I Have a Bad Feeling About This - A Doctor Who/Big Bang Theory Crossover
I have a bad feeling about this...
by: trippy41
Word Count: 1, 500
Rating: PG
for: 3pirouette
for: help_japan via Write for Relief
Thanks to mothermedusa20 for being my beta!
A Doctor Who Ten/Rose and Big Bang Theory Sheldon/Penny Crossover. I hope you like it!
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The mechanical whirring sound filled the quiet neighbourhood Californian street. With a light and a sudden vibration, a blue box appeared where there had been none. A young blonde woman peeked her head out of the door.
“America, Doctor?” Rose stepped one step outside the TARDIS door.
A tall, skinny brunette followed her. “Yes,” the Doctor sniffed the air, “breathtaking, isn’t it?”
Rose took a deep breath, and coughed, “That’s smog. It will take your breath away!” She looked at her surroundings. No one had noticed their landing, but, “Doctor, a blue police box is at least possible in London.” Rose furrowed her brow, “I don’t think they’re likely in California.”
“Ah, no one will notice it.” They both walked away from the TARDIS, “They never do.” With a final thought, the Doctor said, “Remember where we parked!”
~
Penny was sitting on the couch in 4A, more on his spot than off it. Like he’d notice. Sheldon was at his whiteboard, scribbling frantically. Penny flipped the pages of Vogue slowly, but hardly looking down except to occasionally rub a perfume strip on her wrist. She stared at his back, willing him to turn.
“Sheldon?”
He put a large hand, palm up toward her, meant to silence her. Talk to the hand.
Seriously? “Sheldon,” she whined, “you said we could do it soon.”
Sheldon sighed deeply, wrote two more symbols on his whiteboard, and turned to her, marker still in hand, “I can’t always predict when inspiration will strike, Penny.” His arms crossed over his blue Superman shirt, “You know that this,” he nudged a shoulder towards his whiteboard, “takes precedence over something so silly.” His marker tapped irritably against his arm.
“Silly?” Penny’s eyes crinkled as she smiled, “You’re the one who told me how much you loved it!”
“Normally I do,” Sheldon agreed with a nod, “despite your apparent expertise in the matter, I do enjoy the challenge of besting you soon.” He turned to his board again, “This, however, takes priority over everything. Even,” Sheldon looked over his shoulder at her phone, sitting and waiting on the coffee table, “Words with Friends.”
Penny sighed as he turned back to his scribbling, and picked up her phone, checking to see if Amy or Bernadette were available to play.
~
“It’s this moment that defines him.” The Doctor walked quickly down the street, turning the corner on North Robles, with Rose on his heels. “It’s important.”
“Why is this bloke important?” Rose asked, pulling on her jacket to straighten it. It wasn’t exactly a bumpy landing, but the Doctor had done better.
The Doctor stopped and looked down at her, “It can go one of two ways - really, really well - or really, really badly.”
“By bad - how bad do you mean? Like, “Aww that’s too bad” or “Oh my god, it’s the end of the world!” bad?”
“The,” the Doctor imitated her voice, just a little, “Oh my god, it’s the end of the world!” bad.”
“Oh. Okay. He’s important.”
~
Penny watched his back and shoulders and their movement - flex, pause, flex, tense, flex, pause - until it almost mesmerized her. With her magazine finished, and no one to play with on her phone, Penny could have just left 4A and found something else to entertain her, but she spent so little time here lately. She missed the apartment and all its geek glory, and if she was honest with herself, she missed Sheldon. So she stayed and watched - flex, pause, flex, tense, flex, pause -until there was a rapping at the door.
Sheldon looked over his shoulder at her again, with a questioning look in his eyes. He nodded, and she hopped up to answer the door.
Swinging it open, not exactly sure what or who she would find, but certainly not anticipating a woman who could have been her sister with a tall, thin man clad in an ill fitting suit, standing there, waiting expectantly.
Penny shook the strange image of the two doppelgangers out of her head, “Can I help you?”
“Yes, thank you. I’m Rose and this is...” Rose was cut off from introductions as the Doctor strolled right into the flat.
“Dr. Cooper! Just the man I came to see!” The Doctor clapped Sheldon on the shoulder. Sheldon jumped, and moved a little closer to his board.
“Who are you?” Sheldon said, arms and legs askew trying to hide his work.
“I’m the Doctor!” the Doctor smiled wide. He forgot, this man was a germaphobe. He held up his hand, “it’s clean.”
“Doctor who?” Sheldon looked at the man warily.
“That’s right.” The Doctor pointed to the whiteboard behind Sheldon’s awkward pose, “No need to keep that from me, I know exactly what’s on it.”
Sheldon scoffed, “I highly doubt that.”
“It’s a series of equations intended to prove and create inter-dimensional travel. I’m here to tell you,” the Doctor beamed, “that you needn’t bother. It exists, because I exist.”
Sheldon was rarely speechless in his life, but on this occasion, all he could do was to slump on a nearby stool in his kitchen.
~
Penny was watching this encounter between the strange man and Sheldon, who were eyeing each other like they were lost brothers. The girl beside her, Rose, was watching too.
“The Doctor, he says that Doctor Cooper there,” Rose pointed to Sheldon, “is important. Would you know why?”
“Well, Doctor Cooper certainly thinks he’s important!” Penny laughed. “I don’t really understand what he works on - I tried to understand it once - but all I got out of the experience was that it all started in Ancient Greece, and Fig Newtons are named after a town in Massachusetts.”
“Oh, I’ve never quite understood it all about the Doctor either, but being his companion has made my life - worth it, you know?” Rose smiled back at this girl - so like her. “Are you Doctor Cooper’s companion - I mean friend?”
“Well, yes - of course!” Penny turned to the girl, “How are you this doctor’s companion - what does that mean?”
“I go with him - wherever he needs me to. I look out for him,” she saw Penny look at Doctor Cooper, “and he looks out for me.” Rose grinned, “We’ve had to get each other out of some sticky situations!”
Penny nodded, “I guess that makes me Sheldon’s companion then!” She laughed and Rose did with her.
They looked back at the men, who were arguing over Sheldon’s whiteboard.
~
“You can’t possibly ask me to abandon my work!” Sheldon was indignant, “If you are, as you say, proof that I am correct, then I need to see this proof! I need to know it works.”
“Doctor Cooper,” The Doctor’s tone was firm, “Humans are not ready to use inter-dimensional travel.”
“Ah,” Sheldon re-crossed his arms, “I see your error. I am not your ordinary human - I am an improvement on the species. A Homo Novus if you will.”
“You are still human Doctor Cooper, no matter how,” the Doctor grinned, “advanced. Humans are not ready yet,” and the Doctor’s eyes travelled to Rose, “unless guided by me.”
“How can you say that? Aren’t you,” Sheldon paused, “Human?”
“No.” The Doctor was blunt. “And,” he began, equally as blunt, “You will cause such a rift in time-space and hurt those around you,” he looked pointedly at the girl that was in the room, wide eyes looking at Doctor Cooper, “if you continue this.” His long arm swept towards the whiteboard. “California will disappear into the vacuum of space. It isn’t pretty.” The Doctor shook his head knowingly.
Sheldon followed his eyes to Penny, and his stomach tightened. He looked at the other girl, “Why do you bring her with you? She’s human, yes?
“Yes,” the Doctor smiled, “she’s my companion. Invaluable to me.”
Sheldon nodded, “I can understand that,” he said quietly, his eyes back on Penny, who looked quizzically at him. “Fine, Doctor. I will not follow this work at this time.” He turned back to the Doctor, “However, if, in this future that you apparently have knowledge of, it does become possible to finish this,” he motioned to the board that he was erasing, yet would never erase from his memory, “you will come back and tell me.”
The Doctor nodded. “Indeed. It may be someday,” he grinned as he walked towards Rose, “but not today Doctor Cooper.”
Rose stood to join the Doctor, “Penny, this is the Doctor,” She smiled up at him, “and I think it’s time to go.”
Sheldon, who was behind the Doctor, turned to Penny and grinned a half smile at her, “it would appear that my afternoon is open, if you still want to play “Words With Friends.” He pulled out his phone from his pocket.
Penny laughed, and threw her arms around his neck, “Yes Sheldon, I can think of nothing better.” Sheldon awkwardly put his arms around her back, “And I will beat you at it once again!” She laughed in his ear.
~
Penny saw them leave from under Sheldon’s embrace. Rose looked back and their eyes met with understanding.
Penny had her doctor, and Rose had hers.
The End.