Chapter 28 - A Good Day for Some

Penny woke up for several reasons the that morning, first there was the alarm clock, then there was Leonard gently saying to her 'Honey wake up' while he gently shook her, his other hand rubbing her back, and finally the way she was sleeping sort of surprised her forcing her to become alert. She was completely on Leonard, not just her head on his chest and her body partially on the bed and partially on him, like she had slept with him many times before, no she was laying completely on him her head on his shoulder her chest pressed against his and her arms and legs extended to the sides of his body. She had never slept completely on Leonard before or had ever slept on any other man before, and even though she was warm and comfortable, it still felt a little strange.

Leonard's voice broke her out of momentary thoughts, "Honey, I need you to get off of me so I can reach the alarm."

"Umm, okay." Penny slid to his side away from the alarm clock and as he go up on one arm to reach over and turn the alarm off, and as he did that she tried to quickly remember what happened last night, after all she didn't drink anything, so she should remember. Leonard laid back down and turned to her, as the night came back to her, a smile forming on her face as she quickly put her arms around his neck to give him a kiss.

Leonard smiled back at her as they separated from their kiss, "Somebody's in a good mood for having to be woken up."

"Yes and you should appreciate it when it happens, you know I'm not a morning person." Penny teased.

Leonard chuckled, "I do, I really do."

Penny giggled, then bit her lip, shyly looking at him, "Umm, you were sort of awesome last night." Leonard's smile got huge, so she gave him a playful little swat, "Don't let it go to your head." she said in mock seriousness.

Leonard then got a sad whipped puppy dog look on his face, that made Penny giggle again, "Stop that." she then kissed him again to get the expression off his face, looking at him after they broke their kiss. She wanted to feel him close again so she pulled him against her and put her head on his shoulder, partly because they were both naked and she wanted the skin to skin contact, and probably because she was about to be embarrassed and blush as she talked to him now. "You know you wore me out last night, I barely remember the last few minutes of what we did that last time, last night, but I know I collapsed on you and then I woke up this morning."

"I'm sorry." Leonard whispered to her as he tighten his hug on her.

"Sweetie, you have nothing to be sorry about last night, believe me nothing to be sorry about at all. I just hope I can still walk again." Penny said giggling again, even though she wondered what it was going to feel like getting up this morning. But honestly, if she had her choice, she really wished she could just stay in bed this morning with him, to rest.

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The mood at work was completely different as Penny walked into the studio that morning, everyone seem very animated, Carol practically running to her as soon as she saw Penny come in. "Penny can you believe it!"

"Umm, believe what?" Penny had no idea what Carol was talking about.

"You're kidding!" Carol stated at her in surprise, that slowly turned to confusion. "You heard the reviews on our show, didn't you?"

Penny just shook her head, to Carol's look of disbelief. "What were you doing last night?" Carol then asked her.

Carol was Penny's friend, so she didn't even feel embarrassed telling her honestly what she was doing. "I was in bed with Leonard all evening."

"Oh!" That was the last thing Carol had expected Penny to say, and just looking at her, Carol knew Penny wasn't kidding her. "That's nice."

Penny smiled, "It was." she really meant it. They then stood there looking at each other for almost a minute before Penny broke the silence. "So what about the reviews."

"Oh…yeah…..so…..the critics loved it." Carol now was getting excited again.

Penny smiled, "Really!"

Carol was now as excited as when she first ran up to Penny. "Yes Really. They said it was the smartest and wittiest comedy to hit the TV in the last couple of years. They also said you and I were best new comedy team to appear on TV and gave us a big thumbs up."

"Honestly, from just one show?" Penny was really surprised.

"Yes." Carol pulled out the morning's newspaper and showed Penny the entertainment section. "It says here we were, fresh, funny and filled the whole half hour with pure hysterical laughs."

Penny glanced at the article, she couldn't help the emotion she felt, there in black and white an actual entertainment critic said she was good at being an actress, she was barely able to keep from crying. "Wow, I can't believe it."

"Wow is right." Carol responded, "It is freaking awesome."

Even though they had a lot to do that day, they still started late, everyone in too much of a good mood to let the knowledge of the hard day they had in front of them, diminish the great feeling they all had. Penny really didn't have anything to do that day, except stay till she was told they didn't have make any retakes of the scenes she was in earlier that week. That happened about 11 AM that morning, so she was preparing to leave, when the director stopped her.

"Penny can you stay around this afternoon and I need you to get to wardrobe and makeup." The director told her.

"Do we need to retake a scene?" Penny was a little confused, they had told her group that all the scenes they were in, would not be re-taped.

The director looked around, then said quietly to her, "There is going to be a small rewrite of the scene we are taping this afternoon and you have some lines in it."

Penny nodded, she knew the biggest scene in the episode was being taped that afternoon and that she was never originally suppose to be in it. "Okay." It seemed a little strange for the director to request that of her and something seemed missing she thought, but never the less, she headed to wardrobe and makeup as requested.

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Sheldon hated waiting, especially for lesser minds, so the twenty minutes outside in the lawyers waiting room was driving him crazy. What made things worse was the dimwitted secretary kept looking at him and smiling every few minutes, obviously thinking since she passed the norm for societies measure of beauty, that her smile would somehow make him feel better while he was made to wait. Sheldon had just about had enough and was about to leave, when the door to the lawyer's office opened and the overdressed self important man walked out, immediately walking up to Sheldon and extending his hand.

"Mr. Cooper, I'm sorry you had to wait, I apologize, and if you would like we can discuss your case now." The man said politely

Sheldon looked at the man's outstretched hand, then back at him, "That is Dr Cooper and it is about time." Sheldon then walked into the lawyers office and took a seat.

The lawyer watched Sheldon the whole time and after the man sat down in his office he turned back to his, just as surprised, secretary and just shook his head. She just gave him a small sympathetic smile and mouthed 'Dr Cooper', to which he just shrugged, then he walked back into his office, closing the doors behind him.

The lawyer walked to his desk, then sat down and opened the pre-consultation file sheet, Sheldon filled out while waiting for their meeting to begin. The lawyer was a really smart man, so he quickly scanned the sheet then closed it back in the folder, looking at the man, he had already decided was a person that needed special attention, and not in a good way. "Dr Cooper, what you have here is a typical case of a lover trying to have some parental control concerning the child of his now pregnant love."

Sheldon snorted, this man was even stupider than he originally thought. "There is no 'love' or 'lover' associated with this, my neighbor Penny is pregnant with my child and is not taking care of that responsibility in a way that is most beneficial to the fetus."

'No 'love' involved, great', though the lawyer, he always loved cases where the parties didn't care for each other, it made for some of the messiest litigations he had ever experienced. "So Dr Cooper, what is the end game here, what do you want to happen?"

'God this man is stupid', Sheldon thought, "I want to be able to manage the proper methods for the developing Homo Novus in my neighbor Penny and then take over such Homo Novus after it is born."

"And I assume the baby is the Homo Novus?" the lawyer asked.

Sheldon was beyond exasperated with this man, did he have to explain everything to him. "Homo Novus is Latin for…."

The lawyer cut him off, he was really getting tired of this arrogant man, "Dr Cooper, Latin is a big part of being a lawyer, I am well aware what 'Homo Novus' means."

Sheldon stared at him, then mentally shook it off. "Well one has only to wonder based on the lack of understanding you seem to have had since this conversation started. Of course then you only need a masters degree to practice law."

"Dr Cooper do you want my help or not?" the lawyer said in exasperation.

"I want to accomplish this myself instead of having to deal with a lesser mind, however my time is much too valuable to learn your job so I have been forced to deal with you." Sheldon responded.

That was enough, he would not subject himself to the verbal abuse of this arrogant man, the lawyer was done with Dr Cooper. "Dr Cooper I'm sorry but due to my current case load, I will not be able to help you."

"But you are charging me for this." Sheldon protested.

"I will tell the secretary to refund your money, since we cannot help you." the lawyer responded, he just wanted this man gone.

Sheldon made a sound that sounded like a snort, "I should have known my case was too difficult for you based on the dim witted responses you have made since our introduction."

That went over the line, the lawyer jumped up from his desk and pointed to his door, "OUT!"

The secretary had heard her boss yell 'Out', then watched as the tall, pale, skinny man, who looked a lot like PeeWee Herman', came quickly out the door, moving quickly across the area in front of her desk, then out the door of the law office. Her normally charismatic boss came out red faced and breathing heavy, he seemed to want to kill the man who just left, and she felt sorry for him. She got up and put her arms around his neck, "Honey do you want me to rent a room at the hotel this afternoon, you look like need a little time to relax."

The lawyer looked at his beautiful secretary, "Yeah, that would be nice." he then reached down and grabbed her ass, making her giggle.

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It was past 4 PM when Leonard got the text from Penny:

HONEY, I WILL BE LATE TONIGHT BECAUSE THEY WANT US TO WORK LATE. L THE SHOW MUST GO ON AND ALL THAT STUFF. ILY J

Leonard had read everything about her show that day, it was being praised by everyone, so the first thing that came to his mind was that they were having a party and it made him cringe inside. Then he scolded himself for not trusting her, he knew because she was pregnant she would never drink and that every party she had before she always wanted him there with her. He was ashamed he even thought anything else would happen, and it made him wonder, now that things were getting normal between them again, if he would again become that pathetic needy person about her.

OK HONEY, DON'T WORK TOO HARD. COULD YOU LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU LEAVE. ILY

J YOU WORRY ABOUT ME, DON'T YOU? I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I WILL LET YOU KNOW AS SOON AS WE ARE DONE, I PROMISE. ILY J

A small smile came to Leonard's lips as he typed:

YEAH, I GUESS I DO. HAVE FUN AND ENJOY YOURSELF. ILY

Penny smiled at his response, she was maybe having fun in a way, this sudden request for her to be in the big scene of the episode was a good thing she thought and maybe it was an indication they were not going to let her go after all. Everybody seemed happy again on the set and it made her feel happy, she changed her mind there was no maybe, Leonard was right today she was having fun.

I WILL HONEY, BUT NOT AS MUCH FUN AS I WILL HAVE TONIGHT WHEN I GET HOME. ILY J

Penny bit her lip as she hit send, she knew she had to stop this text exchange soon or she would have telephone sex with him, and she would start it.

Leonard read her text about five times and still couldn't think of a response, last night had been mind blowing and now she was telling him she wanted more. He knew she wasn't unsatisfied, she fell asleep on him in exhaustion, so maybe it was just what she told him earlier, she just wanted it all the time. Well if that is what he had to do to keep his pregnant fiancée cared for, he would do what he had to do. He chuckled at his own thoughts, feeling some confidence come back to him, as he wrote his reply.

THEN TONIGHT I WILL BE YOUR WAITER. ILY

Penny gulped and put her hand over her mouth as her body became flush and aroused. She had to stop this text now, or she would be running to the restroom to have telephone sex with him at any moment.

HONEY, THEY ARE CALLING ME SO I HAVE TO GO. I WILL CALL YOU WHEN I AM DONE.

She took a deep breath to calm herself before she continued typing.

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BABY AND I WILL BE THINKING ABOUT YOU THE WHOLE EVENING. ILY, ILY, ILY J

Leonard smiled and quickly typed back:

OK, I WILL WAIT FOR YOUR CALL. I LOVE YOU.

Penny looked at those three words and it made her heart soar, she knew she would be thinking about him all night, when she wasn't thinking about her lines, and she knew she would fly to his arms when she saw him again. She wondered how she ever became so needy, but to be honest she didn't care, it was an amazing feeling to be so head over heals in love over a man and for him to be that way in turn with her, it was like they could live on love. It was Carol who brought her out of her daydreams.

"Hey slacker, they sent me here to get you." Carol then looked at Penny gripping her phone and her dilated eyes coming back to normal. "Were you having phone sex with Leonard!"

Penny shook her head, "Nooo!" then a small smile crossed her face,
"Well maybe just a little bit, you know foreplay."

"You bitch." Carol teased. "Here the rest of us are working our asses off and you are playing with your boyfriend." Carol barely got that out without laughing.

"Hey, fiancé, we got way passed boyfriend a long time ago." Penny responded, they both looked at each other for a second before they both broke up laughing. It was true, Penny was happy.

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Sheldon sat in his spot drinking the Slushie, through a Red Vine, he had picked up during a bus transfer on his bus trip back home. That trip to the lawyer had been a bust, the feeble minded man thinking he could correct Dr Sheldon Lee Cooper, only supported Sheldon's conclusion that this man was not up to the intelligence standards he needed to plead his case. So Sheldon now opened his laptop to look at the list of lawyers he had made previously, to maybe find another candidate. It actually grated on Sheldon that he would have to pick an even lesser mind, but as a consolidation Sheldon thought if he found someone who knew their limitations, and listened to him, then maybe things would not be so bad.

As Sheldon scanned the list, a thought came to his mind, although the lawyer he saw, that afternoon, was at the top of his list, there had been another lawyer who had a better record that Sheldon had disqualified. He was now wondering if that had been a mistake, because the reason Sheldon had disqualified him was because of all the TV commercials the man had and Sheldon had never liked showmanship. However after the afternoon he had just had to put up with, maybe he should give this man a try, after all TV commercials were not cheap, so the man was making money being a lawyer, therefore he must be having some success at it. Sheldon nodded to himself, he would call the man Monday morning and now with that decided he turned the TV on, there would Star Trek reruns on soon and with a Slushie and Red Vine now maybe he could turn a horrible afternoon into a pleasant evening.