[fic] everywhere i go (the hard to keep track of you remix), sheldon/penny, pg13, 1500 words

[allthingsholy]

Title: everywhere i go (the hard to keep track of you remix)
Author: allthingsholy
Remix of: Half-Awake in a Fake Empire (BBT/Dollhouse Crossover) by juniperlane
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: MORE PLEASE. Either how Sheldon ended up being a doll. Or more of what happens after. Or Sheldon and Penny during the Epitaph timeline. JUST MORE PLEASE. For the remix challenge at sheldon_pennyNotes:

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[juniperlane]

If you read this comment and then argue with me about if this is good or not, I'm going to punch you, so. Fair warning.

This is pretty much exactly how I imagined it going down in the Epitaph future, but I don't think I had really fully considered the ramifications of them meeting up in this future-gone-awry, and all the weight that they're both carrying and just... Penny :[

Here are my favorite bits, mostly because each of them HURTS in the best possible way:

She catalogs his differences like a penance.

She envies him the easy judgment he passes on people like her.

That he knows her face, her eyes, all through the plasma flat of a TV screen. That for him, the distance between them is endless. For her, it’s just heartbeats.

UGH, and really liked using that formatting from the first story, and I think you beat me in making that last line a sucker punch because -

She slides her hands up his shoulders, across the plane of his back, and wonders if he’ll remember (remember the sex, remember the crossword, remember anything about her before she had a gun in her hands), but he won't. He won't.

SHELDON, NOOOOOOOOOO :[ :[ :[