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#5 Be Romantic

"Leonard," Penny said, bumping her shoulder against his as they walked down the sidewalk. "That was the sweetest anniversary dinner I've ever had."

"Hmmm, well," Leonard said, "I'm glad you liked it."

"And you got them to put us in a quiet area!" She said. "That never happens at that place!"

"I called well in advance," Leonard said. "And paid him extra. The amount isn't important. But I gave the guy a good look at the President who served in the Civil War."

"Well you're lucky that guy was a history nerd, then," Penny said, her laugh trailing off when Leonard gave her a confused look. "What? What did I say?"

Leonard smiled. "Nothing."

"Gosh," she said. "I can't believe it's been a year." She turned her head to smile at him. "A year since you saw me standing in my apartment and just decided to go for it. I still don't know what made you do it."

Leonard chucked. "I had some odd sense of déjà vu. Like it sort of hit me again that that was you standing there and it was you that I wanted to be with. I'm sure that sounds stupid."

"No," Penny said. "It sounds sweet. And it's not like I didn't have a feeling like that when you sounded so sure. It was this odd…" she stopped. "I don't know how to explain it." She looked back at him. But I'm glad it happened."

Leonard stopped and turned to her. "I know I told you this over dinner," he said, "but…" he shook his head. "God, this past year has been so, so great."

She smiled back at him, putting her hands on his neck. "Me too," she said, tipping her head slightly. Leonard took the cue and kissed her, sliding his hands around to her back. Penny smiled when their lips separated. "I love you."

Leonard tried and failed to hide his smile. "You said that in the restaurant."

"Is there a limit?"

"No," Leonard said. "Just an observation. I love hearing you say it."

"Hmmm," Penny said. "Well, depending on this hotel room you've been talking up, you might hear it again."

"Okay, you're going to hear it again," Penny said, walking around the room like she'd just found Narnia. "Leonard, these flowers and…oh my gosh!" She turned to look at him. "How did you think of all this stuff?"

Leonard shrugged. "It's an almost exact replica of what the room in Switzerland looked like."

Penny's smiling face turned into a jaw drop, and her shoulders sagged slightly. "Oh…Leonard…" He shrugged, and she came over and took both his hands. "Well, this works out better."

"Oh yeah?" Leonard asked. "How?"

"Well, for one thing, I'm going to tell you that I love you in this room. And for the second thing, I read a blog post on neat stuff to do in bed today and the article wasn't published three years ago so all this stuff I have in my brain wouldn't have happened in Switzerland."

"Oh really?" Leonard said. He smiled. "Well, I'm really glad you like it."

"How can I not?" Penny asked. "I'm spending my anniversary to a guy who's given me a snowflake from the top of the globe, who wanted to take me to Switzerland for our first Valentine's Day, when we hadn't even had an anniversary yet, and now, on our first anniversary, surprised me with…" she turned around. "This. Of course I like it. No, I love it."

Leonard came up next to her and slid an arm around her face. "And I love you. And I especially love when you get like this."

She tilted her head to rest it on his shoulder. "I can't help it," she said. "This is easily the most romantic thing I've ever been a part of."

"Same here," Leonard said. "And I don't just mean tonight. I mean you. Us."

Penny lifted her head. "I really like us."

He smiled back at her. "I really like us, too."

I wanted to write an anniversary fic on their ACTUAL anniversary, but I can't guarantee I'll be online that day. Plus the prompt was so generic: "be romantic."