Chapter 6: Awkward Blood Test III (And An Even More Awkward Dinner) [Shamy|Breana]

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December 10, 2016

Amy could not come with the results soon enough. "Do you want me to read the results or should I?" She asked the pair.

"I think you should read them and then I'll read them again." Sheldon answered too easily.

Amy looked around the room for a moment before she opened the envelop she had put the results in for dramatic effect. "I don't know what's going to happen after I say this, but Sheldon, you are Breana's father. I ran the test at least three times, there is no disputing the results."

Sheldon almost fell out of his chair. "Show me the paper." He almost took it right of Amy's hands, barely giving her a chance to hand it over. He felt like he couldn't breathe. Half of his DNA was in the girl standing a few feet away from him, and he didn't even remember when she could have been conceived. He almost wished that Amy would say Bazinga and that it was all one big prank."Holy shit!" He just stared at the paper.

"I know that is a lot to take in, so how about we just go go dinner early?" Amy suggested, trying to ease the tension in the room.

"Where should we go for dinner?" Breana wondered, looking at Amy and Sheldon. Even if she knew that Donald wasn't her real father at that point, it was still a lot to process.

"How about the Cheesecake Factory?" Amy suggested, even though she knew Saturday was Chinese takeout night.

"But Saturday is Big Boy Burger night!" Sheldon whined.

Breana looked at Sheldon and Amy, confused. Sheldon was a grown adult.

"He has a schedule he likes to follow." Amy told Breana before rolling her eyes at Sheldon. "I'll take you to the train store tomorrow, Sheldon."

"Ok." Sheldon gave in since he hadn't been to the train store in a little while. He chuckled. "Did you know that the world's first railway journey took place on February 21st, 1804?" He giggled.

Brenaa smiled. "Yes, I did." She chuckled. While both she and Chase had super smarts as part of their bionics, Chase had more of a thing for nonsense.

"Awww man. What about when Albert Einstein died?" Sheldon switched gears, trying to find something that she wouldn't know.

Breana chuckled. "He died on April 18th, 1955 at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey. Nice try."

Amy just rolled her eyes at the two exchanging obscure facts. She already dealt with Sheldon's facts everyday, so it was nice to not have them directed at her. She could probably get used to that.

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Breana observed how Amy and Sheldon interacted as they were seated at a table in The Cheesecake Factory. Even before he kissed her in front of her, she knew that there was something going on with the Physicist and the Neurobiologist. There was nothing wrong with it, of course, but it just made her miss him more. But she couldn't think about him now, she had to put on a face.

"So where exactly are you from?" Amy asked Breana while looked at the menu. Breana could see that Sheldon was getting antsy. She had already decided what she want by just glancing at the menu.

Breana took a split second to compose herself before she answered the question that while was well meaning small talk, was fairly invasive for why she had just gotten up and left her life (which was a whole reason entirely besides the fact of having found the collection of her mother's diaries). "I'm from Mission Creek, which isn't too far from here."

Amy nodded, glancing at Sheldon. "Do you have any siblings?" Of course that was a redundant question when the Davenport family have been in the news so much, but it was better than the awkward silence.

"Yes. My older brothers Adam and Chase, and older sister Bree, who are adopted, and my twin brother Danny." Breana started at the menu. Adoption was the blanket excuse since human modification wasn't acceptable, Plus is was true, with how her father had ended up with the original three bionic superhumans.

Sheldon looked at her. Now that he was studying her, he could see the resemblance between her and him. It was pretty uncanny, though she looked more like Dr. Amy Reinhart (and had her eyes), he was clearly her father if one knew them enough. Plus she freaking knocked on the door three times. That was clearly not a coincidence.

"Are you in high school? Or have you advanced to college like I did at the tender age of eleven." Sheldon asked Breana, speaking over his drink.

"I have never formally went to school, although I took a test and am almost done with doing high school online. I'm on track to be done by May like when everyone else my age that isn't overly smart work be graduating. However, if it were not for the past circumstances, I would be done with High School already." Breana explained. "I don't know what I want to do, however, regardless it will be something sciencey, to put it in layman's terms."

Sheldon nodded. "Maybe I could show you what I do in my lab later this week? This university forced me to take a vacation, I only came to the lab to do the um, you know test."

"Yes, the paternity test." Breana nodded. "I would like to see your lab in action."

"Good." Sheldon smiled a little, ordering his food. Breana though his ordering ritual was strange, but what was she to do. If she was going to stay in Pasadena, they would all have to make it work; and she couldn't face her other family right now. It was just all too much.

It was interesting to see how their dinner progressed in the conversation. Breana definitely had barriers, and she knew they were noticeable, but it would have been rude for the conversation to be pressed further when A), they were in a public place, and B), the trio has just met, even with the fact that two of them were, in fact, related by blood, however that had happened. Her chest had tightened when the past weddings of Sheldon and Amy's friends, Bernadette and Howard and then Leonard and Penny were brought up. (God, she had been so close to Holy matrimony, the ring was on a chain long enough so the ring dangled well below her shirt, hidden from public view. It was only months out from his death, and they had been engaged for such a short time.)

Seeing as they were all done, or almost done with their food, Amy figured out an appropriate conversation diversion. "We should get desert. It is a special occasion after all." She knew that Sheldon would complain since they had already deviated from Sheldon's meal schedule, and they usually did not get dessert at The Cheesecake Factory if they got it all on Tuesdays, but Amy saw the pained looked on Breana's face after any and all weddings were mentioned. Luckily she and Sheldon were not ready to take that step in their relationship, even if because of intermediate circumstances, she already knew about the ring. Of course, the only reason he already had it was because it was an heirloom, but still.

"But Amy, we don't eat cheesecake factory cheesecake." As expected, Sheldon complained. Amy just scoffed and rolled your eyes.

"You know there are a few other desserts besides cheesecake, father." Breana's eyes widened a split second after she spoke. "I'm sorry, I don't know what to call you and I can't exactly call you Dr. Cooper if I know you're the person half of my DNA actually came from." She rambled, afraid that Sheldon would strike her despite the evidence that although strange, he was a safe person.

Amy touched Sheldon's foot with hers under the table so that he would not speak without thinking as he was known to do, since playing footsie in public always made him uncomfortable. "It's alright, this is new to us. We can just leave, maybe get dessert to go if you would like." Carefully, she touched the top of the girl's hand, seeing that she was like a wild animal at that point, a flight risk. "We'll figure this out. Do you have a place to stay?" She asked gently.

Breana shook her head. "Unless you count my car, I've slept in worse places on missions anyways." She whispered the last part, not needing the attention that came with essentially being a superhero.

Sheldon stared at her, looking at Amy. For all he knew, his only instinct was that it was not appropriate for her to sleep in her car when so many bad things could happen.

Amy, after looking at Sheldon's face, deciphered what his expression meant. "That's not acceptable. We have an extra room in our apartment since Penny cleared out the rest of her things. And don't think about saying know to us." She chuckled a bit. "I apologize if I'm overstepping, but we're already in a strange relationship, and I know I cannot replace your mother, even if we do share the same first name."

Breana nodded, feeling more at ease. "I guess I could accept an extra bedroom. But could we get ice cream on the way there?" She couldn't help but laugh a little.

"Of course we can get ice cream." Amy chuckled as Sheldon cheered. At least that was another thing the father and daughter pair had in common.

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No matter where she was, it always took Breana and overly long time to fall asleep, only for that sleep to be restless. Marcus was the only person who let her feel safe, or her twin brother. But Marcus was different. There was a whole different level of trust involved with him.

She had already tried everything and anything to stop the dreams, but it never work. So she gave up on trying to work with it. She just hoped that tonight was one of those nights where she did not scream in her sleep.

As real as it could be, she was back where it all began. In the place where all of her nightmares were the same. She could smell the mold in the dusty basement from where she was, being dragged back down the stairs after she had been taken up to be shown off to some other members of the gang by the men who had taken her and her brother away from her family. Her bionics gave her an eidetic memory, and she knew what he looked like even almost two years from when he was taken from the place. The only reason she knew that he was alive because of their connection. She could practically feel him. At least he was somewhat if not fully safe.

She was too weak to fight, the constant pregnancies and losses took a lot out of her. The only thing she could really do was bite, and that would lead to an even worse punishment than how she was already treated.

The scene started to cloud as she screamed for help that would never come, shifting into something that she had tried to block from her memory. She was stupid enough to get kidnapped, this time by a different psychopath than the ones who originally took her. And of course, as her knight in shining armour, Marcus had to come rescue her. "No, Marcus, you can't." She couldn't make out most of the scene, as her memory was so hazy, but she recognized the big boom, the flames, and seeing his face for what would be the last time.

She woke up in a cold sweat, her voice slightly hoarse. Which meant the inevitable. She had definitely screamed in her sleep.

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Sheldon had been having a light discussion with Amy when he heard the screams. They began with 'No, please don't!', progressing to 'Marcus, no, please, Marcus!'.

The last set of screams was the most painful. He grabbed his lightsaber off the shelf and pressed the button so it would open.

Amy sighed. "Sheldon, she's having a nightmare. We would have heard an intruder enter." she tried to reason.

"Yes, your are probably right dear. I'll go check on her as part of my fatherly duties." Though he did not say it out loud, Sheldon had no idea how he felt about it.

He did not knock, there was too much at stake. He turned on the lightsaber in order to have a more subtle light than just flicking the switch. "Honey? Are you alright?" He sat on the edge of the bed.

"I-I'm fine." The stutter and quietness in Breana's voice said otherwise, but Sheldon was a total loss. "Would you like some tea? I have chamomile."

"No thank you, it's alright." Breana answered Sheldon. She was not about to wet the bed for the first time in over a month.

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