I appreciate the reviews so far, thank you. Here's part two~

Walking up the many stairs, Cylestia knocked on the door of 4A, many boxes of pizza in her arms. The door opened for her and soon the boxes were lifted from her grasp, Leonard bringing them to the coffee table. "Thank you, darling." Cylestia said gratefully, shutting the door.

"Well hello there." Howard said, standing up from the couch, he held his hand out, turning her hand over so he could place a light kiss on it. "Howard Wolowitz, engineer. I'm currently working on a few things that are currently up in space for the International Space Station." He looked her up and down, Cylestia having changed into a black skirt and dark blue dress shirt with short sleeves.

Cylestia giggled, pulling her hand away. "As you already know, this is Doctor Cylestia Rose." Sheldon introduced for her, earning a glance from her and everyone in the group, save for Howard.

"And what is it that you do, when someone of your beauty should be touring the world as a model?" Howard said in a flirty tone.

"I'm the head psychologist at the new mental asylum opening up." She smiled, amused at how much effort this man was putting into hitting on her.

The Indian man beside Howard leaned over to him, whispering in his ear. "Grayson Asylum, right?" Howard asked and she nodded. "This is Rajesh Koothrappali, Raj for short."

"Don't be too offended that he doesn't talk to you, he has a problem talking to women." Leonard said, handing out plates.

"Ah, I see individuals like you quite a lot." Cylestia said with a sudden spark of excitement. "Shame you can't talk to me at least; I could fix you right up. Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Raj."

Again, the man leaned over to whisper in Howard's ear. He rolled his eyes, looking at her. "He says he likes your accent. I'm betting because that means he isn't the only one in this room who's from another country."

"I'm flattered." She smiled again, Raj smiling widely at her. Howard sighed, sitting down on the end of the couch as Raj sat on the floor, leaving an empty seat between Howard and Sheldon.

Sheldon opened the box that was specified to not be pepperoni or cheese, smiling as he looked at the pizza within. "Pleased?" Cylestia asked, sitting beside him on the couch.

"Yes!" He grinned. "Exactly what I specified. Well done, Doctor Rose. I wouldn't mind you joining us every Thursday for pizza now."

"Thank you for your praise, Doctor Cooper." She smiled, taking the box with cheese and opening the lid. Sheldon's smile widened at the sound of her calling him 'doctor'. It seemed to grow even wider, as well as everyone's eyebrows rising upwards as she pulled a small bottle of hand sanitizer from her pocket, squirting some into her hand and rubbing it on before touching her food. Sheldon looked thoroughly impressed.

As the group dug in, discussion started between the four men, save for Raj while he communicated through Howard. Cylestia made as little input as possible, feeling it wasn't her place to interrupt. She had already somehow ended up eating dinner with them, she didn't want to be intruding too much.

"Hopefully after this meal I can get back to working on the equation I so desperately would have finished had someone not be completely late without dinner." Sheldon finished off whatever current topic was being discussed.

"I told you, I was helping Cylestia move in." Leonard defended.

"Oh, so you moved in?" Howard asked and Cylestia nodded.

"Just upstairs, 5B." She muttered, finishing off her food and placing the plate on the table.

"So what are you going to be doing until the asylum opens up?" Leonard asked.

"Well obviously in order to open, we need patients." She explained, happy to get into discussion of her work. Most people would think what she did was foolish, but it was absolutely fascinating to her. "We already have everything up and working, a few patients admitted already. Seeing as we haven't opened up to the public yet and very few staff members are more than capable of handling our four or so patients, the higher authority, including myself, have been granted a small break. I've spent most of it settling in."

"Do you not know anyone in LA?" Leonard asked and she shook her head. "Well hey, look at this, we're your first friends."

Sheldon looked up, setting his empty plate on the table as well. "Now Leonard, we would have to boot out another member of our current group in order to make room for Cylestia."

"Nonsense." Cylestia and Leonard said at the same time, Cylestia saying it with a smile while Leonard said it with a frown.

"If my addition to your group of friends is intruding, Doctor Cooper, then I won't participate." She said genuinely, no sign of offense, hurt or hate in her voice. Everyone was silent and her hazel eyes bore into Sheldon's blue ones again, the two having a sort of staring contest.

Suddenly he broke out into a smile. "Of course I would like you to join us, Doctor Rose. Your company so far has proved to be quite pleasing."

She smiled as well. "I am glad you think so. I'm quite surprised I have friends already, I've only met you all less than twenty-four hours ago and you're already so welcoming."

"Who could refuse such a lovely lady?" Howard grinned, the boys rolling their eyes.

"Now, now, don't scare her off!" Sheldon defended. "She is not here for you to just hit on, Wolowitz."

Another silence seemed to loom over them, everyone except Cylestia surprised that he defended her.

It was broken when the door opened, a blonde woman walking through the door. "Woo! Hey guys! Ooh, is there still pizza?"

Relief washed over the entire group and Leonard's face lit up. Sheldon scowled. "Of course, Penny comes and steals all our food, like always. I vote her out."

"Shush." Leonard warned. "Penny, help yourself."

"Gladly." She smiled and noticed Cylestia. "Hi there."

"Hello." She smiled, extending her hand out towards Penny. "I'm Cylestia, I moved to the apartment just above yours, I believe."

"Oh, cool!" Penny grinned, shaking her hand with unnecessary enthusiasm. "I'm Penny!"

"Pleasure to meet you." Cylestia smiled, the happy mood radiating off the woman rubbing onto her. Penny sat down on the arm of the chair Leonard was sitting on, biting down on her fill of pizza.

"What brings you to LA?" She asked while chewing.

"She's a psychologist at the new asylum opening up." Howard answered for her.

"Cool!" Penny grinned. "Have you known these guys a long time? They haven't mentioned you."

"Oh, no." Cylestia shook her head. "As far as knowing anyone in this room, I've really only read up on Doctor Cooper here. Everyone else, I just met today."

"And you're already eating with us?" Penny exclaimed. "Wow! Sheldon must really like you to approve of you already!"

A slight blush crept onto Cylestia's cheeks and she raised a brow, looking at Sheldon. He glared at Penny and stood up, clearing the table of the dirty plates. "May I offer you a beverage, Doctor Rose, seeing as it is the least I can do personally as a 'welcome to the apartment and thanks for running to get our dinner, seeing as you are our new friend addition' act of kindness."

"How charming, Sheldon." She smiled, standing up. "Do you have cocoa? Made with milk?"

He grinned. "Two cocoas coming right up."

Penny looked absolutely shocked and turned to the others in the group, who looked just as surprised as her.