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Disclaimer: I dont own the Big Bang Theory but I do own Dr. Leo Fordyce. Sheldon/Leo pairing

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Chapter 28
Shortly after arriving at the Pasadena Juvenile Detention Center while Cayela was being held in a cell next to Danny’s office, Danny started an altercation with his boss about the whole situation.
“ Thanks a lot for making me do the worst thing possible Chief Gibbons! Arresting my friends’ innocent, autistic 14 year old girl!”, Danny shouted at his boss as Leo stood next to him.
“ Excuse me but what are you talking about Metcalf?!”, Chief Stanley Ronald Gibbons shouted.
“ You know what I’m talking about! Why did you make me do that?! She didn’t deserve that!”, Danny shouted.
“ She broke the law by drinking alcohol underage! Something had to be done!”, Chief Gibbons shouted as he slammed his fist on his desk.
“ My daughter didn’t do it intentionally! She didn’t even know it was alcohol until I said something! She has Autism and certain things do not process right in her brain! And here you are treating her like she’s some criminal! That’s not right!”, Leo shouted.
“ Ma’am you really don’t want to make me mad right now because I’m under a lot of pressure!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ Oh you’re under pressure?! Just wait until my husband gets here because he is way scarier than me!”, Leo shouted. Moments after she said that is when Sheldon as well as the rest of the gang along with Leo’s entire family and Sheldon’s family showed up. Sheldon started yelling at the chief which made him shout, “ Excuse me but who are you?!”
“ Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper, I’m Leo’s husband! What is wrong with you?! You sir are a disgrace to law enforcement! Treating our daughter like a juvenile delinquent?! You should be ashamed of yourself!”, Sheldon shouted as he angrily threw a finger at him.
“ YEAH WHAT THE HELL?!”, everybody else shouted.
“ Come here so I can hit you, you asshole!”, Amy shouted as she stepped forward to hit the chief with her purse but Penny stopped her.
“ Amy you hitting him with a coffee can full of change in your purse is not going to help! Remember what happened last time you swung that thing trying to hit Bernadette with it?! You hit me in the nose!”, Penny hissed at her best friend.
“ I don’t care Penny! This jerk deserves it for the way he’s treating Cayela right now!”, Amy hissed as she jerked her arm out of Penny’s grip.
“ I’m just following what the law says!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ No you’re not! This is just a total abuse of power and I don’t appreciate it!”, Sheldon shouted.
“ Dr. Cooper I would advise you to shut your mouth right now before things get out of hand!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ Dude they’re already out of hand! Just leave his and Leo’s daughter alone!”, Raj shouted as he pointed at Sheldon and Leo. Yesenia was standing next to him with a hand on his shoulder.
“ Yeah before I break everything in this office including your face! Quit treating my niece Cayela like she’s a criminal and quit harrassing my sister Leo and my brother-in law Sheldon!”, Junior shouted.
“ Sir I’m not harrassing anybody! I’m just doing my job alright!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ Alright that’s it I’m gonna…!”, Junior shouted as he made a move toward the chief but Dakota stopped him.
“ Junior Clyde Fordyce knock it off! Look pal, if you’re looking for someone to blame here then blame me because this is all my fault! The only reason why this happened in the first place is because of my stupid negligence! It didn’t occur to me that I shouldn’t have left that bottle out in the first place! I didn’t know that my niece was going to get curious enough to get into it! She had nothing to do with this! This was all on me!”, Dakota shouted at Junior before shouting at the chief.
“ Dakota what the hell are you doing?!”, Morgan shrieked.
“ Not now Morgan! I’m giving this sorry excuse of a police chief a piece of my mind!”, Dakota shouted.
“ Ma’am I don’t appreciate insults!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ It’s Dakota Chantel ‘ Skullbreaker’ Harris and I don’t give a damn! You really don’t want to mess with me because I’m a world-class MMA fighter champion and I can knock you down in two seconds flat! So what’s it going to be buddy?! Are you gonna leave my niece alone or do I have to bust you up?!”, Dakota shouted as she got up into his face clenching a fist into it.
“ Do you really want to be arrested for assualting me?!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ No but I don’t want my innocent niece sitting in jail either! So you either let her out or I’ll bust you up!”, Dakota shouted as she continued to get up into his face. Leonard jerked her away and hissed, “ Dakota stop it!”
“ Leonard let me handle this! She’s our goddaughter and I’m going to defend her until she’s out of that cell! We’re not just going to let this bastard treat her like that! She deserves to be free and enjoy her life not locked up in a cell like a freaking criminal! She’s a young teenage girl!”, Dakota shouted.
“ Yeah well you know what I’m going to let her out because I don’t care what you say Chief!”, Danny shouted as he started to walk away but Chief Gibbons shouted, “ Metcalf you open that cell and you lose your job!”
“ This is ridiculous! Why are you being so harsh on this little girl?!”, Danny shouted.
“ Because she drank alcohol underage! She needs to be held accountable for what she did regardless whether she’s autistic or not! You should have just arrested her the night she did it!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ No that’s completely wrong! And her best friend was right there next to her! I wasn’t going to do that in front of her friend!”, Danny shouted.
“ You can say what you want but I forbid you to open that cell! Leave her in there!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ I don’t care what you say! I’m opening it anyway and giving my friends their daughter back!”, Danny shouted as he stormed out of his boss’s office.
“ Metcalf do you want to lose your job?!”, Chief Gibbons shouted as he followed Danny.
“ No but I also don’t want you holding an innocent, autistic 14 year old girl in a 6 foot by 3/4 inch jail cell!”, Danny shouted as he took out his key and unlocked the cell door. Cayela sat in the corner on the floor crying with her knees hugged into her chest.
“ Cayela come on out sweetie.”, Danny said in a gentle voice.
“ I can go home now?!”, Cayela cried as she lifted her head to look at him. She wasn’t really looking directly at him but more like in his general direction.
“ Yes you can go.”, Danny said. Cayela then stood up and walked out of the cell.
“ Are my mom and dad here?!”, Cayela cried.
“ Yes your parents are right here.”, Danny said.
“ Cayela!”, Sheldon and Leo interjected as they embraced their daughter.
“ Mom, Dad, take me home! I don’t want to be here anymore!”, Cayela cried.
“ We’re leaving right now sweetheart.”, Leo said. The others came sprinting over too.
“ Cayela!”, Leonard exclaimed.
“ Thank god you’re alright!”, Dakota exclaimed. Leonard and Dakota almost knocked each other down as they threw their arms around her. Within seconds the rest of the gang started butting in as well. Florence and Charlotte nearly knocked Cayela down as they sprinted into her and threw their arms around her sobbing loudly. Amanda then walked up to the Chief with an angry expression on her face and gave him a hard slap across his face.
“ Ow! Ma’am what was that for?!”, Chief Gibbons shouted as he rubbed his cheek.
“ THAT was for scaring my niece!”, Amanda shouted.
“ You just assualted me! I should have you arrested for that!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ You can’t arrest me if I live in a different state bucko! Only my mother can do that to me if she wants to!”, Amanda shouted.
“ Which I don’t because I’m giving you permission!”, Mrs. Fordyce interjected.
“ Thank you mom!”, Amanda shouted. Mrs. Fordyce then slapped the Chief too.
“ Ow! What are you…?!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ Stay the hell away from my granddaughter!”, Mrs. Fordyce shouted in his face.
“ Disgraceful, dishonorable jerk! That’ll teach you to mess with my great niece!”, Aunt Sylvia shouted as she delivered a hard slap to his face as well.
“ You sir are an abomination!”, Jasper shouted as he slapped him too.
“ Jasper McCleven! Come along!”, Aunt Sylvia shouted at her butler as she walked away with the others.
“ Coming mistress Sylvia!”, Jasper interjected as he followed her. Once they were all back at 4A, Cayela was sitting comfortably in her father’s lap on the couch with her mother sitting next them and she was sucking on a juice box. It had been at least an hour since this whole incident happened and everyone was still trying to wrap their heads around it.
“ Well this was just utterly ridiculous!”, Bernadette said.
“ I completely agree Bernie! I was about two seconds away from sucker punching that so called police chief’s face in!”, Howard said.
“ Yeah but he probably wouldn’t have appreciated that Howard.”, Stuart said.
“ I know but still he deserves it. He treated Cayela like crap and was being too harsh with her.”, Howard said.
“ You ok sweetie?”, Penny asked as she looked at Cayela. Cayela nodded her head and continued sucking on her juice.
“ I hate people who do things like that and think they can get away with it. Geugeon teullyeoss-eo.”, Yesenia said as she brushed her hair out of her face.
“ Yeah I agree Yesenia this whole situation is infuriating. There was no reason for that chief to force Danny to come here, place Cayela in handcuffs and hold her in a cell at the juvenile detention. That was completely ridiculous.”, Leo said as she shook her head while gently rubbing the top of her daughter’s head.
“ I was so scared. I don’t want anything like that to happen again.”, Cayela softly said.
“ And your mother and I will make sure of it. If Chief Gibbons ever tries to do that again, I’m going to hit him.”, Sheldon said.
“ We all will buddy. Me, you, Howard and Raj, we’ll all just let him have it.”, Leonard said.
“ I would just go all Nebraska on his stupid a** with my Slugger bat.”, Penny said.
“ Penny you are well on your way to receiving strike 2. Please refrain from saying curse words in front of my daughter.”, Sheldon said as he narrowed his eyes at her.
“ Yes Penny how many times do we have to tell you that? We don’t want Cayela growing up thinking that those are ok words to say.”, Leo asked.
“ Leo she’s going to hear this stuff anyway. We all have a bad habit of saying them every once in a while.”, Penny said.
“ I understand that but I don’t want you teaching her into thinking that’s ok. She’s autistic and she’s not going to know what those words mean.”, Leo said.
“ Wait, what?”, Cayela asked in confusion when she finished her juice. She didn’t really understand what her mother was talking about.
“ Exactly my point.”, Leo said to Penny.
“ Here, take her for a second Leo. I’ll be right back.”, Sheldon said as he gently moved Cayela to his wife’s lap before he stood up and walked into Cayela’s room for a moment. He then came back with latex gloves on his hands and said, “ Ok you can give her back to me now.”
“ Oh, are you taking her to change her?”, Leo asked as she looked at her husband who was standing in front of her.
“ Yes.”, Sheldon said.
“ Oh ok, here take her.”, Leo said as she handed Cayela to him.
“ Thank you.”, Sheldon said as he took Cayela into his arms.
“ Oh come on Dad I don’t want this!”, Cayela protested as her father started carrying her toward her room.
“ Ah ah ah I don’t want to hear it and ow! Do not kick me!”, Sheldon interjected as Cayela tried to kick him. He carried her into her room toward her bed, laying her down on the waterproof pad.
“ I don’t care! I don’t want to be changed right now!”, Cayela protested as she laid there on the pad.
“ That is not an option, now just lie still.”, Sheldon said as he started unbuttoning her shorts before removing them and her soiled brief. He then wiped her clean, applied barrier cream and talcum powder before applying a new clean brief on her. He put her shorts back on and rebuttoned them before stripping the gloves off.
“ There, I’m done. Now do you want to go back out into the living room or play with your friends in here?”, Sheldon as he picked her up and set her down on the floor before cleaning up the mess.
“ I think I just want to play with my friends now Dad.”, Cayela said.
“ Well alright. We’ll all be out in the living room if you need us.”, Sheldon said as he opened the door.
“ Thanks Dad.”, Cayela said. Sheldon kissed her head before walking out of the room. Florence and Charlotte came in a second later.
“ Hey Cayela, you ready to get back to playing?”, Florence asked as she tossed her hair back.
“ Um yeah you big dork!”, Cayela laughed as she playfully punched her best friend in the shoulder.
“ Show off! You’re the biggest dork we know Cayela Rachelle Fordyce-Cooper!”, Charlotte laughed.
“ Oh shut your mouth Charlotte Catarina Tipton!”, Cayela laughed as she playfully smacked her friend in the head.
“ Oh yeah?!”, Charlotte laughed as she grabbed Cayela’s pillow off of Cayela’s bed holding it up like a bat. Cayela resumed the music as in the same Pokemon song was playing and laughed, “ Oh god! Florence give me a boost up into the rafters! Charlotte’s gonna hit me with my pillow and I don’t want her to!”
“ You got it bestie!”, Florence laughed as she cupped her hands and lifted Cayela up into the rafters.
“ Incoming!”, Charlotte interjected with a laugh as she tossed the pillow up at Cayela but she quickly dodged out of the way like The Flash.
“ Ha ha I just dodged your attack! Whatcha you gonna do now Tipton?!”, Cayela laughed as she was kneeling on the rafter rungs. Charlotte threw the pillow again at her laughing her head off but Cayela continued dodging out of the way which included ducking her head every which way and swinging around on the rafter rungs as if they were uneven bars laughing her head off. Florence jumped up there to join her and soon Charlotte started throwing the pillow at her too.
“ You two are such dorks! You can’t stay up there forever playing this never ending game of dodgeball!”, Charlotte laughed as she threw the pillow again at her two best friends. They dodged out of the way again laughing their heads off.
“ Missed us missed us! Now you gotta kiss us!”, Cayela and Florence laughed as they taunted their friend.
“ Ew, you two are so gross!”, Charlotte laughed.
“ It’s just an expression Charlotte! We don’t litterally mean you have to do that! We’re not gay!”, Cayela laughed.
“ Cayela I think the right word you’re looking for is lesbian! Gay is when two guys like each other not girls!”, Charlotte laughed.
“ Well how am I supposed to know the difference between the two?! I have Autism!”, Cayela laughed.
“ Yeah we know that because you’ve repeated saying it so many times!”, Charlotte laughed as she threw the pillow again but Cayela and Florence dodged it again.
“ Oh my god this is so much fun!”, Florence laughed as she continued swinging around on the rafter rungs.
“ Yeah! We’re flying like zero gravity!”, Cayela laughed as she continued doing the same. The girls were suddenly caught when Sheldon came walking in on them.
“ Cayela Rachelle Fordyce-Cooper and Florence Crenshamezki!”, Sheldon scolded at the top of his voice which startled the two girls making them scream and fall off the rafters onto Cayela’s bed.
“ Ok ow! That hurt!”, Cayela laughed as she was lying on the bed.
“ Yeah I’ll say! What gives Dr. Cooper?! We were having so much fun!”, Florence laughed as she was lying right next to Cayela.
“ What did we say about getting up there again?! We told you that was off limits!”, Sheldon scolded as he narrowed his eyes at his daughter Cayela and her best friend.
“ Don’t blame us, blame her! She’s the one who started it because she was throwing my pillow at us Dad!”, Cayela laughed as she sat up and pointed at Charlotte. Sheldon narrowed his eyes at Charlotte who was standing there holding Cayela’s pillow in her hand with a smirky smile on her face. She quickly tossed the pillow away and stood there with her arms behind her back, laughing nervously as she looked at him.
“ Charlotte do not throw things in here! I don’t want you breaking things in my home!”, Sheldon scolded.
“ Aw come on Dr. Cooper! I was just trying to have a little fun! Cayela I swear to god that it’s like every time we try to have a certain level of fun in here your dad sucks the fun out of it!”, Charlotte laughed.
“ Yeah I know cause that’s just how he is!”, Cayela laughed as Florence sat up.
“ Cayela what did we say about the rafters?!”, Leo scolded when she walked into the room with her arms crossed standing next to her husband.
“ Aw come on Mom don’t blame Florence and I for this! Blame Charlotte, she’s the one who started it! She was throwing my pillow at us!”, Cayela laughed as she pointed at Charlotte again.
“ Yeah that was after you told Florence to help you get up there in the first place!”, Charlotte laughed.
“ Oh yeah sure thanks for being a great friend Charlotte! You just ratted me out to my parents!”, Cayela laughed.
“ You’re such a doofus!”, Charlotte laughed.
“ Shut up Charlotte!”, Cayela laughed as she fell back on her bed kicking her legs up laughing hysterically.
“ Cayela that’s not funny! You and Florence could have really hurt yourselves if you fell off the rafters and hit the floor instead of your bed!”, Sheldon scolded his daughter.
“ You saw them fall off Sheldon?!”, Leo interjected as she stared at him.
“ Yes Leo they fell off the moment I walked in here and scolded them for being up there.”, Sheldon said.
“ Ok you know what I think it’s time for your friends to go home and you’re grounded!”, Leo scolded as she looked at her daughter.
“ Aw come on Mom!”, Cayela protested.
“ Cayela I told you that was going to happen if we caught you up there again!”, Leo scolded.
“ How long am I grounded?”, Cayela asked with a defeated sigh.
“ A week.”, Leo and Sheldon said. Cayela groaned as she fell back on her bed. Once Florence and Charlotte left and went home Leo called their parents and told them what the girls did. Both girls were grounded for a week as well. 1 week later the girls were back to hanging out together. Following this and the law enforcement incident is when Chief Gibbons started receiving a whole bunch of ridicule and few death threats from anonymous sources. Middle school and high school aged children started egging his house and vandalizing his property as well as his car. There were a couple messages written on the windows. One said, Always Unique Totally Interesting Sometimes Mysterious, Go to hell Chief Gibbons! Don’t be targeting special needs kids! They can’t help being born that way! and another message was a poem that said: If a brick smacked Chief Gibbons in the face, the world would be a better place! His wife also started getting harassed too, receiving dirty looks everywhere she went and people telling her that she married a monster and that she should be ashamed of herself. She couldn’t understand what all of this was about so she decided to confront her husband about it.
“ Stanley what are all these people talking about?! Everywhere that I’ve been going recently everyone’s been giving me these dirty looks and calling me a bunch of god awful things!”, Meredith angrily asked as she confronted her husband.
“ There was this autistic 14 year old girl that I was trying to keep behind bars. Everyone is mad at me because of it.”, Chief Gibbons told his wife. Meredith angrily smacked him across the face and shouted, “ You jackass! Why would you do that?!”
“ Meredith you have no idea what this girl even did! She drank alcohol underage! I couldn’t let that go!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ I don’t care what the hell she did Stanley! You had no right to do that!”, Meredith shouted.
“ I’m a police chief I can do whatever the hell I want! But unfortunately I lost everyone’s respect!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ Yeah well you know what else you’re losing?! Me!”, Meredith shouted in his face.
“ You’re divorcing me?!”, Chief Gibbons shouted.
“ Yes because I can not stand to be with a man who thinks that treating autistic beings like they’re criminals is ok!”, Meredith shouted as she stormed into their bedroom and packed up her stuff before dragging it out of the room and toward the front door.
“ Meredith!”, Chief Gibbons shouted as he begged her not to go but on her way out she took her wedding band off and chucked it at him before slamming the door shut behind her. He then just stood there and picked up the ring staring at it in despair as the sound of a car engine reviving up was heard before it faded away into the distance. Meredith ended up driving to her parents house and told them what a jerk her husband was and that she didn’t want to be with him anymore. They just took her into their arms as she just sobbed uncontrollably.
“ This is all your fault Metcalf! If you just done what I asked you to do and kept your mouth shut about it then none of this would’ve happened! I would still have everyone’s respect and I would still have my wife!”, Chief Gibbons shouted at Danny the next day when he stormed into his office.
“ Oh don’t go pinning this on me Chief! It’s your own fault that you lost citizen respect and that your wife divorced you! If you hadn’t decided to act like a complete jerk and treat that girl like that then none of this would be taking place! You deserve every bit of it and there’s nothing you can do to change it! Now get out of my office!”, Danny shouted at his boss as he shoved him out and slammed the door in his face. Another week later because of a pipe bursting at Pasadena Middle School it flooded the whole school so school had to be cancelled for the whole week. It was during one of these days that all the adults had to work and there was going to be no one around to watch Cayela. Leo and Sheldon didn’t want to leave her alone at the apartment so they had no choice but to take her with them to Caltech. Leo decided to call the university and let them know that they would be bringing their daughter with them.
“ Well as long as Cayela doesn’t cause any trouble and disturb the work of your colleagues then I don’t have any issue with her being here. I’ll just have to let Dr. Gablehauser and Mrs. Davis know about it.”, President Siebert told her over the phone.
“ Oh that’s fine President Siebert, it shouldn’t be a problem at all. I’ll just keep her with me in my office with the door shut.”, Leo said.
“ No problem. Thank you for letting me know Dr. Fordyce-Cooper.”, President Siebert said.
“ Of course. Bye now.”, Leo said with a smile before she hung up the phone.
“ What did he say Leo?”, Sheldon asked his wife as he was putting on his tan colored windbreaker jacket before slipping his messenger bag over his shoulder.
“ He said he’s fine with it Sheldon. He’s just going let Dr. Gablehauser and Mrs. Davis know. I told that him I was just going to keep Cayela in my office with me with the door shut.”, Leo said.
“ Oh good. Are you taking her diaper bag with us?”, Sheldon asked.
“ What do you think? Of course. It would be a long day for her to go without it and I don’t think we would want her developing a rash. But I’ve got some diaper rash cream in there just in case.”, Leo said as she picked up her purse and the diaper bag. Sheldon nodded his head and Leonard asked, “ Are you going to drive or do you want me to drive Leo?”
“ I’ll just let you drive Leonard. I drove last time.”, Leo said with a smile as she looked at her friend.
“ Ok.”, Leonard said with a smile as he grabbed his keys out of the bowl.
“ Come on Cayela, we’re leaving!”, Leo called out.
“ Where are we going Mom?”, Cayela asked as she looked at her mother but didn’t make direct eye contact.
“ You’re coming with us to Caltech. We have to work and we don’t want you staying home by yourself all day.”, Leo said.
“ I get to see where you work?! Sweet!”, Cayela exclaimed as she grabbed her phone off the charger and a few other things to entertain herself as well as her iPod and headphones. She put her headphones on and started dancing out of the apartment listening to her music. Leo, Sheldon and Leonard just shook their heads and laughed as they followed her out the door and locked the door behind them. Once they got to Caltech, President Siebert met Cayela for the very first time and welcomed her to the building. Cayela also met several other people which included Dr. Gablehauser and Mrs. Davis. They thought she was absolutely adorable and both of them told the two theoretical physicists what a beautiful young teenage daughter they have. Leo and Sheldon both said thank you.
“ Ok come on Cayela, let’s go to my office.”, Leo said with a smile.
“ Ok Mom.”, Cayela said with a smile.
“ You behave yourself. Don’t be giving your mother any trouble today.”, Sheldon said.
“ I won’t Dad.”, Cayela said.
“ Good. I love you Cayela. I’ll see you later.”, Sheldon said with a smile as he kissed his daughter on the head.
“ Ok. Love you too.”, Cayela said with a smile.
“ Bye Cayela I’ll see you later too. Love you.”, Leonard said as he kissed her head too.
“ Bye Uncle Leonard! Love you too!”, Cayela said.
“ Bye Leo. Have a good day.”, Sheldon said as he kissed his wife.
“ Same to you and Leonard, Sheldon.”, Leo said as she kissed him back. Once Sheldon and Leonard walked away Leo said, “ Ok come on, in my office.” as she opened the door to her office and walked in. Cayela followed her mother inside and shut the door.
“ Am I staying in here all day mom?”, Cayela asked as she set her stuff down.
“ Yes because I want to keep an eye on you. This campus is very big and I don’t want you getting lost. I’m sure your father wouldn’t appreciate it either.”, Leo said as she set down her purse and Cayela’s diaper bag on the floor by the door.
“ Ok.”, Cayela said.
“ Alright now listen, while I’m working please don’t touch anything in here. Don’t touch anything in my desk, don’t touch my office phone, etc.”, Leo said.
“ Can I play around with the computer chair?”, Cayela asked.
“ Yes you may Cayela but don’t get too crazy. I don’t want you distracting me.”, Leo said.
“ Alright mom I got it. I’ll try to keep it low key.”, Cayela said.
“ Thank you.”, Leo said as she then turned to her whiteboard and started working. Cayela then slid into her mother’s computer chair and started spinning around in it listening to her iPod through her headphones. The song she was listening to was Fresh Eyes by Andy Grammar. She started bouncing around in the chair swinging her legs around as she was humming along with the tune. She didn’t realize that she was starting become a little rambunctious until Leo suddenly stopped in the middle of what she was doing, turned around and said, “ Cayela stop it, you’re getting a little too crazy.”
“ Oh, sorry mom. I didn’t realize I was being a little too carried away.”, Cayela said as she lifted the headphones up for a second before placing them back on her head and toned down the craziness a little. Leo resumed working but 45 minutes later she stopped again when Cayela stopped spinning in the chair and started squirming in the chair, making weird sounds.
“ Cayela what’s wrong? Do you need your diaper changed?”, Leo asked as she stared at her daughter. Cayela said nothing and just continued to bounce around in the chair making those same weird noises.
“ I’m thinking that’s a yes.”, Leo said as she stopped what she was doing and walked over to the door. She picked up the diaper bag and carried it to the center of the room. She took out the waterproof pad and laid it down on the floor before pulling out a pair of latex gloves.
“ Alright alright calm down. Come here sweetheart.”, Leo said as she picked Cayela up out of the chair and laid her down on the pad. She rubbed her hands with hand sanitizer before slipping on the latex gloves. She then unbuttoned and removed Cayela’s shorts before removing her soiled brief.
“ Breakfast went right through you didn’t it?”, Leo asked as she was wiping Cayela clean.
“ Yeah but it was good. Cereal and chocolate milk.”, Cayela said.
“ Yes I know.”, Leo said as she rubbed barrier cream on her and sprinkled on some talcum powder.
“ Can I get up now?”, Cayela asked.
“ Well hold on I got to open up this new package of diapers and put a clean one on you first.”, Leo said as she pulled out a new package of disposeable briefs and ripped it open. She then took out a new clean brief and exclaimed, “ Aw sweetheart look how cute these are! They each got a cute little goldfish on the front of them blowing bubbles!” as she showed it to Cayela before opening it up.
“ I like goldfishies! They’re funny!”, Cayela exclaimed as her mother placed it underneath her bottom and wrapped it around her abdomen.
“ Your father thought so too. He bought them because he thought they were cute.”, Leo said as she put Cayela’s shorts back on and rebuttoned them. Then she asked, “ There you go. Now don’t you feel better?”
“ Yeah but now I’m sleepy.”, Cayela said as she could feel her eye lids begin to get heavy.
“ Well then it’s probably about time for you to take an afternoon nap. There’s a nice, big, comfy lovesack here in the corner for you to curl up into.”, Leo said as she picked Cayela up and carried her over to the lovesack.
“ Nap time mom?”, Cayela tiredly asked as she was gently placed into the sack after her mother placed a pillow behind her head and draped a soft throw blanket over her.
“ Yes Cayela it’s nap time. Here, give me your ipod for a second. I’m going to find some nice soft music for you to listen to.”, Leo said. Cayela handed over her ipod and Leo started searching for something soothing. When she found something she hit play and turned the volume down before gently placing her daughter’s headphones back over her ears. Cayela yawned and fell asleep after Leo dimmed the lights making the area comfortably dark. Leo went back to work after cleaning up the mess but was interrupted by an incoming text message from her husband.
S: Hello Leo, how are things going so far?
Leo thought for a minute before she sent a reply back.
L: It’s going ok so far Sheldon. I just changed Cayela’s diaper and now she’s taking a nap in the corner of my office.
S: Oh good. Did you happen to use the new diapers I bought?
L: Yes and they’re absolutely adorable! Cayela said she liked them. Where did you get them from?
S: Well that doesn’t really matter. I bought them when Leonard and I went out to purchase more stuff to restock the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.
L: Interesting. How did you know the bag was getting low?
S: Because I’ve been keeping record of how many times she’s been changed and it lead me to conclude that we were going to need more so I went ahead and bought another package after I saw how cute these ones were.
L: Well like I said they’re adorable! Cayela seemed pretty happy when I showed them to her. She exclaimed, “ I like goldfishies! They’re funny!”
S: Oh that’s just the cutest thing ever that our autistic 14 year old girl would get excited about that.
L: Yes well I got to get back to work and you should too. We don’t want Mrs. Davis writing us up for texting during work hours.
S: That’s correct, we don’t.
Leo and Sheldon both stopped texting each other and continued working. They eventually took their lunch break and met up with their friends in the cafeteria while Cayela was still taking a nap in Leo’s office. After lunch Sheldon decided to follow Leo back to her office for a moment to check on Cayela.
“ I’m going to check her diaper and see if it needs to be changed again or not.”, Leo said as she walked over to her sleeping teenage daughter, moved the blanket slightly and stuck a finger down over the top of Cayela’s diaper to check if it was wet.
“ Nope, it’s still bone dry.”, Leo said as she pulled her finger out and moved the blanket back.
“ Well, she’ll probably need to be changed again when she wakes up from her nap. I’ll come back in a little while and do it while you just continue working.”, Sheldon said.
“ Ok I’ll see you in a while.”, Leo said as she kissed him. Sheldon then left and went back to his office while Leo walked back over to her whiteboard and continued to work. A little while later Sheldon came back, turned the lights back on, picked up the diaper bag and carried it over to where Cayela was still sleeping. He set it on the floor, pulled out the pad and laid it down on the floor before slipping on latex gloves after he rubbed his hands with hand sanitizer.
“ Cayela, it’s time to wake up.”, Sheldon softly said as he gently shook her shoulder. Cayela slowly started to wake up from her nap.
“ Hi Dad. What are you doing here?”, Cayela softly asked.
“ Well your mother is still working so I thought I would take a short break, come get you up and change your diaper before letting you go back to playing.”, Sheldon said.
“ Break time?”, Cayela asked as she was gently pulled out of the lovesack and down onto the pad.
“ Yes you need to be changed before you can get back up. Now just lie still.”, Sheldon said as he unbuttoned her shorts and removed them before removing her brief. He wiped her clean, applied the cream and talcum powder before grabbing a new clean brief out of the bag. Sheldon then opened it up, placed it underneath her bottom and wrapped it around her abdomen.
“ Oh those look so cute on you Cayela!”, Sheldon exclaimed with a smile as he slipped her shorts back on and rebuttoned them before stripping the gloves off.
“ I know, right?! They’re so adorable!”, Leo exclaimed over her shoulder.
“ Can I get up?”, Cayela asked.
“ Yes you can get up now.”, Sheldon said as he discarded the used items into the trash and put away the pad. Cayela got up, grabbed her ipod and her headphones before sitting back down in Leo’s computer chair, happily spinning around in it again listening to her music.
“ Thank you Sheldon.”, Leo said as her husband left again. A little while later after Leo finished working Cayela stopped spinning in the chair and asked, “ Are we going home yet mom?”
“ In just a second Cayela. I’m going to change you first so that you’re comfortable for the ride home.”, Leo said as she grabbed the diaper bag and pulled out the pad, laying it on the floor before taking out a pair of latex gloves.
“ Aw again?! Can’t it just wait until we get home?!”, Cayela protested as her mother picked her up out of the chair and laid her down on the pad.
“ Cayela don’t argue with me. Your father and I don’t want you developing a rash. Now lie still.”, Leo said as she slipped on the latex gloves. After she removed her daughter’s shorts and soiled brief, she wiped her clean applying barrier cream and talcum powder before wrapping a fresh one around her abdomen.
“ There you go, a fresh diaper for the car ride home. Let’s go find your father and your Uncle Leonard and go home.”, Leo said as she helped Cayela sit up and folded up the pad before putting it back into the bag. She discarded the used items into the trash after that. Cayela stood up and headed out the door as her mother grabbed her purse and Cayela’s diaper bag before locking up the office behind her. They met up with Sheldon and Leonard before they all left the university to drive home. Later after they got home the adults were sitting around in the living room in 4A just talking about work related stuff. Cayela was sitting there too listening to the conversations her parents were having with their friends and even though she was somewhat interested she was particularly curious as to what Howard did. She knew, like her father, that he didn’t have a Ph.D so she wanted to know what exactly what it was that he did considering the fact that she hadn’t heard much when she was little.
“ Uncle Howard what is it that you do?”, Cayela asked.
“ I’m an engineer and an astronaut that works with NASA.”, Howard said.
“ You went up into space?”, Cayela asked.
“ Yes I went to the International Space Station.”, Howard said.
“ That’s so cool! What’s it like having to adjust to zero gravity?”, Cayela asked.
“ That’s a very complicated question to answer. If you want I could show you.”, Howard said.
“ I would love that!”, Cayela exclaimed.
“ You’re not thinking of taking her into space are you?!”, Sheldon scolded Howard as he narrowed his eyes at him. Leo smacked him in the arm and hissed, “ Sheldon!”
“ No Sheldon, what I meant is that I was going to show her what I had to do for training. Which includes going inside this big zero gravity airplane.”, Howard said.
“ Well, I suppose that’s acceptable.”, Sheldon said. Leo nodded her head in agreement.
“ Sweet! Can I bring my friends with me?”, Cayela asked.
“ Sure, why not.”, Howard said as he scratched the back of his head.
“ Yay! Thank you so much Uncle Howard!”, Cayela exclaimed as she ran up to him and threw her arms around him.
“ You’re welcome Cayela.”, Howard said as he embraced her.
“ Howie are you sure this is a good idea? What if she gets hurt?”, Bernadette asked as she looked at her husband.
“ She’s not going to get hurt Bernie, I’ll be with her the entire time. Leo and Sheldon would kill me if I wasn’t.”, Howard said as he let go of Cayela.
“ Actually, more like I would kill you Wolowitz.”, Sheldon said.
“ That’s not helping Sheldon.”, Howard said as he rolled his eyes at his friend.
“ Well, I reckon you stop talkin’ now!”, Sheldon interjected with a southern accent.
“ That was so funny the way you just said that Dad!”, Cayela interjected as she busted out laughing at what her father said.
“ Yes, hilarious.”, Sheldon said as he rolled his eyes but then he said, “ Bazinga.”
“ What’s that supposed to mean?”, Cayela asked in confusion as her father got up and walked into her room for a moment.
“ I don’t know sweetheart. I haven’t been able to figure that out yet.”, Leo said.
“ Well that’s just weird.”, Cayela said not noticing that Sheldon was walking up behind her. He bent down and scooped her up into his arms.
“ Hey! What gives Dad?!”, Cayela exclaimed.
“ Let’s go change your diaper.”, Sheldon said.
“ Aw come on! Ain’t nobody got time for that!”, Cayela interjected as Sheldon started carrying her to her room. The other adults including her mother busted out laughing at what she said.
“ Cayela that comment wasn’t needed.”, Sheldon said as he laid her down on the pad.
“ I don’t want my diaper changed right now. I don’t even think I went that much.”, Cayela said as Sheldon applied latex gloves to his hands.
“ Oh believe me you did because the smell is evident which is why this is necessary.”, Sheldon said as he removed her shorts and her diaper.
“ I hate this! It makes me feel like a baby!”, Cayela cried.
“ Cayela stop crying. Just because you’re wearing diapers doesn’t mean you are a baby. You, your mother and I had this discussion like a million times.”, Sheldon said as he wiped her clean before giving her cream, talcum powder and a new diaper.
“ Yeah well sometimes I wish I didn’t have it!”, Cayela cried as she sat up. She gripped her shoulders as she sat there wearing nothing but her t-shirt and diaper crossing her legs like a pretzel.
“ Is everything ok in here Sheldon?”, Leo asked when she walked in shutting the door behind her.
“ Yeah everything’s fine Leo. Cayela’s just having a meltdown.”, Sheldon said as he stripped the gloves off and threw them away along with Cayela’s soiled brief.
“ Sweetheart what are you upset about right now?”, Leo asked as she looked at her daughter.
“ What do you think Mom?! The same things all the time! Sometimes I wish I was a normal person like everyone else and that includes Florence and Charlotte! They don’t have to deal with these problems like I do every day!”, Cayela cried.
“ Sweetie it’s not your fault. You were born like this. God made you this way for a reason and your father and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way.”, Leo said as her and Sheldon embraced her. Cayela cried into their shoulders as they gently rubbed her back.
“ And the seasons, they go round and round. And the painted ponies go up and down. We’re captive on the carousel of time. We can’t return, we can only look. Behind from where we came, and go round and round and round in the circle game.”, Leo and Sheldon sang as they were gently rocking her body. The comfort of her parents loving arms made her feel a little better and she started to calm down.
“ Do you feel better?”, Leo and Sheldon asked. Cayela nodded her head in silence. Then she said, “ I love you Mom and Dad.”
“ We love you too Cayela. We love you so much.”, Leo and Sheldon said as they kissed their daughter’s head. They held her for a few minutes before finally letting go.
“ I guess my problems aren’t all that bad. It could be worse, I could have been just like Florence’s older sister Julianne. Not being able to speak or walk plus having to wear diapers.”, Cayela said.
“ Exactly. You should be grateful for the life you have been given, even if it’s not quite what you want.”, Sheldon said.
“ Thanks for the insight Dad.”, Cayela said as a slight smile began to spread across her face.
“ Of course. Now could you please stand up and put your shorts back on?”, Sheldon said.
“ Sure.”, Cayela said as she got up off her bed and pulled her shorts back on.
“ Are we going or not?!”, Howard’s voice interjected from the living room.
“ Yes we’re coming Howard!”, Leo shot back at him as she walked out of the room.
“ Yay! Zero gravity!”, Cayela exclaimed as she ran out of her room with her father following her.
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