A/N - Just a tiny little follow-up here because three days without being able to write at all got me itching to write and this is what I thought up. :)


"Just... just the first one?" Leonard stuttered, his brows raised high.

"Yeah..." Penny tilted her head slightly. "But you know, none of them were positive, so."

"Well, uh, yeah, that's... that's good." Leonard slowly.

"Wow. You are way more freaked out about this than I ever was." Penny observed. "It's when it says positive that you're meant to freak out."

"Yeah, I know, but... you know, still."

"Sweetie, it really shouldn't surprise you." Penny giggled slightly, before biting her lip. "I took that first one a few weeks after we started going out the first time. Does that help?" Her heart skipped a beat as she remembered that her most recent one had been while he was away in the North Sea, but chose not to voice this, or tell him about the pang of disappointment that had come along with the 'negative' answer.

"Umm, not really." Leonard shrugged. "But I guess if you're not freaked out by it... I just have one question. Why did you keep it?"

Sighing, Penny moved her hands further up his arms. "It's stupid. It was just the first time that I took one and really considered how being pregnant would affect me, and you, rather than just think that my life was practically over. It was still scary and I knew I didn't want it to be positive yet but... I don't know, it just felt special."

"Yet?" He repeated her word curiously.

"I... I actually though about you, as a father, and thought one day..." Penny trailed off, clearing her throat and turning to the box again. "You see those cat ears in there?"

Leonard knew better than to press her further on this topic; it was more than she was comfortable with and he was still a little shocked by her ease at the mention of the - apparently numerous - pregnancy tests. "Yeah. You wore those on Halloween, when you had that party at your apartment."

She smiled at him, moving her body closer to his. "That was our first kiss. You said I'm perfect and I asked if you really thought so. You nodded and I kissed you. You stopped it and I was disappointed. But I knew you must be a really great guy because you are the first guy who didn't take advantage of me when I was drunk and upset like that." She shook her head slightly. "Yet I was still disappointed that you didn't. That would have been a pretty exciting first kiss." She giggled lightly, before turning her head to the box. "It's... there's all sorts of stuff in there."

"You don't have to show me it if you don't want to share it all with me."

"There are some other things in there that - oh, like the rubber duck," Penny let go of him briefly to point at it, "from when I was sick and you went and got me all this stuff from the store so I could have a nice bath. I wanted you to join me but you said the duck would have to be my company. And one of the screws that fell out when we broke the bed, because you made a funny joke about it, and the thank-you card you told me to throw away..." Sliding her arms around his neck, she gave him a quick kiss, keeping her eyes closed as she pressed her forehead against his. "And the postcard you sent me from England the day before you boarded the ship, with the little penguins on it, that just said 'I love you' because I told you that I already missed you writing messages on the bathroom mirror for me in the morning."

"Penny," Leonard said quietly, moving his arms around her waist.

"Mm?"

"I think I just got my crapload of romance there."

Giggling, Penny opened her eyes. "Really?"

"Yeah," he nodded slowly, "and I'm not counting the pregnancy test...s... because technically sex, and-"

"Sex doesn't count, yeah, I know." Penny bit her lip. "But that's probably a good idea."

"I can't believe you remember all of that stuff."

Penny shrugged slightly. "Like I said... it's you. I may not remember how much someone's order comes to, or what they even ordered in the first place, but I do remember these kinds of things."

"I think you just stole my Romance Ninja status," Leonard chuckled.

"Well, I can think of a few ways you can take it back." Penny wiggled her eyebrows at him. "You've done so many romantic things already... I never said sex doesn't count for you, baby."