The Peanut Reaction

Harry walked in with Penny into the factory for their latest shift, having not told Penny about what he was going to do that day.

After having talked to Missy about his idea on their date, Harry had decided to go along and start his Café. He still didn't have all of the details of what he wanted to do, but after doing some research on gold and asking Sheldon with the math of putting large amounts of gold into the market, that got him about an hour long lecture about money and the price and value of gold, he had started to sell some of his Galleons.

He had sold about 20% of the Galleons he had brought with him, getting him almost $500,000. Which seemed a lot less than he probably would've gotten if he had done it through Gringotts, but he wasn't complaining.

So after leaving Penny to sign in, he went to the managers office to drop in his resignation, this was so he could start planning the Café and do it quickly instead of in his spare time.

Harry thought that his manager knew this was coming, because he just accepted his resignation without any fuss.

So as Harry's last week at the Cheesecake factory, he went out back to work, counting down the day's until he could start working on his Café full time.

Harry watched as Penny told the guys to stop playing 'Tresling'.

Harry played against Sheldon once and won, that was mainly because he had played a lot of Tetris when he got his new phone and new how to play quite well. It helped that he had considerably more upper-body strength than everyone in the group.

He laughed as he saw Leonard and Howard explain what it was, not understanding that they wanted them to stop.

Putting away some glasses he went to go and clock out, his shift ending a lot earlier than normal because he requested that people who were going to work there do more time than he did.

After clocking out, he pulled up a chair to sit with the group, just as Penny left the table, hearing the end of the conversation of a party for Leonard.

Sheldon looked at Harry and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Sitting down and ear food," Harry replied, looking completely innocently at Sheldon.

"Well, why are you doing that?" He asked, not understanding what Harry was doing.

"Because I just got off work and I'm hungry," Harry replied, looking at a menu, knowing that everyone else would have what they normally have.

"But this table is for four people, not five," Sheldon said, pointing to the seats, "Adding a fifth person to a four person table would create spacing issues and possible comfort issues, not to mention the hygiene issues of having so many people on a little table."

Harry rolled his eyes as he went over to an empty table and picked it up, putting it on the end of the gang's table, much to the amusement of Howard, Leonard and Raj.

"There," Harry said sitting down next to Raj, not wanting to deal with Sheldon's whining right in his ear and not let everyone else hear it, "better?"

"Better?" Sheldon said incredulously, "Better? How is this," He said pointing to the extra table and spare space, "better? No, if anything this is worse."

"Here we go," Leonard said quietly, but loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Now we have an extra space that cannot be filled and we don't have an equal distribution of people meaning that you could be left out of any conversation we have it also means that-" Sheldon was cut off by Harry loudly saying, "Sheldon!"

"I'm only sitting here today, no need to get your knickers in a twist," Harry said, sighing.

"But I'm not wearing knickers," Sheldon said as everyone at the table groaned.

"Make sure they remember, no peanuts." Howard called out as Leonard left to go get Thai food.

"Yes, Howard, every Thai restaurant in town knows you can't eat peanuts." He replied before closing the door.

Harry was sitting next to Sheldon and Howard on the couch, reading yet another book, having almost all the books recommended to him from the various people he had met over his studying in England and people in the various bookstores he met buying the books.

He had this one, David Copperfield as well as Alice in Wonderland and the Picture of Dorian Gray, the latest items on his list after talking to the nice librarian he was talking to one day.

Sheldon was just about to sit down when there was a knock at the door.

Looking down at his seat and sighing at it, he walked over to the door and opened it.

"Hello Penny," He heard Sheldon say, "Leonard just left."

Harry just rolled his eyes as he heard Penny say, "I know, I want to talk to you."

"What would we talk about?" Sheldon asked, obviously confused.

Harry wondered how Sheldon managed to have a conversation with anyone. Penny obviously wanted to do something for Leonard's birthday because of his lack of any proper birthday party.

"We have no overlapping areas of interest I'm aware of," Sheldon said, continuing his line of thought, "and as you know I don't care for chit-chat."

"Ok, can you just let me in?" Penny asked.

"Alright," He heard Sheldon say as he stepped aside, "but I don't see this as a promising endeavour."

"Ok," Penny said, turning to look, Sheldon, "here's the deal, we are going to throw Leonard a kick-ass surprise party for his birthday on Saturday."

Harry sighed, knowing this debate would go on for a couple of minutes, just turned the page of his book and continued to read.

He noticed Howard get up to stand between Penny and Sheldon to start being a creep. Unfortunately, Harry was too far away to hit him without interrupting his reading so he let it go.

Sheldon then went on to explain why they shouldn't have a surprise birthday party for Leonard.

Penny then blackmailed him into throwing the party, that he didn't understand that she was blackmailing him until she said it, and then suddenly, he was being told to be at Penny's tomorrow with a gift for Leonard.

Penny left and then another 5 minutes later Leonard came in and they were playing Halo.

Harry just shook his head and started to make a mental list about what to get Leonard.

Harry finished wrapping up Leonard's present.

He bought him something that Stuart, the comic book store owner, pointed out to him.

Stuart said that Leonard would love the original script of the 1978 Superman film.

When Harry asked where he got it from Stuart just said that someone owed him, which was quite suspicious, but he bought it anyway.

Really, he thought that buying it for $250 was a bit much, but he knew that Leonard would like it, or he hoped he would.

After he finished wrapping the present up he ran up to Penny's room, doing the secret knock of two knocks, one knock, two knocks.

The door opened to reveal Sheldon, who stood aside to let him in, "Thank you Sheldon." Harry said as he walked in, putting his gift on Penny's couch.

Just as the door was about to close he heard Howard shout, "Wait, we're here!" causing Sheldon to re-open the door for them.

They were both carrying gifts, though Raj's was slightly larger than everyone else's.

"So?" Penny asked walking over to them, "What'd you get the birthday boy?"

"Well, Raj got him an awesome limited edition Dark Knight sculpture based on Alex Ross' definitive Batman and I got him this amazing autographed copy of 'The Feynman Lectures on Physics'." Howard said as they put their gifts down.

"I got him an original signed copy of the 1978 Superman film." Harry imputed as he put his gift on Raj's box.

Howard, Raj and Sheldon all looked at him before Howard asked, "Where did you find that?"

"Well Stuart had it and I thought 'Hey, Leonard likes Superman' and bought it," Harry said confused on why they would care about a script, it didn't look that old when Harry was wrapping it, "It looks like a fake, though, it was very clean."

"Very clean?" Sheldon said getting angry at his lack of knowledge on scripts, "You have an original script for the 1978 Superman film and you're worried about it being very clean."

"What?" Harry asked, not understanding what Sheldon was getting angry, "It doesn't matter," Harry started before being interrupted by Sheldon "It doesn't matter? You have to understand what you bought off of Stuart do you?" Sheldon asked, coming to stand in front of Harry.

"I got him an original script?" Harry said, shrugging and looking at Sheldon.

"You got an original 1978 Superman script," Sheldon said, "For Leonard"

"Yeah," Harry said, "Leonard likes Superman."

"Yes, but an original script? You didn't think that anyone else would want it?" Sheldon asked.

"Well it is Leonard's birthday," Harry said, turning to Raj and Leonard, "I'm sorry Sheldon, but it's my gift to him and you'll have to deal with it."

"What did you get him, Penny?" Harry asked quickly as Sheldon was stunned silent.

"I got him a sweater." She said looking at all of them.

This brought Howard and Raj back on track as Howard said, "OK, well, I've seen him get cold."

"Sheldon," Penny said, "I didn't see your present."

"That's because I didn't bring one." He replied, putting bottles in a box for transport to 4A.

"Why not?" Penny asked, not realising the mistake she just made as Howard tried to correct her.

"Don't ask" He said, too late to stop it.

"The entire institution of 'Gift giving' makes no sense." Sheldon said, turning to look at Penny.

"Too late" Howard said before Sheldon went off on a rant about how it's not worth it, as Howard just continued to snark about 'telling her not to ask'.

Harry just stood up and walked towards Sheldon, whilst Howard and Raj just took a step back, only knowing Harry to step in when Sheldon is going to get told off for saying something nasty to someone.

"Sheldon," Harry said as Sheldon turned around and also took a step back, knowing what Raj and Howard know, "Gift giving is normally a non-optional social convention at birthday parties."

"Huh," Sheldon said, looking at Penny, "Fair enough."

There was a moment of shocked silence as Harry sat back down on Penny's couch, until Sheldon said, "How am I going to get a gift before the party?"

So as Penny planned out what everyone was going to do, Harry just started to grab items from around the apartment and put them in boxes or bags for easier transport.

Suddenly it was only him and Raj in the apartment.

"Where did everyone go?" Harry asked.

"Oh," Raj said, forgetting Harry was there, "Penny and Sheldon went to get Leonard a gift and Wolowitz has gone to get Leonard out of his apartment for an hour or two."

"Cool," Harry said as he continued to move things into bags and stack them on top of each other, "Let's get this all sorted out and I'll go and check that Leonard is out and we can start to move it all over.

Raj and Harry were both singing on the Karaoke machine that Penny had, when Leonard and Howard walked in.

"Dude," Raj said, spreading his arms out, "Everybody left an hour ago."

They both turned to each other before realising that it was Leonard's party and shouting, "Surprise!"

Harry groaned as he held his head.

All he remembered was him and Raj greeting Howard and Leonard back, the party and after finishing Karaoke was all a bit of a blur.

Getting up and fetching one of the hangover cure potions he had made up, specifically for this party, and poured it down his throat, clearing away some of the mist.

Looking around, he saw that he was still in 4A and that him and Raj had crashed out on the floor shortly after they greeted Leonard home.

Seeing Penny and Leonard in the kitchen, he walked over to the island and sat down on one of the seats.

"So Leonard," He asked as Leonard looked at him, "Happy Birthday." He managed to get out before falling asleep again, obviously his potions skills were not as good as he thought they were.

A/N - Not too sure about this Chapter, but I think it turned out OK.

I'ma just use this space to respond to reviews so that's what this is about.

Gigamush - Awe, stop it you make me blush. In response to my spelling and grammar mistakes, I'm using the copy-n-paste section on the actual website and not a word processor (which I have since downloaded), so that's why it's a bit eugh. It's also because I apparently failed my English exam, so really my education is at fault, but that's a whole different ballpark so I'll leave that there. As for Harry being the last wizard or magical, I didn't think of that. I would like to say magical because the war would've hit everywhere hard, but I find it hard for EVERYTHING magic to be killed. I was thinking about this, which is why this is so late, and was thinking that the Goblins went back to their 'homeland' or left Gringotts, and other banks around the world, because the wizards were dying out. I can imagine magical creatures just going off into forests and not bothering anyone, but the thought of House Elves helping Harry in his Café amused me greatly, so I'm going to go along the lines that Harry is going to find them sometime in the future, possibly during my own plot episode I am currently creating, and take the remaining ones back to Pasadena and have them help out, with a wage of course.

mind liger - One part of me wants to go 'Yes' because of the fact that I was having doubts about splitting them up, but I think because of the fact that I don't think any of the characters would agree to a relationship like that I would have to say no. I am open to the idea of creating a crack-fic chapter about it at some point, because I think the reactions of the gang would be hilarious, but I think that if I'm trying to keep the characters as how they would act and I think Penny and Missy would not go for that. If you can give me evidence of Penny going along with that, then I will give it more considerable thought, but I think that it might only remain a fantasy for you my friend.

Guest (Chapter 10) - I agree, it probably could've been added in the previous chapter, but I wouldn't have added it as part of the chapter, so it was more of an extra request chapter.

Ghost024 - I will admit I have never heard of 'Fate Stay Night', but if you can write it then I suggest you go for it. I don't own any of the characters and have taken ideas on my characters and plot lines, not only from the show, but from other fics as well. I would be honoured if you even took a little bit of the Harry I wrote and put it into your own fic. The worst that can happen is that you don't like your work. Just give it a try and if it doesn't work out, at least you tried. It's saying a lot more than other people who haven't even tried.

noshadowone - I like the idea of like a weekly film being shown in the back room. I'll let you know the full aspects of the Café soon, but that is a nice idea that I will probably take.

omega shadow - Overall, the story is Harry/Penny, but like I have said, relationships are not as simple as, see girl, like girl, date girl. Harry and Penny have a friendship at the moment and because Harry met Missy and they are currently going out (As Penny is going out with Mike), they are nothing but friends. But don't worry, the story is Harry/Penny like it says it is.

Thanks for all the reviews, really makes my day to see people like what I'm writing. I will tidy up the spelling and grammar by putting the chapters posted through a spell and grammar checker, but I think the content itself with those chapters is done.

TTFN -GoldenHeroes

EDIT - Some small changes made and a small part with Sheldon edited, I might edit it more in the future.