A/N - This song came on while I washed my hair and I thought, hey I haven't looked at that document in a while! So I wrote this this afternoon :) Lyrics are in my profile as before. Happy Sunday!
"Leonard, I could buy two DVD's for the price of that Blu-Ray. And I have seen neither of these films. That film you have seen like a hundred times!" Penny groaned, tightly clutching two DVDs with almost offensively overly pink cases.
"I haven't seen it a hundred times, for your information. On Blu-Ray I haven't even since it once, and it has a deleted scene and loads of extra features."
"Well I'm sure those extra features are gonna be on YouTube at some point, or you can borrow someone else's copy."
"But the quality won't be the same. And they might not. And I want to have my own copy; these are special edition." Leonard argued. "Anyway you may not have seen those two movies, but spoiler alert they're going to end the exact same as every single other movie you own: they were meant to be together the whole time! That will come after a whirlwind romance, some argument or misunderstanding, and then they will seek each other out and bam, happy ending."
"Will you cut it with the whole 'love was there all along' crap?" Penny snapped. "They are all different. They just happen to have similar plots. And I bet yours are all the same too. There's a bad guy, and a good guy, stuff happens, citizens are in danger, then the good guy saves the world. Sorry, did you want a spoiler alert there too?"
Furrowing his brow, Leonard put his Blu-Ray into the trolley pointedly. "It still has extra features that aren't on the DVD."
Raising a challenging brow, Penny placed both her DVD's into the trolley on top of his. "This also has extra features. And Jennifer Aniston."
"We're not buying all three."
"There's a solution for that: take yours out."
"Why should I take mine out?"
"Because mine are brand new releases. Yours is just some re-mastered crap. And you're gonna make me watch that crap with you."
"And I'm going to have to watch the same movie I've seen twelve times twice more."
"It's a great movie."
"It's got five stars."
Folding her arms, Penny jutted her jaw out. She'd always known she was stubborn, but she had forgotten that Leonard could be too. Knowing that neither of them were going to back down, she glared at him and then placed her hands on the trolley handle and began pushing it, heading toward the home ware section. Leonard sighed and followed after her, knowing this was their way of surrendering without actually surrendering.
As they passed a little boy in a Spiderman t-shirt clutching a Superheroes coloring book and his sister following along with a Princess coloring book on their way to the towel aisle, Penny allowed her mind to wander slightly. She knew exactly why Leonard would watch these movies so many times, and in so many different versions. She knew why he was so attached to these characters and stories. They had been his hope as a child and teen that the good guys always won, no matter how horrible and evil the bad guys were. Of course, there was the fact that he loved the whole Science Fiction and Alternate Universe idea and a whole bunch of other things she never understood, but that ideology was almost like a form of safety to him. It was Amy who had once brought this up, and the thought had stuck to her. She didn't enjoy watching the movies and she didn't understand them, but she watched them anyway for him. Heck, she'd even gone to see some of the new releases without him both times he'd been away on expeditions. The first time they weren't even dating. She didn't know back then if it was solely for him or out of habit of needing to fit in.
Likewise, following behind his girlfriend, while he wasn't always the smartest when it came to women, Leonard was smart enough to understand Penny's love for romantic comedies - and not just the ones with Jennifer Aniston. They had happy endings, exactly like the fairytales she would have been told as a child. And despite all her insecurities and commitment issues, and all of the times the guys described her as masculine (or at least, more masculine than they were themselves), Leonard knew a part of Penny was still that little girl who wanted her fairytale. And between the two of them, they did have a sort of romantic comedy-esque aspect to their relationship. They dated, they were apart after a sort of misunderstanding and being at different places, and now they were (albeit slowly) discovering that love was there all along. It was just a more... nerdy, complicated, scientist-and-actress-collide version.
Patting his pocket, Leonard wondered how much longer he was going to keep having to hide that ring in his wallet for. She'd already proposed to him once, but she was drunk, and he definitely wasn't going to take that as her sign of deciding that she was ready. It wasn't fair to her, and he was glad they'd moved on from it to a place they were comfortable again.
"Do you want these light blue or dark blue towels?" Penny asked, breaking him away from his thoughts.
"Huh? Oh, I don't mind."
"I'm getting lilac, so..." Penny pouted as she held one of the lilac towels against each of the blue ones. "They go better with light blue. You good with that?"
"Uh-huh, sure." Leonard smiled. It was kind of adorable when she did these random things, such as color co-ordinate things like bathroom towels.
"Aww, look at these!" Penny exclaimed, dropping the towel sets into the trolley and taking a few steps forward the the shelves designated for children's bath items. She held up a Green Lantern face cloth. "You should totally get one! They're only a dollar! And it's like a little mitten, look!" She put her hand inside and then wiggled it.
Leonard chuckled at her antics. "That's quite convenient I guess."
Apparently she was more serious about these face cloths than he had thought, because she leaned down with a concentrated look on her face. "I wonder if they have a Sleeping Beauty one." A few seconds later, after ruining the neatly piled face cloths into a mountain of Penny-disapproved ones, she stood back up holding a pink one. "Aha! They had Cinderella but... since Bernadette claimed her I've kinda become attached to Sleeping Beauty." Tossing them into the trolley, she continued on as if she hadn't just gotten excited over children's face cloths. "Did we need some new candles for my bedroom?"
