A/N - Yeah, I sneak around tumblr a bit... and since it's Lenny Week, and I am definitely enjoying it, I thought I'd do a little something (I dunno, maybe I'll make a tumblr, I do have one but I can't remember what my username is so... typical blonde times) Anyway today's prompt was marriage. So I wrote a few snippets, which I hope you all enjoy! Let me know what you think :)
"You know what I found myself doing the other day?" Penny asked, tracing shapes over Leonard's chest.
He turned his head slightly to face her. "What?"
"I was sitting in my Physics for Beginners class," Penny allowed herself to grin here; she knew how much Leonard loved that she had taken this class up at college. "And I was doodling."
"Because you were bored?" He raised a brow slightly. He had thought she was enjoying them; while she had initially thought they would be boring, she would come home excitedly showing him what she had learnt.
"No! Well, kinda, the Professor was talking about the Theory of Relativity..."
They both giggled at this, remembering what had happened the first time Leonard had told her about the Theory of Relativity at the Halloween party.
"Ah, a topic in which you are highly educated," He kissed her forehead.
"Mm, definitely." She smiled up at him. "So, I was doodling."
"You were doodling."
"I was doodling 'Mrs. Leonard Hofstadter' in my notebook." She didn't break eye contact with him, her smile still playing on her face. "And I wrote 'Penny Hofstadter' at the top of the paper I had to hand in."
"Really?" He blinked a few times, a trait he blamed Penny for.
"Yeah," She turned around and pulled out her notebook from underneath a magazine, where she had been hiding it. She opened it to the latest page. "Look."
There it was, her handwriting, her notebook, her notes on the subject of physics and her favorite theory. And in the margins, little love hearts with 'Mrs. Leonard Hofstadter' written across them. He smiled at this, remembering when he had teased her about this a few years back.
"Aw, that's cute," He couldn't help his smile, and he couldn't find any other words.
"Leonard Hofstadter?"
"Yeah?" He couldn't tear his eyes away from the doodles in the notebook.
"Will you marry me?"
He looked up at her, his mouth slightly open, while she bit her lip lightly. Her eyebrows were raised slightly in anticipation, and he burst into a wide grin when her question finally sunk in properly.
"I thought it was weird to propose marriage in bed?"
"No, it's weird to propose during sex. This is after sex. It's allowed."
He leant in, kissing her passionately, his hands instantly in her hair, as hers wrapped around his neck.
"Yes," He said, smiling, once he pulled away. "A thousand times yes."
She put a hand to her mouth, grinning, her eyes filling with tears. "I'm going to be Mrs. Leonard Hofstadter!"
Penny dropped a large, heavy stack of wedding magazines on the coffee table, causing Leonard to jump and look up at her.
"Ugh," She flopped down onto the sofa next to him, dropping her head to rest on his shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Leonard wrapped an arm around her, kissing her forehead.
"These magazines. They're so heavy. And all the brides in there look so perfect, with their stupid perfect hair and dresses. And they're all like, oh, look, have a big massive wedding with fancy this and fancy that. I don't want a massive wedding! I just want a simple, meaningful wedding that doesn't cost more than my apartment!" She glared at the magazines. "Stop telling me what to do you dumb wedding magazines!"
"Shh, it's okay," He rubbed her arm gently, kissing her forehead again. "You don't have to do what they say. You get to decide everything. It's going to be perfect, because you made it so."
"But what if I don't look perfect?" She turned to look at Leonard. "I want to look perfect for you."
"Penny, you will look perfect no matter what you pick."
"How do you know that?" She looked down at her hands, her face downcast.
Leonard gently held her chin and turned it towards him. "Because you are perfect."
"Okay, now we're at the airport, will you tell me where we're going?" Penny pouted at Leonard, as he placed the suitcase he had packed for her onto a luggage trolley, before placing his on too.
"You'll see when we get to the check-in line," Leonard grinned, kissing her quickly.
"Fine, but I'm your wife, you can't keep secrets from me." She raised her eyebrows at him, and held up her left hand, indicating the white gold wedding band on her ring finger, before picking up his hand to indicate his matching wedding band.
"It's not a secret, it's a surprise," He corrected her, "Besides, you'll find out very soon." He took hold of the luggage trolley in one hand, and Penny's in the other, and they made their way towards the check-in area.
Penny's eyes widened as she looked up at the screen when Leonard finally stopped at the end of a queue. "Business class boarding for... Switzerland! No way!"
"Yup!"
"Oh my God!" She jumped up and down excitedly, before wrapping her arms around him, grinning from ear to ear. "Leonard, you are amazing!"
"Well, I thought since we were meant to go here to celebrate our first Valentine's Day together... we could go for our honeymoon instead to celebrate our marriage."
"Look!" Penny ran into Leonard's lab, holding something in her hand. "Look, Leonard! I got an A+ on my Physics paper!"
"Oh my God!" He grinned, pulling her in for a tight hug.
"And I wrote it all by myself, research and all, and I got the best mark in the whole class!" She put the paper she was holding in his hand down on the desk in front of them, pointing to the 'A+' on the front cover. "I got an A+ in Physics!"
Leonard grinned as he looked at the front cover. There is was.
Penny Hofstadter, Candidate #4541
Physics - Final Paper: Theory of Relativity
Final Grade:
And there, stamped with the official college ink stamp, an unmistakable A+.
"I am so proud of my wife!" He kissed her cheek.
"Couldn't have done it without the help of my genius smarty-pants husband." She winked. She pulled out her 'hot scientist' glasses from her pocket, and put them on. "Want me to read you my paper?" She hoisted herself onto the table, pulling Leonard towards her by the waist, picking up her paper.
"Hell yeah."
She licked her finger and turned to the first page of her paper. "Physics: Theory of Relativity. By Mrs. Penny Hofstadter."
A/N - A tiny edit here. Okay, I made a tumblr account. Go me!
