A/N Although the story is based on incidents from the series, the timetable is different and they are expanded a little. In any case, I do not own anything and do this for my own pleasure and hopefully yours.

After Penny dumped Leonard at the bowling alley, they tried to go on as friends, but Leonard found he could never be satisfied with that again. Eventually it hurt too much to see her all the time and he moved out.

With Leonard gone, Sheldon and Penny spent a lot of time alone. To their mutual surprise, they became romantically involved. Penny moved into Leonard's old room. Although they were now intimate, Sheldon still needed the privacy of his room.

Although they still both worked at Caltech, Leonard and Sheldon managed to have little contact. Howard and Raj stuck with Leonard who had been their friend before he brought them to Sheldon.

Left alone, Sheldon and Penny became even closer and about nine months after the breakup, they decided to get married. None of the others were invited and they planned to hold the wedding in Texas.

About two weeks before they were ready to leave for the wedding, Penny was shocked when during the middle of the day, Leonard came to the apartment.

Penny was a little surprised at her reaction, she hadn't realized how much she had missed Leonard. They had been really good friends for some time before they got involved. She wondered though what he was doing there. Was he going to try to mend fences, to congratulate her, or try to stop her from being with Sheldon?

"Leonard, what are you doing here? What do you want?"

"I came to talk to you about something, may I come in?"

Penny was torn, but her curiosity was aroused, "Sure, why not, come on in."

He sat down on the couch, but not in Sheldon's spot. Penny sat in the chair he used to sit in and waited.

"I don't really know why I came. I imagine you will believe I did it for revenge or to rub it in, but I just felt you should be forewarned about what is going on."

"If you're here to try to talk me out of going through with the wedding, or entertaining any kind of idea I still care about you, you might just as well leave."

"No, that's not it. I gave up on us some time ago. And I am not trying to stop you from marrying Sheldon, I just wanted to let you know what that may entail."

"Leonard, if your going to badmouth Sheldon, don't waste your breath. I know him and I love him how he is."

"Maybe this was a mistake, but I just wanted to warn you."

"Warn me about what?"

"It's kind of a long story, why don't I just go ahead and say what I have to say."

Penny felt she should ask him to leave, but if there really was something that could affect her and Sheldon, she wanted to hear it. "All right, go ahead. But I am going to get some wine, do you want anything?"

"Just some water."

After both were fortified with liquids, Leonard began.

"I assume that you remember Mrs. Latham?" Seeing Penny roll her eyes and smirk, "Yeah, that's the one. I know that nobody believed that I didn't sleep with her for the money, but she had already agreed to donate before we had sex. Actually, she seduced me by saying how good she was and she lived up to it."

"What I didn't know was that she took a personal interest in me after that and followed my career and my life. When she found out I was dumped, she was upset, but when you took up with Sheldon, she was really pissed off."

"It was bad enough you dumped me; but Sheldon? She already had a problem with him. When she called me that last night, Sheldon answered the phone and really insulted her. She told me she only didn't do something about it because we were roommates. She had also heard from her friends about how Sheldon had treated them at the fund raiser."

"After stewing about it for some time, she decided to complain to President Siebert..."

"Believe me, Mrs. Latham, when you talk about Dr. Sheldon Cooper, you are singing to the choir. That man has been a pain in the neck for a long time. He has been deeply disrespectful to both me and Dr. Gablehauser. He has put down and angered practically every member of the faculty and most if not all of the students he comes in contact with."

Seeing her about to ask the obvious question, "Why haven't I taken action against him? It's because he is protected by several members of the Board of Directors. It seems that they were responsible for getting him to come to Caltech when every college wanted the Boy Wonder. They don't want anything to mar that achievement."

"Well, Dr. Siebert, I do have quite a bit of sway with the Board and could almost surely get some of my donor friends to join with me." But then she thought for a moment and went on, "But I really am invested in the future of Caltech and would not want to do anything to harm it. If he is an asset, I don't want to be responsible for losing him to another university."

"Actually, he has not been that great of an asset. In fact, there are several instances of him putting the University in a bad light."

Now very interested, she asked, "I don't suppose those incidents are serious enough that it could be possible he would not be able to catch on somewhere else?"

Siebert thought for a few moments, "I hadn't really thought about it before, but if you look at the total set of events, it might just be possible."

Mrs. Latham sat back, "Well, don't keep me in the dark. Spill."