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Here is something you might not immediately recognize as a Shamy moment. It takes place after the rehearsal dinner for Leonard and Penny's wedding when Leonard's parents kept fighting and Mary Cooper kept fighting with Beverly and Howard was paranoid because he thought the government was after him, haha. ;)

It's not much... just a conversation that I think Sheldon and Amy could have had after that evening. Hope you enjoy...


9x24: "I'm beginning to sense some tension."

After the awkward dinner came to a long-awaited end, the remaining attendees – minus Mary Cooper and Alfred Hofstadter – parted ways in the parking lot. Bernadette and Raj led a somewhat paranoid looking Howard to the car, leaving only Leonard, Penny, Beverly Hofstadter, Sheldon and Amy behind.

"Sheldon, are you coming with us?" Leonard asked, car keys in hand. "We still have room for one and Amy doesn't have to make a detour."

Sheldon stood between his best friend and his girlfriend and while Leonard made a perfectly logical point his feet still dragged him towards the illogical option. "No, thanks. I… I'd rather drive with Amy." he glanced at her sheepishly, looking for a sign of vexation at his request. But she smiled softly at him.

"Well, that's a stupid emotional decision I didn't expect from someone like you, Sheldon." Beverly spoke up quite loudly. "I thought you were better than that." Her voice still held obvious resentment caused by the previous events of this horrible evening that culminated in her ex-husband leaving early with Sheldon's mom.

"Leave him be, mother." Leonard grumbled at her and started walking towards his car. "See you at home, Sheldon." he called over his shoulder. An annoyed-looking Penny and a still ranting Beverly followed him not far behind.

Sheldon watched them leave for a moment then he turned back to Amy who shrugged her shoulders, seeming mildly embarrassed.

"So… should we go?" she asked.

"Yes. Let's go." Sheldon nodded and they started leaving, too. "I don't understand why Beverly seemed to be mad at me, all of a sudden." he said upon entering Amy's car. "Leonard and Penny have to drop her off at her hotel anyway, so by choosing to drive with you I'll reach home sooner."

"Right." said Amy meekly, concentrating on buckling herself in.

Sheldon watched her and got the strange feeling that she was avoiding to look at him. "Also, I rather be in your company." he added, which made her look up instantly and smile. Sheldon smiled back. Since they got back together, Sheldon had learned that if there was something on his mind concerning his feelings for her, he might as well tell her. It was usually a safe way to make her show that special, glowing smile that he loved. "Especially now," Sheldon continued, feeling sure of himself. "That Beverly seems so uncharacteristically emotionally charged."

Amy chuckled. "That she was." She pulled out of the parking spot and onto the street. The car ride fell silent without the chatty Alfred and Mary in the backseat.

"So…" Amy said hesitantly after they have been driving for a while. "The Hofstadters make an odd couple, don't you think?"

Sheldon looked at her incredulously. "I agree, but I thought you said I shouldn't point that fact out to them all the time."

"No," Amy rolled her eyes good-naturedly. "I was talking about Leonard's parents, not our friends."

"Oh." made Sheldon. "In that case, yes, they are. Like father like son, I guess."

Amy furrowed her brows. "What?"

"Well, they both married women that, quite frankly, could do better than them." explained Sheldon. "In Alfred and Beverly's case this fact already came back to bite them. For Leonard's sake let's hope that Penny will be merciful when it happens to them."

Amy threw him a stern sideway glance. "Sheldon, it's not nice to assume that they will end up like Beverly and Alfred."

"Hey, I said I hope it won't be as bad." corrected Sheldon pointedly. "I know I was oblivious to the tension for a long time, but even I eventually realized that there is a lot of bad blood between those two ex-partners."

"They hate each other." Amy exclaimed, shaking her head in disbelief. "They really do. All that has been said between them was only to inflict pain." The engine hummed as both were lost in their own thoughts for a minute. "I can't imagine what must have happened between them that caused so much pent-up hatred." Amy said eventually.

Sheldon looked at Amy with his head tilted to the side while she was staring out the windshield still deep in thoughts. "What do you mean by that?"

Amy briefly looked at him and shrugged. "Well, think about it… they must have loved each other once. That's why Beverly was so emotional right now when she saw Alfred leave with your mother."

Sheldon made a face. "Please, don't make me think about that."

"I'm sorry." said Amy, shaking her own head to get rid of the mental image. "But it shows that even the painfully analytical Beverly obviously still cares about him… in her own way. Ergo, she must have loved him once."

Sheldon contemplated this for a second. "So, you're saying once they were as hopeful and blind as Leonard and Penny?"

Amy threw him a chiding look. "I wouldn't say it quite like that, but… yeah, sort of."

Sheldon shook his head vehemently. "No, I can't imagine that at all."

Amy took a left turn, heading closer to Los Robles Avenue. "Well, it must be the truth." she said. "What baffles me is that they had three children together… something that should connect two people, right? But they still grew to despise each other so much."

"I don't think that having children necessarily means that two people miraculously reconcile their differences." Sheldon objected. "Take my parents for example. I have two siblings, too, but that didn't stop my mother and father from fighting all the time. It also didn't matter that they were trying to keep the fights away from us children by mostly arguing after we went to bed, because they were shouting so loud that none of us could sleep anyway."

Amy swallowed. "You're right. I didn't think of that."

Sheldon looked into his lap, momentarily losing himself in the dark times of his early teenage years when the fights were the worst. And he wondered how comfortable he was with telling Amy about those painful memories of his past. "It's okay." he mumbled quietly. "It was over before it got as hostile as between Beverly and Alfred."

Silence filled the car once more, but it was a little uncomfortable this time. Heavy suppressed emotions of grief hung in the air like thick black rain clouds. Amy reached out with her right hand to cover Sheldon's left one that he was clenching upon his knee. "I'm sorry." she said quietly and the compassionate look in her tender green eyes made the imaginary black clouds dissolve into nothingness. Sheldon pressed his lips to a thin half-smile and Amy squeezed his hand before putting it back upon the steering wheel.

"You know, now that I'm thinking about it," said Amy. "My parents don't have the best relationship, either. I mean, you know how scary my mom can be and my dad never dares to contradict her in any way… even when it came to my upbringing."

She became pensive for a moment and Sheldon knew that Amy had her own childhood demons to battle. He wanted to show her that he was here to support her just as much as she did for him, but he wondered too long about whether or not touching her would distract her too much from driving. And then she was already talking on.

"I wonder if my parents would still be together today, had my dad told my mom his honest opinion a long time ago."

Now this got Sheldon pondering again. Because he knew someone else who had hidden her honest opinion and her true feelings for a very long time for the fear of losing the one she apparently loved. And when she came clean it didn't go well.

They arrived at 2311 Los Robles without having spoken another word. But only when Amy turned off the engine and the silence became so glaringly obvious that it suddenly shook them both out of their musings, they really became aware of each other's presence again. Sheepishly, they smiled.

"Anyway… I see you again tomorrow at Leonard and Penny's real wedding ceremony." Amy said.

"Yes." nodded Sheldon. "Thanks for driving me, Amy."

"No problem."

Sheldon reached for the door handle and stepped with one foot onto the street… then he froze. All of a sudden, he pulled his leg back in, closed the door and continued to stare into his lap.

"Sheldon? What's wrong?" Amy asked in confusion.

He clenched his fists upon his legs, still not able to look at her. His mind was a mess of wondering questions and worries that he had to get in line first to be able to voice them. "Amy…" he finally began. "Considering the bad experiences we gathered watching our parents' marriages fail and the fairly recent… break in our own relationship…" he swallowed, because his heart suddenly pounded fearfully in his chest. "Do you think this will affect our chances of having a successful partnership?" And then once more while looking over at her, because Amy didn't answer him immediately. "Do you think we could... hate each other at some point in the future?"

Amy stared at him with her mouth hung open. She blinked, closed it and opened it once more without managing to get a word out. Sheldon would have given anything to read the expression from her face right now.

Eventually, Amy moved her body to face him a bit more, but she could only answer his query with a question herself. "Sheldon... do you really believe t-that you could hate me?"

"No, I'm not saying that!" Sheldon explained, his hands upheld in surrender. "But… I guess whether you'd ask my parents, your parents or Leonard's parents… they didn't think they would ever... dislike each other, either." he said, feeling that hate may be a too strong word after all.

Regardless, Amy's eyes filled with something that Sheldon learned to recognize all too well:

Disappointment.

She had often looked at him like that, but he had chosen to ignore it and pretend that her blind infatuation with him would save him from any real trouble. He knew better than to trust on that now.

"But to answer your question…" Sheldon continued quickly. "I can wholeheartedly say that I don't believe that it's even possible for me to hate you, Amy."

"Oh, yeah?" Amy avoided looking into his eyes. "What sets you apart from all those other people who thought they were in love?"

He was losing her to disappointment; Sheldon could feel it.

He reached out, taking Amy's hand and putting it in between his, holding onto her until she was looking at him again. "I already went through metaphorical hell when you broke up with me." Sheldon said earnestly, not breaking eye-contact. "And at first, I was angry with you because, to me, it seemed like you were throwing away a perfectly functioning relationship. Eventually I understood that it wasn't perfect… not back then. But now you've given us a second chance and I made a promise to myself that I will do anything to make it last... because... I don't want to be apart from you ever again."

Amy's eyes glistened. She swallowed down a sob and covered their hands with her remaining free one, stroking his skin as Sheldon continued.

"Even back then when I was angry, I was never able to hate you or purposely do something that I knew would cause you pain. I… I still loved you and I missed you and I would've done anything to have you back." Sheldon confessed sincerely. "I never want to go back there. Never. I couldn't bear the loss. You are... my best friend and you're my partner, Amy Farrah Fowler."

She had listened patiently to him, seemingly with withheld breath. But now, Amy couldn't suppress the tiny sobs that made it past her lips. She lifted one hand to wipe the tears from the corner of her eye. "Oh, Sheldon…" she whispered just barely audible. "I feel the same way about you. I always have. Despite your… peculiarities and sometimes challenging behavior," she chuckled a bit. "I wouldn't want you to be any other way. I'll always love you."

"Good." he smiled back in relief, feeling how the weight of his worries melted away like hot wax. "I don't want to end up like Alfred and Beverly."

"Me neither." Amy grinned and she leaned over to kiss him. With her arms around his shoulders and his around her waist they maintained their connection and kept kissing until bright car headlights were blinding them from behind and startled them apart.

Sheldon didn't let go of her yet as he spoke. "I think Leonard and Penny just pulled up behind us. I should probably go inside before they start prying about what we were doing so long in a parked car."

Amy giggled. A blush crept up her cheeks, which made her look so youthful and sweet. "You're right. You should go." she said.

Admiring her sight for another moment, Sheldon came to a quick decision and kissed her lips once more before detangling himself from her. "See you tomorrow, Amy." he said and exited the car.


Obviously, I love the scenes where it's just our Shamy. I love their honest conversations, especially after they get back together. It not only shows the great chemistry Sheldon and Amy have, but also the amazing chemistry between the actors! :) What do you think?

Happy holidays everyone! Stay safe and healthy my lovely readers!