."

"Why what did he say?" Mary was curious.

"He told me that they had sex like wild animals. He ended the call by telling me it was time to make love to my daughter's vagina. It was terrifying."

"Sheldon!" Mary admonished him.

"It was what Amy told me to say."

"Not in those words, but anyway, I later told my mom it was a hoax and that I was not interested in going out with anyone. I had a perfectly acceptable male companion who was just a friend but would go almost anywhere with me. He even accompanied me to a wedding. So I didn't need a boyfriend when I had such a good friend in Sheldon. We even did a little experiment with our friends to see how quickly gossip could spread around."

"That was fun." Sheldon said.

"Well anyway, my feelings for him started to change about a year after we met. I wasn't sure why but I knew I wanted to be more than just friends. One night when we went out on a girl's night, in which Sheldon tagged along, I kissed him. Well at least that is what he said. I don't remember much about that evening. I used poor judgment and had a bit too much to drink. Before you say anything mom I should have listened to you. I have never drank that much again. I don't remember the kiss at all. I have little flashes every now and then about that night."

"You definitely kissed me." Sheldon teased.

"Yes well we rebooted our relationship back to where we both agreed it worked. Sometime later that year, I decided things with Sheldon were not progressing at a pace I wanted. We were kind of dating but we had not made it official. My friends pointed out to me if I wasn't happy with it maybe I needed to make a change. So when Stuart from the comic book store asked me out, they encouraged me to go out with him. I wasn't sure but I agreed."

"I knew they influenced that decision."

"The night of Stuart and my second date, Sheldon showed up and asked me to be his girlfriend. I had been waiting for so long for him to ask I readily agreed."

"Let me be clear on this." Sandy said. "You were on a date with another man and Sheldon interrupted the date to ask you to be his girlfriend and you said yes."

"It may not have been my finest moment, but like I said I had waited for that moment for so long, it felt right. Stuart was not right for me. He is a really nice guy but not nearly up to my intellectual standards. We finished our date and Stuart walked me to the apartment where we found Sheldon waiting for me." She left the part out about him being in the apartment. She didn't want to freak her mom out more than she already was. "It was then he showed me the Relationship Agreement. It was 31 pages long. I knew he had been working on it for some time. Now I am going to let Sheldon take over this part since he wrote the agreement and has his reasons for wanting it."

"Now this is the part we have been waiting to hear." Sandy said while Mary nodded.

Sheldon took a deep breath. When he agreed he would explain the logic behind the agreement, he didn't think he would be this nervous. He had written it and had wanted it. It only made sense that he be the one to tell this part of the story.

"Let me first explain that my feelings for Amy as more than a friend began to change around the time she took Leonard to a wedding. Now before anyone jumps to conclusions, after the first one we went to she didn't want to go to another with me. I told her to ask Leonard. He was in a long distance relationship with Raj's sister Priya at the time so I didn't think I had anything to worry about. But he came home and said he had a great time with her. She really got him to loosen up. Then he made a remark about his groin being injured somehow. I jumped to the conclusion that they had engaged in coitus and I karate chopped in the shoulder. After hearing the explanation later, I felt foolish. He apparently pulled something dancing. Anyway, that is when I began writing the agreement. I didn't want her to be with anyone else but me. I didn't see it as likely, but I couldn't be sure. But I kept it from her because she never seemed to be interested in anyone else. Except that time with Zack, but that's a different story. So I began typing up what I would want if she was my girlfriend. It sounds silly, but I like order in my life. Having a girlfriend was not going to change that. So after the wedding, things got back to normal. We went everywhere together. Like she said earlier, it was like we were dating but had no title to go with it. So you can imagine my surprise when she agreed to go out with Stuart. I was beyond upset. I took it out on anyone who would cross my path. I even asked Penny out on a date in a vain attempt to make her jealous."

"You did?" Amy interrupted.

"I'm surprised she didn't tell you. So after that first date she had with him, I finished the relationship agreement. I had to tell her I didn't like the idea of her dating other men. But I had no idea how to do that. The agreement at the time was a safety net for me. It really didn't change anything about our relationship with the exception of date nights. I reserved one night a month. Now before you get on my case about that, I know it was stupid. That was the one night we would go out just us. Even though we did many things just the two of us, I put aside a time to go out wherever we decided together. No one else was to join us."

"Ha!" Amy interrupted again.

"Please don't remind me again." He pleaded with her.

"What?" Mary asked.

"Well I guess now I don't have a choice do I?" He said. Amy just smiled at him. "On the night of our second anniversary I invited our friend Raj. I brought him so he could keep her occupied. Not my finest moment, may I say? So anyway, after she almost left me that night, I knew never to try and find a loophole in the agreement again. To continue, the agreement also had a section for being sick, we will take care of each other if we fall ill. We are to give each other notice for a pending trip, 72 hours notice and there were protocol to follow. I violated that the weekend of that birthday party I was suppose to attend. I wanted to play a video game with my friends even though Amy had followed every part of the agreement in arranging the trip. I got out of it by being a jerk. I used it as a way to get my way. Then the physical side of our relationship. At the beginning there was going to be no physical contact at all. Amy had made it clear the day we met that she was not interested in a physical relationship. I was happy to accommodate that. I didn't realize she had changed her mind about that though. So our agreement, had no room for physical touch at all."

"I'm curious, what do you mean Amy had made it clear she didn't want physical contact." Sandy asked them.

"On my first date with men I would tell them that all forms of physical contact up to and including coitus were off the table."

"You didn't?"

"Yes I did. Why do you think I never had a second date? When I said that to Sheldon he bought me a beverage. It did not turn him off at all. We talked for 3 hours the day we met and I got his phone number. Something that had never happened with those other guys."

"Of course not, most guys don't want to hear you are not interested in sex." Mary interjected. "My Shelly was raised to respect a woman so you probably turned him on in your own way."

"Things started to change in the physical end of our relationship around the time our friend Howard went to space. When his rocket took off I grabbed Amy's hand. Let me tell you that is a big step for me. She has been negotiating with me ever since. I have accommodated it because I need to be pushed in that direction. And Mrs. Fowler, I am a germaphobe. Most of the women I have met want a physical relationship. Amy was different when we met. I didn't like to touch people. So the thought of exchanging fluids through kissing and bodily fluids through other means seemed unnecessary. Since she felt the same I added it to the agreement. We have changed so much from hand holding to cuddling to even kissing because of her. I know this agreement seems like I was controlling Amy, and as I look back on it, I agree. It was my way of making sure she wouldn't leave me again. Maybe I did lose my mind when she walked out of my life that first time. I couldn't have that happen again. I am not a fan of you had asked me 10 years ago if I ever thought I would be travelling with my girlfriend, I would have laughed at you for even beginning to believe I would allow myself to be in this kind of relationship. My friends didn't know what I was. Was I asexual, homosexual or a robot. It's true. I know what they thought. I just never joined in their conversations about that topic, but only because I didn't have time for it. My first love has always been science. I didn't think I had time for anything else. Then I met Amy. My Meemaw used to tell me that there was someone out there for me. I used to laugh because I wasn't interested. She told me she was never either until she met my Pop Pop. She was never getting married ever, and then he swept her of her feet. I loved that story, but I didn't believe her. Now I do. Amy has changed me and I have accepted that change. This is why we have decided to get rid of our agreement as of last night."

"Wait, what?" They asked.

"Amy and I have broken so many of the clauses in that thing this week alone that we decided no harm has come from it and we are happier because of the things we have done."

"Which is what exactly?" Mary asked.

"Not your business, Mary." Amy said. "Or yours, mom." She quickly added when she saw her mom open her mouth.

"Thank you Amy. Now we came on this trip to figure some things out. One of them being our relationship. We know you know we had a fight last week. Amy had extremely bad timing. I had a rough day and I then said some things to her that were hurtful. I am just glad she has forgiven me. What we have decided is to see how things go on this trip before making any decisions about where we will live. I know mom this is not what you want to hear. But let me remind you how many significant others Missy and George have lived with and you didn't cause this much of a scene. I know that you think I need your guidance with things and that was true and still is to a point. But now I have a girlfriend whom I love dearly and she is going to be my guide if you can accept that. You have to trust me to make these decisions."

"I trust you Sheldon. And I know how much you love Amy. I can see it by the way you look at her and by the way you are defending her."

"And I trust you Amy. I know I have been controlling, but I really do think you have a good man here. He truly loves you."

"And I love him mom."

"Well now that we have all this settled. We still have a lot of things to work out and we need the space. We will keep in touch but we ask that you let us call you and not the other way around. Our friends have agreed to that as well."

"I think we can handle that. You are adults after all." Sandy said and Mary nodded in agreement.

"Well then we are going to sign off and we will call you when we reach our next destination." Sheldon said.

"Goodbye." They all said at once and the call was disconnected.

"Well that went better than expected." Amy said to him

"Let's just hope they understand our wishes." He said.

"Oh I think they will."

A/N: I think they set their moms straight don't you? Well let me know if you don't, I can handle it. Your reviews help me think clearly.