[ I don't know why, but I really like the pairing of Penny & Sheldon. I think it's because Jim Parsons & Kaley Cuoco are so adorable and comfortable together, that despite the characters being so vastly different from each other, they have better chemistry together than Penny does with Leonard. Sorry Leonard. Anyways, I know Sheldon isn't INCREDIBLY canon due to the fact he doesn't do actual relationships, but hey, it's fanfiction for a reason. You've got to use your imagination a little bit (lol). This is just a little follow up, by request. ]
The next morning, Leonard arrived back at the apartment early in the morning. He had been at an overnight teaching seminar on Analytic geometry and mathematics in string theory sciences.
Everything seemed fairly normal, and he opened his front door to see Howard, Raj, Penny and Sheldon arranged in the usual form in the living room.
"Wow, you guys are all awake really early." Leonard stated as he shut the door behind him.
"Now Leonard its 9:00 in the morning, by this time most regular day workers would have begun their shifts at work, surely we must be active by this time." Sheldon said, making his way to the kitchen and placing his empty cereal bowl into the sink.
"Wassap Leonard, my man, care to join Raj and I in an exiting duel in a medieval land?" Howard said in a luring tone.
"I just walked in, maybe later." He smiled at the familiarity in his surroundings.
"Penny, you're not normally awake so early though…what has you awake and over here so early?"
"Oh, I didn't actually get back home last night; I just woke up because Howard was shrieking about his magical staff." She rolled her eyes. "I wish I was still asleep."
"You…slept…here? Last night?" His eye brows furrowed together, his mathematical brain trying to quickly solve the mystery of reasons she would have slept over. "Did you…lock yourself out of your house?"
"No, silly. I was up late with Sheldon."
Leonard choked on the air that had just entered his lungs. "What?"
"Watching movies, Leonard." Sheldon interjected from his location hovering above the kitchen sink.
"Oh." He said simply and waded past everyone to go drop his things in his bedroom.
That evening after everyone had gone home, Leonard and Sheldon sat in silence in their apartment.
"So, what do you want to do tonight?" Leonard asked, wondering of Sheldon would want to watch some movies with him now that he was back. "You won't have to bother Penny now, we can do something together."
Sheldon was slightly stricken by the statement that him being with Penny was bothersome to her. She did come to his apartment completely of her own will, and they watched Iron Man 1 & 2, as well as the new Sherlock Holmes movie, and the entire Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy before falling asleep beside each other right there on the couch. She could have left anytime. He felt violated by Leonard's uneducated assumption.
"What do you want to do?" He asked curtly.
"We could watch a movie? It's been a while since we've watched something together." Leonard suggested.
"I suppose. I'm always in the mood for a good movie." Sheldon grinned at the idea of another movie marathon.
"Okay, how about Iron Man?" Leonard said excitedly, picking something he knew Sheldon loved to watch.
"Already watched it."
"Well, I know you have already seen it Sheldon, but the point of buying a DVD is that you watch it again…" Leonard explained.
"Watched it just last night."
"Oh, okay, well what about part 2?"
"Last night."
Leonard scanned the top of their DVD shelf.
"Sherlock Holmes?"
"Last night."
"Pirates?"
"Whole trilogy in the wee hours of this morning."
Leonard felt deflated.
"I know, Back to the Future!" Leonard said, pulling the film out from behind the shelf.
"Penny wanted to see that! Would you believe she doesn't even know what a DeLorean is! I'll go get her so she can watch it with us!" Sheldon said and leapt into the air and before Leonard could even mutter a response, Sheldon was out the door and tapping on Penny's door in the usual way.
Penny squealed in delight from across the hall and took only a moment to gather herself before running back across the hall with Sheldon beside her.
"Hey Leonard!" She said as she entered the apartment. "I brought my sweater this time! I know now how chilly it gets in here at night-I was so cold I was practically under your poncho with you last night!" She said to Sheldon and chuckled before plopping herself gracefully down on the couch cushion on the far right, closest to the kitchen.
"Uh, Penny, maybe you should move?" Leonard suggested, noticing she had chosen to sit in Sheldon's seat.
Penny looked almost slapped in the face.
"No, no, Leonard, she's fine there." Sheldon said as he sat right beside her.
Leonard cocked his head to the side and found it dreadfully difficult to conceal his growing confusion.
They sat there all night, watching the whole Back to the Future trilogy in one sitting. Leonard started to nod off around midnight, when the third one was almost finished. He felt like a third wheel, listening to Sheldon and Penny giggle and share inside jokes about the movie and about movies from the night before.
"I think I'm going to call it a night guys." He stated.
"Oh really! Sheldon and I wanted to watch the original Star Wars trilogy next! He said he would explain everything to me, are you sure you don't want to join us?" Penny asked cheerily.
Leonard stood up and stared for a moment at the odd couple on his living room couch, but just shrugged to himself and went to sleep.
"Sheldon," Penny said, once Leonard was out of earshot, "Why did you let me sit in your seat?" Penny had only sat there to see if Sheldon would have allowed it in the first place.
Sheldon shrugged. "I thought you deserved to have the best seat in the house."
"That's…sweet."
Penny set up the next movie and sat back down and lay her head on Sheldon's shoulder. To which he did not protest.
[ I may do more, I'm unsure. What do you guys think? What would you like to see happen?
& thanks for reading! Xo ]