Penny awoke with a start to find an arm wrapped around her waist with Sheldon's head buried in the crook of her neck and she soon realised they were spooning. Blinking to make sure she wasn't actually dreaming, she looked at her clock and realised the time was 5.53am. Sheldon would be awake in 7 minutes and go into his routine of waking up, getting his breakfast and watching Dr Who on BBC America. Closing her eyes and pretending to sleep, it wasn't long before she felt Sheldon awake.

'Good Lord, what on earth?' he mumbled to himself. Penny found herself extremely turned on by his morning voice but remained still, pretending to be asleep. She felt his arm slowly retracting from her waist, leaving it cold before suddenly she was prodded awake. 'Penny, you're in my bed. You can't be in my bed.'

Penny rolled over to face him and realised he was now standing up and looking at her. 'Actually Sheldon, you might find that in fact, you are in my bed.' She smiled and Sheldon looked at her obviously caught out as he realised that it was true: that he wasn't in his usual surroundings.

'Well you shouldn't be sleeping next to me, that is unwanted physical contact and you know my policies on that.'

'I'm sorry Sheldon, I don't know why I did it… I guess I just wanted to be near you.' Penny sat up and rubbed her eyes.

'Well, make sure it doesn't happen again please.'

'Ok, I promise it won't happen again…but thank you for staying with me last night,' Penny yawned.

'Good, I will hold you to that promise,' Sheldon sighed , 'I had better go and get ready for Dr Who. I've never missed an episode and I don't intend on starting today.'

'Ok, well I'm going to go back to sleep… goodnight Sheldon,' Penny closed her eyes again.

'Penny?'

'Yes Sheldon?' Penny kept her eyes closed as she spoke. There was a quiet silence before he spoke.

'Because I stayed the night with you and you slept with me, does that qualify as me cheating on Amy?' Penny couldn't help but smile at his naivety with relationships.

'Sheldon sweetie, you didn't cheat on Amy. If you had sex with me or kissed me then you would have cheated. And if you still don't understand, go and get clarification from Leonard.' Penny trailed off, falling back into a slumber.

'Yes, of course... right well have a good few more hours sleep Penny, and I shall see you later,' Sheldon said before noticing that Penny was fast asleep. Sheldon smiled at her sleeping form before retreating back to 4A. On his way out and back to the apartment, he couldn't help but feel that although he was a bit shocked to wake up next to Penny, it wasn't as horrible as he had previously thought. Perhaps he should comply next time Amy asked him to stay the night with her; if sleeping next to Penny wasn't bad then sleeping next to his girlfriend couldn't be either.

Leonard had had a restless night, he kept drifting in and out of consciousness and during the times that sleep would not come, all he had been thinking about was what he had done with Priya and how he, of all people, would cheat. It proved the fact that it could happen to anyone and the last thing he had wanted was to hurt Penny. After waking up for what he decided to be the final time, Leonard made his way to the living room and decided to do some work and began to start writing calculations on the white board in order to preoccupy his brain with something other than thoughts of Penny and his guilt At 6.05am, he nearly jumped out of his skin when the door slowly creaked open and a tall shadow walked through

'AHHHH!' Leonard screamed as the tall figure entered the room.

'AHHHHHH!' came an annoying familiar shriek

'Sheldon?' Leonard looked baffled as he went to switch the lights on and took in the appearance of his roommate just standing there in his Friday pyjamas.

'Leonard you scared me!'

'I scared you?'

'Yes!'

'What were you doing outside the apartment at this time?'

'I slept with Penny,' Sheldon's response came and Leonard's jaw dropped. Sheldon ignored it and walked over to the kitchen to pour his fibre controlled cereal.

'You slept with her!'

'Yes,' Sheldon said, not bothering to look up at him.

'You slept with my girlfriend!'

Sheldon gave a snort of derision. 'I'd hardly say she was your girlfriend now Leonard.'

'Of course she is, well at least I think so… she didn't break up with me so that still makes her my girlfriend! You have Amy, what about her?! Why don't you sleep with her?'

'Amy wasn't upset so there was no reason for me to sleep with her.' Sheldon shrugged as he made his way to his spot and sat down, turning on BBC America to watch the news prior to Dr Who.

'Sheldon, do you realise that by sleeping with Penny you have cheated on Amy!'

'No I haven't. I asked Penny and she said that sleeping together doesn't count. Only if we engaged in coitus or kissing, both of which are not on my list of priorities, would it be classed as cheating.' Sheldon took a mouthful of his cereal as Leonard finally put two and two together and let out a sigh of relief.

'Oh you actually slept with her, you didn't actually sleep with her.'

'I fail to see the difference.' Sheldon looked at him in confusion and Leonard sighed.

'I thought you had had sex with her,' Leonard sighed, 'sorry, bit of confusion there.'

Sheldon pulled a face at the idea of him engaging in a sexual scenario. 'Leonard! You of all people know that I have no future plans to procreate or engage in coitus.'

'You're right, I should have known since you are from another planet. Do you think I should go over and apologise?'

'Leonard, it's inadvisable to wake Penny before 11am.'

'I have to talk to her though Sheldon, explain myself and salvage what I can. I love her with every fibre of my being!'

'Then why did you choose to engage in intercourse with Priya?' Sheldon asked.

'I told you this yesterday, it just happened.'

'Don't be ridiculous Leonard. These things don't just happen, for starters how did Priya even get close enough to kiss you?'

'It was all so fast Sheldon. She just came forward and kissed me and I responded. Before I knew it, she was taking off my shirt and I was carrying her to the bedroom. But all of that is irrelevant! Penny is the woman I want to be with!'

'Leonard, yesterday you stated it felt right and comfortable kissing and engaging in coitus with Priya. Did it ever occur to you that maybe you let it happen because deep down it's Priya you truly love?'

'No! Penny is the woman I love, ever since I first laid eyes on her. She's right for me in every way and she's so amazing and beautiful and funny…' Leonard trailed off and Sheldon sighed and opened his mouth to speak; only to be cut off by Leonard continuing, 'But Priya, she's exotic, smart, challenging and successful... Priya is perfection.'

'Well I wouldn't say perfection unless it's in the sense of she's the perfect pain in the ass,' Sheldon mumbled to himself and Leonard shot him a look.

'I think though… despite me thinking Priya is perfection, I do truly love Penny. I don't want perfection, I want Penny,' Leonard said definitely before making his way towards the door, 'I have to speak to her. And I don't care if it's before 11!' he added, taking the words out of Sheldon's mouth.

'Alright but don't come crying to me when she breaks your nose for awaking her early.'

'You're surprisingly calm about all of this Sheldon, its weirding me out.'

'Leonard, I am not taking any sides. This is a matter that needs to be resolved between you and Penny. You are my best friend and Penny is my, well I don't know what she is. I guess she's my Penny? I need to remain calm and embrace my inner Vulcan. Only then can I find true logic.'

'Alright, well wish me luck then. I'm going to talk to her; oh and by the way… that 11 o clock rule might just apply to you dude,' Leonard chuckled.

'It so does not.' Sheldon murmured before looking at the television screen for the start of Doctor Who only to find that he had missed 22 minutes of the programme. 'Nooooooooo!'

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