Chapter 54
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Two weeks later after the accident and shortly after everyone else got word about what happened they all gathered at a local funeral home for Mr. Langenstein’s funeral.
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*voices get quiet as Amazing Grace starts playing*
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“ Thank you all for coming ladies and gentlemen. I know this is a very difficult time to process something that happened so suddenly without warning but uh dearly beloved we are gathered here today to celebrate the wonderful life of a man that was so loved by everyone who knew him, Willard Randy Langenstein. Willard was a kindhearted, generous person who knew how to make everyone laugh even if they weren’t feeling their best at a perticular time and place. For those who were lucky to know him knew that he had a smile that was big enough to light up a whole room and an infectious laugh that anybody would kill for if they ever heard it. He was also the kind of man that would have given you the shirt off his back if he could to anybody who needed help for any reason it was no matter how stupid. Aside from his generosity, he was also an extremely loving husband and father who absolutely loved his beautiful wife Melina and their three beautiful daughters Summer, Meghan, and Micayla dearly. He would often talk about them a lot with his coworkers at The General Motors automobile plant where he had been an employee of at for the past 13 years just one month shy of making it 14 years to which he was so happy about and proud of. His boss and the people that he worked with for so many years had said that he was just an overall very down-to-Earth great guy who loved his job and that his presence there will surely be greatly missed. At this time I would like to ask Melina Langenstein to come forward to say a few words please.”, the funeral director said into the microphone at the podium he was standing at next to Mr. Langenstein’s open casket before he stepped away to the side to allow Mrs. Langenstein to take to the mic.
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“ Thank you. I’m sorry I don’t really have anything prepared in terms of a speach but the only thing I can say is as I stand here before you today, words can not express the sheer pain and unimaginable grief that my girls and I are suffering from this horrible unexpected tragedy that has befallen on our family in the last 2 weeks! 2 weeks ago before this tragedy happened we were a bright happy family, strong and whole, looking forward to the future but now… we are broken! A piece of our hearts is now missing that I never thought would be possible! I always thought that Willard and I would grow old and leave this world together someday but now that he’s gone I have no idea what I’m ever going to do without him! Willard, you were my shining star, my rock, my safe place, my best friend, and my absolute everything! Since the day I first met you… I knew you were my soulmate! You were so compassionate, loving, and you treated me like an absolute queen! I will truly never forget all those beautiful memories we have shared together! From our first kiss to our engagement, from our wedding to the birth of our children, I will never forget any of it!”, Mrs. Langenstein cried before she turned her head to look at her beloved deceased husband laying in the casket and cried, “ I love you so much Willard Randy and our girls do too! Rest in peace honey!” She then blew a kiss at him before she walked away to sit back down with her daughters who were just embracing each other, crying their eyes out and telling each other how much they loved each other. A few more people then got up to say a few words as well before the service officially ended allowing everyone to look at the boards of pictures, walk by Mr. Langenstein’s casket to pay their final respects and say their last goodbyes to him before everyone filed out after the pallbearers who began carrying the casket outside to the waiting hearse for transport to the cemetery. Paul and Peter were surprisingly among two of the pallbearers carrying it along with 5 other men who were coworkers of Mr. Langenstein who he knew fairly well when he was alive.
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“ Heavenly Father, that was beautiful what y’all said during the service! I am so sorry for your loss Melina!”, Mrs. Cooper sadly said to Mrs. Langenstein with tears in her eyes as she embraced her shortly after they all got to the cemetery and the casket was lowered into the ground just as Summer, Micayla, and Meghan cried into each other’s shoulders, “ We love you Dad!”
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“ Thank you Mary! I really appreciate you and everyone else being here for my girls and I during this heartbreaking and gut-wrenching time! We have never felt so loved in our entire lives! I don’t think Willard knows that either!”, Mrs. Langenstein cried.
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“ Oh I believe he does! He’s up there with The Lord now, watching over everyone and someday we’ll all be there too for all eternity!”, Mrs. Cooper cried.
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“ I hope you’re right because right now I’m an absolute wreck! Never in a million years did I ever think that I would be…!”, Mrs. Langenstein cried.
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“ I know, I felt like that too when I lost my own husband and my mother a long time ago but it’s going to be ok! I know it’s hard when you lose someone you love but you got to be strong for your 3 girls! They need you just as much as you need them! It’s what Willard would want you to do! He doesn’t want to see y’all suffer just because he’s no longer with us, he would want you to be happy and live your life to the fullest while keeping his memory alive the best you can! Take all the time you need to grieve all you want but also make this a time of healing as well! May the Lord give you strength!”, Mrs. Cooper cried as she held Mrs. Langenstein’s hand in hers.
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“ Thank you! I’ll try!”, Mrs. Langenstein cried as Mrs. Cooper then let go of her hands and the two women embraced each other again just as Sheldon, Leonard, and the others were approaching.
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“ Come on, let’s go.”, Penny cried as she gently placed her hand on Mrs. Langenstein’s shoulder and began walking her away from the gravesite with the others following to go to their cars. They all left the cemetery to head to the memorial luncheon with Mrs. Langenstein, Summer, Meghan, and Micayla riding with Penny in her car along with Amy and Bernadette too while Howard hitched a ride with Raj, Yesenia, and Stuart.
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“ This just sucks so much!”, Summer cried as she sat in the backseat next to her sisters in between Amy and Bernadette who both had their arms wrapped around them.
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“ Agreed Summer! DAD!”, Meghan and Micayla cried.
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“ Shhh, it’s ok! Calm down! This isn’t easy for any of us either!”, Bernadette cried.
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“ You bet it’s not Bernadette, this is a complete nightmare! My sweet Willard, gone from the world! This is so unbelievable!”, Mrs. Langenstein cried as she sat next to Penny in the front seat, blowing her nose with a tissue.
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“ You got that right bi*ch.”, Penny cried as she kept driving.
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“ I was going to say that too.”, Amy cried.
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“ Amy not now.”, Penny cried.
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Raj’s car…
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“ Man I feel so bad for the Langensteins right now that it’s not even funny. This sucks.”, Raj sadly said as he was driving.
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“ Totally with you on that one buddy. I can’t even imagine how they’re feeling after losing someone they loved like that with no warning at all. Whoever is responsible for this tragic accident is a fucking idiot who deserves to go to hell for what they did.”, Howard sadly said as he sat in the backseat next to Stuart.
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“ Oh yeah, somebody’s got to pay big time. Seriously who in their right mind would ever think it’s ok to drink and drive, killing a well loved family man by sending him and his car flying 75 yards downhill into a pond? That makes absolutely no sense.”, Stuart sadly said.
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“ Jeonghwaghi.”, Yesenia sadly said in Korean as she sat next to Raj in the front seat.
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Leo’s car…
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“ Are you alright Leo?”, Sheldon sadly as he sat next to his wife.
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“ Not really Sheldon, I just feel so bad for Melina Langenstein and her girls right now. This is just an absolute tragedy that no one should ever have to go through. Not like that. It’s just awful.”, Leo sadly said as she shook her head while driving.
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“ It most certainly is but it’s going to be alright. As one would say Willard’s in a better place now, watching over us all.”, Sheldon sadly said.
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“ I miss him.”, Cayela sadly said.
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“ I know sweetheart, we all do. He was a great person and a loving father to your friend.”, Leo sadly said. The car rides continued for a while longer before they all pulled up in the parking lot at the venue hall where the luncheon was being held moments later and headed inside.
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“ Come here Sum, it’s ok.”, Florence sadly said when she walked up to Summer with Charlotte, Kirby, Terrance, Skeeter, Robbie, Julia, Arista, Mckenna, Nim, Sawyer, Cayela, and Racy doing the same thing as they then pulled their friend into an embrace.
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“ We’re so sorry about your dad, that really sucks.”, Mckenna sadly said.
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“ Thanks Mckenna, it really does! I feel like a wall of bricks just fell down on top of me! I was so not ready for this yet, at all! It’s not fair!”, Summer cried.
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“ Well nobody really is truly ready to lose someone they love for any reason but it happens unfortunately every day. That’s just how life is.”, Nim sadly said.
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“ Yeah well I don’t like it! This is the most sickening, ungodly horrible, gut-wrenching punch to my heart that I’ve ever felt in my entire life! Never in a million years did I ever think that at 14 years old I would suddenly lose my old man in a tragedy that never should have happened in the first place! Whoever the drunken prick is that slammed into my dad’s car, killing him like that is a complete numbnuts! My dad didn’t do anything to anybody to deserve that!”, Summer cried.
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“ True.”, Florence, Charlotte, Kirby, Terrance, Skeeter, Robbie, Julia, Arista, Mckenna, Nim, Sawyer, Cayela, and Racy sadly said as they nodded their heads.
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“ Hey Florence, you mind if I join you and Cayela for a bit?”, Theora sadly asked when she suddenly walked up to them.
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“ Oh hi Theora, no not at all.”, Cayela and Florence sadly said.
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“ Wait what?! Who’s this?!”, Summer cried.
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“ This is Theora Eleven Wavebird, she’s a new teammate on mine and Terrance’s gymnastics team who just joined us 2 weeks ago shortly before your dad died. And Theora you obviously know Cayela and Terrance already but these are the rest of our friends Charlotte Tipton, Julia Ratley, Robbie Wayne, Arista Stormbender, Nim Branson, Mckenna Baxterson, Sawyer Mullinex, Racy Zoommezki, Kirby Rossfire, Skeeter Bullock, and Summer Langenstein.”, Florence sadly said as she introduced everyone to each other.
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“ Hi nice to meet you.”, the others sadly said.
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“ Nice to meet you too. Cayela and Florence told me what happened shortly after they found out, I’m really sorry for your loss Summer.”, Theora sadly said.
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“ Thank you Theora, I’m just really devestated by this because it was so unexpected! It’s an absolute gut-punch and the hardest thing I’ve ever had to deal with in my life! I was really close with my dad and now that he’s gone I don’t know what I’m going to do! I just want him back, so much!”, Summer cried as she fell to her knees, burying her face into her hands.
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“ It’s ok.”, Cayela, Florence, Charlotte, Julia, Robbie, Mckenna, Kirby, Skeeter, Terrance, Sawyer, Nim, Arista, Racy, and Theora sadly said as they all embraced her, just letting her cry into them.
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“ Hi Amy.”, Peter sadly said when he walked up to Amy.
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“ Oh hi Peter, how was handling the casket?”, Amy sadly asked as she kissed her boyfriend.
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“ Rough. That’s actually the first time I’ve ever had to do that, especially for somebody that we knew.”, Peter sadly said as he kissed her back.
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“ Yeah well I guess that’s just life.”, Amy sadly said.
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“ True well anyway this probably isn’t the best place to tell you this but, my mother called me 2 weeks ago about 2 days before this tragic accident happened to Mr. Willard Langenstein to tell me that her and my father are planning on coming out here to visit me this coming next week and well… they want to meet you.”, Peter said.
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“ Really? That’s nice.”, Amy said.
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“ Yeah but I’m a little nervous about how this is going to go.”, Peter said.
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“ Nervous? Why would you be nervous about me meeting your parents?”, Amy asked.
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“ Because to be honest with you before I even met you… I haven’t had much luck with finding someone that my mother thought was good enough for me. I really want her and my father to like you just as much as I like you.”, Peter said with a sigh as he grabbed Amy’s hand and held it in his, staring into her eyes.
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“ Well then we’ll just have to make that happen because I really like you too.”, Amy said as she cupped his face and kissed him again, wrapping her leg around his as he then wrapped his arms around her rubbing his hands all over her which started a make-out session between the crime show narrator and neurobiologist.
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“ Hey Romeo and Juliet you might want to cut that out before there’s ass-kicking! People are staring!”, Paul hissed when he suddenly walked by his two friends pointing at several people who were begining to stare in their direction.
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“ Paul will you shut up and leave my girlfriend and I alone before I kick your a**?! Like I said before, this ain’t Forensic Files!”, Peter hissed back at his friend.
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“ Dude I’m the creator of this show! I told you I can call it anytime I want!”, Paul shot back.
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“ Yeah but could you guys not call it during a funeral luncheon please?! That’s just stupid!”, Leonard butted in.
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“Can it Dr. Leonard Hofstadter!”, Paul and Peter hissed as they narrowed their eyes at him.
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“ Oh for God sakes, sometimes I just hate my name!”, Leonard hissed as he threw up his hands and walked away.
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“ Yeah well don’t we all.”, Sheldon said as he rolled his eyes.
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“ Will you shut up before I slap you?!”, Leonard shot back at his roommate/best friend.
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“ Oh that seems overly harsh don’t you think?”, Sheldon asked as he narrowed his eyes at Leonard.
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“ Sheldon!”, Leonard hissed.
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“ Alright!”, Sheldon shot back as he shut his mouth. The luncheon continued for the next few hours with everyone eating food and talking to each other, sharing stories about Mr. Langenstein and after it was over Dakota, Leonard, and Athena drove Axel back to his house while everyone else went home.
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“ Thanks for driving me home Leonard.”, Axel said as he sat in the back next to Athena.
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“ No problem Axel, it’s the least we could do since you still don’t have a van to drive yet.”, Leonard said.
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“ True but the good news is that I should be getting a new one delivered to me tomorrow with a whole bunch of new equipment too completely paid off for from the lab I work at.”, Axel said.
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“ Well that’s good to hear that you at least still have a job there.”, Dakota said.
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“ Yes it is Dakota, anyway I’ll see you guys later. Bye Athena.”, Axel said before he got out of Leonard’s car.
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“ Bye Cousin Axel, love you.”, Athena said.
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“ Love you too, bye.”, Axel said before he shut the door and walked into his house. Leonard then pulled out of the driveway and drove away heading towards the highway in the direction of Pasadena like he normally did after every visit they made out to see Axel but as he was doing so he suddenly found himself pulling off to the side of the road just sitting there with somewhat of a blank stare on his face and his foot resting on the brake pedal while the engine was still running which immediately didn’t go unnoticed by Dakota or even Athena.
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“ Dad?”, Athena asked her father in concern.
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“ Leonard why did you just pull over all of a sudden? Is everything alright?”, Dakota asked in concern as she stared at her husband.
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“ Oh, yeah I’m fine Dakota… it’s just my mind’s thinking about what happened is all.”, Leonard said with a sigh when he snapped back to reality.
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“ Are you talking about what happened to Mr. Willard Langenstein? Honey don’t do that, you’re going to scare our daughter and that won’t be good for any of us if we have to console her the whole night.”, Dakota asked in concern as she shook her head.
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“ You’re right, it’s dumb. I’ll just keep driving.”, Leonard said as he then pulled back up onto the road and continued driving.
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“ Thank you.”, Dakota said as she then thought, ‘ What the hell was that all about?!’ and settled back into her seat, letting her mind wander. Then shortly after they got back home while Leonard went to go watch tv with Leo and Sheldon and Athena went to go play with Cayela as well as Oreo, Dakota walked over to Penny’s apartment to talk to her.
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Knock knock!
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“ Dakota?”, Penny asked when she answered the door.
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“ Hi Penny, can I come in for a second?”, Dakota asked.
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“ Sure, come on in.”, Penny said as she stepped aside allowing her friend to walk in the door.
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“ Thanks.”, Dakota said as Penny then shut the door behind them.
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“ No problem. So, what’s up? How was dropping Axel off?”, Penny asked.
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“ Nothing much and it was good except now I’m starting to get a little worried about Leonard. The weirdest thing just happened while we were on our way home a few minutes ago.”, Dakota said in concern.
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“ Really? Well what happened?”, Penny asked in concern.
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“ I don’t know but when we were driving home after dropping Axel off I think Leonard might have had some kind of mini stroke or something because he just all of a sudden pulled over to the side of the road about 30 minutes into the drive and he just sat there with his foot on the brake, looking ahead with this blank stare on his face. He looked like he was scared or something which is very odd because… I’ve never seen him do that before.”, Dakota said in concern.
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“ Oh balls are you kidding me?! You actually saw him do that?! Like physically saw him do that right in front of you?!”, Penny asked in concern.
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“ Yes I swear to God I’m not joking. What in the hell do you think that was about? He told me he was thinking about what happened to Summer’s father but I’m not sure.”, Dakota said in concern.
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“ Well I’m not sure either but if I were you I would take him to see a neurologist, just to be on the safe side because you’re right that is very weird and completely out of character for him.”, Penny said in concern.
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“ I suppose that’s not a bad idea but what if something is wrong? The last thing I want is to end up losing Leonard too the same way I lost my sister.”, Dakota said in concern.
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“ Hey don’t skeet shootin’ say that, I think it’s just a case of paranoia. I’m sure Leonard’s going to be fine.”, Penny said in concern as she shook her head.
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“ I hope so.”, Dakota said with a sigh. The two women continued talking for a while before Dakota decided to leave but not before calling President Seibert telling him that Leonard wasn’t going to be coming into work the next day because of a neurology appointment to which he said was fine and after she hung up with him she went ahead and scheduled the appointment for that very same day.
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“ Hey you guys, I’m back.”, Dakota said when she walked in the door.
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“ Hello Dakota, what were you doing over there at Penny’s?”, Sheldon asked as he looked over his shoulder at his friend.
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“ Oh I was having a conversation with her, nothing too important but um, do you guys mind if you take Cayela and Athena to school tomorrow on your way to work?”, Dakota asked.
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“ Oh no not at all. Is there a reason?”, Leo asked as she tucked her hair behind her ear.
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“ Uh yeah there is Leo. Leonard’s not going to be going into work tomorrow.”, Dakota said as she pointed at Leonard before she walked over to the kitchen to pour herself a glass of wine.
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“ Wait what?! What do you mean I’m not going to work tomorrow?! What the hell are you talking about Dakota?!”, Leonard asked in confusion as he stood up out of his chair to stare at his wife.
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“ You’re not going to work tomorrow because you have a neurology appointment at the hospital.”, Dakota said as she took a sip of her wine while standing behind the kitchen counter.
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“ You scheduled for me to see a neurologist? What for? Is this about what I did in the car on our way home from Axel’s?”, Leonard asked as he walked up to the counter, crossing his arms in front of him.
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“ Yes it is.”, Dakota said as she nodded her head.
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“ Well good Lord, what happened in the car?”, Sheldon asked in concern as Leonard turned his head to look at him.
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“ Yeah, what are you talking about?”, Leo asked in concern.
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“ Well to answer your question Sheldon and Leo about 30 minutes into our drive home from dropping off Axel at his house Leonard suddenly pulled over onto the side of the road with no warning at all and just sat there for a minute with his foot on the brake, looking straight ahead with this blank stare on his face! It freaked me the hell out because I’ve never seen him do that before, like EVER since we’ve been together! He looked like a deer caught in headlights!”, Dakota hissed as she crossed her arms.
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“ Oh what fresh hell is this?! Well that explains it!”, Sheldon interjected as he rolled his eyes.
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“ Agreed!”, Leo interjected as she did the same thing.
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“ Oh for God sakes you got to be kidding me right now! Honey I’m fine, this is really not necessary! It was just a fluke thing that I don’t know why happened but it just did because I was thinking about the accident that killed Cayela’s friend Summer’s father alright!”, Leonard hissed.
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“ I know that but Leonard, I love you and care about you very much! I don’t want there to be something wrong with you! This is just a precaution ok, especially since we have a daughter to think about and the very last thing I want is to tell her that there’s something wrong with her father and have her freak out over it!”, Dakota hissed as she then walked around from behind the counter and grabbed her husband’s hands staring at him with a look of worry and concern in her eyes.
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“ Ok fine, you’re right. I’ll go to the appointment… but this better be the only time you ever schedule something like this without telling me first Dakota.”, Leonard said with a sigh.
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“ Fair enough, thank you. I love you.”, Dakota said as she kissed him.
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“ I love you too.”, Leonard said as he kissed her back saying in his head, ‘ God I love this bitch! Suck it Rico!’
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“ Come on, let’s go!”, Cayela exclaimed as she suddenly came running out of her room and towards the front door carrying Oreo with her.
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“ Oh you don’t have to tell me twice! Hi and bye!”, Athena exclaimed as she followed after Cayela shortly after they had changed out of the clothes they wore to Mr. Langenstein’s funeral and luncheon earlier that day, grabbing her father’s car keys which instantly grabbed the attention of the 4 adults.
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“ Wait a minute, hold on! Where do you think you’re going with my car keys Athena?!”, Leonard interjected.
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“ I’m just going down to the parking lot with Cayela for a bit to pretend like I’m driving your car Dad! No biggie!”, Athena exclaimed as she tried to run out the door with Cayela only for her mother to say, “ I don’t think so young lady, you don’t need those for pretend driving.” as she shook her head.
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“ Exactly, now please give me my keys back.”, Leonard scolded as he held out his hand.
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“ Oh come on I’m just trying to have fun!”, Athena protested.
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“ Athena Makenzie Hofstadter!”, Dakota and Leonard scolded their 13 year old daughter.
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“ Ok fine.”, Athena said with a sigh as she handed the keys back to her father.
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“ Thank you, now please be careful.”, Leonard scolded.
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“ Yes and don’t talk to strangers please.”, Dakota scolded.
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“ Ok I will and won’t, love you!”, Athena exclaimed before she ran out the door with Cayela and headed to the elevator to take it downstairs.
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“ Love you too!”, Leonard and Dakota called out.
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“ Nice parenting you guys.”, Leo said.
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“ Thanks Leo, you and Sheldon aren’t so bad either at parenting Cayela.”, Leonard said.
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“ Thank you.”, Sheldon said.
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Ring ring ring!
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“ What is it now Athena?”, Leonard asked his daughter when he answered his phone.
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“ Dad your car doors are locked. Could you come unlock them please?”, Athena asked her father as she stood with her back against the driver’s side door of his car moments later with Cayela standing on the other side of the car holding Oreo in her arms.
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“ Oh yeah sure sweetheart, hold on one second. I’ll be right back you guys.”, Leonard said before he hung up and headed to the door with his keys in his hand. He came back a few moments later after unlocking the doors to his car and said, “ Ok I’m back.” before he tossed his keys back into the bowl next to the front door and walked over to his desk to work on his laptop while Leo and Sheldon went to working on their white boards and Dakota went to go take a shower after she finished her wine.
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Leonard’s car…
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Meow!
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“ You had it all! The day you told me, told me you want me! I had it all! But let you fool me, fool me completely! Yeah I was so stupid, to give you all my attention! ‘Cause the way you played me, exposed your true intention! And one day, I’ll have you beggin’ on your knees for me! Yeah one day, I’ll have you crawling like a centipede! You mess with me and mess with her, so I’ll make sure you get what you deserve! Yeah one dayyyyyy, you’ll be beggin’ on your knees for me!”, Athena and Cayela sang at the top of their voices as they sat in the front seat of Leonard’s car listening to Beggin’ On Your Knees from the Victorious soundtrack on Athena’s iPod that was connected to a Bluetooth speaker that they brought in there with them while Oreo was exploring the inside of the car, putting her paws up on everything as she was looking outside at the birds, people, and traffic that was bussling all around them like she was watching Cat TV as Jackson Galaxy calls it whenever cats look out the window.
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“ This rocks Athena!”, Cayela exclaimed as she nudged her cousin in the shoulder.
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“ Totally Cayela! Best idea I’ve ever had in my life! Pretend driving is fun but I can’t wait until the day I turn 16 and get to drive for real after I get my license!”, Athena exclaimed as she gripped the steering wheel pretending to turn it like she was driving. She was caucasian just like her parents with short black curly hair like her father with a green streak in the front of her hair like her mother had, she had the same color eyes as her mother, and she was wearing a pair of blue jean shorts and a red t-shirt underneath a gray colored hoodie that looked similar to her father’s. She was also wearing gray tennis shoes on her feet.
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“ Yeah that’ll be really fun! We’ll get to take ourselves places wherever we want without having our parents driving us everywhere!”, Cayela exclaimed as she was wearing the same outfit that she wore when her and Florence went to go stay the night at Raj and Yesenia’s apartment.
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“ True but… do you think that what happened to your friend’s father could happen to us too?”, Athena asked as she looked at Cayela sitting next to her.
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“ Well, it’s possible but that shouldn’t make us scared to even try driving… you know when the day comes when we’re legally allowed to.”, Cayela said.
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“ You’re right it’s dumb, I don’t know what I was thinking. Although, what my dad did a little while ago in the car on our way home kind of freaked me out.”, Athena said.
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“ Really? Well what did he do?”, Cayela asked.
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“ He pulled over to the side of the road and just sat like this, for like a minute or two. It was about 30 minutes into our drive home after dropping off Cousin Axel. It was the weirdest and freakiest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I had no idea what that was about and neither did my mom.”, Athena said as she imitated what her father did.
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“ Yeah that is weird but I’m sure he’s ok. It was probably just some freak thing that happens to anybody once in a while.”, Cayela said.
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“ You’re probably right but anyway enough talk about that, let’s talk about Kirby. Is he really your boyfriend?”, Athena asked.
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“ Yes he is, why do you ask?”, Cayela asked.
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“ Oh no reason, I was just curious.”, Athena said.
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“ Well yeah he’s been my boyfriend for quite a while and I really like him a lot.”, Cayela said with a smile.
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“ Well that’s nice, you’re lucky Cayela. I wish I had somebody like that too but I don’t think guys are noticing me that much at school though which kind of sucks.”, Athena said.
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“ Well don’t worry about that Athena, there’s plenty of guys at school that I’m sure one of them is bound to notice you at some point because I mean come on, really? Who wouldn’t want a cute girl like you?”, Cayela said.
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“ You really think someone’s going to think I’m cute?”, Athena asked.
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“ Yes I do because you are! You got your mother’s attractiveness and you got your father’s nerdy look! Trust me, it’s going to happen for you when you least expect it. It’s how it happened for me when I met Kirby at a grocery store while grabbing a carton of milk.”, Cayela said with a giddy laugh.
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“ But how will it happen?”, Athena asked.
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“ Well there’s no telling where Cupid will strike next with his arrows of love, that’s a mystery. You’ll just have to discover that yourself.”, Cayela said.
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“ I guess so.”, Athena said as she shifted her hand a little accidentally pressing on the car horn.
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Beep beep!
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“ Holy crap that scared me!”, Cayela shrieked.
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“ I know, me too!”, Athena shrieked as the two girls started laughing in amusement over the music on Athena’s iPod which was now playing Salt ’N’ Pepa’s Push It as Oreo climbed into Cayela’s lap, rubbing up against her as she started purring. The girls continued to have fun for a while before they decided to go back inside and do something else prompting Leonard to lock up his car again to prevent someone from stealing it like it happened to him once before when him, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj were heading to a Comic-Con in Bakersfield and stopped along the way to take a photoshoot of themselves in Star Trek costumes which left them stranded after the fact forcing them to hot foot it to some random diner to try to call for a ride back home. The humility from that day made Leonard cringe as he then went back to working on his laptop while Sheldon was now watching tv in his spot on the couch while Leo and Dakota were talking to each other in the kitchen as they were making dinner. Then the next day shortly after Leo and Sheldon left to drop Cayela and Athena off at school before heading to work Leonard found himself sitting in the ER at the hospital on the edge of a bed moments later for his neurology appointment that Dakota had scheduled for him while she sat in a chair nearby.
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“ Ok, his eye tracking looks good. Nothing abnormal with that.”, the neurologist said as he was finishing up with moving his medical flashlight in front of Leonard’s face to test his eye tracking movements before he put it away and wrote on his clipboard.
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“ Well that’s good to hear.”, Dakota said.
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“ Yes great, are we done here?”, Leonard asked as he took his glasses off and rubbed his face for a moment before he put his glasses back on.
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“ Almost Dr. Leonard Hofstadter, there’s just one more thing I want you to do. Follow my finger with your eyes and wherever you see it I want you to touch it with your finger before touching your nose.”, the neurologist said as he then held up his finger.
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“ Ok.”, Leonard said with a sigh as he followed the doctor’s instructions, tracking his eyes back, forth, up, and down while repeatedly touching the doctor’s finger before touching his own nose. This lasted for a few minutes before the neurologist said, “ Ok thank you, we’re done. Everything looks completely normal as far as I can see.”
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“ Great but I do have one question, what do you think that whole weird short episode was? Like is it possible that it was some kind of mini stroke or a memory lapse?”, Dakota asked.
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“ Well I don’t think it was a memory lapse but it’s possible that it could have been a mini stroke of some sorts. Has he had any history of strokes, seizures, or anything related to that happening before?”, the neurologist asked.
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“ As far as I know, none that I’m aware of. The only things that I’m aware of that my husband has is Asthma and the fact that he’s lactose intolerant.”, Dakota said as she shook her head.
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“ Interesting. Well, is there anything else that happened previously that I should know about that might be useful?”, the neurologist asked.
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“ Well, I did get exposed to a high level of carbon monoxide at work a few years ago but they said that I seemed fine after I got treated with oxygen and that there didn’t appear to be any lasting effects from it. Is it possible that maybe has something to do with what happened to me yesterday? Like could there possibly be some sort of lasting effect after all that we couldn’t see before?”, Leonard said.
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“ That could be possible considering your compromised lung capacity like your wife had mentioned. Carbon monoxide exposure can cause a number of different problems and can manifest itself in different ways depending on a person’s immune response and the severity of symptoms varies depending on blood type. Sometimes it can effect some people more than others even after the exposure has been cured and can make them act a little spacey at times because their neurons are still a bit hypersensitive from the trauma causing them to fire off all at once through certain changes in their environment. It’s almost like the aftershock of an earthquake is the best way I can describe it.”, the neurologist said.
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“ That’s what I was afraid of. So you’re saying that there is some slight brain damage that’s permanent?”, Dakota asked.
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“ Unfortunately yes Mrs. Hofstadter but fortunately it’s only minor and shouldn’t effect his cognitive function at all. But what I will say is if it seems like it’s getting worse at any time then I would recommend that you come back to see me immediately so we can discuss what to do next as far as treatment goes.”, the neurologist said.
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“ Oh we’ll definitely be doing that because the last thing I want is to lose my husband.”, Dakota said.
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“ Well we certainly wouldn’t want that to happen either. Anyway that will be all but if you have any more concerns or questions please feel free to give me a call anytime, ok?”, the neurologist said.
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“ Ok, thank you very much. We will, bye.”, Dakota said.
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“ Bye now.”, the neurologist said before he left the room to see his next patient.
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“ Ok let’s go home.”, Leonard said as he stood up and walked to the door.
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“ Sounds good to me. Thank you for sitting through that Leonard. I know this wasn’t something that you wanted to be doing and that you would rather go to work but I was just a little concerned about you and I wanted to make sure that there wasn’t anything serious going on.”, Dakota said as she followed him.
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“ It’s ok, I get it.”, Leonard said as he then started to yawn.
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“ Are you tired? Do want to go home and take a nap?”, Dakota asked.
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“ Yeah I think that’s a good idea.”, Leonard said as he then drove them back home before heading to their room to get some sleep with Dakota joining him after she began to feel a bit sleepy as well.
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“ Amy are you sure this is a good idea to be messing with Dakota and Leonard? What if Dakota gets mad at us and decides to pummel us for it? I don’t want to end up in the hospital with a broken skull and I’m pretty sure you don’t either.”, Peter asked Amy in a low register as they began walking into the apartment a few moments later heading towards Leonard and Dakota’s room carrying a roll of duct tape with them.
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“ Oh will you relax Peter? This is only a joke. Besides, I never got to do anything like this when I was growing up due to the fact that my mother would often make me sit in the closet for doing something that she considered ‘sinful’.”, Amy said in a low register as she then took out her phone and went on YouTube to search for the Roadrunner sound effect.
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“ Well that’s got to suck.”, Peter said in a low register as he stared at his girlfriend.
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“ Of course it sucked, it was like I was sitting in the dark realm of Hell. Now shut up for a minute Thomas.”, Amy said in a low register to her boyfriend as she found the video she was looking for.
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“ Ok whatever you say Fowler.”, Peter said in a low register before he shut his mouth as Amy played the video while holding her phone next to the door.
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in YouTube video: “ Meep meep!”
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Sounds of cartoon character running away
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“ What the hell was that?”, Leonard groggily asked in confusion when he heard the noise.
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“ I don’t know, it’s either somebody honking a car horn outside or we have the fricken Roadrunner cartoon character in our apartment.”, Dakota groggily said as she sat up in the bed with Leonard doing the same.
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“ Well that doesn’t make any sense. Why would we…?”, Leonard started to say but was interrupted by the same noise again.
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“ Meep meep!”
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Sounds of cartoon character running away
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“ There it is again and it sounds like it’s coming from outside our bedroom door!”, Leonard exclaimed.
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“ It sure is Leonard! What’s up?! Top of the “ Meep meep!” to you!”, Amy exclaimed as her and Peter started laughing in amusement outside the room in the hallway.
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“ Good one Amy!”, Peter laughed.
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“ Thank you Peter!”, Amy laughed as she kissed him.
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“ What the…?! Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler and Peter Thomas what are you guys doing?! Leonard and I were taking a nap here and you just rudely woke us up! You better explain what the hell this is right now or I swear I’m gonna… hey!”, Dakota hissed at her two friends through the door as she reached for the door handle to open it only for it to be quickly shut back in her face followed by Peter laughing, “ Nope! Later suckers!” as him and Amy then sealed up the door frame with some of the duct tape to keep it shut before Peter took his phone out, playing the Forensic Files theme song from his playlist as he then ran away.
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“ Yeah what he said! Catch you later!”, Amy laughed as she followed after him.
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“ No wait where are you going?! You can’t just… Amy, Peter!”, Dakota hissed as she started jerking on the doorknob to try to get the door open but to no avail due to the tensile strength of the duct tape that was sealing it.
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“ For God sakes did they just seal up our door with duct tape and run away Dakota?!”, Leonard shrieked as he stared at his wife.
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“ Yes they did Leonard! Why do you think I’m yanking on the doorknob right now?!”, Dakota hissed as she kept yanking on the doorknob.
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“ Oh skeet shootin’ bullfights, what?! Hey this isn’t funny you neurobiologist and Forensic Files narrator! Come back here and open up this door unless you want to end up with a faceful of gravel rocks!”, Leonard hissed as he started banging on the door with his fist.
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“ A faceful of gravel rocks? What?”, Dakota asked in confusion as she stared at him as if he said something nuts.
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“ Never mind.”, Leonard said with a frustrated sigh as he shook his head before he took his phone out to call Paul.
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Ring ring ring!
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“ Hello?”, Paul answered his phone.
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“ Hi Paul it’s Leonard.”, Leonard said.
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“ Oh hi Leonard, what’s up?”, Paul asked.
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“ Not much except could you by any chance come by and let Dakota and I out of our room please? Amy and Peter duct taped our door shut as a way to mess with us while we were taking a nap and we’re not really that amused at the moment.”, Leonard said with a sigh.
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“ Oh fudge balls are you kidding me?!”, Paul asked as he rolled his eyes.
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“ Do I sound like I’m kidding?! No! Look, just get over here and let us out please! I don’t want us to be in here the rest of the day!”, Leonard hissed.
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“ Alright alright I’m on my way! Chill out!”, Paul said with a sigh and as he grabbed his keys he hissed in his head as he shook it, ‘ Godd*mn it Amy, why did you do this and involve Peter in it?! That’s just childish!’ before he headed out the door to drive over to 4A.
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“ Leonard, Dakota, I’m here!”, Paul called out moments later when he walked in the door.
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“ Oh thank God! Just get the door open please! This is ridiculous!”, Dakota hissed from inside the bedroom.
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“ Yeah no shit Dakota!”, Paul said as he then started pulling on the duct tape to remove it from the door outside the room.
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“ You know, I swear to God I’m going to slap those two for all it’s worth for what they did if it’s the last thing I do.”, Leonard hissed.
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“ You and me both.”, Dakota hissed.
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“ There, the tape’s off! You can come out now!”, Paul said as he wadded up the tape and threw it away.
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“ Thank you!”, Leonard said as he then opened the door and stormed out with Dakota following him. The two spouses then called Danny to tell him about what Amy and Peter did to which he immediately said that he would go talk to them and shortly after he did so, telling them that what they essentially did was considered kidnapping/holding someone hostage they immediately said they were sorry and that they wouldn’t do it again even though they still thought it was a funny joke. Dakota and Leonard then visited with Paul for a few minutes before he left and the two of them decided to watch some tv while Oreo was happily running around the apartment just batting little toy mice around with her kitty paws. Then later that day after Leo and Sheldon got off work they went to pick up Cayela and Athena from school as well as Summer who decided to come over to hang out with Cayela for a bit as a way to try to take her mind off of losing her father to which her mother gave her permission for.
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“ Hi, we’re back.”, Leo said when they walked in the door.
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“ Hi Leo, Sheldon, Cayela, Athena, and Summer.”, Leonard said.
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“ How was work?”, Dakota asked.
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“ Busy as usual. What about your day? How did the neurology appointment go?”, Leo asked as she hung up her purse.
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“ Neurology appointment? Wait, what?”, Athena asked in confusion as she gripped the straps of her backpack with her hands while standing next to Cayela and Summer.
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“ Nothing you need to know about at the moment Athena, just go away for a few.”, Dakota said as she waved her daughter off, indicating that what she wanted to talk about was important adult stuff that Athena didn’t need to hear at that moment.
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“ Ok, whatever you say Mom.”, Athena said as she headed to her room and shut the door.
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“ Do you want us to go away too?”, Cayela asked as she pointed at herself and her friend.
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“ If you don’t mind. Just for a few minutes.”, Dakota said as she nodded her head.
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“ Ok Auntie Dakota. Come on Summer, let’s go to my room.”, Cayela said as she headed to her room as well with Summer following her.
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“ Thank you. Anyway, to answer your question Leo everything went well except unfortunately the doctor said that Leonard does have some minor permanent brain damage from the carbon monoxide exposure which was not good to hear and was exactly what I was afraid of but the good news is that he said that since it’s minor damage it shouldn’t effect his cognitive function at all to which that I was happy about.”, Dakota said with a sigh.
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“ Well you’re right, the minor permanent damage doesn’t sound great but at least it’s nice to know that it shouldn’t effect Leonard cognitively.”, Leo said.
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“ Indeed.”, Sheldon said as he nodded his head and took off his messenger bag, setting it on his desk chair.
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“ So did anything else happen today while we were gone?”, Leo asked as she tucked her hair behind her ear.
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“ Yes Leo something else did happen that we’re still not amused by! Amy and Peter suddenly stopped by while we were taking a nap a little while ago and pulled a stupid little prank on us!”, Dakota hissed.
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“ Oh good Lord, what did they do?”, Sheldon hissed as he rolled his eyes.
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“ They rudely woke us up with the Roadrunner sound effect making us think that cartoon bird was running around our apartment and then when we tried to come out of our room to confront them about it they sealed our door up with duct tape before they ran away laughing it up with each other while listening to the Forensic Files theme song!”, Leonard hissed.
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“ Ok that is the stupidest thing ever. Why the hell would they do that and more importantly, how did you guys get out then?”, Leo asked as she rolled her eyes.
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“ We honestly have no idea Leo and to answer your other question, Leonard called Paul to get us out!”, Dakota hissed.
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“ You got to be batsh*ttin’ kidding me! You know what someone should really smack the bejesus out of that neurobiologist and Forensic Files narrator for this level of stupidity because that’s just ridiculous!”, Leo hissed.
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“ Yeah you’re telling me Leo! I was so not amused by that, at all! In fact, I think I’m just to go take a walk in the woods to clear all of this steam out of my head!”, Leonard hissed as he then grabbed his keys and wallet out of the bowl.
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“ Well hold on, if you’re going to do that Leonard then take this stuff with you.”, Sheldon said in concern as he pulled out a backpack from the closet in the hallway and presented it to him. It was filled with essential items that you would need by yourself in case of emergency.
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“ Why Sheldon?! I’m not going to be gone that long! This isn’t like I’m going out there to camp overnight by myself! I’m just going for a walk!”, Leonard hissed at his roommate/best friend.
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“ That’s correct but you never know what can happen so please take this stuff with you and don’t argue with me about it! The last thing I want is to lose my best friend like I almost did when you got exposed to carbon monoxide at work a few years ago!”, Sheldon scolded him.
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“ Fine! I’ll take whatever the hell this is you threw in my face and go just to get you off my back! Fuck this shit!”, Leonard hissed as he grabbed the backpack and stormed out of the apartment, slamming the door behind him.
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“ Leonard!”, Leo hissed at her friend when she stuck her head out the door and saw Leonard hitting the elevator button to take the elevator down to the lobby.
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“ Don’t start Leo! I’m not in the mood!”, Leonard shot back as he stepped into the elevator when the door opened before it shut again allowing him to ride the elevator downstairs. Then as he headed outside and got into his car, setting the backpack Sheldon handed him on the passenger seat next to him he took his phone out for a moment so that he could look up walking trails in the woods that were closeby to Pasadena and after a few minutes of scrolling through his phone he found a trail that didn’t seemed too far of a drive and decided to put it in his GPS navigation system before he put his foot on the brake and started the engine.
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“ Ok looks like I’m going to Henninger Flats. I don’t care anymore. I just want to get out of here and go somewhere else for a few before my head explodes.”, Leonard hissed under his breath to himself as he hit the Start Route on the phone GPS screen before he set his phone down on his center console, backed his car out of the parking space, and put it in drive before he drove away following the directions on his phone’s GPS as he turned the stereo on as well. The song that came on the CD player this time was Gotta Be Somebody by Nickelback.
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“ So I’ll be waiting for the real thing, I’ll know it by the feeling! The moment when we’re meeting! Will play out like a scene, straight off the silver screen! So I’ll be holding my breath right up till the end, until that moment when I’ll find the one that I’ll spend forever with! ‘Cause nobody wants to be the last one there, ‘cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares! Someone to love with my life in their hands! There’s gotta be somebody for me like that! ‘Cause nobody wants to do it on their own, everyone wants to know they’re not alone! There’s somebody else that feels the same somewhere, there’s gotta be somebody for me out there!”, Leonard sang part of the lyrics to the song as he kept driving down the street and onto the highway on ramp to get where he was going according to the GPS directions on his phone.
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“ Ok get it together Hofstadter. Everything will all be better once you start walking.”, Leonard said to himself over the music as he kept taking in deep breaths and letting them out. Then once the Nickelback song ended the next song that came up was Gin and Juice by Snoop Dogg.
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“ Ha ha I almost forgot I had this song on this various artists CD! Yeah get it Snoop Dogg!”, Leonard said to himself with a giddy laugh as he started singing the lyrics and nodding his head to the music while still paying attention to the road in front of him. Then a little while later when he pulled up in the parking lot of the trail head and got out with the backpack on his shoulders and grabbed his phone after he shut the car off, he began to start walking down the trail into the woods completely unaware that his phone signal was dropping to the point of it being a complete dead zone in there. But this didn’t become apparent to him until he got pretty far into the woods and somehow got off the trail when he suddenly tripped over a tree root and injured his foot.
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“ Ow! Son of a bitch I think I just hurt my foot and there’s no cell service here! Great! What do I do now?!”, Leonard hissed to himself in pain as he held his ankle and foot with one hand while he held his phone in the other only to see that there was no cell service, completely obstructing his ability to call anybody including 9-1-1.
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“ And wait a second, where did the trail go?! Crap I lost the trail too, d*mn it! Ok ok I’m not going to panic, I guess I’ll just have to see what I have to work with in this stupid backpack that Sheldon insisted I take with me even though I told him I didn’t need it! Alright looks like I got a flashlight, some spare batteries for it, some water, some trail mix, fire starters really Sheldon?! Why?! Ok what else?! A phone charger, and wait a second what the hell is this?! This looks like a personal location beacon! That’s why Sheldon gave me this backpack! Gahhh I’m so stupid! Ok how do you work this thing?!”, Leonard hissed to himself as he was digging through the backpack pulling everything out of it before he put it all back away again when he pulled out the location beacon, trying to figure out how to activate it. But as he was doing so as luck would have it another hiker appeared as he was walking the very same trail that Leonard had been walking and interjected, “ Hey sir, you need some help over there?!” when he noticed Leonard sitting on the ground in distress as he was still trying to activate the beacon.
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“ Oh thank God, yes! I somehow got off the trail and I think I just hurt my foot because I can’t get up! I also tried to see if I could call 9-1-1 too but there’s no service here and I’m really starting to freak out! Ow!”, Leonard hissed in pain.
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“ Well that’s a problem. Do you live around this area by any chance?”, the man asked in concern when he approached him.
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“ No I just drove up here from Pasadena! F*ck! I think my foot is either sprained or broken, ahh!”, Leonard hissed in pain as he clenched his teeth together.
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“ Alright man hang on, I’m going to go get some help. Just stay right there, I’ll be right back.”, the man said in concern as he started leaving trail markers behind him as he ran off to get some help for Leonard.
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“ Thanks, like I have a choice! Ow!”, Leonard hissed as he sat there holding his injured ankle and foot.
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Altadena Forestry Service Ranger Station…
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“ Excuse me I need some help out here!”, the man that Leonard had been talking to in the woods interjected when he ran in through the doors of the ranger’s station.
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“ Yes sir, can we help you?”, the ranger asked when he came up to him.
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“ Yes you can ranger, hi my name is Jeffrey Carmichael and I found a guy from the Pasadena area out in the woods here who says he hurt his foot and can’t get up.”, Jeffrey said as he pointed towards the door.
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“ Well that’s a serious matter that needs to be taken care of immediately. Can you show me exactly where you found him Mr. Carmichael?”, the ranger asked in concern.
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“ Sure of course, follow me.”, Jeffrey said as he headed back out the door with the ranger following as well as a few other rangers when he motioned for them to follow as well. The rangers ended up following Jeffrey into the woods which lead them right to Leonard sitting off the trail right next to a tree just hissing in pain as he was clutching his ankle and foot.
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“ There he is.”, Jeffrey said as he pointed at Leonard.
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“ Wow, you weren’t kidding! Sir are you alright?!”, one of the rangers in concern as they all approached him.
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“ Uh it’s Dr. Leonard Hofstadter and no! I fell and hurt my foot! I think I must tripped over a tree root or something when I was walking on the trail before I lost it!”, Leonard hissed.
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“ Alright well just hang tight Dr. Hofstadter, we’ll get you out of here.”, another ranger said.
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“ Thanks, I appreciate it! Ahh!”, Leonard hissed as he put the beacon back into the backpack as well as his phone before he put it on his shoulders just as the rangers and Jeffrey began to carefully pick him up to carry him back to the Forestry Service.
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Meanwhile back at 4A as Leo was cleaning the kitchen again and Sheldon was watching tv while Cayela was still hanging out with her friend Summer in her room and Athena was reading a comic book in her room Dakota began to get concerned about Leonard due the fact that it had been almost an hour since he left the apartment to go walking in the woods and hadn’t come back yet.
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“ Leo I’m starting to get worried, Leonard’s been gone for almost an hour already and he hasn’t come back yet.”, Dakota said in concern as she was looking at the door as if she was expecting her husband to walk in any minute.
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“ Well you know what now that you mention it I’m starting to get a bit worried too but he’s probably just enjoying himself out in nature Dakota. He’ll be back eventually.”, Leo said in concern as she was wiping the counter down with a wet washcloth.
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“ True but I don’t know… something in my gut just still doesn’t feel right. I’m worried that something happened that I’m afraid to find out about because the last thing that I want to tell my daughter is that something bad happened to her father, especially at a time like this that Summer lost her father in a car accident. I don’t think any of us can handle another funeral right now.”, Dakota said in concern.
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“ That’s correct but let’s just try not to think about that. I’m for certain everything is fine even though I am a bit concerned as well.”, Sheldon said in concern.
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“ Sure. Whatever floats your boat Sheldon.”, Dakota said to her friend as she rolled her eyes just as her phone started ringing.
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Ring ring ring!
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“ Dakota your phone is ringing.”, Leo said in concern.
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“ Yeah I know Leo, I hear it and what the…? That’s weird, Altadena Forestry Service?”, Dakota said in confusion as she looked at the caller ID on her phone.
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“ Answer it, it might be something important.”, Leo said in concern as Sheldon nodded his head in agreement.
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“ And I’m gonna girl, chill out!”, Dakota hissed at her friend before she answered her phone and said, “ Hello?”
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“ Hello, is the person I’m currently speaking to Dakota ‘Skullbreaker’ Hofstadter? Dr. Leonard Hofstadter’s wife?”, one of the male rangers asked when he came on the line on the other end.
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“ Yes I’m his wife. Can I ask who this is that I’m speaking to please?”, Dakota asked as she nodded her head.
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“ This is Ranger Jacob Mickelson calling from the Henninger Flats area up here in Altadena to inform you that we have your husband currently sitting here in our station with an injured foot. Apparently he fell over a tree root when he was walking in the woods out here and couldn’t get himself back up let alone find the trail again to get himself out of the woods as well. He also said that he tried to call for help but unfortunately we don’t have cell service in this area.”, Ranger Mickelson said as he held his office phone to his ear while Leonard was sitting nearby in a chair with his injured foot wrapped in bandages and propped up on a cushion that was resting on another chair. A pair of crutches was leaning against the wall next to him as well.
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“ Oh god are you freaking serious right now? Ok well thank you for letting me know Ranger Mickelson, I’m getting one of my friends right now to drive me up there so I can come get him.”, Dakota said with a sigh.
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“ Of course no problem Mrs. Hofstadter. See you when you get here.”, Ranger Mickelson said.
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“ Thank you, bye.”, Dakota said.
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“ Bye now.”, Ranger Mickelson said before he hung up.
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“ Oh son of a bi*ch this never ends. Leo can you please drive me up to Henninger Flats right now?”, Dakota hissed.
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“ Sure but why Dakota? What’s going on?”, Leo asked in concern as she stopped what she was doing to grab her purse and car keys.
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“ Because one of the rangers from the service just called and said that Leonard apparently injured his foot on a tree root while he was walking in the woods and couldn’t get up!”, Dakota hissed.
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“ Oh god are you serious?!”, Leo hissed as she rolled her eyes.
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“ Yes and not only that but the ranger also said that there’s no cell service up there so yeah I’m going to smack the shit out of him for doing something so stupid!”, Dakota hissed.
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“ Are you talking about the ranger or your husband?”, Leo asked in confusion as she stared at her MMA fighter friend.
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“ MY HUSBAND! Geez Louise, were you not listening to me Leo?!”, Dakota hissed as she threw her arms out to her sides before she stormed out the door heading to the elevator.
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“ Aww come on, Dakota! We’ll be back as soon as we can Sheldon, just stay here with the girls please!”, Leo hissed.
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“ As if I have a choice woman.”, Sheldon said as he kept watching tv.
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“ Ugh whatever! Wait up Dakota!”, Leo hissed as she stormed out as well slamming the door behind them leaving Sheldon alone to watch the girls.
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Henninger Flats: Altadena Forestry Service Ranger Station…
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“ Oh thank god it’s you and Leo! I thought I was never going to get out of here!”, Leonard hissed in pain when he suddenly saw his wife Dakota and their friend Leo walk into the ranger station a few moments later.
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“ Yeah I’ll say! Leonard are you ok?!”, Dakota asked in concern as she looked at her husband.
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“ I’m fine, I think I either just sprained my foot or broke it. I don’t know. All I know is that it hurts really bad and that I can’t put much pressure on it at the moment. Ah!”, Leonard hissed in pain as he shifted a little in the chair he was sitting on in the ranger’s office.
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“ Well how did you get back here to the ranger’s station then?”, Leo asked in concern as she stared at her friend.
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“ Ranger Mickelson, a few other rangers, and some guy named Jeffrey Carmichael carried me back here. Oh god my foot hurts so bad! Godd*mn it!”, Leonard hissed as he leaned forward to grip his ankle.
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“ Ok ok calm down, here let’s get him up Dakota.”, Leo said in concern as she gently lifted his foot off the other chair and set it down before she gently gripped her hand under one of his arms to help him stand up.
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“ Sure thing Leo. Ok honey come on, upsie daisy.”, Dakota said in concern as she grabbed a hold of him too before the two women began to slowly lift him up to a standing position causing him to hiss in pain under his breath, “ Ok ow ow ow! Dakota, Leo, watch what you’re… ow!” before they handed him his crutches to lean on.
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“ Ok yeah your foot’s definitely broken if you’re screaming that much dude. No question about it.”, Leo said in concern as her and Dakota let go of him.
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“ Well that’s just great Leo!”, Leonard hissed in a sarcastic tone as he rolled his eyes.
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“ Sarcasm?”, Leo asked as she narrowed her eyes at him.
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“ Yeah you think?! For god sakes, really?! First I get attacked by carbon monoxide at work a few years ago and now I end up with a broken foot?! What’s next, am I going to die and end up cremated?! Son of a bitch!”, Leonard hissed as he threw his head back.
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“ Oh please you’re not going to die for a long time honey. Don’t talk like that as if it’s going to happen soon and seriously, that’s your final wish?!”, Dakota said before she shrieked in shock when she stared at him again.
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“ Yes it is.”, Leonard said as he nodded his head.
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“ Oh F*CK NO Dr. Leonard Hofstadter! I am so not doing that to you!”, Dakota hissed as she shook her head and began walking away from her husband.
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“ Come on why not?”, Leonard asked as he did a head rotation.
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“ Um hello you’re my husband and I love you! I’m not going to reduce your body to ashes when you die! What are you trying to do, kill me with Broken Heart Syndrome?! I thought we were partners in this marriage!”, Dakota hissed in his face when she spun around on her heel to face him again after she stopped walking away.
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“ We are partners in this marriage Dakota but what the hell are you talking about?! What is your deal about this?!”, Leonard argued back at his wife.
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“ Leonard you know what I’m talking about, I’m talking about my sister Makenzie! You and I were both there with the others when she was cremated after her funeral service!”, Dakota argued.
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“ That was when we were dating but what’s your point?! What are you getting at?!”, Leonard hissed.
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“ What I’m getting at is that was really hard on me to see that because I felt like I was destroying my sister! I don’t want to feel like with you too someday because that’s going to be even worse for me seeing you in a fucking crematorium being burned away to ash and dust!”, Dakota shouted as she could feel some tears starting to form in her eyes.
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“ Ok you have a point there but Dakota think of it this way, when people die they’re not there anymore! Their spirit is gone from their body so the only thing that’s left is an empty hallow shell!”, Leonard shot back.
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“ Yeah I know that but there’s a part of me that feels like something’s still there inside of them! That’s what I’m getting at and you know what I probably shouldn’t say this because it’s ridiculous, but, I’m sure as hell our daughter doesn’t want to see it either!”, Dakota shouted.
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“ Oh for god sakes, Athena will be fine! This isn’t like you’re going to be burning me alive! I’ll be dead, I won’t feel anything!”, Leonard shouted.
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“ Yeah you won’t but I will! And you want to know what that is, DEVESTATING PAIN! Excuse me for a moment Leo!”, Dakota shouted before she began to storm out of the ranger station and started crying.
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“ Oh come on, honey don’t be like that please! We don’t need to be having this kind of argument right now in our marriage!”, Leonard shouted out the open doorway when he limped himself to it on his crutches.
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“ Don’t you dare talk to me right now mister! I am very upset at what you just said, I can’t believe this!”, Dakota cried as she stormed right out the door of the ranger station and stormed away bawling her eyes out with, “ Cremation, are you f*cking kidding me?!”. In that moment she couldn’t believe what she had just heard from the person she loved.
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“ No wait, Dakota!”, Leonard shouted at his wife, pleading with her to come back but when he received nothing but silence was when he threw his head back and cursed under his breath, “ F*ck!”
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“ Oh nice going genius!”, Leo hissed in a sarcastic voice as she shook her head at her friend while crossing her arms in front of her chest.
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“ Leo don’t start with me too! This is not what I wanted to happen at a time like this!”, Leonard hissed.
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“ Well did you ever maybe think that this was the worst time to bring something like that up?! Who the hell says something that morbid to their spouse like that when they have a broken foot?! It makes no sense!”, Leo hissed in his face.
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“ I don’t know, it just slipped out but that’s not the point! The point is that she would have found out about that eventually! I was just trying to soften the blow!”, Leonard hissed.
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“ Well guess what, you failed miserably! My god Leonard Hofstadter you…!”, Leo hissed as she started pacing the floor.
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“ Is everything alright here?”, Ranger Mickelson asked in concern when he walked up to them.
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“ No everything’s not alright Ranger Mickelson! I just upset my wife Dakota talking about my final wishes for when I die someday and I don’t know I just… gahhh I’m so stupid!”, Leonard hissed as he punched his fist at the wall while he was still leaning on his crutches.
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“ Well I hate to say it pal but I don’t blame her one bit for getting upset about that. Cremation is a very sensitive subject to talk about with anybody.”, Ranger Mickelson said as he shook his head.
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“ Yeah you think?!”, Leonard hissed before he lowered his voice and said, “ Oh my god I don’t believe this.”
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“ Well if I were you I’d try to go talk to her to see what exactly is bothering her about this whole thing.”, Ranger Mickelson said in concern.
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“ Thanks for the advice but I already know what this is about, it’s about her sister.”, Leonard said with a sigh.
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“ Oh was her sister cremated?”, Ranger Mickelson asked.
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“ Yes she was.”, Leonard said before he decided to just head back with Leo to her car and just sat there waiting until Dakota came back a few moments later and got in the car.
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“ Oh, there you are. Are you ok?”, Leo asked in concern as she looked at her friend sitting next to her in her passenger seat while her other friend was sitting in the back seat with his foot propped up on the center console.
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“ No I’m not ok, just drive Leo.”, Dakota sniffled as she shook her head and leaned back against the seat after she strapped herself in with the seatbelt.
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“ Well… ok.”, Leo said in concern as she started her car up and pulled away from the ranger station to head back home in the direction of Pasadena.
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“ Dakota what’s wrong? What’s your deal? Why are you so upset at the moment?”, Leonard asked his wife in concern.
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“ Leonard Hofstadter I said I don’t want to talk right now. Just leave me alone.”, Dakota sniffled as another tear began to slide down her face.
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“ Honey come on, please just…”, Leonard said in concern.
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“ I SAID I DON’T WANT TO TALK! SHUT UP OR I’M GONNA BREAK YOUR SKULL! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!”, Dakota screamed in his face when she turned around to look at him for a moment before she threw her head back against the seat, crying again.
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“ Alright, fine… I’ll shut up.”, Leonard said in a soft voice as he then shut his mouth wondering what his wife was so upset about and why she wouldn’t tell him what was wrong. For the rest of the trip home no one said anything else and when they got home a few moments later Dakota just stormed into the apartment crying, walking right past Sheldon to head to her’s and Leonard’s room just as Leo and Leonard came in too with Leonard leaning on his crutches.
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“ Well good Lord what is this obnoxious nonsense and Dakota, what are you…?! Where are you going with your suitcase?!”, Sheldon shrieked as he stood up from the couch just as Dakota was walking past him again to get to the front door, this time dragging her suitcase that was nearly packed to the gills of things she needed for daily function.
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“ Don’t talk to me right now Sheldon, I’m not in the mood! I just need to go somewhere else for now!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Come on Dakota this is stupid. Can we please just talk about this? What is wrong with you?”, Leonard asked in concern as he tried to block his wife’s path to the door.
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“ Leonard I said I don’t want to talk! I’m going to my parents house! I just need a few minutes to process this information that you just suddenly dropped on me with no warning at all!”, Dakota cried as she shoved him aside and opened the door.
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“ Dear Lord what information are you talking about?! What is going on here?!”, Sheldon asked in concern as he stared at his two married roommates who appeared to be going through some kind of marital issue at that moment.
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“ Yeah what did Dad say Mom?”, Athena asked when her and Cayela suddenly came out of their rooms to find out what was going on.
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“ Athena this doesn’t concern you at the moment! This is between me and your father and I don’t know I just… I got to go!”, Dakota cried before she threw her hands up and stormed out the door, dragging her suitcase with her as she then slammed the door shut behind her letting out a gut-wrenching sob as well as she then got into the elevator to leave the building.
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“ No wait, Dakota ’Skullbreaker’ Hofstadter! Come back here, you can’t just… gahhh!”, Leonard hissed as he hit his fist against the wall. He couldn’t believe what was happening in front of him all over something he said to his wife.
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“ MOM!”, Athena interjected in concern as she stared at the door wondering what had gotten her mother so upset at that moment.
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“ Auntie Dakota!”, Cayela interjected in concern too as she did the same thing.
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“ Ok I want to know what’s going on and I want to know right now! Firstly, what in the name of Einstein happened to your foot and secondly, what the hell did you say to Dakota to upset her?! Explain yourself my good man because I’m not putting up with this sh*t!”, Sheldon hissed in his roommate/best friend’s face, narrowing his eyes in suspicion over what this could possibly be about.
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“ Buddy don’t start, I’m not in the mood! Firstly for your information, I broke my d*mn foot walking in the woods at Henninger Flats today and secondly, I didn’t say anything ok!”, Leonard hissed in Sheldon’s face while leaning on his crutches.
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“ Oh puhlease, yes you did! I was there with her, I heard every freaking word you said! Don’t try to hide it! Go ahead and tell Sheldon exactly what you said! Please reveal this big bombshell that you just dropped on Dakota nearly at the top of your voice out of nowhere! Go on, tell him Hofstadter!”, Leo hissed as she crossed her arms.
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“ Leo will you not scream at me please! I’m not in the mood for this!”, Leonard shouted in her face.
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“ I don’t care! Tell him! You better tell my husband exactly what it is you said to your wife right now or I swear to God I’m gonna wring your neck you asthmatic experimental physicist!”, Leo shouted back in his face.
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“ Alright fine I’ll tell him! Athena, Cayela, can you two please go into your rooms for the moment and listen to music through headphones or something?! I don’t want you two hearing what I’m about to say!”, Leonard shouted at her before he shouted at his daughter and goddaughter, telling them to go away for the moment.
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“ Why Dad, is it something important?”, Athena asked her father in concern and confusion.
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“ Yes it is, just go! You and Cayela just get for the moment!”, Leonard shouted.
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“ Ok fine, whatever you say Uncle Leonard.”, Cayela said with a sigh as her and Athena ducked back into their rooms to listen to music so that they wouldn’t hear anything that they weren’t supposed to hear.
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“ Tell me what?! Out with it! What did you say to Dakota?!”, Sheldon hissed in a frustrated voice.
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“ Alright fine… I told her I want to be cremated when I die someday and she got upset about it.”, Leonard grumbled under his breath with a sigh.
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“ You told her about your final wishes just after you broke your foot?! Are you insane?! Are you out of your mind?! Why would you do that?!”, Sheldon gasped in shock and horror at what Leonard just said right to his face.
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“ I don’t know, it just slipped out ok!”, Leonard shot back.
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“ Yeah it slipped out alright! I heard every freaking bit of it and it went a little something like this Sheldon! It first started with me saying, “ Ok yeah your foot’s definitely broken if you’re screaming that much dude. No question about it.” to which then he said, “ Well that’s just great Leo!” so then I asked, “ Sarcasm?” and then that’s when he said, “ Yeah you think?! For god sakes, really?! First I get attacked by carbon monoxide at work a few years ago and now I end up with a broken foot?! What’s next, am I going to die and end up cremated?! Son of a bitch!”, Leo shouted as she imitated said conversation that included what Leonard’s final wishes were in it.
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“ I freaking hate you for that!”, Leonard hissed in a sarcastic tone at his friend for repeating their conversation word for word.
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“ No you don’t! You’re just saying that because you know you screwed up badly! You don’t say stuff like that to someone you love at a time like this! That’s the worst time possible!”, Leo shouted.
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“ Yes I most certainly agree with that, for shame Leonard! You know what, you’re going to fix this right now mister!”, Sheldon hissed as he pointed his finger at him, shaking it in disappointment.
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“ How Sheldon Cooper?! She doesn’t want to talk to me! She just walked right out of here without giving me a chance to say anything about this!”, Leonard shouted.
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“ You’re an experimental physicist with an IQ of 173 Leonard Hofstadter, you should be able to figure that out yourself! She’s your wife! Fix this goddamn nonsense right now before you leave me no choice but to give you a strike for it! I’m not going to tolerate you treating your woman like that! She’s already been through enough with that Rico Boriellas jerk who we shall not be having a discussion about anymore!”, Sheldon hissed as he crossed his arms.
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“ Would you can it already?! My god you’re so annoying sometimes! Just… gahhh!”, Leonard shouted as he furiously limped himself with the crutches to his bedroom that he shared with Dakota and shut the door behind him with a loud slam.
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Fort knox, Kentucky…
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Knock knock!
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“ Dakota?”, Mrs. Harris asked in shock when she opened the door a few hours later to see her daughter standing there with her suitcase just crying as if somebody else died.
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“ Hi Mom!”, Dakota cried as she threw herself into her mother letting out more gut-wrenching sobs with every breath she took.
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“ Sweetheart what are you doing here? What’s wrong?”, Mrs. Harris asked in concern as she looked at Dakota when she let go of her a few moments later.
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“ Can I please just come in?! I’ll explain everything to you and Dad in a minute!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Ok of course, come in.”, Mrs. Harris said in concern as she stepped aside, allowing Dakota to walk into the house as she dragged her suitcase behind her.
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“ Thank you!”, Dakota cried as her mother closed the door behind them.
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“ Dakota? What are you…?”, Mr. Harris asked in shock when he suddenly walked into the room and saw his daughter standing there crying with Johnathan and Eamon following him from the den.
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“ Dad!”, Dakota cried as she threw herself into her father as well. She then proceeded to explain what had happened to which her family gasped in complete shock at what they heard.
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“ Leonard told you that he wants to be cremated after he dies someday?!”, Johnathan, Eamon, Mr. and Mrs. Harris asked in shock as they stared at her with dropped open mouths.
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“ Yes he did, just after he broke his foot up at Henninger Flats today which is where this whole argument started to begin with!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Well you didn’t have that argument in front of Athena did you?”, Mr. Harris asked in concern, mentioning his granddaughter’s name.
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“ No, she was at home with Cayela, Oreo, and Sheldon! It was just me, Leonard, and Leo!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Wait, Leo heard this too?!”, Eamon asked in shock as he stared at his sister.
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“ Yes she did Eamon because I asked her to drive me up there to get Leonard shortly after he broke his foot while walking around in the woods in the first place!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Well what was Leonard walking around in the woods for to begin with?”, Mr. Harris asked in concern.
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“ He was trying to blow off some stress from a stupid prank that Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler and Peter Thomas pulled on us earlier today! They trapped us in our room with duct tape after they woke us up from a nap using that stupid Roadrunner cartoon character sound effect as a way to mess with us before they just immaturely ran away listening to the Forensic Files theme song!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Well that’s just stupid Dakota.”, Johnathan said in confusion as he rolled his eyes.
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“ Yeah no chiz it is Johnathan!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Ok that’s enough of that!”, Mr. Harris scolded before he lowered his voice and asked, “ Honey please explain why what Leonard said to you upset you.”
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“ Because Dad, I view this whole cremation thing very differently than how other people view it! It’s just a belief I have inside even though I know it’s stupid but I can’t help it!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Well how is it that you view it sweetheart?”, Mrs. Harris asked in concern.
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“ I VIEW IT AS IF I’M DESTROYING SOMEONE I LOVE, OK?! THERE I SAID IT!”, Dakota cried.
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“ What?”, Eamon asked in confusion.
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“ What the hell are you talking about sis?”, Johnathan asked in confusion as well, trying to understand where his sister was coming from with her feelings.
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“ I’m talking about the fact that even though I know when someone dies and their spirit is not there anymore in their body there’s this part of me that feels like something is still there! And that’s what upsets me about this! The fact that I have this belief and that no one else does!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Oh Dakota… come here.”, Mrs. Harris sympathetically said with a sigh as she pulled her daughter into a gentle loving embrace, rubbing circles on her back.
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“ I can’t cremate him when he dies someday Mom, I just can’t! Leonard’s my husband and I love him so much!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Shhh, it’s ok.”, Mrs. Harris said in a soft soothing voice as she kissed Dakota’s head.
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“ No, it’s not!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Sweetheart we know how you feel, believe us we do.”, Mr. Harris sympathetically said as he put a hand on her shoulder.
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“ No you don’t Dad, no one will ever understand this! This is about memories and someone I love! To hear that he wants to be incinerated when he dies just f*cking kills me!”, Dakota cried as she jerked away from her mother and smacked her father’s hand away.
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“ This is more so about Makenzie isn’t it?”, Johnathan asked his sister in a somber tone, getting the full picture of what this really was about.
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“ YEAH YOU THINK YOU BIG DOPE?! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!”, Dakota cried as she then ran to the guest bedroom and slammed the door.
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“ Oh hell, Dakota Chantel?!”, Mr. and Mrs. Harris interjected in concern when they ran to the bedroom door to knock on it to find out what was going on with their MMA fighter daughter.
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“ GO AWAY MOM AND DAD! I WANT TO BE ALONE!”
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*sounds of crying and screaming followed by punching fists into the wall*
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“ Geez Louise Dakota what are you doing?!”, Mr. Harris shrieked as he barged in the room with his wife and two sons following, grabbing a hold of his daughter to try to prevent her from hurting herself.
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“ I DON’T KNOW ANYMORE DAD! JUST GET OFF ME!”, Dakota cried as she shoved her father away.
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“ Sis this is nuts! Why are you acting like this?!”, Johnathan interjected in concern.
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“ Why the buckwheats hell do you think Johnathan Martin?! It’s because I miss Makenzie! I miss her so much and on top of what I just heard from my husband Leonard about wanting cremation when he dies someday too just makes it all worse! Why?! Why did it have to be cancer that took her away from us?! It’s not fair and I don’t know I just… MAKENZIE GHENDRICK HARRIS!”, Dakota cried as she buried her face into a pillow and screamed into it. She was really missing her sister in that moment and felt like she couldn’t breathe.
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“ Ok that’s enough sweetheart! Calm down now before you end up giving yourself Broken Heart Syndrome! It’s not good for you to be crying this much!”, Mrs. Harris scolded her in concern.
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“ Yeah well I can’t help it Mom! I already feel like I have it so what’s the point?! I want Makenzie back! I’m lost without her! She always made everything better whenever I heard her voice and right now this is one of those times where I need her the most but she’s not here anymore! It hurts so bad!”, Dakota cried as she pounded her fist into chest to express the amount of grieving pain she was suffering from.
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“ Ok well you know what I think the 4 of us should go out for a few and give you some alone time to collect yourself.”, Mr. Harris sadly said as he pointed at himself, his wife, and their two sons before he put his hand on his daughter’s shoulder.
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“ Ok, thank you Dad!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Of course.”, Mr. Harris sadly said.
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“ Call us if you need anything, ok.”, Mrs. Harris sadly said.
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“ Ok I will, thanks Mom!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Of course. We love you Dakota.”, Mrs. Harris sadly said as she embraced her and kissed her head again with her husband doing the same.
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“ I love you too!”, Dakota cried as her brothers embraced her too before they walked out of the room with their parents and left the house leaving Dakota alone to collect herself.
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“ Dakota? Are you ok?”
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“ Huh? Who said that?”, Dakota cried as she sat down on the bed.
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“ I did sis.” was the voice that rang out which prompted Dakota to turn around to see the ghostly figured spirit of her sister Makenzie standing by the closet door.
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“ Makenzie?!”, Dakota cried as she stood up with wide eyes.
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“ Yes it’s me. What’s going on with you right now?”, Makenzie’s spirit asked with a slight smile.
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“ I’m having a meltdown is what’s going on! I can’t live without you! Especially at this moment after I just found out from my husband Leonard what he wants for final wishes someday!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Oh that’s what this is about? Because I saw and heard everything. Look I get it sis, it’s a sensitive subject but let me tell you something… it’s ok. I know seeing me get cremated made you feel like you were destroying me but you weren’t. My spirit is very much still here, it’s just waiting here on the other side for you, Mom, Dad, Johnathan, Eamon, and even your husband Leonard as well as your daughter Athena to get here.”, Makenzie’s spirit said as she shook her head.
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“ Are you sure?!”, Dakota cried.
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“ Yes. My spiritual presence wouldn’t be here speaking to you if that wasn’t the case.”, Makenzie’s spirit said as she nodded her head.
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“ Yeah but I can’t do that to him Makenzie, I just can’t!”, Dakota cried as she shook her head.
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“ Dakota listen to me, yes you can. Because believe it or not, honoring someone’s last wishes is the greatest love you can give them. You love Leonard don’t you?”, Makenzie’s spirit asked.
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“ Yes I do! I love him so much! I’ve loved him since the day I first met him!”, Dakota cried as she brushed her finger against a tear that was sliding down her face.
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“ Then honoring his final wishes of cremation someday will show him that. Trust me, he will have never felt so much love from you than he had ever felt in his entire life. It’s the same with me, you and the family gave me so much love by honoring what I wanted and I’m very grateful for it. In fact, I’m actually very happy that I get to be free. Free from drugs and free from pain. It’s very wonderful here on the other side believe it or not, the only thing I’m missing is my family who I love.”, Makenzie’s spirit said as she began to smile.
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“ So I won’t be destroying him?”, Dakota cried as her tears began to slow down.
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“ No, not at all. Someday his spirit will be right here with me waiting for you on the other side.”, Makenzie’s spirit said as she shook her head again.
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“ If you say so. Thanks for the talk sis, I really needed that.”, Dakota sniffled as her tears began to subside.
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“ Of course. I’ll always be here for you, right in your heart. Anytime you want to talk just go ahead and say anything, I’ll be here listening.”, Makenzie’s spirit said as she walked up to her sister and reached out to touch her.
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“ I love you Makenzie.”, Dakota sniffled.
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“ I love you too Dakota… so much.”, Makenzie’s spirit said with a smile as she pulled away and waved her hand before she faded away leaving Dakota alone in the bedroom again. However shortly after Dakota grabbed the box of tissues and blew her nose after she threw herself back on the bed was when a beautiful bouquet of flowers suddenly came flying through the open window landing in front of her at the foot of the bed. There was a note attached to them as well that said:
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Come to the window and look outside :)
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‘ What the…?’, Dakota thought when she picked up the flowers and headed to the window to look out it to see Leonard sitting out there on a chair with his cello.
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*cello music fills the air*
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“ I’mmmm, sorry that I made you cry! Made you cry! Made you cryyyyy! Sorry that I made you cry, I didn’t mean to hurt you!”, Leonard sang as he sat there playing his cello before he gave her a smile.
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“ Oh for fuck sake Leonard, did you seriously come all the way here to apologize to me with a bouquet of flowers and an apology song on your cello?”, Dakota sniffled as a soft smile began to spread across her face just as she set the bouquet of flowers down.
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“ Yes. Please forgive me Dakota, I should have told this from the start.”, Leonard apologized as he set his cello aside and got up on his crutches to stand in front of the window to look at his wife in the face.
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“ Yeah but why didn’t you? We’re married, we’re supposed to share everything with each other including our wishes. Why didn’t you think to tell me about this sooner?”, Dakota sniffled as she stared at her husband.
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“ Because the very last thing I ever wanted to do was make you cry over it. That’s why I didn’t tell you. I was trying to protect you from hurt and pain.”, Leonard said with a sigh.
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“ Yeah but either way I still would have cried because that’s not something I ever want to think about, especially after it was done to my sister. Seeing my sister getting cremated was already hard on me enough, I don’t want to make it even harder on myself to see you like that someday too.”, Dakota sniffled.
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“ Well that’s stupid, why?”, Leonard asked in confusion.
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“ Because I told you this nearly a thousand times already, I love you. I bi*ching f*cking love you Leonard Hofstadter. I’ve loved you since the day we first laid eyes on each other, which includes the moment when I first kissed you. You’re the best d*mn thing that has ever happened to me and I don’t want to lose that. I don’t want to lose you.”, Dakota sniffled as she cupped his face with her hands, gazing into his eyes.
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“ I don’t want to lose you either but it’s going be ok, we’ll get through this.”, Leonard said.
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“ I sure hope so.”, Dakota sniffled.
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“ Come here.”, Leonard said with a smile as he gently pulled his wife out through the open window and into his arms, kissing her romantically on the lips while leaning on his crutches. It was at this point that he decided to play a song on his phone as well which was the song Blessed Be Your Name written by Matt Redman.
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“ I love you Dakota.”, Leonard said with a smile as he was kissing her.
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“ I love you too Leonard. I love you so much.”, Dakota said with a smile as she continued kissing him back while listening to the music playing on his phone. Silence fell among them for a few moments before Leonard said, “ What if I said that you can be interred with me in the same urn someday when it’s your turn.”
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“ Are you serious?”, Dakota asked in shock as she stared at her husband.
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“ Yes, I wouldn’t want to get lonely without the woman I love.”, Leonard said with a smile as he nodded his head and gazed into his wife’s eyes.
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“ Oh god, I’d love that more than anything you romance ninja!”, Dakota exclaimed with a smile as she began to cry happy tears and kissed him again.
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“ Do you forgive me for what I said earlier today?”, Leonard asked with a smile.
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“ Yes I do!”, Dakota happily cried as she kept kissing him while the music kept playing from Leonard’s phone.
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“ Well isn’t this something special to see. Wouldn’t you agree Bridgette?”, Mr. Harris said with a smile when he suddenly returned to the house with his wife and their two sons to watch the beautiful scene unfolding in front of them outside the guest bedroom window.
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“ 100% Zayne!”, Mrs. Harris said with a smile as she began to cry happy tears at touching scene going on between their daughter and son in-law.
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“ Our sister sure loves that man.”, Eamon said with a smile as he looked at his brother for a moment before he looked back out the window at his sister and brother in-law making out with each other.
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“ To hell she does.”, Johnathan said with a smile as he did the same thing.
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“ Dorky Johnathan Martin!”, Eamon laughed as he playfully smacked his brother in the chest.
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“ Ow! Hey I wasn’t ready for that Eamon Lazarus, shut up!”, Johnathan laughed as he playfully smacked his brother back which turned into a back and forth playful slap fight between the two Harris brothers as they made their way out of the bedroom away from the window prompting their father to follow them scolding, “ Hey hey hey boys that’s enough! Quit it before somebody gets hurt in this house!” as their mother followed him as well leaving Dakota and Leonard alone to have their marital romantic moment together outside the house.
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“ I’m sorry I threatened to break your skull earlier in Leo’s car on the drive home. I was just upset and I didn’t want to talk at that moment.”, Dakota apologized after her tears subsided again.
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“ It’s ok. I kind of had a feeling that it was more so about your sister than me and about what I said anyway.”, Leonard said.
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“ Yeah. I guess it was just another grieving moment that hit me out of nowhere but I’m ok. It’s just that this whole thing about losing my sister is hard to understand or believe. She meant so much to me and I so wish you could have gotten to know her more before she died.”, Dakota said in a somber tone.
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“ I get it, I wish that too but unfortunately it is what it is and we can’t do anything about it.”, Leonard said as he nodded his head.
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“ You’re right, I should have told you what was bothering me before I got all upset like that and shouted at you for no reason. I’m such an idiot.”, Dakota hissed.
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“ No you’re not and it’s ok, it’s not your fault. That’s what grief is. Some days you’re going to feel fine and other days you’re going to feel like a complete basket case. You never know when it’s going to hit you, it’s basically an up and down rollercoaster of emotions is the best way I can describe it.”, Leonard said.
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“ True. I guess I just needed a really good cry and… my sister’s spiritual presence.”, Dakota said with a sigh.
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“ Really? Your sister Makenzie visited you?”, Leonard asked in shock as he stared at his wife.
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“ Yes she did, just before you showed up. We had a really nice talk with each other and it was really comforting. She made me realize that I was being very insensitive about what you said regarding your final wishes of cremation and she made a really good argument about if those are your wishes then honoring them is the greatest love I can give you.”, Dakota said as she nodded her head.
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“ Well she’s right, it is.”, Leonard said with a smile.
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“ I see that now and I’m sorry I was being a total bi*ch about it, I guess I was just beside myself and didn’t know what I was feeling about it at that moment because the only thing I was thinking about was my sister and her situation to which I guess it was in a way traumatizing to me due to the fact that like I said it made me feel like I was destroying someone I loved.”, Dakota said.
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“ But you weren’t. When someone passes away they’re not a person anymore… they’re a spirit so the only thing you’re destroying is their empty shell. In fact just… come with me for a moment.”, Leonard said as he began limping away on his crutches after he let go of Dakota and shut off the music playing on his phone.
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“ Why? Where are we going Leonard?”, Dakota asked in confusion as she began to follow him.
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“ You’ll find out in a minute just come with me Dakota.”, Leonard said as he kept limping away forcing Dakota to follow him all the way to a local crematory where some other family was having their loved one being cremated at that moment.
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“ Ok, we’re here.”, Leonard said as they entered the facility and walked over to the running crematorium that was burning a body that was in there with Leonard using his crutches to propel himself.
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“ I don’t get it. Why are we at a crematory?”, Dakota asked in confusion.
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“ Because I want to show you something for a moment. Put your hand right here and tell me what you feel.”, Leonard said as he gently placed his wife’s hand on the door of the crematorium with him placing his hand on top of hers.
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“ I don’t feel anything.”, Dakota said as she shook her head.
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“ Exactly, that’s what I’m saying honey. It’s just a body, it’s not the actual person anymore. Whoever this is that’s in there is somewhere else, completely free from pain which is a good thing.”, Leonard said as they pulled their hands away from the machine.
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“ I guess you’re right. I can’t believe I was stupid enough to think that something was still there to begin with.”, Dakota said with a sigh.
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“ It’s not stupid Dakota, it’s just a belief you have. Everyone’s entitled to one, that’s just life.”, Leonard said as he shook his head.
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“ Yeah well now I feel embarrassed for even bringing this up in the first place Leonard.”, Dakota said as she gave him an embarrassed stared.
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“ Well don’t be, there’s no reason to get embarrassed. I’m your husband, I would never make fun of you for anything you say or do.”, Leonard said as he leaned on his crutches and fingered with his wedding band on his finger.
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“ Well thanks, that means a lot.”, Dakota said as she looked at her wedding ring on her finger for a moment before she kissed him again but shortly after doing so she began to start feeling some pain in her chest to the point where it began to make her feel like she was beginning to lose her breath.
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“ Ugh… oh god.”, Dakota breathlessly said as she suddenly placed her hand on her chest.
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“ What? What’s wrong?”, Leonard asked in concern as he stared at her.
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“ I’m having some chest pain and… I feel like I can’t…”, Dakota breathlessly said as she was trying to breathe but was finding it a bit difficult to do so which really began to concern Leonard about what was going on with her.
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“ You’re having some chest pain and you feel like you can’t what? Are you ok?”, Leonard asked in concern, narrowing his eyes at her. In that moment he tell that something was really wrong but he didn’t know what it was causing his wife’s sudden distress at that moment.
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“ No I…”, Dakota breathlessly said as she continued pressing her hand into her chest while trying to breathe normally at the same time but couldn’t.
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“ Oh sh*t.”, Leonard hissed under his breath as he quickly propelled himself with his crutches, dragging Dakota back to the Harris household moments later and barged in with a panicked look on his face interjecting, “ Get in the car now, we got to go to the hospital!”
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“ Why Leonard? What’s going on?”, Mrs. Harris asked in concern when she came up to him.
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“ Something’s wrong with Dakota! She said she’s having some chest pain and it looks like she’s having some shortness of breath too!”, Leonard said in concern as he leaned on his crutches right next to Dakota who was showing very obvious signs of being in distress.
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“ Oh god Dakota! Zayne come here, quick!”, Mrs. Harris interjected in concern, motioning for her husband to come over to where they were by the front door of the house.
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“ What Bridgette, what’s… Dakota! Sweetheart are you ok?! Say something, anything at all!”, Mr. Harris interjected in concern when he came up to the front door and saw the shape his daughter was in.
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“ I’m… having… chest pain… and I can’t…”, Dakota breathlessly said as she was pressing a curled fingered hand into her chest while still trying to catch her breath but to no avail.
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“ Oh for f*ck sake, this can not be happening to us again! Johnathan Martin Harris get the car keys now, your sister’s in distress!”, Mr. Harris shouted in concern as he rolled his eyes.
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“ Oh son of a bi*ch, not again! Eamon come on, we got to go!”, Johnathan cursed under his breath as he quickly swiped the keys to the family car off the kitchen counter and bolted outside through the front door past his parents, his sister, and his brother in-law to start up the car engine.
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“ You don’t have to tell me twice bro, for God’s sake!”, Eamon hissed as he raced over as well.
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“ Alright that’s enough of that, come on! Move it or lose it!”, Mr. Harris hissed as the 4 of them quickly and carefully got Dakota out of the house and into the car before Johnathan hit the accelerator, speeding as fast as he legally could down the street to head to the nearest local hospital. During the drive there Mr. Harris called Sheldon to let him know what was going and shortly after arriving there themselves was when the others showed up after they all flew out there on an emergency flight. Dakota then underwent a bunch of tests to determine what was causing her symptoms and after minutes of waiting the results came back as a case of takotsubo cardiomyopathy known as Broken Heart Syndrome.
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“ Broken Heart Syndrome?!”, everyone shrieked in horror and complete shock as they gathered around Dakota’s hospital bed along with the doctor that came to tell them of the test results a short time after she was admitted into a room at Fort Knox Mercy Hospital.
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“ Holy crap!”, Raj shrieked.
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“ Oh god, Mom!”, Athena shrieked in concern as she covered her mouth as a way to try to fight back the tears that were threatning to come down her face.
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“ Athena it’s ok sweetie, your mother’s going to be fine!”, Penny shrieked as she gently embraced her niece, kissing her on the head while rubbing soothing circles on her back.
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“ You don’t know that Auntie Penny! What if this condition gets worse and she… oh god I don’t even want to think about that!”, Athena shrieked as she started to cry.
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“ Me neither, Auntie Dakota!”, Cayela shrieked as she did the same thing.
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“ Shhh, girls calm down. It’s ok. We don’t need this.”, Leo said in a soothing voice as she pulled both girls into an embrace after Penny let go of Athena.
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“ Yeah to hell we don’t Leo.”, Amy said in concern.
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“ Amy shut up!”, Leo hissed at her friend.
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“ What?! I didn’t say anything, I was just agreeing with you! Geez Louise!”, Amy shot back as she threw her hair over her shoulder.
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“ Yeah well you’re not helping at the moment so just zip the lip why don’tcha!”, Howard butted in between the two ladies.
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“ You do that first Wolowitz!”, Amy hissed in his face, clenching her fists at her sides.
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“ No you first Fowler!”, Howard shot back in her face doing the same thing with his fists prompting Bernadette to get in between the two of them hissing, “ Ok Howard, Amy, that’s enough! Whatever this is you guys are fighting about can wait! We don’t need to be raising more stress in here because that’s just going to make Dakota’s condition even worse and we don’t want that! She’s our friend and we care about her!”
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“ Well him and Leo started it!”, Amy hissed as she pointed at Howard and Leo.
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“ I don’t care, I’m finishing it! This is ridiculous! We’re all friends with each other and friends don’t fight!”, Bernadette hissed.
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“ You’re right Bernie, I’m sorry Amy. That was uncalled for.”, Howard apologized with a sigh.
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“ It’s ok Howard, I forgive you. I’m sorry too.”, Amy said with a sigh.
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“ Me too.”, Leo said with a sigh.
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“ Thank you that’s much better.”, Bernadette said with a smile.
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“ Well this just sucks. How did Dakota end up with Broken Heart Syndrome to begin with?”, Stuart asked in concern as he was scratching his head.
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“ Nadie lo sabe el genio.”, Kemdan hissed under his breath.
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“ Shut it Castle!”, Stuart shot back at his Latino friend as he rolled his eyes.
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“ Both of you shut up, we know exactly what this is! This has to do with Makenzie, Dakota’s missing her alright!”, Johnathan hissed at the two men to shut them up.
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“ Who’s that?”, Athena sniffled in curiosity.
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“ She’s your aunt Athena.”, Leonard said with a sigh as he looked at his daughter.
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“ Well what happened to her? Why haven’t I met her? Why is this the first time I’ve heard about her? Where is she?”, Athena asked, wanting to know more about the aunt she never met.
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“ It’s because she’s in heaven. She passed away from brain cancer way before you were born.”, Mrs. Harris sadly said as she looked at her granddaughter straight in the face and put a hand on her shoulder.
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“ Really? Is that where my middle name came from?”, Athena sadly asked as she looked at everyone in the room who all nodded their heads in silence.
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“ It was… your father’s idea to… give you that middle name as a way to… honor her. I just know she… would have loved you… if she was still here with us.”, Dakota breathlessly said in a soft somber tone as she laid in the hospital bed hooked up to a heart monitor and IV.
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“ Oh god Mom, I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have asked that.”, Athena sadly apologized to her mother.
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“ No it’s… alright sweetheart. You deserved to know that. Come here.”, Dakota breathlessly said as she slowly reached her arms up and gently wrapped them around Athena when she walked up to her to give her a hug.
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“ I love you Mom.”, Athena sadly said.
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“ I… love you too baby. So much.”, Dakota breathlessly said as she gently rubbed Athena’s back and kissed her head.
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“ I’ll just give you folks some alone time with each other now. Let us know if there’s anything else we can do for you.”, the doctor said as she made her way out of the room, taking her clipboard with her.
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“ Thank you doctor, we will.”, Mr. Harris said.
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“ Oh Skullbreaker… come here. It’s ok girl.”, Artemis sympathetically said as she walked up to her friend and embraced her too.
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“ Thank you Artemis.”, Dakota breathlessly said as she was embracing her back with all the strength she could muster at the moment. The others got a chance to embrace her too as a way to try to comfort her and heal her broken heart from the intense emotional stress she was feeling over the loss of her sister Makenzie several years ago.
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“ Well I’ll be right back you guys.”, Leonard said as he headed to the hospital room door using his crutches.
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“ Hold on wait a minute, where are you going Leonard?”, Sheldon asked as some of the others looked in his direction as well.
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“ I’m just heading to the hospital cafeteria to get a snack and to get Dakota some ice cream too Sheldon.”, Leonard said.
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“ Well hold on wait a minute, I’m coming with you because I wouldn’t mind getting something too. Plus, Cayela looks like she needs a diaper change anyway. She’s having a hard time sitting still over there.”, Leo said as she picked up Cayela’s diaper bag and pointed at Cayela who was trying to sit still in a chair next to Dakota’s hospital bed but was finding it hard to do so due to the fact that she just went to the bathroom again.
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“ Well ok, good point Leo.”, Leonard said as he headed out the door on his crutches and down the hallway.
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“ Thanks. Come on Cayela, let’s go to the restroom.”, Leo said as she motioned for her daughter to follow them.
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“ Aww but do I have to Mom?!”, Cayela protested.
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“ Yes you do, you need to be changed. We’re not going to have this dicussion again, we’ve had it a million times and getting very old. So let’s go do that and then we can head to the cafeteria with Uncle Leonard because he said that he wants to get a snack and get Auntie Dakota some ice cream.”, Leo said as she headed out the door to follow Leonard.
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“ Well ok. Can I have some ice cream too please?”, Cayela asked with a sigh as she then stood up from the chair and followed her mother.
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“ Yes you may sweetheart after I change your diaper. Let’s go.”, Leo said with a smile as she then took Cayela into the women’s restroom to take care of her medical needs while Leonard stood outside in the hallway leaning with his back against the wall on his crutches waiting for them. He decided to go on his phone looking at Facebook too as a way to distract himself only to discover it wouldn’t really load up due to the cell phone reception being very poor in there and at the very least was about 1 to 2 bars.
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“ Damn it, cell phone reception’s crappy in here too! What do I do now?!”, Leonard hissed to himself as he put his phone away and leaned his head back on the wall to collect his thoughts only for Leo and Cayela emerge from the bathroom a short time later.
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“ Ok we’re back. Let’s head to the cafeteria now Leonard.”, Leo said as they were walking away from the bathroom.
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“ Great Leo, sounds good to me.”, Leonard said as he pulled away from the wall but as he continued walking with his crutches he looked at Cayela with a smile and asked, “ Feel better now sweetie?”
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“ Yeah.”, Cayela said with a smile as she nodded her head.
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“ Good.”, Leonard said with a smile before he kissed her head as they continued on down the hallway, following the signs to the cafeteria. Once they got there and started heading to the food counter Leo asked, “ So everything good with you and Dakota now?”
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“ Yeah everything’s fine now, she was just upset about her sister and missing her probably more so than what I said to her about final wishes is all.”, Leonard said as he nodded his head with a sigh.
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“ Ah grieving stress, got it. That makes a lot more sense.”, Leo said.
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“ Exactly.”, Leonard said.
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“ What final wishes? What are you talking about?”, Cayela asked in curiosity.
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“ That’s something we will all tell you about when you’re much older Cayela. I don’t think you can handle this at your age right now, ok.”, Leonard said as he shook his head.
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“ Ok I’ll drop the subject Uncle Leonard.”, Cayela said with a smile.
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“ Thank you.”, Leonard said as they reached the food counter in the hospital cafeteria.
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“ Hello. What can I get you?”, the lady behind the counter asked with a smile.
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“ Can I get a small bag of butterless popcorn, a can of Coke, and a cup of vanilla ice cream please?”, Leonard asked.
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“ Alright sir and for you ma’am?”, the lady said as she was ringing up the items.
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“ Yes can I please get a pretzel with cheese for myself and a cup of chocolate ice cream for my daughter?”, Leo asked with a smile.
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“ Sure of course. One moment please.”, the lady said as she was ringing up the other items.
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“ Oh actually can you make that two chocolates please? I’m going to get one for my husband too.”, Leo said.
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“ Yes of course, no problem. So I got one butterless popcorn, a can of Coke, a cup of vanilla ice cream, a pretzel with cheese, and two cups of chocolate ice cream. Is that it for you?”, the lady asked as she was reading the transaction back to them.
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“ Yes that will be all.”, Leonard said as he nodded his head while reaching into his pocket to dig out his wallet.
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“ Alright your total is $18.24 please.”, the lady said as she hit the total key on the cash register.
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“ Hold on one second I almost… aww fuck, I just dropped my wallet!”, Leonard said before he hissed under his breath when he accidentally dropped his wallet on the floor from pulling it out of his pocket.
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“ It’s alright Leonard I’ll grab it and not in front of Cayela please.”, Leo hissed as she reached down to pick up her friend’s wallet from the floor since he couldn’t do it himself at that moment due to his broken foot.
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“ Sorry.”, Leonard apologized.
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“ Thank you. Here’s your wallet back.”, Leo said as she stood back up and handed Leonard his wallet back.
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“ Thanks.”, Leonard said as he then began to dig in his wallet to pay for everything.
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“ No problem and ah ah ah what do you think you’re doing mister?! I will pay for this!”, Leo interjected as she reached into her purse to pull out her own wallet too after she saw Leonard pull out a 20 dollar bill from his wallet.
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“ No it’s fine Leo, I got it.”, Leonard said as he put his hand up.
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“ Dr. Leonard Hofstadter this is too much! Let me get everything! You just worry about your wife Dakota who’s currently laying in a hospital room, in a bed with Broken Heart Syndrome at the moment surrounded by my husband and all of our friends and family! So put that 20 away, I will pay for this with my debit card!”, Leo said as she shook her head and pulled out her debit card.
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“ No Dr. Leo Fordyce-Cooper I insist! I will pay for everything! It’s ok! Here you go.”, Leonard shot back as he handed over the 20 to the lady behind the counter.
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“ Thank you.”, the lady said as she took the 20 and handed some change back to him which prompted Leo to put her card and wallet away giving Leonard a sigh and a shake of her head over his stubborness.
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“ What?”, Leonard asked as he looked at his friend after he put his wallet away too.
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“ Never mind. Thank you.”, Leo said with a sigh and a giddy laugh.
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“ No problem.”, Leonard said with a smile.
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“ You know, sometimes you can be very frustrating just like my husband.”, Leo said as she crossed her arms.
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“ Maybe a little bit but that’s not the point.”, Leonard said.
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“ Sure it is.”, Leo sarcastically said as she grabbed their snacks when the lady handed them to her before her, Leonard, and Cayela headed back to Dakota’s hospital room. They then ate their snacks and visited with Dakota for a while before the others left leaving Leonard there by himself with her even though he still had a broken foot and couldn’t move much. Dakota then ended up staying in the hospital for about a week before she was allowed to go home and grab her things that she left at her parents house as well as Leonard grabbing his cello along with the chair he was sitting on too, heading back to Pasadena with them so that Dakota could begin the process of healing her heart from the syndrome she was diagnosed with in the first place due to her missing her deceased beloved sister. It was also around this time that Leonard’s foot healed up and Amy got to meet her boyfriend Peter’s parents for the first time when they arrived to visit him to which they surprisingly absolutely adored her and told their son that he picked a good one which made him very happy to hear that his parents loved his girlfriend and that they wanted them to keep seeing each other. Then 3 months later after Dakota’s heart had completely healed from the emotional truama that was done to it and while Cayela and Athena were hanging out over at Robbie’s house with the other girls was when Leo and Dakota decided to go over to Amy’s apartment to hang out with her, Penny, Bernadette, Melissa, and Artemis just talking and laughing with each other while listening to music on Artemis’s phone wirelessly connected to a Bluetooth speaker, completely unaware of what was about to happen that none of them were expecting.
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“ No no no wait, so your cat Garfunkle did what Artemis?!”, Melissa laughed as she was standing around Amy’s kitchen island with the other 6 women listening to Die Young by Ke$ha.
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“ He was playing in the toilet bowl in my bathroom Melissa! The other night I was at home just sitting on my couch watching tv when all of a sudden Garfunkle came up to me and just meowed at me so then I was like, “ What Garfunkle? What do you want?” but he just meowed at me again and batted his paw at my leg which obviously meant that he wanted me to get up so I did and followed him to the bathroom but the moment I got in there I was like, “ Ok what now you silly cat?” to which he meowed at me a third time and rubbed his body up against the toilet before he jumped up onto the toilet seat to continue meowing at me so then I asked, “ Are you trying to ask me to flush the toilet?” to which he meowed at me again in response so I flushed the toilet and within minutes after I did it he started batting his paws in the toilet water just flopping around like a fish so I started laughing and shaking my head going like, “ Really Garfunkle?! I had to get up from the couch for this?! You wacko kitty!”, Artemis laughed as she was banging her fist on the counter over the music along with the other women doing the same, laughing it up too.
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“ Yeah no sh*t bi*ch, that’s so hilarious! Oh balls I can’t feel myself right now!”, Penny laughed.
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“ I can’t either! Oh god Artemis just stop! You’re killing us right now with this!”, Bernadette laughed.
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“ Totally true!”, Amy laughed as she threw her head down for brief moment just laughing it up before she stood back up and brushed her hair out of her face with her fingers.
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“ Same here! Geez Louise Artemis!”, Leo, Dakota, and Melissa laughed as they were stumbling all over the place trying to catch their breath.
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“ I know and I was like… huh! Oh my god you guys shut up for a moment!”, Artemis laughed before she suddenly gasped and quickly shut off the music on her phone the moment she began to hear some creepy music approaching from outside Amy’s apartment door which instantly made the other women shut up and stare at her as if she had gone nuts.
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“ What? What is it?”, Leo asked in confusion.
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“ Don’t you guys hear that approaching creepy music?”, Artemis asked in somewhat of a scared voice over the creepy music she was hearing.
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“ Well now that you mention it, yeah we do. Where’s that coming from?”, Penny asked as she began to get scared too.
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“ I don’t know Penny it sounds like it’s coming from the hallway and… it also sounds like the creepy music from the John Carpenter Halloween movies.”, Bernadette said in a scared voice.
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“ That’s exactly what it is Bernadette and OH MY GOD AMY LOOK OUT! THERE’S SOMEONE COMING UP BEHIND YOU WITH A KNIFE!”, Artemis said in a scared voice before she shrieked in terror when she suddenly saw an individual wearing a costume quietly sneaking up behind Amy holding a big fake realistic looking chef knife in his hand as the Halloween theme song kept playing in the air from the hallway outside the apartment.
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“ Oh come on Artemis that’s ridiculous. What do you mean there’s… OH MY GOD, MICHAEL MYERS!”, Amy said before she turned around and screamed in terror when she saw said serial killer standing behind her swinging his knife at her but missed as she then ran to her life to the bathroom prompting Bernadette to scream in terror, “ Ladies run for the bathroom now!” as she and the other women screamed their heads off running to the bathroom too just as the individual in the Michael Myers costume began to follow them just like the real Michael Myers did to his victims in the Halloween films.
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“ Move it move it Skullbreaker! Out of my way!”, Artemis screamed in terror as she shoved Dakota out of the way to get into the bathroom with the other ladies who were all shoving their way in at the same time due to the fact that they all thought they were going to get killed by a fictional serial killer from a horror film.
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“ Artemis will you shut up! You’re not helping! Ahhhhh!”, Dakota screamed in terror as she bolted inside too just as they all started to push the door shut to barricade themselves from Michael Myers who was trying to push it back open with his shoulder, sliding his knife back and forth against the door which began to freak the 7 women out even more about what was happening to them.
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*sound of the plastic knife sliding back and forth against the door*
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Bang bang bang!
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“ Oh my god this is a nightmare! Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name! Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven!”, Leo screamed in terror part of the Lord’s Prayer as she was kneeling on the bathroom floor pressing her hands together with her eyes shut as her friends were still trying to shut the door on Michael Myers who was still terrorizing them at that moment. The Halloween theme song was still playing out in the hallway too, making the situation even more terrifying and realistic.
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“ Leo shut up! This isn’t the time for this and shut the door now Penny! What the hell are you doing?! Michael Myers is gonna… Penny!”, Bernadette screamed in terror at her friends who were struggling to push the door shut against the force of the fictional serial killer trying to push it open.
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“ Can it Bernadette! Oh balls this is insane! What do we do?! We got to do something fast or this guy’s going to slash every single one of us!”, Penny screamed in terror as she was trying to press her foot and body against the door with all her might along with the other women who were trying to push their backs against it to keep it from flinging open and exposing themselves to the danger on the other side of it.
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“ Yeah no shit bestie and OH MY GOD, HE’S GOT ME! HELP ME!”, Amy screamed in terror when the killer sudden reached in through the crack of the door and grabbed her by the hair, yanking her out into the hallway making the other women scream in terror, “ AMY, NOOO!” and tried to get her back only to be taken completely by surprise when the individual in the Michael Myers costume started laughing in amusement behind the mask as he then shut the music off leaving the women completely confused and shaken up by what they just experienced.
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“ What the…?! Wait a minute wait a minute, Leonard Hofstadter?!”, Amy shrieked in disbelief when she heard the laughing voice of her experimental physicist friend behind the Michael Myers mask.
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“ Yeah that’s me! Dr. Leonard Hofstadter for the win! Payback baby! Oh for God sakes that was hilarious!”, Leonard laughed in amusement as he took off the Michael Myers costume and slipped his phone back into his pocket before he smacked his hands together and pounded his fist on the wall. The clothes he was wearing consisted of a pair of his black and white converses, a pair of blue jeans, and a light blue t-shirt underneath his black and gray zip up hoodie. He was also wearing a wristwatch too.
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“ Ok that was not cool! You scared the living sh*t out of us!”, Melissa shouted in her friend’s face with her fists clenched at her sides as she was trying to catch her breath.
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“ Yeah seriously honey, are you out of your mind?! Why would you do that?!”, Dakota shrieked in disbelief at her husband who was still standing there laughing it up while Leo was injecting herself with her blood pressure insulin to keep her blood pressure from dropping due to fear stress.
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“ I was trying to get back at Amy!”, Leonard laughed.
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“ Get back at me for what Leonard?!”, Amy hissed in his face.
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“ For you and Peter trapping Dakota and I in our bedroom with duct tape 3 months ago! That’s what this was for! Oh my god I can’t take this! You should have seen your face! You were so scared!”, Leonard laughed as he was still hamming it up.
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“ Yeah that’s only because you made me, your wife, and our friends think that we were going to die you asthmatic idiot! Come here I’m gonna…!”, Amy shouted as she aggressively started punching Leonard making him put up his hands in defense shrieking, “ Ok ok ow ow ow stop stop, I was just messing with you! Geez Louise!”
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“ Yeah well regardless that still wasn’t cool dude! What are you, an immature child?! You have an IQ of 173, use it!”, Artemis hissed at him.
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“ Yeah you self-centered rat bastard! My god what the hell is wrong with you?!”, Penny hissed.
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“ Ok woah woah woah what is going on in here ladies?! Somebody in this building just filed a noise complaint to the department! What is this?!”, Danny shouted when he suddenly entered Amy’s apartment wearing his police uniform.
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“ It’s nothing Danny except Leonard just scared the living hell out of us with a Michael Myers costume!”, Amy shouted as she pointed at Leonard who was still laughing about what he did to his friends and his wife.
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“ What?! You seriously did that?!”, Danny hissed as he narrowed his eyes at his experimental physicist friend.
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“ Yes I did but it was only a joke! Sweet revenge Fowler is what I say! Ha ha!”, Leonard laughed.
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“ Yeah well I don’t think so because you just got yourself into big trouble now!”, Danny said in a serious tone.
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“ Oh come on what are you talking about?!”, Leonard laughed as he leaned his back against the wall.
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“ I mean you’re now going to jail for that offense!”, Danny hissed in a serious tone as he took out a set of handcuffs.
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“ What?! Really?! You’re seriously going to arrest me for this kind of batsh*t?!”, Leonard shrieked as his laughter began to subside.
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“ Yes I am because what you just did mister was NOT FUNNY! You could have hurt somebody including yourself and that’s not ok at all! So turn around and put your hands behind your back, you’re under arrest for reckless public endangerment!”, Danny hissed as he approached his friend with the handcuffs.
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“ Ok this is… ow ow ow! That hurts! Get off me man, what are you…?!”, Leonard shrieked as Danny suddenly grabbed him by the wrist and slapped him with the handcuffs after he pressed him against the wall, pinning his arms behind his back.
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“ Shut up and let’s go Leonard Hofstadter! We’ll talk more about this at the station!”, Danny hissed as he then began marching Leonard out of Amy’s apartment while the women stood there watching it happen right in front of them.
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“ Oh fun, ow!”
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“ Well that’s just great, my husband got arrested now! What the hell am I supposed to tell our daughter Athena when she comes home from Robbie’s later with Cayela?!”, Dakota hissed as she did a head rotation.
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“ Don’t worry about that Dakota, we’ll figure it out. Right now Leonard just needs to learn a lesson about what he did. A few hours in jail should solve that.”, Leo said with a sigh.
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“ I sure hope so. I seriously can’t believe he did that.”, Dakota said with a frustrated sigh.
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“ Same here.”, Melissa, Bernadette, Penny, and Artemis said in agreement.
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“ Yeah well I don’t want to talk about Leonard right now! I am so fucking pissed!”, Amy hissed in anger under her breath as she began storming away to her bedroom.
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“ Amy?!”, Bernadette shrieked in surprise as she looked in Amy’s direction wondering what her deal was all of a sudden.
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“ Don’t talk to me!”, Amy shouted.
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SLAM!
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“ Woah what just happened? Why’s Amy so angry all of a sudden?”, Melissa asked in confusion as she stood in the living room with the other women.
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“ We don’t know Melissa but it’s not any of our business to know so let’s just move on to a different subject ok.”, Artemis said with a sigh as she threw herself into the couch.
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“ Sounds good to me Artemis.”, Dakota said with a sigh as her and the other women did the same thing. They then headed back to Apartment 4A leaving Amy alone to collect herself and calm down from the unexpected hellish nightmare they just went through at the hands of Leonard’s horrible and very realistic Michael Myers prank that lead to him getting arrested by Danny in the first place. Leo, Dakota, Melissa, Penny, Bernadette, and Artemis then told the girls and the rest of the gang about what had happened at Amy’s a short time later after the girls got home before Leonard got released from jail a few moments later after that. Sheldon then thumped Leonard on the head for that nonsense, telling him to go apologize to Amy for scaring her like that to which Leonard agreed to do.
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Knock knock!
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“ Amy can you please open the door for a second? I want to talk.”, Leonard said with a sigh after he knocked on Amy’s apartment door a few moments later.
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“ Yeah well I don’t want to talk to you anymore Leonard so go away!”, Amy’s voice shouted from inside her apartment through the closed front door.
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“ Come on please? I’m really sorry for what I did.”, Leonard apologized.
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“ I DON’T CARE! I DON’T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU ANYMORE! GO AWAY NOW BEFORE I WHACK YOU WITH MY COFFEE CAN CHANGE PURSE! I’M NOT IN THE MOOD FOR THIS!”, Amy’s voice shouted again through the door.
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“ Alright, fine.”, Leonard said with a sad sigh as he started to walk away but then turned back and said in somewhat of a angry tone himself, crossing his arms, “ Actually, no. That’s not fine with me. Amy I said I was sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you like that. It’s just you really pissed me off with what you and Peter did to Dakota and I 3 months ago and you totally had it coming. Don’t try to deny that.”
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*sound of angry footsteps coming towards the door*
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“ Yeah well this is different what you did! What Peter Thomas and I did to you and Dakota was just a stupid harmless prank! What you did to me however was just mean and hurtful! For God’s sake we’re friends, why would you do that to me?! What, were you just that pissed off to the point where all that anger just went to your head and you didn’t care about how much it would effect me and mess with my psyche?! Because it honestly seems like you didn’t! I think your ego just got a little too big for your head in that moment to really sit down and think, “ Gee, Amy’s my friend. Maybe I shouldn’t do this to her.” but no that’s not what you did! So it’s your fault that you destroyed our friendship now!”, Amy shouted in Leonard’s face when she opened the door to confront him.
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“ You mean like… forever?”, Leonard asked with a stabbing pain in his voice.
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“ Yes! I want nothing to do with you anymore, ever again! So just leave me alone!”, Amy shouted before she ducked back inside and slammed the door hard enough to shake the building like an earthquake after she chucked his Michael Myers costume back at him making it very clear to Leonard that their friendship was over.
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“ Come on Amy, don’t do this please. I said I was sorry.”, Leonard pleaded with her as he did a head rotation.
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“ GET OUT LEONARD HOFSTADTER! YOU CAN APOLOGIZE ALL YOU WANT BUT NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE MY MIND! OUR FRIENDSHIP IS OVER! GO HOME!”, Amy’s voice shouted before there was another door slam coming from Amy’s bedroom again followed by silence.
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“ F*ck.”, Leonard let out a sad sigh as he leaned his back against the door for a moment before he reluctantly walked away with the costume in hand and out of the building to get to his car that was sitting in the parking lot which had been returned to him three months ago from the Altadena Forestry after they dropped it back off at the 2311 apartment complex where him, Sheldon, Leo, Dakota, Athena, Cayela, Oreo, Penny, and Melissa lived.
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“ For God sakes what is wrong with me, what have I done?! I am so stupid sometimes and just… f*ck this sh*t! Gahhhh!”, Leonard hissed in anger to himself when he got back into his car and just sat there, punching his fist into the top of his steering wheel before he gripped his head and slammed it down on the dashboard bawling his eyes out when he realized that he just hurt his friend’s feelings but that that quickly turned to anger towards Amy due the fact that part of him still felt that joke was funny and she was being an insensitive buzzkill about it.
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Wow! It appears Amy got really hurt by Leonard’s serial killer prank! What do you think is going to happen between these two next?! Do you think they should reconcile or should they go their separate ways?! Let me know in the comments. To be continued…
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