Summary: Raj tells them about how he categorized the guys.
Word Count: 1502
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters.

"Come on, I'm the one everyone forgets about! And eventually, you'll forget about me. Everyone else apparently does!" He reminds her, after once more being reminded by Raj about how he forgot about him when telling Stuart about who the guys were. 'Sheldon's the smart one, Howard's the funny one, and apparently, I'm the ladies' man.' 'Which one is Leonard' 'Oh yeah, right, I guess Leonard is the forgettable one.'

"Leonard..." She sighs, getting up from her chair to move next to him. Penny tentatively puts her hand on his shoulder, but he flinches and moves away from her. They share a look, a quick glance. She can see he's scared, of what she doesn't know.

"I need to... I need to get some air." He turns around and leaves, pretending not to hear his wife's pleas for him to come back.

Penny stares at the door he just left from, thinking that maybe she should go after him. But she didn't want him to be upset with her, he needed space. She was scared of how much space he would end up wanting, she was scared.

Sighing, she starts to clean up their apartment, taking the plates away from the coffee table, cleaning them up. She took her sweet time until she got a text. Hoping it was Leonard, she raced to it.

Bernadette: We're all here waiting for you guys!

Penny sighs, mad at them for making Leonard feel the way he was, now they were all probably there just like nothing happened while Leonard was alone somewhere. She should have gone after him. Unfortunately, this wasn't a live and learn situation. Even though she could learn something from this, she should've just gone with her gut and go after him.

Penny: So? What about it?

A few seconds later, she gets an answer.

Bernadette: Come over here.

Penny decides not to answer. Instead, she takes her things and goes to Howard and Bernadette's house, whilst trying to get a hold of her husband. But he wasn't answering her calls and she was getting worried. She wasn't finding him on the street, his car wasn't in his usual parking spot, and he wasn't at the university – she had gone there to see.

More scared than before, she goes back to her original plan and goes to her friends' house.

Parking her car there, she takes a deep breath.

She doesn't even knock. Penny just opens the door, mad at herself and the whole world. She didn't know where her husband was, and he was scared and alone. What if he's hurt? She kept thinking.

"Hey! You're here." Bernadette happily says, making the whole gang turn to her. "Where's Leonard? Is he parking or something?"

Penny starts fidgeting with her car keys, with a stupid keychain Leonard got her.

"Actually, I don't know where he is." She takes another deep breath and waits for their questions.

"Did you guys fight or something?" "You finally got a divorce?" "He got so scared of you that he ran?"

Those were the immediate questions. Penny, before scared for her husband's whereabouts and well-being, was now pissed at them.

"No! He was mad at you all." Penny feels tears ready to spill out of her eyes, but she doesn't care.

"Why?" Raj asks.

"Because of what you keep saying. All of you, actually, but what you kept repeating today at dinner."

"What, that he was the forgettable one?" Penny angrily nods. "It was just a joke."

"Yeah, well, it might have been a joke, but he's getting tired of them. And so am I. You guys have no idea of how messed up he's been. And today, he just left. He sucked it up all through dinner, and as if once wasn't enough, you kept repeating it. Look, make fun of our relationship all you want. He and I do whatever we want, and I like to think that he knows how much I love him and that I'm not leaving him. But you don't say things like that to him, okay? Are we clear? Cause, I don't want to lose him, and I won't forget about him. No matter what he thinks." She breaks down at the last sentence, the weight of everything they had all said about them crashing down all at once.

Bernadette puts a comforting hand on her shoulder, smiling as she does so. Howard looks down, now scared for his friend. Sheldon looks at Amy, his actions all coming to his head, making him feel bad. Amy gives him a smile and holds his hand.

Raj, on the other hand, doesn't feel bad.

"Screw this, okay? He gets to make fun of me but I don't! No! I'm sorry that you don't know where he is, but that was his choice. Not mine."

Penny gets angry, but instead of yelling, she just smiles.

"I know. That's why I sincerely hope that you never get to see the one you love so scared that he flinches when you try to touch him because he's scared it might be the last time. I hope you don't get to see people he thought were his friends saying those things. And last time I checked, Leonard doesn't may things as mean as you do. So screw you." With that, Penny leaves. And this time, she's the one ignoring everyone that calls her name.

She found him at the marina, watching the boats float. It was the place he loved to go the most since it relaxed him for some reason. Penny wondered why she just didn't go there in the first place.

"Hey." She says, making her presence known.

Without moving, or looking at her, he makes sure he heard her. "Hey."

She sees his legs moving without even hitting the ground, something he always said he loved about being small – with the right chair he could do that. That was why that was his favorite bench at the marina.

"I spoke to them." She seems him tense up after that. "Raj fought back, but I honestly don't care. I think everyone else started to think about it, though. That's good." She doesn't sit next to him, even though there's room for the both of them. She keeps her hands in her pockets, kept staring at him. She sighs when he doesn't move or talks.

"What?" He finally wakes up from his reverie. "Why are you sighing?"

"Leonard..." She doesn't know what to say.

"Look, I'm sorry I ran. I... I'm scared." He admits as if she didn't know.

"I know. It'll be fine, Leonard."

"You don't know that! I just don't want to end up like my parents, okay? They didn't love each other at the end. Even though I'm not sure they ever did."

"You are not your parents, okay?" Penny finally sits next to him and smiles when he grabs her hand.

"What if I am?" He seems even more scared now as if there's an actual monster on the closet.

She doesn't know what to answer, so she simply puts her head in his shoulder. They stay like that for a while, just enjoying each other's presence and watching the boats. Eventually, Penny moves.

"Look, I don't know what the future holds. But I know that you will not be like them. You will love this kid no matter what, okay? So what if it wasn't planned or anything? I know you'll be a great dad."

"That came out of nowhere, didn't it?" He laughs slightly, feeling a bit better now.

"Kinda." She makes a funny face and smiles, a smile with her whole face. He makes the same thing, and she rests her head on his shoulder once again, thinking of what the future would hold.

"I won't forget about you. I promise." She whispered that very same night to her sleeping husband. And she meant it.

Five years later

Four-year-old Christopher Hofstadter is running around the house chasing his cousins Halley and Michael as the grown-ups talk.

Everyone is okay with each other now, even though it took some talking. They decided not to make certain jokes, there was even a Jokes Agreement written – and no matter how much they tried, they couldn't find a better title for it.

Raj shows up at the Rostenkowski-Wolowitz residence a little later, but for a good reason.

"I'm thinking of asking Amanda to marry me." He smiles, but a scared one. Amanda was a girl he had met two years ago, in a coffee shop. He told them, at the time, that maybe he would be lucky and it would be like the Shamy's.

"Really? When are you asking?" Howard asked, genuinely happy for his best friend.

"I don't know yet. But I'll do it. I think it's time." Raj answer, now with an actual smile.

"I'm sure she'll say yes," Leonard reassures him.

Yeah, everything was going to be okay with the Cooper-Fowler-Koothrapalli-Rostenkowski-Wolowitz-Hofstadter clan.

The End

Sorry for the time jump, I honestly just clicked a random number on the keyboard. I just wanted to make it a bit believable that Raj found a girl and at the same time didn't want to write much more.

Also, how bad was this? I had another idea for a sweet scene, but I honestly don't really know where to put it, so I just gave up. Hope you guys like this!