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The next few days after the whole gang found out about Beverly's death were difficult. They were barely together, at least all at the same time. Leonard hid himself in his room, only seen outside of it when he went to the bathroom or to eat. Sheldon went back to his old room and worked from there. After all, he only needed a white board to work. Penny tried to help them both, but after a while she just didn't know what to do. Amy was trying to do her best to keep Sheldon's mind off the subject, but he did that by himself – he started to work more and more. So Amy's job now was trying to take his mind off work. And since the only person that knew how to do it was Leonard neither girl knew what to do.

Bernadette and Howard stopped by from time to time with Halley, thinking that she would sheer them up. However, that didn't work.

Raj and Stuart would go to apartment 4A and bring gossip and comic books, respectively. But that didn't matter to Leonard or Sheldon.

On the 5 day of all this, Michael Hofstadter calls his brother. Leonard quickly runs to Sheldon's room and knocks on the door – but with their special knock so Sheldon knew it was him – and tells him what his brother told him. Both go to the living room where the whole gang is at forming a plan to get them out of the rooms.

Raj is the first to see them. He looks at them, not knowing how to respond. Seeing Raj looking into the bathroom like that they all raise their heads and see what Raj was seeing.

Sheldon had changed clothes, but clearly hadn't taken a shower, while Leonard was still in the same clothes he was the day he had come back to the apartment. And the shower he had taken was probably the last one he took.

Leonard is the first to speak.

"Michael just called." Since he hadn't spoken in a few days, his voice was a little hoarse. He clears his throat and restarts. "Michael called and told me that the funeral is tomorrow. They already know why she died." They all look at him to go on. "She… she had cancer. Apparently she had breast cancer but it had spread to other organs. He said that the doctors told him she had Stage III Cancer." He took a deep breath and went on. "I'm going to get myself a plane ticket. Excuse me"

He goes back to his room to get his computer, and Penny follows him.

"Leonard? Sweetie? How are you holding up?" Penny asks, trying not to say the wrong thing

Leonard was going to answer, but before he did it, he looked at her. He eyes only told him that she was being nice and scared. Scared of what was going on. Scared of not knowing what to say to make everything better. Scared that she couldn't just make everything okay for him. So, instead of making some stupid comment and being mean to Penny, he hugged her. He wasn't thinking of doing it so that she could support him. He knew this was also being hard on her and he wasn't there for her. That hug wasn't going to fix everything, but it was a start.

He took his arms from around her and put his hands or her face, making her look at him.

"Thank you." He simply says

"For what?"

"Everything." He says. He then kisses her forehead, looks at her again and hugs her.

Penny starts to cry, something she was trying not to do, at least in front of Leonard. Beverly was his mother, not hers. She felt like she couldn't feel sad about Beverly's death that she was only supposed to be there for Leonard.

Leonard, however, felt like he wasn't the only one that should be mourning her. Beverly was known by all of the gang, and, even though they didn't like her as much as they liked the rest of the parents, she was still known by them. Penny and Beverly had a relationship together. One Leonard was a little bit jealous of. So when Penny started to cry on his chest, he tried to be there for her, like she tried to be for him all week. The difference being that Leonard ignored Penny all week, while now none of them was ignoring the other. Being separated didn't help them. But together, they were going to be fine. They always were.

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Going to try to update this weekend. I'm trying to update all my stories this week, since I have an English test and this helps me study for it. So this chapter is small, and the next may be bigger (CLEARLY NOT A PROMISE)!

The next chapter will probably be in New Jersey. With the beginning probably still in Pasadena. Thinking about it… I haven't wrote what happened while Leonard and Penny were in the room. Don't worry. I didn't forget about it!