The 2010 Masterlist!
First off, on behalf of myself, ishie and bekkis, we want to thank everyone who has been a part of this (very) long journey to get to the finish line. To the wonderful writers and artists who participated, to the people who betaed for them or just cheered everyone on from the sidelines - THANK YOU! Without all of you, especially the writers and artists, we'd just be three mods with a silent community! And to everyone who has taken the time to read the fic (or is still reading), enjoy the art, music, etc. that go with it and leave feedback - thank you as well!
For the first big bang in our modest-sized fandom, we have to say it was definitely a success. Please keep an eye on the community this weekend as we'll be putting up polls and feedback posts to get an idea of what you liked or didn't like about this challenge, and what you might want to see in the next Big Bang Big Bang!
Until then, we are thrilled to present the 2010 masterlist of fics & art (in alphabetical order)!
2010 Big Bang Big Bang Masterlist
Title: At the Fork in the Road
Author: weasleytook
Artist: courtney_beth
Pairing(s): Sheldon/Penny (Brief instances of other pairings including Leonard/Penny, Barry/Penny, OMC/Penny, but like REALLY BRIEF. It's all about S/P.)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Implied but non-permanent character death. AUs... as in multiple ones.
Word Count: 16,711
Summary: An average Wednesday. A caramel macchiato. A pair of broken glasses. All of those tiny moments add up, and sometimes they cause Penny to accidentally invent inter-dimensional travel and take Sheldon with her. Those little moments can change the entire course of one's life, places both new and old, moments both good and bad. Will what they see change them forever? If they even get back at all.
Link: Fic on LJ; or AO3
Link: Link to Soundtrack
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Title: Big Bad Sheldor, A Big Bang Theory Fractured Fairy Tale
Author: hakkai_duo and imjustanerd
Artist: eruwenfuin
Pairing(s): Sheldon/Penny; Howard/Bernadette; Leonard/Stephanie
Rating: PG
Warnings: 1) Potential (and by potential we mean a whole lot) of historical inaccuracies. It’s a fairy tale; Penny's telling the fairy tale, entertainment is chosen over fact. Sheldon you have been warned. 2) The names of some of the characters have been changed for fairy tale purposes.
Word Count: Around 28k
Summary: Penelope, the Queen of Pasadenamak may have been hypnotized and kidnapped by the evil wizard Sheldor and his apprentices; The Raj and Wolowizard. It is up to Sir Leonardo, Leader of the Knights and his makeshift army of The Krippler and Les Von Winkle to save her. But when Penelope realizes that maybe her storybook ending of riding off into the sunset with her knight in shining armor is not exactly what she wanted, she turns to the the evil wizard. Maybe she'll find what she's looking for on the dark side?
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Fanmix Download; Mixer Comments
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Title: But Now I'm Found
Author: tbbtlenny
Artist: tobimonkee
Pairing(s): Leonard/Penny; Leonard/OC
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers up until the end of season 3
Word Count: 15,479
Summary: AU - Ten years ago, Penny moved away from Pasadena to a job in New York as a screenwriter. Now, after multiple rejections, she starts to question where she’s going in life, and starts to feel lost. Until one night, she finds a box in the back of her closet, reminding her of Leonard. She sets off on a journey to find him and reunite with the person that she hasn’t seen in ten years. Meanwhile, a certain girl in Leonard’s office attempts to ask him out. Will Penny make it to Leonard in time, or will she lose him to this girl?
Link:: Link to Fic
Link:: Link to Art
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Title: The Comic-Con Hypothesis
Author: lonelysubmarine
Artist: renisanz
Pairing(s): Penny/Sheldon (with a side of Howard/Raj and Leonard/Penny)
Rating: PG-13 (or N, for Nerdy)
Warnings: None, other than being awesomely nerdy.
Summary: Penny and the guys are going to Comic-Con 2014. There are costumes themed days (Batman, X-Men, DC Characters & Watchmen), panels with the best and newest news on upcoming TV shows, movies and comic books, and the show room with hours of shopping and walking to be had. Everything the five of them love, but when Penny breaks up with Leonard on the trip there, tensions are high and she ends up being Sheldon's Comic-Con buddy.
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Art
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Title: The Doctoral Deficiency
Author: ancarett
Artist: kadaverous and treelines
Pairing(s): Gen (a little Raj/Howard if you squint)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mention of stalking; spoilers for the Twilight series
Word Count: 15,500
Summary: Four men, four doctorates. Since Sheldon has two, that leaves Mr. Wolowitz as the odd man out in the academic foursome. But what's the use of working at one of the most prestigious universities if you don't take advantage of the opportunities to get your slice of the higher education pie? Howard's been working on his doctorate, but now Sheldon's wormed his way on the dissertation committee with disastrous consequences. Can Leonard, Penny, Howard and Raj deal with the tribulations of angry Buffy fans, harassed university staff members and a flurry of mandatory university policy workshops that Sheldon somehow seems to avoid, all to help Howard get his Ph.D.? Stay tuned!
Link: Fic on LJ; on Dreamwidth; on AO3
Link: Link to Art
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Title: The Future Uncertainty
Author: enna_xor
Artist: aydean and juniperlane
Pairing(s): Leonard/Penny
Crossover Fandom: Flashforward (the novel), but all characters from TBBT
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some spoilers for Flashforward
Word Count: 15,001
Summary: Disaster strikes when an experiment at at CERN causes everyone in the world to blackout for two minutes. But during that time, everyone has a vision of their lives 6 months in the future. A wrench is thrown into Leonard and Penny's attempts to fix their post-breakup friendship when their visions show them together once again. Now they must decide whether or not they believe the visions to be the definite future, or just a possibility. Can Penny overcome her fear of being hurt? And will Leonard be willing to give her another chance if she does?
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Music Video
Link: Link to Fanmix
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Title: The Homo Novus Experimentation
Author: danakate
Artist: stephaniejane2
Pairing(s): Penny/Sheldon, Howard/Bernadette
Rating: PG-13, to be ultra-conservative
Warnings: General show spoilers for all 3 seasons. Slightly AU (see note, which itself is a slight spoiler for Season 3).
Word Count: 17,000
Summary: Penny tries to utilize the scientific method to try to seduce Sheldon for a bet. In the end, they both learn a lot about each other and themselves and the outcome is surprising for all.
Link: Fic Part 1; Fic Part 2
Link: Link to Soundtrack
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Title: I am Sleeping on a Timebomb
Author: muir_wolf
Artist: fujiidom
Pairing(s): Slight Leonard/Penny, Raj/Sheldon, Howard/OCs, eventually Sheldon/Penny, Raj/Howard, Leonard/Leslie
Rating: R
Warnings: Triggery for emotional and physical abuse as well as several mentions of a miscarriage. Also - very strong language and alcohol addiction.
Word Count: 27,247
Summary: AU - Circus performers in a world recovering from a devastating war in the 1980s. Penny joins the circus and meets Sheldon, Raj, Leonard, and Howard, who all have their own reasons for being there. But you can only run so far from your past, and eventually you have to start moving forward.
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Fanmix/Art
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Title: & light is only now just breaking
Author: allthingsholy
Artist: juniperlane
Pairing(s): Penny, Sheldon/Penny
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Angst. The misuse of farm terminology. Bad familial relationships and lots of run-on sentences.
Word Count: 22000
Summary: Penny moves back home to take care of her mother. Sheldon, for reasons of his own, follows her.
Link: Fic & Art Masterpost
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Title: Like the Rifle
Author: damalur
Artist: ishie
Pairing: Sheldon/Penny
Fandom: Supernatural + The Big Bang Theory
Rating: R
Warnings: Words Mary Cooper would not appreciate, mild violence and sexuality, suggestion of a romantic relationship between two people raised as siblings (although not related by blood).
Word Count: 15,100
Summary: Penny and Sheldon grew up together on the road under the militant eye of Sheldon's father, George Cooper, learning the family business of saving people, hunting things, drinking coffee, and tracking the evil son-of-a-bitch who killed their families. At eighteen, Sheldon packs up and takes off for California and higher education - leaving Penny, betrayed, to take up his slack as she travels the country in her '67 Chevy Impala.
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Art & Soundtrack
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Title: The Long Road Parallel
Author: robothor111
Artist: eerie_descent
Pairings: Leonard/Penny, mentions of Howard/Bernadette, and Penny/Kurt
Fandom: The Big Bang Theory
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers up to the end of season three, mostly from The Precious Fragmentation to The Lunar Excitation. A few bad words, a bit suggestive at times, nothing really bad.
Word Count: 21,000-ish.
Summary: Penny’s past has scarred her. Follows her thoughts from 3.17 to a few days past the season three finale-plus what was going on in her life during that time that we didn’t see on screen.
Link:: Link to Fic
Link:: Link to Art
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Title: Lorem Ipsum
Author: courtney_beth
Artist: sa_4_geeks
Pairing(s): Gen. (Maybe some Barry/Penny if you squint?)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 16574
Summary: An accident with a piece of laboratory equipment causes Sheldon and Leonard to switch bodies! They enlist the help of an unlikely source (Barry Kripke) to assist with machine repairs, while Penny helps Sheldon get ready to go in Leonard's place to a research fund raising gala.
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Fanmix
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Title: Nothing Important Happened Today
Author: ishie
Artist: renisanz
Pairing(s): Penny/Sheldon, Leslie/Barry
Fandom/Crossover: More of a fusion - Big X-Files Theory? Big Bang Files?
Rating: R
Warnings: adult language, death imagery, bizarre under-explained AU shenanigans, Wil Wheaton/evil, no resemblance to the first draft in any way
Word Count: 27000 words
Summary: Life as a new FBI recruit is nothing like Penny expected, but it's better than sitting around waiting for Kurt to grow up. Until she gets pulled out of training a few weeks early, that is. On the plus side: no more pre-dawn obstacle course runs; but partnering with the Bureau's resident crackpot? This is so not what she signed up for. She's ready to toss her shiny new (provisional) badge in the Potomac, until Agent Cooper gives her a look at the first case they'll be investigating - something the Bureau hasn't seen in almost fifty years.
Link: Fic Post on LJ; or AO3
Link: Art Post
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Title: Sheldon Cooper's Pon Farr - Four Scenes from the Life of an Asexual
Author: lana_erosh
Artist: t0ra_chan
Pairing(s): Sheldon/OC, Sheldon/Howard, Sheldon/Wil Wheaton
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: slash, OC
Word Count: ~ 15.500
Summary: Some adventures of the supposedly "asexual" Beautiful Mind Sheldon Cooper who struggles with his personal "Pon Farr" ...
Link: Fic Post
Link: Fanvid
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Title: StarTricked
Author: htbthomas
Artist: misspopuri
Pairing(s): Penny/Evil!Wil, friendship pairings with Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, Raj, Stuart
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Set after Season 3
Word Count: 15,176 words
Summary: When Penny meets Wil again, she’s completely charmed. Can she prove to Sheldon that Wil is not as evil as Sheldon claims? Or is Sheldon right?
Link: Fic Post
Link: Link to Soundtrack
For the first big bang in our modest-sized fandom, we have to say it was definitely a success. Please keep an eye on the community this weekend as we'll be putting up polls and feedback posts to get an idea of what you liked or didn't like about this challenge, and what you might want to see in the next Big Bang Big Bang!
Until then, we are thrilled to present the 2010 masterlist of fics & art (in alphabetical order)!
2010 Big Bang Big Bang Masterlist
Title: At the Fork in the Road
Author: weasleytook
Artist: courtney_beth
Pairing(s): Sheldon/Penny (Brief instances of other pairings including Leonard/Penny, Barry/Penny, OMC/Penny, but like REALLY BRIEF. It's all about S/P.)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Implied but non-permanent character death. AUs... as in multiple ones.
Word Count: 16,711
Summary: An average Wednesday. A caramel macchiato. A pair of broken glasses. All of those tiny moments add up, and sometimes they cause Penny to accidentally invent inter-dimensional travel and take Sheldon with her. Those little moments can change the entire course of one's life, places both new and old, moments both good and bad. Will what they see change them forever? If they even get back at all.
Link: Fic on LJ; or AO3
Link: Link to Soundtrack
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Title: Big Bad Sheldor, A Big Bang Theory Fractured Fairy Tale
Author: hakkai_duo and imjustanerd
Artist: eruwenfuin
Pairing(s): Sheldon/Penny; Howard/Bernadette; Leonard/Stephanie
Rating: PG
Warnings: 1) Potential (and by potential we mean a whole lot) of historical inaccuracies. It’s a fairy tale; Penny's telling the fairy tale, entertainment is chosen over fact. Sheldon you have been warned. 2) The names of some of the characters have been changed for fairy tale purposes.
Word Count: Around 28k
Summary: Penelope, the Queen of Pasadenamak may have been hypnotized and kidnapped by the evil wizard Sheldor and his apprentices; The Raj and Wolowizard. It is up to Sir Leonardo, Leader of the Knights and his makeshift army of The Krippler and Les Von Winkle to save her. But when Penelope realizes that maybe her storybook ending of riding off into the sunset with her knight in shining armor is not exactly what she wanted, she turns to the the evil wizard. Maybe she'll find what she's looking for on the dark side?
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Fanmix Download; Mixer Comments
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Title: But Now I'm Found
Author: tbbtlenny
Artist: tobimonkee
Pairing(s): Leonard/Penny; Leonard/OC
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers up until the end of season 3
Word Count: 15,479
Summary: AU - Ten years ago, Penny moved away from Pasadena to a job in New York as a screenwriter. Now, after multiple rejections, she starts to question where she’s going in life, and starts to feel lost. Until one night, she finds a box in the back of her closet, reminding her of Leonard. She sets off on a journey to find him and reunite with the person that she hasn’t seen in ten years. Meanwhile, a certain girl in Leonard’s office attempts to ask him out. Will Penny make it to Leonard in time, or will she lose him to this girl?
Link:: Link to Fic
Link:: Link to Art
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Title: The Comic-Con Hypothesis
Author: lonelysubmarine
Artist: renisanz
Pairing(s): Penny/Sheldon (with a side of Howard/Raj and Leonard/Penny)
Rating: PG-13 (or N, for Nerdy)
Warnings: None, other than being awesomely nerdy.
Summary: Penny and the guys are going to Comic-Con 2014. There are costumes themed days (Batman, X-Men, DC Characters & Watchmen), panels with the best and newest news on upcoming TV shows, movies and comic books, and the show room with hours of shopping and walking to be had. Everything the five of them love, but when Penny breaks up with Leonard on the trip there, tensions are high and she ends up being Sheldon's Comic-Con buddy.
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Art
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Title: The Doctoral Deficiency
Author: ancarett
Artist: kadaverous and treelines
Pairing(s): Gen (a little Raj/Howard if you squint)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mention of stalking; spoilers for the Twilight series
Word Count: 15,500
Summary: Four men, four doctorates. Since Sheldon has two, that leaves Mr. Wolowitz as the odd man out in the academic foursome. But what's the use of working at one of the most prestigious universities if you don't take advantage of the opportunities to get your slice of the higher education pie? Howard's been working on his doctorate, but now Sheldon's wormed his way on the dissertation committee with disastrous consequences. Can Leonard, Penny, Howard and Raj deal with the tribulations of angry Buffy fans, harassed university staff members and a flurry of mandatory university policy workshops that Sheldon somehow seems to avoid, all to help Howard get his Ph.D.? Stay tuned!
Link: Fic on LJ; on Dreamwidth; on AO3
Link: Link to Art
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Title: The Future Uncertainty
Author: enna_xor
Artist: aydean and juniperlane
Pairing(s): Leonard/Penny
Crossover Fandom: Flashforward (the novel), but all characters from TBBT
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some spoilers for Flashforward
Word Count: 15,001
Summary: Disaster strikes when an experiment at at CERN causes everyone in the world to blackout for two minutes. But during that time, everyone has a vision of their lives 6 months in the future. A wrench is thrown into Leonard and Penny's attempts to fix their post-breakup friendship when their visions show them together once again. Now they must decide whether or not they believe the visions to be the definite future, or just a possibility. Can Penny overcome her fear of being hurt? And will Leonard be willing to give her another chance if she does?
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Music Video
Link: Link to Fanmix
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Title: The Homo Novus Experimentation
Author: danakate
Artist: stephaniejane2
Pairing(s): Penny/Sheldon, Howard/Bernadette
Rating: PG-13, to be ultra-conservative
Warnings: General show spoilers for all 3 seasons. Slightly AU (see note, which itself is a slight spoiler for Season 3).
Word Count: 17,000
Summary: Penny tries to utilize the scientific method to try to seduce Sheldon for a bet. In the end, they both learn a lot about each other and themselves and the outcome is surprising for all.
Link: Fic Part 1; Fic Part 2
Link: Link to Soundtrack
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Title: I am Sleeping on a Timebomb
Author: muir_wolf
Artist: fujiidom
Pairing(s): Slight Leonard/Penny, Raj/Sheldon, Howard/OCs, eventually Sheldon/Penny, Raj/Howard, Leonard/Leslie
Rating: R
Warnings: Triggery for emotional and physical abuse as well as several mentions of a miscarriage. Also - very strong language and alcohol addiction.
Word Count: 27,247
Summary: AU - Circus performers in a world recovering from a devastating war in the 1980s. Penny joins the circus and meets Sheldon, Raj, Leonard, and Howard, who all have their own reasons for being there. But you can only run so far from your past, and eventually you have to start moving forward.
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Fanmix/Art
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Title: & light is only now just breaking
Author: allthingsholy
Artist: juniperlane
Pairing(s): Penny, Sheldon/Penny
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Angst. The misuse of farm terminology. Bad familial relationships and lots of run-on sentences.
Word Count: 22000
Summary: Penny moves back home to take care of her mother. Sheldon, for reasons of his own, follows her.
Link: Fic & Art Masterpost
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Title: Like the Rifle
Author: damalur
Artist: ishie
Pairing: Sheldon/Penny
Fandom: Supernatural + The Big Bang Theory
Rating: R
Warnings: Words Mary Cooper would not appreciate, mild violence and sexuality, suggestion of a romantic relationship between two people raised as siblings (although not related by blood).
Word Count: 15,100
Summary: Penny and Sheldon grew up together on the road under the militant eye of Sheldon's father, George Cooper, learning the family business of saving people, hunting things, drinking coffee, and tracking the evil son-of-a-bitch who killed their families. At eighteen, Sheldon packs up and takes off for California and higher education - leaving Penny, betrayed, to take up his slack as she travels the country in her '67 Chevy Impala.
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Art & Soundtrack
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Title: The Long Road Parallel
Author: robothor111
Artist: eerie_descent
Pairings: Leonard/Penny, mentions of Howard/Bernadette, and Penny/Kurt
Fandom: The Big Bang Theory
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers up to the end of season three, mostly from The Precious Fragmentation to The Lunar Excitation. A few bad words, a bit suggestive at times, nothing really bad.
Word Count: 21,000-ish.
Summary: Penny’s past has scarred her. Follows her thoughts from 3.17 to a few days past the season three finale-plus what was going on in her life during that time that we didn’t see on screen.
Link:: Link to Fic
Link:: Link to Art
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Title: Lorem Ipsum
Author: courtney_beth
Artist: sa_4_geeks
Pairing(s): Gen. (Maybe some Barry/Penny if you squint?)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 16574
Summary: An accident with a piece of laboratory equipment causes Sheldon and Leonard to switch bodies! They enlist the help of an unlikely source (Barry Kripke) to assist with machine repairs, while Penny helps Sheldon get ready to go in Leonard's place to a research fund raising gala.
Link: Link to Fic
Link: Link to Fanmix
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Title: Nothing Important Happened Today
Author: ishie
Artist: renisanz
Pairing(s): Penny/Sheldon, Leslie/Barry
Fandom/Crossover: More of a fusion - Big X-Files Theory? Big Bang Files?
Rating: R
Warnings: adult language, death imagery, bizarre under-explained AU shenanigans, Wil Wheaton/evil, no resemblance to the first draft in any way
Word Count: 27000 words
Summary: Life as a new FBI recruit is nothing like Penny expected, but it's better than sitting around waiting for Kurt to grow up. Until she gets pulled out of training a few weeks early, that is. On the plus side: no more pre-dawn obstacle course runs; but partnering with the Bureau's resident crackpot? This is so not what she signed up for. She's ready to toss her shiny new (provisional) badge in the Potomac, until Agent Cooper gives her a look at the first case they'll be investigating - something the Bureau hasn't seen in almost fifty years.
Link: Fic Post on LJ; or AO3
Link: Art Post
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Title: Sheldon Cooper's Pon Farr - Four Scenes from the Life of an Asexual
Author: lana_erosh
Artist: t0ra_chan
Pairing(s): Sheldon/OC, Sheldon/Howard, Sheldon/Wil Wheaton
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: slash, OC
Word Count: ~ 15.500
Summary: Some adventures of the supposedly "asexual" Beautiful Mind Sheldon Cooper who struggles with his personal "Pon Farr" ...
Link: Fic Post
Link: Fanvid
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Title: StarTricked
Author: htbthomas
Artist: misspopuri
Pairing(s): Penny/Evil!Wil, friendship pairings with Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, Raj, Stuart
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Set after Season 3
Word Count: 15,176 words
Summary: When Penny meets Wil again, she’s completely charmed. Can she prove to Sheldon that Wil is not as evil as Sheldon claims? Or is Sheldon right?
Link: Fic Post
Link: Link to Soundtrack