Word Count: 959
Summary: Questions + Answers Beach Edition.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters, nor the questions. I do, however, own the headcanons.
"Who sunbathes and who sits and reads a book?"
Penny is the one that sunbathes, while Leonard reads a book in the shadow of the parasol. Penny sometimes goes to the shade as well and reads magazines, but when she's in the sun, Leonard reads his book out loud for Penny to hear – because she loves the sound of his voice and he adores that little smile on her face when she tells him how much she loved the story.
"Who dives into the sea and who tries to dodge even the smallest waves?"
Whenever Penny is successful in convincing Leonard to go to the sea, she laughs too much because he complains about seaweed touching his feet, and he runs away from the waves. Penny, on the other hand, runs towards the waves, happily.
Leonard, over the years, started to be less frightened of the sea, deciding it wasn't that bad. He still hates seaweed, and Penny still gets to laugh a lot.
But he dives too now, and the other day he even brought a snorkel and was happy seeing the bottom of the sea – and dodging whatever weed tried to get him.
"Who makes nice sandcastles and who just digs a giant hole?"
Leonard loves sandcastles! He brings a bunch of buckets and littles shovels to make castles, and that's how he usually ends up with a sunburn – and Penny ends up massaging him, which he loves, except when it hurts because he is sunburned.
Penny helps him with the castles, and she's not that bad doing them but doesn't love to do it as much as Leonard.
When they bring their kids to the beach, she ends up making a big bole next to their towels and brings water from the sea with the buckets Leonard brings to the beach. That way, she can play in the water with their kids – after becoming a mother she finally understood why her parents hated to go to the sea with her and her siblings because she kept worrying that Maya, Ryan, and Lily were going to drown or being taken away from her because of the waves.
"Who tries to surf and who takes embarrassing pictures of this?"
They both try to surf eventually. Penny keeps falling, and Leonard keeps laughing so much he falls – and he's on the sand.
He takes pictures and makes videos of his wife falling at the surf. When she comes back and it's his turn to try, she tells him good luck with a mischief look on her face – she wants him to fail.
But after a few tries, he becomes good at it, and no matter how much Penny wanted him to fail, she can't help but be proud of him for being good at something that required getting up. She ends up filming and taking pictures because no one would have ever believed her otherwise.
"Who gets chilly whilst watching the sunset and who lends them their jacket?"
Penny was always the one that told Leonard not to forget his jacket – even before becoming a mother – but always forget hers in their apartment. At the end of the day, Leonard would have to give her a jacket, and he would end up cold himself. Eventually, he learned, so he always brought a second jacket for her. That way neither of them would be cold.
They loved the sunset too much to go home before it. After Maya was born, she would try to stay awake to watch it too but would fall asleep before it. When their family was bigger than the three of them, people that would pass by would see two adults watching the sunset on the sea with three children asleep on the sand with their towels on top of them.
"Who ends up falling asleep on the other lap and who gently strokes their hair?"
Leonard usually takes a nap after lunch, even after being a father – the kids would sleep at the same time as him.
When he felt himself wanting to sleep, he would put his head on his wife's chest and close his eyes. Penny would read her magazines while he slept and would play with his hair without even realizing it.
At the end of the day, however, Penny would be the one that was tired and would fall asleep on her husband's lap – just before the sunset – and had to be woken up otherwise she would only wake up the next day.
"Who doesn't want to go home and who drags them home?"
Depends. Is it before the kids or after the kids?
Leonard was always the first to want to come home, but Penny wanted to stay through the night in the water, so he had to physically drag her to their car so they could go home. It was usual to see Leonard carrying Penny on his shoulder – which ended up being useful in the long run, because the kids liked to be picked up, so carrying Penny was just practicing for what was yet to come.
After the kids, Penny was too tired to stay in the beach for a long time, so after waking up the kids and packing up everything, Penny had to convince her husband to leave the beach. It was weird to have to convince him to leave the beach since years ago she had to convince to come to the beach.
Leonard would leave, but reluctant. Sometimes, the kids would stop being so tired and would run around with him, and Penny would sit on the sand waiting, but there was always a soft – and tired – smile on her face because those were always the sweetest moments ever.
The End
The questions were found on Tumblr. The answers are mine. You don't have to agree, but they are my headcanons about the beach. If it seems to me that people enjoyed this, I'll write more.