Well, here it is, Chapter 50. Something I haven't thought possible after posting Chapter 1 and having to re-post it again. But, as it's almost a thing for me when it comes to a a quarter chapter, it's a little overboard in terms of the word count. Not as long as Chapter 25 though ^^

quazmlp: I stopped posting on AO3 because it's a pain. Whenever I copy my chapter into their editor, I have to spend between thirty and sixty minutes reformatting it because somehow that editor turns almost all my lines to italic and it puts a massive break between each line.

I hope you enjoy. Worked hard on it :)

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.

Disclaimer2: Using Penny's family again, thanks TerribleWaitress :)


"Penny?" the voice, of Kim, the night manager startled her.

"WHAT?" she growled. "Sorry. I'm a bit frustrated."

"Trouble at home? Or with the boyfriend?"

"No, at least not the way you think." Penny sighed. "My boyfriend is taking me to my parents for two weeks and to get the free time, I have to work the hours I will miss during those two weeks."

"Actually, you're only working the hours for next week." Kim pointed out.

"Huh?"

"You take the last week of June and the first week of July. But since your request was on rather short notice, you have to work those long hours now. The hours you miss in July will be spread out over the rest of the month, so you won't have to work fourteen hours a day."

"And that's what's frustrating me." she sighed. "No days off for twelve days, fourteen hours a day, I never get to see my boyfriend. At least, today I'll see him, since, luckily, I don't have to work til ten today."

"Be happy that I checked the schedule before he handed it to you, otherwise you would be working that long today too."

"Why?"

"Because I have been where you are." Kim said. "I worked the tables and wanted some time off. But if you work every day into the night, even on Sunday, you suddenly realize when coming home that you still have to pack for the trip that starts the next day. That's why I gave you only an eleven hour shift today and tomorrow, you work only until four in the afternoon. Gives you enough time to pack."

"Thanks Kim." Penny sighed.

"You're welcome. Now get back to work."

"What work? The dinner crowd isn't in yet."

"Then keep guarding the bar." Kim chuckled and moved off.

Penny sighed again and took out her cellphone. She hesitated for a bit, not wanting to sound too needy but for all their talk of having daily bonus nights to get over their, in reality nonexistent, breakup, at least as far as the other guys are concerned, and of her blustering to do all the work then and be on top, they hadn't had a chance for intimacy since that night. Shrugging, she fired up a quick text to her sweetie.

I need your hands on the wonder twins again :(

Wonder twins? :)

Ashley and Mary-Kate :D

Are we naming our genitals now?

Shut up! ;) As long as your spongebob will be in my squarepants again as soon as possible.

That's funny. :)

Will you come over tonight?

That's not really possible, is it? Me and the guys are doing a little project of our own that I agreed to because you said you were going to your friend's party tonight after work.

Crap, the party is today?

Yeah, at least that what you told me last week. The Saturday before our vacation.

Damn. I think I will cancel. I get off work at seven.

We're already building up the machine.

"Hey Penny." a familiar voice interrupted her before she could type another message.

"Marie?" Penny asked surprised after looking up and finding her friend's face strangely puffed. "Damn, you have changed."

"I know. But that happens in my condition." Marie sighed and Penny finally noticed the protruding stomach of her friend.

"What the...? You're pregnant?"

"Yep. Did take a while after I stopped taking birth control. And Eric is a nervous wreck at being a dad though he tries not to show it." Marie chuckled.

"Is a party a good idea then?" Penny frowned.

"Yeah. It's probably not a party you are used to. We have booze and all but I won't drink any, neither will Eric." Marie nodded. "Also, you can lose that look of panic from your eyes, this isn't a baby shower so you won't have to bring anything."

"Thank god." Penny breathed a sigh of relief. "When does the party start?"

"Officially at seven. When does your shift end?"

"At seven unfortunately." Penny replied.

"Good. I tell Zack to pick you up at eight then, right? Is that enough time for you to get home and ready?"

"Sure. And Zack?" Penny asked, then remembered the guy from the gym. "Right, him. Already forgot about him."

"Well, he hasn't forgotten about you." Marie snorted.

"What do you mean?"

"He kept bragging about his new squeeze, the, and I quote 'bitchin' blond with the great tits and and ass that can crack a walnut between the cheeks'. End quote."

"Jeez. I told him I'm not single." Penny sighed.

"He kept pointing to the video he had seen." Marie shrugged.

"While ignoring my facebook status."

"Anyway, I will tell him. Just be ready and bring good mood."

"Okay. But I can't stay that long, my shift tomorrow starts at seven in the morning again."

"You poor thing. But since I'm that far along, we won't party that long anyway."

"Great. See you tonight then."

"Bye." Marie waved and left the restaurant.

With a new spring in her step at the prospect of a nice evening in lieu of Leonard's unavailability, Penny mentally prepared herself for the remaining time of her shift. The dinner crowd would be arriving soon and then any thoughts of something else than work would only cause her to get less tips and therefore money she would desperately need.


After returning home and finding the guys' apartment empty, Penny had showered and changed into the clothes she wanted to wear to Marie's shindig. Now it was already past eight and the sky was getting dark and still she was sitting in her apartment, reading magazines and being generally bored. Leonard was off doing whatever it was that probably Sheldon had dragged the guys into and Zack was keeping her waiting. She was about to turn the page when her phone beeped with a message from Marie.

Penny, where are you?

Waiting for that guy to pick me up. Have been ready since eight. she typed in reply.

Give me a second, I'll try to find out where he is.

Okay. Penny typed back and waited a minute before the next message came.

He's been sitting in his car in front of your building since eight, waiting. I told him to get to come your apartment to get you.

Thanks. Penny typed and in that moment a knock was heard on the door.

"Hey there." the tall guy from the gym greeted her with a crooked smile.

"Hi. Why didn't you come up?" she asked.

"Didn't know what apartment was yours."

"And why didn't you ask?"

"Didn't think of that." Zack admitted as another knock sounded on her door.

"Oh, hey you." she greeted Leonard who was outside. "What are you doing here? I thought Sheldon dragged you off somewhere."

"We're up on the roof bouncing laser beams off the moon." he grinned. "I saw your light still on and thought your party might have been canceled."

"I'm sorry, what? Shooting a laser?"

"It's pretty cool. We've got a two-meter parabolic reflector and everything. I thought you might want to see it." he suggested.

"That makes no sense." Zack said from behind her and came to the door, putting his arm around her, much to her surprise. "How can you bounce stuff off the moon? There's no gravity."

"Uh, Leonard, this is Zack. Zack, Leonard." Penny introduced the two men.

"Hey." Zack greeted Leonard.

"Zack was supposed to pick me up but sat in the car for an hour instead of knocking. We were about to leave for Marie's." Penny explained.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't know you were busy. Maybe another time." Leonard said dejected.

"Hey, I want to see this laser thing." Zack suddenly said.

"But what about the party? We're already late." Penny interjected.

"So? Won't take that long." Zack pointed out walked up the stairs.

"What's with the arm?" Leonard asked her when Zack was out.

"I have no idea. Apparently, I'm his 'bitchin' blond with the great tits and and ass that can crack a walnut between the cheeks'." Penny quoted what Marie has told her, using her fingers to underline it.

"Well, you do have great breasts and an ass to crack walnuts with." Leonard grinned, wiggling his eyebrows.

"Pervert." she smiled back as they slowly walked to the roof. "Remind me again why we're not in my bed right now, doing it like rabbits until the bed breaks?"

"Because you're supposed to be at a party, the guys are waiting for me and will looks strange when they see Zack and possible think that I traded a hundred IQ points for a foot of height." Leonard chuckled. "Also, your idea of keeping us a secret."

"Yeah, I am seriously regretting this. Okay, lets face the music." she sighed as they walked onto the roof. "Hey, guys, this is Zack."

"Whoa! Is that the laser? It's bitchin'." Zack said impressed.

"Yes. In 1917, when Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundation for the laser in his paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung, his fondest hope was that the resultant device be bitchin'." Sheldon returned condescending as usual.

"Well, mission accomplished." Zack nodded.

"What did Sheldon say? The name of that paper?" Penny whispered to Leonard.

"Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung." Leonard told her in very broken German. "Or, translated, On the stimulated emission of radiation. It's the theoretical basis for the laser, or bar codes or lasik surgery."

"And what are you doing now?"

"Let me explain what we're doing here." he said louder so Zack could hear it too. "In 1969, the astronauts on Apollo eleven positioned reflectors on the surface of the moon, and we're going to shoot a laser off one of them and let the light bounce back into this photomultiplier."

"Oh! That's very cool." Penny said impressed.

"One question. How can you be sure it won't blow up?" Zack asked.

"The laser?" Leonard inquired.

"The moon." Zack clarified to everyone's shock, even Penny's.

"See, now this is a man for Penny." Sheldon said to Leonard, making her groan silently.

"Uh, that's a great question, Zack." Leonard nodded.

"No, it's not." Sheldon countered "How could somebody possibly think we're going to blow up the moon? That's a great question."

"Well, it's a good question if some big guy asks it who might get violent if you call him out on his stupidity." Leonard said to Sheldon and thankfully, Zack was too busy staring at the dish behind him. "Don't worry about the moon. We, we set our laser to stun." he added to Zack.

"Smart." Zack gave a thumbs up.

"Now, we'll be able to see the beam when it leaves, but it won't be strong enough when it comes back to be seen by the naked eye." Leonard continued.

"Naked." Zack chuckled, making Penny roll her eyes.

"Right. Uh yeah, funny. Uh, that device there will measure the photons that return and let us see it on this computer. Raj, get them some glasses."

"Preparing to fire laser at the moon." Howard announced as Penny and Zack put on the glasses they were handed.

"Make it so." Sheldon ordered.

"There it is. There's the spike!" Howard shouted excited.

"Two point five seconds for the light to return. That's the moon! We hit the moon!" Leonard added, equally excited, though Penny couldn't really fathom all the excitement.

"That's your big experiment? All that for a line on the screen?" Zack said, voicing her own thoughts.

"Yeah, but, uh, think about what this represents. The fact that we can do this is the only way of definitively proving that there are man-made objects on the moon, put there by a member of a species that only sixty years before had just invented the airplane." Leonard defended their project.

"What species is that?" Zack asked, causing Penny to almost slap herself.

"I was wrong. Penny can do better." Sheldon interjected.

"Okay, guys, thank you, it's been fun." Penny announced, desperate to get Zack away from them before Sheldon said something to make Zack beat all of them up.

As she followed Zack down the stairs and to his car, she stayed quite, not wanting to get into a conversation with him to prevent herself from getting stupider than she already felt sometimes. She couldn't believe that she used to go out with guys like him. Sure, he was tall and buff but there appeared to be an emptiness in his head that was baffling. His parents could sue the state for millions because that guy apparently got a high school diploma.

"We're here." Zack proclaimed, waking her from her stunned silence.

"Where?" Penny asked and looked around.

"Marie and Eric's place." Zack said and got out of the car, Penny following.

They walked to the small house and Zack knocked. A few seconds later, Eric opened and gave Zack some kind of handshake before greeting Penny and letting both in. He led them into the living room where two groups of people had accumulated, one consisting of guys that Eric and Zack gravitated to and the other with girls. Penny walked up to the girls and greeted and hugged those she knew, while introducing herself to the unknowns.

"Okay Marie, tell me something." Penny said quietly. "That Zack guy, did he finish high school?"

"Surprisingly yes." Marie nodded. "I agree, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed."

"Not the sharpest? If he were a real tool in my shed I would have declared him unsavable and thrown him out." Penny sighed.

"What did he do?" Marie asked, seeing the sigh.

"My boyfriend and his friends were doing a little experiment on the roof of our building." Penny started. "They were shooting a laser at the moon..."

"That's so cool." another girl, Christine, interrupted. "Did they hit the mirrors?"

"You know about those mirrors on the moon?" Penny asked.

"Sure, learned it in my history class."

"Okay... yes, they hit them and got a return on their screens. Kind of anticlimactic, I must say."

"Yeah, but the concept is amazing, in my view." Christine shrugged.

"Anyway." Penny brought them back to topic. "While the guys discussed it, Zack asked, and I'm not kidding, if they weren't concerned that they could blow up the moon."

"Um... what?" was the general reaction from all the girls.

"Exactly what I felt." Penny sighed and took a sip of her wine. "The worst thing is, before Leonard a guy like Zack would have been exactly the type of guy I would have taken as a boyfriend."

"Well, now you have a genius as a boyfriend." Marie raised her glass. "Enjoy him."

"Oh, I do." Penny grinned.

The time went by quickly. Since Penny had arrived later than planned, she couldn't stay that long anyway due to her early shift the next day. During the evening, the groups had gravitated a little towards each other thanks to their hosts who sat next to each other.

During that time, Zack had started to loudly brag about a word he allegedly invented, a word regarding food items that people showed you but didn't let you eat. He called them appe-teasers, since they enhanced your appetite but were teasingly held away from you like a stripper in a club that you weren't allowed to touch.

The girls didn't help and kept laughing and snickering at Penny for her admission that a simpleton like Zack would have been her boyfriend if not for Leonard. Penny coped in the only way she knew, by drinking more and more until she was so drunk that even she knew it. Not only drunk, but she was pissed. Pissed at herself for getting drunk, pissed at her boss for giving her such long shifts that she couldn't see Leonard and pissed at Zack for being so stupid.

She was sitting on the edge of the couch, her back to the guys and talking, well more slurring, with the girls when she felt an itch on her ass. She scratched it but soon felt it again, agitating her beyond reason. When it suddenly went harder and across her cheek, she looked down to find Zack, who had drunk a lot as well, running his pinky finger across her fabric covered cheek, trying to get under the skirt she was wearing.

"What the hell?" she shrieked and grabbed his hand, bending the finger backwards until there was an audible snap and a pained groan from Zack. "What do you think you're doing?"

"It's called foreplay?" Zack asked while holding his fingers as the others looked on in stunned silence.

"Jesus Christ, when does it get into your head that I'm not single." she growled.

"Of course you're not single, you're my girlfriend." Zack countered, puzzled.

"Ugh, I got to get out of here before I really hurt him." Penny huffed and staggered towards the door, too much alcohol in her system.

"I can take you." Christine chimed in. "Your place is just a small detour on my way home.

"Thanks." Penny smiled at her and waited while Christine got ready while saying goodbye to Marie and Eric while Zack was in the kitchen, getting ice for his finger.

"Well, that was fun." Eric chuckled. "Would have been nicer if it hadn't ended with some mutilation but hey..."

"Oh no, is it broken? I didn't bend it that far back."

"Oh, but you did bend it that far back." Eric nodded. "All the way until it was horizontal in the wrong direction."

"Shit." Penny cursed.

"Don't beat yourself up. I'll take him to the emergency room."

"But it was my fault."

"No, it was his, he groped you. Even he knows that. At least I hope so." Eric tried to calm her.

"Ready?" Christine came up to them.

"Yeah. Bye Marie. Bye Eric. Good luck with the kid when it's here."

"Thanks." Marie waved and closed the door while Penny followed Christine to her car.

"That was so cool, how you handled that guy." Christine gushed.

"No, it really wasn't." Penny sighed. "I could have done it without breaking his finger."

"Okay, that's true." Christine nodded and opened the passenger door for Penny to get in.

After taking her seat and buckled up, with some difficulty thanks to her inebriation, Christine drove her home. She stayed quiet during the drive, strangely mad at herself for having been such a slut in her teen years. The knowledge that she would have taken a guy like Zack as a boyfriend with no compunction whatsoever nagged at her more than she thought possible. Plus, she was absurdly horny after almost two weeks of not seeing Leonard and the alcohol inside her system didn't help

After she thanked Christine, once the former had dropped her off, she stumbled into the foyer of her building and walked up the stairs, although walking was too good of the word for her dragging herself up on the handrail, trying not to stumble. Once she reached the fourth floor, she made a snap decision and tried opening the guys' apartment door, finding it closed. She started slowly banging on the door, hearing Leonard's voice from the inside and finally the door opened to reveal her sweetie.

"You have ruined me." she accused him without preamble.

"Are you drunk?" he asked, both confused and a little disappointed. "And how did I ruin you?"

"Because in the olden days, I never would've known Zack was so stupid." she slurred.

"Come on, he wasn't that stupid." he tried to placate her anger, even though he agreed.

"Yes, he was!" she yelled. "He thought you were gonna blow up the moon!"

"Okay, yeah, he's stupid." he laughed, finally giving up the pretense.

"He spent the entire night bragging about how he invented the word appe-teasers. And then he felt me up."

"He felt you up?"

"I broke his pinky finger." she admitted.

"That's so sexy." he chuckled. "But how is that my fault?"

"You have destroyed my ability to tolerate idiots." she pointed her finger at him. "Back then I could have overlooked his stupidity but now every word he said almost physically hurt."

"Penny, please, as much as I enjoy this, you should head to bed, you need to work in the morning." he tried to reason, although he wanted nothing more than to have his way with her.

"No, I'm horny, so you will come with me." she proclaimed and grabbed his hand, dragging him towards the bedroom area.

"What are you doing?" he asked confused.

"We're gonna have sex." she shouted back.

"Really? Great!" he replied giddily.

"What's going on?" a confused Sheldon asked upon opening his bedroom door, having heard her shout.

"Put on your noise-canceling headphones, cause it's gonna get loud." Penny slurred and pulled Leonard into his room, slamming the door shut and blocking out anything Sheldon might have answered.

"Penny, how..." he started but was silenced when Penny turned around and pulled him close, pressing her lips on his.

She turned both of them, so his back was to the bed and pushed his robe off him before using her fingernails to rip his customary white shirt apart. He chuckled into the kiss, groaning a little when her right hand dipped into his shorts to cup his balls and stroke his manhood to life. She broke the kiss and pushed him onto the bed, pulling his shorts off as he landed with a creak on his mattress.

"Damn, that's so hot." he grinned as she clumsily pulled the dress over her head before quickly discarding her bra and panties.

"Good, now lick me." she proclaimed and climbed onto the bed, scooting forward until her abdomen was over his head.

She pressed herself down and felt his tongue go to work, making her groan in relief to finally feel him again. True to herself, she hadn't touched herself during the last almost two weeks, which had been very hard since he was only a few feet away, and the long absence showed itself when he managed to bring her to climax in only three minutes.

"OH YEAH!" she groaned loudly, not caring if Sheldon heard her or not through his headphones. "LICK IT BABY, LICK MY PUSSY!"

Penny put her hands on his headboard and started riding his face, moving forward and back to get even more friction. Leonard put two fingers between her folds and allowed her to feel even more as he let his tongue run over her clit. She banged her fist against the wall, groaning in pleasure and breathing hard and fast as he brought her to a second climax.

She lifted herself and scooted downwards and pressed her lips on his, tasting herself on him. She blindly opened the drawer of his nightstand and pulled out something before moving further down, kissing the tip of his manhood and wrapping the rubber band she had taken from the drawer around his base. The band was one of the looser ones, giving him the ability to climax fairly quickly if he wanted.

"Buckle up, this will be frantic." she growled seductively and mounted him, starting to grind almost immediately.

Not wasting any time, she began riding him in earnest, moving her body forward and back in strong motions, feeling his manhood move inside her as she did so. She moaned loudly and touched herself to get more pleasure, lifting her body into a vertical position to do that and in the process feel him even deeper when her own body weight pressed her down harder.

"Oh yeah! FUCK!" she shouted and reenacted the riding lessons of her youth.

She lost all track of time as she rode him hard, sometimes switch her grinding up with bouncing before going back. Sweat was running profusely down her face, dripping on his chest while she chased one climax after another, as if to make up for every orgasm she missed during the last ten days. She could hear Leonard groan, the rubber band forcing him to endure but unbeknownst to her, his groan was more an acknowledgment of his disbelief at having such a passionate girlfriend.

She didn't realize it but the image she was giving him as she bounced and ground on him had him in a trance that made him almost forget the mounting pressure in his testicles. Her breasts were bouncing and swinging the way he loved it and the look on her face, with both her clenched teeth and eyes pressed together, interwoven with numerous expressions of climax was a view he would never get tired of, knowing that it was him doing that to her.

"YEEEHAAAAAW!" Penny suddenly shouted on top of her longs and vastly increased her speed, riding him like a rodeo bull while holding on to his shoulders.

Without thinking about it, Penny extended her orgasm to almost forty seconds while she wildly rode her sweetie. When the pulsating feeling finally subsided, she slowed down, exhaustion taking over. She felt Leonard's hands on her hips but before she could open her eyes and smile at him, darkness enveloped her and she dropped on his chest, fast asleep.

He tried several times to get her awake again, from shaking her, talking and even rubbing her folds, to no avail. When she started gently snoring, he knew that she was completely out and chuckled both in mirth and a little exasperation. On one hand, he felt smug at having worn out his girlfriend so much that she fell asleep but then again, he hadn't been allowed to finish and was still buried inside her with the rubber band around his base.

He pushed her off him and took the band off, his manhood feeling as if it breathed a sigh of relief while it shrank back to it's flaccid form. He turned Penny to her side and put on his shorts and a new shirt before setting her alarm so she could get up early for her shift. He placed a water bottle, one of his strong pain pills and a note on the nightstand and then spooned her, shutting off the light and joining her in dreamland.


Penny woke up to the sound of an alarm clock and blindly fumbled for the offending piece of technology. She found Leonard's phone beeping softly, the sound massively louder thanks to the massive hangover she was having. She lifted her head, a movement she regretted immediately and shut down the alarm before seeing the water, pill and note on the nightstand. She took the pill and swallowed it with a few sips of water before taking the note to read it.

Good morning my love. In case my alarm doesn't wake me with you and you want to let me sleep, this is me saying Thank you for last night, it was incredible, even though I didn't get to finish ;)

She turned her head slowly and looked into Leonard's smiling face, her sweetie having woken up from her movements. She bent down and planted a chaste but sweet kiss on his mouth, aware of her morning breath which was most likely terrible due to her alcohol consume and not brushing her teeth last night.

"Good morning." he smiled.

"Hey." she croaked, her throat sore from her screaming last night. "You didn't finish?"

"No, you fell asleep on me and were dead to the world. I turned you and held you during the night." he told her. "How are you feeling."

"Like shit." she sighed and tried to keep her roiling stomach under control. "I'm so, so, so sorry."

"It's okay." he placated her as she started getting dressed by simply throwing the dress over her naked body, stuffing the underwear and bra into her small purse.

"I promise to make it up to you."

"Remember to pack, we're leaving tomorrow, we need to be at the airport at noon to get through security. We should land in Omaha at around five. Your dad will pick us up." he reminded her.

"Thanks for reminding me. But I really need to get going, I badly need a shower and then to work."

"I love you."

"I love you too." she smiled at him. "And remember, I will make it up to you."

"I know you will. Don't beat yourself up. I just say I wore you out so much that you fell asleep before I was done." he grinned.

"Say it to whom?" she squinted her eyes.

"Nobody. You know what I mean."

"Sweetie, I was on top, so I wore myself out." she pointed out with a grin.

"Stop ruining my memory with your logic. Now get out, you smell and need to go to work." he huffed.

"Wow, I feel so loved." she shook her head with a laugh. "See you."

She left his room and carried her shoes to avoid making a sound, not wanting to deal with Sheldon now. She looked around the corner and saw him standing in the kitchen with his back to her, preparing his breakfast. Thanking her luck, she tiptoed into the room, hoping he wouldn't turn around.

"Good morning, Penny." he suddenly said without ever having turned around.

"What, do you have eyes in the back of your head?" she asked exasperated and a little curious.

"When one gets beaten up every other day in school, one of necessity develops a keen sense of hearing. Incidentally, one can get beaten up in school simply by referring to oneself as one." he explained. "I'm making English muffins. Would you like an English muffin?"

"No, thanks, I'm not hungry." she replied, her stomach still roiling since the pain killers haven't fully kicked in yet.

"FYI, my noise-canceling headphones proved ineffective last night." he told her.

"Yeah, sorry about that." she said embarrassed.

"As a native Texan, I must say I've never heard the phrase yee-haw used in quite that context."

"Oh, God." she groaned and left him alone, heading into her apartment.

She walked into her bathroom and threw the underwear and bra into the hamper, then took off her dress and dropped it on the floor before stepping into the tub. After fifteen minutes of cleaning herself, the pain pill had finally started to work and her headache receded quickly, leaving her fresh and hungry.

After drying off, she walked naked into her kitchen and started her coffee machine, letting it finish while she got dressed in her uniform. When she emerged from her bedroom again, the coffee was done and she quickly drained the two cups before grabbing her purse again and heading out. When she exited her apartment, she ran into Leonard again, who was dressed in his usual outfit and smiling at her.

"Oh, hey." he greeted her.

"Oh, hi. Um, I gotta run. Early shift."

"Okay, I'll walk down with you, need to get the mail anyway. So, last night was fun, huh?" he grinned.

"Yeah, it really was." she nodded. "Took a little of my anxiety away."

"You had anxiety?"

"Some. We hadn't done it in almost two weeks, so..."

"Not to complain, but are you that insatiable?" he asked and his face showed her that he was actually curious.

"When it comes to you, yes." she replied, dead serious.

"Oh, good to know." he grinned as they reached the third floor where the door to apartment 3A opened and its tenant stepped out.

"Good morning, Mrs. Gunderson." Leonard and Penny said at the same time.

"Good morning, you two. Or should I say yee-haw?" Mrs. Gunderson replied slyly.

"Oh god." Penny groaned, turning red.

"That's why I usually take out my hearing aid." a voice said from behind them.

"Good morning, Mrs. Henderson." Leonard and Penny greeted Penny's downstairs neighbor, again in unison.

"That's so cute how you talk at the same time." Mrs. Henderson gushed.

"I really need to get going, or I'm gonna be late for work." Penny excused herself and left after dropping another kiss on Leonard's lips.

She hurried downstairs, embarrassed at being overheard during her lovemaking with Leonard, although that wasn't anything new, and headed into her car and then to work. Walking into the Cheesecake Factory, she grabbed her notebook and waited for customers to arrive. At least today was her last shift and tomorrow, she would be on a plane, flying towards her parents with the man she loved at her side.

"Penny, you okay?" Mike, the day manager, asked.

"A little tired. Didn't watch the time at the party last night." he told him the half-truth. "Don't worry, I'm not sick."

"Okay. You should eat something though, I can hear your stomach rumble from here."

"Yeah, I didn't have time for breakfast."

She walked into the kitchen and got herself two cooked eggs and some white bread along with some rollmops, eating it quickly before returning to the restaurant. One of her tables had become occupied in the meantime, so she grabbed her notebook again and went to work. Since it was Sunday, they could expect a sizable crowd.

She was right in that regard, when an hour later, the restaurant was packed with the breakfast crowd, every table occupied and the entire staff busy with bringing food and drink and hauling back the dirty dishes before cleaning the table for the next customers. Penny made some good tips since she finally got some last night and her mood held with every dollar that went into her own pocket.

During the downtime between meals, Penny made a small list of things to take with her, creating a rudimentary checklist that Leonard would most likely modify and print out if she sent it to him. When done, she did send it to him with the request to make it a real check list and to print it and then made a second list with the things she wanted to pack without him knowing, stuff like special underwear to seduce him at night when her parents were asleep.

A short time later, the lunch crowd started to pile in and soon enough, Penny was again busy with hauling food to tables. She was amazed at how many people ate out on a Sunday, knowing full well that she and the guys weren't cooking for themselves that much either, usually eating takeout or something ready to eat from the microwave.

Luckily, even the most arduous days end, and before she could comprehend it, the clock chimed four marking the end of her last shift of the month. She hurried into the bathroom to relieve herself and then went out, waving to Bernadette who had taken over her shift. Since the little blond was busy with customers, Penny decided not to go over to have a talk, because that would also probably keep her from getting home for a while longer.

She drove home and went up the stairs to get her usual after-work shower. To save time, she simply dressed in plain underwear and a sweatshirt and sweatpants. After coming out of her bedroom, she noticed the printed checklist on her table, smiling at her sweetie's dutiful work and began packing her bags with the stuff she needed.

Socks, shirts, bras, panties and thongs went into the first bag, pants followed. Since she could do laundry at her parents farm and also still had some clothes with them, she started packing the special bag according to her own second list. Her black teddy and several more thongs went into that bag, along with the camcorder. She was determined to film a little, their outdoor activities and probably some of their nightly adventures too.

After making sure that she had everything packed, she gave her luggage a once over and headed into the hallway and to the other apartment. She slowly opened the door and stuck her head in to find the apartment empty save Leonard, who was standing at the kitchen island, the phone in his hand. He saw her and waved her inside.

"Really?" she heard him ask into the speaker. "Well, as of tomorrow I'm not home for two weeks... but if what you say is true I might be back before you're done... Ah, I see... No, I thought it would go directly to my doctor... No, that's okay... Thank you."

"Hey. What was that about?" she asked after he hung up.

"Remember the blood test I had done?"

"Yes." she nodded.

"Since there hasn't been any word, I called my doctor and he directed me to the lab, which I was just on the phone with. They're completely backlogged and according to their schedule, my blood sample will be analyzed on after our vacation."

"Why the long waiting time?"

"Since I feel healthy and feel not aftereffects, my sample is only to make perfectly sure that everything's okay. Therefore, the lab bounces me down the ladder when more important samples have to be analyzed, like for law enforcement or really sick people."

"Do you think there any problems?"

"I don't think so. Since our reconciliation I didn't have any pains or other problems, so it's just proforma. Also, would be nice to see that my blood is healthy."

"Okay."

"You want to wait for dinner?" he asked. "The other guys have gone out somewhere and will bring some back."

"Sure." she replied. "You done packing?"

"Pretty much. At least according to my list." he said.

"Bathing shorts?"

"No, do I need them?"

"Yep. There's a lake not far from my parent's farm, it's great there in the summer."

"Alright, I'll put it into my bag." he nodded and walked into his bedroom to pack his bathing shorts.

"By the way, what did Sheldon say to you about last night?" she asked when he returned. "He just told me that his headphones were ineffective before I left."

"He told me he would revise the roommate agreement for, and I quote, 'your continuous weak will in refusing to satisfy the sexual needs of our promiscuous neighbor'. Nothing but that."

"Promiscuous? I think I need to whack him with the baking pan again." she sighed. "When do the guys get back? I only had two eggs and a bit of white bread this morning, otherwise nothing."

"They should have been back already, let me message them." he said and typed a message to Howard.

"What did he say?" she asked.

"Hasn't replied yet."

"Then lets use the time until he does for something productive." she smiled.

"Which is?"

Instead of answering, she pushed him into Sheldon's spot and straddled him, planting her lips on his and invading his mouth with her tongue. He overcame his surprise pretty quickly and fought back with equal might, creating a battlefield of love that neither could lose. When he started gently kneading her breast, she began moaning into his mouth and grinding on his lap, feeling delicious friction through her clothes.

He pushed her shirt up and pulled the bra away from her left breast, latching his mouth on her nipple and beginning to gently suck and nibble on it. She started breathing hard, the feeling of his mouth amazing in its skill. But before she could even completely take off her sweater, his phone beeped, indicating a response from Howard.

"He said it could take a while. Too much to explain for a message." Leonard read it.

"What now? I'm starving." she complained.

"Well, wanna continue this?" he pointed to them. "Or go out to get something to eat."

"Lets go out, I really need food. We can, no, we must continue this at my place afterwards. I really need you again." she whined. "And we should bring your luggage to my place, so we don't have to discuss with Sheldon why you are leaving without notification.

"Okay." he chuckled, trying to calm his erection and followed her out carrying his luggage, passport and plane tickets. "By the way, I configured our plane tickets so we have a stop in Vegas again, I hope that was okay."

"Really? Cool, you can win us some money again." she hopped in excitement.

"That's not assured, you know that."

"Come on, you can count cards. And predict roulette numbers." she argued as they walked down and to his car.

He drove them to the nearest fast food place and while she sat down, he ordered a meal for himself, something without meat for her and an extra order of fries since he knew that she would eat his curly fries, which he loved but saved for last. Once sat down, they began to eat and sure enough, Penny started to take his curly fries, popping them into her mouth and licking the remains of the fat and ketchup from her fingers, seemingly oblivious to what it did to him.

"Wanna watch a movie afterwards?" she asked.

"Sure. But aren't you a bit underdressed for going to the movies?" he countered.

"Meh." she shrugged and winked at him. "There's only one guy I would want to dress up for and has seen me naked last night. And will again tonight."

"Good to know. I hope it's me." he smiled, aware of the looks of several people around them at Penny's and his comment.

When they had finished eating, with Leonard once again not getting any curly fries for himself before Penny ate them all, they drove to the nearest movie theater. Penny chose another romantic comedy that has run in the theaters for weeks now, much to his dismay, but since the film was already out a long time, the theater itself was pleasantly empty.

After they got popcorn and sodas, Penny dragged them to a partner seat without an armrest between them again and looked around to find only two other couples sitting far away and further down. As the lights dimmed and then went out, Penny snuggled up to Leonard, her hand under his shirt on his stomach and side and hear head against his shoulder.

All the while the movie ran, she actively stopped herself from kissing him, knowing that she would take it farther than they should and since they wanted to go on vacation the very next day, she didn't want to risk getting arrested for indecent exposure. When the move ended, Leonard breathed a sigh of relief, getting up with almost indecent haste and leaving the theater with Penny in tow.

"Why are we in such a hurry?"she asked.

"I needed some fresh air, that movie was horrible." he sighed.

"I kind of agree, the plot was rather stupid." she nodded.

"Then why did we watch the entire thing?"

"We paid for it, didn't we?"

"Hmpf." he harrumphed and turned his phone back on, receiving a message from Howard. "It's from Howard. They dropped Sheldon off at home."

"Well, then we should head directly to my place to avoid him." she suggested.

"Not that it would stop him from coming over." he shrugged.

"Well, but since we're going to Omaha together, our plan to hide our relationship again is moot anyway."

"Yeah, but it turned out to be stupid anyway."

"Agreed." she grinned and they got into his car to drive home.

"What are we going to do tonight? It's almost nine."

"Have sex of course." she said.

"Besides that."

"You want to do something besides that? I take offense to that." she pouted.

"Not what I meant." he chuckled. "And stop pouting, it's too cute."

They drove home and walked up the stairs, going directly into Penny's apartment to avoid Sheldon possibly catching them in the hallway and dragging them to do something boring. Leonard sat down on the couch and Penny looked at him before inserting a disc of the sixth season of Sex and the City into her DVD player, much to his horror.

"Oh no!" he groaned.

"You wanted to do something else." she shrugged and got some water for them do drink before sitting down next to him.

"I should have said yes to only sex." he sighed.

"Too late." she grinned and snuggled up to him, putting her head into his lap.

Leonard managed to stay awake during the first two episodes of the disc, being proud of himself for such a mighty feat. His hand had wandered under Penny's pants, cupping her ass and gently kneading it for almost an hour before she couldn't take it anymore and jumped into his lap again, kissing him hard like she had in Sheldon's spot.

This time, his hands didn't hold back and roamed freely around her body, touching everything they reached, most often her breasts and ass. Her hips started grinding against his growing erection again, making him groan into her mouth. She stood up and bent her upper body to continue the kiss while he pulled down her pants and panties. She waited while he struggled to get out of his pants and shorts and sunk back down, impaling herself directly on his manhood and starting to bounce immediately. And despite only four minutes having passed, he suddenly climaxed, making her lean back and look at him confused.

"What just happened?" she asked.

"Well, I told you I didn't finish yesterday." he chuckled. "So it has been some time for me."

"Oh, I forgot." she sighed. "Come on, lets get cleaned up and directly to bed."

She let him use her shower while she cleaned herself just with a loofah before brushing her teeth and hopping on her feet to get his spill out of her faster. Once both were done, she waited until he was in bed before jumping on top of him, surprising him again with another hard kiss. Fortunately for her, he was still naked, having forgone his sleeping garments he had in her closet so she didn't have to rip them off again.

"You're very frisky today." he commented when he felt her grind herself on his abdomen, trying to rouse his manhood again.

"Can't help myself, I want you." she grinned. "I really need two of you."

"Two of me?"

"Yeah. When one is resting, the other you can do me. I even want you so bad again, I would take two of you at the same time." she chuckled and saw his thoughtful face. "What?"

"Nothing." he smiled slyly, causing her to lift her head.

"You're thinking of something. If you let yourself get cloned, I'm going to hit you. I was joking before." she clarified.

"No, nothing like that." he winked and pressed his hands against her ass to push her up his body a few inches to get access to her breasts.

She let him nibble and suck on her nipples for a while until she simply needed more. She pulled herself even higher and lifted her upper body, copying the foreplay of last night by letting him lick her for a bit, knowing that he would be ready again when she decided to get up again. While he brought her to a climax, she debated in her head to actually get up again at all since it felt so good.

Suddenly, she felt herself pushed off by him and she opened her eyes to see his fully grown erection presenting itself to her again, like a soldier standing to attention. Giddy with anticipation, she scooted down and was about to mount him again when he stopped her by getting up himself.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"Get on your stomach." he smiled.

"Fuck, yes!" she replied excited at the prospect of getting it in her most favorite position and threw herself forward, wiggling and shaking her ass to give him a small show.

"That looks amazing." he commented and gave her ass a gentle slap.

"What are you doing?" she asked when she heard him rummaging around.

"Just got something." he answered and she felt the bed dip, signaling his return and making her shake in anticipation at his manhood deep inside her in her most favorite position.

"Oh fuck!" she groaned when she felt the tip enter her and then the familiar stretching that followed. "Why is your penis so much colder than before."

"Ah well." was all he said, chuckling, causing her to turn her head, seeing him kneel in the bed with his erection still at attention but outside of her.

"What did you put inside me?" she asked and turned to the side, lifting her leg and seeing one of the special vibrators she had gotten made at the dirty store. "What's that about?"

"Oh, just something you said." he replied and turned her on her stomach again before activating the vibrator and turning it to it's middle setting, causing it to vibrate softly and giving Penny goosebumps. "About wanting to have two of me at the same time."

"You know that was a joke, right?" she assured him, not really knowing what he was going for.

"I know." he agreed and it suddenly dawned on her. "Still..."

"Leonard, are you...?" she started and soon had her suspicion confirmed when she felt his tip against her anus. "Oh my god, you are."

"Is it okay?" he hesitated.

"Yes, but... be gentle."

"I would never hurt you on purpose." he assured her and started pushing forward.

"Oh god... oh god... oh god... oh god... OH GOD!" she gasped, getting progressively louder the deeper he pushed in until he was in all the way, stilling to give her time to get as used to him as possible.

"Everything okay?" he asked concerned, hearing her gasps.

"Yes... holy shit that feels strange with the vibrator in the other hole. Move please." she told him and he slowly thrust in and out.

"Fuck, that really feels strange." he agreed as he moved in and out of her. "I feel the vibrations on the underside of my buddy."

She grabbed down under her body and increased the speed of the vibrator by one notch, setting it to a level that was like Leonard doing her at a moderate pace while the real one continued his slow thrusts in and out of her anus. While she got those things on a whim to have Leonard even when he wasn't available, she would have never thought of this, making her all hot thinking about that kinky side of him, a side he had begun to show back when he bought her that butt plug for Valentine's day.

"You can speed up now." she breathed, the feeling of the vibrator and him at the same time almost overwhelming already.

She felt his hands grab her hips and then he suddenly increased his speed not by a small margin but by a lot, setting a faster than moderate pace and groaning all the while. She screamed into her pillow at the double sensation, a sensation she had never ever felt before.

"Shit Penny, that feels so good." he moaned loudly, the vibrations he felt through the rectovaginal septum a completely new experience for him.

He filled his head with boring thoughts and tried to block out the moans, screams and loud expletives of his girlfriend under him while he tried to give her as much pleasure as he was able to. But no matter how much he tried, it took only ten more minutes before he climaxed with a relieved groan, preventing himself from collapsing on her back and causing her pain with the change of angle.

Penny continued to whimper as the vibrator was still doing it's job. Smiling wickedly, he grabbed behind and below him and turned the little wheel to its maximum setting, causing Penny to whoop in surprise and almost jump forward, stopped only by his hand holding her steady at her shoulder. She screamed again as a strong climax rushed through her and Leonard quickly turned the vibrator off before pulling out of her and taking the mechanical helper out too.

"You bastard." she huffed but couldn't stop grinning. "Holy shit."

"I hope it didn't hurt."

"No, it didn't hurt." she calmed his nerves. "It felt amazing."

"Good, I couldn't have forgiven myself."

"Oh baby." she sighed and sat up, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him. "Leonard, you are the most considerate lover I have ever seen. I say it again, it didn't hurt but felt amazing."

"Okay, I'm relieved. I didn't really think it through before."

"Maybe that's a good thing." she grinned and used a wet wipe to clean herself up. "Mmmmh, I'm really sated right now."

"Then my job is done." he chuckled.

"And a marvelous job you did. You deserve a raise."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. I pay you with sex for every orgasm." she joked.

"Then we might not get out of the bed some days."

"Fine by me." she laughed as he came back to bed after cleaning the vibrator and putting it away.

"You want to take them with you to Omaha?" he asked, regarding the vibrators.

"Oh, hell no. I don't want the guy from airport security to see them in their x-ray machine and if my parents found them...?"

"Right." he nodded. "Then we have to do it the old-fashioned way."

"That way is fun any day." she grinned and kissed him. "I love you so much."

"I love you too."

They continued kissing languidly until she yawned into his mouth, causing him to chuckle as he separated from her. He laid on his back and held out his arm, letting her snuggle up to him and put her head on his chest. She quickly fell asleep, her body and mind sated after the new adventurous way of lovemaking Leonard had shown her and dreamed of their future and what it might entail.


"Hey there slugger." the voice of her dad made her turn around.

"Daddy!" she squealed and dropped her luggage to hug her father.

"And Leonard." Wyatt hugged Leonard. "So great that you could come along."

"Wouldn't miss this for the world, Wyatt." he returned the hug and lifted his luggage again to put it into the back of Wyatt's truck.

As she did the last time, Penny sat in the back with Leonard, holding his hand while excitedly chatting with her dad about the horses and the farm in general. Leonard stayed quiet, content with listening to his girlfriend reconnecting with her dad, envy in his gut at how great a relationship she had with her parents while his own barely talked to him, except when it was socially necessary.

"We're here." Wyatt announced and drove onto the property.

"Hey, you got a third wind turbine." Leonard noted, seeing the third large turbine on the farther end of the property.

"Yep, got it this spring. The electric company asked if I had more room and I agreed. Since we lost two cows this year, I decided not to replace them and instead getting a third turbine, more money with less hustle." Wyatt explained.

"Don't you have to do some maintenance?" Penny asked.

"Only the ground around them and keeping a way open for their engineers to get to them. Otherwise I can forget about them."

"Convenient." Leonard agreed and grabbed their luggage out of the back.

"Sucks during the winter though, I have to plow the way to the turbines instead of just letting the snow lie on the field." Wyatt added.

"Mom!" Penny greeted her mother and hugged the woman who was busy making dinner in the kitchen.

"Welcome sweetheart." Meryl hugged her daughter back, looking at Leonard over Penny's shoulder. "And hello Penny."

"Very funny." Penny huffed as she released her mother.

"Good evening Meryl." Leonard greeted Penny's mother and received a hug himself.

"Get your stuff unpacked, dinner is ready in thirty minutes." Meryl ordered.

Leonard and Penny carried their luggage into Penny's room and started unpacking, the task easy since they had done it twice before. Twenty minutes later, their clothes were packed into the cabinets and drawers and both had freshened up in her en suite bathroom before they returned to the kitchen where Meryl had set the table.

"Jeez, it's sweltering here." Leonard huffed, having left his hoodie upstairs.

"It's summer, what do you expect?" Wyatt pointed out.

"How are the horses?" Penny asked.

"Great. We got a new mare and I think Tornado is in love. They are constantly together when they are outside." Wyatt told them.

"What's her name? Can we ride them again?" Penny asked excited.

"Sure. Her name is Fiona. She's pretty docile and lets you ride her without much fuss. She used to be a tournament horse but she can't run sideways, so they sold her to me. And since Leonard did his horse whisperer thing, Tornado too has become much easier to handle than before, although he still gets wound up when he can't run."

"Sweetie, tomorrow we're riding out." Penny decided.

"Okay." he smiled, glad to see her happy.

"You're staying for two weeks, right?" Meryl asked.

"Yes, until next Friday. Then we head to Las Vegas for the night and back home on Sunday." Penny nodded.

"Just so you know, we have a big barbecue planned for the fourth of July." Wyatt told them.

"Dad, I'm a vegetarian, you know that."

"You sure? We got some great steaks from the cows we had to slaughter."

"Steak?" Penny salivated. "Okay, I think I can be persuaded to ignore my vegetarianism for one day."

They continued to eat while doing idle chatting and Leonard marveled at how good a cook Meryl was while Penny wasn't. Penny was almost giddily fidgeting in her seat, her desire to get out to the horses apparently overwhelming her while Leonard paced his eating, not wanting to feel stuffed in the evening. As soon as they were done, Penny excused herself and ran out, while Leonard attempted to help Meryl clean the table.

"I'll do that, you're a guest." Meryl reminded him. "But it's good that Penny and Wyatt have gone, I wanted to ask you something."

"Oh, sure." Leonard nodded and waited for Meryl to continue.

"Is everything well between you and my daughter? You know, after the... incident."

"Yeah." he sighed. "I mean, I sometimes think about it and what it would do to me if she would ever let it happen with another man."

"She won't let something happen." Meryl said resolutely. "You don't need to say anything, I know it. Even though Penny isn't as smart as you and whatever her other fallibilities, she does learn from her mistakes."

"I hope so. I couldn't stomach the idea of her with another man." he shuddered.

"Getting possessive of my daughter, aren't you?" Meryl grinned.

"Yes." he admitted. "She is mine as I am hers."

"Okay. You're good for her. She has matured a lot since you and her got together."

"Meryl, can I ask you something?" Leonard hesitated. "Two questions, actually."

"Sure, shoot."

"Okay, one, how do you think would Penny react if she learned that I make long-term plans regarding our relationship? And two, would I have your blessings?"

"Are you saying what I think you are saying?" Meryl gasped.

"Well, I was planning on looking for a ring in the near future. But I don't know if she's at that place or not. If she finds it, it could lead her to run for the hills."

"Leonard, I don't know what Penny would say if you asked her tomorrow but the one thing I learned from her during those times she was here, either with or without you, is that she has been ready to say yes since the second year."

"Really?" he asked surprised. "Huh, then she was there before even me."

"When you do ask her, don't put the ring into her favorite food to find. She will most likely swallow it."

"Noted." Leonard laughed and heard Penny call from the stables. "I should go, otherwise she might charge in here on a horse."

"Go ahead." Meryl grinned and dismissed him with a wave.

Leonard walked to the back of the house and through the short tunnel Wyatt had built to access the stables without having to go outside. He found the idea ingenious since it saved anyone wanting to access the stables from having to go outside, especially during the winter or during a thunderstorm with heavy rain.

He opened the second door and entered the stable area, finding a row of horses in their boxes and to the left was an open doorway leading to the manege Wyatt had built where Penny was riding on a horse, a big smile on her face.

"Leonard, look at this absolutely beautiful and stunning creature." she gushed.

"I see it. And the horse doesn't look bad either." he grinned, standing at the fence surrounding the manege.

"Awww, you sap." she smiled and stopped the horse next to him, bending down to kiss him. "Look at this horse. I can understand why Tornado fell in love with her."

"She does look good. Well cared for, good stance. And she doesn't have that pent up energy that Tornado sometimes shows."

"I can't wait to ride out with you on Tornado and me on her to see how she holds up against him. Or if he's still as fast as he was last year."

"As long as Fiona isn't in heat, otherwise it could get nasty." Leonard chuckled.

"Don't worry, she's not in heat right now." she said and dismounted, leading the horse back to its box and taking off the saddle and bridle. "Come on, lets visit your best friend."

They moved to the box at the far end where Tornado was located and were greeted by a loud neighing as the stallion recognized Leonard. He walked up to the gate and Tornado nuzzled Leonard's face, rubbing his long nose along his head. Penny stroked the animal's head too, happy that he let her since he became docile.

"What's on the agenda tonight?" he asked.

"Nothing much. We could sit outside a while, the temperature allows it."

"Sounds good."

They stayed with the animals for a while longer, Penny gushing over the yearlings that seemed to be growing at a rapid pace and feeding them some of the food Wyatt had stored in the stable while Leonard got reacquainted with Tornado, not that it took long. The horse neighed in protest once Leonard left but they still went back to the house.

Wyatt had started an old movie that neither of them knew but they sat down anyway to spend time with them. Penny cuddled up to Leonard, ignoring her mother's grin while her father simply ignored the gesture and watched the TV, the movie a sixties comedy called Blackbeard's Ghost and despite the premise, Penny had to laugh at the hilarity and the performance of Peter Ustinov.

Once the movie was over, Penny dragged herself from the couch and pulled Leonard with her, leading him out the backdoor to a small area without grass. She put some wood into what looked to Leonard like an oversized torch and added some powder before setting it on fire.

"What's that smell?" Leonard asked, wrinkling his nose.

"It's something that keeps the insects away from us." she replied and pointed him to a lounger behind him where he sat down and leaned back.

She swung her leg over him and sat down on his groin before laying back herself, his arms enveloping and holding her so she wouldn't slide down. She breathed a sigh of content as they looked up into the sky, the stars twinkling on the cloudless firmament and the occasional shooting star appearing.

"It's beautiful out here." Leonard commented. "You don't see stars in the sky like this in the city because of all that light pollution."

"Light pollution?" she asked.

"Yeah. There's so much illumination coming from all the light sources in the city during the night that it completely ruins your chances for stargazing."

"Right. I remember once driving towards the city during the night and it glowed orange."

"Exactly. That's the light pollution." he exhaled. "But here. Outskirts of the city, no big light sources around."

"Thank you, Leonard." she said after a few minutes of silence.

"For what?"

"For organizing this vacation. For coming with me." she replied. "For forgiving me."

"Of course." he held her tight. "I love you."

"'I love you too." she sighed and turned her head to kiss him.

"Of course, this gives me some credit if I do something stupid." he grinned after a few minutes of kissing, causing her to glare at him.

"Shut up and put your lips back on mine." she pouted.

He chuckled and resumed the lip lock, both languidly letting their tongues play with each other as the fire in the holder cracked and snapped, the smell of the powder Penny had added keeping the insects away. A howl of some animal in the distance snapped them out, making them realize that the fire had almost burned down.

"We should go to bed." Leonard yawned.

"Agreed." she nodded and looked at her watch. "Wow, it's almost midnight. I wonder why my parents didn't tell us."

"Maybe they didn't want to disturb?"

"Maybe." she shrugged. "Come on."

Penny didn't bother to put out the fire since it had already gone down to embers only and the position of the torch prevented wind from picking up sparks as well so there wouldn't be a fire during the dry night. Still, Leonard put a handful of sand on the embers, extinguishing them and followed her into the house.

She let him use the bathroom first and to not wake her parents, he simply washed himself at the sink before changing into his pajamas, brushing his teeth and using the toilet for one last time before sleep. Penny took over once he was out and did the same, finding him in her bed already upon returning into her room, holding the comforter open for her.

"What a service." she grinned and slipped into bed next to him, turning to her side so he could spoon her.

She shut off the light and closed her eyes, hoping sleep would come quickly so they could ride out as soon as possible.


"Slugger!" the voice of her dad ripped her from sleep.

"Huh?" both she and Leonard sat up at the same time.

"What is it daddy?" Penny asked.

"If you want to ride out, you should get up, it's past nine." Wyatt told them. "Your mom has left some buns, eggs and coffee out for you."

"Thanks dad." she told him and Wyatt left them alone. "Come on, sweetie, get up."

He grumbled tiredly and disappeared into the bathroom to use the toilet again before letting her do the same. Both freshened up and got dressed in casual clothes for the expected high temperatures before heading downstairs into the kitchen where, true to Wyatt's words, a pot of coffee was standing ready on the stove and a few buns and eggs on the table.

They wolfed the food down and drank the coffee before Penny, not wanting to miss another second, dragged him directly to the stables where her mom was busy with letting the yearlings run in circles inside the manege.

"Hey mom." Penny called to Meryl, who looked up.

"Look who dropped out of bed." Meryl chuckled. "Didn't you want to ride out?"

"We're on our way to saddle the horses."

"I packed each of you a travel bag with stuff you might need. Check it if anything is missing before you leave." Meryl advised them.

"Will do." Penny nodded and dragged Leonard to the boxes with the horses where to saddlebags were placed on the ground.

"These must be the bags." Leonard pointed out.

"Okay, lets see." Penny said and rummaged through them. "Water, some food, a blanket, shovels..."

"Shovels?" Leonard interrupted. "What are they for?"

"In case the horses drop some bombs in places they shouldn't, like directly on the trail. Then we can use the shovels to take it and throw it into the brush."

"Ah, okay."

"Well, I don't see anything missing." Penny commented, closing the bags. "Lets saddle up."

They both grabbed saddles and bridles and walked to their respective boxes. Tornado immediately lowered his head and let Leonard put the saddle and bridle on and lead him outside, where Penny checked if he had made a mistake and correcting some minor misplacement. Fiona had no problems getting saddled, her being a tournament horse and therefore used to it and soon enough, both were outside, leading the horses by their bridles towards the open field.

"Wanna take that forest route again we took last winter?" Penny asked.

"Sure, lead the way." he nodded and both climbed into the saddles.

Tornado was already scratching one foot on the ground, eager to get going and they decided not to make him wait any longer. Putting his shoes into the horses flanks, Leonard gave him the go and shot forward, barely able to hold onto the saddle at the sudden acceleration. Penny had a few difficulties catching up at first but Leonard soon had Tornado under control and slowed down a bit.

When they reached the fence marking the end of her parent's property, Leonard once again, feeling the power of the horse under him, simply ran at it and pulled at the right moment so Tornado jumped over the fence. Penny, not wanting to be shown up this time, hoped that Fiona as a tournament horse had done that and gave her a nudge as well, whooping in delight as the horse jumped over the fence as well.

"WOOHOO!" she yelled, happy to ride a horse again.

They let the horses run, speeding along the fallow field towards the treeline and the beginning of the track through the forest. After ten minutes, they had reached it and slowed the horses, letting them breath while trodding along the wide path. They saw lots of tracks of other horses and bikes, even some quads, which wasn't surprising given the season.

After about an hour, they reached an open area that led to a rather large lake, complete with beach where several people were already busy basking in the sun or playing in the water. They dismounted the horses and led them to the water to the left of the people bathing, letting them drink from the cool liquid and drinking something themselves from the bottles inside her saddlebags.

As he walked away from the water, Tornado dropped some bombs, causing Leonard to groan and Penny to giggle while he used the shovel to transport the droppings into the underbrush. Her giggles stopped when Fiona decided to relief herself as well, forcing her to do the same thing while Leonard snorted under his breath.

"Sweetie?" Penny got Leonard's attention and pointed to the lake. "That's why I wanted you to back bathing shorts. I brought a nice bikini with me that you might like."

"I like any bikini on you, you know that." he winked at her.

"I know, but this one you might like a bit more." she grinned.

"Will other guys like it too much as well?"

"Maybe. They will most likely hate you because you're my boyfriend and they aren't."

"Then I can't wait."

"Wanna ride around the lake?"

"What distance are we talking?"

"The long route is around twenty to twenty-two miles."

"Can the horses to it?"

"Sure. We don't have to run them all the time. Will take several hours though." she admitted.

"Good thing you mom packed us a lunch." he grinned and took her hand to lead her back to the horses. "Lets go."

They got back into the saddles again and continued their excursion. Penny told him about the area, how the lake used to be an open mine before they let ground water fill it only to be turned into a swimming lake for people to use. Leonard stayed quiet, enjoying her passion and the apparent joy of riding a horse again, an activity she surely missed in California.

Around one in the afternoon, they stopped at a clearing and let the horses graze and drink from a small stream running through it while they ate the sandwiches Meryl had packed for them. Since they let their horses mostly walk or trod in a slow gait, the hours went by and it was late afternoon when they exited the forest again.

"Holy shit." Leonard cursed. "That air is so hot in the sun, it's like walking against a wall."

"I agree. At least there was a lot of shade in the forest." she nodded. "Come on, lets get back."

They increased their speed and rode over the open field until they reached the fence, this time not jumping over it but entering her parent's property through the gate. After ten more minutes, they reached the stables again and dismounted, leading the horses back into the stable to take of the saddle and bridle and to clean them.

"What's wrong?" she asked Leonard, who was walking strangely.

"My ass is killing me." he groaned. "I'm not used to sitting on hard surfaces all day."

"I'll rub it later, I promise." she laughed, cleaning her horse.

After finishing, they entered the house and were welcomed by the smell of dinner, Meryl again cooking something since neither had eating something warm during lunch. Leonard and Penny went upstairs to take a shower and change into some more loose clothing to bear the heat and humidity and then joined her parents in the kitchen.

"That tastes amazing Meryl." Leonard commented as he ate. "Can't you teach Penny how to cook like this?"

"Hey!" Penny pouted and hit his arm. "I can cook."

"Yeah, right." Meryl chuckled. "Burning meat to hockey pucks is not cooking."

"Mom, that happened once."

"No, it happened eight times."

"Gee, why don't you tell Leonard about some more shortcomings of mine." Penny huffed.

"Okay, if you tickle Penny long enough, she will pee her pants." Wyatt spoke up.

"DAD!" Penny whined. "That happened once!"

"Three times." Meryl corrected.

"MOM!"

"Relax slugger, we're having fun." Wyatt grinned, while Leonard couldn't suppress his laughter.

"You stop laughing or I won't rub the ointment on your ass." Penny pointed at Leonard.

"Sorry." he chuckled, trying to stop.

They finished their meal and after Meryl had cleaned the kitchen, they once again gathered in the living room to watch a movie. This time, it was an old war movie, which all but Wyatt didn't care for much but Penny felt comfort in the gathering, being around people that she loved. Leonard continued shifting, trying to find a position to sit in while alleviate the pressure on his hurting ass, so Penny quickly said their good nights after the movie had ended.

She used the bathroom first to shower, brush her teeth and use the toilet. Meanwhile, Leonard attached his laptop to the TV again so they could watch a movie on the hard drive he brought along while he waited for her to finish to do his own bathroom routine. When he came back out, he found her sitting in bed, laptop on her legs, frowning at the screen.

"What's that look for?" he asked.

"I have a question to ask you." she said serious and he noticed that she was looking at his special folder.

"I can explain..." he started.

"No, my question is not why you have a seemingly big porn collection in a password protected folder." she waved him off. "Not that it's really a good password, if you use it for everything, right Kal-El?"

"Yeah, forgot to change it in that folder after Sheldon told everyone." he sighed.

"As I said, I can see that you haven't accessed any of those videos during the last three years." she assured him. "But my question is about those animated ones."

"What about them?"

"Why are these women always so disproportionate?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, gigantic breasts on small bodies. Not to mention that those breasts seem to get bigger when they take off their clothes."

"Yeah, I think that has something to do with the desire of Japanese males to have such a woman. Young, maybe even underage, often schoolgirls, with gigantic tits, subservient and worshiping them. Not to mention that most of those clips, if you really read the subtitles, are horrible in terms of story. Most of the time, those women disagree with having sex, the men do it anyway." he sighed. "Plus, the males in those movies usually have gigantic long penises, I guess the Japanese men live vicariously through them."

"Where did you get those?"

"Howard, who else?"

"Of course." she chuckled. "Why did you keep them?"

"Because I forgot about them. As you said, I haven't accessed that folder in three years."

"What are these other videos?" she asked, scrolling through the thumbnails and smiling at him. "What preferences does Leonard Hofstadter have? Shaved? Hairy? Big breasted?"

"Well, based on the choice of girlfriend, he likes a certain type of blonde who has well formed breasts, an amazing ass and shaves." he grinned and bent down to kiss her. "Now close that folder and choose a movie while I try to find a position that I can lie in."

He climbed into bed but immediately started fidgeting, the pain in his ass too bothersome to ignore. She chose the movie kung fu panda, an animated one she heard about and mentally prepared herself to be bored. But before she started it, she grabbed the tube of ointment from he nightstand and turned to Leonard.

"Come on, turn around and bare your ass to me." she ordered.

"Yes mam." he chuckled and turned completely around, his head now on the foot end of the bed he on his stomach.

Since he could watch the movie now, she started it and it began rolling on her TV while she pulled his shorts down and sat down on his calves. She pressed some of the ointment on both his cheeks and started rubbing it in, spreading the viscous liquid on his skin which she knew would work in a few hours and take the soreness away.

"Tomorrow I will massage your ass, otherwise you might feel stiff." she told him.

"Thanks. But now I will have to stay in this position until the ointment is dry."

"No problem." she said and crawled on his back, letting her weight sink down while keeping her legs apart to ease the pressure on his ass while keeping them both able to watch the TV.

Despite her apprehension, the movie was quite enjoyable and she laughed hard at some scenes, at how the panda finally learned to fight and then destroyed the bad guy at the end. After the movie ended and the screen turned black, she stayed in that position and started nibbling on his neck, gently burying her teeth in his skin to give him a giant hickey to show the world that he was hers.

"I think I have to sleep on my stomach again." he groaned. "Given the last time you had to rub that stuff on my ass."

"That bad?" she asked.

"I can't even clench it without feeling pain."

"So I guess that rules out sex." she moped.

"At least tonight. But hey, it's not as if we're not going to have more opportunities for it."

"Right. Then lets turn in." she yawned and shut off her TV and the laptop, placing the latter on the table next to the TV before returning to bed where he had turned around again to have his head where it belonged while still staying on his stomach.

"Can you lay on the side?" she asked.

"Let me try." he replied and turned his body ninety degrees. "Yes, that works."

"Then spoon me again, I want to feel you against me."

"With pleasure."

He grabbed behind him and shut off the light before wrapping his arm around her stomach and linking his fingers with hers. Her body molded itself to his and they never left that position for the entire night.


"What are your plans for today?" Meryl asked as they ate breakfast.

"We wanted to go to the beach, why?" Penny returned.

"Have you looked at the weather reports?"

"No, why? Will it rain?" Penny inquired.

"Quite the opposite." Wyatt told her. "Today til Saturday, the heatwave will be peaking. Temperatures are expected to go up to hundred and ten degrees in the shade, so they said that anyone who doesn't need to be outside should stay in."

"Holy crap." Leonard spoke up. "That means that depending on the type of surface, the temperature in the sun could go up to a hundred and thirty or more."

"What do you mean, depending on the surface?" Penny asked.

"Depending on what material is under your feet." he told her. "Asphalt or sand retain heat very well and transfer them directly into the air, think of that wavy air coming from parking lots sometimes, making it even hotter since the heat comes from above and below. On grass it would be best, since grass transfers heat through evaporation."

"Does that mean we have to scrap the beach trip?" she asked again.

"Not entirely. But we should go now, in the morning and not stay past noon." Leonard answered.

"I am so glad I followed your advice regarding this geothermal thing." Wyatt interjected. "Because as you can feel, it's very cool in this house compared to outside even without the use of air conditioning."

"Right, I never noticed that." Penny said surprised. "Well Leonard, lets go upstairs and change into our swimsuits, then we can hop into dad's old truck and drive to the beach."

"Okay." he nodded and finished his coffee to follow her up.

While he stayed in the room to change into his bathing shorts, Penny went into the en suite to do it, wanting to surprise him with the bikini she chose. She quickly undressed and put on the bikini, optimizing the presentation of her curves before walking out and striking a pose for him to look at. It seemed to work because he stopped moving altogether and could only gape at her as she twirled slowly to show him her backside.

"So, what do you think?" she asked.

"You look stunning."

She grinned at his reaction and was glad that she picked this particular one. The pantie part was a semi thong, covering a small part of her ass but not that much while the top had only two small triangular pieces of fabric covering her breasts, leaving the rest bare.

"You look like you want to rip this off me right now." she laughed.

"Of course. I fear that it slips on the beach and gives some guy a full peek at the girls."

"Even more for that guy to be envious about then." she winked and stepped into his arms, letting him kiss her. "Come on, lets finish getting dressed and go."

They put on some more loose clothing and packed their bags, a blanket, something to drink and sunscreen. Deciding to be on the safe side, they left everything else, money and phones in her room, with the car keys the only thing they needed to watch out for and his bathing shorts had pockets with zippers to store them safely.

"Mom, we're out now." Penny called to her mother who was in the manege again. "We're not taking our phones with us."

"Alright. Don't drown!" came the reply, making her shake her head.

She led Leonard to her dad's garage where an old pickup truck was standing next to an even older tractor. She threw her bag into the backseat and he mirrored her action, both getting into the front seats where she started the engine and drove off, using the official road to get as close to the beach as possible.

They walked the remaining mile between the makeshift parking lot and the beach and spread out the blanket. Penny first dropped her shorts and then her loose shirt, her appearance causing several heads to turn, some of the other males staring more openly than others. Leonard did the same and soon, both were only in their bathing outfits. Penny rummaged in her bag and produced the bottle of sunscreen.

"Get on your front, I'll put this on your back and then you can do me." she said.

"If I do you here, they might arrest us." he smirked.

"You know what I mean." she grinned as he got down.

She swung her leg over him and sat down on his thighs, starting to put a generous amount of sunscreen on his back, knowing that he had sensitive skin. She hurried up, feeling the heat of the sun beating down on her own back and soon climbed off him to hand him the bottle and lay down herself.

She opened the back of her top and bared her entire back, letting him rub sunscreen on her skin. He did it slowly and turned it into a semi-massage, making her moan slightly as his fingers dug into her muscles. But even the best rubbing had to end and he stopped, laying down next to her and let the sun give a bit of color to their skin.

Both had an eye open and almost constantly looked at each other, taking comfort in each others presence while the time went by. After almost two hours, during which Penny had tied her top back together so they could turn around and rub sunscreen on their fronts, she got up and mentioned for him to join her.

"Come on sweetie, lets head into the water." she said.

"Sure." he nodded and put the car keys into his pockets, closing the zipper.

They waded into the water, which appeared to be freezing due to the high air temperature and Penny submerged first while Leonard came in a little more cautious. Penny swam around him and jumped up, putting her arms on his shoulders and pressing him under water, giggling as she did so.

He came up snorting and gave her a look upon which she squealed and swam away, him hot on her heels. Since she was a faster swimmer, he couldn't catch her but he kept following her as she swam towards a side area that was pretty secluded from the rest of the beach. She swam another round and watched as he closed in on the shallower area where he sat down under the water with only his head sticking out. She did a few strokes and swam into his arms, almost bowling him over before she managed to right her body and wrap her legs around his waist.

"So, how do you like it so far?"

"Well, as of three seconds ago, a lot more than before." he grinned and tickled her side, making her squirm.

"You know, I would really like to have sex with you now." she sighed and put her head on his shoulder.

"I bet these guys would love to see it too." he nodded his head to the side, making her look and see three teenage boys swimming around and trying to act as if they weren't spying.

"Ah, teenagers and their raging hormones." she sighed. "One girl comes along and they lose their minds."

"Not just a girl, a stunning woman with a body to die for." he grinned and kissed her again. "Come on, lets get back before the heat makes the tires on the car melt."

"Stop exaggerating." she huffed but still unwrapped her legs and slowly swam back with him.

They left the water and dried themselves off, then got dressed and shook out the blanket before folding it back together. Leonard got the keys from his pockets and handed them to Penny, who drove them back to their parent's farm. They parked the car where they left and hurried back into the house to get out of the stifling heat which was every bit as oppressive as was forecast.


The next three days were pretty much the same. They went to the lake in the mornings and returned at noon, then spent the rest of the day doing different things. Leonard worked a bit on his laptop, doing some theoretical work on some of his experiments while Penny worked on the old tractor in the garage, even managing to get it going for a few minutes before the engine sputtered and died again.

That nagged at her so much that she spend the rest of the first week, when they weren't sleeping, riding out or at the lake, in the garage working on the engine, taking it apart piece by piece before putting it back together. On Saturday evening, Leonard and Wyatt were talking over the geothermal pump when they heard the rumble of a tractor engine and an even louder whoop before Penny drove the tractor out of the garage and rode it around the property, visible hopping in the seat in joy at her accomplishment.

"Daddy look, I got it running again." she said excitedly after she parked it back in the garage and joined them.

"Slugger, that's amazing. You should become a mechanic." Wyatt patted her shoulder.

"Nah, too dirty a work." she showed her grease-stained hands.

"Well, it's dinner time soon so you should get cleaned up." Wyatt told them and left them alone.

"You know, I just got a crazy fantasy picture in my head after seeing you like this." Leonard muttered as they walked into the house and upstairs.

"What?"

"You in that blue overall with nothing underneath it. The cut and looseness should show some breasts but not all, giving enough for the imagination."

"That's an idea for when we get back home." she winked. "I pose in different outfits and you photograph me. Like an erotic album."

"Amazing idea. I could make myself a sexy Penny calendar." he grinned and got thoughtful.

"Wait, you're seriously thinking about that calendar thing?" she asked.

"I might. It could be something for you to make some extra money. Posing in work clothes and with tools but never showing too much. Like a hardware store calendar girl."

"Huh. Interesting. How about we do a few test shots at home and see how it looks?"

"Alright." he nodded and kissed her before she headed into the shower and he went back downstairs.

Ten minutes later, she joined her family in the kitchen for dinner, yawning even before the eating started, her fixation on the tractor combined with some heavy lifting of parts over three days having taken a lot out of her. To her own surprise, she and Leonard didn't even have sex in those three days, despite her comment when they were in the lake that first time, for she had been simply too tired to do more than curl up to him to watch a movie during which she fell asleep every time to be carried upstairs by Leonard in an astonishing display of strength.

Tonight wouldn't be much different, even though she needed him like a fish needed water, but her eyes were already falling shut despite the early evening. During the meal, she yawned repeatedly, to the unending mirth of Leonard and her parent's that looked at her like she was a small child trying desperately to show that she wasn't tired.

"Leonard, do you play rummy?" Wyatt asked him.

"Yeah, has been a while since my last game though."

"Wanna play with us while Penny heads to bed?"

"Sure."

"Hey, I wanna play too." Penny interjected. "Why are you sending me to bed?"

"Because you're falling asleep at the table." Meryl chuckled. "You wouldn't last a game."

"But I... yeah, you're right." Penny nodded tiredly. "I feel like I'm eight years old again, being send to bed at seven."

"You can stay down here if you want, you know that." Meryl told her.

"No, you're right, I'm bone tired. Sweetie, don't play too long, I need you next to be to have a good nights sleep." she said to Leonard and kissed him good night before leaving for her bed.

"Leonard, you eat beef, right?" Wyatt asked.

"Yes, haven't we eaten some the last few days?"

"Right." Wyatt nodded. "Just wanted to make sure because of our barbecue tomorrow."

"As long as you don't stuff the meat with cheese, I'll be fine."

"Then lets head to the living room, grab a few beers and snacks and set up the table." Wyatt said and stood up.

"You boys go ahead, I'll clean up and join you."

As they started playing, with Leonard losing the first few games and then winning some, once he got back in the groove, neither of the three noticed Penny watching from upstairs, smiling at the picture of the man she loved getting along so good with her parents. Although she was sure that they were joking when they said it, all their comments about loving Leonard more than they loved her calmed Penny tremendously and gave her another boost in her conviction that Leonard was the one for her. The one she would never let go again. And woe to anyone who tried. With that thought, she finally headed to bed and fell asleep in seconds.

When she woke up again, it was barely six but already light out, her having slept almost fourteen hours straight, and her sweetie was again behind her, his body molded to hers. She freed herself from Leonard's arm and hurried into the bathroom to relief herself and brush her teeth to get rid of her morning breath and when she returned, she found Leonard drinking a few sips from his water bottle, having woken up when she got up.

"Sorry, did I wake you?" she asked.

"Yes, but that's okay."

"You need to use the bathroom?"

"No, not yet."

"How many beers did you have?"

"Five. Your dad kept supplying me." he chuckled and then whistled.

"What?" she asked.

"Oh, nothing. Can you turn around for a second?"

"Okay." he said confused and turned around which led to another, louder whistle. "What?"

"Well, I must say, these tight pajama shorts really emphasize your amazing ass."

"Why do you think I wear them." she winked and stalked towards him, crossing her feet like a model on a runway. "You know, I am kinda miffed that you let me spend all my time working on that tractor engine."

"Let you?" he asked. "Penny, even your dad couldn't get you to stop, what makes you think I could have?"

"You could have said, 'Penny, if you keep tiring yourself out like this, we can't have sex'. That might have stopped me."

"Might have?" he grinned while she got back into bed and climbed on top of him, her lips grazing his while her hips gyrated hard on his growing manhood, still divided by the two layers of clothing.

She moaned at the contact, feeling herself get moist and dipped her tongue into his mouth. That woke him up completely and his hands moved to cup her ass, using them to push her even harder along his length, making her breath hard.

"Is there any way we can get our clothes off without me having to get up or roll off you?" she asked between kisses.

"I don't think so, except you're flexible enough to put both your legs over my shoulder or we just rip them apart."

"Nah, I'm not that flexible. And no ripping." she huffed and lifted her ass to take off her shorts while Leonard did the same, throwing his on the floor where hers landed on his a second later. "Now, where were we?"

She kissed him again and grabbed between them to line him up before pushing down without much preamble, sinking until her ass hit his skin and he was completely buried inside her. She groaned in relief at the contact, making her wonder how she could have wasted three days fixated on a tractor engine while not doing this.

She started moving her hips up and down, feeling him scrape long her inner walls and setting fire to her nerve endings. His arms pressed her body down while hers surrounded his head and their tongues dueled furiously. She enjoyed this position, her speed staying consistent so she could prolong the entire thing but soon enough needed to feel him deeper and sat up, pressing her weight down on him while the comforter stayed around her shoulders like a cape.

He pushed her top up to reveal her breasts while she began gyrating in a circling motion before shrugging internally and keep it to forward and backward movements. Her nails dug into his skin and she sped up a bit, simply wanting to feel more while listening to his breathing staying even, telling her that he wasn't close yet.

"Touch my breasts." she ordered and he immediately complied, his hands covering her mounds and fingers flicking over the nipples.

"Ah, there's my dominant sister again." a female voice surprised both of them.

Penny screamed in shock and let herself fall forward, covering them both with the comforter until only their heads and his lower legs were still visible. She looked to the left where the voice came from and saw her sister Bridget standing grinning at the door.

"What the hell, Bridget?" Penny squealed.

"Aren't you happy to see me?" Bridget asked.

"Yes, but not now. I can't believe you come into my room while I'm having sex. Get out."

"Remember when we were younger and you told dad 'Daddy, Bridget has an old boy in her room and they are fighting naked'." Bridget did a parody of Penny's voice. "Also, my presence doesn't seem to really bother you."

"What makes you think that?" Penny returned.

"Well, the fact that despite me standing here, your hips are still rising and falling, so..." Bridget shrugged.

"Get out now. We'll talk about this later." Penny growled.

"Mom and dad are already outside, caring for the animals, so you might have to get your own breakfast. Which means you have enough time to screw your brains out." Bridget grinned and left them alone.

"Good god, this is unbelievable." Penny huffed and got up, walking to her door and locking it.

She took off her top and threw it to the floor, her action causing Leonard to discard his own shirt as well and climbed back on top of him, sinking down on his length again and beginning to move. Bending down, she wrapped her arms around his head again while his went around her body and without ever breaking eye contact, she sped up her hip movements.

To both of them, this was the most erotic thing they have ever done. Both watched each others facial expression, letting each know what the other was feeling while she kept thrusting her hips in strong movements.

"Penny, I'm almost..." he groaned.

"Coming!" she squealed and clenched around him, feeling the orgasmic waves rush through her and taking him with her.

"Mh, that felt good."

"I love you." she told him.

"I love you too." he smiled at her. "But we should get cleaned up now."

"No, lets stay like this."

"But it fill feel icky in a few minutes." he argued. "Also, now I do have to pee."

"Fine." she huffed and let him go.

As he disappeared into the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth, and to pee of course, she got up and bounced on her feet while holding a tissue between her legs to get his spill out of her faster. When he returned, he found her back in bed already, beckoning him to join her, which he did quickly. She slung her body over his and started kissing him again, her need for this intimacy overwhelming. He didn't hold back, kissing her back with equal strength until they had to separate for the need of air.

"By the way, what was that comment your sister made about?" he asked. "About the dominant sister?"

"Ah, remember last time we were here?"

"Yes."

"She walked in one morning when we were in the middle of foreplay. I was on my back and you were thrusting into my mouth, basically having me completely at your mercy. Bridget knows from my teen years that I rarely was not on top and a blowjob was something I almost never did. Maybe twice in my entire high school time."

"Ah, you told me about that, her seeing us I mean." he nodded. "But I find it unusual that she simply stands there watching us have sex."

"That's revenge, I did it as a child too when she was having sex with a guy. And more often than not, I got my dad and he threw the guy out, usually at gunpoint." Penny chuckled.

"You wanna get up so you can talk to your sister?" he asked.

"No, she said we have enough time to screw our brains out." she grinned.

"I'm still reloading, so no screwing possible."

"Well my love, you still have a very talented tongue that..."

"Penny?" her mother interrupted her by knocking at her door. "Bridget told me you're awake, so you can help me with the yearlings."

"Ugh, I'm gonna kill her." Penny groaned. "I'm coming, mom." she called out to her mother.

"Already? I haven't even started licking you yet." he snorted.

"Shut up." she huffed and got up to get dressed.

"I will never get tired of seeing you naked." he said dreamily.

"Don't worry, you will see me naked very often." she said and kissed him. "See you downstairs."

She walked down the stairs and to the back of the house, crossing the tunnel to the stables and entering the manege where her mother was busy with the three young horses. Penny grabbed one of the ropes and led that horse around the manege, training it to be controlled by a human. Bridget was standing outside the manege at the fence, never having been a horse person. As Penny twirled with the horse, Bridget joined her in the middle.

"So, ignoring for now your interruption of me having sex with my boyfriend, what brings you back?"

"Well, since I quit my job and don't have a place to live right now, I will stay in my old room until I found an apartment with reasonable rent in town. And a job, of course." Bridget told her.

"Wait, you quit? When? I thought it was going good and you and your boss might become an item."

"Yeah, that's what I thought, especially after he brought me to his parent's house in Wyoming two days ago."

"He took you to his parent's house? Isn't that usually a good sign?" Penny asked.

"Usually yes. But you can imagine my shock when we entered and I found out the surprise his parents had for him."

"What was it?"

"Oh, his fiance." Bridget chuckled sadly.

"Excuse me?"

"Yeah. He was engaged. He slept with me for almost a year and he was engaged the entire time. His fiance was in London the last year, hence my belief that he was single. He actually was quite shocked at her presence."

"What did you do?" Penny asked.

"The only thing I could think of. I called a cab and when I saw it arriving, I went to them, asked him if he had fun fucking me while his fiance was out of the country and that he needs to find a new assistant to have sex with. I quit on the spot. Left for the airport and took the first plane south. Ended up in Baton Rouge and had to stay there the entire Saturday before I got a night flight here. I arrived at four am."

"I'm sorry." Penny said sincerely.

"It's okay. It hurt but nothing I can do. Stupid asshole. I thought there really was something between us." Bridget sighed.

"Won't there be any problems?"

"I think he has enough on his plate with his maybe ex-fiance."

"You will find your true love." Penny consoled her. "Hey, Leonard and I will go to one of the parties in town after our barbecue. Wanna come with?"

"Sure, why not. Anything to distract me." Bridget shrugged.


Meanwhile, Leonard had come down and walked outside, since the girls were busy with the horses, and found Wyatt sitting on a lawn chair, working on the settings of the smoker where the barbecue meat was getting ready for the evening..

"Hey son." Wyatt greeted him. "You got some time?"

"Sure, what for?"

"Ever shoot a gun?"

"Not a real one, no." Leonard shook his head.

"Then come with me." Wyatt got up and led him to his truck.

"Should we leave the smoker alone?"

"Sure, it will take several more hours before the meat is ready."

He drove them to the northern end of the property, about two hundred yards east of the spot where Leonard and Penny had jumped the fence with the horses. A tree was standing a few feet away from the fence and on one branch, several tin cans were hanging from ropes, most with a few holes in them already. They got out of the car and Wyatt laid out two identical handguns and a shotgun on a tree stump in front of them.

"Now, you want to hold the gun in both hands, feet braced and line up your shots with your eye. Then simply press the trigger and bang!" he explained and showed it, hitting the leftmost tin can and making it swing violently.

"Alright." Leonard nodded and took the other handgun.

He placed his feet like Wyatt had shown him and pressed the trigger, missing the can. He tried a few more times and always had the same result, making him groan.

"Not quite the same as a video game, isn't it." Wyatt chuckled.

"I can do better. You got some duct tape?"

"Yeah, why?" Wyatt asked and handed him a roll.

Leonard took his keys out of his pocket and unhinged the laser pointer he was carrying on it. He placed it on top of the barrel and lined it up with the muzzle before wrapping duct tape around the gun and pointer. He activated it and tried shooting the can again, hitting it squarely and repeating the same with every other can. As a last form of bragging, he took aim and shot one of the ropes, making the can drop to the ground.

"Pff, using a laser sight. Child's play." Wyatt huffed. "But I must admit, quite the ingenious idea."

"Thanks."

"Wanna try the shotgun?"

"I don't think that's a good idea. They kick like mules, don't they?"

"As long as you hold them good and tight to your shoulder, they won't break your collarbone." Wyatt told him.

"Pass." Leonard chuckled.

"Actually, I brought you out here not just to shoot stuff." Wyatt got serious. "My wife had alluded that you and Penny have gone through some rough times not so long ago and that it was her fault. I wanted to make sure that things are really okay between you two."

"They are. Did Meryl tell you what happened?"

"No, and I'm smart enough not to ask for details."

"Lets just say we worked things out." Leonard said.

"Okay." Wyatt nodded. "Can I ask you something else?"

"Shoot."

"What are your plans with Penny?"

"We're going to some fourth of July party after the barbecue."

"No, not today. I mean in general. Future-wise."

"Oh." Leonard got thoughtful. "Well, if she'll have me, marriage. And kids, if she wants them."

"You want to marry my daughter?"

"Would I have your blessing?"

"Of course, son." Wyatt patted Leonard's shoulder. "You're practically part of this family already."

"Thanks. But that's still more in the future."

They continued to empty the clips and Leonard let himself he convinced to shoot with the shotgun, having the result of a big bruise where the handle hit him. Holding an ice pack that Wyatt brought along to his skin, he was driven back to the farm by Wyatt where the rest of the family had gathered in the kitchen to prepare stuff for the upcoming barbecue.

"Oh my god, what happened?" Penny asked upon noticing Leonard with the ice pack.

"Shotgun." Leonard grunted, sitting down.

"Ah, dad convinced to shoot that kicker?" Bridget laughed.

"Hey, he shot through one of the ropes with the pistol." Wyatt piped in.

"He did?" Bridget and Penny asked in unison.

"Yeah." Wyatt nodded. "Of course, he had to tape a laser pointer on the gun to do that but still..."

"Leonard, can you make those dumplings later again?" Meryl interjected.

"Sure. Right now?"

"No, later before the others arrive. Right now we're having soup for lunch."

They ate in idle chat and talked about the barbecue and who would be attending. Leonard just listened to the chatter, seeing what he conceived of a great family, so much different than his own. That made him sad for a moment, thinking that his parents never had a family barbecue except when someone died. On the other hand, he thought that all that's happened in his past has led to the point where he lived with a crazy man and met a certain blond who had been the best sex of his life until she had moved in next to him a day later and became his girlfriend, easily surpassing the best sex he ever had by miles.

"You're thoughtful today." Penny mused.

"Yeah, thinking about how different this picture is from my family."

"Just think of us as your new family." Bridget nodded to him.

"Yeah, but don't imagine me as your sister, that would be gross." Penny chuckled and kissed him on the cheek.

After lunch, the group dispersed again, the girls helping their mom with more preparations while Leonard and Wyatt stood at the smoker, drinking a beer or two each and talking about Wyatt's plans with the farm. Thankfully, the heat wave truly had apparently peaked the day before and the temperature didn't rise over ninety-five degrees, although it was still very hot.

"They're here!" a call came from inside the house a few hours later, causing Wyatt and Leonard to return and greet the relatives.

"Ah, there's my favorite future nephew-in-law." a voice directed at Leonard and he saw the speaker immediately.

"Hello Mike." Leonard greeted Penny's uncle with a laugh and waving the comment off. "Still funny."

"Come here boy." Lucy called and hugged Leonard. "So great to see you again."

Shelly and Theo, the other relatives did the same, hugging Leonard as if he already was a member of the family but Penny looked at it while feeling a sting in her heart. Leonard's laugh at and waving off of Mike's future nephew-in-law comment again cut her deeper than she thought possible. Could it be that her gigantic mistake with her friends had now scared him off the topic of marriage? She wasn't sure if she could stomach the thought when Bridget came to the rescue by pulling her aside and getting into a gossiping marathon with the other women of her extended family.

"Alright, Leonard is making dumplings again and Penny will help him." Meryl announced. "Bridget, this time don't eat forty in one sitting. The rest of you, help me carry all this stuff outside."

The family followed her orders and Penny started mashing the potatoes like Leonard did before rolling them in flower and into a snake and cutting them apart to cook them again for a few minutes. Twenty minutes later, they had two big stacks of dumplings and carried them outside where the family had gathered under a sunroof.

Penny's mouth salivated at the sight of smoked steaks, despite her vegetarianism. She cursed her mental weakness as she bit into the meat, the process of making it letting it almost melt on her tongue. The spicy sauce added to it made it even better and before she knew it she had wolfed down her second and third steak.

"Leonard, these dumplings are amazing." Lucy said. "So fluffy and yet so firm."

"Thanks." Leonard smiled and ate his own meat.

Soon enough, Mike, who had sat down next to Leonard, had roped him into another conversation about physics that caused Penny to zone out. She chatted with her sister and aunts, reminding the former of the party they would go to in three hours so she wouldn't eat too much. Bridget had to forcibly push the plate of dumplings away from her after she ate her eighteenth, cursing Leonard for making them so tasty. Leonard for his part could only grin at Penny's sister.

Penny felt happy in that moment, a family gathering like this having become rare since her move to California. While being with Kurt, she had never visited her parents and now with Leonard, they had been here three times already and she was pretty sure he would take her again. The dinner evenings with the guys were fun too but couldn't match up to this.

They talked about everything and Bridget surprised everyone by proclaiming her desire to do something in the social services since her own experiences with having a child and having to give him away gave her good insight into the life of problem families and what they were facing. Leonard was surprised by the revelation that Bridget had a kid she had to give up until he remembered that Penny had asked him and the guys to help her pick a comic book for her nephew, indicating that while the boy had been adopted by another family, they remained close. He decided not to ask her about it now, saving it for a later time.


Even the most fun gathering ended at some point and about nine o'clock, Penny, Leonard and Bridget excused themselves to shower and change for the party they wanted to go to. Leonard went first into the shower since he didn't have to worry about makeup and he got dressed in casual evening wear while Penny was busy in the bathroom.

When she came out, Leonard's jaw dropped once again, making her grin. She had chosen a tight-fitting lavender dress with a deep cut cleavage and short skirt, showing off her curves in the most impressive fashion while hiding enough to make men want more. Leonard's eyes told her everything he wanted to do, which she was sure included ripping the dress to shreds to get at the flesh beneath.

"Bridget, you ready?" Penny called into the other room.

"Yep." came the reply and her sister came out, causing Leonard to whistle in appreciation.

Bridget wore a slightly longer, fuchsia colored dress with a plunging neckline which was still very tight to the body. It was the first time Leonard really noticed Bridget's curves, that her breasts were slightly larger than Penny's and her hips a little wider, not surprising since she already gave birth. He noticed Penny looking at him and quickly took his eyes off Bridget, clearing his throat and leading the way to the family car which they would take.

He got behind the wheel, offering to be the designated driver for the evening without having to be asked. Bridget got into the back and Penny into the passenger seat and she pointed out to him where to drive until they reached a restaurant with a flat roof that was build up for a party and offered a good look at their surroundings for the upcoming fireworks. As they entered and paid the entry fee for the open bar, they were welcomed by the restaurant manager, who shook almost everyone's hand and whose name was Josh, according to his name tag.

"Welcome." the greeter said, as he took Bridget's hand but unlike with the other guests, he held it for longer and practically stared at her. "I'm Josh."

"Bridget." Penny's sister introduced herself, looking equally as smitten as the man was, but after a few seconds and Penny clearing her throat, they broke contact and kept walking.

"Well, well, well, if that wasn't a particularly long handshake." Penny grinned at her sister, who was still looking at the manager, who despite having to greet other people, was staring back. "And with introduction as well."

"What?" Bridget asked. "Oh, it's not what you think."

"Oh please." Leonard chuckled. "Even I could see the sparks fly just now."

"I need a drink." Bridget said embarrassed and disappeared to the open bar.

Penny hooked her arm through Leonard's and followed her sister, reaching her just as she was knocking back a Martini and ordering a second one. Penny got herself a beer and Leonard took a soda, unable to drink as the driver.

"And she's looking at the manager again." Leonard loudly whispered to Penny, loudly enough so Bridget would hear them and did, if her blush was any indicator.

They spend almost ninety minutes talking and even dancing, which looked a bit awkward for Leonard's lack of ability, and both noticed Bridget almost continuously looking at the manager, who regularly shot glances back.

"I think your sister fell in love." Leonard told Penny. "Or she really wants to get that guy into bed."

"I think it's love too." Penny returned. "And going by his looks, the feeling is mutual. He's not looking at her the way a guy looks at a woman he just wants to have sex with."

"How do you know?"

"Believe me, I have seen that look on a lot of guys' faces." she said. "And in this case, his look is the same as yours."

"Mine?"

"Yes. The look that said, 'I want to have sex with you but not just once and I want to do much more than that besides'. And I love that look." she smiled and kissed him. "Come on, we need to get on the roof."

"Okay, lead the way." he nodded.

"Bridget, you coming?" Penny called to her sister.

"Sure." came the reply and the trio made its way to the roof, along with dozens of more people.

The roof had been decorated to commemorate the holiday with plywood walls acting as dividers between sections of American history. Bowls with sweets like gummy bears and rings along with salty snacks were placed strategically around them. Penny thought it was a neat idea and walked to the edge with Leonard so they could see as much of the fireworks as possible.

"Hi there." a male voice said from behind them, causing them to turn around and see the manager standing there. "I hope you have fun. Do you need anything?"

"No, we're okay." Penny grinned, knowing full well why was talking to them in particular.

"By the way, I'm the manager here, not just the greeter." he said to them but clearly speaking to Bridget only.

"I know, your tag says so. This is my sister Penny and her boyfriend Leonard." Bridget introduced the two of them.

"Nice to meet you." Josh said but barely looked at them, his eyes rarely leaving Bridget. "Have you lived her long?"

"Born and raised. Was out of town for a year, job related."

"Oh, what do you do?" Josh asked.

"Nothing at the moment. I thought of changing my field to social services." Bridget replied. "What about you?"

"Well, as I said, I manage this fine establishment and I coach the high school track team."

"Oh, that's nice."

Penny pulled Leonard slowly away, leaving her sister to talk with a man she had probably fallen in love with on first sight and jumped a bit when suddenly the first rocket went into the sky and exploded in a multitude of colors.

"They could have announced it, damn it." Penny said and stepped backwards into Leonard's arms, letting him hold her.

They continued to look at the fireworks display as it reached the one-hour mark, marveling at the job the organizers had done and commented on some of the figures the rockets displayed after exploding, with Leonard explaining the physics around the making of those figures. Penny looked around and saw people on other roofs as well but then her eyes fell on a couple on the roof of the building left of the restaurant where a newlywed couple was looking at the fireworks, both still in their wedding outfits.

She began thinking about Leonard's waving off of Mike's comment about being his nephew-in-law and the sting came back, piercing her in the heart. She tried hard to ignore the feeling so she wouldn't ruin the evening with a bad mood but the doubt wouldn't go away and she felt tears forming in her eyes.

"Penny, are you crying?" Leonard asked, seeing the tear running down the side of her face.

"No." she sniffed.

"It's okay, these are beautiful fireworks. And the smoke stings in the eyes." he said and held her tight.

"No, it's not that." she admitted.

"Why, what is it?"

"Leonard, has what I did while you were at the North Pole completely ruined our long term relationship?"

"Ah... what?" he stammered, not really understanding what she was saying.

"Today marked the second time you laughed at and waved off the comment my uncle Mike made about you being his favorite future nephew-in-law." she told him.

"The second?"

"Yes, the first one was during our stay here last Christmas when we visited them."

"Wait, do you want to get married?" he asked confused.

"Well, not today or tomorrow. But I'd like to be sure that it's not out of the realm of possibilities." she said, almost whining.

"Wow." he huffed, unsure at what to say.

"I'm sorry to jump you like this but it's really bothering me." she said and ate another gummy worm.

His eyes fell on the small bowl with the sweets and he took one of the sugared apple gummy rings. Penny looked on as he eyed it and played with it, rolling it around his finger and shaking the sugar off of it. He then pulled her away from the rail behind the divider so others wouldn't see them and stood in front of Penny, who watched at him with a confused look. She gasped audibly as he sank on one knee and held one of her hands.

"Penny, I have loved you from the day we've met. When you asked me to stay the night, I felt like the luckiest man alive but that was nothing compared to the day after when I saw you again and you decided to continue our relationship. And I don't think I will ever stop loving you. You are one of the strongest, yet most caring persons I have ever met and it would be my honor if you answered this question." he held a speech and cleared his throat. "Penny, when the time comes and I ask you to marry me, will you then do me the honor of saying yes?"

Penny gaped like a fish, opening and closing her mouth a few times, trying to process the phrasing of what she had just heard. She watched as his face fell a little and realized that she had been quiet for way too long already. She grabbed his hand with her other and nodded.

"Leonard, when the day comes and you ask me for real, I will be honored to say yes."

"Good." he chuckled and placed the apple ring on her ring finger before standing up and kissing her. "I hope that proves how serious I think this relationship is."

"Oh, that proves it a lot." she agreed. "But you should have waited until we were home."

"Why?"

"Because right now, I so much want to jump your bones to have some proforma engagement sex all night long."

"Well, proforma engagement sex is still great even when it's done later." he winked and took her hand to pull her back to the rail to watch the remaining fireworks. "You might want to eat that apple ring."

"Do I have to? It's my engagement apple ring."

"You don't have to. But you might have to fight for it against some anti-engagement ants or other insects." he pointed out, causing her to take it half into her mouth with almost indecent haste.

"Take half." she said and turned her head to him, half of the ring still sticking out of her mouth.

He smiled and closed his lips around it, biting the ring in half while kissing her. In the end, she got both halves, her tongue shoveling them into her mouth as they kissed while their profile was being illuminated by the receding fireworks. Both noticed a flash coming from his left and looked into the direction it had come from.

"That looked so great." Bridget came walking towards them and showed the picture of them kissing while a ring of fire burned behind them, marking the big finale of the fireworks display which died down immediately after.

"Can you send me that picture?" Penny asked.

"Sure." Bridget replied and hit a few buttons on her phone until Penny's beeped with an incoming message.

"Where's Josh?" Leonard asked.

"Had to take care of business. He is working, you know?."

"Yeah, that sucks to have to work on a holiday." Penny grinned. "Well, the fireworks is dying down, you wanna head home then?"

"I think I'll stay a bit longer. I'll take a cab if you want to leave."

"Okay." Penny smiled, knowing full well why her sister wanted to stay. "We'll see you tomorrow then."

"Do you think she will sleep in her room tonight?" Leonard asked her as they walked towards the car.

"Given my sisters proclivity for direct action, I guess not."

"Then it seems being a big old five does run in the family." Leonard chuckled.

"Hey!" she playfully admonished him, knowing he was right. "Lets get home."


"Oh god!... Oh yes!... Yes, fuck me!... Fuck!" she cursed as her eyes were rolled back in her skull and she felt nothing but pleasure.

After returning to her parent's farm a little after midnight, she had quietly dragged him into her room where they had made passionate love directly after arriving. Afterwards they had showered, brushed their teeth and used the toilet, in that order before Penny had supplied him with two caffeine pills, taking two herself and thereby making her comment about having proforma engagement sex all night true.

During his downtime they had talked about everything and nothing, about the fact that Sheldon strangely had not yet called him despite Leonard not telling his roommate where he was going. Sheldon only knew that Leonard had a two week vacation but had calmly accepted that change in his schedule. And was probably annoying Raj and Howard with his antics.

They also talked about his quasi proposal and her quasi acceptance. She assured him that she meant it but both knew that they wouldn't do it this month or maybe even this year, even though Leonard was still planning on going ring shopping during the winter time when the university gave out the Christmas bonuses.

Their second lovemaking had been all foreplay, doing the sixty-nine as well as other positions, her sitting on his face and then getting on her back and let him thrust into her mouth, which made her proud of herself that she was able to do it and also happy to let him take this kind of control. After taking back control by pushing him on his back and taking him into her mouth again, she had, even though he had warned her about his impending climax, continued blowing him until he came, swallowing what he unloaded as prove that she loved him so much that she was willing to do this for him without running to the bathroom to spit it out.

This had led to another long talk about their fondness for certain positions which led to Penny taking his laptop and opening his special Penny folder where he had stored their self-made videos. They watched some of them and Penny pointed out some positions were she remembered coming especially hard which he had taken as a question to do it again.

Which then led to where they were now. She was prone on her stomach, his arms pressing down on her back, creating a hollow back for her, which was enhanced by the neck bolster he had pushed under her hips, lifting her ass into the air which changed the angle of entry to a degree that it caused her an even higher amount of pleasure than she was used to in that position. Henceforth she was cursing continuously into her pillow, mindful of her sleeping parents thirty feet away while he pumped his hips without pause.

"Oh shit!" she kept cursing. "Keep fucking me. Don't stop please."

"I'm running out of non-sexual things to think about." he groaned, his exertion apparent in his voice.

"Try Howard naked. Sex with Sheldon." she managed to say between moans.

"That's gross." he almost gagged but it seemed to work, since the thought of Howard or Sheldon naked, a view he had already seen at the North Pole, caused his manhood wanting to shrink while the continued feeling of Penny's warm and tight insides kept it hard but had the sensation of his impending climax recede a little.

"But it seemed to have woooo-o-o-o-orked." she returned, coughing out the vowel as another climax crashed into her brain. "I'm coming Leonard, keep fucking me."

He bent down over her back and turned her head to the side so he could press his lips on hers. She used his mouth as a sound absorber and screamed into it, pressing her hand to the back of his head so he wouldn't suddenly pull away while she was screaming.

"I don't know how long I can hold it." he breathed after pulling his head back a little, sweat running down his face.

"Please don't stop, that feels so great." she pleaded, not wanting this to end.

She had no idea if it was the bolster under her hips or the his quasi proposal or the combination of both but this time felt so much better than a lot of the other times they had done it. Granted, he had never pushed something under her hips to lift her ass but it couldn't just be this. Leonard was a trooper, since his asthma prevented him from doing things that were exhausting but he kept pumping his hips like she pleaded him to.

"Oh my god!" she groaned, feeling another climax coming. "I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you so muuuuuuuch!" she screamed into the pillow, feeling the familiar twitch and then his spill shooting into her before he crashed down on her back, breathing hard and fumbling for his inhaler he had, in anticipation of this situation, placed there.

He took a few deep breaths out of it and his breathing calmed immediately while she kept twitching, since his manhood was still buried inside her. He even kept thrusting slowly, using the time between his climax and the shrinking to give her a bit more pleasure and her love for that man rose to an even higher level, if that was possible.

"Holy fuck, this was easily in the top three of all the times we did it." she hummed, her bones feeling like jello.

"And we basically did it all night long." he chuckled.

"What? We did?"

"Dawn is coming." he pointed out the window where the first slivers of daylight could be seen on the horizon.

"What time is it?" she asked.

"Almost four in the morning."

"Holy crap, we really did it." she giggled. "Proforma engagement sex all night long."

"I hope your parents didn't wake up." Leonard mused. "While both of them probably know what we are doing, hearing your kid doing it is different, especially for fathers."

"Don't worry, even if he heard us, he loves you too much to shoot you." she grinned.

"Wow, I really need to wash myself." he groaned, feeling sticky from all the sweat.

They both got up and moved into the bathroom, washing themselves at the sink and not bothering to put on pajamas since she had locked the door after they had come back. Since the caffeine pills they had taken were still working their magic, both cuddled after returning to bed, Penny wrapped around his body, his arm around her and caressing her skin while she did the same on his left side.

"This is nice." she hummed in content, sated both physically and emotionally.

"It is. And the placement of your window allows us to watch the sunrise." he pointed to the window where the sky was getting brighter with every passing minute.

"I never witnessed a sunrise." she admitted. "I mean, I was awake at that particular time of the days several times but never just sat back to watch."

"Huh."

"What?"

"Come on, get dressed." he urged her to get up and started putting on his shorts, throwing his shirt on and some pants and grabbing two sunglasses.

She grudgingly got up as well and mirrored his actions, putting on panties and pants and throwing a shirt over her, not bothering with a bra. They walked out the back and moved around the house to the east side where Leonard sat down in one of the lawn chairs. Penny laid down on him, putting his arms around her like a seatbelt and kept looking at the sky where the first rays of the sun were cresting the horizon. They kept watching until the sun shone unimpeded on them, the temperature already rising but not yet to uncomfortable level.

"My, don't you look romantic." Bridget's voice interrupted them.

"Ah, you're home." Penny smiled at her sister. "In the same clothes from last night."

"It's not what you are thinking." Bridget defended.

"Really? You didn't spend the night at his place?"

"I did. But believe it or not, we didn't have sex."

"Okay, I don't believe it." Penny said.

"Be that as it may, we only talked. All night long."

"About what?"

"About everything. I doubt I have ever told anyone so much about me just after meeting him. I told him about my alcohol problems, about Henry, about my ex-husband."

"Wow." Penny commented.

"And you know what else is great?" Bridget asked and Penny shook her head. "One of the kids in his track team is the son of the guy who runs the social services departments and Josh has gotten me a job interview."

"That's great." Penny jumped up and hugged her sister.

"I gotta go shower and change. The interview is today."

"Break a leg." Penny called after her and laid back down on Leonard, closing her eyes and falling asleep, the caffeine pills having worn off.


She woke up and noticed a parasol above her and Leonard's comfortable body under her. She straightened up and stretched her body, waking him up in the process. She looked at her watch and saw that it was already four in the afternoon, making her curse at having missed a day.

"That's what happens when you have sex all night." her mother's voice spoke from behind them.

"Mom, we didn't..." Penny turned around, face beet red.

"Oh come on. 'Oh shit! Keep fucking me. Don't stop please.' You should learn to keep your voice down and also be happy that your dad is such a heavy sleeper." Meryl grinned while both Penny and Leonard were stunned into silence. "Plus, your bed springs are not that young anymore and they make noise."

"Oh god." Leonard groaned, deeply embarrassed.

"Oh, if your performance last night are any indicator, those words are often being uttered." Meryl chuckled.

"Why is there never a hole in the earth when you need one." Leonard muttered.

"Relax. I was young once too." Meryl grinned.

"Not something I want to think about." Penny shuddered. "Where's dad?"

"He's working on the fields to clear the paths to the turbines." Meryl replied. "Before you ask, the horses are already cared for."

"Alright."

Penny and Leonard walked back into the house to wash themselves after their day-long sleep in the open and changed into some different clothes. They sat down in the living room, watching the TV while Meryl buzzed around the house, doing some chores and making dinner.

Dinner itself was different than usual, bread, cheese and cold cuts instead of something warm but it was a nice change of pace. Penny ate cheese while Leonard stuck to the cold cuts, eating three slices of bread which he noticed was freshly baked.

"Hey there." Bridget interrupted their dinner.

"Bridget." Wyatt said. "Come sit down, eat."

"Thanks, I'm starving."

"How did your job interview go?" Penny asked.

"Got the job." Bridget said proudly. "Spent all day with the orientation and tomorrow I'll start my training."

"That was quick." Leonard said impressed. "Congratulations."

"Thanks."

They finished the bread and moved into the living room for a game of rummy. Leonard learned that night, how competitive Penny's family got when playing cards and imagined how she got her toughness. When Leonard won a few games in a row, they basically turned on him, playing against him as a team, which caused him to laugh.

"What's so funny?" Bridget asked.

"Nothing." Leonard chuckled. "I'm reminded of the gaggle of apes analogy."

"Excuse me?" Penny asked. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Well, a troop of monkeys, or a tribe of them, if you can imagine that, can squabble amongst each other but when an outsider comes along, they work together."

"Nice one." Bridget grinned and handed him a certain fruit. "Have a banana."

"Gee, thanks." Leonard deadpanned. "But don't expect me to pick lice out of your hair."

That got him a laugh and they continued playing deep into the night until everyone had to hurry for bed, Bridget because it would be her first day tomorrow and Meryl and Wyatt because of their early days on the farm. Penny and Leonard watched a late night movie before heading to bed themselves, sleeping late again after having ruined their sleep patterns.

On Tuesday, she managed to get him riding again, leading to them spending all day around the lake and him in more butt pain during the evening, though not as bad as the first time they had spend all day riding out.

"Only two more days after today." Penny sighed, sitting on Leonard's lap in the drivers seat of the tractor she had repaired the week before.

"Yeah. Time flies when you're having fun." he nodded. "But hey, we will still have Las Vegas on Saturday."

"That's true. I hope we can win some money."

"I think everyone who's going to Vegas is hoping that."

"Right. But I think you and I are some of the very few who know when to stop playing instead of thinking, winning a few hands means you have a streak and then you gamble everything away again."

"Well, we're awesome."

"That we are." she nodded and kissed him. "I love you, my almost-not-quite future husband."

"I love you too, my almost-not-quite future wife." he grinned, referring to his proforma proposal.

"You know, I think I will buy a neck bolster when we're back home." she said between kisses.

"Oh? And why is that?" he asked, knowing exactly why.

"Well, given how it made me feel, I can't wait to use it and the rubber band in conjunction."

"Really? Getting a little needy now, aren't we?"

"Yes." she confirmed without shame. "If you think I will spend an entire day without touching or kissing you in any way, you're mistaken."

She began grinding on his pants, the looseness of his sweats making his arousal apparent after a few seconds. He hiked up her flowing skirt and cupped her ass, kneading the flesh and pushing her harder on him. She lifted herself a little, allowing him to push down both his pants and shorts while shoving the panties aside she wore, sinking down on his manhood without much preamble.

The element of danger from one of her parents coming into the barn turned her on even more, adding even more spice to their lovemaking. She bounced gently to prevent too much noise from their slapping bodies and kept kissing him to swallow any sound that might escape despite her efforts of remaining quite.

"Slugger, your sister is back from her job, dinner is in thirty minutes." her dad called into the barn, seeing, from his point of view, his daughter making out with her boyfriend on the tractor since her skirt covered what they were doing.

"We're coming down." she replied loudly.

"Okay." Wyatt returned and left them alone.

"Fuck." she cursed, burying her head into his neck.

"Your dad has a knack of interrupting us during sex, he did the same last year." Leonard huffed as Penny stood up and put her clothes in order, him doing the same.

After two more minutes to allow Leonard to get his erection under control again, they entered the house and washed up before heading into the kitchen where Meryl had set the table. Bridget already sat there and excitedly told them about her new job. Penny was glad that her sister had found a job she seemed to love and Josh appeared to be more than a fling, going by the blush Bridget showed whenever she talked about him.

Thursday was even more surprising when, after an entire day spent at the lake, Penny and Leonard saw Bridget coming home from her job with the aforementioned Josh in tow, introducing him to her family, although Leonard and Penny had already met him briefly. What surprised her even more was Bridget's confession about not having had sex yet with Josh, which showed Penny how serious Bridget seemed to be about him.

Thus began the last full day of their stay. After spending the time until three in the afternoon riding out one last time, both she and Leonard did laundry, washing all their clothes to save them from that particular chore at home. Thanks to the sunny day, their garments dried quickly and they were able to pack them back into their suitcases during the evening, readying everything but the clothes for next day for their impending departure.

"Goodbye sweetheart." Meryl said as she hugged Penny. "It's been so great that you could come visit."

"It was great being here." Penny sniffed. "Take good care of Fiona, she's an amazing horse."

"I will." Meryl nodded and hugged Leonard. "You are always welcome."

"Thanks Meryl." Leonard hugged her back.

"Slugger, don't be a stranger." Wyatt said and also hugged his daughter before turning to Leonard. "And you, the next time I see you I expect a ring on my little girl's finger." he whispered into Leonard's ear.

"Can't promise anything." Leonard chuckled as he let Wyatt go.

"Bye mommy, bye daddy." Penny waved to her parents as they boarded the plane for Las Vegas. Two weeks of heavenly vacation but even the greatest time had to be over at some point.


"So, what casino-hotel are we taking this time?" Penny asked. "We did the MGM twice already."

"We could take the Venetian." he suggested and the cab driver brought them to the casino in question.

"Truth be told, I don't care." she admitted as they walked towards the entrance. "I could really use some of your gambling magic."

"Why?"

"I... uh... am kinda in monetary troubles. This vacation, or more exact, the plane tickets had a big impact on my savings."

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"Because you might have not taken me. Also, it's embarrassing to admit that I'm unable to handle money."

"Penny, the truth please, how far in the hole are you." he said.

"I'm behind on my rent and I don't know if I can fill my gas tank. If my car breaks down, I'm screwed."

"Penny, you can tell me this. I would loan you the money."

"I know, but I can't always ask you because I can't handle money." she told him.

"What did you spend your money on?"

"Acting classes, food, rent, power."

"And?" he asked, knowing that wasn't all.

"Clothes and shoes." she replied, head down.

"Okay, I'll pay for the room and we'll see about what we can do in the casino. Remember, that isn't a sure bet." he said and led her inside.

He got a room and led her upstairs into one of the rooms. Penny put her bags on the floor and looked around, seeing it well-spaced with a good-sized bed and two chairs standing on opposite sites of a small table. She turned on the lights and saw the door leading to the bathroom on the right. Upon entering, she let out a squeal of delight at seeing the Jacuzzi tub, her mind already filling again with images of them having sex in its bubbly goodness.

"Leonard, you got us a room with a Jacuzzi?" she gushed.

"Of course." he nodded. "It has become somewhat of a tradition of our stay here, hasn't it?"

"Except that time we were here with Raj and Howard. And the other time we didn't use it."

"Still." he grinned. "So, since we can't stay up that long due to our early flight tomorrow, you should get changed and I start thinking about how best to multiply our remaining money."

"Change?" she asked. "What's wrong with my jeans and shirt?"

"Nothing. But I hope we're having a male croupier, you can distract him with your feminine features." he winked and changed into a button-down.

"You're a sly one." she grinned and changed into the dress she had worn during the fourth of July party, using a push-up bra under it and then enhancing her makeup. "So, how do I look?"

"Breathtaking as always." he nodded impressed and led her downstairs.

They ate some of the buffet and got a few cocktails each before exchanging their money for chips and heading to the floor. They passed slot machines and other games and headed to the blackjack tables where a lot of people were playing, so Leonard already passed them up as too risky to count cards. Unable to think of something better, he led Penny to the roulette tables and started watching the games, hoping his abilities in math and probability calculation combined with a little luck were enough.

"You want to bed, Sir?" the croupier asked.

"Yes." Leonard nodded.

"Please be successful." Penny pleaded. "Those two hundred dollars are my last of my money."

"I'll do my best." Leonard nodded. "Fifty dollars on each number in a four-square spread."

Penny bit her nails, hoping the eight to one bet would pay out as the wheel spun but to her surprise and dread, the ball landed on a vastly different number. The croupier pulled their chips to his stack and Penny groaned at the loss of half their capital. Leonard cursed and grabbed a notepad out his pants pocket and a pen from his other. He scribbled down a very complex-looking equation and pondered over it.

"Penny, can you tell me the numbers that come up?" he asked.

"Okay." she nodded and watched the wheel for a few games. "Four... Thirty-one... Fifteen."

"That's enough. I found the error in my equation." he sighed.

"Sir, it is impossible to correctly predict the next number in roulette." the croupier said.

"That's what we were told last year too." Penny grinned, remembering the woman in the MGM saying the exact same thing.

"Okay, again." Leonard proclaimed and put their last two hundred dollars on the table, fifty bucks on four different numbers each.

The croupier spun the wheel and the ball landed on one number Leonard predicted, giving them a win of four hundred dollars plus the fifties from the other three numbers, bringing the total of their money to five hundred and fifty. He bet again, a hundred on four different numbers each in a square and the croupier spun the wheel once again, and again the ball landed on one of Leonard's chosen numbers.

"That's eleven hundred dollars." Penny squealed.

"Again." Leonard said, feeling lucky and bet two hundred and fifty on four numbers each, keeping a hundred in reserve.

The croupier shrugged but Penny could feel the man's desire to call floor security to haul them to the back to get them whacked for apparent cheating. The ball once more landed on a number Leonard had predicted, causing Penny to scream in joy and several of the other guests to whoop as well.

"Lady, never let him go." an older woman told Penny. "He is gold."

"I don't intend to." she nodded and pressed herself to his back and barely able to contain herself as the croupier pushed twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars in chips to them.

"One last time." Leonard proclaimed cockily.

"Uh, sweetie, do you think that's such a good idea? It's already a good amount of money."

"Don't worry, we'll keep eight hundred and fifty." he told her and put five hundred on four numbers each again.

Penny held her breath as the wheel spun and she could swear that it didn't stop for hours but then the ball hit the obstacle and started to jump and ultimately landed in a bracket. A bracket showing one of Leonard's numbers. Penny almost fainted right there, only holding herself up at the table as the croupier pushed the chips to them.

If her limited math skills didn't fail her, Leonard had just won a total of sixty-three hundred and fifty dollars. She felt like she was about to hyperventilate at the thought, thinking that if they continued like this, he would break the bank but he quickly took the chips and ushered her away, as if he was afraid that they really would be led away to a backroom to get their fingers hammered to pulp.

"Are you worried we will get in trouble?" she asked.

"Yes, although we didn't do anything wrong. What I did was unorthodox but it wasn't cheating in any way, just calculation." he replied. "Not that they would care. Letting someone leave with a lot of money is something a casino doesn't really want."

He walked to the exchanging booth and got the money for the chips, pocketing the roll and leading her upstairs again. As soon as they closed the door to their room, Penny locked it and tackled him on the bed, kissing him as if her life depended on it. He kissed her back for a while but to her surprise, he didn't pull the dress off her but pushed her off him.

"We'll do that later." he winked. "For now, I'm hungry and we should call room service."

"Good idea." she nodded, feeling hungry herself after only having a single shrimp.

"What would you like?"

"Lobster." she grinned. "We can afford it now."

"That's true." he smiled back and picked up the phone, ordering two deluxe lobster meals with a bottle of the finest wine the hotel offered along with a two bowls of lactose free chocolate ice cream for dessert while Penny went into the bathroom to open the tap on the tub so it would be full when they were done.

They continued kissing until the food arrived, with Leonard having a hard time not to rip the dress off her, given how she looked in it. Luckily, the cook hurried up and thirty minutes later, the bellboy pushed the cart into the room, leaving it in the room and receiving a good tip from Leonard before heading back out but not before stealing a look at Penny, who sat cross-legged on the bed, upper body leaned back which accentuated her chest.

"Dinner is served, Milady." Leonard bowed theatrically and held out the chair for her.

"What a gentleman." she grinned and gave him a quick kiss before sitting down.

"Anything for my princess." he chuckled and sat as well.

"Wow, this tastes good." she commented after taking the first bite of the lobster meat.

They ate in comfortable silence, hurrying a bit so the ice cream dessert wouldn't melt and Penny moaned when she ate the ice cream, it tasting better than anything she had ever bought in a store. Although she wanted to salivate it, she ate it way too quickly and before she knew it, her spoon scraped the bottom of the crystal bowl.

"Someone was hungry." Leonard commented with a grin, himself still only halfway through his dessert.

"Not really, but that tastes so amazing." she admitted.

"You want some more?" he asked, holding a full spoon out for her which she took into her mouth without much pause.

"I still want some more." she said seductively just as he took some into his mouth and stood up.

She sat down on his lap and kissed him deeply, running her tongue around inside his mouth and scooping ice cream from it. She took the spoon and fed him the remains of his dessert, making him share it the same way as before.

"That tasted even better." she hummed when the bowl was empty, grinding on his lap and feeling her living toy in his pants come to life.

"We should move this... uh... dessert into the bathroom." Leonard mumbled between kisses.

"Do we have to? I don't want to move." she sighed, feeling almost ridiculously comfortable sitting in his lap.

"Got it covered." he smiled and held her tight.

He stood up on shaky legs and once secure in the hold of her, he carried her into the bathroom while she continued the kiss, roaming his mouth with her tongue. She kept her eyes close as he moved but when he stopped without doing anything, she opened it to see the mirth in his eyes.

"Baby, if you drop me into the tub now, I'm not speaking to you anymore." she squinted her eyes.

"I wouldn't do that." he chuckled, but his eyes told her otherwise.

He let her go and her feet touched the ground while her arms stayed around his shoulders. While she kept kissing him, she opened the buttons on his shirt and pants, pushing the former from his body and the latter to the floor, leaving him standing in his shorts with the familiar bulge on the front. She lowered his shorts as far as her arms could reach and he wiggled his body to let gravity take them, stepping out of them and pushing them away with his feet, making him stand naked in front of her while she still had her dress on.

She broke the kiss and latched onto his neck, sucking hard on the skin and renewing the hickey she had given him before. Not wanting to wait too long, she let her lips roam downwards, necking his nipples and feeling his shudder of excitement but also a slight backwards movements as if wanting to get away.

Her lips moved further down, along the soft lines of his stomach while her hand was already moving along his manhood, which poked up and twitched in expectation. She pulled his pants and shirt to her legs and knelt on them instead of the hard tiles and without taking her eyes off his, she slowly sucked him into her mouth inch by inch while keeping her hands on his hips.

"Fuck, that looks so amazing." he breathed, seeing her taking him in and out.

Since her mouth was full, she winked and smiled at him with her eyes. He put his hands on her cheeks, pushing her hair back and gently pushed her head though giving her most of the control. Her eyes closed and she enjoyed the fact that she gave him pleasure, his every groan and moan a gratification of her efforts.

Suddenly he pushed her head away and pulled her up. Without words being needed, she pulled the dress over her head and discarded it to her left. He freed her breasts from their confinement and with a knowing grin, she watched him latch on to her left nipple while his left hand moved between her legs and started rubbing her still covered folds.

"Leonard, please." she breathed, his skilled hand making her shudder in anticipation.

She knelt down, using his pants and shirt the same way she did and pulled her panties down, then pushing her back until she sat on the broad rim of the tub. She leaned back, holding herself up on the other rim and spread her legs, offering him her moist folds. Running his fingers through them a few times, his lips finally touched them, causing her to moan.

It was amazing to her that no matter how tired he was, or how exhausted, he still earned his title of the king of foreplay every time he did it. Unfortunately, despite his skill at keeping her on the edge of climax, she felt her ass starting to hurt from the porcelain rim and she pushed his head off her.

"Sorry, sweetie, my ass is starting to hurt." she apologized and slid off the rim where he gave her clit a last kiss. "Get into the tub."

He nodded and stepped into the water, sitting down and leaning back, looking at her expectantly. She stepped into it too, her back to him and lowered her body, losing no time in lining him up and sinking down on his hard shaft, feeling the familiar stretching of her insides. While she started bouncing, he activated the jets, letting the water churn from more than just their movements.

She leaned forward and placed her hands on the floor of the tub to get better leverage and increased the force of her bounces, letting the water slosh over the rim and into the gully under the tub. His hands held her hips, guiding her movements without really having to do it and she could hear his breathing change, announcing an impending orgasm.

Cursing her apparent skill to get him come faster, she leaned back and ground on him to get to her own climax either with or before him. His right hand moved between her legs and started furiously rubbing her clit while his hips pumped in harmony with her grinding. She clutched onto the rims of the tub and prepared herself for what was coming and she didn't have to wait long, feeling the pleasure pulses rush through her while her clenching insides pulled him over the edge too.

He groaned loudly at his orgasm, letting her ride it out as it subsided and leaving them both spent and happy. She turned her head and grinned at him, her tongue darting out to play with his as she tried to calm her breathing.

"Finally, another lovemaking in a Jacuzzi tub." she chuckled and started to enjoy the bubbles, now that their bodies weren't moving anymore.

"Ah ha." he nodded. "I love you."

"I love you too." she replied. "More than I could ever imagine loving someone."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I mean, look what we already did during those last three years. If I weren't in love with you like I do, I would have never allowed anal sex and blowjobs would be rare, let alone swallowing your load."

"Then I'm glad." he smiled.

"Also, I'm really excited about this kinky side of yours that you sometimes show." she winked.

They stayed in the tub for almost an hour before coming back out, drying themselves off and walking back to the main room. Both put on robes and Leonard pushed the dinner cart back into the hall with a tip under one of the plates and called the bellboy to take it away. Meanwhile, Penny poured some more of their dinner wine into the glasses and handed him his, clinking their glasses before drinking it.

"So, lets divide the winnings." he said, surprising her since she had already forgotten. "Since we pooled the same amount of money each, we will divide the winnings fifty-fifty. That means, thirty-one hundred and seventy-five dollars each."

"Oh my god." she gasped, imagining what shoes she could buy with this money.

"And they are not for shoes and clothes." he reminded her, popping the thought immediately. "You pay your rent and other costs before."

"I don't see you complaining when you take the clothes I buy off me." she pouted.

"Well, I guess one pair of sexy underwear wouldn't hurt." he conceded and handed her the money, having had the foresight to have the cashier give him five and ten dollar bills, and not just big denominations. "But we should go to bed now, our flight leaves early."

"Okay." she nodded and took off her robe, seeing his manhood rise again at the sight of her naked body.

"Wow, the way you just took that robe off, that was just too sexy." he shook his head, grabbing for his shorts.

"What do you think you're doing?" she stopped him.

"Putting my pajamas on?" he replied confused, not getting what she was asking.

"Sweetie, when have we ever let an erection of yours go to waste?" she asked, stepping past him and getting on the bed where she lifted her ass invitingly into the air.

"You will the death of me one day." he groaned, the view making his manhood twitch.

"Admit it, you like me better like this than if I were frigid."

"Well, of course." he chuckled and got on the bed, lining himself up with his willing girlfriend.

"See, I kneeeeeeeeew..." she squealed as he pushed in and started to pound her rough and fast.

He left one leg kneeling and put his other foot on the bed, holding on to her shoulders to pull her back whenever he thrust forward. Penny pressed her head into the mattress and screamed as he did her, feeling the climax fast approaching at his efforts. She thanked her lucky stars that she had found a man like Leonard, one who not only became the love of her life but also who was able to keep up with her. She loved sex and knew that she was very passionate and luckily, Leonard was too.

She got three more climaxes out of that session before Leonard came as well and after cleaning up again, they finally put their pajamas on and went to bed.

Unfortunately, due to their relatively early departure time, they had to get up again after a rather short night, but at least they didn't have to pack much, since they only took what they needed out of their luggage. They had their breakfast with room service again, not wanting to push their luck with sitting down in the restaurant with the buffet, still fearing that the casino people might be mad at them for winning.

Leonard paid the hotel bill, waving Penny off as she wanted to give him half, since he had a larger paycheck than her. While on a small level she believed that he saw her as inferior, she knew that he was doing it out of love, not spite. They took a cab to the airport and bore the aggravating security procedure, even for such a short flight.

Two hours later, another cab dropped them off at their apartment block. Penny paid the fare this time, not wanting to have him pay for everything, while Leonard and the driver took their luggage out of the trunk. They walked into the building, carrying their cases, and up the stairs until they reached the fourth floor where the door to 4A suddenly flew open and a certain lanky physicist stepped out.

"Finally, you're back." Sheldon said. "Where have you been?"

"On vacation, you knew that." Leonard retorted.

"You violated the roommate agreement by not telling me your destination."

"You never asked."

"Any Penny?" Sheldon directed at her.

"Yes?" she asked.

"Why did you leave at the same time as Leonard? As our neighbor you were supposed to drive me to work and pick me up again."

"Nice to see you're still crazy." Penny smiled.

"So, Leonard, unless you tell me where you went, the roommate agreement violation will prevent you from re-entering the apartment."

"I was in Omaha, Nebraska." Leonard stated.

"Penny, where were you?" Sheldon asked.

"I visited my parents in Omaha, Nebraska." Penny smiled, seeing Sheldon's brain gears turning.

"Leonard, did you spend your vacation with Penny at her parent's home?"

"Yes."

"Why?" Sheldon wanted to know.

"Her parents asked me."

"Before or after your breakup?"

"Before." Leonard replied truthfully, while Penny smiled behind him.

"Are there any more verbal contracts between you and her or some other relative of hers?"

"One or two." Leonard shrugged.

"Very well." Sheldon nodded and left them alone, disappearing into the apartment again.

"What just happened?" Penny asked.

"According to Sheldon, a verbal contract is binding and since he abhors emotional attachements, he thinks nothing of me spending two weeks with you and your parents even while we are 'broken up'." he air-quoted the last two word.

"What are those one or two other contracts between us?"

"One contract is daily sex, if possible of course, the other are joint vacations when they are available." he shrugged.

"We should put that in writing." she grinned and kissed him.

"See ya." he said his goodbye

"Do we have to separate? I want to be around you."

"I'm across the hall. And I could sleep in your bed." he suggested.

"It's a deal." she kissed him and they separated into their respective apartments.

Penny smiled as she closed the door and leaned against it, sighing in content. The vacation had been heaven, her relationship with Leonard has risen to an even higher level after their sort of engagement. She knew that it wouldn't be that soon but at least she had an assurance that it would happen. With a spring in her step, she took her luggage into the bedroom to unpack it and put the clothes away, before giddily counting the money Leonard won for her.


Okay, I hope you liked it. Don't spare with the reviews, or I'll do an off-season and won't write for six months :D

By the way, I know that the roulette winning streak is quite impossible but hey, it's fanfiction and Leonard should be awesome ^^

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