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…
[Note-delayed for a while on this one due to life and other stories but will try to continue on…RG]
Part LIX…
Exam room in the MRI clinic…
"Jane Doe"/Susan having insisted on a chance to meet "cousin George" and learn about her past…Sheldon, doing his best to maintain a pleasant façade in conversation with the murderess of his friends, family, and world, as well as his idea of brother George's mannerisms…
Despite a brief mental image of George frowning at him…
Really? This is your version of me?
Along with the two security guards and the skeptical nurse who'd insisted they stay…
"So, I'm married?" Susan, eagerly.
"Yeah, the varmint…" Sheldon nodded. "We always said he was a no-good skunk of a Louisiana polecat…"
"Oh…That's too bad. So…Are we related directly or…?" she asked, a bit downcast.
"No, I'm from his side…"
Cleverly dodging any possible suggestion of a blood or DNA test…He thought.
"But with no id or any real proof?" The nurse eyed him grimly.
"Not on my person, ma'am." He noted apologetically. "As a free son of…"
"Yeah, sure…" the nurse waved him off. "But you ought to have something…"
"As a matter of fact…I do…" he offered a pleasant smile. "This comes from a few years back, so you might find it a bit hard to…" he moved to pull out wallet. The guards immediately moving at him…The nurse waving them back.
"It's all right just wanted to get something from my wallet, if it's okay, ma'am?" he asked the nurse.
"What have you got?" Susan, eagerly.
Something I only brought out from my files of persons who have encountered me in a significant way to ceremonially burn in front of Amy, before this insanity happened, he thought.
Though now I suppose Leonard's comment that that was one of the dumbest ideas I'd ever had was, perhaps…
"Just no sudden moves…" one of the guards cautioned.
"Here." He offered an old photo. "You see we all grew up together, in the same neighborhood." He offered the photo to Susan.
"Oh…" she cooed, smiling. "Yeah, that is me…And you…" Holding up the photo of a twelve-year old Sheldon and Susan standing in Dr. Stein's back yard. Young Susan beaming for the camera, young Sheldon looking distinctly uncomfortable.
"All that means is you know her. And frankly you look more like the boyfriend than a cousin there." The nurse frowned.
"You know, you do…Though not all that happy." Susan noted, with shy wan smile.
"It was Howard who took the shot. My no-good cousin…" Sheldon noted.
Thanks, ole pal…Howard's image frowned at him.
Well…I had to pick someone believable as a no-good varmint, Wolowitz. You know I can't really lie that well…And you know Leonard would never fit the bill, in my mind.
And you couldn't pick me? Raj's image eyed him.
Who's gonna believe a young you, somehow living in East Texas in 1994, dared hook up with a WASP blonde beauty like Susan? Sheldon told him.
Hmmn…I suppose so, Raj sighed, fading. Hey, wait…He returned. No, nevermind, you're probably right, vanishing.
Oh, now I feel really bad…Sheldon sighed inwardly. But, must press on, for Penny and Amy…
"Of Indian origin…The real India, not the exploited American ones…" he noted.
Happy now?
We're cool, old friend…Raj, nodding.
"Indian…And he was abusive?" Susan asked.
Hey! Raj reappeared for an annoyed second.
Some ghosts just can't be appeased, Sheldon thought.
"Indian…Your cousin?" the nurse asked.
"On my mother's side." Sheldon, somewhat archly.
Ok, that's sweet…Thanks, dude, Raj beamed, fading away.
"Wow." Susan shook head. "I don't remember him at all. So, I ran away from him?"
"Probably one of them there psychotic breaks…Yes, you did. Before we could help you…The varmint having planned to take you off to that there Injia."
"He was gonna take her to India?" the nurse eyed him.
"We was set up to do one of them there intriventions? She being a little too anxious to keep her weddin' vows. So, being a multimillionaire playboy type, and hearing what we was about, he was gonna take her away. So, she ran, just before we were gonna rescue her."
Dude? Killin' the moment here…Raj's image had reappeared. Though kudos for a good story line, I didn't think you had it in you. And, for the record, I never had any girl kidnapped and smuggled to India. My parents wouldn't allow it.
Dude?! That was really your opinion of me?! Fuming now.
Sorry…Sheldon sighed. Anyway, that was a joke Howard made once…I couldn't resist for old times' sake. I know you wouldn't, Raj.
He was a card, old Howard. A jerk but, a card, Raj nodded. And now, we're just memories…And space dust in your old universe…
"You were gonna rescue me, George? That's so sweet." Susan beamed.
"Unless of course heroic sweetness here was the boyfriend and is looking for another chance to bash your skull in." the nurse noted dryly. "No offense, sweetness, if your story's for real."
We won't leave you like that, I swear, Sheldon noted to the image of Raj, and Howard, appearing beside him. Bernadette appearing, with smile, by Howard's side.
I swear it to you all…As Leonard appeared, waving…Hey buddy!
"But you'll need more than that…Sir?" the nurse addressed him.
"George?" Susan, a bit concerned at her "cousin's" drifting off.
"Oh, sorry…" Sheldon smiled wanly. "Just thinkin' one of them there thoughts…"
"This is such a nice photo…" Susan sighed at the picture in her hand. "But you don't have one of Howard?"
"Oh but…I ummn…" Pondering. "Yes. Yes, I do. May I, sirs?" he eyed the guards, one nodding.
"This is Howard." He pulled out of a picture of Howard and Raj and Leonard. "And a couple of his friends, scientists."
"Oh…My…" she took the photo. "He's handsome…"
Yes! Raj's image beamed, fist in air.
Right, Howard's eyed him dryly. A Nazi murderess finds you appealing…Hurrah.
"My husband is a scientist? And a rich Indian playboy?"
"An astrophysicist." He blurted.
"Whoa…I love…I think…Astrophysics. Am I a scientist, too, George?" she looked up at him, her face sweetly innocent.
"Oh, yes…A physicist. Or so I reckon, they're called. I'm in tires myself. I'm a tire magnate in East Texas. Doctor Tire, they call me. Never quite had the brains for education."
George, glaring in his mind…
"But the biggest tire magnate in East Texas."
Ok? He eyed George's image. George rolling eyes…Then smiling…
So…You don't really believe I'm stupid, do you? Or you couldn't be making me mad in your mind, right?
I suppose not…Sheldon thought, somewhat astonished.
Well, maybe a little stupid…
"A physicist?" the nurse eyed Susan who smiled…Wow.
"That sounds kinda cool… Do I teach or…?"
"Oh, yeah…Real good teacher, though I don't know nothin' about such things." Sheldon nodded.
"I wish I could remember." She sighed, then beamed at him. "But it's so great you came to find me."
"Lets not get ahead of ourselves, Miss." The nurse shook head. "This'll have to be investigated by the police. He needs a lot more proof than a couple of photos."
"Surely, ma'am." Sheldon nodded.
"Where is this husband of hers?"
"Uh, he plumb took off and went back to Injia. Afraid of being caught, ya know?"
"I see…" Susan sighed. "I mean, I get he might've been bad news but…"
"You're better off without that varmint, Susan." He noted.
And he will be better off regardless of what we can do when you're out of this existence, in every multiverse string.
…
Alamogordo…
"Ok, before we head out…Your clothes…Give them to me now…" Max, seated in front, in Germanic tones to Raj and Leonard as they fastened seat belts in the back of his station wagon, Summer and her aunt in mid-section, giggling.
Raj and Leonard, blinking…
"Ever since 'The Terminator' Uncle Max loves to do that line…" Summer explained, grinning at him, he grinning back from the driver's seat. "People say he looks so much like Arnold in the movie, especially when he gets riled.
"Yeah…I see that…" Leonard, nodding. Raj, halted by him in starting to remove shirt…
"But I'm programmed now to be a sweetheart of a guy…" Max grinned, backing the car out of its space and turning to follow several out of the lot. "Actually? If I was Skynet? I'd send someone sweet and pretty like Summer to be the Terminator. John would never know what hit him."
"Oooh…Terminatrix…" Summer grinned. "I'd love to do that. You know, I've thought I might try acting someday."
"I can see that…" Raj noted. "Brilliant concept. An audience will…would love it, I'm sure."
Keep that side door unlocked…He hissed to Leonard.
…
"We shouldn't've let him go…" young Amy, anxiously to Margaret and Penny, Penny in bed, Margaret seated across the bed from Amy.
"He's sure to be fine in the hospital and even if she recognized him, she can't act here…" Margaret noted.
I hope.
"I'm sure he'll be ok…" Penny, quick glance at Margaret.
Oh, how could I let him do this? If that monster gets her hands on him…I've betrayed two bestie versions.
"…But if he's much longer, we'll go down and find him." She concluded.
Armed with scalpels and anything else we can grab…
A knock at door startling them…
"Penny! Penny! Amy! Margaret! Penny…Amy…Margaret!"
Oh, never in my life have I been so happy to be annoyed like this…Penny thought, wincing.
"Sheldon!" young Amy, throwing door open. Margaret rising nervously, pondering available potential weapons in the room. Just in case he brought…A guest.
"Yes, I thought it was clear it was…Unnnh…" As Amy grabbed at him, pulling close.
"Yeah, the kid was gettin' a little concerned…" Penny noted, casually.
"You will have the goodness never to tell my Sheldon that I lost my head over his counterpart like this?" Young Amy addressed Sheldon, stepping back from her fervent embrace and reperching glasses.