Leonard the Great
During the week had been rough, When Oenny went to bed that Sunday night she had been feeling ill. It did help her slightly that Leonard held her that night just mainly to help her sleep. But by three in the morning she was running to the bathroom. Being the good husband he was, Leonard shortly after woke up and got up. He made his way to their bathroom, sat in the edge of tub and held Penny's hair and rubbed her back.
Once Penny was finished for the moment she sat back and laid her head on her husbands lap. "Your so good to me..." She stated.
"Well yeah...If I want you to stay with me I have to be your superhero..." Leonard said jokingly with a smug smile.
Penny looked up and frowned at him as she rolled her eyes at him. "Forty-four years old and still a nerd!"
"And yet you still married me and had my babies! Blame yourself on that one." Leonard chuckled as he joked some more, knowing he was annoying his sick wife. Yet he knew it was the only way for her to relax when she was sick.
She shook her head, still frowning at her husband. Her head was pounding now and quickly laid her head back on Leonard's lap. "Fine, I will. But it's worth it because you do take care of me and our kids when either one of us are sick." Penny told Leonard as her statement was sincere. She began to close her eyes as Leonard played with her hair.
"You think you are done, or do you want to wait awhile?" Leonard asked as he felt Penny's body to relax as he continued to play with her hair.
"Mmm!" Penny let out as Leonard's actions felt good. "I don't think I'm done... You go ahead and go to bed, you already have a long day ahead." She told him as she quickly sat up and let her stomach empty some more.
Leonard sighed as he felt bad for his wife. He found one of her hair ties and put Penny's hair in a ponytail. He walked over to the sink and pulled out a clean washcloth and got it wet. He sat back over on the edge of the tub, rubbed his wife's back some more, and waited for her to finish. As she almost flopped onto the floor, Leonard grabbed her and held her against him as he slid down and sat against the tub. He put the wash cloth on Penny's forehead as she was burning up, pulled down the towel from the rack and let Penny clean herself up. "I'm not going anywhere... I have refused to leave your side in the past with you just being sick, your hangovers, and your morning sickness with our babies, so I am refusing now." Leonard told her gently as now Penny was laying on the floor and using Leonard's legs and her arms as a pillow.
"How did I become so lucky?" Penny questioned out loud as she began to nod off.
Leonard sighed as to him he was the lucky one. But now was not the time to think all about that. He just wanted to take care of his wife and hoping she was going to be okay. As he sat there, Leonard started to fall asleep until he swore he heard, "Daddy!" from the boys baby monitor. He nudged his wife and got her awake enough to get her to her feet and helped her to their bed. Leonard made his way then to the boys room. And there was Ezra in tears and throw up all over him. So there was Leonard in superhero mode again but this time for his oldest son.
The early morning seemed never ending for Leonard though. It seemed as after he cleaned up Ezra and made his bed, Ellie was now sick. Leonard finally caught some shut eye by five in the morning as he rocked Ellie to sleep once she was in fresh pjs.
Leonard's cell phone chimed with his alarm at six in the morning. He sighed feeling exhausted as he decided to call ahead to work saying he would do interviews over video chat and sent an email out to his students that their first class would be over online also. Leonard was really looking forward to teaching his first class that Wednesday now he was a tenor professor but taking care of his family came first. He really felt bad for Penny because now she finally graduated college, she had an interview this week as she hoped for a promotion as becoming Head Sales Manager over all Sales Repersentives. Maybe her too could do her interview over video chat.
Leonard kissed Ellie's head and was glad she was not as hot as she was an hour before. So he quitely got up and laid her in her crib. He made his way to the boys room and checked on Ezra. Leonard noticed he was finally sleeping and would take his temperature once he checked on his wife. But like clockwork, Leonard heard crying before he walked out and as he turned to look who was awake and crying, there was Emmett standing up in his crib and suddenly the whole scene in front of Leonard's eyes turned into the Exorcist. The poor little boy lost everything everywhere in front of him.
Once again, Leonard had to clean up. Everything was scrubbed, Emmett got a fresh bath, he, Ezra, and Ellie took their Tylenol, Leonard had Emmett in clean clothes, and finally decided to put his sick children in bed with their sick mom, which Penny did not mine at all to cuddle with her babies. All four had buckets if any got sick again and Leonard made sure he switched one of the baby monitors around so he could listen if anyone needed him.
Once Penny, Ezra, Ellie, and Emmett were all settled, Leonard took a shower himself and got in clean clothes. He woke up Emma and told her she was not going to daycare for the day. His three and half year old daughter was excited to be with her daddy all day. So he set up a play area in his and Penny's office and made sure he turned on Star Wars, The Clone Wars for his little Slugger and fed her and himself breakfast.
Leonard was half way through applications and interviews, when Emma was napping and he checked on his wife. To his surprise, all three sick kids were asleep and Penny was actually awake video chatting with her mom. Leonard made sure he said hi and gave Penny a kiss on the forehead as she hung up with her mom. "I have to go back down to do more work. Do you need anything?" He asked with a smile.
"Nope, but a date with my man!" Penny grinned with a wink.
Leonard frowned as he tilted his head. "A date?"
"Yeah, well once the kids and I are better and you and Emma don't get this crap, Mom was planning on flying here since dad is beginning to harvest soon and finish up with the alfalfa. She misses her grandbabies and I told her all the chaos going on between us. So she said she would let us have a break and she would babysit for a whole weekend. I mean she wouldn't do it alone, Lisa wants to visit also since all her boys are grown. They would stay until after the twins birthday, and would be our backup so we could have date nights so we could actually be husband and wife once in awhile than just parents all the time... You in?" She gave her husband a hopeful look.
"Am I in? I love our kids and would do anything for them, but Babe I miss it just being us once in awhile... We really don't have the help to get a break since all our friends have kids now and you don't quite trust having teenaged babysitters to watch our kids, so your mom and sister coming would be amazing..." He leaned back over and kissed Penny on the forehead once more with a smile.
"Good! You are like the best husband ever!" Penny smiled weakly back at him.
"If you say so because no taking that statement back!" Leonard joked giving Penny's hand a kiss as she just rolled her eyes and shook her head. He watched her cuddle back down in the bed and cuddle up to the sick babies. Once he saw Penny's eyes were closed, Leonard headed back down and make lunch for him and Emma.
Once he woke Emma and they had lunch together as she decided to watch A New Hope with her daddy. Leonard put a pillow down and laid on the floor of his office as his oldest daughter laid her head on his chest as the movie played. "Daddy?" Emma began to talk.
"Yes Baby?" Leonard answered back.
"I'm sorry I not a princess." She told him sounding sad.
Leonard sat up and pulled Emma on his lap and made sure she was looking at him. "Emma, you don't have to be a princess, we leave that to Ellie and sometimes your mom... You are perfect, just like your mom, sister, and brothers. Remember what I told you, you are my Rey Skywalker. I am proud of who you are, do you understand?"
Emma nodded and wrapped her arms around her daddy's neck and squeezed hard. "I always be your Rey, I wuv you Daddy!"
Leonard hugged his daughter back and smiled, "I love you too Slugger! I mean Rey!" He corrected himself. Penny might have called Emma Slugger, and Leonard called her that once in awhile. But it was weird calling Emma that since Wyatt called Penny that. So he tried calling her his Rey more often, even it drove Penny crazy since Ezra's nickname was already Padawan and Emmett's was Poe.
Leonard was enjoying just being a dad, until his phone rang. He got up and saw it was President Sebert. Leonard walked out of the room to answer. He had forgotten an interview with a new potential exmential physicist for the University since Leonard was now head tenor professor over the physics department and could not always perform his experiments. Leonard apologized and went back to his laptop and connected the video call. His eyes grew big as he saw the person he was interviewing. He may have not saw this person in many years but felt sick to his stomach just seeing her. All his thoughts were that this week just got weirder and stranger as she greeted him, "Hello Leonard, I mean Doctor Hofstadter."