When Leonard shows up with an offer of Thai food, she's a little iffy. Penny wasn't usually one to look a gift horse in the mouth. But Leonard was making her wonder about him. She kind of hoped the other one, Sheldon was hers. He was so tall, and something about him, it just drew her to him. Like a magnet.

Walking into their apartment though, and getting hit by a wave of that smell, Penny finds it hard to care which one of them it is. Not with the way the smell makes her feel like she's found nirvana. Anyone who smells this good is a the man Penny is meant to spend the rest of her life with, however long her wolf will make that to be.

Kurt? Kurt who? Seriously, she should have thought of choosing a boyfriend by smell alone years ago, who knew how much quicker she could have found her mate if she had actively been looking for him. Stupid know nothing pack, they should have told her something about it, like hell she would have bothered with Kurt if she had known something like this was even possible. Just when she thought she couldn't get more disgusted by them, something like this happened and proved her wrong. She was so glad she had gotten away from them.

Penny feels high, or at least, like what she can remember from the feeling, back in eighth grade when she and her friends had tried pot for the first time. She was really glad she'd decided to quit pot on her own when she found out her mother had smoked it while pregnant with her. Werewolves couldn't get high. Drunk was a different story, but it took obscene amounts of paint thinner, all of which had to be disguised as actual alcohol, and none of which you could share with a regular human. She would just feel awful if some poor human died just because Penny was careless with her drinks.

The light feeling in her chest makes her smile, and she drifts over to the middle of the room, barely noticing the board. She does comment on it though. And she's soon happier for it, looking at Sheldon leaning sexily against his white board with a smile.

She would seriously love to score a beautiful mind genius guy.

Leonard interrupts their moment, apparently he has a board too. It's not as impressive as Sheldon's but Penny compliments it all the same, smarts is smarts, either way. It's not like you could expect much from him, anyway, he wasn't as impressive as Sheldon. Sad fact of the matter. Penny hasn't known them all that long, but it's not like she's a total idiot herself. Seriously, why is there a fifty percent chance that he might be hers?

Penny sinks into a corner of the couch. She can see Sheldon freaking out inside, and it doesn't take him long to protest. It's just a bit adorable, the kind of crazy politer company would have called quirky. Penny wasn't terribly polite, at least not when she didn't have to be. Something about having a ravaging beast for an inner animal just made the need for manners rub her the wrong way sometimes.

But this was their first meeting, so Penny tried, patting the seat beside her. So she was pretty bemused when she got a resounding no. The explanation would have made her head hurt, if she hadn't been too busy feeling like she was floating on a cloud. Was the smell actually stronger here? Yes, it was, and if this was indeed Sheldon's spot, then, Penny might not need her nose after all.

They talk some more, and Penny makes up some bullshit story about still loving Kurt. The hunter in her knows to set the prey into a false sense of security. Sheldon in particular seems skittish, so it's best to start early. When the time comes, he won't see it coming. While Penny's aware that it's probably not the best of ideas to hunt her mate, she can't help it. The wolf inside of her feels stronger, more present than she's ever felt it before. She'll forgive herself for being a little irrational.

She wants to be able to smell him in his entirety, double check and all. And if the smell seemed to get impossibly better as it became stronger...Well, Penny only had so much self control.

Sheldon's a walking temptation, the more she looks at him, the more she wants to jump him. He's hers after all, completely and utterly hers, Penny's property. So why shouldn't she? Her want is rapidly becoming a need. It was getting harder to participate in the conversation.

At least Penny knows her acting classes are worth every cent. She doesn't know how else she could be getting through this.

If she doesn't put enough distance between them soon Penny will not be responsible for her actions. Especially considering that she's finding it harder, and harder to care. Her wolf has never demanded something like this. Something Penny knows she can't deny.

Sheldon is going to be her mate, no matter what.

She jumps on their offer for a shower.

Penny can't be held responsible for her actions while surrounded by so much of her mate's scent.

xXx

Their new neighbor is very odd.

Sheldon knows she is, even if he can't quite put his finger on what it is about her that's so strange. He considers that it might be because she's female, and almost ridiculously attractive, but he had grown up peripherally aware of such females, seeing as his sister had a lot of friends that were similarly attractive.

So he's almost eighty percent sure that's not it.

Maybe it's because she's giving Leonard and himself the time of day, but something tells him that isn't it either.

It's something in the way she moves, the way she looks at him... He finds it unsettling. Especially seeing as he's so curious, his last neighbor had been a transvestite, and he had never cared about why that was the case. What could he possibly find so interesting about some Nebraskan waitress who wanted to be an actress?

He's glad when Wolowitz and Koothrapali show up. He really can use the distraction. It's actually rather sad that he actually consents to leaving his apartment just to know more about her. Surely an ex-boyfriend would be a wealth of information. He was rather curious about the person Penny was crazy enough to still be in love with. The encounter goes nothing as expected, at least not from what he'd theorized before he'd seen the large behemoth and realized he was a bully.

Getting pants-ed was definitely not an occasion he'd planned for, otherwise he would have brought an extra set of pants.

He can't help but be angry with his roommate. Foolish Leonard, he thought males were suppose to gain some sort of control over their hormones as they grew older, not become their complete utter slaves. Howard and Raj weren't much better. They actually seem jealous when Penny hugs them at their empty handed return. A dinner wouldn't pay for his pants, but at least she's making some sort of effort.

Meanwhile he'll attempt to figure out why he gets the disturbing sense that she wants to attack him...Perhaps she's some sort of psychopath.

xXx

So I didn't expect to write Sheldon's Pov for this story, he just kind of snuck in there, thank you all who reviewed! You guys are so awesome and gave me so much to think about! So many, many Thanks!