A/N I guess I lied again. I said I would finish Karma before I did the others but since I changed my mind there, I decided to change it again. Thanks to all of you for your reviews. They really are the stuff of legends. I still own nothing.

Everyone but Sheldon was at the airport to meet Leonard. Although they had seen how he had grown on Skype, they were all excited to see Warren. He soon was saying Auntie 'Bett', Auntie Penny, and Uncles 'Howad' and Raj. But he showed his biggest smile when he met Michael and Halley.

With Leonard busy with preparing to leave France, they had not had a Skype for some time. Leonard was stunned when he was told of recent events. He was surprised that Penny had moved in with a friend of hers, but the big shock was being told Amy had returned.

When he learned where she was staying, he called and arranged to see her.

She greeted him and Warren at the door with a big tearful hug. After they separated and were seated on her couch, Amy started, "I was so shocked and sad when Bernadette told me about your wife. I am ashamed to say I didn't even know until recently that you were married and had a son. I had a tough time after Sheldon left me and it is only recently I started to check up on all of you."

She smiled and looked at a little overwhelmed Warren, "Hi Warren, my name is Amy, I am old friend of your Daddy."

Warren smiled back from the safety of his father's lap, "Amy."

"Yes, Amy." She turned to Leonard, "Oh, Leonard, he is so beautiful." She smirked, "He must take after his mother."

"Mommy gone. Daddy sad."

Amy felt herself tearing up again as Leonard gave Warren a hug.

Then Amy said, "Do you guys want anything? I have some cookies."

Warren smiled, "I like cookies."

Amy smiled, "Then you may have some," but then paused, "Is that okay, Leonard?"

"It's fine. Do you have some milk?"

As she headed for the kitchen, he added, "I'll take some water."

When she returned with everything, Leonard smiled, "Thank goodness he isn't Lactose Intolerant."

Setting Warren down by the table and watching as he dug in, Leonard went on, "I admit I was shocked when Bernadette said you were working with Sheldon. I didn't think you would ever forgive him."

"I haven't forgiven him, but we had worked on an idea before we broke up. I had forgotten about it until about a year ago. When I came across it, I was going to throw it out, but then I got intrigued. I worked on it until the point where I needed a physicist's help. I was going to ask someone else, but realized I couldn't ethically do that. When I called Sheldon, I found he had been working on it also. For the sake of our work, we agreed to finish it up together."

She hesitated and then went on, "I wasn't really sure what to expect when I would see him again. I have been surprised how easy it was to get back to working with him." She paused again, "It has helped that Penny is not there. Fair or not, I still blame her the most for what happened."

She looked up, "How about you, Leonard. You seem to be getting along with them both."

He met her eyes, "I wasn't sure either how I would feel when I saw them again. It was Monique who wanted me to get back with everyone." He smiled, "I really wish you all could have met her. She was a wonderful person. Strange as it seems, I think she and Penny would have hit it off. For me losing Penny turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. Without that I would have never found the love I had with Monique." He looked down fondly at Warren, "And I wouldn't have my son."

He went on, "When I saw Penny again, I was thrilled to find out I still wanted her to be my friend. There has always been something between us from the first time I saw her." He paused, "Monique sometimes knew me better that I know myself. I think she knew how important Penny was to me." He smiled, "But she also knew that I loved her more than I had ever loved anyone else."

Amy was stunned. She wondered what it would be like to love someone like Monique and Leonard had apparently loved each other. She smirked to herself, Leonard was probably right that Monique wanted to have Leonard and Penny be friends again, but she had an idea Monique also wanted to rub their love in Penny's face a little.

They talked some more bringing each other up to date and spending a little time discussing the work she and Sheldon were doing. After they left, Amy poured herself some wine and sat down to think.

When she had talked to Sheldon on the phone, she had been shocked how good it was to hear his voice. One of the main hurdles that Joann had helped her surmount was the feeling that Sheldon had gone to Penny because he had found her sexually appealing, unlike herself.

It had taken sometime, but Joann had convinced her to get back out there, to try dating someone. Although she had not got serious with anyone, she had discovered she was sexually attractive to men. As time went on, she realized she had been more deeply hurt by Penny's betrayal then she had been by Sheldon's. She more than anyone knew how Sheldon struggled with emotions, with intimacy. Logical or not, fair or not, she felt that Penny took advantage of that. She remembered how she had felt after her first time with a man. For a time, she felt she loved him. She couldn't imagine how confused Sheldon had been. She had convinced herself that Penny really didn't love him, but for some reason wanted to hurt her and Leonard.

This had now been verified with them breaking up. She sighed to herself, it had been wonderful working with Sheldon again. She had forgotten how impressive he was, how well they meshed. And maybe she was fooling herself but she believed he felt the same way.

She knew she was on the verge of making the same mistake again, of falling for him, but she couldn't help herself. Maybe she should give a call to Joann…

Sheldon finished setting up the whiteboards and made sure all of the refreshments were ready. He realized he could hardly wait for Amy to arrive. Seeing her again and working with her had made the last couple weeks the happiest times he could remember. He had been surprised when Penny had said she was moving out, but was stunned when he realized instead of it bothering him, he felt a sense of relief. Almost from the day they first had sex, he had never felt comfortable with the whole thing. Oh, it had been exciting. He had been caught up in the experience. The thrill of hiding it from the others, the feeling of desire of wanting to be with her.

When they had been caught, the only way he could justify his actions were to believe that he and Penny belonged together. He put out of his mind any thought of what it would mean to lose Amy. As far as Leonard was concerned, he had always thought that he and Penny were wrong for each other. He had to admit he had taken a certain satisfaction in the fact that it was he, Sheldon, that had been the one to end up with Penny.

After they were married and the excitement was over, he found himself stuck with someone who was nowhere near his intellectual equal. Whatever he had thought of Leonard, he had been someone close to him in intelligence and someone he could engage with.

But more than anything, he missed Amy. She had challenged him, inspired him. But he was surprised to find he missed her physical presence as well.

Soon, he was not really that interested in the sex. He wondered what had come over him. It was like someone else had been caught up with Penny.

As the years went by, it got worse and worse. The last two years would have been unbearable if he had not remembered the Project and spent his time working on it. It not only got him away from dealing with Penny, he found it, in a way, made him feel like he was doing something with Amy.

When he went and answered the knock and saw her standing there, he felt a surge of happiness and contentment that had eluded him since they broke up.

It had been a couple weeks since Leonard had returned and he felt he and Warren were finally settled in. He had been afraid of how Warren would react being taking across the ocean and away from his grandparents, but he seemed to be adapting well.

It helped a lot that he had a new set of people who cared for him. Another helping factor had been him being able to spend time with Halley and Michael, who seemed to have adopted him.

He had spent a lot of time with the others, but now realized he needed to get settled in and think about what he was going to do. He still had plenty of money so he could proceed at his own pace to decide if he wanted to get back to work. He still was a little nervous about leaving Warren with someone else. Although he seemed to have accepted his mother was not coming back, he still felt he should be with him.

He was surprised when there was a knock on the door. Crossing to answer it, he was surprised to see Penny standing there. While she had been there when he was with the group, they had not spent any time alone.

"Hey, Leonard." When he just stood there, she smiled, "Are you going to invite me in?"

He stepped aside, "Of course, come in."

Warren came up to her, "Hi, Auntie Penny."

She reached down and picked him up, "Hi, Warren, how's my big boy?"

"Daddy and I going Zoo."

"Wow, that sounds like fun."

She gave him a kiss on the cheek and sat him down. "Sounds like I came at a bad time. I'll come back another time."

"No, that's all right. We have all afternoon." Then he hesitated, "Unless you want to join us."

Penny was surprised and thrilled, "I'd love too." She paused "Are you sure you wouldn't rather do it alone with him."

"No, it will be great to have you along." He turned to Warren, "Auntie Penny is going to the Zoo with us."

"Yay."

As they entered the Zoo, Warren had no doubt where he wanted to go, "Monkeys."

With Leonard holding his hand, they set out for the monkey cage. When they arrived, Leonard picked Warren up so he could see. Penny stood happily next to them, thoroughly enjoying being with them. She also found herself feeling some emotions she knew she should be trying to avoid. She looked at them together and knew it should be Monique with them, not her. But she couldn't (wouldn't) help but feel like a family.

She was brought out of her reverie when Warren exclaimed. "Look, Auntie Penny, baby Monkey!"

She smiled and said, "I see him. He is almost as cute as you."

As Warren turned back toward the cage, Penny heart soared when she saw the happiness in Leonard's face.

As they finally tore Warren away from the Monkeys, they continued their way around the Zoo. Although it wasn't with quite the same enthusiasm, Warren was enthralled with the other animals, especially the bears.

As they walked along, Leonard mostly carrying Warren, Penny had to fight hard not to reach out and take Leonard's hand. But she knew she had no right and had to laugh a little at herself thinking Leonard would not reject it.

Afterwards they went out for ice cream, Warren babbling about all he had seen.

On the way back to the apartment, he fell asleep in his car seat.

When they got home, Leonard took him in his arms. "Well, I better get him settled down." He hesitated, "Do you want to come up?"

As much as Penny wanted to say yes, wanting to spend more time with him, she decided she needed to do some thinking, "I'd love to, but I told Sarah I'd be back for supper."

"All right." He hesitated, "I am so glad you came along. It made it really special."

Penny felt herself flush a little, "It did for me, too."

Their said their goodbyes, Penny fighting the urge to kiss him on the cheek.

Leonard laid Warren down and getting a beer from the refrigerator, sat on the couch. Taking a sip, he thought back over the day. He knew it should probably bother him that he didn't feel guilty about how much he had enjoyed spending time with Penny. He smiled when he remembered how it had felt to be there with her and Warren. As they walked along, he had been tempted to reach out and take Penny's hand, but knew he shouldn't. He had the feeling though that she would have not minded.

He took a larger drink. Was he being disloyal to Monique? It had been a year since the accident. He had assumed it would be a long time before he would be interested in seeing anyone. But, at the same time, he knew Monique would not want him to always be alone.

He smiled, she had told him once, "If anything ever happens to me, you better find someone else. If you don't, I'll come back and haunt you. After all, you can't let all that love you have be wasted." She had looked at him seductively, "You wouldn't want to deprive women of being with the King of Foreplay."

He had of course told her not to talk like that and he would never find anyone like her.

She had smiled and said, "Of course not. I mean look at this," as she struck a sexy pose.

He had crushed her to him and carried her off to the bedroom.

He wondered how she would think though about him and Penny. And how about the Goddards? He finished off the beer. What the hell was he doing? Penny was still married to Sheldon. She had broken his heart. He really didn't need any more complications in his life. Sighing, he got up and went to make himself supper.

Sarah noticed how quiet Penny was through supper. She knew she had gone to see an old lover of hers and wondered if something had happened. One thing she knew, if Penny wanted her to know, she would tell her.

After they ate and cleaned up, they sat down on the couch and turned on the TV. It was apparent that Penny was not paying any attention to the screen.

Finally, Sarah had enough, she was going to at least try. Pushing the Pause button, she turned to Penny, "Okay, Penny, what's going on? You have been off somewhere else all night."

"I'm fine. Let's just watch TV."

Sarah shrugged and started the TV again.

After a time, Penny started talking like she was talking to herself, "I went to the Zoo with Leonard and Warren. We had a great time. It was wonderful to be with them." She paused, "I know it's wrong, but I can't help thinking of us maybe getting back together."

She sighed, "God, what is wrong with me? I am still married and I broke Leonard's heart. He is still in love with Monique and always will be."

She teared up a little, "But ever since I saw him again, I realize how much I just enjoy being with him and Warren."

Sarah remained silent, not thinking of anything she could say.