Word Count: 901
Summary: Parties and places open 24/7.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters. I do, however, own a TBBT keychain. Does it count?

She used to be that kind of person that could not wait for the weekend to go out with her friends and get drunk. Now, she went but didn't exactly want to. But it was a way to reunite with her old friends, and Leonard was there too. What could go wrong?

Well, maybe everything. It took her less than three seconds to get pushed to the dance floor with her friends, leaving her husband sitting alone at the bar. When she got back, he was gone. She didn't have time to worry about it, because she was, once again, on the dance floor. Three hours later, she kept being worried about his whereabouts, and was finally allowed to leave that club, after hearing "the guy probably dumped her for someone else".

He wouldn't do that. Would he?

He wouldn't. Because he wasn't like all the other guys she dated. No, those would be hooking up with other girls somewhere around that same bar. But Leonard wasn't those guys.

She looked for him tirelessly around the city, until her heels were hurting her feet way too much and she needed a break. Finding a place to sit, she took her shoes off and sat down on a bench. After five minutes of sitting there, she felt worthless. She lost her own husband, the most amazing person in the world, in a bar because her friends pushed her into doing so.

It started to rain then, and she felt like it was karma, a curse for all the wrong she did in life. Not caring about putting her shoes on again, she ran to the first establishment she found.

There, in the back of the restaurant, was her husband. Sitting alone, eating a burger with fries and drinking soda. A big glass of soda. Laughing at his figure, she approached him and sat down in his booth, in front of her man.

He looks up. "What are you doing here?"

"I can ask you the same thing." She says, stealing a frie from him. "Hot!" She complains.

He laughs a bit. "Penny, why did you leave the party?"

"I couldn't find you. Plus, I was kind of bored."

"Bored? Penelope Hofstadter was bored in a party?"

She laughs at what he said. "I was." He looks at her. "And I was also tired of guys hitting on me."

"Of course they were hitting on you. You're hot!" Leonard says, looking at her. With a tight black dress that accentuated her curves, he could not wait to get her off to something more comfortable. Maybe her birth suit?

"Well, you're the only one I want to be hit on." She steals his burger and takes a bite. After finishing chewing, she continues. "Plus, it wasn't like I didn't have my wedding ring on. It's here." She points to the rings in her finger, both the engagement and the wedding rings. "I had to get out of there, but I couldn't find you. I looked for you around the city for a long time, and then it started to rain..."

"Penny, I just left and I couldn't find you so I texted you. I told you where I was so that you wouldn't worry. You can go back, I'll be here waiting for you. This place is opened 24/7."

She looks at him and shakes her head. She is not going back there.

"That place is loud and stinks. I have no idea how I ever enjoyed those places. I like to dance, but not like that. I rather stay here with you." Penny tells him that like it's something sweet, but he looks at her with a weird expression on his face. "What?"

"You prefer to stay here with me eating fries than to be out with your friends drinking?"

"Of course. You're my husband and I prefer your company over anyone else's. Although I am a little cold."

When she says that, Leonard immediately takes his coat off and gives it to her, and she thanks him quietly. She keeps eating his fries and burger, so he orders a new one. They both sat there talking for hours, just the two of them. They only left when Penny started to close her eyes a little bit, so Leonard called a cab that took them home. Penny doesn't remember that because her husband didn't wake her up. He put her in the back of the cab, and she slept the entire trip. Once they got there, he woke her up, because he didn't want to climb three flights of stairs with her on his arms.

They climbed the stairs quietly, with their hands intertwined, to make sure Penny didn't fall and because it was what they usually did already in their "normal state".

Once they got to their apartment, she went straight to the bedroom and when her head hit the pillow, she went immediately to dreamland. Leonard took off her dress and put her a pajama and under the covers – she was so tired she just climbed to bed and fell asleep.

Only then he took care of himself. And at seven am, they were both in dreamland – with their door closed to make sure their neighbors didn't enter and woke them up. They knocked for a long time, but neither of the sleepy people from apartment 4A heard, too busy being asleep.

The End

Once again, my patience and ideas were under 0, so I decided to post a unrelated story. Still hope everyone enjoys it. I just haven't been in the mood to watch the show, so I have no idea of what to write. This is something I found on the archive.