Penny gently touched Sheldon's cheek, her fingers like fire against the ivory surface. A flush fluttered along his face, and his eyes lowered, dark with desire. Eyelashes black as soot framed the beautiful blue depths of those magnificent eyes.
Penny smiled.
"Oh my god." Penny whispered. Her daydream had emerged as soon as she laid eyes on Sheldon. Sheldon Cooper, her nerdy, anal neighbour was..well..
He was gorgeous.
There was menacing expression on his face, to put it lightly. His black look of rage was directed at the scrawny smaller man stood next to him, grinning aimlessly and clutching a carrier bag full of...something. She really didn't care. The expression on Sheldon's face had completely changed his whole image. There was an aura of danger hanging round the tall man. Usually, Penny wouldn't notice such a thing, but because of the way Sheldon was dressed..well, it just completely fuckered up her perception of him.
He was dressed in a dark tuxedo, and a matching dark grey shirt. His face was completely white, impossibly so, but his whole eye area was shadowed as he stood against the doorway. And he had vampire teeth in.
Damn, Sheldon Cooper was hot!
Penny actually giggled out loud at the absurdity of that statement. Sheldon Cooper was not the kind of person described as hot. Annoying, sure. Murder-provoking, definitely. But hot? No.
"Hey guys!" She chirped. She had been ogling them from the corner, and after snapping herself out of it, grabbed a tray full of drinks and clattered over to meet them at the door.
Leonard, Howard and Raj's mouths all simultaneously fell open. Sheldon barely spared her a second glance, shifting uncomfortably.
"You make a cute werewolf Leonard!" she forced herself to say, offering them drinks.
"It's too hot in here Penny. And there are too many people. Leonard, why did you have to make me wear this suit? The colour black has been proven to absorb 60% more heat then white. White would have been much more practical in this environment."
"Nice to see you too, Sheldon." Penny smiled through gritted teeth.
She offered the tray of drinks.
"Do these contain alcohol?" Sheldon asked, eyeing the drinks suspiciously.
"Yes."
"I don't drink alcohol."
"Oh, loosen up, dude!" Raj called. He had already drunk half of his vodka coke. He poked Sheldon in the ribs. Sheldon stiffened quite considerably.
"Raj, do not poke me. I have no wish for your hands to be in any proximity to me, because as the saying goes.. 'I do not know where they have been'."
With that, he walked slowly over to the corner of her apartment and perched rigidly on the edge of a wooden chair.
"This is going to be a long night..." Howard sighed. "Hello ladies..."
"Penny!"
"Penny!"
"Penny!"
"Sheldon! What?!"
Sheldon scowled.
"No need to be rude, Penny. All I wanted was a re-fill on this Coke."
"Get it yourself!"
"I can't. The vast majority of the drinks in this room contain a large amount of some form of ethanol, or as you know it, alcohol."
"So, there's Diet Coke in the fridge!"
"Penny, Diet Coke contains Aspartame."
"Oh god, I don't even want to know what that is."
"Now Penny, you'd do well to be aware of the risks and the controversy surrounding the artificial sweetener Aspartame. Discovered in 19..."
"Fine, I'll get you a goddamn coke!"
"Thank you. And please hurry up. It is very warm in here."
Penny giggled as she poured the coke into a plastic cup. She knelt down on the floor, her hands shaking, and brought out the bottle of vodka.
"How you doing there, Sheldon?!"
Three cups of "just coke" later, Penny and Sheldon were the main focus of the party. He had grabbed her wrist as the song Blind Faith by Chase and Status began to roar out of the speakers. All her lights were out, but she had decorated her apartment beforehand with shiny rainbow lights, so the colours lit up the room in eerily beautiful colours.
Sheldon was spinning her around the room, his pupils blown up like a cat's. he was shaking like mad but there was a crazy, delirious grin lighting up his face. And he moved so gracefully, swirling her around the floor with ease until adrenaline was rushing through her veins. One of his hands moved to the top of her back, his fingers entangling with the corset lacing of the lacy top she was wearing. She had come as a vampire too, and had worn a corset top with shimmery black half-transparent tights and her new boots. Her eyes were lined with kohl and her straightened hair was mildly back combed.
At 6am, the apartment was mostly empty, except for Penny and Sheldon in a giggling huddle on the floor. Sheldon had his back against the wall, knees drawn up to his chest and smiling aimlessly. Penny was slumped next to him, giggling like mad. Both their cheeks were flushed and Sheldon was still shaking.
"You had makeup onn." Penny slurred, running one finger across Sheldon's prominent jawbone and frowning at the streak of white on her nail.
"Leonard made me." He murmured.
"Leonardddd..." She giggled. "I used to go out with a guy called Leonard..."
"Yes Penny, and you two broke up because he wasn't right for you."
"So who is right for mee..." She whispered, tripping over each word as it rolled clumsily off her tongue.
"Someo'e who l'ves youu and caress about who you tt truly a'e." he slurred, his eyes drifting shut. He slipped down the back of the wall and landed in an awkward heap on the floor, now taking light, even breaths.
"Someone like youuu." She responded, and landed next to him, her head on his chest, and passed out too.
A small smile played across Sheldon's lips.
