A/N: Okay back to Aspen. There is a murder mystery party going on and one of the four gets into it. I am basing part of this mystery on an episode of the Golden Girls I watched a while ago. I loved that show and the girls went on a murder mystery weekend and some crazy things occurred. The title of the episode is called "The Case of the Libertine Belle" It is not required that you know this show in order to enjoy the craziness. But I wanted those that may know the show to know I took my ideas from that premise. That being said back to the story.

I don't own any of these characters.

On Saturday morning, Leonard was the first one up. He was so used to getting up at 7:00 that even on vacation he couldn't sleep in later. He carefully unwrapped himself from Penny and quietly made his way to the bathroom. When he came out he found Penny was awake.

"You're up early." She said to him as he came out.

"I am used to it. Why are you up?" He asked.

"I guess I am getting used to being up early as well. But I can usually sleep past 7 on Saturday mornings."

"Should we stay up or go back to sleep?" He asked.

"I have a better idea." She said and she pulled him back into bed.

About an hour later the couple decided it was time to get up and get ready.

"I do hope the weather is good enough so we can go out today." Penny commented as she was getting dressed. "I can't handle those murder mystery people. They remind me too much of Raj."

"Oh it wasn't so bad last night." Leonard recalled. "You have to admit Bernadette was pretty good at solving the murder."

"It wasn't so much that she knew the answer, she was so in your face about winning. She didn't even give those that came on this weekend the chance to solve it. Well except for that older woman, she was nice to her, but she jumped right in and took over. It was a bit embarrassing." She said.

"Well I am sure they won't be doing a mystery this morning at breakfast so let's go down and eat. I am starving." Leonard said.

"Should we call Howard and Bernadette and see if they are up?" Penny asked. It was almost as if they read her mind as the phone rang at that exact moment. "So weird." She said picking up the receiver.

"What's so weird?" Bernadette asked on the other end of the phone.

"We were just about to call you.' Penny answered.

"Oh well we called first, what's up?" Bernadette asked.

"We were just heading to breakfast and were wondering if you guys were ready to go."

"Yes that is what we were calling about too." She said.

"Well good let's meet down there in 15 minutes then." Penny said.

"Okay see you soon." Bernadette said and hung up.

"Let's get going." Penny said to Leonard.

"Okay, but I've got bad news." He said. He had been looking out the window while Penny answered the phone.

"What's that sweetie?" She asked.

"It's still snowing and it's coming down hard." He answered.

"Are you kidding?" She asked.

"No take a look." He said to her.

She peeked out behind the curtain and was disappointed to see all the snow.

"Damn! I had hoped we could go skiing this morning, now it looks like we will be stuck in this hotel all day. It doesn't look like anyone is going anywhere anytime soon."

"It could be worse." Leonard said.

"What could make it worse than this?" Penny asked

"We could be with Sheldon." He answered.

"True. Can you imagine how much a pain in the ass he would be?"

"Yes that is why it is better we are here with Howard and Bernadette." Leonard said.

"Well speaking of them we better get down to breakfast." Penny said.

"Yeah let's go."

They made their way down to the restaurant. There was quite a bit of activity for so early in the morning. They found Bernadette and Howard standing in the lobby.

"Good morning." Penny greeted them. "How was the rest of your night?"

"We had fun." Bernadette answered.

"I am glad to hear that. I was worried because Howard seemed a little upset when you guys left." Penny said

"Yeah well I promised him I wouldn't get involved in the murder mystery but it was just so obvious I had to stop those idiots that were trying to solve it." Bernadette replied.

"Well I thought you were great." Leonard said to her.

"Yeah she was wonderful." Howard said sarcastically. He was still angry but Bernadette more than made up for her embarrassing him the night before.

"Oh Howie, shush, I solved it fair and square."

"Well you had a little help from that older woman and her friends."

"More like I helped them." Bernadette said.

"Well it still got solved." Howard said. "With or without their help."

"True. Now let's eat breakfast and figure out how we can salvage the rest of this day since it is still snowing."

"I know it sucks." Penny said.

"I'm sure we will find something we can do today." Leonard said.

When they arrived in the dining room the place was swarming with activity.

"I wonder what is going on." Penny said.

"It looks like all the murder mystery people are down here at the same time." Bernadette said. "Oh maybe there is going to be another murder." She said excitedly.

"Yeah but that looks like a real detective." Howard said casually.

"Excuse me, but what is going on?" Penny asked the host.

"We had a murder in the hotel last night." He answered her.

"Oh another one?" Bernadette said. "What happened? Who are the suspects this time?"

"Oh no, I mean there was a real murder in the hotel last night." He said. "We already have a suspect in custody."

"Oh my God, what happened?" Leonard asked.

"Well it appears a woman invited a man in her group up to her room. When one of our waiters arrived with champagne, he found the gentleman dead on her bed. She claimed she just got out of the shower and hadn't known he was there."

"Oh my." Bernadette said.

"She claims she is innocent and her three friends say she is not a killer. But the body was in her room and no one else was in there with her." He said to them.

"That is terrible." Penny said.

"Just so you know the police would like to talk to everyone who was at dinner last night to see if they saw anything unusual going on around them." The host told them.

"Well I don't know what we can add. We don't know anyone here. We came for Valentine's Day, not for the murder mystery weekend." Bernadette said.

"You solved the mystery last night though. I thought for sure you guys were part of the group." He said.

"Nope it's just my wife has such a competitive side to her she had to get involved." Howard said.

"Oh well, they still will probably want to question you." He said.

"Okay." Howard said.

They found their way to a table to wait for the detective to come over to them. They didn't have to wait long as the man came over about 15 minutes later.

"Hello, I'm Detective Alvarez with the Pitkin County homicide." Detective Alvarez said to them.

"My name is Dr. Leonard Hofstadter; this is my fiancée Penny and our friends Howard and Bernadette Wolowitz. What can we do to help you?"

"Well what I would like to know is did you see anything unusual about anyone around you last night?" He asked.

"I didn't see anything out of the ordinary." Leonard answered him.

"Me either." Penny said.

"I was too busy solving the fake murder to notice anything." Bernadette said.

"Well that is quite a coincidence, one of the woman's friends was also part of the solving last night." He said.

"Wait are you telling me those nice older ladies are involved in this murder?" Howard asked.

"Yes, they are now trying to figure this one out also." Detective Alvarez answered him. "The woman's friend organized this trip for a group of coworkers, it turns out she killed her boss."

"Wait, she killed her boss? Why would she do that?" Leonard asked.

"Well as of now we don't have a motive, which is why we are asking everyone if they saw anything unusual." He said to them.

"Well as we said, we didn't see anything. Those women were sitting at the table next to us." Penny said.

"Wait, I did hear the one ask the other for her room key." Bernadette said.

"Well we do know she gave him a key. That is why she said he didn't know he had arrived. She figured he arrived while she was in the shower." The detective said to them.

"Who ordered the champagne?" Bernadette asked.

"Why is that important?" Howard asked.

"Well if the man ordered the champagne maybe he answered the door thinking it was the order but really it was someone there to kill him." She said to him.

"Bernie, this is real life not a mystery. They have their suspect, nothing to solve." Howard tried to reason with her.

"It just doesn't make sense. Why give the guy your key and invite him to your room if you just want to kill him? I mean kill him somewhere else and then go back to the room and pretend like nothing happened."

"That is true." The detective said to her. "Excuse me I am going to talk to the women again. Here is my card, if you think of anything else please give me a call. You are free to go. Although there really is nowhere to go with all this snow."

"Thank you detective." Leonard said. "Guys, why don't we just order some room service?"

"That sounds good." Penny said.

The couples headed up to their room and ordered their breakfast. They decided they would make the most of the day even if they couldn't go skiing.

"Does anything seem strange about the murder that happened?" Bernadette asked.

"No, and it is not a mystery to solve, this is real life and it is kind of scary that someone was murdered here while we slept." Howard said.

"But something is nagging at me." Bernadette stated.

"What's that?" Penny asked.

"If no one can get in or out because of this snow storm, how did the detective get here?" She asked.

"I bet the roads are open for them." Penny answered.

"Did you see it out there?" Bernadette asked.

"Yes." Penny said.

"Well there isn't a road open I can tell you that. If the detective got here this morning, he did it on a sled."

"So do you think he was already here?" Howard asked her.

"I think he may be another actor." Bernadette said.

"Do you really think so?" Howard asked again.

"I am not sure but let's see what happens." Bernadette said. "I just have a feeling that maybe those women are part of an elaborate murder mystery."

"Well let's not get involved this time." Howard said.

"I agree with Howard. If this is a real murder, I don't want to get involved at all. If it is an elaborate mystery, I really don't want any part of it. Let's make the most of the rest of this day. We still have our spa appointments I think at 3. Then we can have dinner. Maybe the roads will open by dinner tonight." Penny said.

"I guess you are right." Bernadette said.

"Good, now let's have some fun." Howard said.

I hope you enjoyed this, reviews will help me write the next chapter faster...thanks in advance.

Next up, Valentine's Day for Sheldon and Amy and Raj and Emily...hmmmm who will get jealous?