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Chapter 2

The hours passed relatively quietly, since everybody was now watching the last minutes of Sheldon's favorite Star Trek movie. Both girls thought the movie was a waste of time, but knew they had no other choice, plus they found themselves more calmed down the more they were concentrating on what they were watching.

There was a knock on the door and Leonard went to open it. He found himself face to face with a chest and slowly raised his eyes to spot the head. A giraffe was smiling at him and extending his hand for a handshake.

"Hello! I'm Sam." the giraffe said.

He had dimples and weird, brown hair and was carrying a traveling bag on his broad shoulders.

Leonard shook Sam's hand while replying "Hello! I'm Leonard.". He then stepped to the side to make him room to enter, while a little worried Penny would see him.

There was another man walking through the door now. He was very handsome and Leonard felt even more worried. He had full lips, yet he was very macho. "I'm Dean." he simply said.

Leonard closed the door and took a deep breath to introduce everybody while Sam was placing his bag on the ground. "Well, these are Sam and Dean and over there are Raj, Amy, Sheldon and Penny." Leonard said.

Sam and mostly Dean were delighted to see Penny. "This case is definitely worth losing the concert." Dean thought and smiled at her seductively.

The Winchesters, Amy and Sheldon said "Hello!", Raj simply waved at them and Penny got up, walked towards them and told them: "Oh, hello! I'm so glad you 're here!" while smiling widely obviously relieved.

"Wow! Is that smile patented?" Dean compliment her and Penny thanked him, flattered.

"What can we offer you? Would you like something to drink?" Leonard asked annoyed.

"No, thank you. We 're fine." Sam replied, but Dean had a different opinion: "A beer would be nice."

"Oh, I'm sorry, we don't have any alcoholic drinks." Leonard answered, feeling more concerned by the second.

"That's okay." Dean said while both the brothers were wondering what kind of house was that to have no alcohol whatsoever.

The Winchesters looked around them and found themselves in an overly neat house, full of books, gadgets and whiteboards with weird science staff on. The clothes everybody except Penny was wearing didn't help the brothers' opinion either. "Nerds' house." they both realized.

"Now, you are the one with the ghost, right?" Sam told Penny. "When did you find out you have a ghost and how?" he asked her.

"I saw it. Today." Penny answered quite loudly opposed to Sam's voice volume.

"What did you see exactly?" Sam asked.

"A ghost." Penny answered a little confused now, while narrowing her eyes.

Dean explained: "There are plenty of supernatural creatures that can inhabit a house: Ghosts, poltergeists -very nasty those ones-, angry spirits. You have to tell us exactly what you saw, so that we know what we 're dealing with.".

"Very nasty those ones" Leonard mocked Dean in his mind. "Bastard!" he thought.

"Oh, well, we saw, Amy and I that is," Penny said while showing Amy "a, as she put it, semi-transparent male human.".

"Flashing on and off." Amy clarified.

"Oh, so you saw it too." Sam told Amy and would walk towards her if Amy didn't get up and joined them.

"Yes." she replied.

"Do you live in that house as well?" Sam asked Amy.

"No. Penny lives alone." Amy answered willingly.

"Oh, you live alone." Dean told Penny with a naughty grin.

The Winchesters now focused their full attention on the only inhabitant of the haunted house.

Dean decided Penny was ready for his next move and turned professional. "It, indeed, sounds like a ghost to me." Dean said and asked Penny: "Have you ever had flickering lights? Cold spots? Have you been hearing scratches through the walls?" Dean asked.

"Well, yes! In my bathroom the light is flickering since I moved in and I don't even remember how many times Leonard has changed the lamp." she answered and leaned on her boyfriend. "And in my bedroom there is a place that is icy cold almost all the time even during summer." Penny said.

Dean gave her a "there you go" look while thinking: "What? Oh, come on. It can't be. She's probably taking advantage of him for free food and free Internet.".

"You mean that while I was taking a shower or changing clothes there was a ghost watching me?" Penny asked.

"Yes. And I don't blame it." Dean replied smiling.

Leonard coughed.

"Cool. I have a peeper ghost in my apartment." Penny said and looked at her boyfriend.

There was silence for a few moments and then Penny spoke again: "And if this ghost was in my apartment all that time, why did it appear now?" she asked.

"Well, maybe something happened that upset it." Sam replied.

"Nothing happened." Penny answered and continued "We were just siting in the kitchen, chatting."

"What were you talking about?" Sam asked.

Amy and Penny looked at each other. "You know... girl stuff." Penny said.

"Shopping and genital fungus." Amy tried to help.

Sam and Dean looked at each other in shock and Leonard hid his face by lowering his head and touching his eyebrow.

"Baby, can you bring me my jacket from your room? I'm a little cold." Penny asked Leonard.

"Sure." he said and barely kissed her. Penny smiled at him.

"What the hell?" Dean asked himself unable to believe his eyes.

Even though it was clear now, that Penny was his girlfriend, Leonard still didn't want to leave Penny and those guys alone, so he took advantage of Raj's inability to speak in front of the girls -and thus denying- and asked him to bring Penny's jacket. To Leonard's relief, Raj got up and whispered something in his ear. "It's on the chair." Leonard answered him and Raj headed to Leonard's bedroom.

The brothers frowned in wonder.

At that moment, Sheldon decided he was silent for too long and expressed his beliefs to the newcomers.

"What quacks you are! You take advantage of naive people like Penny and extract money from them for vanquishing ghosts. You should be ashamed of yourselves." Sheldon said, before shaking his head.

"Dude, ghosts are real. Supernatural is rea..." Dean began responding angrily, but Sheldon cut him.

"If you 're indeed so naive to believe that monsters and stuff like that actually exist, that's just sad!" Sheldon replied.

"Our job is to save people's lives, even if they are so annoying like you, and we don't take money for it." Dean answered with his teeth tightened, furious.

"Oh, thank you!" Sheldon said, flattered. "Now, if you will excuse me, it's Thursday and every Thursday, I spray the shower curtain to avoid limescale." he added, got up and headed to the bathroom.

The Winchesters looked at Leonard who did a "don't bother ask" gesture but this didn't stop Dean from asking "Is he crazy?"

"If you had asked him, he would tell you "I am not crazy. My mother had me tested", but yes." Leonard answered while nodding. Raj, who had just given Penny her jacket, circled with his forefinger over his temple.

"What happened to you? Did the cat ate your tongue?" Dean asked Raj a little amused because he had realized by now that he wasn't talking aloud, but only whispering.

Sam nudged him. "I'm sorry. That was... rude." Dean apologized.

"He has selective mutism." Leonard informed them. "He can't talk in front of women."

Dean looked at Sam wide-eyed, unable to believe that this kind of people really existed.

"Is that whiteboard yours?" Sam asked Leonard to change the subject, while pointing at one. "What have you studied?".

"This whiteboard is Sheldon's. He has two Ph.D.s in theoretical physics. My whiteboard is the one over there." Leonard answered and pointed at the other. "I have studied experimental physics." he added.

"Nice. They 're pretty impressive." Sam said smiling.

"Pretty impressive?" Sheldon asked while walking back in.

"Sheldon, don't." Leonard told him worried.

"Holy cow!" Raj snapped terrified, forgetting there were girls around.

They all turned around to look at where Raj was staring. In front of the wall faced by the couch, there was standing the ghost of a man.

While the others were screaming, the Winchesters went for their traveling bag. Sam was closer though, and after opening it, he took out a shotgun and fired. The ghost turned into smoke and vanished.

"Yeah, that was indeed a ghost." Sam said.

"Oh, my God! Who knew? Supernatural IS real." Sheldon said stunned.

Leonard was still staring at where the ghost stood and Raj was speechless (again).

"It was even more terrifying this time!" Amy said wide-eyed.

"How can the ghost be here? I thought only my apartment was haunted!" Penny asked the Winchesters calm, because now she knew she could rely on them.

"It seems that the whole floor is haunted, not only your house." Dean answered.

"Why would he haunt our floor since he lived upstairs?" Sheldon questioned.

Everybody turned to look at him.

"Wait! You know him?" Leonard asked his roommate surprised.

"Yes! He used to live in the flat above ours. He died ten years ago." Sheldon replied.

"Do you remember his name?" Sam asked.

"Well, of course I do. I have an eidetic memory. I remember everything since before I turned two." Sheldon said offended.

"Well, what was it?" Sam asked again.

"Jesus Rodriguez." Sheldon answered.

"What was he? A Mexican?" Dean asked.

"But, of course!" Sheldon responded unable to believe the shorter man's stupidity. He turned around and said to Leonard: "See? Another man for Penny.".

"How did he died?" Sam asked Sheldon deciding not to comment his rude indication.

"Well, apparently, he left a note saying that he was committing suicide for the lost love of his life. The parents of his girlfriend didn't allow their daughter to marry him and he fell off a window of his apartment. It's funny what people do for things that don't exist: Love of his life" Sheldon chuckled.

"Do you know why their parents didn't want the marriage?" Sam required.

"They thought she was out of his league." Sheldon answered.

"Why?" Sam asked again while Dean looked at Leonard and Penny standing next to each other.

"It seems he was just a high-school graduate, but she had a master's degree in geology." Sheldon said and chuckled again.

Penny and Amy looked at each other, but didn't speak, while Leonard asked confused his roommate: "How do you know all these staff?".

"Well, my ex ex ex ex roommate had forced to me to join him to the funeral because it seems that attending someone's who lived in the same building with you funeral is a social obligation." Sheldon answered once more.

"And people tend to gossip about the person whose funeral attend." Sam guessed.

"Exactly." Sheldon only responded.

Dean decided he was too tired of Sheldon and asked him the only really important thing: "So, where is the dude's grave?".