My Love; My Life: Slipping Through My Fingers

Death of a Mother

*pic of Zinnia Curie Cooper above*
*Song meant to for feels and a bit of insight on Zin's situation/home life*

Setting: back in the present; outside the Hofstetter's apartment, Leonard returning from being out as the coopers' & his daughter come bustling through the Cooper's apartment door...

"Let's go, let's go, let's go!" Sheldon ushers

"This is ridiculous Sheldon," Amy complains as she's followed out by the kids

"It most certainly is not," he retorts

"What's going on?" Leonard interrupts, "you guys going somewhere-" he stops short as his thirteen year old daughter steps out

"Hi daddy," she says timidly, feeling shame as she avoids eye contact

Holly looks a lot like her mother with flawless pale skin and was getting her mother's figure as well, but she has her father's eyes, is lactose intolerant, although she has her mother's vision, she wears reading glasses and has a mixing of both their hair colors isn't curly like her fathers-nor straight like her mother's, but rather wavy. She had always been a good girl until the one mistake that changed her life & caused her mother to kick her out occurred. She had always been her parents little girl, so it dealt a hard and shocking blow to both her and Leonard when Penny basically disowned and kicked her out. Holly knows her father will always be here for her, but she also knows that he doesn't have it in him to go against her mother-or at least not very often. Leonard knows deep inside that he let his daughter down when he didn't fight Penny harder on the matter, but he also was at work when things happened-not that that's an excuse.

"Hey honey," he replies with a sad smile, "very thing going ok?"

"We're both just fine," she confirms with just as of weak of smile as him

"That's good-" he replies before getting cut off

"Daddy," comes a little girl's voice as she tugs on Sheldon's pants, "Aunt Bay says wes gost ta go now-"

"..." Leonard stares at the child in with his brows furrowed in confusion

"Alright people," Sheldon directs, "you heard what she said: let's go, go, go!"

"Go where?" Leonard asks still confused, "what's going on?"

"We're going to Texas," Bailey II states, "because Dad is convinced that Zinnia can actually talk to our dead aunt and claims she told her to tell dad that she was murdered."

"Hang on," Leonard states confused, "Bay's ghost wants you to go back to Texas because she was murdered and the only person that can see or hear her is Zin-Am I getting this right?"

"Yep," is all Ace replies with

"Do Zin thinks she can talk to the dead?" Leonard sums up

"I can talk to aunt Bay," Zin wines

"..." Leonard eyes the pouting child

"It's ridiculous," Amy chides, "there's probably a defect with her brain that I should check out."

"And then there's this," Sheldon adds in as he shows Leonard the photo, "it just-fell off the wall, floated over to the coffee table, then something ripped the marker out of my hand and the marker wrote on the back of the photo on its own-"

"..." Leonard eyes the picture of Bay and Barry's family for a moment from so long ago with a sad look on his face before flipping it over to find what's written, "... "I was murdered so get yer ass back ta Texas Shelly! NOW!" But wait," Leonard starts after reading, "if she was murdered, and is a ghost, then why bring it up now? Why after all this time of her being dead..."