Thank you for reading this story, and I would like to apologize for any errors I have made in the trailer and for the long time it took for me to update. I have had a bit of trouble with my computer, but it has finally worked out.

would also like to say that I do not own the Big Bang Theory, Rear Window, Disturbia (which gave me the inspiration for this story, but does not follow it's plot) and or anything else that belongs to someone else.

Penny had always loved summer. There was an electric glow in the air that seemed to turn her into an insomniac during those too few couple of months. She could stay awake days at a time and only have a few hours of sleep.

She was sitting on her windowsill, staring into the moon when she first heard it. A small humming noise. If it hadn't been the dead of night and every living thing was quiet, Penny would never have heard it. But she did, and she ignored it, until it became drilled into her brain, unable to let her enjoy the energy of the peaceful summer night. Finally, after an hour of this, she got up, and went outside of her apartment.

Penny followed the humming until it got louder, and it lead her right to her neighbors' apartment. Sighing in frustration, she went back inside and got the key Leonard had given her in case of an emergency. Something inside that apartment was annoying her, and she considered that an emergency.

She tiptoed in, and stopped in disbelief.

In the main room of the apartment, someone had set up multiple TV screens, all showing different situations of the apartment building. Most of the screens were outside doors and in the staircases. Her eyes widened and she let out a disbelieving gasp of indignation. She would have gone on staring had she not heard a girlish scream behind her.

"Intruder!" And the next thing she knew, something hard hit the back of her head and she fell to the floor.

"Sheldon stop! It's Penny!" Looking up, Penny saw Leonard grabbing on to a large sword Sheldon held in his hands, which looked, from Penny's position, very sharp.

"I come in peace! Don't attack!" Penny squealed, as Leonard finally managed to take the sword from Sheldon.

"Are you okay?" He asked, throwing the sword on the couch. Penny could now see that it was plastic, and felt completely stupid and humiliated. She was going to give Sheldon heck for this.

"No! I just got attacked by a mad man, the same mad man who is SPYING ON THE ENTIRE BUILDING!" She yelled, pointing to the TV's.

"Oh, that." Leonard sighed. "Yeah, I tried to talk him out of it."

"I don't care what you say. It's completely useful. I will be able to detect if any burglars or mass murderers are breaking into the building." Sheldon said, chin in the air.

"Sheldon, when has one crime been committed in this building?"

At this, Sheldon picked up a pile of papers that lay on the coffee table and began flipping through them. "Number One: Karen O'Malley, 1993, fell and broke her leg on a crack in the stairs. Number 2: Rachel Fellen, 1999, found her workout videos and asparagus missing from her apartment. Number 3:-"

"SHELDON!" Penny shouted. "Who cares?"

"I do. I think it's for my personal well-being and safety if I have these cameras."

"Did you even clear this with the head of the apartment building?"

"If I want to protect myself, then I can do it without permission."

"Plus the fact that he wouldn't give you permission." Leonard cut in.

"That's because the Head is simply ignorant and is ignoring all the damages that are going on in this building."

Penny stared at him for a few seconds, then threw her hands up in the air. "Okay, you know what, do what you want, I don't even care." The mature thing to do was to let it go. Also, Sheldon was eyeing his sword again and even if it was plastic, it looked sort of dangerous.

As Sheldon grabbed his sword and retreated to his room, Penny flopped down on the couch. Leonard approached her, standing awkwardly as he always did, just a few feet away from her.

"Just to let you know," he said, "Wolowitz is watching every time you come in the building."

"Thanks Leonard." Penny cringed and sighed. She looked over at the TV screens once more. "I can't believe you put up with this."

"Well, it's either that or Sheldon's threatening to take away my right to read his Flash comics. And he'll try to blow up my brain again." Leonard sat next to her on the couch, a few inches away. Penny had started to notice his awkwardness to get close to her just recently in the past weeks. She smiled secretly to herself and scooted just an inch closer just to freak him out. Which of course it did.

"It – it is kind of fun, though." Leonard stammered out. "Not to watch you." He amended hastily when he saw Penny's face. "I mean, to watch other people. You'd never guess it, but this place has some weirdos."

"Oh, I could guess." Penny muttered, staring in the direction of Sheldon's bedroom. "Well, thanks for stopping Sheldon from killing me with his Lord of the Rings sword."

"Oh, that wasn't Lord of the Rings, that was Harry Potter's sword. The one he slayed the basilisk with in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets-" Leonard trailed off as Penny gave him an incredulous look, the one she always did when he started talking too much and about stuff she didn't understand.

"'Night Leonard." Penny went back to her apartment, and then turned the knob. And again. And again. Sighing, she walked back into Leonard's apartment. "Can I spend the night here? I locked myself out." She knew she should have given Leonard a key to her apartment, but she was afraid that, no matter what Leonard said, Sheldon would find it and come into her apartment again. That last visit had given her nightmares for a week.

"Sure." Leonard gathered some pillows and blankets, and Penny settled down on the couch. She hadn't slept for two straight nights, and she it was finally beginning to catch up with her. Within a few moments she was asleep.


Penny woke up at 3 in the morning, already energized. She could never sleep long in the summer. Standing up, she stretched and decided to find something to occupy her time with. Maybe she could try reading one of Sheldon's comic books. With a smile on her face, she got up to see if she could find any. Suddenly, a flicker of movement on one of Sheldon's TV screens caught her attention.

It was nothing, really, just a man coming out of an apartment. He was tripping over his own two feet, and Penny guessed that he was drunk. He just stood there for a few moments, wavering, until a women came out behind him.

Penny critically studied the woman. It was a bad habit, she knew, but she liked to know what other women lived in the building looked like. She hated to admit it, but she always had an image of a heart stopping, yet geeky, woman coming and taking Penny's place in the group, making her an outcast. Penny had gotten used to being Leonard and Sheldon's friend, and she kind of felt special being the only hot girl that hung around with them. It always meant they treated her better than most of the men that she had met before.

As far as she could see, though, Penny didn't have anything to worry about. This woman wasn't the boys' type, being beautiful, but not the geeky type at all. Her tall, thin body curved in all the right places, showing off pale dove skin that collided with her dark, rich hair, reminding Penny of a cold winter's night. But what Penny saw next was even more stunning than her beauty.

She wrapped her arms around the man's shoulders, and whispered something in his ear. He laughed loudly, drunkenly, but suddenly he stopped and turned to face her, fear on his face.

In the woman's hand, Penny saw a long, thin, knife, which had ripped out part of the man's coat. The woman wasn't smiling seductively anymore, but with an eager grin on her face. She walked towards the man, who began to stumble backwards in his effort to get away from her, but finally landed on his back. He started to scoot backwards with amazing speed and got to his feet. He began to run for the stairs. Just as he had his foot on the first step, the woman, who had been attempting to force him back into her apartment, lunged forward and stabbed him in the back. The man twitched for a second, then fell, arms splayed out, eyes open, but frozen, not blinking. Never to blink again.

Then, the woman looked around her, and then up into the camera, and she knew. Penny screamed as she saw the woman's dark eyes staring at her, boring into her, killing her; not noticing that Leonard was by her side until she felt his hand touch her, asking what was wrong. She had no response accept to bury her head in his shoulder, awkwardness be dammed, and cry. And as she cried and screamed into his shoulder, she didn't see the woman, still staring at the camera, dragging the body back into her apartment.