Fanfic: "It's Only Time" [Big Bang Theory] [Sheldon/Penny] [AU]

Title: It's Only Time
Genre: Romance/Drama
Spoilers: AU fic, so none.
Challenge: What would have happened had Sheldon and Penny grown up in the same neighborhood?
For lilyayl, and you know the auditorium lecture is a shout-out to your future fic. ;D
Rating: PG-15
Wordcount: 3,500
Soundtrack: Everything from The Magnetic Fields. I only listened to them while writing this. Especially "69 Love Songs".

Summary: It’s only time that pulls the stars apart, it’s only time that brings your orbit ‘round.


Story:

When Sheldon was seven years old the adults left him sitting on a picnic table, guarding a green-eyed infant who chewed her blanket, smelled weird, and kept trying to spit on him.

cross-posted to sheldon_penny here.