A/N I am SO SORRY for the wait! College has been really KICKING MY ASS! I know this is short, but I wanted to give you something since I have been gone for two months! Don't worry the next chapter will be up much sooner than this one and it will be a pretty good one as well. I hope I haven't lost many of my readers! I hope you enjoy this!

~Axelrocks

Chapter 8

Leonard, Howard and Raj came back to an empty car. Sheldon was nowhere in sight. The three men instantly began to panic, almost dropping their recent purchases on the ground.

"Oh my God, guys. What if Kurt got to him?" Leonard wrung his hands nervously as he surveyed the area. "Howard, check the alley. Make sure he's not there." Dead.

"Why do I have to check?" Howard whined. "What if Kurt and his buddies are still hanging around and they want a new victim? I haven't slept with nearly enough women to die now!"

Leonard rolled his eyes and made his way to the dark alley, himself. Relief washed through him when he found it empty. There was no steroid-induced man waiting to break his bones in sight. Thank God, but where could Sheldon have gone?i

"Maybe he called Penny to pick him up." Raj said from where him and Howard huddled by his car.

Leonard nodded his head. "Yeah, that might be it. I'll call Penny and see."

Penny nearly fell out of the bed in shock when her pocket began to vibrate. Well, she would have if Sheldon didn't have his arms around her.

This surprised her, but she wasn't complaining.

She quietly dug into her pocket to retrieve the phone just as it stopped vibrating. The missed call from Leonard didn't really concern her much and she was about to place her phone on the nightstand when it chimed with a text message.

Do you have Sheldon?

So now, they were worried about him. Good. They should be.

She quickly texted back, hoping that the light from her phone wouldn't wake Sheldon up, he had already tightened his grip on her. Once again, she wasn't complaining.

Yea I picked him up and now he's in bed.

The reply was quick. Thanks for picking him up.

All she could do was smile at it. She was glad that he hadn't texted her back saying she hadn't had to pick him up. Maybe he was learning.

Shutting her phone off, she placed it back on the nightstand and settled back in the bed, and Sheldon's arms, and went back to sleep.

The three walked into apartment 4A without saying a word and plopped down on the couch; all three of them smashed together to avoid sitting in Sheldon's spot.

"It is still Halo Night, we can play one-on-one." suggested Leonard from his spot on the couch, closest to Sheldon's spot.

"We could, or we could take advantage of Sheldon's break from his routine and hit the bars." This was of course Howard's suggestion as he sat smashed in the middle between Raj and Leonard.

"Let's do that," Leonard quickly agreed. "But someone should check on Sheldon, to make sure he's really in his bed."

When it was clear that they weren't going to leave until someone checked up on Sheldon, Howard stood up in a huff causing Raj to almost topple over.

"Okay, everyone, let's all not jump up at once." He rolled his eyes. "I'll go."

"Way to take one for the team, Howard," Leonard said half-heartedly.

Howard didn't reply as he made his way to the hallway and the 'danger zone' known as Sheldon's room.

Well, he had always been curious about what Sheldon had in his room and now he could get the perfect chance to see for himself.

He almost slammed the door shut the moment he opened it. Surely, he was hallucinating cause there was no way what he had just saw was really happening.

There was no way that Penny was sharing a room with Sheldon.

No frakkin' way!

He eased the door open a little more, hoping that Sheldon didn't hear him with his Vulcan-hearing. And there was Penny, look as content as ever in her sleep and she didn't seem to mind that Sheldon's arms were wrapped around her either.

Leonard was not going to happy when he told him.

That was, if he told him.

Slowly, he closed the door and headed back to the living room where Leonard and Raj waited for him. They looked up at him, expectantly.

"He's sound asleep, assuming that creepy Dracula pose, like always."

Leonard sighed in relief and then headed to the door with Raj and Howard in tow. All three eager to leave the apartment.

"Maybe we should check on Penny to make sure she's-"

"NO!" Howard cried.

Leonard and Raj stopped and stared at him like he had grown another head or something.

"I mean, she's p-probably asleep in her own bed and doesn't want to be disturbed." He quickly walked to the stairs hoping they would follow.

Leonard furrowed his eyebrows, took one last look at Penny's door and followed Howard down the stairs.

Well, that was weird.

A/N So, how many of you are still watching the show? I kind of am, but I haven't seen the last three episodes or so and I don't know if I really want to. This show is going downhill and I'm sad. It use to be one of my favorite shows and now it's not! I guess I still have my Walking Dead and Psych to look forward too!

Thanks for reading! And of course if anyone wants to talk to me feel free to PM me!