All things Considered...

Just a little Friday the thirteenth fun for Penny and Leonard. I don't own them and wouldn't want to challenge whatever forces are out there on this day by claiming anything to do with them.

Leonard didn't give much thought to what day or date it was. He never really did. One day usually ran along in a tedious continuum from one day to the next with the usual two day break after a five day work week to spend time doing other interests like kite flying or paintball. His days were carefully planned in neat seven day parcels, not by himself or even by his choice really. The totality of his life seemed to be dictated by his roommate Sheldon held in place by an agreed upon, signed and dated Roommate Agreement. It may have a bit of morbid neutrality to it but in reality there was never much outside excitement that would make bucking the Sheldonian system worth the effort. The major input into their two person functioning unit, complete with survival kit in case of disaster was from two friends Leonard had forced into their lives in the persons of Howard Wolowitz and Rajesh Koothrappali, two co-workers at Cal Tech University.


This morning happened to be a Friday and the fact that this day had fallen in the thirteenth day of the month was not of particular worry or anticipation. Science was science after all and as Sheldon often put it. "Superstition was nothing more than Hokem".


The day started out benign enough, the drive to work was to be filled with one of Sheldon's driving games that had to deal with the periodic table of the elements. Upon getting to the car, Leonard got settled in the driver's seat and went to adjust his driver's side mirror. Something had happened and the mirror was just not set right. When the electronic switch did not adjust the mirror, Leonard lowered the window and tapped on the mirror hoping that it would then work. Unfortunately, instead of repositioning the mirror, once tapped on, the mirror fell to the ground and broke. Sheldon immediately stepped back from the car voicing his displeasure of riding in a car that was for all intents and purposes, "aptly blind to traffic in what was commonly called the blind spot". With more effort than he thought appropriate, Leonard convinced Sheldon to "Get in the DAMNED car!"

The day progressed at a pitiful pace. Leonard's new laser experiment would not work due to misaligned equipment that wouldn't calibrate properly and then he was called into the chairman's office to discuss why he had gone over the dollar limit of the last grant he had worked on.


On the way home, the two roommates had decided to stop at the Sperm Bank and make a deposit in the Genius Category. The extra cash would come in handy for the upcoming new comic book night next Wednesday. There were some graphic novels that were set to come in. Approaching and entering the Sperm Bank however was more perilous than what could be normally be expected. Just in front of the door, there was a ladder scaffolding with two workers installing a new sign for the office. Sheldon was reticent to enter under such conditions and did so only at the request of his roommate. Leonard had to go under the ladder and hold open the door standing clearly under the ladder so Sheldon could, with all haste, enter the clinic as quickly as possible. Going over to the reception desk, Leonard noticed the clinic Nurse deeply engrossed in a crossword puzzle. When she didn't seem to notice that he and Sheldon were there, Leonard leaned over and pointed out some of the answers.

All things considered, the operations of the Sperm Bank Clinic seemed to be going as a male donor might expect. Leonard was assigned a room, given a cup and told that there were some videos and reading materials located in the room if he need them. Leonard appropriately blushed, gave a weak smile and proceeded to enter the room. It was at that point that things seemed to go to HELL. While not a novice to the process, he had never actually officially made and official deposit. Looking about, Leonard leafed through some of the reading materials and then looked to a small shelf that had some VHS tapes. One tape caught his eye. It was what appeared to be a movie from the Sci Fi/Horror genre. It was titled Serial Apist. There was a very small picture of what appeared to be a young blonde girl that seemed to be wet from being in a shower and screaming. Leonard saw a card tapped to the back with some scribbling on it. "Hot Blonde" along with what appeared to be some numbers that he assumed were time stamps. Feeling a little apprehensive, Leonard put the VHS tape into the player and pressed the Fast Forward button. It took little time for the VHS player to grind slower to a stop. No picture could be seen on the television. Leonard then opened the door to the player to retrieve the tape and a large ribbon came out clearly stuck in the player mechanism. Not wanting to embarrass himself further, Leonard stuffed the tape back in and sighed looking back at the stack of magazines. A knock came at the door and he heard Sheldon from the other side. Leonard opened the door and quickly voiced his opinion that the wanted to leave. Sheldon agreed and the tow roommates made their way back to the car and drove off to their apartment. On the way home Leonard stopped off at their favorite Indian Restaurant for some takeout food. LEonard parked the car and let Sheldon wait in the car as he got the food.


Upon parking their car and stepping up to the front door of their apartment building, just as Leonard stepped to reach for the door, a black cat jumped out in front of him from the bushes carrying what appeared to be it's dinner in his mouth. Leonard stopped short and was run into from the rear by Sheldon which launched Leonard face first into the front door, knocking his glasses askew and scratching the side of his face. He was sure that he would have a black and blue eye by the next morning.

Entering the building, they walked up the stairs with Leonard listening to Sheldon prattle on about how he made his father trip on the stairs of their house by increasing the height of one of the steps by only two centimeters. When they approached the last set of stairs to their apartment 4A, they could hear some country music playing from a radio station with the soft accompaniment of a somewhat off key but gentle voice. As they crested the last step, Leonard caught the sight of a young Blond woman standing in front of a pile of boxes wearing a light blue t-shirt with a reddish pink floral pattern with short blue jeans shorts and a pair of Uggs. She seemed to notice them and smiled as she closed the door to her apartment 4B.


Sheldon opened the door to their apartment and proceeded to put a Star Wars CD into their player before sitting in his usual spot on the couch. When Leonard served the Indian food, Sheldon opened his dish and quickly berated Leonard for either ordering the wrong food, or not checking the order before leaving the restaurant. Quickly understanding that he was not going to be able to reason with Sheldon, Leonard resigned himself to the fact that he was going to have to go get the right food.

Slowly walking down the stairs, Leonard opened the front door and stepped onto a discarded banana peel easily losing his balance. The last thing he could remember was falling to the ground and hitting his head on the concrete.


When Leonard opened his eyes, he could hardly believe what he was seeing. A very pretty blonde woman was looking down at him with a concerned look on her face. all he could hear was a very soft voice. "Are you okay?"

All things considered, Leonard thought his luck might be turning around.

AN: What do you think? Is it a dream? or are things starting to go Leonard's way?