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muir_wolf ([personal profile] muir_wolf) wrote2009-12-08 04:35 am

The Convergence Conclusion (The Big Bang Theory fanfic)

Title: The Convergence Conclusion
Spoilers: Up to 3.10
Rating/Warnings: T/PG-13. Two naughty words.
Word Count: ooooh 1400 exactly!
Disclaimer: All your TBBT don't belong to me. =/
Summary: You know how people and their pets begin to look alike? Yeah. This is Sheldon and Penny rubbing off (not in a dirty way!) on each other and beginning to *sound* alike. The Horror.

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So in case it’s late and I’m not clear, each of these snippets is supposed to seem a bit OOC for Sheldon and Penny, because they’re all set farther down the line and they’ve clearly been spending too much time together. Meh. Maybe I'm just easily entertained by the idea.


P.S. I am *totally* fudging the timeline. My bad.

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…The Convergence Conclusion…

./.

Day Zero

It happens gradually.

Penny’s explanation of why Sheldon’s spot is Sheldon’s spot, Penny’s scathingly Sheldonized version of Leonard’s experiment. It’s amusing, really, and Leonard doesn’t really consider it. Doesn’t really consider the implications behind it.

./.

Three Weeks Later.

Sheldon and Penny are watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She’d mentioned they were going to earlier, something about payback and emergencies and an invitation for Leonard that he’d declined because of work and the explosion that would no doubt be caused by Sheldon watching it.

Except. They’re sitting, watching, and Sheldon appears to be neither scoffing nor unduly suffering, and Leonard pauses as he walks behind the couch.

“Enjoying the movie?” he says, smug as all get out, but Sheldon doesn’t so much as glance away from the screen.

“Despite the fact that Angelina stole Brad from Jennifer, Penny is right, they do have vast amounts of “chemistry” in this movie,” he says, voice low as he watches the title characters fight each other. Penny looks over at him, real pleasure and pride in her face as she pats his arm and then glances up at Leonard as if to say see? Leonard realizes that he’s gaping like a fish, so he smiles back at Penny and keeps walking. Clearly this is simply an aberration.

./.

Two Weeks Later.

Penny pauses outside the restaurant with a little frown, and Leonard pauses besides her. “What’s wrong?” he asks.

She shrugs a little, trying to ignore the odd feeling.

“Penny?” he prompts again, and she shakes her head.

“It’s just…it’s Thai night. And we’re getting Italian.”

“You don’t want Italian?” Leonard asks, confused, and she shrugs again, evidently bewildered by her own thoughts.

“It’s just…it’s Thai night,” she says, as if it’s self-explanatory. And in a way, it is.

./.

Seventeen days later.

“Howard, given the current societal trends in fashion, should you not rethink your choice of dress if you are, in fact, hoping to attract females rather than cause them to run and/or hide at your very approach?”

“What?” Howard asks, more at the content rather than the delivery of the words, but Sheldon sighs overdramatically.

“Given the magazines Penny has perused in my company, I have noticed that your choices in color as well as combination leave much to be desired. If you let Penny give you a “make-over,” I am confident that your desirability to the female population would increase—that, in short, you’d ‘get a lot more babes.’”

“Sheldon, are you giving me dating advice?” Howard asks, trying for a smirk.

“Howard, I think it’s clear to everyone that someone needs to,” Sheldon deadpans.

./.

One Month Later

“This is ridiculous,” Penny vents to the boys. Everyone is calling in sick, the virus is spreading like tribbles and production is going to be completely shut down if this keeps up!” She blinks, noticing that they’re staring at her, most of them trying not to grin. “What?” she snaps.

“Like tribbles?” Howard asks amused, and she rolls her eyes.

“Given my temper right now, Howard, do you really feel that it’s in your best interest to aggravate me in such a way?” she says, eyes flashing, and then she claps a hand over her mouth, eyes wide.

“What?” Leonard chokes out, shocked, and she shakes her head, trying to breathe calmly.

“I mean, shut up before I make you?”

./.

One Week Later

“Perhaps I am not making myself clear,” Sheldon says, heat in his voice that no one is used to. “Penny is dating my friend Leonard. Despite the fact that I am certain this relationship is doomed to failure, this does not negate the fact that Penny is currently involved with someone. Penny is also my friend, and as she has told you that not only is she dating someone, but that she would not be interested in you if you were the last person on the planet, I believe it is time you admitted your defeat and began to pursue someone else.”

“Listen, pal, this isn’t any of your business, so keep walking before I feel the need to convince you,” the other man says, starting to step around Sheldon to a fairly pissed-off Penny. Except Sheldon, inch-for-inch as tall at the other guy, steps in his way.

“Let me be even more clear,” he says, voice gravelly with irritation. “Get. Fucking. Lost.”

Something about the delivery and the way that Sheldon and Penny are both shooting him identical death glares must get to him, because the guy stands his ground for a long moment and then with a decent amount of cussing stalks off. Penny just smirks a little at Sheldon as Raj and Howard stare at them with flabbergasted expressions.

./.

Two Months Later

“Okay, Leonard, here’s the thing. It’s been dead. All this time. And we’ve just been pretending that it’s alive, and I can’t pretend anymore.”

“Penny, I don’t understand what you mean!” Leonard yells, furious and frustrated by now, and Penny throws her arms up, exasperated.

“We gave it a shot, okay? But just because we pretend that we’re compatible, doesn’t mean that we are! Schrodinger’s cat isn’t opening the box and seeing if the cat is alive or dead, it’s the fact that the cat’s alive or dead without the universe’s say-so or seeing, and no matter how much we say we work it doesn’t change the fact that what’s happened in the box has happened, with or without our consent!”

“You’re breaking up with me,” Leonard says, voice stiff, stilted. “You’re breaking up with me, and your reason is Schrodinger’s cat?”

“We don’t talk,” she says. “We don’t fit,” she says. “This was inevitable, and you know it, Leonard.”

“You sound like Sheldon,” he says, and now he sounds bitter. “Eight months of a relationship and now you’re telling me we were never together? What the fuck, Penny?”

“Leonard,” she says, and her voice is shaky with unshed tears, and she catches his tense fingers in her hands, pulls his arms from their defensive position crossed in front of his chest. “Leonard,” she says. “‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.’ We were together, Leonard. For what it’s worth, we were together, and we tried, and I wanted to believe. I’m glad I took this road, I’m glad I believed we could work.”

He breathes out, closes his eyes for a long moment before letting them open. “But we couldn’t,” he says. “We can’t.”

“Not like this,” she says. “This isn’t us. This isn’t who I want to be.”

He nods, with something like a sigh on his lips, and then he pulls back and walks away. He doesn’t let himself look back.

./.

Eighteen Months Later.

“Sheldon, this is a non-optional social convention,” Penny says, trying to hide her grin.

“Penny, I know that you are simply using that phrase to elicit my consent, and—”

“Think of how you’ll be able to keep my apartment clean all the time,” she says, amused, and Sheldon pauses, a considering look on his face before he shakes it away.

“Penny, despite our relationship I know that my…quirks, as you call them, often cause you to feel irritation, and you moving in would—”

“Leonard is moving in with Leslie, and it—” she tilts her head to the side, pausing a moment to choose the right words, “It would not only be more practical but also beneficial for us to consolidate our resources and share the apartment.”

“Penny…” Sheldon says, still looking nervous at the thought, “I don’t…I don’t want to lose you. And I think…I think that you having to put up with me…”

She puts a hand to his cheek, and he stills, looking down at her with so much warmth Leonard can feel it radiating from where he’s paused, frozen, in the doorway.

“I’m not going anywhere,” she says. “I promise.”

“I love you,” Sheldon says, the irrational, emotional, ridiculously sentimental and completely un-Sheldon words flowing easily off his tongue as if he were born to say them, and born to say them to her. “I love you, Penny. Move in with me.”

“If you insist,” she laughs, and then she kisses him, and Leonard shuts the door quietly, backing away from their perfect tableau.

Leslie, after all, is waiting for him, and even he can see what’s happening inside the box.

./.

Finis


Much love, Wolfie ;)



[identity profile] spaceanjl.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes, lovely. I can totally see them mind-melding over time, and becoming some super-scary composite being that frightens the other folk...

Seriously, this I can see for them. The process of humanizing him would be good for her, and they could make something work in a way that I don't think L/P ever will. Yay chemistry...

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Aww thank you =) I do love the others expressions whenever they've seen Sheldon and Penny acting too much alike (the Penny Blossoms, Age of Conan, the seat explanation) so this was fun to write, haha

[identity profile] lilivanilla1.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely fanfic!

Seeing how they change is just hilarious (even more when I think about the faces of the three witnesses xD)

The end is v. sweet =)

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you liked it! I like the idea of Sheldon interacting enough with Penny that he's able to say things like I love you without it seeming unnatural/forced/as scary as his "Sheldon's here" ;)

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_carly_/ 2009-12-08 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
This was a really cool idea and I'm on such a happy high from the "this is Sheldon's spot" explanation that it was great to read something that expanded on that. I loved all the sections, especially 'one month later' because it reminded me of the time Penny did her Star Trek/shields explantion and had the same "WTF self?!" reaction afertwards, hehe. Great job :D

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, yeah I watched the episode and this plot bunny immediately jumped me so I had to write it ;) So glad you liked it!!

[identity profile] missjade09.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
awww am in love with this fic ^^ I love the part where he stands up for her against the tall guy and swearing in the process the most...made of WIN.

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
I am totally in love with the idea of Sheldon getting all aggressive in defense of Penny. If this ever actually happened on the show I would probably keel over dead from bliss ;)

[identity profile] missjade09.livejournal.com 2009-12-12 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
I know! It would be a HOT scene to witness! Oh and this is just a random thought (because I was re-watching season 6 of Friends) and thought...hey, S/P is more like Monica and Chandler...while their relationship didn't start till around season 5, their natural progression in the show was just splendid and there were many elements about Monica/Chandler that points to our S/P. Not to mention that Chandler turn out to be such a sweet guy :P...He basically beat Ross in being my favourite guy on the show. Okay, enough of my rambling...I'm re-reading your fic again ^^

[identity profile] ruby-caspar.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
SO much love! This was adorable - I have this big goofy grin now, and people in the library are going to think I'm loving the excavation reports I'm meant to be reading (so not!). My favourite bit was the last one; I loved how they had swapped! Perfect.

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
I want Sheldon to be able to eventually tell Penny he loves her without it being super awkward and/or creepy is really rather terrifying ;)

SO glad you liked this, and totally feel you on the avoiding stuff, haha

[identity profile] dashakay.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
OH GOD. I just loved that. You had both of their voices down pat and it was hilariously true. WIN!

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, thanks, I'm glad you liked it! =)

[identity profile] babebubeboink99.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs while sobbing unattractively* I'm so glad you gave Leonard to Leslie!!!

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, I can't help it, they fit so well together! <3

[identity profile] untherapy.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
brilliant! I love the idea of their mannerisms rubbing off on each other. It's just so perfect :)

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Aww thank you! They both have such interesting characters that this was super fun to write ;)

[identity profile] drummingsong.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
“Given my temper right now, Howard, do you really feel that it’s in your best interest to aggravate me in such a way?” she says, eyes flashing, and then she claps a hand over her mouth, eyes wide.

“What?” Leonard chokes out, shocked, and she shakes her head, trying to breathe calmly.

“I mean, shut up before I make you?”


I LOL'D. This is a wonderful fic, and I can totally see this happening to the two of them. Their voices are PERFECT. I want to see this on the showwww. :(

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, thank you, you're too sweet!! ;)

[identity profile] dianelyn.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so in love with this fic and the whole concept around it. I can totally see their relationship developing this way.

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I would so love it if that happened! And really, it's already happened on various occasions! Mostly I want to see Sheldon act kind of like Penny in front of the boys *is holding out hope*

[identity profile] chelsea-thomson.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
“Given my temper right now, Howard, do you really feel that it’s in your best interest to aggravate me in such a way?” she says, eyes flashing, and then she claps a hand over her mouth, eyes wide.

“What?” Leonard chokes out, shocked, and she shakes her head, trying to breathe calmly.

“I mean, shut up before I make you?”



MADE ME LOLZ SO HARD MY STOMACH HURTS!

Loved this. Especially the ending - VERY Very cute! :D

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Haha that's awesome, thank you so much!!

[identity profile] artic-fox.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
This was great! I love the slow movement in each of them towards the others quirks and styles, and you've managed to do it subtly but clearly. I really enjoyed this - wonderful job!

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Aww thanks! I was worried about this fic, so I'm psyched you liked it!
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[identity profile] sarisia.livejournal.com 2009-12-08 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
SO so so so so much love. I laughed a lot and swooned a little. Quite happy to have read this. ♥

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well *I'm* quite happy you liked it! ♥

[identity profile] cyranothe2nd.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, Sheldon giving dating advice to Howard cracked me up. And Sheldon saying the F-word blew my mind! I had to re-read that part a couple times. Badass!Sheldon, who knew? And coming back to Schrodinger's Box was a wonderful touch. Great fic!

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
I have a *huge* soft spot for badass!Sheldon, haha. And thank you! Psyched you liked it ;)

[identity profile] starryeyedmagic.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, I really loved this! I love that in a small way you can sort of see this already happening little by little on the show.

I loved seeing Sheldon stand up for Penny. It reminded me of that time in "Work Song Nanocluster" when he yelled at the others for not working and Penny told him "Nicely done" haha


[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
...you can sort of see this already happening little by little on the show: I KNOW RIGHT?!?! Haha, I love that too ♥

And I must confess, I have a total soft spot for Sheldon defending Penny ;) I'm so happy you liked it, thank you!!

[identity profile] treelines.livejournal.com 2009-12-09 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You have a lot of great lines in this! Sheldon's "someone needs to," and Leonard's amazement that they're breaking up because of Schrodinger's cat. Definitely bookmarked this fic. I can see myself enjoying a re-read for the progression of it. Thanks for sharing it!

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Awww thank you!! So glad you liked...making Sheldon more like Penny was just fun ;) And Yay! Thank you!!

[identity profile] juniperlane.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
“Think of how you’ll be able to keep my apartment clean all the time,” she says, amused, and Sheldon pauses, a considering look on his face before he shakes it away.

I LOVE HOW PENNY USES LOGIC ON HIM IN THIS SECTION, ZOMG.

Also, hello, old friend, I completely enjoyed this tasty delight of a tale.

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
*waves* Yay you liked it! *beams* Penny is someday soon going to go totally Spock-logical on Sheldon, and he won't know what hit him. And it will be *fabulous!*

;)

[identity profile] absolutdinnie.livejournal.com 2010-01-26 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Love this one. I believe it all starts with Penny's explanation of the "shields in Star Trek" .
I mean, the whole mind-meshing thing.

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2010-04-02 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I definitely agree <3 Thank you hun!

[identity profile] thoronsil.livejournal.com 2010-01-26 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Why did I not comment on this earlier?
I read this a month and a half ago, but now I reread it, it is like a fresh experience, just as delightful as before. And that is something that does not happen a lot.

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2010-04-02 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
So glad you liked it ;) Thank you hun!

[identity profile] evelynvaughn01.livejournal.com 2010-02-07 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
“You’re breaking up with me, and your reason is Schrodinger’s cat?” That? Is brilliance.

I enjoyed this whole piece. I love how you started with canon moments and then showed how the universe could accept this version. Nice use of Frost, too! Thank you for the read.

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2010-04-02 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, I ♥ Frost! I'm psyched you liked it, and thank you so much!

[identity profile] anameeka.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Great stuff! This is my 2nd, 3rd? time reading this. (I keep finding and re-reading it.) It is just as good as the first time, if not better. Kudos! Love your stuff. I like how they absorb each other, but they don't exactly quote each other, more like paraphrase. Also the Schrodinger's cat and Frost are nice touches as well as how absorbing enough of Penny (so to speak) allows Sheldon to say I love you easily. After all, this is the guy who doesn't say he's happy, but rather he's not unhappy.

[identity profile] muir-wolf.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
It's fun to think about how people change us, and we change them. I think one of the reasons I love S/P so much is seeing how they affect each other. And thank you so much! I really appreciate it, bb ♥