So here is this updated chapter and apologize for the late update. Please enjoy as I do not own these characters.

Chapter 35

Penny was enjoying her day off from the Cheesecake Factory and no auditions, as she just got back picking up her dress for Bernadette and Howard's wedding. Amy was of course the maid of honor and Raj was the best man. She was just happy to be involved with the wedding as her and Bernadette had not been friends long but immediately became best friends along with Amy. She was reading a magazine when suddenly there was a knock at her door. Penny frowned as she got up and answered the door. "Hey you, why are you knocking? You live here!" She said with a side look with confusion at her boyfriend.

Leonard grinned, "Before I come in, you should know, I have gas!" Then moves his arm and holds up a gas canister to show Penny.

Penny holds a straight face as her eyebrows narrow in, "For the record, that's not your worst opening line."

Leonard smiles back as Penny does to him and then walks into their apartment headed towards the couch. "Check it out." He begins as he sits on the couch as Penny followed after shutting the door. He sits down the consistent, "It's the gas I use in my free-electron laser to support high voltages. But it also has an interesting secondary use." Leonard then pulls out a yellow ballon and begins to fill it up with gas and holds the ballon up to Penny. "Here. Breathe this in."

Penny gives him a concerned look but jokes, "B-Before I do it, if you're a cop you have tell me, right?"

Leonard chuckled as he is still holding onto the ballon. "Just try it." As he was smiling.

Penny takes the ballon, still not knowing what it is going to do. "Okay." Then puts the ballon to her lips and sucks in the gas from the ballon like she use to as a kid with helium. She then speaks after pulling the ballon away from her. "What's it supposed to… Oh, my God, this is so freaky!" She says shockingly in a very deep odd voice.

Leonard takes the ballon and inhales, "You're a mean one Mr. Grinch." In a deep voice also. He begins to laugh as Penny laughs too.

Penny takes back the balloon feeling very childish yet fun. "Okay. Me, me, me. Ready?" She takes a deep breath but still slightly laughing, and inhales. "Leonard, I am your father."

Leonard feeling very turned on. "I have never been more attracted to a woman who sounds like a man in my life."

"Awe!" Penny laughed, she leaned into him and began kissing him.

As they kissed, Penny could feel heat arise inside her body and began to feel turned on, "You know we could move this to our bedroom..." She said in between as they kissed.

Leonard broke their kiss as he looked at his girlfriend, "Mmm! As long I get to see that Cookie Monster tattoo, that way I can say..." He took the still inflatable balloon and sucked in the gas and said with a deep voice, "Cookies!"

Penny giggled as she grabbed Leonard's shirt collar and pressed her lips hard against his. Leonard was so into it that he let go of the yellow balloon and let it deflate and flew in the livingroom.

The laughed at the sound the balloon made and then quickly headed to their bedroom with now clothes flying left and right.

Moments later, Penny was sipping on a bottle of water, sitting on the side of her bed facing the bedroom door. She was only in her Nebraska Cornhuskers Husky oversized t-shirt. As Penny put her water on her bedside table and turned her head over her shoulder and seeing her boyfriend sleeping peacefully, her heart sank. What could she do now but feel regret and guilt. They just got done making love and out of no where Leonard proposed and this time he was coherent and knew exactly what he was saying. She calmly told him no only because proposing after sex was not the best way to do it. But to be honest when he asked she felt like she was going to freeze up and yell at him that she was not ready for marriage still. She did not though, because she did not want him to hurt anymore. So Penny reassured him that she loved him and that them having a baby and living together was good enough for her, plus if he was going to ask her to marry him that he did not do it while he was drugged up or during or after sex. But he turned it around on her that to even it up, she would ask him to marry her. They joked around a little saying she better go all out when she proposed. She would have to have flowers and a ring but nothing on the Jumbotron because he did not want to be seen crying on camera. He then feel asleep as she had trouble doing so.

Penny couldn't blame him fully for asking though. With Howard and Bernadette's wedding coming up, Leonard admitted he was caught up in the moment. She sighed as she took one last sip before placing her water bottle down. She then crawled in next to her boyfriend and tapped him on the shoulder.

Leonard slightly opened his eyes with a, "Hmm?" As he saw Penny just enough by the moonlight coming through the window.

"I'm sorry I said no..." Penny sadly told him as she looked at him.

Leonard smiled at her and took his hand and began rubbing her arm. "Don't worry about it... Like you said the timing was not right..." And he leaned closer to Penny and gave her a small peck on the cheek and closed his eyes, "We are having a baby and we live together. That's all that matters right now and that we love each other." He said with his voice groggy and sleepy.

Penny laid there as her heart felt heavy. She didn't want to make a rash decision but she already did that not accepting Leonard's proposal. She hated feeling like the bad guy though and wanted to make it up to Leonard now. She loved him and could not see herself with anyone else. They were to become parents and she knew Leonard was going to be an amazing dad. They had amazing chemistry since the evening they met and was still there. They had fun together and knew how to make each other laugh. Then there was the cons of not getting married. She was already pregnant and did not want to be another woman in her family to have a "shotgun wedding". Penny did not want to feel trapped in her marriage also if they got married and realized it was a mistake, then they would be a broken family. Her sister was getting a divorce after getting pregnant before marriage even if they had been married eighteen years. But her sister regretted marrying the guy and was unhappy from the moment saying "I do". Penny did not want that with Leonard. But it was Leonard. They had their problems yet they worked them out and he made like he completed her. He filled that void that she had been missing from every relationship she was in with a guy.

Penny sighed and tapped on Leonard's shoulder once more knowing he feel back asleep. "Hmm?" He said again only opening one eye.

"Vegas is not that far away." Penny grinned as she bit her lip, hoping Leonard would understand what she meant.

Leonard sat up, pulled on his glasses and turned on the bedside lamp. "You know those are real right?" He asked her frowning, fully awake now.

"Yeah I do..." She said quickly as she remembered going to Vegas on a Thanksgiving with her ex Zack and a few of his friends from when he was part of a fraternity. As a joke they went to what Penny though was a fake chapel as Zack quoted, "Let's get fake married!" as they were wasted also. But thankfully one of Zack's buddies was actually thinking and told them, "Hey ya do that you forever married, they are not fake." Penny quickly stopped from signing her name, and ran to the bathroom. From there, she went to the hotel room and packed her stuff. She had fallen asleep and when she woke up Penny made sure they were not married because that would have been a huge mistake and told Zack their relationship was not working out as he was in California and she was in New York at that time.

Penny shook her head from the awkward memory, "So what do you say?" She asked with a hopeful look.

A smile kept up onto Leonard's face, "If you are sure, I'm in..."