Remember this is my first story after the finale. This chapter takes place September 2024. In this story they have Ezra-4, Emma-3, and the twins Ellie and Emmett soon to be two. Hope you guys enjoy.
Back To Reality
"Oh God my head!" Penny groaned as the sun came through the windows of the hotel room she shared with her husband.
"Owe! Why?" Leonard joined in as he turned away from the natural light and placed the pillow over his head.
"Why are we not as young as we use to be because I feel like a Mack truck ran over me and I can't remember the life of me what we did after dinner." Penny groaned some more.
"I remember we were walking in a tattoo parlor, drinking some kind of alcohol with you and some random couple we met from Kentucky, and somewhere I swear I felt like being tossed in the air and we both tossing our dinner... Owe why does my arm hurt like a turns of bee stings?" Leonard tried recalling what events happened as he went to go rub his arm feeling a mesh bandage over is. As he began to remove as he sat up, Leonard noticed he had a tattoo.
Penny chuckled, "Awe your first one... And yet it's an tiny little Star Trek symbol...That's why my inner thigh hurts and why my head is pounding like crazy!" Penny said sitting up as she remembered. "I was tipsy from the bottle of wine we drank and then wanting to get a tattoo parlor. I begged you to get one with me and you wanted to prove to me you were man enough. I had to hold your hand... After you were done and I was getting mine... And that's all I remember..."
Leonard nodded and as much as his head hurt, he insisted his wife get up to take a shower and take some aspirin and drank tons of water.
Leonard and Penny where enjoying their breakfast and making sure she reminded her husband that he promised her gambling afterwards the Star Trek convention when suddenly Penny's cell phone rang. "It's Bernadette..." She said seriously knowing it was Howard and Bernadette's day with their kids.
Penny answered as Leonard suddenly felt worried. Bernadette knew how to handle children as did Howard. So he knew something was not right because Bernadette never called about his and Penny's children.
"Hey Bernie what's up?" Penny asked as calmly as possible. "Okay, okay, we are on our way!" Penny stood up in a panic as Leonard eyes grew big.
"What's wrong?" Leonard asked as he quickly stood up as he began to fidget with his finger.
"It's Emmett..." Penny felt tears as Bernadette told her youngest son had been acting strange and making no sense since we had woken up.
Before Leonard knew it they were back at their hotel room and changed. Leonard set Wil a text about a family emergency and were on the road home. Leonard had no clue what was wrong with his youngest son but just the next four hours were going to be long. All he could do was hold his wife's hand and tell her Emmett was going to be okay.
After the long drive and they pulled into the Wolowitz's driveway, Penny was unbuckled before Leonard could put the vehicle in park. As soon as the car was, Penny was out. Leonard followed after turning off his SUV. As Leonard entered the house, Penny was sitting on the couch watching all the kids play together except for Emmett who was off by himself playing. Leonard sat next to his wife and looked at his friends. "So what happened?"
Their concerned friends sat down and Howard began. "Well Amy and Sheldon dropped your kids off around eight. Emmett was the only one who wanted to continue to sleep, so we just laid him on the couch and let him sleep a little bit longer. Amy said he was distant last night but maybe thought he was missing you two. But when I woke him up, he bit my sleeve and began to scream." Howard told them.
"I came in to see what the hell Howie did wrong, after a few seconds we thought he had a bad dream. So I went to calm Emmett down as he was just rocking where he was sitting and was whimpering. But he pushed me away and just said no. I tried to ask him if he was hungry. But he just got off the couch and sat in front of the t.v and just been playing with his Batman doll since then. Just screams no if he wants to eat." Bernadette sighed and could see the worry on her friends faces. "Has he done this before?" She decided to ask him.
"Just a few times a day he becomes distant and will play alone but nothing like that..." Penny told her friends as she looked at them, looked at Leonard who was nodding in agreement, and her attention back to Emmett.
Leonard squeezed her hand and then got up to join Emmett. "Hey Poe, do you want to eat some food?" As he began to rub his son's back.
Emmett's attention didn't leave his doll but quickly turned his head towards Leonard's. "Yeah." Is all he answered.
"So let's put up Batman and let's go eat." Leonard softly told his son.
"No!" Emmett yelled and got up and with his head looking down, he moved behind the couch.
Penny and Leonard looked at each other with a sigh and knew something in fact was wrong.
