Word Count: 785
Summary: After S03E19 (The Wheaton Recurrence) after Leonard and Penny's break up.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters.

"Are we still friends?" Penny asks, entering the apartment that had only one person inside. Now with her there, there were two people.

"Why wouldn't we?" Leonard asks back, looking up to her ex. Three months after their break-up it was still weird to look at her.

"We don't talk anymore, that's why! Every time we pass each other in the hallway, you look the other way. What happened?"

Leonard looks at her clearly confused. He's fidgeting with his hands, momentarily forgetting what he usually does with them when he's talking to people.

"We broke up, Penny." He stares at her, and his hands are still doing the same thing. He thinks of keeping them quietly in his pockets, but he can't stop looking at her. Her eyes were tired, at least it seemed that way. Her once happy face, turned somber somewhere along the way. Maybe she was right. He hadn't seen her for a long time and he missed a lot. But they did break up.

"That doesn't mean we should just stop talking. We can still hangout. Have dinner together, just as friends. Right?"

He looks down now. He can't face her, not after everything that just happened.

"I think I just got my answer." She looks away from him and turns around to leave, but only gets to open the door before she hears his voice.

"I don't know how to just be friends with you." Leonard explains, and Penny looks at him, nodding. He's clearly tired just like her, but that was probably because of Sheldon. He was nervous, but that was normal after what he had just said.

It's her turn to fidget with her hands, visibly nervous and scared. Scared of commitment, of saying the wrong thing and ruin things with one of the greatest people she had ever met.

"What if… what if I don't know how to do that either?"

"But you're the expert in relationships!" Once he said that, she wasn't sure that was him joking or him telling the truth. But she continued.

"Not like this. I usually don't live across the hall from them. I don't see them every day. And… I don't usually miss them this much." She looks down, as she whispers the last sentence.

Leonard decides to throw his anxieties away and takes a step forward, coming closer to her. His lips have a small smile playing in them, and he raises his fingers to her chin, raising it high enough for her eyes to meet his.

"I can move out." His smile never leaves his lips. She chuckles, and that's when he notices the tears in her cheeks. "Hey, it's okay. I get it."

She shakes her head. "No, I'll do that. I broke up with you, I'll move. It's okay, things weren't working out anyway." She turns around again, but she feels a hand in her shoulder.

"Don't do that."

"Leonard." He shivers at the mention of his name coming from her lips. "I have to. We can't continue to do this. We'll hurt each other in the process."

"We already did that, Penny." It was her turn to shiver. Her heart is beating fast, since he was so close from her. She wants it to stop beating like that, but it can't. "We hurt each other if we're together or if we're not. I don't want to lose you."

"We tried to be together. It didn't work."

He sighs. She was right. But he didn't want her to be.

"I don't care if it didn't work. We try again, and again until it does. It's called experiment. At work we have to do countless trials to get different results. We can't prove anything in the first attempt."

"I don't want to break your heart again."

"If you leave my heart will be broken anyway. I don't want to lose you, and I'm almost certain that you don't want to lose me. What do we have to lose?"

She stares at him for a moment, think about her next step. Screw Wil Wheaton, insecurities, or being scared of commitments, she thinks in that small moment.

Next thing she knows, she's being held in the waist but his strong hands, her hands being around his neck. Their lips are together in a passionate kiss that only ends when there's no more oxygen on them. Their lips get separated, but their hands are still in the same places, and their foreheads are touching. And in that little moment, in that little world of theirs, it's only them.

There's no Sheldon, Howard or Raj bothering them or storming in to complain about life, there's no work, or Wil Wheaton's. Only them.

The End

I hope this chapter is good enough and I made the characters justice. I honestly kind of forgot how the characters were back in season 3, since I've been writing only about the current seasons, and I haven't been watching the earlier seasons. They break my heart, Lenny isn't together but I love Leonard/Sheldon relationship from the beginning. Oh!, how much I shipped Howard and Raj. Good times. If only Lenny was always together and Prya didn't exist, I would always re watch those episodes.

Also, thanks so much for all the reviews I received in the last chapter! I wasn't expecting so many, so thank you!