Amy paused, not knowing how to proceed.

She wanted to laugh at the inconceivability of his statement. Where was this coming from? However, sensing his vulnerability, she instead clasped him tighter.

"I love you. Why would I ever leave you?" she asked softly.

Sheldon sniffed and slowly released her from his embrace. He sighed and felt very self-conscious. He was making a fool of himself.

"Kripke and I consumed an inordinate amount of alcohol. A mistake I am now aware of" he placed a hand to his temple and gently rubbed it, "He started telling me about how bad our relationship was. How I didn't treat you right. How you deserve better. How it could all end abruptly. Like it did last time"

Sheldon sniffed, his gaze dropped to Amy's hands which were folded neatly in her lap as she listened to him. Shame and embarrassment meant he did not want to make eye contact.

"I was forced into this social convention" he said stroppily, "And now look what's happened. Kripke has ruined everything!"

Sheldon looked so fragile. Amy's heart clenched in sorrow. How could he feel so insure about her love for him? She knew inviting Kripke to the Stag Do was a mistake. He and Sheldon never really got on. Although truthfully, their relationship had briefly ended, she felt they were a much stronger couple now.

"Kripke?" Amy's voice was louder than usual due to her outrage, "Why would you listen to anything he said? Especially when he's drunk"

Sheldon shrugged and remained silent as Amy shifted closer to him. She wrapped an arm around his back and placed her other hand on his. They sat together, staring straight ahead.

"Don't you think he was right though?" Sheldon asked quietly, he did not know whether he wanted an answer.

Amy felt his body tense under her touch.

"No" she replied simply. She felt him relax again. "Because we are never going to be separated again? We love each other and that's all that matters. Whether we had a break in between or not is irrelevant. It only made us stronger. You are the perfect boyfriend"

Sheldon breathed out a large lungful of air he had not realised he was holding. He was not the perfect boyfriend, "But-"

He prepared to argue until Amy cut him off.

"Don't argue Sheldon. Unless you're planning on backing out of this wedding, I can assure you that our relationship is not doomed. I am the happiest I have ever been before" she placed a kiss on his shoulder and lay her head next to it, "The day I leave Sheldon Cooper for Barry Kripke doesn't even exist in parallel universes"

Sheldon smiled at her cheekiness. He gently leaned over to place his head to rest on hers.

"I'm happy too" he said.

"Good" Amy replied, "Now I'm going to make you some tea and run you a bath whilst you think of a way to get revenge on Kripke"

She flashed an evil grin at Sheldon before standing to waltz away.

Sheldon warily smiled at her. How could she be so diabolical yet so adorable?

Vixen.

Barry Kripke strolled along the corridor towards his office.

His weekend had been extremely fun, despite the disaster that was Sheldon Cooper's Stag.

Jealousy was never something Barry had been very good at controlling and how could he not be jealous of Cooper?

Sheldon always had to win.

Sheldon won grant money, Sheldon won awards, and Sheldon won the girl.

Perhaps Barry, personally, should not have tried to win the girl by sending her pictures of his genitalia, but it was little too late.

The malicious vein that ran through Barry was secretly pleased that he had called out Cooper on his and Amy's incompatibility. He had not meant to hurt their relationship. Or maybe he had?

It was no secret that Sheldon and Amy had a hard break-up and Barry was just trying to feed off the residual tension.

He smiled wickedly as remembered the look on Sheldon's face that evening; he turned the handle of his office door.

It was locked.

Kripke rattled the handle and tried again. It was definitely locked. He didn't remember locking it.

In frustration, he banged his fist against the door, exasperated.

Suddenly, to his surprise the door opened.

Sheldon Cooper's head stuck out of the small gap that had been made.

"Sorry Kripke, we'll be five minutes tops" Sheldon apologised.

Barry looked at him in confusion. Why was Sheldon in his office?

It was only then that he noticed Sheldon's shoulders were bare.

He was not wearing any clothes.

Before Barry could protest, however, the door swung closed again and muffled giggles could be heard from inside.

"Cooper!" Kripke hammered on the door to demand entry.

He hurriedly shrugged his backpack off his shoulders and fumbled with the zip in search for a key.

Kripke opened the door just in time to see Sheldon and Amy reapplying the last of their clothes.

"Barry, what a pleasant surprise" Amy smiled at him as she tied a button to completely close her shirt.

Barry could hardly respond. His office was a mess.

There were papers all over the floor, his desk was completely bare and the markings on his whiteboard had clearly been rubbed away by a body pressed up against it.

Sheldon and Amy stood in the midst of it casually, however it was clear what they had been doing.

Both were flushed and scruffy. The clothes that had been hurriedly reapplied were ruffled and askew and their cheeks were rosy. Barry could even make out the small red marks on Sheldon's face and neck, on behalf of Amy. He could only assume that they also spread much, much lower.

He surveyed the room, shocked into silence.

"Well, we better be going" Sheldon announced, "I wouldn't recommend sitting there" he pointed at the chair.

"Or working there" his finger moved to the desk. It was empty. Barry shuddered at the thought of Sheldon and Amy lying there together, entwined.

"Or there" the whiteboard was smeared with blue and black pen, yet none of it was readable. Most of his workings appeared to be on Amy's shirt which had tell-tale smudges on the back.

"Or… maybe just don't use this room until it has be thoroughly cleaned. We've been here all night"

Sheldon winked at Kripke and raised his eyebrows suggestively before taking Amy's hand as they walked out together.

"Bye Barry" Amy used her sweetest voice on him.

The couple nonchalantly walked away from the scene as if they had nothing to do with it.

A gust of wind blew through the window and made Kripke's papers fly everywhere.

It was if they were heroes exiting a scene with a dramatic explosion in the background.

Although, according to Barry, they were villainous.

He turned to watch them walk away, hand in hand.

"Cooper!"