Chapter 11

Now that the electricians have finally left my house (YAY) I can write without being every 5 minutes. I'm hoping to update at least twice a week on a Wednesday and Saturday. That way I have 3 days to write a new chapter and edit before I upload, unless the mood takes me and I decide to upload more than twice in that week. Once again thank you for these awesome reviews and the continued support. I love you all so much. Enjoy

His brain refused to process the words that had just left Penny's lips. No way was Penny dumping him again, it just couldn't happen. "Wait your leaving me again? Is this because of what's been happening with Sheldon?" the questions flew from his lips, he had a million and one filling his head and of course he had to ask about Sheldon. "I thought we were getting on great. I thought this time we would be together forever… but you're just leaving again." He could feel the tears filling his eyes, but he didn't care. He was trying to employ a tactic he knew would break Penny and guilt her back into a relationship with him.

Penny had prepared herself for the tears and guilt, so that when they came she could look at him and see just that; a man trying to manipulate her to stay with him. She gave a heavy sigh. "I can't be with you Leonard; it's suffocating me every time I have to see you." He actually looked like he would drop to his knees and beg, plead and cry for her to stay with him.

"But I love you Penny, you love me. Were supposed to be together." Penny could feel herself getting angry. For once, she wished he was just another dumb gym guy and would accept what she had said and leave, just like all the other guys. She had tried the softly, softly approach and it had gotten her no where. He truly was one of the most delusional men she had ever had the displeasure of dating. She went in for the kill and told him exactly how she had been feeling for weeks… skipping over Sheldon's unintentional involvement in any of it. "Ugh. Leonard you don't love me, you love the idea of me; I could be any girl just as long as I was hot, you love the sex and what I give you. I don't love you Leonard, when you first asked me out again, I thought maybe I could, but I realized weeks ago that I don't want anything more, than to be your friend… and after how you've acted this week, I don't even think I want that anymore." She watched as the fake tears stopped and something in Leonard snapped, the real Leonard rearing his head, one she very rarely saw.

"So you've felt this way for weeks and you just kept stringing me along?" he shouted. Penny tried to respond, but he just kept getting louder and louder, until she was sure the whole building would be able to hear him. "You just kept sleeping with me, hoping that I wouldn't notice that you were using me?! You know, when your dad was here and telling me about those guys from when you were a kid, I should have listened. You really are a whore aren't you?" he smiled at her sharply. She knew he was just saying these things because he was hurt, but it still didn't mean she liked what she was hearing. Her hands tingled with a burning urge to slap him a few thousand times, but she restrained herself. She did, however shout back at him.

"I was using you?! Leonard, even when we weren't seeing each other and you were dating other girls, you didn't want me to be with anyone else. You wanted to box me up, like one of your collectables, put me up on a shelf and take me down to play with when you got bored of your new toy, or got dumped. Now get out of my apartment." She said as she walked to the door and held it open for him to leave.

"I'm not leaving until you give me a good reason for breaking up with me." He said, tilting his head up in that way that Penny, oh so hated. "Not loving you is pretty high up on the list of reasons I don't want to be with you… now get out." She explained calmly, still standing by the door. Leonard kept pushing and pushing; this little homunculus was excellent at finding ways to try and hurt her, so she listened as he called her name after name. As one particularly nasty insult was spat at her, she snapped. "I'm in love with someone else!" she shouted, surprised that she had told Leonard that. It was also the first time that she had actually acknowledged that she might love Sheldon, of course she didn't tell Leonard that.

"YOU'VE BEEN CHEATING ON ME?!" screamed Leonard.

"Will you stop yelling so loud! You're gonna scare Sheldon and he'll run away and then God knows what could happen." She replied, through gritted teeth as she tried to keep her voice down. "Oh it all comes back to Sheldon doesn't it? I just found out my girlfriend was cheating on me… Sheldon could be hit by a car right now for all I care." At Leonard's words, Penny was sure her own face had started twitching angrily. She couldn't fight the urge to hit him this time. She marched over to him and brought her right palm down, so hard and fast against his cheek, that his head whipped to the side and his glasses flew from his face, breaking as they hit the floor.

She had to get Leonard out of her apartment now, or she would quickly be deciding which of her friends she would be calling to help her hide his body; surprisingly, Howard was her first thought. She grabbed at the collar of Leonard's jacket and spoke directly into his face. "Don't. You. Ever. Talk about Sheldon like that." Her anger peeked as she grabbed him by his shirts and threw him out her door, with all the strength of the Nebraskan farm girl she once was, leaving a shocked faced Leonard with a purple hand print, blossoming across his cheek bone, outside before slamming her door shut and falling heavily back against it, sighing in relief.

Told ya it might get nasty… in no way is this going to be easy on Sheldon and Penny. Lots of surprises along the way for these two, both good and bad… its going to a slow build up for my favorite couple.