So, you guys wanted me to go for Option 3. So, this one is my attempt to do as you asked. You will recognize some of the dialog verbatim from the episode but in some parts it has changed some. Also, from about the second half of this story it turns from the pilot we know to the one in my head ^^

Remember, I'm still German, so don't laugh at my mistakes ;)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the franchise. I write here only for my own pleasure and that of the others who read the story and I don't make any money. Any similarities to song titles or lyrics are absolutely coincidental and unintended. Some dialog is verbatim from different episodes and are there to keep the story going.

Enjoy :)

Penny couldn't take her eyes off Leonard. He had the same shocked expression that was surely apparent on her own face but didn't say anything. The awkward staring contest lasted only a few seconds before he lowered his head and looked at his feet.

'Man, he really can't look at me when sober.' she thought, remembering what he said last night. She decided to force the issue.

"Oh, hi." she said to them both.

"Hi." Leonard replied

"Hi." came from the other guy.

"So, are you two my new neighbors?"

"Yes, we live across the hall." Leonard said and mentally slapped himself. Of course they lived across the hall, there were no other apartments on this floor. Why does he always have to be so nervous in front of women?

"Nice to meet you, I'm Penny."

"I'm Leonard, this is Sheldon."

Penny was about to comment on the fact that she knew who they were, having had learned of Sheldon last night before really, really learning about Leonard in a very intimate way, when she saw the pleading look in Leonard's eyes that said something like 'Don't tell him about last night, I'll explain why later.'

"Well, welcome to the building." Leonard said, once again feeling very awkward.

"Thank you, maybe we can have coffee sometimes." 'And hopefully repeat some of last night. Like tonight. Or tomorrow night. Or tonight AND tomorrow night. Oh Penny, get a grip.'

"Great." Leonard stated.

"Great." Sheldon added, which made him look like a parakeet in Penny's eye right now.

"Great. Well, bye." Leonard blurted out again.

"Bye." Penny answered. 'Boy, he really is nervous. He shouldn't be, he was so amazing last night.' Penny thought and closed the door. She went back to her boxes and smiled to herself. Those two were really socially awkward and if she had met them for first time today, she would have probably just stereotyped them as the classic nerds with no experience with women.

But she had met Leonard. Granted, he had been somewhat inebriated but his behavior today was the direct opposite of last night. Back then he was drunk and tired but confident and assertive. She hoped that it was only make-believe for his roommate's benefit because while shy and nervous Leonard was kind of cute, confident Leonard was downright hot. Suddenly her eyes went wide. What was she thinking? She knew him for less than a day and her thoughts were already filled with him. She needed to distract herself. Right, unpacking boxes. Her plans were interrupted though, when she heard a knock on her door. She opened it to find Leonard on her doorstep once again.

"Hi, again." Leonard said.

"Hi." she answered grinning.

"Anyway, um. We brought home Indian food." he stated and held up the take-out bag in his hand. "And, um. I know that moving can be stressful, and I find that when I'm undergoing stress, that good food and company can have a comforting effect. Also, curry is a natural laxative, and I don't have to tell you that, uh, a clean colon is just one less thing to worry about. "

"Leonard, I'm not expert here but I believe in the context of a luncheon invitation, you might want to skip the reference to bowel movements." Sheldon said which made Penny grin even more.

"Oh, you're inviting me over to eat?" she asked.

"Uh, yes."

"Oh, that's so nice, I'd love to."

"Great."

"So, what do you guys do for fun around here?" she asked as she was passing them on her way into their apartment.

"Well, today we tried masturbating for money." Sheldon said which resulted in Leonard throwing him a look that told him how crazy he was to say just that.

Penny looked around in the guys apartment and was silently amazed. It really was a nerds place, two desks with laptops, several different gaming consoles plus a lot of video games. On the other side of the room was a whiteboard filled with some type of calculation which to her was nothing more than a bunch of lines.

"This looks like some serious stuff, Leonard, did you do this?" Penny asked incredulously.

"Actually that's my work." Sheldon said and gave what was surely supposed to be smile.

"Wow."

"Yeah, well, it's just some quantum mechanics, with a little string theory doodling around the edges. That part there, that's just a joke, it's a spoof of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation."

'Right, as if I understand anything of what you just said.' Penny thought "So you're like, one of those beautiful mind genius guys."

"Yeah." Sheldon confirmed, although she knew that already from her talk last night with Leonard.

"This is really impressive."

"I have a board." Leonard stated from across the room, pointing at another whiteboard filled with calculations. "If you like boards, this is my board."

"Holy smokes." Penny said, as the stuff on Leonard's board looked even more complicated.

"If by holy smokes you mean a derivative restatement of the kind of stuff you can find scribbled on the wall of any men's room at MIT, sure." Sheldon interjected.

"What?" Leonard asked.

"Oh, come on. Who hasn't seen this differential below "here I sit broken-hearted?""

"At least I didn't have to invent twenty-six dimensions just to make the math come out."

"I didn't invent them, they're there."

"In what universe?"

"In all of them, that's the point."

During the argument, Penny had sat down in the left side of the couch and was mesmerized by those two. They talked about math and other stuff as if it were the easiest thing in the world. She had an idea how to end the argument.

"Uh, do you guys mind if I start?"

Suddenly Sheldon had a very apprehensive look in his eyes. She was about to ask what's wrong when she saw Leonard turn his head.

"Um Penny, that's where I sit." he said.

"So, sit next to me." she replied and gave him an inviting smile.

"No, I sit there."

"What's the difference?"

"What's the difference?" he repeated, as if it was absurd to have to explain it.

"Here we go." Leonard mumbled exasperated and sat down in the armchair. In that moment, Penny could see the reason why he would sometimes go to a bar to get plastered. If that was normal behavior for Sheldon, than him acting up would be truly enervating.

"In the winter that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm, and yet not so close as to cause perspiration. In the summer it's directly in the path of a cross breeze created by open windows there, and there. It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation, nor so far wide to create a parallax distortion, I could go on, but I think I've made my point. "

At that point, Penny zoned out. He had lost her at the word 'parallax'. She dimly remembered Leonard telling him to sit somewhere else, something Sheldon did very reluctantly and telling them about herself, from her upbringing in Nebraska, her dream of becoming an actress and her attempt to write a screenplay.

She told them about her past relationship with Kurt, and was quite pleased with herself that she could do without losing her composure, something she was sure Leonard and especially their escapade last night was a huge factor of.

She also learned something about Leonard from Sheldon. Not only that he was apparently lactose intolerant, so he couldn't eat any dairy products but also they were truly nerds, playing something called Klingon boggle. She knew what boggle was, but had no clue as to the Klingon variant.

"That reminds me, my shower is still broken and won't be fixed until tomorrow. Would it be too much to ask, if I could use yours?" Penny asked.

"Yes." Sheldon answered, with no hint that he was kidding.

"No." Leonard said at the same time.

"No?"

"No."

Penny had to suppress a laugh. It seemed Leonard had more control over Sheldon than he realized. He acquiesced quickly, dropping his objection to her using their shower.

"It's right down the hall." Leonard said and pointed to the hallway opposite of the apartment door.

"Thanks." Penny said and made her way to the guys bathroom. She just hoped that she wouldn't go back to old habits and use their generosity to get free stuff.

Leonard looked after Penny and audibly exhaled. What was wrong with him? He acted as if Penny was some higher being. He should be more at ease around here, he already had sex with her for god's sakes.

"It has been some time since we've had a woman take her clothes off in our apartment." Sheldon began.

"That's not true, remember at Thanksgiving my grandmother with Alzheimer's had that episode."

"Point taken. It has been some time since we've had a woman take her clothes off after which we didn't want to rip our eyes out."

"The worst part was watching her carve that turkey."

"So, what exactly are you trying to accomplish here?"

"Excuse me?"

"That woman in there's not going to have sex with you."

"If only you knew." Leonard mumbled to himself.

"What did you say?" Sheldon asked and Leonard cursed his Vulcan hearing.

"I said, I'm not trying to have sex with her."

"Oh, good. Then you won't be disappointed."

"What makes you think she wouldn't have sex with me, I'm a male and she's a female?" 'Oh, she is definitely an amazing piece of female.' he added in his head.

"Yes, but not of the same species."

"I'm not going to engage in hypotheticals here, I'm just trying to be a good neighbor."

"Oh, of course."

"That's not to say that if a carnal relationship were to develop that I wouldn't participate. However briefly." 'Oh, I would participate. Everyday if possible.'

"Do you think this possibility will be helped or hindered when she discovers your Luke Skywalker no-more-tears shampoo?"

"It's Darth Vader shampoo. Luke Skywalker's the conditioner." Leonard said and cursed. Sheldon was right. Finding Star Wars shampoo would surely be a turnoff for a woman like Penny.

They were interrupted by the arrival of Howard and Raj, who rambled on about a videotape of an old Stephen Hawking lecture, before he became, as Howard pointed out by ways of a monotone voice and his middle finger 'a creepy computer voice'. The one thing Leonard didn't want was for Penny to meet Howard, something that would surely scare her away. He had to get them out now.

Penny discarded her clothes and stepped into the tub. She adjusted the shower head to her height and was about to turn the tap on when suddenly her head was filled with images of what happened the last time she stepped into a shower. Last time, she had pushed her pelvis against someone's head and ended the shower in the throes of pleasure, with her back pressed against the warm body of the guy out in the living room who had been nice enough to invite her to eat with them and allowed her to shower.

Quickly doing some mental exercises to stop thinking about his hand between her legs, she opened the tap and tried to set it to shower. But no matter what she did, it stayed on tub. She thought about taking a bath instead but decided that she didn't really want to impose that much. She stepped back out of the tub, took the nearest towel and wrapped it around her body.

"Hey, is there a trick to getting it to switch from tub to shower." Penny asked after she had stepped out of the bathroom before she realized that there were to more people in the room. She suddenly became very aware that she was clad only in a towel. One of the guys, who was wearing tighter pants than she'd ever wear gave her a look that really crept her out. "Oh. Hi, sorry. Hello."

"Enchante Mademoiselle." the creepy guy said. "Howard Wolowitz, CalTech department of Applied Physics. You may be familiar with some of my work, it's currently orbiting Jupiter's largest moon taking high-resolution digital photographs."

"I'm Penny. I work at the Cheesecake Factory." she said, desperately wishing for this conversation to be over.

"Come on, I'll show you the trick with the shower." Leonard said and lead her back to the bathroom.

"Bon douche."

"I'm sorry?" Penny turned back to Howard.

"It's French for good shower. It's a sentiment I can express in six languages."

"Save it for your blog, Howard." Leonard interjected.

"See-ka-tong-guay-jow."

Only seconds later they were back in the bathroom. Penny quickly closed the door, happy to be away from Howard, while Leonard started working at the tap.

"Hey Leonard. He isn't really going to put this on his blog, isn't he?"

"I wish I could say no." he answered and concentrated on the tap.

Penny watched him work, looking at his hands and how they manipulated the settings. Again, images of last night and what his hands could do flashed through her mind and she desperately tried to suppress them. She noticed his hands had stopped.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Uh, nothing." he said and went back to work to hide his blushing face.

'Yeah right, nothing. You had a flashback to last night, admit it.' Penny thought and grinned. A second later, Leonard turned on the tap and Penny noticed the shower head working finally. She discarded the towel again and stepped into the tub, but not before noticing how Leonard quickly turned around.

"Leonard?" Penny asked and leaned her head around the shower curtain.

"Yeah?"

"Why did you turn around?"

"Well, uh, you know, you're naked and it's impolite..."

"Leonard, sweetie, you have seen me naked already. You can look.

"Please don't remind me. I have to fight every urge not to step into the tub with you."

Penny felt a hot flash cursing through her body after hearing Leonard say that. Thank god, she wasn't the only one affected by the memory of last night. She was sure that if they were in her own bathroom with nobody else in the living room, she would have pulled him into the shower already, ripped the clothes off his body and have her wicked way with him. She decided to quickly change the subject.

"Leonard?"

"Yes, what?"

"Can you do me a favor?"

"Really?" Leonard asked and Penny could hear the sarcasm in his voice. "You ask me for a favor, knowing full well that I can't ever say no to whatever you ask, when all I can think about is your gorgeous naked body in my own bathtub, a body that looked so damn incredible as it bounced on top of me or writhed under me or that has no spot left that I didn't ran my tongue over..."

"Leonard!" Penny shouted, desperately needing him to shut up. He probably had no idea what his description of some parts of last night were doing to her. It was already a chore just to stay on her own two feet and keep her hands from running all over her body.

"Yeah sorry. What was it you wanted?"

"Remember my ex, Kurt?"

"The chauvinistic neanderthal who wanted to cut me open with a broken bottle and eat me for breakfast? Yes, go on."

"Yeah well, he still owes me money and my TV is still at our old apartment, and he refuses to bring them over. He wants me to go over there and get them myself but I really don't want to. Can't you get them for please?"

"What makes you think he will give the TV and the money to me?"

"I hope you can convince him. You're way smarter than he is, why not trick him into thinking that's a good idea?"

"Because I'm not a con man?"

"Pleeeeaaase Leonard." Penny pleaded.

"As much as I like you but I think I need to decline. I don't think you can convince me to risk my life and health for something immaterial as a TV set."

"And 1.800 Dollars. It's in an envelope in a box next to the TV."

"Still, no."

"I bet I can convince you. If you lose, you'll go."

"How?"

Instead of answering, Penny stepped out of the tub and slowly walked up to Leonard whose eyes were wandering up and down her naked body. She knew that it was mean but a bet was a bet. She stretched her arms upwards and bent her back while slightly hopping on her feet, making Leonard's eyes pop out at the sight of her breasts bouncing up and down. She stepped closer to him, their bodies only inches apart, and grabbed his hands, putting them around her body and on her butt cheeks.

She closed the distance between their faces to almost nothing but still not touching and put her arms on his shoulders. But as soon as she realized Leonard wanted to kiss her, she pulled back slightly. They repeated this process twice before Leonard's shoulders sagged a bit.

"Okay, you win." he said and hung his head.

"Told you." she grinned.

"Where does he live?"

"Take my key to my apartment, it's in my shorts pocket. There you'll find a note with his address." she said and wriggled out of his grasp and stepped back into the tub and stepped under the water.

"You're a mean tease, you know that?" he said and left the bathroom. Penny only grinned under the shower. The whole thing was mean, she knew and on one level regretted doing that to him but on the other hand, it was only a tease if she didn't plan on following through. But that would depend on his success.

Leonard got the address from Penny's apartment and after putting her key back on her pants in the bathroom he headed out and down to his car. He wracked his brain as to how to convince her ex-boyfriend to give him both money and TV. He knew that Kurt could really eat him for breakfast if he wanted and this time there wouldn't be someone to help. Suddenly Leonard had an idea. He fished out his cellphone and started dialing.

"Hey, it's Leonard. I need you help with something. Can I come pick you up?" he asked and listened for the reply. "Yeah, I can do that. But first we do my thing. We need to pick up a TV set and some money. I'll come over and get you, then we get the stuff and after that I help you with your problem... Right, see you soon."

Leonard smiled despite the situation Penny and his own libido put him in. He really was a smart guy.

After getting into Kurt's apartment building, by way of following a girl scout who simply pressed all the buttons to get in, they went up the stairs. After reaching the apartment, he pointed to the wall next to it and rang the buzzer. And soon enough, Penny's hulking ex-boyfriend opened the door.

"What do you want, dwarf?" Kurt asked menacingly.

"Penny asked me to pick up her TV and the money you still owe her." Leonard answered, a bit cowed by Kurt's threatening demeanor.

"So what? If she wants her stuff, she can get it herself."

"She doesn't want to see you. Now give it to me."

"And if I don't?"

"Then I will go in there and pick it up myself."

"And how will you get past me with two broken legs, huh dwarf?"

Instead of answering, Leonard stepped back and two the side and mentioned for someone Kurt couldn't see.

"I think you remember Frank from last night?" Leonard asked Kurt who suddenly looked a lot smaller and frightened than before.

"Hello." Frank said in his impossibly deep voice, smiled and waved his toilet seat-sized hand at Kurt.

"Uh..." Kurt stammered.

"Can I get the TV now?" Leonard asked again.

"Uh..."

"I'll take that as a yes." Leonard said and tried to get past Kurt, who was still rooted on the spot. Frank, seeing his difficulties ducked under the door frame, softly pushed Kurt against the wall and held him there while Leonard went inside and grabbed both the envelope from the old box and the TV set after unplugging all the cables.

"Penny sends her regards." Leonard stated before stepping out of the apartment, holding the TV with as much dignity as possible. If he didn't get it down soon, it might slip out of his grasp. It wasn't particularly heavy but its size compared to his own body was another matter. He heard the door behind him close and Frank step behind him.

"Let me take it, Doctor Hofstadter."

"Thanks Frank. And what did I tell you about the name?"

"Right. Leonard. I forgot."

"No problem. Lets put this thing into my trunk and then head to the university. Don't worry, when we're done with your experiment, you'll have an A in no time."

"Thank you Leonard. You're a life saver."

"Actually Frank, today you were the life saver."

"Is Penny the young lady you were with last night at the bar?"

"Yeah, it turns out, she's my new neighbor."

"Oh cool. Having a hot neighbor."

"Watch it Frank. Remember, Alice will probably rip out your pubic hairs one at a time when she hears you compliment other women. But don't worry, I won't tell."

"Thanks." Frank said with a scared look in his eyes. Leonard could only laugh at the notion that a guy who was seven feet and two inches tall and weighing almost 400 pounds was afraid of a woman who only reached his chest.

After Penny finished her shower, she dressed again in her short jeans and blue top. Stepping outside, she saw the guys sitting on the couch, watching an old video tape of a short guy giving a speech about physics that she couldn't begin to comprehend.

"What are you watching?" she asked and sat down on the armchair.

"It's a lecture by Stephen Hawking?" Sheldon said and gave a facial expression she realized was supposed to be a smile.

"Who's Stephen Hawking?" Penny asked.

"Who's Stephen Hawking?" and exasperated Sheldon repeated. "Only the most intelligent man on the planet. The radiation that black holes emit is named after him. Perhaps my only equal on this planet." The others looked at Sheldon as if he had lost his mind to compare himself to Hawking.

"Why are you watching an old tape of him?"

"He's almost completely paralyzed and can't talk anymore without a speech generating device that he controls only with his eyes."

"Oh that wheelchair guy from The Simpsons." Penny stated.

"If you like wheelchairs, I have one at home. Care for a ride." Howard asked with raised eyebrows.

"Not in a million years."

"So, there's a time frame."

"I think I better head home. I still have boxes to unpack." Penny said and got up. After opening the door, she turned around. "Thanks for letting me use the shower."

"What did you do with the towel?" Sheldon asked.

"I threw it in the laundry basket."

"Without hanging it up first?" Sheldon burst out in panic and ran to the bathroom.

Penny just shook her head and went into her own apartment. She wondered if Leonard had managed to get her TV back. She really needed to exchange phone numbers with him. After unpacking several more boxes, she found some with her sleeping garments and took out some of her more skimpy pieces. If Leonard was successful or not, he deserved a reward. She just hoped that he wouldn't see her as some kind of slut who gave out sex for little favors left and right.

"Yes Sheldon, I'm fine." Leonard spoke into his phone to a worried Sheldon. It was kind of his own fault for not telling him that he was helping Frank with the setup of his experiment. "No, I had to go work for a while, I had to set up an experiment for another lecture I'm giving in a few days... What?... No, you don't have to co-lecture, only me... Yes, I know... Fine... I'll be home soon... No, I can't be more specific... No, I'll go to Penny's before coming home, she asked for my help with something... Yeah, bye."

Leonard sighed and hung up. It was moments like these that drove him into bars to get hammered on beer. But today that wasn't an option, he still had to drive and Penny's TV in the trunk. He specifically didn't tell Sheldon when he was going to be home because of Penny's TV in the trunk. She promised him a reward for returning it to her and he was eager to see what she had in mind.

He knew what he hoped for. But he had to admit that it was kind of a long shot to believe that she would offer a repeat of last night. As much as he wanted it, he'd never force the issue.

But what if she did offer a repeat of last night. Would that mean that she had deeper feelings for him that mirrored his own for her? Or would it be an intimate way of just saying thank you. If so, did she do that with other men who did her favors? He really didn't just want to be a notch in her bedpost.

He was pretty sure that Penny wasn't cheater. But they weren't a couple, not even close. And as much as he liked her to be his girlfriend, he was pretty sure that he was far down on her scale of preferred boyfriends. He wasn't tall or muscular, the only thing speaking for him was his intelligence. But intelligence didn't help to lift up girls to press them against the wall. Damn, he had to stop this train of thought when driving.

It was a few minutes after 9 pm when Penny heard the knock on her door. She put down the latest box she was unpacking and headed for the door. Upon opening, she found herself face to face with a TV on legs. Leonard couldn't see it, but she was smiling wide and inwardly she did somersaults. His reward would be well deserved.

"Look what followed me home." a slightly out of breath Leonard said.

"Oh my god, you got it? Come in, come in." she said and made room for him to enter.

She cleared some space on her side table by the wall and Leonard put the TV down before connecting all the cables. She picked up the remote she had found in her fourth box and clicked the TV on, pleased that it worked like a charm.

"I almost can't believe you really got it. I thought I sent you on a fools errand." Penny said and smiled at him.

"Yeah, you kind of did. But I also got this." Leonard said and took the envelope out of his jacket pocket, handing it to Penny. She opened it and her eyes went wide. In it, in different denominations were the 1.800 Dollars Kurt had still owed her.

"Oh my god, how did you convince him to give you money and TV set?"

"Well, I used my wits and appealed to his dignity." Leonard said and Penny only looked at him with an expression that more or less said 'Yeah, right'. "Fine, I called Frank and had him accompany me. He held Kurt against the wall while I got TV and money."

"Frank? That huge bouncer from the bar?"

"Yeah, why?"

"How did you get him to help you with his? Couldn't that be interpreted as theft?" Penny asked concerned.

"Not really. The stuff was yours to begin with so in the most literal sense, nothing was stolen from Kurt. And I helped Frank with an experiment, that's why I'm only here now."

"Wow, you really are an amazing man, you know that?" Penny said and put her arm around his shoulders and the other hand on his other arm.

"Don't sweat it. What are neighbors for?" Leonard said and shrugged.

"No, this goes beyond neighbors. You still are way better than any guy I know."

"It's okay."

Leonard was massively aware of the position of her arms and tried to appear as relaxed as possible. But it was hard. Whatever shower gel she used, she smelled amazing, almost alluring and her outfit had become even hotter if that was possible. Then it hit him. She had changed from her short jeans into something that resembled pajama shorts only they were tighter than he thought were comfortable for a good nights sleep. And she had taken off her blue shirt she had worn today and changed into the same upper body outfit she wore the night before with the low cut and amazing cleavage. He also couldn't help but notice that she wasn't wearing a bra. And the tightness of her shorts made him painfully aware that she had no panties underneath them.

Didn't she know what she did to him, dressing like that? He'd took deep breaths, concentrating on the news that were ran on the still on TV and trying to banish thoughts of her naked body moving on top or below him. He just hoped that the bulge in his pants wasn't as noticeable as he worried it was.

Penny smiled. She knew exactly what was going on in Leonard's head. She kept her arms around him, occasionally squeezing his arm while keeping her upper body connected to his. She purposefully had changed into the same upper body outfit as yesterday and her tight pajama shorts that showed off her curves. She had also omitted panties and bra this time, wanting to waste even less time if the evening led to what she hoped it would.

"Leonard?" she said in a husky tone, breathing out his name the same way she did last night, when he was showing her his oral skills in the shower.

"Yeah?" he croaked, his gaze fixed on the TV which only made Penny smile even more. She was glad and excited to have such an effect on him.

"I promised you a reward, didn't I?" she said and switched off the TV before throwing the remote on the couch.

"Uh, you did, yes."

"Aren't you curious what I have in mind?" she asked and stepped in front of him and molded her back to his body. She started moving her hips and pressed her butt into his groin, the low groan coming from his throat and bulge in his pants evidence of his arousal.

"Yes, I'm very curious." he said, almost relieved that he was able to breath out.

"Then come with me, I'm gonna show you what I have for you." she said and took his hands, placing it on her butt cheeks like she did in the shower before she led him into her bedroom.

Sheldon shut off the TV and got up, putting his glass in the kitchen sink. Leonard wasn't home yet but he said he would be helping Penny with some moving stuff. He had heard him knock on her door half an hour before so he wasn't worried that something had happened to him. Penny probably was driving him crazy with some harebrained story of hers. Suddenly he heard the muffled sound her crying out Leonard's name.

"Typical. Only one day as her neighbor and he already made her yell at him. And he still thinks he has a chance of having coitus with her." Sheldon said and giggled before heading to bed.

A/N: Well, I hoped you liked my version of the pilot. As a short explanation, in the context of this story I see Leonard and Penny as two stars on collision course. Swinging around each other, touching occasionally for a while before the gravitational pull fuses them together.

So, if you liked it, I'll continue like this, incorporating the episodes with the twist of L/P having an ongoing on-off sexual relationship without the others knowing yet (if I can pull that off, of course ^^)

If you didn't like it, I'll stop and do one-shots (or in other words: 4000 word brain farts ^^)

I hope you're not discouraged by the length. I am one of those guys who think that one-thousand-word chapters are an affront to a reader (that is NOT a jab at those of you who write chapters like this, it's just because it goes against my own principles to give readers more material. I apologize in advance to anyone who feels offended)

Okay, the footnote ends here ;)

Review please :)