Word Count: 900
Summary: It's Christmas time!
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters.

It was only when Penny moved into apartment 4A that Leonard found out that she still wrote her letter to Santa Claus, every year like she had done since she was a child. Leonard, however, had never written one, since his family didn't exactly celebrate Christmas. He found out about it when he came home one morning and she started to hide the letter. But eventually she told him about it.

He laughed, at least until he saw her embarrassed face. So, he took a piece of paper and a pen and started to write a letter as well, making Penny curious.

"What did you write?" Penny asked, trying to take a peak. Leonard quickly hid the letter inside an envelope that he closed almost immediately.

"That's between me, Santa Claus, and his elves." He said, smiling as Penny's face went to her I-am-going-to-find-out face. He shrugged his shoulder in an almost mockery tone, and then continued to talk. "You don't tell me what you wrote, I don't tell you what I wrote!"

"I'm not telling you!"

"Then neither am I."

"Fine! Don't. But I'm eating the cookies."

"Okay. No one is saying that you can't." He keeps the smile in his face. But how couldn't he? His apartment smelled like cookies, his wife was being amazing as always, work was going great. What did he have to complain about?

The answer to that last question came right away, when a sequence of knocks was heard.

"Sheldon? What is it?"

Sheldon just entered without saying a word, took a plate of cookies and left.

"They probably wanted cookies." Penny said, shrugged, and put more cookies in the oven.

That was a week before Christmas.

On Christmas Day, Leonard and Penny locked their door to make sure they were alone, and actually had privacy.

When it was time to open the gifts, Penny gave Leonard his gift and vice-versa. Leonard waited for Penny to open hers – a box with cozy pajamas, a golden watch and chocolates – that she loved and immediately put on the pajama to see if it fitted. Eventually, it was time for Leonard to open his gift.

It was her letter to Santa Claus.

"Why are you giving me this?"

"Just open it!" Penny said, and he did as she asked. Penny started to read it.

Dear Santa Claus,

I've been writing to you since I was little, first my parents wrote it for me, then my sister, and eventually I did it myself. Even though I'm a grown woman now (and MARRIED!) I still write to you every year. It's a tradition.

This year, I'm not going to ask for nothing that big. I usually asked for impossible things like unicorns and for the last few years I asked for things that I already have like my boyfriend to become my husband. I think I forgot to thank you for that.

All I want for Christmas is to see the look on my husband's face when I tell him that next year it won't be just the two of us for Christmas anymore. :)

I hope he doesn't take too long to process this information.

Thank you for everything,

Someone that is very lucky and might start to write this letter to a little kid soon!

Penny was smiling when she finishes the letter, and looked at Leonard. He had the biggest smile she ever saw on his face, and was looking at her surprised. A good surprise face, not a sad, disappointed one.

"Really?" He asked, a little scared that she was joking. Penny can just nod, her eyes filled with tears of joy. His reaction was better than she could ever think.

He jumped from his spot to hug her, and he's so excited that her feet are no longer in the floor because he grabbed her. When she's finally back to the floor, she's still crying, and so is he. But that doesn't change what she had rehearsed in her head.

"Do you have any idea of how it was to keep this news from you for the last week?"

He laughed, his heartbeat still going fast. He doesn't break the hug, they are still holding each other.

"We're going to be parents?" She nodded again, and they kiss. It wasn't a kiss like any other, this one was filled with feelings of terror for what would come next for them, but also with love and passion as always. It was Leonard and Penny, after all.

And just like Penny had thought, next year was her time to write a letter to Santa Claus, even though it was filled with presents that Maya wanted. It was only to inform Santa Claus that there was another angel in the world for him to give presents to. Leonard started the tradition to dress as Santa and Maya loved to grab his beard.

Leonard and Penny laughed as little baby Maya ripped the paper from her presents and played with her toys. Together, as a family of three, they celebrated their little Christmas. Little did they know, that only a few years later, there would be two more children in that house they called home, for them to tell the story of an old men that gave presents to all the non-naughty children of the world in a single night.

Oh!, the nightmare! But a good one.

The End

First off, Merry Christmas to all that celebrate it.

And then, the rest of this A/N.

I always wanted to write something like this, Penny telling Leonard she was pregnant through a gift on Christmas Day. My idea was done on Lethal Weapon so I never wrote it. Until now! I was going through some photos when I came across a letter for Santa Claus from when I was like three/four years old. I just thought: I can use this!

And so I did. And I hope everyone enjoys it.

Merry Christmas!