Here's your next oneshot, lovely readers, and I must say, it's fun to write for other fandoms, and I do get reviewership for every story, but whenever I write for this show I'm always flooded with the loveliest reviews and PMs, it's sometimes near overwhelming (in a good way, of course!) and all encourages me to write more. You are such a fantastic group of readers, and you have no idea how much it means to me that you like what I write. Hugs all around! Unless you're not a hugger. In that case, I'll provide you with my best attempt at a nice smile.

#3. Cuddle her randomly from behind.

Sometimes when he cuddled her, he had a reason.

Like when they'd celebrated their first anniversary as a couple, gone out to dinner and spent more time smiling at each other across the table than actually eating – if he remembered right, they'd both brought more than half of their meal home. When they got home, they'd kissed on the couch for what seemed like hours before going into her room and he taught her all about Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion. Twice. Then, she proved to him that she'd learned it, and he could testify that when she wanted to be, Penny was a very good learner. The following morning, still completely in Afterglow Mode, she'd been at the fridge getting a bottle of water and he came up behind her, slid his arms around her waist, and pulled her close, putting his chin on her shoulder and smiling when he felt her hands rest on his and her head tilt his way.

Or the night after she, looking terrified and to Leonard's complete surprise, had asked him to marry her with a Green Lantern ring; the smile that had overcome her face at his joyous reaction to the lengths she had gone to to give him that nerdy moment was one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen. His response was to drop down onto his knees in front of her, take her face in her hands, and kiss her until they both needed air. Later that night, when he wiggled out of their embrace to use the bathroom and came back to her sleeping on her side, he crawled in behind her, slid his arms around her, and tugged until she was against him, this time pushing his nose into the back of her neck. She sleepily cuddled closer, craning her neck around to push her own nose into his cheek.

Or when he sat behind her on the hospital bed, both of them awaiting the arrival of their daughter into the world, his arms up higher this time, running around just above her belly to where their four hands joined in a mess of fingers just below her breasts, and he lowered his head to kiss her on the top of hers, turning his face so he could rest his cheek against her hair, and rocked side to side slightly. "This feel good?" he asked, still feeling partially responsible for her spending the past week tossing and turning, unable to sleep, after a mild illness he'd brought home from work had prevented her from doing stairs in an effort to get the baby out on time. Now she was nine days overdue, in the heat of summer, and it had taken a toll on her sleep. He looked down at her as she lifted her face to look at him. "Much better," she said, detangling a hand and reaching up to touch the side of his face. "You know how much I like your cuddles."

But sometimes, sometimes when he gave her this favorite kind of affection, there was no particular reason. No milestone, no occasion. Sometimes, they hadn't had sex in days, they were nowhere near their anniversary, she wasn't sick, and she wasn't giving birth. Sometimes, it was just a normal day, a Wednesday, perhaps, and upon coming into a room and seeing her in it, be it the first time of the day or the hundredth, he discovered a need to make contact, to show affection, to display love. And so he would walk up to her, curl his arms around her, and take advantage of how his head fit in the crook of her neck.

"Hello, beautiful," he said in a whisper, smiling.

And she turned her head enough for him to see her smile, too. "Hey," she said softly, meeting and holding his gaze.

Leonard moved his head slightly so he could plant a kiss on her neck, and then looked at her again. She was still smiling. "Can I tell you something?" she asked him.

"Anything," he replied.

"One of my favorite things you do," she said, "is this. Cuddles for no reason at all."

This one was a bit longer, though some of that was my A/N. :) Next update, hopefully tomorrow!