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Alex walked down one of the many corridors of CalTech University towards Dr. Sheldon Cooper's office with a huge stack of work books in her hands. She made it to the door but stopped outside to hear some yelling from her employer who must be on the phone with someone.

She situated the work books in her hands so that she could open the door and walked in on Dr. Cooper with his work phone plastered to his ear and his hand waving at Alex to put the work books on the file cabinet in the corner of his office.

"Yes, yes, I understand. No, no, you don't seem to understand the importance of this ordeal!" Dr. Cooper exclaimed into the phone, his eyes rolling as he listened to the person on the other end of the line spiel about something he really didn't care to talk about.

Alex stood patiently with her hands clasped together and waited for her employer to get off of the phone to prepare for her next time when her phone buzzed in her back pocket. She pulled it out and smiled as she read 'Leonard 3' and a cute little message about how he loved waking up next to her this morning.

Alex quickly typed back a message as Dr. Cooper started yelling into the phone.

"It is not just a game, as you put it! It was a way of life and I do not appreciate the way you put World of Warcraft down!" Sheldon's hand slammed the desk and he stood then, dropped back into his chair quickly and cast his eyes downward.

"I apologize, mother. I didn't mean to offend you." He calmly replied and the sound of his mother on the other end of the line sounded like a muffled siren going off. "Yes, Mommy. Alright. Good-bye." Sheldon quickly hung up his phone and sighed.

He looked over to Alex who only looked right back at him. "What?"

Alex was slightly taken aback and walked forward to his desk. "Do you want me to do anything else? I still have another forty-five minutes before I head on home."

Sheldon sat there and looked down at his organized desk and looked over the things that didn't seem all that important. After a few moments, he looked up at Alex and gave her a slight nod. "You may leave," he said, watching as she smiled and turned for the door.

"Ah! But first," Sheldon stood up and walked around his desk so that he stood taller than Alex and was able to look down at her. "I need your advice."

Alex looked at Sheldon and nodded, feeling another buzz in her back pocket, most likely from her new fiancee, Leonard.

"Which colours do you like best? I was sifting through this god-awful wedding magazines and I can't seem to find the right colours for your wedding." Sheldon walked right back to his desk and opened a drawer, pulling out three thick wedding magazines.

Alex laughed out loud and then quickly tried to hide it when Sheldon gave her that look. "Oh, um, well, Dr. Cooper, Leonard and I have only been engaged for a week. I think it's a little too early to begin to think of a colour combination."

"Too early? Oh, dear Alex, you seem to misunderstand. See, this is for Leonard and I'm sure he wants a very strict theme on his wedding." Sheldon sat on the edge of his desk as he unknowingly began to condescend Alex.

"And what would that be?" Alex asked, her left eyebrow instinctively going up.

"Star Trek, of course." Sheldon said with conviction, watching as Alex began to laugh and walk out of the office, her bright and true laughter carrying through-out the office and out into the hall. "I wonder what was so funny."

…

"I missed you today." Alex smiled as Leonard held her from around her waist, looking at the beautiful woman who stood before him.

"I missed you, too. Here, I got a surprise for you." Leonard jumped out of their hold and walked over to the island of his kitchen, his hands moving something around before he looked over the counter and at Alex who stood in the middle of the living room.

"Alright, now, close your eyes." Leonard said as Alex smiled and did as she was told.

Leonard quietly walked over to her and held the brightly wrapped package behind his back. He quickly took a deep breath in and held it out, watching Alex as she slowly opened her eyes and looked right at the gift he had bought her.

"Oh! May I open it?" Alex said as she grabbed the package and Leonard nodded, walking over to the cream-coloured chair he loved so much.

Alex smiled and sat down on the middle cushion on the couch, remembering full well the extent of importance the corner seat next to the lamp and table meant to a very picky doctor. Alex began to tear at the edges of a package, looking at the plain cardboard box now sitting on her lap.

…

"Penny?" Bernadette's high-pitched voice was one of caring as she opened Penny's apartment door and saw the inside of it completely darkened. No lights were on, no clothes strewn across her teal IKEA couch, nothing was inside of Penny's apartment that could even remotely begin to tell that she was there.

Except for the loud hiccup in the back bedroom.

"Come on, Amy. I think she's in here." Bernadette walked inside the small apartment and placed the three grocery bags down on the, for once, clean blue couch.

Amy walked in and closed the door behind her, her eyes catching a small glimpse of the apartment door 4A across the hall, her boyfriend most likely inside.

"Penny!" Bernadette shouted, knocking Amy out of her inquisitive nature and sending her running into the bedroom where the small blonde's scream came from.

Amy ran into the bedroom and saw the unconscious Penny on the floor with a bottle of Peppermint Schnapps, the same drink that she had used to try and have sex with Leonard.

"Penny! Oh, god, what do we do?" Bernadette cried out, cradling Penny's head in her lap.

"Don't worry! I know CPR and I've been waiting a long time to use it!" Amy shouted with enthusiasm. The dorky brunette dropped to her knees and immediately went to Penny's mouth, screwing away the proper CPR procedures.

Penny's eyes shot open and her arms began to flail around. "Oh, god! I'm awake, Amy! Stop that!" Penny shouted out, trying her hardest to push the woman off of her.

"No, no, I still don't think it's working! One more try!" Amy shouted again, trying to push Penny back down so that she could place her lips on hers once more.

"Amy! She's awake!" Bernadette said as she stood up and pulled Amy off of Penny, watching as the tall blonde cough and plead with herself not to gag. "Penny, what happened? Why were you on the floor?"

Penny looked around her bedroom right quick and began to realize she had dropped to the ground after cleaning her apartment. She didn't know why she had started cleaning but, she had done it. Penny looked to her right and saw the empty bottle of Peppermint Schnapps next to her hand. Okay, now she realized why she cleaned her apartment.

"I, uh, fell off the bed." Penny lied as she grabbed the bottle and tried to toss it behind the other side of her bed.

"With an alcoholic beverage that is mostly used to take away one's pains and emotions about a certain event? Or to induce serotonin and dopamine into your brain to try and be happy even though your ex boyfriend is now engaged to that-"

Bernadette held her hand up towards Amy's mouth for her to stop right where she was. "Penny, come on. How about you come stay with me and Howard for a few days, take your mind off of things?"

Penny shook her head and stood up, the two doctors also standing up along with her. Penny walked by them and out into the living room; the spotless room was actually quite nice yet, she knew in a week's time it would be back to normal.

"How could Leonard do that to me?" Penny walked and sat down in her green swivel chair and pulled her knees close to her chest and wrapped her arms around them, breathing in deeply and watched as Amy and Bernadette sat on the teal IKEA couch, taking in everything about the apartment.

"Penny, you had been broken up for a couple of weeks. You had to have known he was acting different." Bernadette said as she reached over and rubbed Penny's arm, comforting the young woman with so many opportunities ahead of her.

"It's unusually clean in here. Did you clean your apartment?" Amy broke in.

Bernadette rolled her eyes and sighed, dropping her hand from comforting Penny. Penny looked around and nodded, not wanting to tell them the real reason why she had cleaned the apartment.

"Yeah, I thought, why not? Guess it does look nicer." Penny said stoically as she looked to the top of her refrigerator and saw an unopened bottle of white wine. She must've missed looking there last night.

"Penny, I couldn't even imagine what you're going through. If Howard had done something like that to me, I don't know what I would have done." Bernadette said gently, wishing her friend would pick herself up and realize that Leonard was a worthless bastard.

"Another quick question: you found the ring, correct? How long did you have it for before you finally... blew up, I should say, the other week?" Amy received a nasty glare from Bernadette but, even Bernadette had been wondering the same thing.

How did Penny find the ring and why didn't she just put it back and wait for Leonard to make the announcement? Why did she decide to cause such a scene?

"You remember when Leonard and I broke up?" Penny asked the women and both nodded, remembering Penny calling them cheering that she had finally done it and that she was on her way onto greater things.

"I went back to him the next night and we sorta, hooked back up." Penny looked at the two women scowling at her. "But, only for the night! I just wanted to see if I did the right thing!" Penny sighed and relaxed into the chair, her eyes returning to the white wine on top of the refrigerator.

"He went to the bathroom and I went to his sock drawer to find some underwear I had left over there. That's when I found it; it was just sitting there and I opened it and saw this gorgeous ring with this huge diamond and smaller little diamonds circling it. I was so scared and I put it in my pants pocket and I just left.

"I didn't care if he was still in the bathroom or that I had taken the ring I thought he was gonna give me. I'm so stupid; how could I have not seen that he was in love with her?" Penny cried into her hands and the room was silent except for the twenty-eight year old's sobs.

Bernadette looked to Amy and silently begged her to say something because, for the first time, the small and petite blonde had nothing to say, not because she didn't want to cheer her friend up but because she didn't know how to make her feel better.

Amy nodded and stood up, walking over to the refrigerator and grabbing the white wine she had been watching Penny eye the whole time they were talking. Amy grabbed the corkscrew from the drawer next to the sink and twisted the metal screw into the cork, pulling it up and pouring the alcoholic drink into a clean wine glass.

The neurobiologist walked over to Penny and handed her the glass, watching as her 'bestie' looked up from her crying and brightened in a sad way from the sight of the wine. Penny grabbed the glass and with one swoop, drank the whole contents of the glass.

"Will you be okay if we leave, Penny? We're going to go get some take out and come right back here." Bernadette asked as she began to stand and as Penny nodded and walked towards the wine bottle in response, the two doctors left apartment 4B and walked down the four flight of stairs to Bernadette's car.

…

"I'm glad you liked your gift." Leonard whispered softly into Alex's ear, watching as she held her arm in the air and the brilliant rainbow colours of the bracelet Leonard bought her.

To the average eye, the bracelet looked like a cheap piece you would buy at a junk shop for a quarter but, to the trained eye and the very scientific minds of Leonard and Alex, the bracelet held a very different meaning.

The bracelet was made out of niobium and in the light, it would pretend to become a different colour other than silver and would shine reds, blues, yellows, greens and even purple in the right light. On the top center of the bracelet, a small black rock with silver accents was situated. Like another average Joe, the rock would've been one they could call gravel or some type of wet-looking asphalt. But, Leonard knew that wet asphalt wasn't in style and so, a small piece of meteorite mounted the niobium bracelet. The meteorite sparkled with silver and reflected all of the mysteries of the universe.

"I love it, Leonard." Alex smiled greatly at the gift, Leonard pulling her warm and naked body closer to his as they lay in his bed and stared at the gorgeous bracelet still hanging on her wrist that she kept suspended in the air.

"Do you know why I bought this?" Leonard asked, his free hand reaching for the bracelet and letting his fingers gently rub the polished metal.

"Yeah." Alex replied, looking up at Leonard who kept his eyes on the bracelet above the both of them.

"Well, we just got a huge grant yesterday at work-"

"The Weezly Grant?" Alex asked, her bright blue eyes fixated on Leonard's beautiful and slightly crooked smile.

"Yeah. Well, the stipulations for the grant was laser technology with niobium-conduced lasers in taking out potentially life-threatening meteors headed for Earth." Leonard chuckled a little and Alex stayed quiet, her brows rising a bit as she kept her stare on Leonard.

"So... you bought me a bracelet out of the element you're going to use to destroy a meteor?" Alex asked, not really connecting the dots.

"Yeah! I thought that every time I was at work, you'd look down and see that I'm the niobium, working hard to destroy anything that can come close to hurting you. The meteorite piece, that's the part that got to you but, I'm always there to hold you together.

"See? It's a metaphor: this little meteorite made it to Earth, survived absolutely everything in space to get here onto your bracelet and meet you. It can be both good and bad." Leonard gave her one of his goofy smiles and Alex smiled meekly at him.

"Do you get it?"

Alex looked up to her bracelet and then back at Leonard. "No but, I'm sure I will eventually." She grabbed his face and pulled him in for a kiss, once again resuming what they were meant to do in the dark of the night.

A/N: Leonard is such a dork and I wanted him to have that dorky and romantic kind of feel for everything. What will the next chapter hold? Who knows! Review and tell me how you feel!
-Laania