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Several years after the incident with the WABAC and everything in the past coming back to the present, Sherman was standing in front of the elevator of the Peabody Penthouse, staring at the floor.
"Sherman, are you alright?" Mr. Peabody asked, looking at the spot where Sherman was staring.
"Sherman, what all is the matter?" Mr. Peabody waved his hand in front of his son's face. Sherman didn't move, he was thinking back to when he met himself and another Peabody from the past.
"Mr. Peabody, what happened to ourselves?" Sherman asked, still looking at the floor. Mr. Peabody was confused; he did not know what Sherman was talking about, the paradox duplicates slipped his mind completely.
"I don't know…" Mr. Peabody stopped speaking, for he found his son crying.
"The paradox us, have you forgotten already?" Sherman faced Mr. Peabody angrily. "Where have they've gone?"
The memory started to sink in Mr. Peabody's mind.
"I don't see why you're so upset, they were just…" Sherman wouldn't let him finish. "You don't understand!" He yelled and stormed off to his room. Slamming the door behind him, he sat on his bed with his head in his hands.
"Why am I so upset?" He asked himself.
Sherman took out his phone, scrolled through his contacts, and found Penny.
Penny was in her living room when Sherman called.
"Hey, Sherman." She said, surprised that he called her,
"Penny, is it possible that you could come over to my house?" Sherman asked, and then added, "It's important."
About 20 minutes later, the elevator dinged and Penny walked into the penthouse to find Sherman waiting for her.
"Hey, Penny." He greeted her, nervously scratching the back of his head. It was what he always did when he talked to Penny.
"Sherman, what's so important that I had to come over here?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
'Maybe he just wants to see me.' She thought.
"Yeah, about that, you remember when we went back in time and there was two of me and two of Mr. Peabody?"
'I guess not.' Penny thought sadly.
"Yeah, so?" She shrugged her shoulders.
"I've been wondering about them and where they are." Sherman explained, relieved that Penny still remembered.
Penny rolled her eyes. "Sherman, that was back when we were, like, seven."
"Yeah, I know. It's just that…'' Sherman protested, but Penny cut him off.
"We are in the seventh grade, you need to stop worrying so much about then." She took his hand.
"You need to start worrying about now." She let go and Sherman felt a cold emptiness in his hand.
"I- I know. I just can't stop thinking about it, especially Tut." He glared at the thought of him.
Penny smiled. "He still bothers you." She felt cared for, if Sherman was any other ordinary man, he would have thought that Tut is dead, so who cares?
"Of course he still bothers me! He was your groom!" Sherman threw his arms up.
"I won't ever go back to Egypt where Tut was alive." He crossed his arms.
"Well then, we are very fortunate that he dies young." Mr. Peabody walked around the corner that led into the kitchen.
Penny averted her gaze when Mr. Peabody walked in. "Oh, hi Mr. Peabody." She forgot to ask if Peabody allowed her to come over, after all, it was a school night.
Mr. Peabody looked at the dumbstruck Sherman.
"H-Have you been eavesdropping?" Sherman asked, outraged.
"Actually, yes." Mr. Peabody said matter-of-factly.
Sherman put a hand to his face. "Thank you for your honesty."
"You are very welcome." Mr. Peabody and Sherman were both having déjà vu.
Mr. Peabody sighed and turned to Penny.
"Penny, I'm afraid you'll have to leave." He said, gesturing towards the door.
Penny didn't want to leave though; her parents were out and wouldn't be back until after school, so they left Penny at the house.
"Actually, I was wondering if I could stay the night here." She asked nervously. "I'll sleep on the sofa. It's just that my parents left and I don't want to stay at my house alone tonight."
Mr. Peabody considered it and finally decided that she could.
"But Sherman, you will make a pallet in my room so I can supervise you." He said firmly.
"I wasn't thinking that at all!" Sherman exclaimed with his face in his hands, obviously embarrassed. Penny started to blush.
Mr. Peabody was just about to turn to leave for bed then he stopped.
"Penny, you don't have any clothes for tonight or for tomorrow." Mr. Peabody pointed out. Penny put her hand on her head.
"Of course, how stupid I am!" She yelled. Sherman volunteered to go to Penny's house with her to get the stuff she needed.
About another 20 minutes past when they arrived back at the penthouse with all of Penny's things she needed. "There you go Penny, I'll just set your stuff on the sofa and let you get ready for bed while I go set up a pallet in Mr. Peabody's room." He told her, putting Penny's things on the sofa in a position where it didn't risk falling and headed into his own room to get into his PJ's and get the pallet ready.
When Sherman reappeared, he found Penny in a long, white nightgown and her hair tied into a bun.
Sherman was awestruck by her beauty that he nearly dropped the pile of blankets he was holding.
Penny started to blush. "What? Do I look bad?" She started to turn away.
"No, please, don't look away. I want to see that pretty face of yours." Sherman begged.
Penny decided to have some fun with him. "Well, is that the only reason why you wanted to stay, just to look at my face?" She crossed her arms; Penny could be a great actor at times, especially when it came to teasing.
"W-What, no!" Sherman protested. "I just didn't want you to be lonely tonight. I know how it feels." He walked closer to her, but Penny kept her back to him.
"I don't believe you, I might as well leave." She smiled and started to gather her clothes and head to the bathroom to change.
"No, don't leave, I swear that you're too pretty face is the, well, only reason I want you to stay."
'He really cares about me, doesn't he?' Penny thought.
"Fine, I'll stay. But only because I have nowhere else to go, not for your sake." She took the blankets that Sherman brought her and Sherman took the rest of them to Mr. Peabody's room.
"Okay, kids, chop-chop. It's time to go to sleep." Mr. Peabody said when everyone was ready for bed.
"Penny, you on the sofa and Sherman, you in my room, on a pallet."
When everyone was settled in there sleeping areas, one by one they fell asleep, Penny first from sudden drowsiness, Sherman next from the warmth and comfort of the pallet, and Mr. Peabody last after he made sure Sherman was asleep before drifting off into dreamland himself.