Leonard and Penny

"Hey, Leonard?" Penny whispered.

"Yeah?"

"Do you want to open yours?"

"OK."

Penny slipped out of the bed she and Leonard were sharing, and padded her way to the living room, hoping she wouldn't wake up Beverley. The last time they'd talked to her, she'd given them a several-hour long lecture on the origins of fetishes. Locating his gift, she snatched it up and ran back to his bedroom.

"Happy Christmas." She said to him, finding his face and kissing it. She handed him the box with a feeling of pride. He was sure to love it.

"Aww, thanks. I'm sorry yours got mixed up. It must have been Howard's gift for Bernadette."

"It's OK. Hurry up, I want to see how much you like it!"

"Alright." He found a gap in the paper and tore at it. "Oh, wow, Penny!"

She'd found a necklace with a pendant on it that looked slightly like the Nobel Prize Medal. It was undoubtedly the tackiest thing Leonard had ever seen. Not wanting to upset her, he put it on and painted a smile on his face and told her how great it was.

"Oh, I knew you'd like it! There's a website that I found, it's like a scientific gift thing and I saw it and I was like 'Leonard could show it off to Sheldon!'"

"Oh, yeah!" If any of the boys saw this, they'd mock him to death. He gave her a kiss and took it off.

"Why are you taking it off?"

"I don't want to break this...wonderful gift. You know, it could snap or something while we're sleeping." Hopefully it would 'accidentally' lose itself before the guys came back and found out about it.

"OK." She pressed her lips against his for several minutes. "Goodnight, Dr. Nobel Prize Winner!"

Sheldon and Amy

When Sheldon returned to his family, he found they'd started opening their gifts from each other. He had the gift to Amy in his hand and walked over to her, feeling his chest tighten. Dratted human needs and their lousy responses!

"Amy."

"Sheldon. I have your gift with me."

"And I have yours."

"Would you care to open them now or shall we wait?"

"Open them now, shall we?"

"You know I don't care for Yoda speak."

"Fine." He took the weight of Amy's gift into his hands, setting hers down on a nearby table. Opening it, he was shocked by its contents. It wasn't something he'd ever thought he'd possess. It was a boxset of Professor Proton's Show and it was autographed by him!

"I see you like it." Amy said, pleased with herself. Sheldon nodded, feeling too overwhelmed to speak.

"Thank you, Amy." Sheldon whispered. He knew his gift to her would be laughable compared to hers to him. Still, he presnted it to her, vowing he would give her a hug if it wasn't enough.

Her eyes widened. "Sheldon!"

His eyes widened too as she held up a slinky, red silk and white furred piece of lingerie.

"Amy, that..."

"Is amazing! Oh, I thought my sexuality was too much for you! I've never been so happy to be wrong!"

"With this, she pulled him down to her level and pressed her lips to his. Sheldon didn't know how to react. He remembered Bernadette had told him to show her how he felt, so he pressured his lips on hers. Tongues were out of the question, he decided. He didn't need Amy's icky tongue germs.

Howard and Bernadette

"It's present time!" Nana Wolowitz called out. There was plenty of whooping and a stampede as the entire family rushed to the living room.

They didn't open them one person at a time. They simply sat in small groups of husbands and wives, parents and children first and then went to other relatives.

"Happy Hanukkah, Howie." Bernadette said. She giggled. "That's really alliterative."

Before he started opening his gift, he had to ask. "What is it?"

"It's something really good. You'll like it."

Curiosity won and he pulled off the paper to reveal a small shoe box. It didn't feel heavy enough for shoes, though. He opened it to find a smaller box, then a smaller one until he discovered a matchbox. He looked in confusion at her smiling face before pulling it apart.

"A weekend in Paris? Aw, Bernie, that's so sweet."

"And it'll be really romantic. Starlit nights, the Eiffel Tower.."

"Or, as the French say, 'Tour D'Eiffel'."

"Yeah!"

"That's beautiful. Thank you." He leaned forward and kissed her. "Mine seems really crappy in comparison."

"It'll be fine." She laughed.

He shyly handed it over. When she'd opened it up, her eyes lit up. "Oh, wow!"

And, to his surprise, she held up a microscope. A really nice looking one, but he'd not gotten her a microscope. Still, he'd certainly gotten her the amethyst bracelet she was admiring.

"Oh, this is beautiful! Thank you. And you were worrying!"

He decided not to mention to her that he had, in fact gotten something a little bit more sexual than the microscope.

Oh, my. What will happen when Amy and Bernadette discover their significant others' deceit? Will Penny discover Leonard's true feelings on her gift to him? What are your thoughts on this? Feel free to suggest stuff, I'm all ears. Or should that be eyes?

Love from Shania. xx