Chapter 10
Penny decided she was ready for dinner so she could not hear her dad and Leonard talk anymore. She walked out of the hallway where she hiding into the kitchen area. "Hey boys, you ready to go...I'm starving...Dad you will love the place we are going. Best steak in Southern California!" Penny tried to play it cool as she talked and signed to the three guys in front of her.
All three frowned at Penny as she was talking fast and acting different. Penny just rolled her eyes, "Oh stop you three and looking at me as I grew an extra head!"
"Actually that would be kinda cool!" Leonard said as Penny and him walked behind Wyatt and Jacob.
Penny squinted her face at Leonard, "Oh shut up you sifi weirdo. You would find it sexy too, wouldn't you?"
Leonard grinned ear to ear and nodded. Penny shook her head and nudged him playfully.
At dinner, Leonard explained to Wyatt more about his job and physics. When he noticed Wyatt, Penny, and Jacob looked lost when he was explaining, he was looking around to show them an example. "Okay. Um.. Hey, do you want to see something cool?" Leonard asked.
Penny nods as she signs to her son. Wyatt shrugs his shoulders, "Why not."
"I can make this olive go into this glass without touching it." Leonard tells the small audience in front of him. Leonard feels more confident when it comes to science and sits up a little straighter
Penny and Wyatt ask as Jacob signs "How?" They all look at him wondering what he is going to do next. Penny's eyes beam seeing Leonard in his comfort zone, without her dad asking him about if he knows how to fish or play any sports.
Leonard smiles with pride, "Physics!" He tells them and places a glass over the olive and spins it until the olive and spins it until the olive gets caught up on the sides.
Penny eyes widen with surprise as does her sons. Wyatt nods in approval and impressed with the young man in front of him. Then Penny remembers learning something about this in school but did not pay much attention so she hopes she impresses Leonard to knowing something to do with science. "Wow, that is so cool. It's centrifugal force!"
Leonard watched the olive and glanced over to Penny hoping he would not get too distracted, "Actually close, it's centripetal force, which is an inward force generated by the glass acting on the olive."The olive drops since he did get distracted by Penny's amusement. But uses his manners anyways. "Excuse me." Leonard disappears under the table to retrieve the olive and continues to explain. "Now, if you were riding on the olive, you'd be in a non-inertial reference frame..." Leonard went to come up and hit his head on the table.
"You alright there son?" Wyatt asked as they all heard a hard thumb on medal.
"Um, yeah, I think I'm alright... Did anyone of you spill ketchup?" Leonard asked as he saw a few red spots on the restaurant floor.
Penny and Wyatt looked at each other feeling concerned and Penny knowing Jacob did not spill any. "No." They both told Leonard.
Leonard suddenly feeling light headed and pain and realizing that was his blood on the floor, he felt a little panicked. "Then I'm not okay!" He said to Penny and Wyatt a little loudly.
After being dropped off at the emergency room, Leonard held the napkin to his concussion as Penny filled out the paper work for him. Wyatt ended up taking Jacob home and staying with him. But Penny had to call Rosie to come pick her and Leonard up later since Wyatt drove Leonard's car back to Penny's apartment. Penny turned in thr paperwork and then sat back down next to Leonard. She turned to him seeing his eyes start to close shut. She suddenly felt panicked, "Hey no, no, no! You stay awake mister! I don't care what type of concussion you have you are staying awake! Even if that means I have to make out with you in front of everybody here in the waiting room."
Leonard turned his head to her, chuckling. "Now that might keep me awake...Hey I have a question for you?"
"Yeah sure." Penny told him giving him a questionable look but still feeling worried that he was still bleeding, plus throwing up on the way here.
Leonard gave her a weak smile, "This might be the concussion making not think right but will you go out with me some time? Because I want to take you on a date and when I take a girl on a date, she knows she has been dated. I mean D.A.T.E.D! Hofstadter knows how to take a girl on a date... Yeah okay I think I have concussion..." Leonard took the napkin off his head and looked at it. Suddenly seeing the blood making him even sicker and weaker in the stomach. "Bad Idea..."
As he about feel out of his chair and he almost fainted, Penny rushed out of hers to catch Leonard. She pushed him back and held him by his shoulders so he wouldn't have a chance to fall. She stood there feeling panicked and telling the receptionist to hurry up to get Leonard to a exam room soon.
Leonard opened his eyes and smiled, "Hey pretty lady. Well are you going to answer my question?" Then gave Penny a side grin with a wink.
Penny puckered in her lips with an eyeroll. "How about this Casanova? How about a doctor checks you out first, then we will see about you asking me on a first date. Does that sound good enough for you?" She couldn't help wondering if that would ever be a good thing or not. Plus him hitting his head hard and him becoming injured just wanted Penny to take care of him first, then maybe go on a date and talk how she feels.
Only Leonard was give her was two thumbs up and a "You got it!"
Leonard was taken back, but he wanted Penny to come back with him. Somehow she couldn't say no. They gave him four sticthes and some Tylenol. He was able to go home after an hour just to make sure he was okay since he did hit his head hard and cut it open a little from the brace from under the table. But when he arrived home the doctor wanted someone keep an eye on him through the night and wake him up every hour on the hour. That is when Penny decided to take Leonard home with her. She rather have her wake him up to check on him than Sheldon.
Once they arrived back at her apartment and Rosie kept giving her a hard time, Penny just wanted to go to bed. Leonard was starting to feel himself again. "Penny I know you insist you watching over me through the night, but I insist I take the couch and not your bed." Leonard couldn't help feel guilty still after having an agrument with Penny that he could just go home. But there was no winning as Penny kept telling him no. Leonard felt a little better once Penny agreed he could take the couch, since he dad had the air mattress in Jacob's room. Wyatt did not like the idea at first but he knee his daughter was too stubborn to listen so he kept his mouth shut. But made sure he embarrassed her telling Penny and Leonard there would no sex allowed while he was staying there. Penny turned red as did Leonard, but only making Penny hide in room for the next hour.