A few days had gone by and the doctors had been evaluating Penny's progress. Physically, she had been fine (more shook up than anything); however, mentally, she was going to take a little longer to recover.
As a matter of fact, she hadn't been allowed to drive herself home. Leonard, being the ever good friend that he was, decided to drive her home (under Sheldon's accute supervision, of course) and help her settle back into her home. The two shared a few awkward encounters while he was there.
"You're gonna be okay?"
"Good God! Yes! I'll be fine! I just wanna be left alone!"
Leonard raised his hands in defense and slowly backed out of her apartment. Quickly, he turned around and headed back into his apartment, where Sheldon was constructing something upon his computer.
"I take it from your door slamming, that she has kicked you out of her apartment."
Leonard sighed, "Yeah, but you know something I don't understand?"
"Why you're still working as an experimental physicist?"
"No." Leonard glared and Sheldon just shrugged at his own statement, "What I don't understand is why the nurse would lie about something so serious."
Sheldon clapped his hands together, "I'm so glad that you agree!" He didn't give Leonard a chance to even question his own wording, "I have a theory."
"Oh joy."
"Sarcasm?" Leonard nodded causing the taller man to roll his eyes, "I believe that they were unable to pay attention to what they were doing due to their obvious lack of intelligence." Sheldon walked over to his desk in their apartment and opened up a drawer. "While I was conversing with the doctor, he gave me the nurse's address."
Leonard's eyebrow raised. "I know I'm going to regret doing this, but why did the doctor give you their address? Isn't that against-"
"Yes, I believe it is; however, I'm assuming that in no small part of not wanting a lawsuit from Penny, he turned over the address assuming she would not press charges." Sheldon paused. "I doubt that she is even remotely aware of what went on."
"Speaking of stuff that she's not aware of ..."
Sheldon didn't like the tone of voice that Leonard was sporting. That usually meant that he was planning on asking something entirely uncomfortable for him. "What."
"Why did they assume that you were her boyfriend?"
"Oh dear Lord, you're still on that?" He sighed. "Look, I was there when they came to pick her up. She, according to the ambulance drivers, kept asking for me. Obviously they're going to assume that her and I are involved in some variant of a relationship." Sheldon just looked at Leonard and waited for the obvious retort and argument that was going to ensue.
"Are you two involved?" It was an innocent question. Sure, he was still interested in Penny and, sure, Priya and him were no longer going out. Yet, he knew that his ship with Penny had long since sailed. He just wasn't sure if he was altogether prepared to see those two together (if they ever got together at this rate). Either way, he'd deal with it when the time came.
"In what?"
"A relationship?"
"Good Lord, no!"
The shorter of the two then grinned. This is where he'd pin Sheldon. Without changing his attitude, he questioned, "Do you want to be?'
Shortly, Sheldon's face began twitching as he started at the other. The twitching was enough of an answer for Leonard. "Well, good luck to you." He smiled. "If you need me, I'm going to lay down and deal with all of this later. You might wanna go and check on Penny. She's been snapping at me and you seem to have a calming affect on her."
Sheldon nodded to Leonard before quickly exiting his apartment and was going over to apartment 4B.
Knock knock knock. "Penny."
Knock knock knock. "Penny."
Knock knock knock. "Penny."
After waiting the usual amount of time, nothing happened. Sheldon immediately got worried. Penny had a tendency to go off and do things without thinking. Turning around, he retreated back into his apartment and went to the bowl which held the keys. After locating the emergency key (Penny had actually locked her door - She was beginning to listen to him, apparently), Sheldon quickly made his away back across the hall and let himself into her apartment. He heard her shuffling about in her bedroom and headed that way.
A/N: So, if I'm honest with myself here - I'll admit that it wasn't the best update. I had been writing this all out on paper and totally lost the story so now I've gotta re-write everything. I'm so sorry that it's been forever since I've actually updated this. I've been dealing with a few things in my life that have made it so I haven't had time to re-write things and actually update (even though I did, recently, had another story on here that was bothering me one night). I promise that there will be more chapters and that they will be longer and better. Again, so sorry for all of this. =\ Bare with me, here. I'm gonna work on it after the holidays are over and done with (and after I get back from vacation). Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. =)