Word Count: 1038
Summary: Penny and coffee + Sheldon being crazy (only mentioned) + Leonard being cute with his unborn daughter. Set after the series finale.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters.

Penny was seven months pregnant the first time she was definitely missing coffee.

It wasn't like every morning when her husband started to drink his coffee and she had to drink tea or something else – tea isn't that bad, but that amazing coffee in the morning gave her that kick of energy she needed. Leonard asked her if she minded him drinking coffee as well, since he stopped drinking alcohol too. She thought it was sweet of him to suggest that, but he was a zombie in the morning if he didn't have his coffee, so Penny made sure he would still have it.

But the first time she really missed coffee was when she was seven months pregnant.

Sheldon had one of his moments where he just over-focus on his work and forgets to eat, sleep or basically do everything except showering – thankfully. But the fact that he wasn't sleeping was making him go crazier than he usually is, which is why, at four in the morning, the entire group is gathered in the apartment 4A.

Leonard is pacing from the kitchen to his desk, over and over again, trying – and failing – to call Sheldon and find out about where he is. Everyone is drinking coffee to try and stay awake, trying to call everyone they know. Penny is the only one that can't drink it, so she's almost closing her eyes. And since her little girl is particularly kick-y that day, her night is not going great.

Eventually, Leonard leaves the house saying he's going to search for Sheldon. He can't just stay there waiting for him to come back, he's worried Sheldon got lost or worse. When he said that, Amy looked at him and everyone realized he regretted saying it. Grabbing his jacket, he leaves, carefully closing the door to make sure the neighbors kept sleeping – and also his wife. Penny gave up on trying to keep her eyes open, so she was sleeping in Leonard's chair, in a really weird position that seemed oddly comfortable.

When Leonard came home later that night, at almost six in the morning, everyone had already left – he had texted them saying he found Sheldon seeing the trains at the train station, but he didn't intend to board any, he just saw them as a comfort – Penny was still sleeping in the same couch he had left her in, but in a different strange position.

He laughed as he saw her arm dangling from the couch, her mouth slightly open, snoring – if he told her that, she would deny it forever. In that house, he's the one that snores, according to her.

But he knew she would complain if in the morning she was still there, so he carefully picked her up. She didn't even move when he placed her in their bed, the one they were dragged out from three hours prior. When he laid down next to her, his arm went around her, and he decided to have his nightly conversations with his daughter – two months later, he would be holding her as he spoke to her, and from that moment on it became tradition, and he realized that it was even better when she started to answer back, even if it was in her baby voice and he didn't understand half of what she was saying.

"Your mommy can't really function without her coffee, you know? But don't worry. I'll make sure that before you see her every day, she's already coffee-d up, okay?" He chuckled. "Coffee-d. Please never tell your mom I said that, deal? Of course you won't tell her. You won't remember it by the time you are able to tell her, will you? I usually talk to you longer, but tonight I really can't. I need to sleep. And this was just a little bonus, because I already spoke to you early. You are a very lucky girl, aren't you?" Leonard smiled. "I love you." Turning to the other side, he fell asleep almost instantly.

In his head, was the thought of his wife wanting to shoot someone when the phone rang at three AM, the way her shoe flew over his head and hit the door as he laughed. She wasn't aiming at his head and she was smiling at him as she threw it, but he still had to dodge. Thinking about his seven months pregnant wife throwing him that shoe made him laugh more than it should.

And not only that, but also the talk he had had with his best friend back at the train station. About how things kept changing and even though the only constant in his life is change itself, it was still hard to keep up with everything. Especially as the due date starts to get closer and closer and Sheldon got more and more scared of what that child was going to change. One thing is Howard and Bernadette having two kids that live far from him. Another is his best friends' having a child that will live across the hall from him, in his old bedroom.

He had a weird way of reacting to Penny's pregnancy – weird in comparison to other people, normal-ish to him – but he was one of the most loving people when it came to that pregnancy after that. He kept asking when the next appointment was, if they were both okay, and even helped paint the nursery and put the crib in its place.

But that was just to cover up the fact that he was terrified of that change. Because one day smart and beautiful baby number one was going to show up in that world, and her Uncle Nobel Prize winner – Penny's idea to make sure her daughter wouldn't have to call him Uncle Doctor Copper – would have to take care of her, to look after her, to teach her things when her parents couldn't.

And in the thirty seconds that it took Leonard to fall asleep, he thought about those two people that changed his entire world, and the little girl that would so lucky to meet them. The little girl that he never thought would exist, who he already adored before even meeting.

The End

And with this story, I pay a "tribute" to the show, the creators, the cast, and of course everyone involved in the production of this amazing show.

I know I'll miss the characters more than I'll miss the show itself. It hasn't been the show I loved for a long time, which made me turn to fanfiction. This last episodes made me love the show once again, even though it was very Sheldon-centric, but every character was involved. Everyone got a nice ending, Lenny got their baby (yayyyy!), Shamy their Nobel and Howardette have a happy family. The only one that was basically the same was Raj, whose only changes are his hair and the fact he can now talk to women without alcohol.

Other than that, I loved Sheldon's speech, the Sheldon/Penny moment in The Cheesecake Factory, the exchange of eyes between Penny and Leonard in the last episode and worried Howard and Bernadette. I didn't enjoy Raj's part as much, but overall it was amazing the way they wrapped everything. It didn't feel very final to me. It could be just any other episode. While most shows make sure to have that "wow" factor in their finale, I didn't see one in the finale. Sure Shamy had their Nobel and Lenny have a baby. But other than that, no characters died, moved away or got married. It was amazing.

Sorry for the long A/N, but it was the last new episode forever and I have a lot of mixed feelings about it. I will forever miss Leonard, Penny, Sheldon, Howard, Raj, Bernadette and Amy. Guess I only have re-runs and fanfiction now.

Even if people stop reading and writing, I will not. I might not be as active in the writing part, but I'll keep reading. Until the day I decide I've moved on.