What if the Leonard/Penny and Howard/Bernadette double date in 3.5 didn't go as well?
A different slant on what happens in season 3 after we first meet Bernadette. Everything belongs to Chuck Lorre and friends.
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One year later, the Caltech Athenaeum Club. Leonard is nervously standing with Best Man Sheldon waiting for Mike Rostenkowski to walk his daughter down the aisle. Maid of Honour Amy was fussing over bride to be Bernadette, getting everything just right with her wedding dress.
Then suddenly Leonard heard a familiar voice
"Hello Leonard, congratulations."
"Penny, is that really you?"
"It's really me, when Sheldon told me about the wedding I decided it would be a good time to come and visit Pasadena again. Before we get any further may I introduce my boyfriend, Dr. James Thomas."
"Did you say Doctor?"
"Wonderful to meet you Dr. Hofstadter, I had heard of you before I met Penny. I'm a physicist as well, I teach at Penny's community college in Nebraska."
"After knowing you, Sheldon and the others so well I have got used to these physicists."
"I have so much to talk to you about."
"Tell me after the wedding. Good luck to you and Bernie..."
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That's how it ends, not a Shenny story. There aren't many Leonard and Bernadette stories out there so I thought that I would write one.