A huge thank you to both Shamy4eva and Mphs95 for fixing this for me. I was not feeling very confident and they made this awesome!
Sheldon and Amy came back to 4A and were dismayed to see Leonard and Penny on the couch snuggled under a blanket.
The engaged couple both moved their necks around to look at them as they entered the apartment. "What are you two doing out so late?" Penny asks with mock innocence
"I was just helping Sheldon do his laundry." Amy said as she lifted the basket up as evidence.
"You guys were gone awhile for just doing laundry." Leonard remarks smugly turning back around to watch the movie on the television.
"All right, I see what is happening here." Sheldon said before he moved with his hands behind his back and stood in front of Leonard and Penny. "You two are attempting to imply that Amy and I engaged in in any illicit activities during our lengthy absence."
"No." Leonard said at the same time Penny yelled "Yes." and Sheldon shakes his head knowingly while Amy hangs back nervously unsure of what will come next . Sheldon gulps nervously, he would have much rather kept the whole affair private yet due to Amy's admission he knows's the cat is out of the bag. Never being adept at keeping a secret he decides that complete honesty is the best policy.
"Well, allow me to clear the air and clear up any confusion you might have. Yes, Amy and I engaged in sexual intercourse last night three times. " Penny turns around to look at Amy with a shocked look on her face and Amy holds up three fingers looking pleased with herself. Yes we did it again in the laundry room tonight. No it is not any of your business.
"Come on Amy let us go to my bedroom where we are free from ridicule."
All three watched him as he turn ed on his heel and left the room. Amy just shrugged her shoulders and started to follow him down the hall, but stopped before turning back to their best friends, who were sitting there staring with their mouth agape.
"By the way, just in case you were wondering, he is very skilled at coitus." Amy says giving a big wink and smiling like the Cheshire cat she goes to join Sheldon. She entered the bedroom and shut the door. "You shocked them."
"How could I when you said they already knew about us." Sheldon is confused.
"Yes, but I do not think they thought you would be so willing to admit it, especially about our activities in the laundry room."
"Oh I see. Would you rather have had me be more discreet?" he asks,
"No, this was so much better. To be honest it was quite satisfying to see the looks on their faces." Amy says setting the basket down and sitting on his bed.
As Sheldon starts to put his laundry away, Amy asks eagerly "So when are you going to going to show me your story? I can read it now while you finish what you are doing.
Amy set the basket down and sat on his bed while her watched Sheldon put away his laundry. "So when are you going to going to show me your story? I can read it now while you finish up." She asked eagerly.
"Tsk tsk" he said waving his finger at her before he turned his back to her. "Always so anxious. I think we should get ready for bed first and then it will be my turn to read you a bedtime story."
She is glad that he cannot see her face because she blushed furiously. "You want me to stay the night?" she gulps.
"Oh, Amy, you know I do not like it when people narrate the obvious."
He sighed before turning around and handing her the flannel top to his pajamas. "Here. "Here, since this was unplanned and, Since I doubt you brought a set of your own with you, wear that to bed."
"So, you are not going to wear a shirt." Amy asked hopefully as she starts to undress. She was looking forward to snuggling against his bare chest again.
"I will wear my undershirt with my pajama bottoms, why do you ask ?" Sheldon inquired wondering why she would even ask a question like that, he was not a caveman or a hippy. He looks over at her standing in her bra and panties, the tightness in his stomach starting to grow again as she starts to button up the shirt he had lent to her. "Do you always wear your brassiere when you sleep? Seems like it would uncomfortable to sleep in"
"No, I usually don't. " Amy admitted as she finished unbuttoning her blouse while attempting some form of modesty, although she does not know why since he has already seen everything .
"Here allow me." He says as he walked over to her and gently pulled the shirt off her shoulders. He then he unclasps her bra from the front with his fingers lightly trail down each breast as he removes it. Gulping hard, amazed by his need to close to her, the way his fingers itched to feel her skin. He is standing at full attention now, and he wonders if Amy can tell, if she knows what a tremendous affect she holds over his body.
"Hold out your arms." He says and Amy does as he asks.
Sheldon looked at her as she stood almost nude before him and gulped hard as the only thought he had was he wanted to do his devour her completely. Taking a breath, he slips the pajama shirt on her arms and begins to button it up.
His fingers trailed feather soft on each breast, causing her to tremble as he finished dressing her. Amy looked down and noted that the shirt is much too big and it comes to the top of her thighs with the sleeves hanging down well past her hands. She surreptitiously sniffed the collar and revels in the scent, it smells like him, Gain laundry detergent, and baby powder.
"I look like I shrunk rapidly." Amy remarked as she shakes her hands out of the sleeves. With shaking knees, she sat back down on the bed to steady herself.
"I think you look wonderful." Sheldon said as he begins to remove his own clothing . Amy sits on the bed riveted by the little show she is being treated to currently.
With his back to her first he removed his pants before pulling on the pajama bottoms. When done, he yanked off his shirts and placed them in the hamper.
Amy watched him as he stands there for a moment shirtless and has to sit on her hands to keep from walking over and letting her hands rove all over him.
She continued to observe as he goes to his dresser sees the muscles in his back work while he leans down to retrieve his undershirt. She desperately wants to run her finger down the line of his spine starting at the back of his neck and stopping at the small of his back. However, Sheldon turned around as he pulled the shirt on.
The tight white undershirt clings to his body showing every bulge and ripple of his slight but strong musculature. The pajama bottoms sit low on his hips. As he pulls the shirt down she can see the deep V shape made by his pelvic bone.
"Hoo!"
The noise escaped her mouth before she could stop it as Sheldon at that moment looked as sexy as she has ever seen him.
He smiles at her as he knew what that sound meant before he retrieved his IPad and got into bed. He lifted the covers and pat the space beside him. "Come on up here. It's time for your bedtime story."
Amy crawled up the bed sitting on her knees in the space next to him facing looks at her oddly before moving the covers and patting the bed indicating she should lay down. Amy does so cautiously sooting under the covers and leaning against his pillows.
"Don't be shy. Lean against me."
Amy quickly obliged leaning against his chest as he wrapped his arm around her. "Okay, let's begin."
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Cooper sits in the barn staring at the cursed hunk of metal that had brought him to this time. Cursing it not because he regretted his time here, if anything some of the best moments of his life had been here with Amelia. Yet it was because of Amelia that he was cursing it now, it was time that he told Amelia the truth.
On the night that Amelia had helped him fix the machine and he was to return to his own time he had lied. He was in the capsule set to go back when he told her he had became aware of an error in his calculations. That if he launched he could only get past a century at best, nowhere near his time. He had said that if he was going to be stuck in an unfamiliar time he would rather it be with her.
What he had told her had not technically been untrue he did not want a future without her..
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"This is not starting out to be very romantic and you don't lie." Amy interjects a little miffed.
"This isn't me. This man is your invention Cooper and he is known to tell a white lie every now and then. Additionally I have just started perhaps you better pipe down Missy and let me finish the story."
"Fine, you are right continue." Amy sighed
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Now Cooper was sure that his calculations were correct. He should have enough juice to get back into his own time, where there are not a hundred different ways to die every day or where just drinking the water here was a gamble on one's life.
Cooper missed the creature comforts of home such as hot showers whenever you wanted and not having to sneak outside and relive your bowels by sitting on a plank of splintery wood.
There were things he would miss though, like how with the lack of light pollution at night you could see every constellation in the sky. Or the smell of air that was pure and clean free from manmade toxins.
Most of all, he hated to admit that he would miss Amelia. He had fallen deeply in love with her.
Cooper used to think that romantic love was a ridiculous social construct, having never been in love himself. Now that he had experienced it there was no going back, despite his objections he was letting the emotion rule him.
Just last night he was going to tell Amelia of his plans to go back home…to tell her about the lie. However, the words had stuck in his throat as he gazed upon her face, including her wide, innocent green eyes that were always so full of kindness and love.
Suddenly he was unable or unwilling to say or do anything that would cause her undue pain. Instead, he had inexplicably leaned in and kissed her on the mouth, another practice he used to find ridiculous and now thoroughly enjoyed.
This vixen from the prairie had thoroughly bewitched him.
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"All right now it is getting better." Amy says smiling up at him.
He raised his eyebrows at her. "I told you. Now do you want me to continue or would you like to continue the running commentary?"
"Go on, I will be quiet." Amy told him while laying her head back on his chest.
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Unable to tell her of his plans, he decided to leave while Amelia had gone into town to sell her eggs and milk and buy a few things. He left a note pinned to her pillow with one of her hat pins.
My Dear Amelia,
I want you to know that I appreciate all you have done for me. Our time together I will cherish forever but I need to go back to my own time. It is not safe for me to stay in this time for much longer. I will never forget you and all the things that you have taught me.
Yours, always,
Cooper.
Yet as he prepared to go back to his time he had the image of Amelia discovering the note and a single teardrop falling on the paper smeared his writing. The image had floored him and now he was sitting on a hay bale crippled with indecision.
How could he stay? There was nothing that should be holding him here. He needed to be back in his own time making contributions to science. Any contribution he made here had the possibility of altering the course of history and he would have no idea if it would be for the good or bad until it was too late.
How could he go? How could he leave behind the one person who had ever truly made him happy and understood him for who he was?
Then it became clear to him what he had to do.
He had to convince Amelia to come to the future with him.
Why should she stay here in this time? Amelia had no family and life on the farm was hard and grueling work. Her life, if she would remain here, would be short and hard, claimed by one of hundreds of untold factors.
The more he thinks about it, he realizes that he cannot think of any consequences of removing her from this time…except any progeny she may have had that may now not be born. If Amelia did move on and have progeny with another, the chance of her dying in childbirth was almost fifty-fifty.
The thought of her meeting someone else after he leaves and doing with them what they had done fills him with rage. Amelia is his and only his. He cannot accept the thought of another claiming her body the way he had.
His mind is made and he rises to remove the note and wait for Amelia to come home. In that instance Amelia flies into the barn tears with streaming down her cheeks and she slams into wrapping him in a tight hug.
"Your note said you were leaving." She sobs into his shirt.
"I could not do it." He tells her patting her on the back.
"So you are staying?"
"No, I am still going. I don't belong here. I need to be back in my own time,"
"Then why are you still here?" she asks hurt breaking the hug and turning away.
"Come with me." He says softly and she turns a around.
"To your time? How?" she asks.
"There is enough room for both of us in the capsule. Think of it Amelia. I can show you all the wonderful things that I have only been able to talk about before."
"What about the farm?" she asked
"The farm? You have no family and you are running yourself into the ground trying to take care of it by yourself. Come with me and your life will be so much easier." He pleads and she can tell she is considering his offer.
"I want to come with you, but I just do not know. There is so much to consider." She tells him.
"What is keeping you from joining me? Are you afraid your departure in this time will affect the future in some way?"
"Now, I am, but that was not what was holding me back. Don't I get a chance to wrap up a few loose ends? I would like to sell the animals and the farm before I go." Amelia asks and he has to admire her practical nature but it is not needed right now.
"You won't need money where you are going, I will provide for you I have a job we can buy food at a grocery store."
"It would kill me to think of the family farm going untended and the animals starving because I ran away to the future."
"Fine, do what you must." He concedes and again she wraps him up in an embrace squeezing him tightly making him feel immobilized.
"Thank you I will not be l be long."
She hurries out the door and Cooper begins his preparations for the time machine. The machine looks to be in order. All the parts are back where they should be and there is enough fuel to get to the twenty first century. He sets the clock to May 24th 2014 at 5:01, exactly one minute after he departed almost a year ago.
Cooper starts to get impatient with Amelia but true to her word not more than an hour has passed before she is back inside the barn.
"All settled." she say breathless from exertion. "The Crandall's had offered to buy the place after Father passed but I said no. I sold him the entire farm animals and all at a very fair price."
As she places the money in his hand as if she is paying a toll for the future. Amelia's entire farmstead sold for less than what he spent on comic books.
"Are you ready?" he asks reaching for her hand.
"Can I take anything with me?" Amelia asks.
"I am sorry but no. The capsule is barely large enough to fit the both of us. Also removing anything from the past and taking it to the present poses a serious risk. I am breaking about a million rules a taking you with me." He tells her and she nods in agreement.
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Amy sits up straight and looks at Sheldon bemused "I do not think Amelia would be so willing to drop everything and go to the future, and really an hour to wrap up all her business and sell everything to a neighbor. Where did this neighbor live, in the next room?",
"Well, I did not think Cooper would be so willing to drop all he has worked for and stay in the past, also I know almost nothing about life on a farm. Anyway this is my story, and she probably called the neighbor up on the phone that only existed in major towns at that time."
"So you changed the plot so you would feel more comfortable writing?"
"Yes I found it quite tedious to write about a time I knew next to nothing about, and don't forget, I only had a few hours to write this. So little Miss Interruption am I allowed to finish
"Sorry, carry on" Amy smiles meekly and puts her head back on his chest
"Right where was I, oh yes …..taking you with me" he says as he puts his arm back around her shoulder.
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"I am ready." She says.
Cooper leads her to the time machine and lifts the hatch. He pulls her in with him and wraps her tightly against his chest before he types in the coordinates of their destination. The machine whirls to life and there is a brilliant flash of light.
He hears her scream and she grips him in a death lock as they hurtle forward through space and time. Finally they come to a rest and Cooper opens the hatch gingerly.
He is relived beyond words when he sees his apartment exactly as he left it the night he first traveled. He lifts Amelia out of the capsule and makes a beeline for his spot on the couch, sinking in and sighing with pleasure as he watches as Amelia walk around the apartment. The way she circles the room and cautiously investigates everything reminds him of when he was younger and his mother brought a cat home.
Amelia goes to the bookshelf and runs her hands down the spine of each book. "Are these all yours? Have you read them all?" she inquires amazed
"Yes and yes." he replies pleased.
"You have your own library." She coos
"Not quite a library. I will take you to a real library at the university where I work. Then you will really be impressed."
"You will take me with you! I don't have to hide in the apartment?"
"Heavens no! Why would you think that ?"
"Because we had to hide you on the farm. Won't people think I look out of place here?"
"I had to hide because people in the nineteenth century where far less accepting of people who are different than in the twenty first. For all they know you could be from some sect of hipsters on the campus that dress in pioneer clothes to make a statement. However I do think we should attire you more according to the fashions of the day. Once you are properly outfitted no one will be able to tell what time you are from."
"Where will we get proper attire? Do you have woman's clothes here? Who shall we say I am when people inquire about me?" she asks as she continues her exploration of the apartment. Amelia comes to the window and screams loudly, jumping back terrified.
"What's wrong?" Cooper asked getting up concerned.
Before he can come to her rescue, Amelia runs to him and wraps her arms around him in a tight hug with her head in his chest.
"We are so high up. I did not realize it until I looked out the window and say how far down the road was."
He rests his chin on the top of her head and pats her back consolingly before she looks up. "It's okay now."
Amelia looked up, feeling foolish . "I am sorry, I feel better now. It just frightened me at first." She replied.
"To answer your questions, no I do not have any woman's clothing here. We will have to purchase some. As to explanations to who you are, I say we stick to the closest thing to the truth. We will simply tell people that you are my girlfriend."
"I am your girlfriend?"
"I think that is the correct term. Maybe in your time they called it something different. I am courting you…you are my intended…something along those lines."
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Amy interrupts Sheldon. "Can I call you my intended? That has a nice ring to it."
"No" Sheldon says curtly.
"Why not." Amy pouts looking up at him .
"Fine. You can call me your intended, if it will keep you quiet." Sheldon smiles to himself, he knew that line would get her, and her reaction is extremely gratifying to him.
"Thank you. You know you are surprisingly good at writing. This is much better than I expected it to be. It is even pretty romantic." Amy remarks.
"I don't know why it would surprise you. I excel at so many things. Additionally, you have read my writing before. You know I am an excellent writer with perfect grammar." Sheldon says annoyed.
"I have read your reports and your science journals, never anything personal like this. It is like seeing into your mind. It is fascinating. I also like having you read to me. I love your voice…it is very sexy."
"You think my voice is sexy?"
"Very much so. It is one of the first things that attracted me to you. After we first met and we would talk on the phone, I would feel all quivery and shaky at the sound of your voice. At the time I had no idea why. I thought I was coming down with the flu every time we spoke . " Amy avoids looking at his face, still a little shy over her admission. Sheldon lightly touches her face and tilts it up to look at him. His deep blue eyes are intense and hungry and he bites his lower lip.
"Well, if you think my voice is sexy now, let's skip ahead in the story, shall we? After I am done reading that you may feel like you are coming down with the flu again."
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Cooper walks through the door of the library and scans the room for Amelia. He finds her exactly where he left her in the morning, sitting at a table only now she is surrounded by piles of books.
Her nose is buried deep within book so she does not even notice as he walks up to her and stands in front of her. "Amelia."
She startles at the sound of her name and looks up at him a big smile spreading over her face. "Cooper! This place is wonderful! I have been reading all day. There is a book about every subject you could ever imagine. I want to read them all. Is it time to go home already ?"
"Yes. You have been here for almost nine hours, although I am no stranger to the lure of knowledge. I cannot blame you for wanting to soak up as much of it is possible. Surely you must be famished though." He asks concerned.
"Yes, I guess I am hungry. I just got so lost in the books I did not even notice it. Can I come back again tomorrow?" She asks eagerly
"Of course you may come back as much as you wish. Now let me help you but some of these books before we go." He says grabbing a stack of books off the table as she rises and grabs another.
Amelia chatters brightly to him as they file the books back on their correct shelves. She talks about what she has read, what she plans on reading, and his heart swells with pride for her. Amelia may have come from a different time, but she was catching up quickly as she had a keen brilliant mind that he admired over all her other pleasing features.
Although, he thinks as she bends down to shelve a book on the bottom shelf, she does have some rather pleasing other features. His mouth goes dry as he watches her ample backside move as her skirt tightens amplifying the shape off her rump. Overcome with his urges he swats her butt reveling in the feeling of soft flesh reverberating off his hand.
Amelia turns around and stares at him shocked. "What was that for?"
Her challenging her green eyes are flashing at him as her soft lips are pursed…lips that are tantalizing him and tempting him further.
He steps in closer to her claiming her lips as his own. He teases her mouth open with his tongue tasting her. Cooper's five senses are high developed and kissing her always overwhelmed him as the sensation takes over his whole body. The feel of her lips and body, the scent of her shampoo, the taste of mint on her lips, and the sound of her soft sighs. It was so much information to process all at once and it scared and thrilled him all at once.
Amelia gently wraps her arms around his neck and runs her hands through is hair and the feeling of her nails against his scalp is wonderful.
Cooper presses her against the book shelf, needing to shorten the gap between their bodies. He stops kissing her and looks down at her face in the dim light of the back corner of the university library and can say without a doubt that she is the most gorgeous creature he has ever set eyes on…a goddess among mere mortals.
He pushes her gently down so she is laying on the floor. Cooper positions his body so it is between her legs and pushing her skirt up so that it exposes her panties. He would like nothing more than to strip her off all her clothes and gaze upon the wonder that is her flesh. He knows he shouldn't as they are breaking enough rules as it is, but that is what she does.
She makes him want to break the rules…even his own rules..the guidelines he has carefully built up for himself.
With that in mind he moves over her and kisses her mouth. He unbuttons her shirt and kisses the top of each breast before he moves lower and removes her panties before kissing her soft flesh. A move that he had only read about before that he had been too afraid to try but as he hears her moans and contented sighs he grows bolder.
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Now all these rules are forgotten as he moves over her, capturing her lips with his amd unbuttons her shirt. His lips move to the top of each breast, as his hands remove her panties. He raises his head and gazes at the enticing soft flesh of her thighs and what lies above. Without further thought he slides down her body to plant gentle kisses up her legs contemplating a move, he had only read about before, but had been too afraid to try but as he hears her moans and contented sighs he grows bolder.
"I think I am coming down with the flu again." Amy says sitting up and removing the iPad from his hands, setting it down on the nightstand and straddling him.
"Don't you want me to finish the story?" he asks as she bends down kissing him, stopping the words on is lips by yanking off the pajama top.
"I want you to finish the story by showing me what happens next." She tells him, he grins with understanding as he grabs her by the hips and flips her over. Peeling off her panties and quickly undoing the top he had so recently buttoned up, he kneels down to kiss and tease each breast and then kisses his way down her stomach stopping at the apex of her thighs.
"I never thought I would be able to do this, any of this." he says kissing her softly, her moans urge him on as he tastes the essence of her and soon she is a trembling under his ministrations.
"You really do excel at everything." She says as Amy says as she enjoys the ride.
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