Here is the next chapter. I left an interesting ending of this chapter. Hope all enjoy. I do not own TBBT characters.

Chapter 36

Once Leonard told Penny he was in on getting married, still naked, he got up out of bed and walked over and grabbed his pants. Penny sat up in confusion. "Babe if you are going to grab what I think, kinda too late for wrapping it." She told him tilting her head and rubbing her small baby bump.

Leonard chuckled as he turned toward her as he had his wallet in his hand after putting his pants back on the floor. "No, I just thought this might help." He pulling put a ring, coming to Penny's side of the bed and getting on one knee as he threw his wallet over by his pants.

"Where did you get that?" Penny asked in shock and eyes widened with a slight laugh.

"I got it a while back, doesn't matter. I want to do this right even if we are naked. So Penny will you marry me?" Leonard asked with a small grin on his face.

"Oh my gosh, yes!" Penny said feeling happiness as Leonard slid the princess cut ring on her left hand. Then Penny took his face into her hands, leaning up and kissing him while he straddled her.

"So we go to Vegas tonight?" Leonard asked in between kisses. "Or we wait until morning?"

"Let's go now!" Penny responded back as she gave her now fiance one last lingering kiss.

So they decided to shower, get dressed, pack a small bag of clothes, and grabbed their birth certificates. Leonard stopped off at the gas station across the street to fill up and grab them a few snacks and drinks. They did not tell any of their friends as they did not want to ruin Bernadette's and Howard's moment, plus they liked the idea this was just something between them. So the next four hours was just them in the car telling each other how crazy this was, but ready. They decided to tell their friends sometime after Howard got back from space. Penny was not sure when she was going to tell her parents and Leonard could not wait to tell his dad but not ready to tell his mother. But both knew they could not keep the secret for long, as they tried with the pregnancy only Sheldon pieced it together and told all their friends before Leoanrd and Penny confirmed it.

Around ten at night, only two hours into the drive, Leonard noticed Penny got quite as he was discussing his latest project at work. He turned his head and noticed she was asleep. Leonard reached over and laced his fingers with hers to hold her hand as his other hand guided the steering wheel. He lifted his arm and brought her hand up to his lips and kissed it. "I love you soon to be Penny Hofstadter." He said quietly to her as he kept driving.

Leonard turned on the radio and hummed along to drain out the silence but also this was forbidden when Sheldon rode with him. But when it was just him or if Penny tagged along too, they would crank up the radio and sing their hearts out. Penny would call it car karaoke and then would head to some bar to sing karaoke there. But not know since Penny was sleeping. He loved music as this was almost a punishment his mother put him in cello lessons as a child. But his brother Michael got lessons in violin as his sister, Catherine, played the piano. The instruments they wanted to play. His dream as a child was to learn to play drums and to rap, but Beverly shot those down quickly as drums and rap music to her was not educational nor classical instruments. Leonard shook his head from the distant yet negative memory as only one of his hopes and dreams came real. That was being a scientist. So he would make sure he would not hold back on his and Penny's child of their dreams coming true, even if they wanted to learn how to become a double Dutch jump rope champion and also to make sure their child did nothing illegal.

Before he knew it he was pulling into Las Vegas and tapped Penny on the shoulder. "We're here Babe..." He told her as she woke up looking distraught by waking up from a deep sleep.

"What time is it?" Penny asked in confusion as Leonard began to pull up to what she knew right away was The MGM Grand.

"A little after midnight." Leonard answered as he found a parking spot.

"Good!" Penny grinned as she rubbed her hands while Leonard suddenly wondering what she had in mind. But just to find out Penny loved Vegas and couldn't wait to gamble since it had been awhile since she had been here. So they parked, grabbed their bags, and headed in to get a room. Once they got a room, Penny was fully awake and dragged Leonard down so they could gamble as they decided late morning they would find a chapel to get married at. So they played at the craps, black jack, and roulette to only win four hundred dollars between the three games. Penny never won that much while at any casino so she decided to call Leonard her lucky charm. By three in the morning and after loosing the four hundred dollars in slot machines, they went back to their hotel room and made love.

Leonard only remembered seeing his phone say 4:30 A.M. when he finally closed his eyes and shutting off his phone. He woke up somehow before nine in the morning and not surprising before Penny. So he decided to order them breakfast to their room and he would need to drink lots of coffee before they went out for the day to find a chapel and get married. He turned on his phone after ordering breakfast and saw he had ten missed calls and five text messages from Sheldon, two missed calls and a text message from Howard as same went with Raj. Yet to his surprise, he had a missed call from his mom. He was curious though and woke up Penny.

At first she yelled at him for waking her up, but quickly apologizing for it as she found out he ordered them food. Then turned on her phone to see how badly her friends and family were trying to get a hold of her. "Well six missed calls and two text messages from Sheldon, ten missed calls and messages from Amy, Bernadette called me five times with four text messages, and my parents called me eight times... Hang on here's my dad." She told Leonard as she was sitting on the bed only in her bathrobe and her hair tucked behind her ears.

Leonard nodded as he noted how adorable she looked. He was going to ask her if she wanted him to stay but there was a knock on their door. So as he went to answer that because it was probably their breakfast, Penny answered her phone. "Hi Daddy!" She said cheerfully.