Playing With Shadows

by: muaaimoi

Making out with Sheldon against her car makes Penny tingle in unexpected ways. She's always liked making out in public, but something about knowing that they're putting on a show for whoever watches the cameras adds an extra dimension to the entire experience. An experience which is totally going in her top five make out sessions of her life.

Sheldon's lips taste like sweet surrender. He'd given in to Penny's argument about needing an alibi. She was going to be the last person who saw Roger Manning. Sheldon would need an alibi too, he'd walked to the cheese cake factory at night. People had driven by, and he had a pretty distinct wardrobe. For once logic is on her side and she gets to pin Sheldon against her car door and kiss him all she wants. Penny wants a lot. Especially once Sheldon starts kissing back. All in all, it's a great end to a shitty day. She wonders how long she'll have to wait until she can kill Becky.

After, Sheldon takes to shooting her apprehensive looks, and interrogating her when she gets off her shifts at the cheesecake factory. Penny manages to talk him into one more super hot public make out sessions against her car for authenticity before the cops show up at the cheesecake factory. They take her to the back room in the kitchen and section off the area for quick interrogations of the staff. There's a tall blonde, older looking with a thin mustache that introduces himself as agent Delmer. The other is spanish looking, with thick dark brown hair and calls himself agent Sanchez. They don't waste any time before jumping straight into the hard questions.

"When was the last time you saw Roger Manning?" Sanchez asks without preamble.

Penny scrunches her nose in fake confusion and taps thoughtfully at her bottom lip, working the blonde ditz image for all its worth."Day before yesterday. He offered me overtime. I didn't stay after Jose left though. He kept giving me these looks, totally gross, you know? I called my boyfriend. We had a secret driving date, saw the sunrise. It was so romantic!"

Penny thinks back to the sweet warmth of Sheldon's mouth and there is nothing false in the beaming smile she offers them.

Delmer raises a sardonic eyebrow,"Secret?"

She reaches up to play with her hair and makes herself flush slightly, blushing on demand is a valuable skill."We're keeping it, like, on the low. He's geeky and stuff but I'm not ashamed of him or anything! We're neighbors and I used to date his roommate. It's kinda new, so we want it to be just us for a while before everyone knows and the drama starts."

Sanchez snorts outright."According to mister Molina, you where the last person to see mister Manning. Did you notice anything strange? A car outside, people near the entrance?"

Penny twirls a strand of blonde hair, wishing she'd thought to bring chewing gum to pop."Nope. But I was kinda distracted. Thinking about making out does that to a girl, you know?"

She does her best air head giggle for effect. She hears Sanchez mumble ditz to himself as she leaves and bites back a victorious smile. She loves it when people only see what they want to see. It works out pretty well for her. She sneaks outside the second she can take her break.

The thing about the back storage area of the kitchen is that the vent lets you hear everything said inside pretty clearly if you're willing to go outside and wait by the alley. It's the primary staff smoking spot for that very reason, ever since Becky figured it out and her gossip loving soul spread the word. Maybe Penny wouldn't kill her for flapping her gums at Manning about her after all. Then again, Becky could be really annoying. Penny leaned against the wall, she could hear them pretty clearly if she strained her ears. They would see about Becky, she supposed.

"I just don't know how they figured it out." One of the agents was saying, the taller one, Delmer, she thought, his voice sounded deeper.

"He was under witness protection, damn it, those identities are better protected than the fucking Pentagon!" Sanchez seemed upset.

"Still, his cars in the parking lot, there's no evidence of fowl play. I don't doubt one of those little bastards just put a gun to his head and walked him out to his grave." Delmer sighed, it sounded heavy, defeated.

"I never liked that smarmy cabron anyway." Sanchez said."He was too squirly, betcha he would of bailed on us the second he could. Maybe he just left the country. He seemed like a coward anyway."

"He was a long shot regardless. We're just going to have to buckle down and figure out how else we're going to put those bastards away."

"Keeps us employed." Sanchez agreed." Let me buy you a drink, there's no sense in interrogating the rest of the staff. And if we get a good sleep tonight that means we can get an early start tomorrow."

Penny felt her jaw go slack in shock. She couldn't believe it had been that easy. She'd just lucked out so hard. It felt like winning the lottery. She should totally celebrate with Sheldon. Maybe talk him into more making out, but inside the car instead, so that maybe Penny could undo his pants for once and just...

"Oh hey, Penny!" Becky said, distracting her from her vivid day dream. Becky's face was flushed, she'd clearly rushed out the second she could. No doubt desperate to hear every word Penny just had." I didn't know you smoked! Cigarette?"

Penny grabbed one. She hadn't really bothered with cigarettes after high school, but she was in a celebratory mood. She'd just gotten away with murder today, after all. And while she didn't know it, Becky had gotten to keep her life, so she probably should be celebrating too.

Her life only seemed to get better. They had new carpets in what seemed like not time at all, and they'd already begun to repair the elevator. It was fixed just in time for operation 'Get Sheldon to Date Me for Real'. She wasn't interested in anyone else anymore, and without the cops hanging over their heads she hadn't managed to talk him into more than going on walks together to support their lie. If she didn't get some action soon the next person she killed would be out of sheer sexual frustration!

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this was a possible chapter five in playing with shadows but it didn't pan out. Figured I could post it here anyway and let you guys see.