'Beep. Beep. Beep.' Penny groaned reaching over to turn off her blasted alarm clock. Moving her left arm a bit, Penny noticed she couldn't move it that far.

'That's strange.' Penny thought to herself. Finally opening her eyes to see where that blasted beeping noise was coming from, she took notice that she wasn't in her bedroom. Glancing at her left she caught glance of the reason why she couldn't move her arm. It was encased in a bright pink cast with two IVs in it. She also had a matching cast on her left leg. Trying to get a better few of her leg, she moved making her think that she was run over by a truck. The pain was that bad.

Looking around the room she saw Howard and Bernadette sleeping on the small couch with Raj curled up on the cot next to it. On the right side of the bed was Amy with her head resting on the bed, fast asleep.

She finally put it together that she was in a hospital room and the beeping noise was here heart monitor.

"Amy." Penny said, her voice sounding rough and horse like it hadn't been used in a while.

"Amy!" she said a little louder, causing Amy to finally stir.

"Oh thank goodness you're finally awake!" Amy exclaimed, loud enough to wake the three others in the room.

"What happened?" Penny asked to no one in particular.

"You really don't remember?" said Howard's voice, from the other side of the bed.

"No. The last think I remember was getting off of work to find Sheldon sitting on my couch all fidgety. He said he wanted to talk to me but I was running late for my date with Leonard. I asked him if we could talk later, then he left suddenly. He didn't like attack me or something?" Penny asked. She knew that didn't sound very logical, but it was the only thing that was making any sense.

"Even if he did you would have put him in the hospital." Howard said, earning a jab in the ribs from Bernadette. "What you know that's true." He said, causing Penny to laugh.

"Ow." Penny said, grabbing hold of her chest. It was tender under her touch.

"Careful there, bestie. You've had a few surgeries and some broken ribs." Amy said.

"Will someone please tell me what the hell happened to me? And where is Sheldon and Leonard?"

"Sheldon fell asleep last night in the waiting room. He hasn't been sleeping a lot, so we just left him there." Bernadette told her.

"And Leonard?"

"Penny, you and Leonard was in a car accident three weeks ago. Leonard ran a red light and you were struck by a semi-truck. They said that your left wrist was shattered, and you had surgery to mend it. Your left ankle is also broken, but that able to be set and the cast should be coming off in three weeks. You had a collapsed lung, which has been reflated. You also had some internal bleeding, but after two surgeries they have caught it all." Amy told her. She looked like she had more to say, but didn't.

"Did you say this happened three weeks ago?"

"Yes. They had you sedated pretty heavily since you kept fighting them."

"And Leonard?" Penny asked again. She was dreading the worse. Not once did Amy say anything about Leonard and the whole vibe in the room had changed.

"Leonard didn't have his seat belt on that night. The paramedics said that they wouldn't have even known that Leonard was in the car if you weren't in the passage seat." Amy said, tears in her eyes.
"He didn't make it did he?" Penny asked, she could already feel the tears in her own eyes.

"No, I'm so sorry bestie." Amy said, and Penny felt her brush a few of her tears that had escaped.

"Do you mind leaving me alone for a while?" She really didn't want them to watch her cry.

"Sure, Penny. We'll just go down and get some breakfast. Come on guys." Bernadette said. She, Howard and Raj walked out of the room. She felt Amy watching her for a while before following the rest out the door.

She couldn't believe she had been in here three weeks. That was pushing a month.

Leonard was so excited about that date too. She just wished she could remember it. What happened on that date that made Leonard forget his seat belt? He never forgot it before.

The tears was falling more freely now. Closing her eyes she tried to picture Leonard from that night, but everything was just black. And just the thought that she couldn't remember made the tears come faster.

Penny heard the door to her room opened; she figured it was just the guys back from breakfast. But after a few minutes of no noise, she opened her eyes to see it wasn't who she thought.

Sheldon stood in the threshold of the room, and he looked like crap. His clothes looked like he had slept in them a few times. He was in a dire need for a shave and his hair needed washed and combed out badly. His eyes were red and puffy from either crying or lack of sleep. Penny really couldn't tell which.

But Penny still couldn't help her heart from racing, and no thanks to the EKG machine she was hooked up too, she was sure that Sheldon knew as well.

She's known for some time about her feelings for Sheldon, she just hadn't told anyone about them yet.

'Sheldon! You have feelings for Sheldon!' Leonard's voice said in her head.

Well, that was strange.

A/N: I have never been in a serious car accident before but I did try to use the way I felt waking up in a hospital room days later and not knowing what happened. I just hope I got all the medical stuff right, looked up somethings on line, but it's not like I could understand it very well. Hoping everyone likes the new chapter. I love to hear what everyone thought, and if anyone has any ideas for my story 'The Story of Daddy and Me' please message me. I am drawing a blank on that story right now, but I don't want to give up on it quit yet. Thanks, Danielle.