Hi Guys! This is my first attempt to write fanfiction.
After reading so many stories I thought I give it a try^^
And now I can tell... It's even harder than I thought!
So my respect to every author here! You're all doing a great job.
I'm sorry for misspelling/typos and wrong grammar. English is not my native language but I love it anyways, I'm from germany.
Enjoy reading!
Disclaimer: I don't own Big Bang Theory!
It was laundry night and Penny and Sheldon were walking up the four flights of stairs to 4A.
Sheldon was carrying two baskets full of neatly folded tank tops, shorts and underwear.
As he reached the 4th floor he placed them down for a moment to rub his back.
"Seriously Penny, you have to wash your clothes more often, two more days and you would have been forced to go to work naked!" Penny, who followed close after him, snickerd, " I'm sure a lot of people would'nt mind that, sweetie".
Sheldon just rolled his eyes and rubbed his back more furiously "Oh my back is gonna kill me" he groaned.
"I didn't ask you to carry my laundry up here" Penny sighed."Penny, Penny, Penny it's a non-optional social obligation for me to carry these havy things for you, you know i've been raised a gentleman", the lanky physicist said while he unlocked Pennys apartment door with his spare key.
"Oh yeah I know", she replied sarcastically.
Sheldon quickly picked up the baskets and glanced at her, "Sarcasm?" he asked raising an eyebrow. She answerd his question by tilting her head to one side and looking at him with narrowed eyes, which obviously meant something like "Seriously Sheldon?".
He looked at her questioningly for a short moment and then let out his breathy laugh.
"Please bring my laundry over to my place" he said and turned on his heels to enter 4B.
Penny looked after him for a brief moment and shook her head, she felt like getting a headache.
After closing the guys door behind her, she walked across the room and placed Sheldon's laundry basket on the sofa. Yawning she made her way to the fridge, opened the door and took out a bottle of water. While taking a few gulps she walked back to the sofa, let herself slump down in Sheldon's spot and placed her feet on the small table.
In 4B Sheldon had just placed the last piece of clothing in Pennys drawer.
He sighed and took a second look at his work. He had ordered Pennys clothes by sort and colour. Looking around he remembered the events of this evening a few hours prior. He just had an argument with Leonard and wanted Penny to go junior rodeo on his roommate for changing the room thermostat again.
Knock, Knock, Knock Penny!
Knock, Knock, Knock Penny!
Knock, Knock, Knock Penny!
Penny had opened the door and asked "What's going on sweetie?"
"Penny I need your help" he had said. She had stepped aside then to let him in and he had followed her but stopped in his tracks.
Her apartment was messy as always but this time she had out did herself, even for Penny. It was utter chaos."Oh holy neutrino.." The next thing he remembers is feeling faint and stumbling to Penny's couch and hypervantilating in a brown paperbag Penny quickly gave him.
After this incident they had cleaned her apartment and Penny had to swear to never skip laundry night three times a row again.
Sheldon closed her drawer and made his way to his own apartment.
He opened the door to his home to find Penny sitting in his spot, feet propped up on his table.
"Pennyyyyyy! That's MY spot! And MY table your putting your dirty shoes onto!" he spat.
"Yep" she said popping the p and sipping at her drink.
"Then would you please be so kind and remove yourself from there?" he pointed to his spot and table.
"Oh come on Moonpie, I'm tired. We were cleaning and doing laundry for hours! I just want to sit down for a moment".
"Penny I wont let my apartment get consumed by anarchy! But more importantly...That's MY spot!And-!"
"Only your Meemaw and so on, I know."
"Penny!", Sheldon growled.
"Fine!" Penny groaned and shoved herself to the left side of the sofa and the basket accidently to the ground.
"Oh sorry sweetie, I'll pick that up right away", she had wanted to say but was interrupted by Sheldon immediatly.
"Penny what did you do?!" he cried at the view of his precious, formerly folded super hero shirts on the floor.
"That wasn't on purpose!" Penny knelt down to collect Sheldon's things but before she could grab anything he rushed to her side and shoved her away so she landed on her butt with a thud.
"Hey! Why do you push me away?! I wanted to help" she said angrily.
"You already "helped" enough! You swirl of entropy!" he retorted.
In one swift motion Penny pushed Sheldon to the ground "Raised a gentleman my ass!"."Well you're not a Lady either!" Sheldon huffed as he was about to stand up again.
"Sheldon Cooper you're such an-!" she spat and reinforced her words with a punch in his stomach and both stood up from the floor. "Dr. Sheldon Cooper" he coughed. "What do you think you're doing?!" he said as he regained his breath and pushed her onto the sofa. Penny immediatly stood up again, "What do you think YOU are doing Sheldon?!" fueled by her anger she thrust Sheldon so hard he fell backwards on the parquet. Shocked by her own actions she rushed to his side instantaneously.
"Did you hit your head?" she asked worried. "No but it seems you have, that is the only logical explanation for your frivolous behaviour".
"Yep, same old Sheldon" Penny sighed, stood up and reached out her right hand to help him get back on his feet. Sheldon took her offer but instead of standing up he made her fall onto himself with one strong pull at her hand. She looked at him baffled with wide eyes. Sheldon used her stunned state to flip them both over so Penny was underneath him "Do you really think I would let you get away with this?" he said whith a smug grin on his face. "Do you really wanna mess with me DOCTOR Cooper?" she grinned. "Bring it on" So they started to wrestle, struggle and fight on the floor. It was like Boys vs. Girls all over again.
At first Sheldon didn't stand a chance but then after a few minutes he turned the tables.
"You're a quick learner, Shelly" she panted, he had pinned her to the floor by sitting on her pelvis and held her wrists in his hands."Sadly that doesn't apply to driving" Sheldon said between his breaths. They laughed and tried to steady their breaths. Sheldon leant down a bit "Say it" he whispered. "Say what?" Penny said pretending not to know what he wants to hear from her. He came closer until he was just a few inches away from her face and Penny could feel his breath on her skin. "Say it Penny" he whispered again looking into her eyes.
"Ehm, Sheldon?" Leonard stood in the doorway.
He had spent the evening with Raj and Howard after the argument over the thermostat and just came home to face his annoying roommate. He had expected to see him sitting at his laptop or scribbling at his whiteboard, he had even expected him to have turned the living room in a miniature-train landscape but this scene...
He had opened the door and had mentally prepared his "I'm-sorry-Sheldon-I-will-never-question-the-room temperature-again-speech" just to have his mind go blank.
His friend and roommate was laying on the floor on top of Penny holding her wrists down. Both of them with disheveled hair and clothes, slighty panting and Sheldon was -as to put in terms of his mother- almost leaving no space for Jesus between them.
"Ehm, Sheldon?" Sheldon heard his roommate say and took a look at the door. Leonard stood in the doorway with a blank expression, his keys in one hand and the doorknob in the other. His grip was so thight that his knuckles turned white.
"Ehm, Sheldon" Leonard said again, "Sheldon what are you doing?"
"I-..." Sheldon started to feel uncomfortable, suddenly realizing the situation he was in. He looked down at Penny and Penny seemed to be at a loss of words too, she just glanced between him and Leonard.
Quickly he jumped off Penny and mumbled a few things and sorry under his breath.
Penny stood up and took a brief moment to fix her hair and adjust her clothes then she looked at Sheldon "Okay I'll say it...you win and ehm thank you for your help today" and hurried out of the door mubling a short "Hi Leonard".
Leonard watched her door close behind her. He turned around to his roommate.
Sheldon had begun to pick up his discarded clothes and long forgotten laundry basket. Leonard finally stepped inside and closed the door. With quzzical expression and furrowed brows he looked at Sheldon.
"Okay, what the hell was this exactly?"
Sheldon looked up from folding his Green Latern shirt. "Hi Leonard, I hope you wont try to fumble with the thermostat again?"
"No I won't... And don't try to change the subject!" Leonard growled and threw up his arms in exasperation.
Sheldon sighed and placed the last shirt in the basket, "Penny and I had an argument".
"An argument if you two should do it in your spot or right away on the floor or what?!" Leonard retorted.
"No" Sheldon said and was about to walk in his room, "Well that's exactly what it looked like!" Leonard complained.
"Good night Leonard" Sheldon said and with this retreated to his room and closed the door in Leonards face.
Sheldon placed his laundry basket beside his drawer and then sat himself on the edge of his bed. He took a deep breath to steady his thoughts. He didn't understand Pennys reaction when Leonard came home, the slight blush on her face and then hurrying away. He didn't understand the mixture of anger, hurt and astonishment in Leonard's face and voice. But what confused him the most was his own behaviour. The loss for words, precisely not wanting to talk about his and Pennys playful fight.
And why did he feel so caught?