A huge thank you to Shamy4eva for looking this over and fixing it for me. Also to Shamour for answering some questions and lending some advice. And as always to Vamplover669 for letting me nag her with ideas for her approval ;)

After Leonard leaves his office Sheldon feels much better about everything. Leonard is right even if Faisal had inappropriate thoughts about Amy there was no way he could make it a stipulation of the grant. Now that he is finally able to think of the positive aspects of receiving the grant money, Sheldon's mind is reeling. He cannot be made to stay with dark matter now, he could go back to string theory or he could study something completely new.

Later that evening, Amy is in the kitchen of the apartment chopping vegetables staring at her fiancé who on his computer. She has so many questions that she wants to ask him but she does not want to ruin the good mood he is in. She had heard from Penny that he and Leonard had reconciled so she wonders if that was the cause of his good humor. However what Amy really wants to know about is the grant and what he has decided to do with it. But Amy has learned to be patient with him, knowing that nagging him does no good. If he wants you to know something then he will tell you.

"Amy." He says finally and her head snaps up.

"Yes." She says eagerly

"I have decided to accept the grant I was awarded." He tells her.

"That is excellent news Sheldon. With money like that you will be able to study whatever you like. You can do anything you want now.."

"I think I am going to switch my focus."

"Have you thought about to what yet."

"Of course. I have put extensive thought I to it." He says getting up and walking over to the model of DNA standing in the corner. "Do you know what this is?" He asks her and she gives him a look. Could he honestly believe a biologist would not know what a strand of DNA looked like?

"It is a double helix strand of DNA. More specifically what you feel it would look like in a silicon based life form." Amy says and he smiles at her.

"I built this several years ago on a lark, biophysics has always been a hobby of mine and with this money I can make it my focus."

"Why biophysics?" Amy asks curiously. It seems like a subject that he would previously have made fun of.

Sheldon gets up and walks behind her as she works watching her intently. It is starting to make her nervous. "Do you think we work well together?" He asks her. She stops chopping and turns around to look at him.

"Of course I do! I think that you and I have an extraordinary ability to understand each other."

"Did you and Kripke understand each other?" he asks her biting his lip.

"Sheldon I told you, all I did was share an idea with him and no we did not have the level of communication that you and I have. Why are you bringing this up again now?" Amy sighs annoyed.

"I want to work with you, collaborate with you if you will …on a project together." Stunned Amy sets down her knife.

"Sheldon I am surprised to hear you say that." She says turning towards him. "I would love for us to work together on a project, however I don't want you to feel that you have to change your entire focus to accommodate it. I could just collaborate on some math on one of your other projects." Amy is beyond elated, she feels almost as excited about this as she does about their engagement. Sheldon is very secretive about his work, and very selective about who he deems worthy to work with. To have him want to switch his entire academic focus just so they can work together is an honor.

"Amy do you know who gave me that grant?" He asks as he moves towards her pressing her body against the counter. He pins her body between his arms and kisses her separating her lips with his tongue. Amy has no idea who gave the grant and at this moment she does not care as his mouth explores hers and his erection digs into her belly. Amy reaches down and strokes him through his pants. He growls and swivels her around so that she is pinned against the opposite obstacle free counter. Then he lifts her up onto the counter and hikes up her skirt so he can move between her legs without hindrance. Amy feels his length pressed against her core and she moves against him moaning against his mouth. She runs her hands up the inside of his shirts pulling them up and over his head kissing a path down this neck to his chest. She takes a taught nipple into her mouth and sucks on it gently making him gasp. Encouraged she does the same with the other as her hand finds its way into his pants and begins to stroke him.

"Faisal gave me that grant." He says through gritted teeth.

"What the hell Sheldon!" Amy yells, unhanding him and trying to squirm away. "The grant was anonymous there is no way of telling who donated it." Amy says annoyed feeling like ice water had just been dumped on her libido. So he did not think her intellect worthy of collaborating with after all. This was just a pissing contest with Faisal, his final way to prove she was his completely.

"The fact is that, my sole reason in attending that benefit was to raise money for my efforts. However, between meeting your fiancé, our naughty times out by the pool and my drunken escapades on stage, the only person I had a chance to talk to about fund raising was Faisal."

"That does not mean that he is the one who donated! It could have been someone who was amused by your antics on stage."

"Don't be stupid Amy." He says and that is the final straw.

"No Sheldon, I am done being stupid." Amy says pushing him away and jumping off the counter, grabbing her purse and heading out the door.

"Where are you going?" he calls.

"Somewhere where no one thinks I am stupid." She yells slamming the door.

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Penny answers the loud banging at her apartment door and sees Amy leaning glumly against the door frame. Now that Penny no longer lives across the hall, they have not seen much of each other. Though she is genuinely pleased to see Amy, Leonard is playing a video game that she finds excruciatingly boring and a distraction is welcome.

"What's up Ames I was not expecting you tonight?" Penny says.

"My fiancé is a jerk." She says sadly.

"What did he do this time?" Penny asks as Leonard shouts from the living room.

"Want some get some! Die! Die! Die!"

"Yeah mine is not much better, why don't we call Bernadette and see if she wants to meet us for drinks?" Penny grabs her keys and jacket from inside. "I am going out" she shouts to Leonard who does not respond.

After texting Bernadette they drive to a local wine bar and order two glasses of Pinot which they finish off quickly and Bernadette joins them just as they are about to order again.

"So Amy what has got you down?" Penny asks.

"Well as you have heard Sheldon was offered a rather lucrative grant and he was on the fence about accepting it. Today he told me that not only was he going to be accepting the grant but that he wanted to change his focus to biophysics."

"Why Biophysics?" Bernadette asks. "That does not seem like something Sheldon would be interested in at all."

"I concur, which is why I asked him why he wanted to switch his focus to that topic in particular."

"What did he say?"

"That he thought that it would be an area of study that we could collaborate on together."

"Wait Sheldon wants to work with you? Then why are you pissed? This sounds like something that should have you twirling around singing his praises." Penny says downing her glass.

"Normally I would be but he has ulterior motives." Amy sighs.

"Sounds like Sheldon… Sheldon is his name and ulterior motives are his game. What are they this time?" Penny asks.

"First off he is still jealous about Kripke and I working together. Secondly he thinks that Faisal gave him the grant. When he told me that I just got so angry I stormed out in the middle of making dinner. He does not really want to collaborate with me on anything. It is a pissing contest with Faisal, it is as if he were peeing on me to claim me." Amy huffs.

"Well sweetie do you blame him?" Penny says

"I have to agree with Penny here." Bernadette says. "I would try to give you an example but Sheldon does not really have a past to dredge up."

"Neither do I!" Amy defends.

"Amy your handsome Saudi Prince ex-finance just came to town and eye fucked the shit out of you in front your current fiancé." Penny says.

"Faisal was hardly a fiancé, it was a business arrangement pure and simple." Amy scoffs. "He most certainly did not eye fuck me as you so delicately put it."

"Oh sweetie, you really are clueless aren't you?" Bernadette says patting her. "The way Faisal was looking at you and what he said to him I am surprised Sheldon did not pee on you right there. Sheldon is very possessive of you and he does not want anyone else playing with his toy."

"Yeah between the Faisal thing and you cutting him off for a week over the sex tape the poor guy just can't catch a break." Penny says.

"Glad to know my two best friends are on my side." Amy says ordering another glass.

"Exactly we are your two best friends and we are here to support you when you are right and to tell you when you are wrong." Bernadette tells her leaning her head on her shoulder.

"We are not saying you are wrong as such, we are just saying give the boy some slack. Oh and speaking of the sex tape we have deleted it off the hard drives of both Howard and Leonard's computer's so it should be dead and gone now. You are welcome."

"Thank you guys I appreciate it."

"Don't mention it, your kinky sexcapades with Sheldon gave Penny and I inspiration and now they boys owe us bigtime."

"What did you do... never mind I don't want to know. We know way to much about each other's sex lives as it is. We need to have some mysteries between us again."

"Suit yourself, but we got you a present as a thank you." Bernadette giggles as she pulls the naughty dice out of her purse and hands them to Amy who reads them and laughs.

"You know how Sheldon feel about dice games."

"Maybe you should go home throw some dice and make up with your fiancé." Penny says.

"I still am not convinced I was in the wrong." Amy sniffs putting the dice in her pocket.

"Hmm… have I ever told you about Ramona Nowitski?" Penny asks Amy raising her eyebrows.

"No, why who is she?"

"Have I got a story for you." Penny says and begins to tell Amy all about Sheldon and his forceful 'assistant'. At the end of the story she is flabbergasted, Sheldon had never mentioned her. Though she is not mad as she knows he did not mention her because she simply was not that important to him.

"So he got rid of her because he would not share credit?" Amy asks.

"Yep, Sheldon did not care about her really she just kind of came in and took charge. He just finally got the courage to tell not to come back."

"So Sheldon being willing to share credit with you is huge. No matter what his motives may be, he wants to work with you. Sheldon wants your name alongside his on his work and that is a big step for him." Bernadette says, giving Amy something to think about.

"I am going to go home and make up with my fiancé!" she yells getting up and tripping on her feet.

"Maybe we should call you a cab." Penny says picking up her phone.

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Sheldon went to bed after eating a bowl of cereal, the makings of his dinner abandoned when Amy had stormed off. Sheldon knew how to finish the meal off, but starting in the middle of a meal seemed ludicrous to him so he threw the whole endeavor out. Pity because it looked like it would have been delicious.

Sheldon tossed and turned unable to sleep due to his lack of closure with Amy so when the lights turn on in the bedroom he is fully awake. He blinks into the sudden brightness and sits up to find Amy standing in the doorway. He braces himself for the fight that he has been dreading for hours. However instead of the angry diatribe that he is expecting she leans in the door way and says in a sultry voice that makes his stomach drop:

"I've got a present for you." She says holding out her hand revealing two large pink dice.

"If those are for D&D they are not regulation." He tells her.

"Regulation… smegulation… these are from Penny and Bernadette. It seems that our little sex tape enhanced their love lives, so they have paid back the favor by deleting the files and buying us these." She says tossing the dice at him. He catches them and turns them over in his hands.

"These certainly are some interesting dice." He comments reading the various words on them such as bite, suck, nipple, and below the waist.

"You want to play Dr. Cooper?" Amy says moving to straddle him on the bed kissing his neck.

"Amy, have you been drinking." He says placing his hands on his hips and ducking his head away from her mouth.

"I might have had a glass or two of wine." she tells him

"And you drove yourself home? That is highly irresponsible of you Amy, what if you had been pulled over? What if you had crashed?"

"For your information I took a cab home. Why are we never tipsy together? This would be much funnier if you were like you were Saturday night." Amy says pouting.

"You don't think I am fun?" Sheldon pouts. "You once told me I was the most fun person you knew."

"Most of the time you are, but right now you are being a big fuddy duddy." Amy says poking him in the chest to empathize her point.

"You want fun? I can give you fun." He says looking at the dice still clutched in his hand. "Though I am finding this dice to be rather mundane in comparison to the dice we used when we played D&D together. Yet I suppose if you want to play we shall play" he says seductively raising his eyebrows.

"I get to roll first." she says reaching into his hand, she takes the dice and rests her fingers in his palm. Amy then sits up in his lap, shakes the dice in her hand and blows on them before releasing them on the bed, giggling as she reads them.

"Tickle, nose." She says starting to lean in and tickle his nose with her hand, but he pushes her back.

"Roll again." He hands back the dice and she goes through her routine again. This time the dice read kiss, below the belt. "The dice have spoken." he says biting his lip.

"So they have." She says getting off his lap and slithering to the floor between his legs yanking his pajama bottoms and his underwear down around his feet. Then she takes him into her hand and strokes him gently. His already engorged member grows bigger in her hand as she strokes it. She leans down and places a soft kiss gently on the tip and pops back up making him groan as she hands him the dice.

"Your roll."

Sheldon rolls the dice quickly eager to continue the game, he smirks at the dice.

"Spank, bottom." He reads to her and she leans over to examine this dice.

"You rigged that." She says.

"No, I am just very lucky." He tells her, the hunger in his eyes as he looks at her makes her weak in the knees.

"Sheldon Cooper doesn't get lucky." Amy says throwing his words back at him her eyes never leaving his.

"Sheldon Cooper is about to get lucky." He says lifting her up and throwing her across his lap.

"Wait, wait." She says getting up and unbuttoning her shirt and letting it fall off her arms. Then undoing the clasp on her skirt, she lets it pool around her legs before kicking it away as she lays across his lap again in just her bra and panties.

"Now continue." she says pressing her face against the sheets on their bed. Amy feels his erection pressed between her breasts as he runs his hands over her body. His large hands run up each leg stopping at her rump and then running up her back. The anticipation is killing her as she waits for the blow to strike, but Sheldon is happy to leave her hanging, trailing a finger softly down her spine making her shiver.

"You have been a naughty girl. Running out on me like that, I had to throw out dinner because I had no idea where in the recipe you had stopped."

"You are right I have been a very bad girl." she says as his hands unclasp her bra and remove the straps from her shoulders.

"Maybe a better punishment would be to stop this entirely." he says as she wiggles her body so that his erection is squeezed between her breasts moving up and down between them.

"But I am far too selfish for that." He says through gritted teeth as he takes in the sensation of being milked between her breasts. Sheldon brings his palm down hard on her bottom making her jump forward.

"You are not selfish you are very generous." She says as he slaps her ass again. Then Amy sits up in his lap and grabs the dice.

"My turn." She says, but he grabs the dice from her and sets it on his bedside table.

"We don"t need those." He says rolling her over so that he is hovering over top of her. "Now I am going to nibble on your number seventeen." He says his voice deep as he kisses path down her stomach and between the apex of her thighs peeling off her panties. He dips his head between her legs kissing her and takes her sensitive nub between his teeth to nibble softly.

"Please Sheldon." She begs grabbing onto his head as he kisses her most intimate place." Please I need you now." She begs and he gets up and positions himself between her legs leaning down and taking a nipple into his mouth as he slides into her slowly. The feeling of fullness is exquisite as he moves in and out of her at an excruciatingly slow pace. Amy revels in the feel of him the way his skin presses against her own the way when he enters her he hits her in the exact right spot.

"Do you want it harder?" he asks making Amy's heart jump and she nods her head yes.

"Then you are going to have to show me." He says and he rolls over so that he is on his back and she is on top of him. Amy moves against him and he grabs onto her bottom urging her on. Just looking at his head thrown back in ecstasy as she rides him is enough to almost send her over the edge. Then he begins to meet her thrust for thrust and the feeling is so heady it almost makes her cry as she leans back digging her nails into his thighs and bounces hard against him. Then he sits up and buries his face in her breasts as he thrusts upwards into her, making her come undone screaming his name as he unleashes into her.

They both collapses into each other's arms on the bed, out of breath and a little alarmed by the intensity of their love making.

"Sheldon that was incredible." Amy sighs snuggling against his bare chest. If it was up to her the man would never wear a shirt in her presence.

"So I take it that you are no longer angry with me?" he asks.

"No I am not mad at you. It was pointed out to me that I may have had a bit of an overreaction and that I may have been a tad unfair to you."

"Wow the hens agreed with the rooster for once." Sheldon says impressed

"Don't get cocky, you were bound to get lucky sometime." Amy teases.

"So now that you are not irrationally angry with me have you given any more thought to us working together?"

"Yes." Amy says sleepily

"And?" Sheldon asks anxiously.

"I look forward to collaborating with you Dr. Cooper."