Wow, Chapter 29. Never thought this thing would go that far. Soon there will be a 3 as the first number. And maybe even a 4, depending on you, the readers. But hey, maybe you will the sick of me and my brain farts. If so, I have no problem stopping :D

I actually had planned to publish this chapter yesterday but my company had its annual christmas party. I know it's November still but we work 7 days a week in December so it was the only option. But it was great and I was home only after midnight.

Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the franchise. I write here only for my own pleasure and that of others who read the story and I don't make any money. Any similarities to song titles or lyrics are absolutely coincidental and unintended. Some dialog is verbatim from different episodes and are there to keep the story going.


"Oh! My! Fucking! God!" Penny screamed as yet another climax rushed through her body and exploded inside her head.

Fourteen days. Fourteen days without sex. After their flower barrette producing weekend, Sheldon had completely taken over Leonard in his attempt to get healthy again, the caffeine overload he had suffered still apparent days later, at least in his mind.

It didn't help that Leonard had to work in the mornings while she had to work evenings, giving them even less time together, not to mention that her shifts had been exhausting enough to make her fall into bed immediately after returning home. But at least he still had to fight with the budget constraints, which meant that he worked a short week. So it came with no small amount of joy when on Wednesday evening he had appeared at her door and said one sentence that led to the situation they were in right now.

"Sheldon's asleep and we both have the day off tomorrow."

That was all she had needed to pull him into her apartment and make every other word impossible by fusing their lips together. She had pushed him into her bedroom and they had ripped the clothes off each other to connect their naked bodies. She had pushed him onto the bed and, not even bothering with foreplay, had mounted him to ride him as hard and fast as she could.

The long time since their last time had become apparent when he climaxed in less than five minutes, giving her only one orgasms, which was rare for them but still more than other women she knew had. She hadn't wasted any time, jumping off the bed and running into the bathroom to clean herself out before hurrying back and planting herself on his face to have him lick her for the next thirty minutes.

She hadn't realized it at first that it had been thirty minutes while he licked her though, only after he had pushed her off him and telling her that he was ready again. She had turned around and saw his erect manhood beckoning her so she did what she wanted to do the last time they were in bed together before Sheldon had interrupted them and sunk down on him in reverse cowgirl style. With his hands on her hips, she bounced hard on him, the slapping of their skin hitting reverberating through the room and competing against her screams of pleasure.

Since that was a GSS position, she had climaxed a lot. So much that she couldn't continue and had to let him take over the active part which he had done by rapidly pumping his hips, making her come even more and louder as the endorphins flooded her system until he climaxed as well.

They had rested for another hour with him spooning her body until she felt him grow once more. Without even bothering to move them, he had simply slung one leg over her waist to hold her to him and to get leverage before pushing into her and relentlessly taking her sideways. She knew that they were probably overdoing it and would pay for their lust in the morning after waking up but she didn't care.

She had wanted to spread her legs wide but instead opted to squeeze them harder together since it increased the friction as his thick member spread her insides wide. All the while he had been pounding her, they were kissing open-mouthed, their tongues dancing while allowing them to breath easier. The only times they didn't kiss was when she climaxed, where she opted to push her face into her cushion to scream her joy into it. She had no idea how long he had lasted but he climaxed again and lay still against her back at least until he had summoned the strength to pull the both of them out of bed and into the bathroom.

Penny had barely been able to walk and Leonard hadn't been much better off, so they simply dropped into the bathtub and let it fill with water until it was full. They enjoyed the warm fluid embrace for almost another hour before it got too cold to stay in there any longer.

To her surprise and envy, Leonard had been walking almost normally now while she still had problems moving straight. He had led her outside by the hips, holding himself tightly to and walking in step with her so their legs wouldn't intertwine while walking. When he had pressed himself against her, she felt his already hard manhood and wondered how he was able to be ready again when she herself was still exhausted. But on the other hand, she had already become moist at feeling him hard. She wanted more of him, simply more.

He had pressed her upper body down onto the bed and settled against her before entering her again and pounding her hard and rough, his hand slapping against her ass while he thrust into her without letting up in speed and intensity. Her sheet had once again become a sound absorber for her screams and she screamed a lot.

Hence their current situation with her loud exclamation of taking the lords name in vain while she climaxed for the umpteenth time, after which he actually stopped moving to let her ride it out. She moved her ass to the left and right, feeling his thick shaft moving against her insides and enjoying the feeling of him filling her out that good. The small part of her brain that was still functioning wondered why she was trying to create more friction when knowing that she would be really sore in the morning.

"Leonard, what's gotten into you?" she panted.

"Oh my god, did I hurt you? Don't tell me I hurt you." he pleaded.

"No, no no, you didn't hurt me, quite the opposite. But you are doing me for so long and oh-so-good, what is going on? Not that I'm complaining, mind you."

"Two weeks." was his only reply and attempted to bring them onto the bed proper without having to pull out.

"Admit it, you want me to be unable tooooooo..." she moaned as he brought them onto the bed proper simply by pushing forward and since he was still inside her, his move pressed his tip really hard against her g-spot. "...to walk in the morning." she finished. "God, that felt good."

"Maybe that's my plan. If you can't walk, I can take you whenever I want." he grinned and slowly thrust into her.

"Mmmh. Won't Sheldon interrupt us constantly?" she asked him and he stopped.

"Could you stop talking about my crazy roommate when we're having sex?"

"Sorry. But when Sheldon... uh... uh... uh... uh!" she moaned when he suddenly thrust into her as hard as he could, stopping her from saying any coherent word.

"You were saying?" he breathed into her ear after stopping again.

"I said, when Sheldon... oh... shit... jeez... god!" she rhythmically yelled when repeated his earlier movements again, this time without stopping or slowing down. She climaxed again quickly but this time he didn't let her ride it out, simply thrusting as hard as he could and prolonging her orgasm until it continued into another.

He tried his best to hold out as long as he could but the feeling of her walls tightening around his member and her exultant yells of pleasure soon had him falling over the edge as well with a loud groan.

He pulled out of her and collapsed onto the bed, immediately pulling her into his embrace. He panted heavily at the exertion and took a few minutes to get his breathing under control before letting go of her and allowing her to turn onto her back.

"That was amazing." she sighed and pressed him against her side.

"Yeah." he agreed and started to run his finger and tongue over her left nipple.

"You're still not done? Have you replaced parts of yourself with machinery?" she asked.

"Oh, I'm done. Exhausted. This is just encore." he replied and settled himself back into bed.

"Hm, I should mention Sheldon more often during sex, you became like a wild animal."

"Oh, you didn't like that?"

"Don't be ridiculous, that was amazing."

"Still, don't mention Sheldon during sex, it's bad enough when he shows up at your door when we're about to do it." he said. "By the way, what about your flower barrettes business?"

"After you took the one-day rush option away, I posted a comment where I said that I make these things by hand after the order is in, so I accept only small orders or if they really want a massive order, they have to wait a few weeks."

"So you'll keep doing it?"

"Of course, it's a nice added bonus to my normal paycheck."

"What time is it?" he asked.

"It's ten after three." she replied after looking at her clock. "Holy crap, we had sex for five hours if you count the breaks."

"Hey, still a few times away from our record." he grinned.

"Yeah, but I seriously can't do it anymore right now. We should get some sleep." she suggested.

"Agreed." he said and pulled her off the bed into the bathroom for a final wash-up and teeth cleaning.

They headed back out and into bed naked, with Penny pushing herself into his chest to get the maximum amount of contact again. She just hoped that Sheldon won't come over in the morning because she would probably punch him in the throat for waking her up on her day off. But he should know this already.


Penny was awakened by Leonard attempting to move away from her, something her body really didn't want because almost automatically, her body scooted backwards with him and her hand grabbed his arm that was still around her waist and pressed it to her skin. He kept trying to get up but Penny really didn't want that to happen.

"No, don't get up. Stay with me please." she implored and draped his arm back around her.

"Penny, I really need to pee." he murmured and she allowed him to get up that time to let him use the bathroom.

He went and closed the door and she could hear him groan as he relieved himself, making her grin. Unfortunately, his mention of peeing made her realize that she too needed to use the toilet but on the other hand she felt so sore but sated, she could barely move a muscle. When the bathroom door opened again and he came back out, she sat up in the bed and tried to stand with no success, her legs unable to carry her right now.

"Wow, even after eight hours." she mused to herself.

"What?" he asked, after hearing her mumble.

"Oh, nothing. I just realized that we slept eight hours and I'm still having trouble getting up because my legs feel like jello." she said. "Could you help me?"

"Of course." he replied and came to stand in front of her, holding out his hands and helping her stand up.

"Thanks. I'm good now, I can walk." she said and took a tentative step before taking another. As she made her way into the bathroom and turned on the light, she heard a gasp from Leonard.

"Oh god, I'm so sorry." he said and she turned around to find him standing close to the door, having followed her in case she had too much trouble walking.

"What? What is it?"

"I think I got a little too... passionate last night." he told her embarrassed and returned to the bed.

She looked down at her body and wondered what he meant, seeing nothing but a small bite mark on her left breast but that had happened several times before already. She flopped down onto her toilet and did her ablutions before using the small toiletry cabinet to get back up again and return to the bedroom.

"What did you mean by too passionate?" she asked him and he simply pointed behind her to the floor length mirror.

She looked behind her and saw her backside in the floor length mirror, realizing what he meant when she saw the still red finger marks on her ass and hips and the bite marks on her ass cheeks. She was about to admonish him but when she thought back to what he had done to her last night, she decided that those marks were well worth it.

"I wear those as a sign of pride." she declared. "I got you so wild, you did that to me."

"Okay then." he grinned and patted the space next to him.

"Wow, I really ache down there." she said as she gingerly sat down on the bed.

"I'm sorry, I won't do you like that again."

"Don't you dare. I take such aches any day if they come from a love fest like last night."

"Want to cuddle some more? Oh, it's almost noon."

"We should get up. I fear, if I snuggle myself into your arms again, we won't get up all day."

"Fine by me." he grinned.

"Me too. But I do want to do some things today. Eating is one thing, because I am hungry."

"Wanna go out? There's this new buffet place a few blocks away."

"I'd love to. Lets get dressed." she said and put action to her words.

Leonard put on his pajama clothes and robe he came over in last night while Penny rummaged in her drawer for some underwear. She grabbed some white panties and shoved them on, wincing when she pulled them up completely.

"What's wrong?" Leonard asked concerned.

"Nothing. I'm just... really sore between my legs." she smiled. "Still totally worth it."

"Wait here." he said and left her apartment.

She waited for two minutes but when he hadn't returned, she grabbed a bra and put that on at least before doing some stretching to relieve some of the stress in her legs and midsection. While she looked also around for some pants to wear that wouldn't hurt, she heard her apartment door open and close again.

"Here." a fully-clothed Leonard said and handed her a pair of his shorts.

"Aw, thank you." she smiled and put them on, their looseness making them very comfortable to wear in her current condition.

"Is it strange for me to think that you look ridiculously hot wearing my shorts?"

"Really? Better than naked?"

"Not even close." he grinned.

"Better than in a thong?"

"Even remoter."

"That's what I thought. Now I just have to find some pants that are wide enough not to hurt."

"Why not wear a skirt?" he suggested.

"Great idea!" she exclaimed and gave him a quick kiss before grabbing a skirt that went down to her knees. "By the way, what did Sheldon say when you came from my apartment in your robe?"

"Nothing, because he's not home. He wrote me a note saying he wanted to go to work since he felt better now and he even took the bus."

"He sure is crazy to say no to a day off." she said while she changed into a shirt that fit better with the skirt but its low neckline showed off her cleavage in a very revealing manner.

"He really is. He thinks vacations are things that happen only to other people."

"Seriously, he's a whackadoodle." she said and turned around to him. "How do I look?"

"Breathtaking as ever." he replied grinning and offered her his hand, which she gladly accepted.

"Thanks. Oh I forgot to mention, I got a printer, could you hook it up?"

"I could. Should I do it now or do you want to go out first?"

Instead of answering, she grabbed his hand and they went down the stairs together. Since the weather was pleasant and the distance not that far, Penny decided to have them walk the distance instead of separating to get into his car. He grudgingly acquiesced and they walked the relatively short distance hand in hand. Penny once more noticed odd looks from some people, usually younger men who stared at her cleavage as well as Leonard and their joined hands with mostly disbelief and some envy, especially from the group of men they were approaching.

"Good thing I did a little stretching before you came back with your shorts." she said loud enough to make the group hear her.

"Why?"

"It would have looked strange to walk with a limp because of sexual overload." she told him, timing the last part to come out exactly at the same time they were passing the group of men who were checking her and their joined hands out way too much for her liking, saying the words just loud enough for them to hear her but not so loud that it seemed to be on purpose.

Her plan appeared to have worked and she enjoyed the both shocked and disappointed groans from the group of males they had passed while Leonard didn't pay attention to them, as his brain was still processing her sexual overload comment.

"You know, whenever you say something like that, I don't know if I should feel bad because in scientific and engineering terms an overload is generally a bad thing." Leonard said and that caused Penny to stop him and put her hands on his shoulders.

"Sweetie, listen to me and listen to me good. If you could experience what it feels like when you fuck me crazy like you did last night, you would know that there is nothing I would do to change that. Yes, I might feel aching and sore a day later and maybe it becomes like an overload in my brain but it feels so unbelievably awesome that I gladly bear anything that might result from that. Do you hear me?"

"I hear you." he smiled.

"Good." she said and kissed him. "Now come on, I'm starving."

Penny pulled him the rest of the way, starting to feel good enough to bounce a bit in her step, the happiness she felt translating itself into her legs. She couldn't help but feel good. She had an amazing boyfriend who was probably the nicest man she ever met and that she loved so much that it almost hurt physically to be apart from him and who also did unbelievable things to her in bed.

Soon, they entered the restaurant and Penny was immediately drawn to the buffet trays where a ridiculous amount of different vegetables and some fruits were laid out. She turned around and saw Leonard talking to the maitre d' who pointed him towards a four-man table, since all the smaller ones were already taken. She walked towards Leonard and sat down at the table appointed to them and waited for a waiter to come over to take their drink orders.

"Hello and welcome to Fiorinis." a waiter greeted them. "Do you need menus or are you here for the buffet?"

"We'll take the buffet." Leonard replied.

"Very well. Can I bring you something to drink?"

"I'll take a Ginger Ale." Leonard said.

"And I take an orange juice." Penny added.

"Coming right up. You can get some food right now if you want, dishes and cutlery are on the table next to the food."

They got up and grabbed an empty dish each before heading to the food. Penny's mouth watered looking at the selection. She loaded her plate with everything from salad to tomatoes and cucumbers to several forms of beans and lots of other stuff until she was barely able to balance it all. Leonard was a bit more modest since he could get as many refills as he wanted and put less on his own plate.

They returned to their table and started eating, Penny digging into her selection with gusto, finishing her plate even faster than Leonard did his, her immediate hunger sated for the moment. She waited for him to finish before both went to the food table again to load up another plate. They both deliberately avoided the bread, knowing that it only led to feeling full too soon. After polishing off her fifth plate, she leaned back and waited for Leonard to finish his fourth.

"Wow, that hit the spot." she giggled.

"I think they still have a tomato slice left." Leonard quipped.

"Really?" Penny sat up. "I need to eat that."

Leonard laughed and Penny joined in before he mentioned the waiter to them and paid their bill. They got up and walked outside where Penny lifted her head into the warm afternoon sun. As soon as Leonard was beside her, she grabbed his hand again and intertwined their fingers pulling him along the sidewalk.

"Where are we going?" Leonard asked as they were walking in the opposite direction of their apartment block.

"To the park. The weather is too nice to go back home right away." she replied.

They walked around for a while and sat down on a bench, with Penny sitting down sideways on his lap and wrapping her arms around his neck. She closed her eyes and put her head against his, simply enjoying the contact with him.

She was jerked upright by poke into her side, tickling her slightly and she opened her eyes to a smiling Leonard. He mentioned for her to get up and she followed his directions, watching him get up as well and shaking the leg she had been sitting on.

"What's wrong?" she asked him.

"Nothing, just have to get circulation back into my leg after you sat on it for two hours."

"TWO HOURS?" she yelled, shocked.

"Yeah, you fell asleep and you looked so cute, I didn't want to wake you. Also, your positioning allowed me to look down your shirt so I kinda forgot the time too." he replied sheepishly.

"Seriously, wake me if that happens. Also, why do you need to look down my shirt for two hours? You know how they look naked. Remember, you had them in your mouth ten hours ago."

"I know. It's more like combating a disbelief that I actually know how they look uncovered. Also, they still look amazing when presented like that." he said, but a reply from her was cut short when his cellphone rang.

"Hello... Hey Sheldon... no, I'm out in the park, enjoying the weather... yeah, I can do that on my way back... Yes, when will that be... okay... yes, I know. Bye."

"What does he want?" she asked.

"He informed me that he and the guys were on their way to our apartment and I should pick up the Chinese food."

"Is it strange that I'm hungry again?" Penny asked.

"Considering we only had vegetables for lunch, not really."

"But I ate five plates." she argued.

"Still, it's mostly water and low in carbs. Now come on, we'll pick it up on the way home, it's only a detour of two blocks.

Penny made sure to put her hands into his again as they walked the relatively short distance to the Chinese Restaurant that Leonard had to get the food in. They walked inside and Leonard placed their order to go and after being informed that it would take a few minutes, Penny used the time to press her body into his and close his arms around her, enjoying the embrace he gave her. That also helped to dissuade any possible plans the guy who stared at her cleavage had to make a move on her.

After Leonard paid for their order, he got handed two bags with their food containers and they left the restaurant again. As Penny grabbed one of them to free up one of his hands so she could intertwine their fingers again, she let the day reminisce in her head. Multiple mind-blowing and passionate sex sessions followed by a quiet morning and an almost romantic light lunch and a day out in the sun and now on her way home for dinner with him and his whacky friends. She knew that she'd do anything to make as many days as possible to be like this again.

When they reached the door of their apartment block, she let go of his hand and handed him the second bag back to fish out her keys so she could check her mailbox. Just as she turned back towards the waiting Leonard, the door opened again and his friends and roommate entered, with Howard's eyes immediately falling to her chest.

"Oh good Penny, you're also here. Now we won't have to wait." Sheldon stated and started to go up the stairs.

"Penny, you didn't have to dress like that just for me. I'm flattered though." Howard said creepily, making her roll her eyes.

"Howard, take a good look." Penny said and bend slightly forward while using her arms to squeeze her breasts together, making them stand out even more. "You will never ever see them naked. And I will change before I come over to eat."

She stomped up the stairs and quickly entered her apartment. She went into her bedroom and took off the skirt and shirt before donning brown knee-length sweatpants and a same-colored shirt, wide enough to hide the fact that she had big breasts. As she headed out into the hallway again, she saw one of her neighbors coming down the stairs, a box in hand.

"Oh, hello Mister Wilkerson. Cleaning out?" she asked, pointing towards the box.

"No, we're moving out. My wife has knee problems and they have become too severe to have her walk up the stairs every day. And since the landlord doesn't seem to care about the broken elevator, we had to pull the plug."

"Oh. Well, good luck wherever you end up."

"Thank you."

Penny let him pass her and entered the other apartment to find the guys sitting on the couch, Sheldon with an exasperated look and the others with something like fear in their eyes.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"There's a giant spider in our bathroom." Leonard said and pointed behind him. "Can't you take care of it?"

"Sure." she replied and went directly to their bathroom, looking around to find the offending arachnid. She started to laugh when she saw the tiny eight-legged animal sitting on the edge of the sink and grabbed a piece of toilet paper to grab it.

"Okay, it's done." she proclaimed after coming back into the living room and depositing the spider into the trash bin. "Look, guys, for the future, I don't mind killing the big spiders, but you have to at least try with the little ones."

"Penny, please, we're facing a far more serious problem than stray arachnids." Sheldon said, still looking exasperated.

"Sheldon, it's not that bad." Leonard tried to calm him.

"Not bad? It's horrible. I mean, you hear stories about this sort of thing, but you never think it'll happen to you." Sheldon countered, making Penny wonder what serious thing had happened.

"So they steamed your dumplings, get over it. New topic, please." Leonard said and Penny mentally did a face palm after hearing what the bad thing was.

"All right." Howard took up the mantle. "Penny, let me take this opportunity to point out that you are looking particularly ravishing today."

"Not with a thousand condoms, Howard." she told him, completely serious.

"So, there is a number." came the retort, making her roll her eyes again.

"Okay, new topic, please." Penny changed the conversation. "Hey, did you hear the people upstairs in 5A are moving out?"

"What?" Sheldon let out, stretching the vowel while Leonard tried to stop her from talking.

"The people upstairs are moving out." she clarified.

"No!" Leonard tried harder to stop her.

"The horror!" Sheldon breathed, making her wonder what his problem was.

"Why would you just say something like that?" Leonard asked her.

"How else was I supposed to say it?" she asked back.

"Slowly, like putting a new fish in a tank. You don't just drop it in, you let the bag sit in the water a while." he answered while Sheldon still sounded like someone who tried to tell a horror story.

"Sheldon, I'm sure it's going to be fine." Penny tried to calm him.

"No, it's not going to be fine, change is never fine. They say it is, but it's not."

"Okay, honey, did you even know the people that are moving out?"

"I never met them." Sheldon said as he got up. "That's what made them perfect, there were no awkward hellos in the halls, there was no clickety-clacking of high heel shoes on hardwood floors, they may as well have been a family of cats just jumping around from drape to drape without that annoying ammonia urine smell."

"Well, I'm sure the new people will be just as quiet." she suggested.

"You can't know that. How can you possibly know that?"

"You're right, I can't. You know what? Anyone could rent that apartment now, an opera singer, the cast of stomp or a tap-dancing pirate with a wooden leg." she let out, enjoying Sheldon's ever-growing agitation and also Leonard's equally growing exasperation.

"Why are you making it worse?" her boyfriend asked her.

"I tried making it better, he wouldn't go for it." she said innocently as Raj whispered something into Howard's ear.

"You're right, that's a great idea." the engineer translated. "I'll take the apartment upstairs. I can finally get away from my mother, and we can all spend some more time together, if you catch my drift." he directed at Penny.

"The horror!" she mirrored Sheldon's expression, the feeling completely genuine.

"Come on Penny. It will be fun, I can visit you every day."

"Make it stop." Penny shouted, holding her hands to her ears before taking her chopsticks back into her hands. "If you knock on my door every day, I will stick these into your eyes." she threatened.

"I'm kidding." Howard surrendered. "But won't it be fun if I live here? If Raj sleeps over, we could do all-night video gaming."

"That is actually a good idea." Sheldon agreed. "I think this thought of yours has merit. Makes me wonder why I didn't come up with since you're just an engineer."

"Sheldon, you don't want to have an angry engineer living above you." Leonard advised and turned to Penny. "And you can consider yourself lucky, if he'd move in 5B, he'll probably spend his evenings prone on the floor, his ear pressed to it to catch any noises you might make."

"Ew." she gagged. "Okay, now that I have been grossed out enough, I think I will finish my dinner at my place, watching America's worst neighbors, thinking of Howard the entire time."

"Good to see you thinking of me." Howard quipped and Penny huffed before getting out of the apartment and back into her own, her sanctuary.

She flopped down on her couch, glad to be able to do that again, and continued eating her dinner. She turned on the TV and watched the news, trying to decide exactly what to watch since she didn't have a TV guide lying around. Instead, she switched on her laptop to look what was running on TV. As soon as Skype finished loading, she heard the familiar ring and saw the image of her parents on the screen.

"Hey daddy." she greeted her father who appeared on her screen.

"Hey slugger. How have you been?"

"Pretty good actually. I started a small business, making flower barrettes on demand."

"That's great. Any luck so far?"

"Actually yeah, I sold a thousand of them to a gay luau in New Jersey. Leonard made a mistake and put a one-day rush option on the website and we stayed up all night making the barrettes."

"Leonard, huh? So I assume that is still going strong?" Wyatt asked.

"Yes, it is." Penny grinned widely. "We have our one-year anniversary next month."

"That long already?"

"Yes. And knowing him, he as something good planned."

"Listen Penny, the reason I called, we were wondering if you'd like to spend some time in the summer here with us."

"I would love to!"

"Can you bring Leonard with you again? I want to show him what I did with that energy savings plan he gave me."

"Did you follow it?" she asked him.

"To the letter and more. I'm now the proud owner of a geothermal heat pump that warms the house and stables in the winter and cools it in the summer. And as long as the temperature doesn't drop below ten degrees in the winter, we don't even need the fireplaces. I had those water pipes for the warm water laid under the floors, now we have floor heating in the entire house."

"That's amazing daddy."

"Yeah, you can walk barefoot in the winter and never have cold feet. Plus, I leased part of our property to an energy company and they put two wind turbines there and now I get paid rent by them."

"Well congratulations. I will ask him and I think as long as he doesn't have something really important to do, I think we will both come visit again."

"Great. Oh, you can tell him that since your last visit, Tornado is now more a breeze. He's not aggressive anymore."

"I'll tell him."

"Bye slugger. Say hi to Leonard for us, okay? Love you."

"Will do. Tell mom I love her. Love you too dad." Penny said and ended the connection, leaning back into her couch.

Another trip to Nevada sounded great, especially when Leonard was again with her. And since she still had some money in the bank from their Vegas winnings and her barrette sales, she could even afford a plane ticket this time, saving them at least two days driving time. Not to mention the amazing sex they had there, repeating that would be very welcome.

Since there was nothing in TV she was interested in, she put in another DVD of Friends to watch several episodes from season three. At least that distracted her from the fact that Howard might soon be a neighbor of hers, the thought of meeting him in the hallway every day making her nauseous.


A few minutes before eleven pm, the last episode of the second DVD was over and Penny stood up to take it out of the player and put it back into the case. That was another thing she had started to do since meeting Leonard. Before he came into her life, she had regularly left DVDs in the player and Kurt had usually either put them in some random case or simply flung them across the room.

She was just about to head into her bedroom, when her door opened after a quick knock and Leonard entered wearing his robe, which immediately raised her mood. She smiled warmly at him as he closed in on her and gave her a quick kiss on the lips.

"Hey you." she greeted him.

"Hey. Just to let you know, Howard called the landlord after you left and got the okay to move in. Me and the others are helping him move tomorrow morning. They went home a few minutes after you left so he can pack."

"Oh god. This is going to be a nightmare."

"Relax. It won't be as bad as you think. You just have to accept that he will stand outside your apartment with his ear pressed to your door. Or on the stairwell with his ear pressed to the wall, hoping to listen to you have sex."

"You do realize that he will listen to US having sex, don't you?" she asked.

"Yeah but he doesn't know it's me. At least as long as he doesn't get the bright idea of knocking at my door to get me to listen as well. Which he won't do because he knows I'd tell you."

"Leonard." she whined.

"I'm kidding. But seriously, there's nothing we can do about it. We can't tell him not to do it."

"I know. It still sucks." she sighed and flopped down on the armrest of her couch. "Do you have to go to work tomorrow?"

"No, since the budget constraints still apply, we all took the day off to help Howard. Sheldon did it reluctantly of course. Why do you ask?"

"Will you stay with me again?"

"Of course I will." he replied. "By the way, how is your downstairs area? Still aching?"

"The outside is fine. Flopped down on the couch without problems. On the inside, I don't know." she replied and followed him into her bedroom.

He went straight the bathroom and closed the door, making Penny wait until he was done on the toilet before she went in behind him as he was brushing his teeth. She undressed and, while enjoying his look of pure desire, stepped into the shower to clean herself before bed. She heard him spit and quickly soaped herself before washing it off and stepped back out.

After drying off, she hung the towel up and brushed her teeth as well, grabbing her clothes on the way out without bothering to put them on. She placed them on a foot stool and went to her side of the bed, getting in and preparing to scoot into his chest like they usual did during nights.

"You know, I've said it before and I'll say it again, while you look strangely hot wearing my clothes, nothing beats you being naked." he grinned.

"Why do you think I walked in here like that." she smiled right back. "By the way, do you mind if I keep your shorts? You know, in case I need it again."

"Sure. Then you're covered when I... uh... get too passionate again." Leonard stuttered.

"Leonard! Stop being so politically correct all the time. Just say the words that fit here. I can use them again the next time you fuck me senseless and leave me sore and aching."

"Yeah, I didn't want to say it like that, it makes me feel back to cause you pain."

"And I said before, it's a kind of pain I gladly bear. Also, nothing a little yoga can't fix."

"Stretching you must, young padawan." Leonard said, throwing his voice.

"I said yoga, not Yoda." she deadpanned.

"Good lord, you know Yoda. You just got even hotter, if that is even possible."

"Yeah, I may have never watched the movies but even I know about the little guy." she smiled but then turned serious. "I can't believe that from tomorrow onward, we might have to worry about Howard listening to us through the wall."

"You do realize that I was kidding about that. It's not like he will actually dot it." he tried to reassure her. "Although knowing Howard, you can never be sure."

"Not helping. This could be our last night not listened to." she argued, not knowing that her two best friends were able to listen to this conversation and everything else as well.

"So we should use the time, you mean?"

"Maybe. One more love fest where I can be loud?"

"You sure? You said before that you might still be sore inside."

"Yeah, I might be, I probably still am. Could be really painful, like trying to run while still having sore muscles from the last jog. When we had our eight times all-nighter, I was sore for three days."

"Well, there is a way to test it." he said in an attempted sultry voice, making her laugh lightly.

"Really, what would that be?"

Instead of answering, he scooted down her body until he was hidden from her by the blanket over them. She felt his lips trail a path downwards, pausing at her breasts for a minute and making her shiver in both anticipation and delight. As soon as he was where she wanted him to be, he tapped her thighs and she took the hint, opening her legs wide and putting her hands on the insides of her knees to hold them open, thus letting him use his hands for something else.

That other purpose became clear when she felt his thumbs glide over her folds and she couldn't stop a moan from escaping her throat despite the fact that he hasn't even started to actually lick her. The fact that he was hidden from her sight added even more to the whole thing and when his tongue finally connected with her skin, she couldn't help but yelp before giggling. And even without seeing him, she could feel him smile at her reaction.

"Oh, that feels so good." she breathed when she felt his tongue run up and down her folds.

"Any pain?" his muffled voice came from under the covers.

"No, quite the opposite, keep going." he replied and started bucking her hips slightly to get more friction.

He took the cue from her movement and quickened his pace, his tongue darting up and down along her already slick folds as if not wanting to waste any drop of her arousal. She let out a low squeal when his tongue dipped into her and a mewl when he took it out again and lifted his head away.

"Did it hurt?"

"No, but it did feel kinda strange. But do it again please."

"As you wish." he replied and did exactly that, dipping his tongue between her folds and slowly moving it along her inner walls.

As if coating her insides with some ointment, the more he did that, the better it felt. She nudged him to speed up incrementally and after fifteen minutes, his tongue moved rapidly inside her, making her coil tighten once again with the power of his mouth alone. Throughout the time he licked her, she had stretched her legs over his shoulders, giving her hands the ability to do more than just hold them apart. Not that she used them for much else than either being pressed against the headboard or holding his head harder on her.

"God, I'm coming!" she yelled and her hips bucked in orgasmic shock. He let his head move expertly with her hips, keeping up the pressure against her until she had calmed down. His head detached from her and she felt him move up her body until he reappeared from the covers with a big smile and kissed her, making her taste herself on his lips.

She felt his erection press against her, making her wonder how he had managed to take off his shorts when his hands had been firmly attached to her body the entire time. She moved her hips against him, desperate to have him inside her but even in his arousal, she felt him move slightly away.

"What's wrong?" she asked him.

"Do you really want to? I'd rather not hurt you."

"Leonard, it's okay. Just do it slowly. And if it hurts, I'll say something, alright?"

"Okay." he said and smiled, which she returned.

"Good. Now, my good doctor, make love to me."

"Very well. Once more into the breach."

"Come on, really?" she said incredulous and in a high pitch to which he just laughed.

He grabbed between them to position his member correctly and pushed forward, making Penny gasp as soon as the tip was past her folds. He paused for a few seconds and Penny slung her legs around his waist until her feet were on his ass, using them to show him that he could push forward. As he thrust slowly, going only slightly deeper with every thrust, her heart swelled at his consideration, his desire to not cause her any pain whatsoever making him hold back.

After several more thrusts, he was completely inside her and he paused again, making Penny groan in delight at the feeling of being so stretched out. Again, she couldn't believe the luck she had when she found and fell in love with a man like Leonard, who was such an amazing lover while at the same time having as his first and foremost goal to give her pleasure.

Kurt had been the exact opposite. During sex he only sought his own release and never cared if she had an orgasm or not. Depending on his daily mood, he sometimes had been done in two minutes, leaving her on the bed craving for more while he either fell asleep or went back outside to watch TV or drink beer with his buddies.

But not Leonard. She couldn't for the life of her think of one time they had sex where she didn't have an orgasm. Come to think of it, the number of times she only had one single orgasm before his own release could be counted on one hand. She had never understood why he was so determined to give her pleasure until she met his mother. But thinking about the things he did to her, it was hard to feel bad that he was so eager to please her.

After a minute of simply enjoying him buried inside her, she used her feet to gently hit his ass so he would start moving. He started pulling out slowly and pushed back inside, stretching her again. Another nudge made him speed up slightly and she was almost frustrated at his caution.

Despite her giving him assurances, he still wouldn't go as fast as she liked until she had enough. She took one of her legs away from his ass and stretched it, using her other leg to flip them around so she was on top of him.

"I feel okay Leonard, no need to treat me like I'm made of cotton." she explained after seeing his confused look, although she could swear that he tried his utmost not to grin smugly, as if he had planned to get her frustrated enough to get on top.

She started gyrating forward and backward, reveling in the feeling that was causing inside her. She grabbed his hands that were on her hips and intertwined their fingers, holding them tightly as she rode him. Her eyes never left his and the look she saw on his face was one of unconditional love and it made her wonder why he wouldn't say it to her. But it also strengthened her conviction that their anniversary was the day she would tell him, no matter how hard her brain wanted to stop her.

As Penny sped up, she put his hands on her breasts, giggling as he flicked his fingers over her hard nipples. She put her hands on his chest and sped up, mixing her straight movements with some sideways gyrating and enjoying his moans as his cock moved against her tight walls. She squeezed her inner muscles a few times, knowing he loved that and started a slight bouncing movement to give him the sight he craved most of her breasts bouncing up and down, if ever so slightly.

Since there was not that much fast movement, Leonard was able to hold out for a comparatively long time but after almost thirty minutes of riding him slowly, she had enough and needed more friction. To speed up her own climax, she rode him faster but still timid to prevent any pain from her sore internal nether area. He seemed to sense her predicament and decided to help her along.

As soon as his fingers started to rub against her clit, Penny seized up and shattered on him, her climax incredibly hard and long after such a long build-up. She almost keened as if a scream or a yell of pleasure wasn't nearly enough to express what she was feeling right now since it took more than two minutes for her legs to stop quivering. She had always scoffed when she read things and the authors described something like an earth-shattering orgasm but after what she just experienced, she could finally understand what that meant.

"Jesus Christ, I died and went to heaven." Penny panted as she pressed herself to his chest.

"Really? Granted, I managed to hold out for a while but I was under the impression that the slow speed wasn't that helpful."

"Are you kidding? I feel like someone has replaced my legs with jello."

"Then my job is done." Leonard quipped. "Come on, lets get cleaned up and then we can go to sleep. I need to get up early tomorrow to help Howard move."

"Don't remind me of him moving into this building. I'm more and more inclined to stick my head into the oven and turn on the gas."

"Really? That just gives me the chance to fuck you from behind before pulling you out of there." he grinned.

"Leonard!" she slapped him on the arm but couldn't help but grin herself.

"Hey, you said I shouldn't be politically correct all the time."

They went into the bathroom and Penny wondered at Leonard's willingness to stand naked beside her and clean himself up using sponges and water while unwilling to do his ablutions with her in the room. Since they didn't need to brush their teeth again, they went back into the bedroom and got into the same position they had before their lovemaking with Penny pressed into his chest with his arm around her waist. She soon was asleep, her dreams plagued by a persistent cockroach following her around with a face like a certain engineer she knew.


Penny woke up to and Leonard-less bed and immediately felt colder than usual when waking up in her bed. For a second she wondered where he was but then remembered that the guys were supposed to help Howard move. She dragged herself out of the bed and freshened up in the bathroom before putting on her violet underwear and going to the kitchen to make herself some coffee.

As the black liquid was brewing, she looked around to find something to wear but everything she had for everyday use was in her laundry baskets. Not knowing what else to do, she donned some gray sweatpants and her old Hillary for President shirt. In her tiredness she even put on the boxers Leonard had given her to wear over her sweatpants but before she could take them off again, her coffee machine finished and all her thoughts were on the invigorating drink waiting for her in the kitchen.

After she had drunk the coffee and ate the two bear claws Leonard had left for her, her phone rang. She grabbed it and saw the face of her sweetie appear on the screen. Any good mood resulting from that was soured by the knowledge where he was and what he was doing right now.

"Hey." she greeted him deflated.

"Hey, Penny. Good news, you can take your head out of the oven." came from the other end of line.

"What do you mean?" she asked and sat straight up, her mood improving immediately.

"We overheard Howard and his mom arguing back and forth about him moving out and to punish her, he decided to stay with her. So, Howard won't be living above us."

"That's so great. If you were here, we could celebrate naked." she giggled.

"And risk another day of soreness?"

"Screw soreness, I'm happy." she grinned.

"Okay, we're heading back. Sheldon wants to stop by the comic book store on the way home so it might take an hour or two."

"See you then." Penny said and ended the call.

She happily sank back into her couch and sighed in joy. Howard wouldn't live above them and she wouldn't have to worry about him listening on her wall or door during the night to her and Leonard's amorous activities. She had no idea who would move in there now but anyone was better than Howard.

She got up and grabbed one of her laundry baskets, skipping down the stairs to the laundry room and putting her laundry into one of the machine before adding detergent and starting it. She returned to her apartment and for lack of something better to do, which included her boyfriend, her bed and no clothes, she decided to watch a few more episodes of Friends until her laundry was done.


Penny had ignored the oven timer, when it had signaled her that her laundry was done, to finish watching the current episode but her lack of concentration meant that she finished watching the entire DVD before she realized that her laundry was still downstairs in the laundry room. With a curse she got up and opened her apartment door to find herself face to face with a rather tall woman followed by Sheldon and a big cardboard box with legs between them.

"Oh, hey guys." she greeted them, knowing who was holding the box.

"Hey, Penny. this is Alicia, our new neighbor." Leonard's voice explained.

"Hi." Penny greeted their new neighbor.

"Hi." Alicia greeted her back.

"I offered to help but why I suddenly carry the largest box I really don't know." Leonard said, his voice straining with the weight he was holding.

"Why did you take it?" Penny asked.

"He's the muscle of our group, why wouldn't he take it?" Sheldon rhetorically asked. "Alicia's non-musical, childless and pro-rug. She's still on probation, of course, but I like her."

"Cool t-shirt." Alicia commented to Penny, who still was in her last clean clothes.

"Oh, yeah, I don't usually dress like this. I'm going jogging." Penny tried to explain.

"You don't jog." Sheldon commented.

"I can start." she pointedly replied.

"True, but the more likely explanation for your attire is that you're out of clean clothes again." Sheldon countered, making Penny mad for his observational skills.

"Please, you look cute. I'm dressed like a slob today, too." Alicia said and Penny couldn't believe her, since the woman was dressed in tight-fitting jeans and a shirt that revealed the lack of a bra underneath it.

"If that is dressing like a slob, I'm curious what you wear on a fancy occasion." Leonard said.

"This one's a player, huh?" Alicia quietly said to her.

"Oh yeah, be careful." Penny warned, trying to convey to Alicia that Leonard was hers and hers alone.

"Thanks for the warning." Alicia replied, apparently getting it but her smile indicated that she misunderstood the warning.

"Can we move this along, my arms are starting to shake." Leonard said.

"I'll see you around." Alicia stated and walked up the stairs, Leonard in tow, making Penny extremely jealous.

"See ya." Penny smiled sweetly until Alicia was around the corner. "I'm dressed like a slob today, too." she repeated in a high pitched version of Alicia's voice.

"Oh, mimicry. I enjoy mimicry." Sheldon said. "I've been working on Admiral Ackbar from Return of the Jedi. "It's a trap." You have to imagine me with a giant squid head." he said and Penny simply shook her head and went downstairs.

Once back in the laundry room, she took her clothes out of the machine and put them into the dryer, activating it before walking back up. She tried to distract herself with more Friends episodes but she ended up walking creases into her floor with all her pacing, her mind conjuring up images of finding Alicia naked on top of Leonard, in the throes of an orgasm that only Leonard could give but nobody deserved except for Penny.

She wanted to go up there to check if something was happening but two things stopped her. One, she looked like a slob in her old clothes and the most important reason, she trusted Leonard not to do anything. As soon her her oven timer signaled again that the dryers were done, she hurried downstairs and got her laundry, choosing to fold it inside her apartment.

She hurried back into her place and grabbed a pair of red pants and a flower-y top from the pile and changed out of her old clothes before putting the new ones on. She looked into her mirror to see if anything is awry but couldn't find a flaw in her clothing, the visible bra should show Leonard what kind of underwear she had on underneath. She looked at her laptop and saw the box with the printer she had gotten a few days ago but although Leonard had promised to set it up for her, he still hadn't done it. Granted, the reason he hasn't yet was mostly because of her, as she had dragged him to bed once he came back from his trip and Sheldon hadn't disturbed them.

She went out into the hallway to go to Leonard's apartment, to show him she still existed and that she wanted to spend time with him, no matter what kind of beautiful woman had moved in above. But she shouldn't be concerned, should she? Leonard wouldn't do anything, but would Alicia? Before her mind could go into an even darker area, she opened the door to find Sheldon on the couch, writing stuff in the air.

"Hey." she greeted him.

"Congratulations, I see you did your laundry." the lanky physicist commented.

"Yeah, part of it. Is Leonard around?"

"He's upstairs at Alicia's." Sheldon replied and Penny's heart sank.

"Oh. all right, that's cool, no biggie. He said he'd help me set up my printer, but I guess I can wait." she said. "What exactly is he doing up there?"

"In what I can only perceive as a tactical move to destroy me, he is with Wolowitz and Koothrappali setting up her stereo."

"Oh, they're all up there, huh? Hmm, typical." she said, her disappointment in Leonard being still up there softened by the fact that he at least wasn't alone with her.

"It's axiomatically atypical. Up until recently, they did not know Alicia, and had no encounters with her in a previous location. They never went upstairs to visit the former tenants, so your characterization of their behavior as typical is demonstrably fallacious."

"Okay, now I see the giant squid head." she quipped and headed back outside. Sheldon again didn't get why she was disappointed.

As Penny walked back into her apartment, an idea formed inside her head to show Alicia that she was good-looking too and of course to show Leonard what was waiting for him. She rummaged in her closet and found a blue dress that reached her thighs and accentuated her breasts. She took off all her clothes except the violet thong and put it on, straightening it out and optimizing the presentation of her cleavage.

She grabbed a magazine that she had a physicist joke in and started memorizing it as she took the hair straightener and some more products and fixed up her hair and make-up until she was finally pleased with her appearance, although she looked like she was about to go out on a hot date. As a last step, she put one of her yellow Penny blossoms into her hair and grabbed a bottle of wine before heading out into the hallway and up the stairs. Before she reached the open door, she heard Howard and Alicia talking.

"Hello." she greeted the people in the room, enjoying the look from Leonard, who was squatting at a shelf and tweaking what looked like some electronic device.

"Oh, hey." Alicia greeted her back and approached her.

"I just wanted to bring you a little housewarming gift." Penny said and handed her the bottle of wine.

"That is so sweet. Come on in, let's open it." Alicia said and walked away from her, making Penny follow. "Nice dress."

"Oh, this? I'm dressed like a slob today." Penny quipped, trying to sound nonchalant while swinging her hips seductively, hoping Leonard would be watching her.

"The guys have been helping me set up my sound system. I've never had such good-looking technical support."

"Hey Penny, guess what Alicia is an actress, just like you." Leonard said, approaching them with the device he was working on.

"That is so awesome." Penny returned with a voice laced with sarcasm.

"Well, trying to be, but it's so hard." Alicia said.

"Yeah, I know, tell me about it." Penny replied, finally finding someone who knew what she was going through.

"I've been out here three months, and all I've gotten is a couple of national commercials and this recurring thing on a soap." Alicia stated, making Penny's jaw hit the floor. That bitch had been here for a cup of coffee and had a lot more success than Penny had in a year and a half.

"That's why I work at the Cheesecake Factory, I'm holding out for the right part." Penny said, trying to remain calm about the whole thing and not burst into tears.

"Alicia, what do you want as your default setting for DVDs, 5.1 Dolby or DTS?" Leonard asked.

"Whatever you think is best, cutie." the woman replied.

'Cutie? CUTIE?' Penny thought and did her utmost not to throw the wine bottle at that woman.

"Well, DTS has more low end, so…"

"Then just do it."

"Okay."

"Uh, hey guys, you will really appreciate this." Penny said, remembering her plan. "I read the best science joke on the internet. Alicia, you won't get it, but it's right up their alley. Anyway, so, this physicist goes into an ice cream parlor every week and orders an ice cream sundae for himself, and then offers one to the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner finally asks him what he's doing. The man says, "well, I'm a physicist, and quantum mechanics teaches us that it is possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me." The owner then says, "well, lots of single, beautiful women come in here every day, why don't you buy an ice cream for one of them, and they might fall in love with you?" And the physicist says, "yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?"" she finished, waiting for the laughs.

"It's a little insulting, don't you think?" Leonard asked, getting it.

"How would I know? I'm not even sure I get it." Penny admitted deflated.

"Hey, Leonard? If you're done with the DVD player, can you set up my printer?" Alicia asked.

"Uh, sure, as long as I'm here."

"Uh, hey, maybe when you're done with her printer, you could set up mine. You know, like you promised." Penny said.

"Yeah, I'll get to it, if we're not... you know." he winked at her.

"Hello there." Raj said after he took a swig of the wine.

"Hey. So you can talk." Alicia said.

"Yes, of course I can. I'm Rajesh by the way. Now that we have those pesky introduction out of the way, why don't we get more acquainted in a hot tub." Raj said and Penny decided that it was too much to bear and left.

She headed back down to her floor and went directly into Leonard's apartment, finding Sheldon still sitting on the couch in his beloved spot, watching TV. Without further comment, she walked to the sofa herself and collapsed in it.

"Who is it? Oh hello, Penny, it's open, come in." Sheldon said, making her look at him. "Sarcasm."

"Well, they're all still up there." she said.

"You think I can't hear them? Listen to that. Stomp, stomp, stomp. That's Wolowitz in his stacked heels that fool no one."

"I don't even know why I care. I don't care. All right, I cared enough to memorize that stupid joke, but that's all I care." she stated. 'Who am I kidding. I care because the man I love is upstairs with a woman I swear looks at him with more than just curiosity.'

"You know, Penny, there's something that occurs in beehives you might find interesting. Occasionally, a new queen will arrive while the old queen is still in power. When this happens, the old queen must either locate to a new hive or engage in a battle to the death until only one queen remains." Sheldon said.

"What are you saying, that I'm threatened by Alicia? That I'm like the old queen of the hive and it's just time for me to go?"

"I'm just talking about bees. They're on the discovery channel." he stuttered, pointing at the TV. "What are you talking about?"

"Bees." she replied slowly. "Oh. I just got that physicist joke."

Since Sheldon wasn't exactly comforting conversation material, she went back into her own apartment and changed out of the dress into some more comfortable clothes. She also discarded the flower barrette and combed the product out of her hair.

While she put the next Friends DVD into her player and started it, she thought about a way to get the guys back into her corner. Since the quickest way to a man's heart was through his ribcage, buying them guns might do the trick but she reckoned that these guys were better receptive to the next best thing, which was food. Also, the process of buying guns took a few days and she wouldn't be able to do it in secret.

After watching the entire third season of Friends, even tearing up during the scene of Ross and Rachel's break-up, not because of its sadness factor but because she thought about her and Leonard doing that, it was time to leave and get the food before one of them went himself.

She got into her car and drove to the Korean supermarket on the way, buying the hot mustard and low-sodium soy sauce Sheldon preferred and always demanded from Leonard before heading towards the restaurant where she placed the orders, stressing that the chicken be sliced and not shredded and the rice be brown and not white. It took almost twenty minutes for the cook to finish them, after which she paid and drove back to the apartment, walking up the stairs and entering the guys' apartment without knocking.

"I brought food." she proclaimed, finding the guys on the couch and Leonard standing in the kitchen.

"Thanks for buying us dinner." Leonard said, coming to the table with a bottle of water.

"Yeah, what's the occasion?" Howard asked suspicious.

"No, no occasion, just felt like getting some Chinese chow for my peeps." she replied.

"Did you remember to ask for the chicken with broccoli to be diced, not shredded even though the menu description specifies shredded?" Sheldon asked.

"Yes." she replied.

"Brown rice, not white?"

"Yes."

"You stop at the Korean grocery and get the good hot mustard?"

"Yes."

"Did you pick up the low-sodium soy sauce from the market?"

"Yes"

"Good. See how it's done, Leonard?" Sheldon admonished to his roommate and Penny felt strangely proud.

"So, what do we got going on tonight, huh?" she asked around. "Playing Halo, watching Battlestar, drop some mentos in diet coke?"

"You want to watch Battlestar?" Leonard asked incredulous.

"What can I say? I got my geek on, boys." she fake grinned.

"No, PMS is different." Howard said to Raj after the Indian whispered something in his ear. Just then, a knock was heard on the door and Leonard got up to answer it.

"Oh, thank God you're home. I need help." Alicia, who was on the other side, frantically said.

"What's wrong?" Leonard asked her.

"I just got a callback to audition for CSI to play a hooker who gets killed but my car is in the shop, and I have to be at Universal in forty-five minutes." Alicia pleaded, making Penny angry at asking her boyfriend and also because that bitch got a callback for a network TV show.

"Well, good luck?" Leonard asked, wondering what the emergency was.

"Come on, I need a driver." Alicia said and grabbed Leonard's arm, pulling him out of the apartment and down the stairs.

"I'll run lines with you in the car." Howard said and followed them, Raj in tow.

"Great. And afterward, I'll take you all out for Chinese." Penny heard Alicia say from the hallway.

"Oh, actually, that's okay. we already have…" Penny started but the door closed before she could finish the sentence. "…Chinese food right here."

"They're gone, Penny. They can't hear you." Sheldon commented after she had finished the sentence.

"I cannot believe they're letting her just use them like that. I mean, anything she wants, they go panting after her like trained dogs."

"Leonard didn't, she dragged him away and even I saw the reluctance in his posture."

"Still, what's next? Making them drive her to, I don't know, Canada to pick up a TV set?"

"You once had Leonard get your television from your ex-boyfriend, which almost cost him his job." Sheldon stated, making Penny blush, both at the memory of the return and also of the reward she had given him.

"Apples and oranges here, Sheldon." she countered. "I'm telling you, that girl is a user, ice skating through the life on her looks, taking advantage of innocent weak-willed men, getting auditions for stupid network shows. It creams my corn." she said, not even realizing that she had been the same person before she had met Leonard.

"May I interject something here?" Sheldon interrupted.

"Please." she replied, hoping for some wisdom.

"You got the wrong mustard." came his injection.

"Seriously? That's what you focus on here? Sheldon, my life is in upheaval because of a slut that has moved in above you."

"I don't see why the fact that a strange woman shows a possible romantic interest in Leonard is more important that you brought the wrong mustard even though I thought you had learned enough in those eighteen months you have been eating dinner with us."

"Wait, romantic interest in Leonard?" she asked, shocked. "How would you know about that?"

"It's the only logical conclusion. She won't be interested in Koothrapali since he can't talk to her and anything coming out of Howard's mouth is construed by women to be insulting. So, the only person left for her in our group to develop romantic feelings for is Leonard. That of course is based on the assumption that Alicia is in fact straight. If not, she might use them to get closer to you, since you are part of our group."

"No, she's just using them." Penny said in a low voice, her thoughts swirling around the possibility of Sheldon being right and that woman actively trying to take her boyfriend away.

"If you're not going to eat, you could leave." Sheldon suggested when Penny had set in the armchair for five minutes without moving.

"Fine." she huffed and got up, taking all the food on the table and even Sheldon's out of his hand.

"Hey, that's my food."

"No, I paid for it and you haven't reimbursed me yet, so it's mine."

"Jeez, and here I thought you wanted to do us a favor." Sheldon huffed and dug some bills from his pocket, throwing them on the table and reclaiming his food container from her.

Penny grabbed the money and shoved it into her pocket before heading out and into her own apartment. She put most of the food into the fridge and continued eating her own, sitting on the couch and thinking about what happened today.

She needed to have a real talk with Leonard about boundaries, what was appropriate for him to do for other people, especially women. While she was pretty sure that Leonard didn't have any feelings for Alicia apart from the usual male lust at seeing a female body, the fact that he does things for her like setting up her stereo or printer, or driving her to an audition, set a precedent Penny wasn't comfortable with.

On the other hand, now she realized how it must have looked for him when Penny went with Dave on his motorcycle without a second thought, and in her case she did it willingly, Dave didn't pull her away. Leonard was a nice guy and he usually did stuff for others if they asked but to Penny, it was a bit too much, especially when the woman in question appeared to be more successful in the same profession.

After finishing her food, she tried to distract herself with watching a few movies while waiting for Leonard to return but after a few hours, she got too tired and went to bed. Hopefully, tomorrow she could have that talk with Leonard to see where he stands on the issue and why he went along instead of saying no.


After getting up at nine in the morning, Penny drank her usual two cups of coffee and ate a few pieces of toast she had found in her cupboard. She thought about going to Leonard but he was probably at work on one of his still ongoing half-days. She looked around her apartment and saw her remaining laundry basket filled with her shirts and few sweaters.

Instead of taking them, she flopped down onto her couch and started up the TV, zapping through the programs, watching stuff she likes and stuff she usually just skips over and landing on an old Star Trek episode she only stopped to watch because she saw a young Leonard Nimoy, remembering him from the Cheesecake Factory when she had asked for the autograph for Sheldon.

Before she knew it, she had watched the entire episode plus the seven following ones, cursing her curiosity of the stuff Leonard got so excited about and getting up to finally do her remaining laundry, even though it was already dinner time and her stomach reminded her loudly that she had missed lunch.

She grabbed a magazine and the basket and headed downstairs to the laundry room, choosing to stay down there and wait for her laundry to finish because if she went back into her apartment, she knew that she'd probably forget to get it back again. And since the articles were rather interesting, the time between her laundry first finishing and then drying flew by faster than she could have imagined. While she was folding her clothes, she heard a voice of a person she really didn't want to meet now.

"Hi." Alicia's voice greeted her before the owner of it walked past behind her with a laundry basket in her hand.

"Hi." Penny greeted back, already fed up with that woman.

"Guess what? I got the part on CSI." Alicia said proudly, making Penny hate her even more.

"Oh boy." Penny threw out sarcastically.

"Something wrong?"

'As if you don't know.' Penny thought, "Uh, no. You know, congratulations, I think you'll make a great hooker."

"Thank you. Hey, I got to ask you something, how much do experimental physicists make?" Alicia asked.

"Enough to take you on romantic weekends or buy you incredibly shoes." Penny replied dreamily without even thinking about what Alicia's question signified.

"Really? That's good to know, even though he's not my type. Well, got to run, I got the guys to set up my satellite dish and paint my bedroom. Yay!"

"Hey, can I talk to you for a second?" Penny stopped her.

"About what?"

"Well, you know, it's just that Leonard and Howard and Raj, they aren't like other guys. They're special. Leonard especially."

"Okay, and?"

"Oh, let's see, how can I explain this, um, they don't know how to use their shields." she said, involuntarily using a Star Trek reference.

"Shields?"

"Yeah, you know, like in Star Trek, when you're in battle and you raise the shields?" she explained and turned her head, wondering why she even knew where that reference came from before realizing that she had binge watched almost seven hours of Star Trek today. "Anyway, you know how guys like this are, so, please don't take advantage of them."

"Who says I'm taking advantage of them?" Alicia asked.

"Come on, they're doing everything for you, because you're leading them on." Penny told her.

"So I let them do stuff for me. They're happy. I get stuff. Who cares? And how's it any different from what you do?"

"Excuse me?"

"I've seen you around them. Are you pretending like you don't do the exact same thing?"

"There is a big difference between me and you and our behavior towards the guys."

"And what would that be? Howard told me that Leonard does pretty much anything you ask him for." Alicia said and crossed her arms.

"Well, for one thing, Leonard is simply too nice to say no. And more importantly, me and Leonard are a couple. So yeah, he does things for me when I ask because I do things for him when he asks me."

"Oh really?" Alicia asked doubtfully, infuriating Penny even more. "Then why hasn't he said anything."

"Because we don't shout it from the rooftops and before you ask, we have a reason for that and we came up with it together."

"Even if I choose to believe you, if I want to make a move on Leonard, there's nothing you can do about it."

"Okay lady, you are way out of line." Penny threatened.

"Well, what are you going to do about it, bitch?" Alicia asked, squinting her eyes and Penny finally saw red.

The next thing she knew, her fist had connected with Alicia's chin and the taller woman was staggering backwards until she hit the wall next to the door. Penny followed up, ready to punch her again but Alicia put up her leg and stopped her short with a kick into her stomach which made Penny double over.

Alicia moved outside the room but Penny followed her, not wanting her to get away after more or less promising to try to seduce her boyfriend. She grabbed her from behind and shoved her forward. Alicia turned around and grabbed Penny's arms to stop her from hitting her again but Penny fought back as hard as she could, trying to get a few more blows into the body of that skank.

As their hands connected and fought for dominance, both holding the others so none would be able to punch or scratch, Penny's push made them both bump into the table below the mailboxes. The sudden change in trajectory had them land on the floor where they continued to roll around, their battle for dominance unending.

When Penny was underneath Alicia, she heard the voice of Howard yelling out the words girl fight, which made her look to them and saw him holding Leonard by the arms and knowing Howard, it was probably to prevent her boyfriend from interfering, since Howard was a creep and loved to watch women fight.

That brief lapse in concentration however was enough for Alicia to free one of her hands and before Penny could react, Alicia's fist connected to her mouth and split her lower lip before it connected again to her upper left cheek, snapping her head around. Leonard seemed to have finally gotten out of Howard's grasp because before she could hit Alicia back, the woman was thrown backwards by him.

"That's it, I'm out of here. I have better things to do than beat the crap out of you, bitch." Alicia yelled and ran up the stairs.

Leonard helped Penny up and helped her up the stairs while she felt her face burning both from the shame of actually getting into a physical confrontation and the pain in those areas Alicia had hit. She tried to ignore Howard's comments about how hot that was until they had finally reached their floor.

Leonard accompanied her into her apartment while the others went into 4A and she sat down on her couch. Without saying anything, Leonard grabbed some ice cubes from her freezer and wrapped them into a piece of cloth before putting a towel around the pack and handing it to Penny.

"Thank you." she said and held the ice to the side of her face.

"Care to tell me what that fight was about?" he asked and Penny warred with herself if she should tell him the truth or not. If she told him that Alicia had apparently real interest in him, he might leave her to be with that infuriating woman.

"It was the culmination of everything." Penny said, truthful enough. "When she shoved her success about getting that part for CSI in my face, I saw red. A part she got because you drove her, I might add." she said accusingly.

"Yeah, sorry about that. One moment she's asking me, the next thing I knew she pulled me down the stairs with Howard and Raj behind us, pushing me along."

"I know. I saw that." Penny said and glared at him. "You could have called."

"Not when my phone was still in the apartment. I wanted to come back as soon as we dropped her off but Howard and Raj insisted on waiting for her."

"But you didn't come back for hours."

"Because we had to take Howard's car after he had blocked mine. So he was the one calling the shots about coming back. And since I didn't even have my wallet with me, I couldn't call a cab."

"But did you really wait for hours? Auditions don't usually take that long. What was she doing there?"

"Yeah. I mean, I kinda figured it out once she came out with that guy, her hair messed up and with that face that said she had had sex a few minutes ago but Howard and Raj didn't pick up on it and let her take them to dinner."

"Did you eat too?" she asked him with sad eyes.

"Well, yeah. I mean, I was hungry and I didn't know what you did with the food you brought us. So I ordered something expensive, since she paid."

"Okay." Penny said dejected. "Will you really paint her bedroom?"

"No way. Let Howard and Raj do it if they think it's worth it to paint a room that will be used by her to sleep with that guy she came out the studio with." Leonard stated. "As for me, why would I help someone who hit my girlfriend."

"Thank you." she smiled.

"Hey, you should change and come over. We bought Thai food."

"Well, I still have the leftovers from yesterday in my fridge but it tastes better when fresh." she said. "But why do I have to change?"

"You got blood on your top from your lip."

"Oh crap, I need to soak this or the stain won't come out." Penny said and ran into her bathroom, taking off the top and throwing it into the sink before filling it with water and detergent.

Leonard came in behind her and gave an appreciative whistle at the sight of her violet bra, knowing what she wore under her pants. She smiled at him, wincing when she felt the pain of her lower lip, but wiggled her ass for him before pushing him out of the bathroom so she could leave it as well.

She grabbed a lime green top and a striped sweater, shoving them on and looking at herself in the mirror, cursing when she saw the dark blue around her left eye and her lip, a testament to the strength of the blow she had received from Alicia.

With Leonard in front of her, she walked out of her apartment and followed him into his before sitting down in his armchair. She grabbed the food they got for her and started eating, wincing again as the sauce hit the wound on her lip, making it sting.

"May I say you look very comely tonight?" Howard said to her.

"Thank you." she replied, not feeling snippy enough to give him a sharp retort.

"You're right, this filly's been broken." Howard told Raj but before she could say anything about it, they heard deep bass music coming from the apartment above them as Leonard handed her a bottle of water which she thanked him for by giving him a grateful smile as wide as her lip allowed.

"You set it on DTS, didn't you?" Sheldon said accusingly to Leonard.

"I had to, she decided on it."

"According to Alicia's facebook page, she's hooking up with one of the producers on CSI." Howard clarified about who the guy was she had slept with during or after her audition.

"Well, dead whore on TV, live one in real life." Penny quipped to the laughter of Leonard before a loud squeaking became audible from above.

"Oh, great now she's jumping up and down on the bed." Sheldon commented.

"Wow." Penny mouthed silently to Leonard at Sheldon's show of equal innocence and ignorance.

The squeaking stopped after about ten minutes, making Penny feel smug knowing that her own bed wouldn't stop squeaking after only ten minutes when she was having sex with Leonard, if you count out the first time after a multiple-week long dry spell.

On the other hand, now Penny knew what the poor old lady living in the apartment below her must feel like when Leonard spends the nights in her bed. She knew that her springs squeaked too and all the times she forgot to pull the bed away from the wall, it hammered even louder, especially when Penny got too wild and rode him with abandon. Not to mention the yelling.

"I don't believe her." Howard yelled. "First she makes all those innuendos towards us and now she's shacking up with her producer?"

"Howard, you never had a chance with her." Leonard objected.

"Oh, and you did?" the engineer shot back, clearly unaware of the things Alicia had told Penny.

"No, and I never had any inkling that she did."

"Then why did you agree to paint her bedroom?"

"I didn't. You and Raj did. I told her I wouldn't be doing it, especially not if we had to buy the color ourselves."

"I will tell you this, after we paint her room, I will never do things for her again." Howard stated.

"Okay, I'm heading out." Penny threw in. "Before I have to punch Howard to make him understand that he shouldn't paint her bedroom at all."

She got up and walked towards the door with her food in hand while Howard and Raj argued loudly with each other, the Indian apparently having forgotten that she was still inside the room. As she reached the door, she felt Leonard's hand on her arm and turned around.

"Penny, we have our anniversary in two weeks." Leonard said quietly. "Please don't get into another fight. It would make me look like someone who beats up his girlfriend if we show up someplace with you looking like this." he grinned.

"I won't." she agreed. "Bye you."

She gave him a peck on the lips and left him standing there and after he had closed the door and she was opening hers, she realized that she had just kissed him with no regards to the other guys. On the other hand, now they maybe finally know about them, which would be okay since they could do some public display's of affection, on the other hand, them knowing did take a component out of their relationship, since messing around with the guys was still a fun thing for her to do.

As she sat down on her couch, wondering about that stuff, she giggled at the prospect of their anniversary coming up. In two weeks, the day would arrive that marked one year of mostly happiness and hopefully it would also begin a new era where he knew that she loved him and she hopefully knew that he loved her back. She had already taken the weekend off so nothing on her side would interfere.

Only eleven more days.


And done. And from this point on, I'm discontinuing the story. No more chapters.

Just kidding :-p

But seriously, I know that (hopefully) a lot of the readers wait restlessly for Chapter 30 but since my shoulder is mostly healed, I'm going back to work. But nice guy that my boss is, he dropped the afternoon shifts into my lap, which means I'm heading to work before lunch and am back after eight in the evening. And usually, I like to turn on my computer, put in a movie and putting my feet up and relax with a beer.

But hey, if a lot of people review, I might be convinced to sacrifice my two hours after work before bed to write :D

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