Word Count: 1323
Summary: A whole new stage of drunkenness.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters.

When Leonard told her he and the guys were going out for drinks to celebrate Raj's discovery – which she was yet to understand what it was – she never thought he was getting home so late – and so drunk.

First, it was the weird singing that she started hearing when the door knocking began. And then it began the laughing uncontrollably about the air. Literally nothing was happening and he was laughing like a maniac. Am I like this when I drink?, Penny thinks, as she looks at her husband.

Eventually she got him to stop the awful singing that would probably be bothering the other tenants and she was sure that in the morning people would be asking around who was singing at almost three in the morning. But that was a problem for future Penny. Present Penny had to get her currently energetic husband to bed. That's going to be a problem!

"Hey, Leonard." He's currently trying to reach the top shelf, where he knows the cookies are hidden, and he doesn't even hear her talking to him. "Hey, sweetie." She now decides to touch his shoulder, and looks to her. When he looks away, the box of cookies fall and she doesn't have time to either warn him or make him leave the way. It hits him in the head, hard.

Penny is instantly torn between laughing and helping him, so she stands there biting her lip as he gets up and passes his hand through his head.

"It hurts." He complains, and Penny keeps biting her lip. Leonard takes a cookie, blows a bit of air to take away the dust and eats it.

"Tomorrow it will hurt even more." Then it – metaphorically, of course – hits Penny. Tomorrow there will be two reasons for his headache: his hangover and the cookie jar that fell in his head. "Come on, let's get you to bed."

Leonard looks at her like a sad child that is forced to go to bed during a fun game because it's his bed time. "No, I don't want to. And you can't make me!" He sticks his tongue out for her, and Penny wonders what the heck is happening with him. It wasn't the first time she saw him drunk, but he was acting like a complete child. By now, he would usually be puking. Maybe this was another stage of Leonard drunkenness. She was definitely missing the other stage, the one that wouldn't make her want to shoot him, only make her slightly sorry for him.

"Yeah, well, you're lucky that I love you." She says, and sticks her tongue out, mocking him.

He looks at her surprised. "You love me?" Then a small smile appears on his lips, causing her to smile back.

"We've been married for three years you idiot." She laughs at him, still surprised.

"Really?" He starts to stare at his finger, still amazed by that piece of information, making Penny roll her eyes.

"Yes, really. Now, come one Strawberry Pop tart, let's get you to bed." She laughs at her own comment, reminding herself of their engagement moment and Leonard commenting that he didn't want to be a bran muffin.

Leonard just looks at her as if she was being weird, but he too remembers that moment. Finally, right? At least he remembers them being engaged!

"But I want to watch TV."

"And I want to sleep. We all want things we can't have." Then there was a lightbulb moment in Penny's head. "Actually, if you promise me to stay here quietly, without making a single sound other than the TV, I'll let you watch TV. If you wake me up, we'll have serious problems." Penny warns him, and he nods.

"I promise to be silent."

And he was. At eight, Penny got up and he was lying on the couch, shirtless. Why was he without a shirt, she couldn't figure it out, but he was. She got him an aspirin and a glass of water and woke him up.

The first thing that came to him was that his head hurt, a lot, and not only like it used to hurt when he drank. Second thing was, that he could feel the light from the sun that came through the window burning his eyes, that he instantly closed, worsening his headache. Third thing that he noticed was that his wife was there.

He sat up on the couch as best as he could and grabbed the glass of water that he drank after swallowing the pill. He closed his eyes as Penny put the glass on top of the coffee table.

"How are you doing?" It came out as sort of mockery, but it was non-intended.

"My head hurts. Like, a lot." He puts his cold hand against his warm head, immediately feeling relief. Not a lot, but at least it was a bit colder.

Without mentioning the cookies that fell in his head, she continues to talk. "Had fun yesterday?"

He nods, his hand still on his head, now covering his eyes too.

"Well, you were… happy when you showed up. Singing, laughing. You know, the usual." She laughed a bit, which made Leonard complain.

"Can you speak a little lower, maybe? Please." Leonard seems to be begging, which made her nod her head.

"Sure. I can do that. Want to eat something?"

"Cookies."

That makes Penny stop in her tracks. The cookies! She completely forgot to put them back where they belonged, or at least take them from the ground. They were still scattered around the kitchen, except for that one cookie that he had eaten a few hours prior.

"I think we're all out." She says, hoping he asks for something else. But he continues.

"No, I remember that I bought more a few days ago."

Crap!

"Uh… I ate them!" Please stop talking…

"But I bought a lot of them."

"Yeah, well, I'll buy more later. What about a sandwich?"

"Sure."

She makes him one, which he eats only half before he is sleeping once again. Penny takes that moment to clean the cookies the best she could and throw them in the trash. (But only because if Sheldon found out about them being in the package after being in the floor, he would kill her).

Once Leonard wakes up, he finishes the sandwich and Penny gets a photo from Bernadette. It's Raj and Howard sleeping on the bed, holding each other. The photo makes Penny remember those moments in the past where she thought they would end up together. Before Bernie appeared.

The day is spent on the couch, just the two of them, since Sheldon and Amy were on a train store – or somewhere else that Sheldon wanted to go to.

It's only during the night that Leonard is alone, and goes to the kitchen to eat something. He can't sleep since he slept the entire day, so he decides to have a glass of water. He gets a glass and when he's about to fill it with water, he steps on something.

It's a cookie that Penny missed, somehow.

Suddenly, memories of Penny biting her lip not to laugh and a box of cookies falling on his head come to his mind. He shakes his head and laughs, making sure to talk about it with Penny in the morning.

So that's where the cookies went!, Leonard thinks, drinking the water and going back to his bedroom.

Once he gets there he still can't sleep. But at least his super-hot wife is next to him, that's always nice. He looks at her and mentally apologizes to her for his drunkenness. What he doesn't know is, that she absolutely adored his childish moments from the previous night, especially his surprise face after finding out they were married.

And just like that, peace returns to the Hofstadter's household. Even if one of them couldn't sleep.

The End

It was a little hard to write the ending, it didn't seem to work regardless of what I wrote. I kept this because it was the best one I wrote. It took three days to come up with an ending, it took me less than an hour to come up with the rest of the story. Oh well!

Anyway, hope you all enjoyed it!

Also, I have no ideas for a continuation for the latest episode, so I'm not sure I'll post anything.