Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters. Also, I don't own the prompt I used ot start this story, I found it on Tumblr.
When the guys – who she was somehow ready to call friends – told her they were going to Las Vegas, she was thinking about casinos and drinking until she passed out. She was not thinking (at all) about a convention on super heroes.
So she now stuck between a character with gigantic ears and another who had a boner – that was probably not from his costume.
So she, disgusted, got up and went to her friends.
There, I called them friends. And boyfriend, of course.
She smiled. After a month she was ready to be his girlfriend. They ended up going on a date, talked forever. She loved his company, he loved hers. They were comfortable with each other, and that was something she didn't have with everyone. And, more importantly, they both supported each other's careers. The first audition she had – she didn't get the part – he helped her with the lines – that were like three. She would hear him talk about his work, even went to his office and saw some amazing stuff he explained her about, making her regret not following that career path – until he started using numbers, then she stopped regretting.
But there she was, with someone that wasn't just a stranger she met at the airport anymore, but was her boyfriend.
He noticed she looked bored and, weird, so was he. So, he went to her.
"Hey, want to leave?"
"No! You like this kind of stuff, I can stay!"
"Want to get super drunk and talk about weird stuff we won't remember the next day?"
"Yes!" She exclaimed, happily grabbing his hand and leaving that weird place.
They found a bar, entered and eventually the conversation got weird, like Leonard told her it would. They were so drunk, they even said something they – Penny – would probably not say as a sober human being. But at that point they weren't Leonard and Penny. They were two completely different people.
"Does my makeup look okay?" Penny asks, worried.
"Of course not… come closer let me take off your lipstick!" Leonard says, giggling. They make out, in the bar until Penny stops to say something.
"I love you." Penny says, smiling. Leonard smiles back, a drunk smile but a smile nonetheless. "You know what? YOU are my soulmate. Like, I just freaking love you so much."
"I love you more! You are so perfect and beautiful, and the only thing more beautiful than your heart is your smoking bod."
"YOU have a smoking bod! Seriously, if only I didn't have this boyfriend that I love I would totally do you!"
"Yeah, forget every stupid douche you've ever been with. I'm the one for you!"
After a couple more drinks – and weird conversations like that – they were both expelled from the bar.
After a few what are we doing next? It hits Penny.
"We should totally get married!"
They both run, trying to find a chapel to get married in.
Later, Sheldon, Howard and Raj find them both passed out in a park bench, holding hands. Howard is the first to notice.
"Dude, they're married!" Howard said, surprised.
"No way." Raj said, wondering how it's possible for them to be married to each other.
"No, look for yourself." And there they were. Two rings on both of their left hands. "I know, how is it possible?" Howard questions, as Raj looks at him with a questioning look on his face.
Suddenly, they notice Leonard and Penny stirring, and looking around – and feeling the side effects from drinking alcohol.
"What's going on?" Leonard asks, and immediately puts his hand on his head, feeling the headache coming.
"You got married!" Sheldon answers.
What?!
Sure, let's not tell them slowly and calmly. Full on! Great idea Sheldon. Howard and Raj think.
"What are you talking about?" Penny asks.
"Look at your fingers. Don't you remember?"
Leonard and Penny both look at their hands and then to each other. None remember how it happened.
Back in her hotel room, Penny keeps walking from one side to another, constantly looking at the ring in her finger without knowing what to do or say to Leonard.
On the one hand, she felt comfortable around him and safe, unlike the way she felt with other guys before. She could talk to him about anything and he would support her. She could imagine getting married to him in the future. She could imagine them both at a old age, falling asleep and taking care of their grandkids together. She imagined having a family with him, in a way she never imagined with any other guy she dated.
On the other hand, they were dating for such a small amount of time – one and a half months.
But that was the only con among the gigantic amount of pros. Maybe this marriage thing with Leonard wasn't that bad. Or was it?
She decided that maybe she should talk to Leonard about it, hear his side of the story.
Grabbing her coat and purse, she leaves her hotel room and heads to Leonard's hoping to make things a little clearer in her head. At least it was the first time in her family someone got married without being pregnant.
Smiling at that thought, she knocks on Leonard's door hoping he was in the same page she was. She finally made her decision.
I want to be happy. And I think he might be the answer for that.
Back in his hotel room, Leonard hears a knock on his door. He was hoping that the person knocking was Penny.
He wanted to tell her he didn't want to get a divorce, he didn't regret getting married with her – somewhat slave of the drink.
He knew she was afraid of commitment, and he did not know how to tell his mother he got married to a girl he basically just met, but at least his father would be happy about that particular news. His brother and sister would probably not enjoy it very much but would be happy for him. Yeah, his mother was his biggest problem.
As Leonard opened the door, thought of little kids running around him with Penny smiling behind him came to his head, so the first thing Penny sees when she sees him is a smile on his face.
God, I love that smile.
He lets her in, not in the same way she was ready to do to him, and she was actually allowing some in to her heart, someone that could potentially hurt very much.
"Look, I like you, a lot." Penny starts as they both sit on the bed. "You know what, no. I don't like you. I love you. And I can't honestly imagine my life without you. I don't care if you think this was a mistake. If you want to get a divorce I understand. But I want to try. Because I'm not someone that just opens up to someone like I did with you. I feel safe and happy when I'm around you. I know the decision to get married was while we were both drunk, but this decision I just made it and I'm sober. A little hangovered, but, sober. So, what do you think about all of this?"
Leonard stared at the women in front of him. He didn't know what to do. Breathing in, he said the first thing that came to his mind.
"I love you too." He got out of his mouth, a bit shaken. He was scared of what the future held, but he knew he loved her, so everything was going to be okay.
That night, Sheldon had to go to her hotel room, because Leonard and Penny were busy celebrating their matrimony.
The End
It's over. I did it. I was thinking of writing more – I had two more chapters but they were a little weird. I decided to take some ideas from those chapters and put them in just one. If there's something you would like me to add, give me the idea through the review section or PM.
In case someone doesn't understand the last bit, I assume that Leonard and Sheldon always share a hotel room like we see in Season 4 Episode 13 – that episode where everyone changes rooms.
Hope you all like this, hopefully is not to OOC. When writing I felt the first part a little OOC for Leonard and Penny but since they're drunk, I supposed it could actually happen like I wrote.
''til next time!
