Okay this is a little more angsty than my usual but it is also fluffy! What is fluffy angst? Flangst? Next chapter is going to be super fun and coming up quick. Thank you as always to Shamy4eva for looking at this for me.
Following their announcement there was much squealing and shouting mainly from Penny who was in tears, she was so excited for her two best friends. And though it had been a surprise to Leonard, he too was excited and happy for them, but was considerably less demonstrative, restraining his joy to a few slaps on Sheldon's back, much to his friend's relief.
Penny immediately started interrogating Amy, wanting to know every detail about how Sheldon asked her and Amy was beyond delighted to recount the entire story for them. After she was done Penny had even more questions for her.
"So, what did your mother say?" Penny asks.
"I have not told her yet."
"Wait, you haven't told her! Isn't this the news she has been waiting for, for her entire life?" Penny exclaims.
"Yes, but it only happened yesterday, and, well, last night we got somewhat distracted." Amy blushes.
"This is the woman who forced you to go on annual dates, and you were too distracted to tell her that Sheldon is now going to make an honest woman out of you?"
"I was too busy making a dishonest woman out of her last night." Sheldon says getting up and moving towards the bedroom to get ready. Penny stares after him shocked.
"He really is not shy about it anymore is he?" Penny remarks.
"I think I preferred it when he was shy." Leonard says shuddering.
"Anyways Amy, when are you going to tell her?"
"Well, I wanted us both to tell her, for us to make the announcement together. The problem is that she has never been that fond of Sheldon so I don't know how she is going to react."
"I never knew your mom did not like Sheldon." Leonard says.
"Well he did not make the best first impression on her and now she thinks that we are moving to slow. She says she will be dead in the ground before she gets to see grandchildren."
"Well you are not moving slowly anymore, if anything, things are going at quite a nice clip now." Leonard tells her.
"I suppose you are right." Amy says getting up and starting to clear away the dishes, as Sheldon comes out of the room dressed. They had already taken their shower before breakfast.
"Sheldon, so what is your mother going to say when you tell her the news." Penny asks him.
"Oh she will be very pleased." Sheldon says confidently.
"Sheldon I still have to tell my mother too, maybe we can make the calls together" Amy says to him and he considers her suggestion.
"Very well then, we can call tonight."
"Let's make it tomorrow night." Amy says wanting to mentally prepare herself before having to face Mrs. Fowler.
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Amy and Sheldon sit close together on the couch in front of Amy's laptop in her apartment.
The previous evening following their announcement to Leonard and Penny, they had had a sort of impromptu engagement party with their friends to celebrate the good news. Though Sheldon had insisted that it was not a party, but some friends gathering together to discuss their engagement.
Now it was time to tell the mothers. Amy was both nervous and excited. She was nervous about telling her own mother not knowing what her reactions would be. However she knew that Mary would be happy for them and looked forward to seeing her uncensored joy.
"You ready?" Amy asks Sheldon smiling at him.
"No, but I do not think that will change your mind about doing this." He says looking anxious.
"Come on, it is not that bad, you have done this before." Amy cajoles him, not blaming him for being nervous. The few run-ins he has had with her mother had been awkward at best.
"Yes and the end result was your mother having an extremely low opinion of me that has not changed in the four years we have been dating." Sheldon points out.
"Yes, but now we are not perpetuating a ruse. This time you will be telling her that you have asked for my hand in marriage, thus leading to her loving you forever for ensuring that her only daughter will not die a lonely spinster making quilts for the neighborhood cats."
"Is that what that shelf of small quilts are for in your linen closet?" Sheldon asks her curiously. He had seen these when he had grabbed a towel and had been meaning to ask her about it.
"Let's go with that." Not wanting to admit she had been making a variety of quilts for their theoretical offspring for the past three years. He looks at her puzzled but does not question further. Amy dials her mother on Skype and she picks up on the first ring.
"Amy what a wonderful surprise to hear from you today!" She coos looking at Amy and then turns her head to Sheldon forcing a tight smile. "Sheldon."
"Hello Mrs. Fowler." Sheldon says waving and she raises her hand half-heartedly back.
"Mother, Sheldon and I have some very exciting news to share." Amy tells her, and her mother cuts her off.
"You are going to have a baby! You know after the last time we spoke I told your Aunt Flora, that it looked like you had put on weight. I knew you were not making all those quilts for neighborhood cats! I am going to be a grandmother" Then she turns to Sheldon "Of course I wish you had married her first, but she is not getting any younger." Amy quickly interjects before her mother can embarrass her any further.
"Mother! No! I am not having a baby." Amy says crossing her hands across her middle.
"Then what is your news?" And Amy lifts up her hand to the screen angling it so that the ring is right in front of her face.
"Amy, you are engaged?" her mother stammers, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Mrs. Fowler, if Mr. Fowler were still alive then I would have come to him first to ask his permission. However the thought occurs to me that I should have perhaps asked your permission seeing that you have raised Amy by yourself. So I am asking it now. Mrs. Fowler would you do me the honor of giving me your blessing to marry your daughter." Amy looks at Sheldon in amazement, but sees that he is completely sincere.
Her mother nods her head vigorously "Of course, Sheldon I may have not have always been your biggest fan but I can see that you make her happy, so I would be honored to have you as a son in law." She says smiling at him. "Now Amy there is so much to plan where are we going to start?"
"Hold on Mother, we are not rushing to the altar just yet, we want to take it slow."
"Take it slow? Hopefully not as slow as you have been taking it so far or I will be a hundred years old before I see you down the aisle."
"Maybe not that long, and when I do start planning it I will let you know, but for right now I just want to enjoy being engaged." Amy's view was that it has taken her long enough to get Sheldon to this point and she does not need him to get spooked by being steam rolled with wedding plans. They were finally at a place where they are comfortable with intimacy and each other and Amy wanted to ride this high for as long as possible.
"Ok, I can understand that. Well, congratulations and I love you both."
"Bye Mother." Both Sheldon and Amy say in unison and close the screen.
"Your mother loves me now, most mothers do. I never understood your mother's prior distaste for me." Sheldon tells her.
"Hmmm, I don't know, but I think that maybe it has to do with you telling her the first time you met her that we were like 'wild animals and it was a wonder neither of us had been hurt.' Or it could have been that your goodbye remark was 'you had to go make love to my vagina'." Amy giggles wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him softly.
"Hey, that's not fair, that whole endeavor was entirely your doing and I have had to take the blame for it. Don't forget, you told her that your 'hunger for me was stirring in your loins' so why weren't you in trouble?" He asks his voice taking on a deep growly quality that makes her feel weak in the knees.
"Because I was telling the truth, and you were lying." Amy demurs as he pushes her back gently into the corner of the couch. He kisses her deeply then props himself up on his elbows to frame her face with his hands so that he can gaze down at her fondly.
"And don't you think my hunger for you is stirring in my loins?" He asks her pressing up against her suggestively.
"Oh there is no denying your hunger for me now." Amy tells him her voice husky and dripping with sensuality. He leans his head down low to kiss her but her body does not melt into his as he expected and he senses hesitation on her part.
"What's wrong?" He asks concerned.
"I just think we should put a pin in this for a moment. I don't want to Skype with your mother with both of us having, and please excuse the expression, 'just fucked' hair." He looks down at her shocked, he has never heard an expletive like that from her mouth.
"We are not going to be Skyping with my mother." He tells her wondering where on earth she had gotten that idea from.
"You said we were going to tell the mothers tonight, plural." Amy says curiously
"No, I just said we would phone, I did not mention my mother at all. I had already told my mother that I was going to ask you."
"But you have not told her that you had actually asked me." Amy asks him pushing her hands against his chest.
"Something as important as this is not the kind of thing to reveal to her during a phone call."
"Oh a phone call is not good enough for Mary Cooper but it is fine for Peggy Fowler?" Amy asks pushing him off her and sitting up, feeling herself start to get irrationally mad as only he could make her. Her mother had reacted far better than she had expected but she still wanted to see and hear his mother's reaction.
"Your mother's name is Peggy?"
"Yes, kind of an important thing to know if you are going to be marrying me don't you think!" Amy says getting up. Surely she must have mentioned her mother's name before. The man had an eidetic memory but could not be bothered to remember her mother's name.
"When, how and where you going to reveal this big news to your mother?"
"I guess the next time I was in Texas" he says calmly
"The next time you are in Texas? You know what, you just lost sex tonight." Amy says getting up and stomping to her bedroom. Leaning against the door after she shuts it and counting to ten.
Next time he was in Texas? Who knew how long that would be, it was not a journey he made very often. Did he not want his mother to know that he was engaged? Surely he had to know that Mary would speak to either her or Penny before then and the cat would be out of the bag. Or maybe like in so many other aspects of his life he was completely clueless to the regular correspondence that she had with Mary.
Sheldon stands in the middle of her living room completely flummoxed, having no idea what he had done now to deserve her anger. It had been Amy's suggestion to tell her mother via Skype, he would have been happy to tell her in person. He was planning on making a trip to Texas very soon to tell his mother. He knew how his mother was and this was the kind of thing she would want to be told in person. She would want to hug him and sob that her prayers had finally been answered, she would want to hug Amy too. Maybe he would just have to move the trip up a bit sooner he thinks as he grabs his messenger bag and leaves Amy's apartment.
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Sheldon is excited to see Amy and tell her that they are going to Texas this weekend. He has not heard from her since he left her apartment last night which was unusual as she usually texts him every morning. When he arrives at her lab, he peers through the window of the door and is annoyed to see that she is not alone. Not only is she not alone but she is in the company of that loathsome Barry Kripke. He is bent over her lab tables fidgeting with a pen talking, and Amy is sitting in her chair smiling at him. The whole scene looks just way too cozy for Sheldon's comfort and he bursts into her lab angrily to confront him.
"What is going on here?" he asks
"I was just down here to thank Amy for helping me with some of my research and she told me that you two were engaged now?"
"Yes, that is correct. She is mine so if you would kindly remove yourself from her lab."
"Amy, I thought you were a genius what are you doing marrying a loser like him."
"Barry, enough, I think it is time you were going now." Barry throws his hands up in defeat and Sheldon looks at him smugly.
"You too Sheldon." Amy says.
"Me, what did I do?" He asks as Barry leaves the room.
"Being overly possessive and treating me as if I was an object that you have ownership over."
"I do own you, you are my fiancé and soon you will be my wife. Shouldn't I have some say over the men coming into your lab and trying to woo you?" Sheldon hated being challenged like this. No one else could push his buttons like she could. He stared down at her amazed by how a woman so tiny could make him feel so small, from her kicking him out last night, to finding her having a cozy chat with Kripke.
"Sheldon do you honestly feel that you own me now, like I am some sort of chattel?" she says her hands on her hips and staring up at him, her eyes flashing and her mouth in a determined scowl. He almost expects her to stamp her foot at him.
"You told me I did." He says getting ready to quote the many times she claimed he owned her body, mind, and soul.
"That's different and you know it! You cannot dictate who I work with or who can enter my lab. Here I am the boss, you have no jurisdiction. Now please leave." She tells him turning away from him, but he stops her by grabbing her hand and spinning her back. "Let me go Sheldon." Amy says her green eyes shooting daggers at him.
"I am never letting you go." He swallows hard and he feels the anger and heat coming off of him in waves. Amy knew how he felt about Kripke, but worse was having to hear him say to her that she was marrying a loser. He has enough fears about not being good enough for this amazing creature before him, without it being reinforced by someone like Kripke. He is torn between wanting to punch a wall and storm out, and wanting to kiss her senseless to shush her sharp tongue.
Never being one for outbursts of physical violence, he goes with the latter and pulls her close to him grabbing her by the back of the head and tilting her backwards. As he bends down to devour her mouth with his, he feels her initial hesitation, then as his tongue pries her mouth open and his hands pull her body tight against his own she melts into him.
Wrapping her hands around his neck she presses her soft body into his until it feels like as if they are one entity. Amy nips his lower lip lightly with her teeth making him growl and walk her backwards so she is pressed up against her lab table. He lifts her up, hitching her skirt up around her waist and sits her on the table. Moving between her legs he wraps them around his waist and presses himself against her. He moves his head down to kiss and suck the tender flesh of her neck making her whimper softly.
Then as she lifts up the back of his shirt running her hands up the crease of his back and coming to a rest at his shoulder blades,
"Getting down and dirty in the lab. Cooper you are a freak!" he hears Kripke say
"This is not over." He hisses sensuously in Amy's ear as he lets her go and spins around. Amy hops off the table, hastily adjusting her clothes.
"What are you doing back here Kripke." He asks angrily.
"Don't flip out, I forgot my good pen." He says walking to Amy and grabbing a pen off her table. "You two crazy kids carry on don't let me stop your afternoon delight." He says walking out of the lab again.
"That was…wow…" Amy says thinking how this angry kiss and differed from their first kiss that had also stemmed from anger. This time she could feel the heat and passion coming off him in waves and it was so undeniably hot.
"Wow indeed." He says smiling at her, loving that he had reduced this silver tongued woman to utterances as mundane as "wow". "Oh and speaking of wow, your fraternization with the enemy distracted me from my real purpose in coming to your lab today." He says raising his eyebrows at her.
"Oh?" Amy asks curiously
"Yes, I have booked us flights to Texas this weekend it is time for you to meet your new family."
Just a little presumptuous of Sheldon right? Don't worry Amy will set him straight and all will be rainbows again . Reviews are always welcomed!