A/N: Mysti's on vacation. It's short but took me a while to type it.

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SARA 14

Head Feint (The Great Escape)

Apt 4B
Pasadena

It was after 11PM when the couple was roused from their sleep by a pounding at the door. Penny grabbed her 'weaponized' softball bat and looked through the peephole and screeched for Leonard to come into the living room.

She opened the door the width of the privacy chain's length and squeaked, "May I help you?"

The image of the Federal Investigators badge that had been held up to the peephole had frightened her badly.

Leonard pulled on jeans and a tshirt and walked out just as the two gnomes from the 'Federal Investigation' agency walked in.

"Are you…", fumbling at a clipboard, "Leonard Huffsaddler, Experimental Physicist at CalTech?"

"And roommate of one Dr. Sheldon Cooper?" added the other gnome.

"That's Hofstadter, and yes I am. But we're not roommates any longer. I live here with my girlfriend, Penny."

"But you do know about the theft of a valuable piece of robotics equipment from the Robotics Lab perpetrated by this criminal, Cooper, don't you?"

"No. Not exactly. What equipment are you speaking of? You already searched our apartment and besides, Sheldon went home on emergency leave. You have no proof – "

Sheldon's letter was shoved into Leonard's face and he squinted to read Sheldon's very precise handwriting.

"It's Cooper's letter left for Dr. Krueger to find to 'explain' the theft. It's as good as a confession of guilt. Now – where is Sheldon Cooper and our equipment?"

"He's in Galveston. He went there because his Meemaw is ill. He would never lie about something like that. Not about Meemaw." Penny believed Sheldon was in Canada, hopefully using their new identities to find a life together. She was an unrepentant romantic at heart.

"You two better get lawyers. Lying to Federal Agents is a Federal offense. In this case, you'll probably be charged with conspiring to commit treason."

Leonard looked at Penny and imagined her in some orange jumpsuit covered with jail house tramp stamps and he caved.

"Okay, okay. You gotta believe me though. Sheldon brought that – that thing into our apartment. We argued and I threatened to go to the authorities so he locked me out and I've been here ever since."

"So where is he?" asked the shorter of the two gnomes.

"Canada, where you'll never catch him. Never. He's too smart for you. He's got false papers for him and Sara. You'll never catch him," said Penny, smugly.

Gnome #2 wa on his cell phone and all they could really make out was, "Yes, the Canadian border. Shut it down. We'll fax you photos but stop any and all couples but for God's sake don't do anything threatening."

There was a pause and then #2 whispered, "The 'girl' is a deadly cyborg, a killer robot, yes, just like in the Terminator movies. Just detain them and report back to us when you do."

Gnome #1 glared at Penny and then said to Leonard, "What names are they using?"

"We don't know. Sheldon said we couldn't tell what we didn't know.

Meemaw's

Sara sat out on the porch enjoying the night sounds. Everything about life was a new experience to be absorbed and appreciated.

She learned about family, honor and self-sacrifice from Sheldon. She learned about unconditional love from his Meemaw and about how each person was different, an individual, with their own hopes and dreams.

Mary Cooper had taught her about family values, how a family was like a military unit, each member having their own roles to play. She saw fierce maternal love and how it played an important role in the family.

She still had no idea if she'd learned anything valuable from Missy, Sheldon's sister. Her thought processes were a mystery to her and she bounced from subject to subject at light speed.

She seemed to believe that 'movies' were more than entertainment and had real social value with lessons to be learned from them. Despite watching two episodes and listening to Missy's running commentary, she had yet to discern much from Sex and the City.

She knew one thing for certain, however.

She could not allow Sheldon to throw away his life for her. She knew he wouldn't agree and would vehemently deny that he was 'throwing his career away for a robot'. But they both knew he was.

She took Mary's cell phone out onto the back porch and dialed a cell phone number she retrieved from her database.

"Hello, Father? It's SARA."