Word Count: 771
Summary: In which the Hofstadter's get a dog.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters.

When Penny opens the door to the apartment she shares with her husband, she finds it odd not to see him at the living room watching something on the TV or playing one of his games that she said she hated but actually liked playing sometimes. She starts walking to their bedroom, and each step she takes, the louder she hears her husband's voice, making her wonder to who he's talking to.

She's a little scared of what she will find once she opens the door, but still opens it. The sight she finds is not the one she was expecting: her husband lying on the floor, with a little puppy licking his face, and he's giggling. (Leonard, not the dog!)

Penny stays there looking to him for a few moments, long enough for Leonard to notice her presence and quickly get up, taking the dog out of his chest and into his arms quickly. He looks at her, and tries to explain to her what that dog was doing there.

"I... uhm... went... uhm..." He tries to talk, but no words come out, and he just stammers trying to come up with words. Leonard fails to do that, and ends up just looking at his wife. She smiles and crosses her arms, leaning in the doorframe, waiting for her husband to explain what that puppy was doing there on top of her husband, in her apartment.

"Okay, what's going on?" Penny asks, getting away from the doorway and closer to her husband, who is sitting on their bed still holding the puppy that is looking between then like it's a ping-pong match.

"Puppy!" Leonard said, elevating the puppy a bit as to show her his point.

"Yeah, I know what a puppy is, Leonard." Penny looks at him trying to get an answer whilst pretending to be mad at him for getting a puppy without talking to her first but he knows better than to think she's actually mad and just smiles, making her break the mad face, and smile. "Okay, why do you have a puppy?"

"Oh! Uhm... well I went to the vet with Raj... for some reason." Leonard just shruggs, making Penny understand that Raj just asked and Leonard went because he's too good of a friend. "Anyway, we had to wait, so I was left alone in the waiting area, cause, you know, Raj went inside with Cinnamon. So I decided to walk around, and eventually, I found this puppy there, lost." Penny looked at him puzzled. "Okay, maybe I found it on the street!" Penny kept her look. "Fine!" Penny laughed.

"Where did you find the puppy?"

"Simba." Leonard says, almost out of the blue.

"What?"

"Simba. That's the puppy's name."

"Why is it named Simba?"

"I like Lion King." He shrugs again, with a little smile on his face. Penny just takes a breath.

"Continue. Where did you find the dog?"

"Okay. Uhm, well, I went to a shelter with Raj. He was trying to get Howard to get a dog. Oh, and Bernadette came too. Anyway, we found this puppy, but Bernadette wanted a big and trained dog. So, she's waiting for Hailey and Michael to grow up a bit more."

"What does this have to do with you and... Simba."

"I saw him, fell a bit in love, so I adoptted him."

"That's it? You saw the dog and brought it home?"

"Yeah. That's how you and I became friends, you know?" He chuckles, leaving Penny with a puzzled face once again. "I liked you, so I tried to become friends with you." He explains.

"Oh, so you want to marry Simba?" She looks like she's actually asking and it's not a question, which only makes Leonard laugh.

"No, but hopefully you will accept him as our new roomate?" He looks at her expectantly.

"Maybe. But remember that it took a long time for us to get together and then moving in together. And even longer to actually just be the two of us."

"I'll remember." He smiles, and Penny puts her arm around her husband and gives him a kiss on the cheek. Then, she pets their new dog. Hopefully, this one would take longer to leave that apartment than the other roommate they once had that was now their neighbor – it was her neighbor more time than her roommate, but to her husband, it was a first to have Sheldon as his neighbor.

Finally, there was someone she could blame when she wanted to get away from her husband's friends! (they were also her friends, but he met them first.)

The End

Inspired on my sweet dog (it was where I took the name) and that episode where Leonard and Penny spend their Valentine's Day with Raj and Cinnamon in a vet.

Hope everyone enjoyed it!