Sheldon looked like he had just been punched
'You cried yourself to sleep?'
'Did you sleep the night I told you I needed a break?'
'No'
'Me neither, except I have 5 years of frustrations built up and I go through the list at night and I start crying and then I reach a point when I'm too exhausted and fall asleep'
'You have a list?'
'A mental one, yes'
'What's in it?'
'Things that happened that hurt me'
'Name the worst' He needed to hear from her what has been the worst thing he has ever done to her
'No'
'Please'
'No. You and that memory of yours should know'
'I need to hear it from you'
'Fine. It was when you said that touching me was such a burden that you wished you never had to do it again. This was..'
'Two weeks ago.' He cut her mid sentence, looked at her and saw a tear rolling down her cheek, she quickly whipped it, hoping he didn't notice it. She got up from the couch and looked at him
'It's two in the afternoon, you should go home'
He took his phone from his pocket and dialled a number 'Hello, just to inform you that I'll be staying at Amy's tonight. Bye'
'What? I didn't tell you you could stay! Nor that I wanted you to!'
'After what you just told me, I am not leaving this house for a while'
'I'm going grocery shopping, I've been living on Olivia Pope diet and since you're not leaving I'll need to make some proper food. Make yourself at home, I shouldn't be long. Not taking my phone with me, need to think.' And she was out the door. Then he called Leonard again
'Why are you staying at Amy's?' He was obviously concerned on why he'd use his vacation day and stay at Amy's in the same day
'This is much worse than I though, Leonard. I didn't realise things were this bad, I've hurt her several times and I didn't even notice. I need this solved.'
'Okay, take care buddy.'
He hung up his call and left the couch for the first time in hours, opened the fridge and all that was inside were some eggs and four bottles of wine.
Why does she have this much wine? He thought
Crossed the living room and stared at those TARDIS doors, how he wished he had one in that moment to go back two weeks and take back those words. He opened them and entered her bedroom, he felt weird being there without her but he was still comfortable. He went to her nightstand and turned the frame around and it wasn't the photo he thought it was, he had never seen that one before. He was in his spot talking to Amy , who was in her also in her spot, and he was smiling at her, from the quality of the photo he assumed Penny or Raj had taken it with their phones and sent it to her.
He sat on her bed and leaned backwards until he his back was fully on the bed, so he stretched his arms and when he moved his hands he felt a paper under one of her pillows, and due to it's location he was curious, so he unfolded it and there it was, the picture he had been looking for, folded in two and hidden. He heard the doors open.
'I'm back. Sheldon?'
'TARDIS doors' He realised he had been there for over half an hour and didn't even notice, when she opened the doors he had two questions for her.
'Why haven't I seen this photo before and why is our picture folded and hidden?'
She inhaled deeply and then exhaled
'Penny took it with her phone two weeks ago and emailed it to me, I got it printed and put it there. About the other question, with all I told you today I think it's easy to understand why it's folded and in that spot.'
'Was that when..'
'Yup' She didn't let him finish his sentence
'So this was before?'
'Yes, in case you don't remember, I left quite early that night'
'Right, you had a headache.'
'I lied. I wasn't going to stay there, specially knowing I'd break down sooner or later, so I came home'
'We looked happy'
'Yeah.. You can have it if you want, I can always print another copy.'
'I'll take it before I go home.'
'They decided to make a snack, since it was past three in the afternoon, it was far too late for lunch.
They sat on the couch eating a sandwich and Amy had a glass of wine in her hand
'Why do you have four bottles of wine in your fridge?'
'I told you, I've been on Olivia Pope diet'
'On what?'
'It's from a show I started watching a few months ago, one of the characters' usual meal is popcorn and wine and I've been like that for about a week and a half.'
'Oh okay'
The rest of the afternoon was awkward, they sat in complete silence watching Matt Smith's last season in Doctor Who. When they reached the last episode Amy started crying
'Are you okay?' He wasn't sure about why she was crying
'Yeah, I'll miss him though, he's my favourite. Capaldi is great too, but the 11th will always be my favourite'
He smiled.
