Sheldon Swifties LIX: "The X-Advisors…"
Summary: Like my Immortal Beloved bits in my Buffyverse stories, these are fragments and short bits, some longer…Just to fiddle with ideas, possibly forming longer tales later.
Disclaimer: All is Chuck's…
Part VI…
On the one hand…Penny considered, eyeing the startled Susan Stein who now lowered Sheldon…
No way is he getting away without a proper proposal…
On the other…She eyed Dr. Stein…
Commendations to my bestie's fast thinking for securing her position at once. Definitely a good idea…
She looked at Sheldon…Who was rather wobbily on being lowered…
You got some 'plaining to do, Lucy, she frowned at him.
Ah…Drunk, dizzy from the unaccustomed combination of jealousy and exhilaration as to emotional excitement, and nauseated from his little centrifuge spin, three lemons spelling a jackpot, he groaned and collapsed, vomiting…
"Sheldon!" Amy, distracted by his sudden acute display from what would have been an intensive interrogation…Though immediately torn between her urgent concern for her stricken lamb and her fury at Susan's quick move to block her from Sheldon, quickly crouching over him…
"Sheldon?...Sheldon, are you ok? I shoulda remembered you can't take the centrifuge ride. Oh, honey…" Susan, anxiously…
Though not so anxiously as not to keep a firm block over him…
Jesus…Penny, about to intervene, annoyed and sure her friend would need physical support, backing from Amy's icy glare…
I chuckled once when she mentioned how ruthless Fowler women were in defense of mates. What was it? Her grandma kidnapped her second husband, "for his own good"?
"I won't say this twice…Get away from my fiancée…" Amy growled, thrusting herself into position by Sheldon's head. "He needs some air…" minor qualification for the barest sake of politeness, belied by her furious stare.
"Moonpie…You'll be all right." Amy cooed. Looking to the group clustering worriedly. "He'll just had too much excitement. Please get a doctor, just in case…"
Susan for her part not about to be dislodged by this little…Holding firmly to Sheldon's arm.
Oh, damn…It's her…She peered at Amy as Amy rubbed Sheldon's temples…Sheldon now opening eyes, glancing round…Coughing…
From Dad's office, that time…I knew it… Sheldon's… "sister"…All concerned about him…
Right…
"Hey, buddy…" Leonard came through… "You, ok?"
Though puzzled stare at the two women locked in fierce positional combat over him…
What? He glanced at Penny who shrugged…
I knew I'd seen her sculking around the Austin campus, stalking him, Susan glared.
Oh, you enemy…You enemy…
"Susan?" Dr. Stein had made his way to them… "Is Cooper all right?"
His face clearly indicating his concern was definitely not with Sheldon…A pleading look…
"Dr. Fowler?" he eyed Amy…
"He'll be fine…Just a bit too much to drink and a little too much…" Sheldon, coughing now…
"Get him some water, please!" Susan called.
Amy, narrow glare…
So…The rumors at Austin were true…And my Moonpie has not told me all…
Of course, it being Sheldon, who is incapable of lying, he probably never realized just how in deep he'd been in the coils of this spider's web.
Foolish though to play the first round so openly…I should have just used my "Penny" strategy…Made her my best friend and then either proven her no threat or quietly cut her throat…Metaphorically speaking…
Perhaps…
Though in the case of Susan Stein, I may need to be less metaphorical…
"Here's some water…" Howard offered a glass which Amy deftly grabbed from his extended hand…Susan, icy stare to her…
"Raj called the campus emergency service, they're sending a doctor."
"What's going on?" Leonard hissed to Penny, eyeing the two women coolly eyeing each other over Sheldon. "They look like they're going to each take half of him…"
"Not half…" Penny stared. "Amy…?" she called, gently. "Do you need any help with him?"
"We're fine here…He's gonna be fine." Susan cut in. "Aren't you, Shelybot?" she patted him as he stared.
Oh…No…He looked up to Amy's firm and composed face, beaming on him. "I think I drank something that tasted funny."
"Gablehauser's large gin and tonic…" Leonard smiled. "But you and Amy were terrific, Shely…" he began, teasing tone…Blinking at Amy's sudden furious glare…
You call him that, you die…Clearly…
"Shelybot, you know can't drink…" Susan shook head. "Who's been letting my Shelybot drink? It makes him sick…" narrow eyeing of Amy…
"I'm all…" Sheldon began, both women turning their focus to him…
"Lie still, Moonpie…" "Don't get up, Shelybot."
Shelybot? Howard eyed Leonard, who shrugged.
"Thanks for your help, Dr. Stein…I've got him." Amy, tone of grim finality.
"Oh, I wanna be sure my Shelybot's ok." Susan, firmly. "And be careful with that water, you're going to choke him."
Got him like Hell, you…
Help…? Sheldon looking up at Penny, Leonard…
"Just take a sip, Sheldon…I've got you…" Amy urged…And declared. Carefully holding glass to his lips…
"I said, be careful…" Susan insisted as Sheldon coughed…Putting hand on the glass. Amy, darting death from her eyes…
Wow. Bernadette, with Lucy, eyeing from the circle round the group over Sheldon…
Amy looks just like me whenever we encounter one of Howie's old girlfriends willing to acknowledge him…
They really are engaged…How beautiful…
Penny catching sight of Dr. Francis, in the circle…
Looking rather amused under a stance of concern…
"Susan?" Dr. Stein by Bernadette in the circle now…
She frowning at him…
Dad…Leave this to me…
"Holy Chwrist, Hofstadtwer…" Kripke had made his way to Leonard… "Are you sure you didn't pay for this?" he hissed, nodding at Susan, bent over Sheldon, covering all but his head where Amy was grimly dug in.
Leonard staring…
"Cause if so…You have my vwervent thanks for putting the Physicist of Pworn back in business." Kripke patted him.
"Amy, the doctor's here…" Penny noted, seeing Raj coming through with the said medico…
"You better…" she blinked at Amy's hard stare…
Guess not…She looked at Leonard…
"Ladies…?" Raj, a bit confused… "You'll really have to let the doctor examine Sheldon…"
Mutual deadly glares…
Thank god the doctor's not a woman…Penny hissed to Leonard…Stepping back with him to let the doctor through…Susan very reluctantly pulling just enough away to allow him to view Sheldon who was rather more paralyzed with fear of his ministering angels than by his recent tummy upset.
"Amy's never said anything…Dangerous…About my singing 'Soft Kitty' to Sheldon?" she asked…
"Hofstadter?" President Siebert, concerned tone… "Cooper's not going to go and die on us, now is he?"
"No, he'll be fine, President Siebert…He's just had a little too much excitement."
And is having far more right now…He eyed Penny.
"Well, quite an evening…" Dr. Francis grinned, stepping over to Leonard.
"Susan's looking in the pink…Figuratively, for once…" he smiled to Stein who coolly ignored him…Still anxiously watching a reluctant Susan give up her position and rise, though keeping firmly by Sheldon.
Amy, glaring at the doctor, but herself giving up position…Though the last to do so…She noted in triumph…Rising as well.
"It's very nice to meet you." She eyed Susan. Grimly appraising stare…
Slut from Hell…
"And you…Dr. Folwer?" Susan, cool smile.
Psycho bitch stalker…
"Susan, this is Amy Fowler…My old colleague and teacher Margaret's granddaughter…" Stein had come to make introduction…And a temporary truce…
"Is he ok, doctor?" Howard, addressing the doctor…
Both Amy and Susan instantly turning to hear…
"Just a bit dizzy I think…" the doctor smiled…
"Keep your head up, Shelybot…That always helped." Susan, quick thrust… "So you're Margaret Fowler-Horowitz's granddaughter? A physicist?"
"Neurobiologist…" Amy replied…
"Good…" Susan smiled… "I mean, we need more women in other fields besides the only one Sheldon cares about…"
"And I know what you are, doctor…" Amy, calmly... "A number of my colleagues here are quite familiar with your work."
"Yeah, I should say so…" Kripke, stepping in to eager seizing the opportunity… "Bawrry Kwripke, physicist…Appwreciator of the wrare and pwrecious…"
"Yeah, hi." Susan, curtly.
I'm in… Kripke beam to Howard and Raj…
"We must diswcuss our mutwual interwests in wrelevant fields sometime." He nodded.
"Uh-huh. Maybe…" Curtly.
And that, gentlemen, is how it's done…Barry nodding to Raj who rolled eyes, then Howard who grinned at Bernadette who struggled to keep a straight face.