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Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters.
He fells his eyes opening. He immediately feels his head hurting like hell. He opens his eyes completely and watched his surroundings.
I'm in a hospital.
Panic sets in. Wasn't he successful? Didn't he return to his world? Was he still on the other side, the bad one with Michelle?!
Oh, crap!
He feels a hand holding his. He looks at it, and instead of freaking out more or taking his hand away, he soothes his facial expressions.
I was successful.
This is his actual wife that is holding his hand. He lets out a breath – that wakes her up.
"You're okay?" She immediately jumps at the sight of her awoken husband, instantly on his side.
"W-what happened?" He asks, his throat a little sore.
"Well, you hit your head when you left the bed. You've been in a coma for the last three days. You had so many machines attached to you." She looked scared. "I was afraid I had lost you." She starts to cry, and he pushes her to him and just holds her.
"I was afraid I lost you too." He whispers. She didn't have time to ask him anything, because the doctor showed up.
After talking to him and assessing his condition, the doctor told them that he would probably only stay a few more days at the hospital for observation and only then he could go home. As he left, a crowd of people shows up.
Weirdly, the first person to hug him was Bernadette. "I'm so glad you're okay!" She squealed and then hugged her husband.
He felt someone squeezing his foot as Amy and Sheldon hugged him. It had been Howard. "How are you feeling?"
"Like I was hit by a truck." He replied, honestly.
They all laughed. But he didn't lie. It all came back to him, the dream that is. He remembers approaching the ground and a passing truck literally pulling away from everything. Why do I remember this? He wonders.
But some things don't have an explanation.
When he finally returned home – Leonard loved being indoors but discovered that he did not love all indoors, so he created a list in his mind that included the mall – he just wanted to watch a movie and then sleep. And that was exactly what happened. He arrived at the fourth flight of stairs, waited as Penny opened the door, and saw his friends there. He sighed. He didn't want a party.
"You get to chose the movie," Sheldon announced, reluctantly. He clearly wanted to be the one that chose the movie.
Leonard sat down on his little couch. "Know what, buddy, you chose."
Sheldon instantly smiles and runs to the TV to put on Star Wars. Groans are heard all around the apartment – from the girls, obviously.
"We're watching Star Wars. Leonard said I could choose." Sheldon complained.
"Wait! The entire franchise?!" Even Leonard, Howard and Raj didn't want that! That would take forever. And Leonard needed to rest in a bed. With his eyes closed. And his wife next to him.
"Yes, of course," Sheldon said as if it was evident.
They were going to protest when someone knocked on the door and Howard got up to answer – like it happened all the time.
"Who are you?" Howard questioned.
"Thomas Black." With the mention of his ex-wife's ex-husband, Leonard's ears perked up.
"Tommy?" He called out, getting up and nearing the door. "What are you doing here?"
"Hi, Leonard." Tommy greeted. Leonard nodded instead of saying something. Tommy continued, as he shifted in his spot as if he was nervous. "I heard about the accident and Michelle. I came to Pasadena to see her. It was... hard to see her like that, you know." He awkwardly smiles, still seeming nervous. "I wasn't sure what to expect, but I'm pretty certain that that wasn't it."
"Yeah, I know." Leonard agreed and sent a smile his way. "Look we were going to watch a movie..." Tommy interrupted.
"I'll go." He turned his back on Leonard.
"Want to join?" Inside, Sheldon was violently nodding no, he didn't want a complete stranger in the apartment! He let out a breath when he heard no to the invitation and sat down on his spot.
Leonard closed the door and went to the movie stand. "What about the Facebook movie? We ended up not watching it." He remembered. They all agreed to it, and sat down comfortably on their spots, watching the movie. Leonard ended up falling asleep on his chair, a content smile visibly crossing his lips.
"Sweet dreams." He heard a familiar voice say. It was Penny, and he felt a kiss on his temple from her tender lips.
The next morning, when he woke up, he saw himself on his bed but didn't remember getting there. Getting up, going to the kitchen to have breakfast after going to the bathroom, he saw his wife making french toast while their neighbors sat on the chairs next to the kitchen counter.
Amy is the first one to see him. "Good morning, how are you feeling?"
"I'm okay." Leonard answers. Penny comes to him with the medicine the doctor prescribed and a glass of water and he downs it all down, making a disgusted face after.
They all make small talk after that while having breakfast. Leonard smiles, remembering the nightmare he had while he was unconscious. He was glad he was back home, with his real family. He smiles at Penny when she looks at him and grabs her hand. Yeah, it was good to be back.
He stayed in the apartment for three more weeks after coming back from the hospital. The day he was cleared to get out and go to work, he was up and ready faster than Sheldon and everyone else. He just wanted everything to go back to normal. It had been five months since Michelle had come back to his life – by his choice, of course, he called her – so he just wanted everything to go back to normal.
He was particularly giddy that day since Penny had a consult today, and it was finally possible to find the sex of the baby – that way, they could finally calling the baby it!
Leonard secretly wanted a girl, but Penny couldn't care less. As long as it's healthy!
Leonard went to work, without ever taking the smile on his face. He was just glad to be able to go to his lab, get some work done, have lunch with his friends and then find out if he was having a girl or a boy – well if Penny was having a girl or a boy, but he was the dad, so technically he was also having a child.
When the time to leave work was finally there, Leonard basically ran to his car.
Penny and Leonard always held hands when they were waiting for the consult. It was around this time that Tyler died, so it made Leonard even more concerned – but he was still excited to hear the baby's heartbeat again and know the gender.
"Hofstadter." The nurse called. They looked at each other and walked into the room.
After the usual procedures, it was time for the doctor to arrive and do the ultrasound. Penny was gaining weight, which was good, her blood tests appeared to be normal, everything was perfect. The doctor arrived and shook both Leonard and Penny's hands. Doctor Lebowski was roughly the size of both Leonard and Penny, with blue eyes and light brown hair. She had the usual white coat, and since she dealt with children, there was a little drawing of a dolphin on the coat.
She sat down on a chair and asked Penny to raise her shirt. After a few moments, she asked the parents-to-be if they wanted to know the sex of the baby.
"Of course!" "Yes!" Both of them say.
"Well parents, it's a girl!" Both parents look at each other and smile, excited. Leonard even more because a) he wanted a girl and b) because he made a bet with Howard and just won.
It was a happy day.
When once the evening arrived and they told their friends over dinner, they realized their life had changed a lot over the last few months, but in just a few months, it was going to change even more. They were going to have a little girl to take care of. And maybe, just maybe, more than just a girl.
The End
I know it seems rushed, but I just wanted to get this story over with. After the first seven chapters, I no longer knew what to do next. So yeah, after that I got a little done with this story. Just want it done. And so, I wrote this as the last chapter. I could've written more, of course, I could. But I just don't want to or have the patient to do so.
Tell me what you thought of this chapter.
Thanks Warriorcreed for giving me ideas to this chapter, even though I didn't end up using them.
