Good evening!

So here's more to my little sequel. There should be quite a few more chapters. I've got lots of ideas I've outlined already.

I don't own the characters or TBBT, but I own Alex.

Snoogans and Snoochie Boochies!

After three weeks of trying, making love on a nightly bases, sometimes more than once if the mood struck, (which it did more often than not) Penny was frustrated. She knew she was just stressing herself out, making things worse. But she had to know the second it happened.

She'd spent so much damn money on pregnancy tests, and she was sure she'd spend a lot more. Alex was going to be difficult. He'd keep her guessing. It was driving her bonkers.

The timer dinged, and she picked up the stick she'd peed on only a few minutes ago.

Tonight was the night. Penny had been so stressed. She'd cried almost every night. He had told her it'd be too soon to tell, that it'd take time for the change in her hormonal levels to be enough for those little sticks to register.

But she still tested herself every day anyway.

However tonight was the night he alleviated some of that stress. Tonight she wouldn't cry because she was sad. If she did cry, it'd be because she was happy.

He had a question to ask her. And he genuinely meant it.

Sheldon walked in to 4B, fiddling with the small, royal blue box in his pocket. He'd done this once before, and hadn't been nervous about it at all. Even now, he had no doubt she'd say yes, but still, he worried.

"You didn't knock." Penny said, looked up at him from behind her kitchen island. Sheldon froze in place, next to her couch. He wasn't sure what his face looked like, but from Penny's expression, and how she hurried around the counter to go to his side, it probably wasn't good. "Sweetie are you alright?" she asked, placing her hands on his cheeks, making him focus on her.

"I… I…" he stuttered, then swallowed hard. He pulled out the small box and held it in front of her. Her eyes focused on the small box, and a Cheshire Cat grin spread across her face.

"I love you." he told her, and then took a deep breath. "I've asked you this once before, and you declined my offer. You cited that it was not genuine. That it was not from the heart. I believe this time I can tell you with certainty that it is." he said, and watched as tears threatened to spill from her bright green eyes.

"Leonard teased me today at work that I would 'throw him under the bus' for a chance at a Nobel. He most likely is right, although I mean that in the same proverbial sense that he did. But I found that while it is a distinct possibility that I would forgo my friendship with Leonard in

He paused to wipe a tear from her cheek with his thumb. "I can say with the utmost certainty that anything I ever do in my life, including when I win the Nobel, will ever be as important to me as you are." Sheldon got down on one knee in front of her and opened the box, revealing his Meemaw's ring. "Penny, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

Penny nodded, "Yes." she smiled, and Sheldon plucked the ring from the box, and placed it on the appropriate finger of her left hand. She pulled on his shoulders so he would stand again, and she threw herself in to his arms, kissing him for all she was worth.

It was the sweetest thing he'd ever said to her. It meant just as much to her as when he said he loved her. She knew his lifelong dream was the Nobel. He'd just told her she was more important.

Penny pulled on Sheldon's shirt, tugging him to follow her to her bedroom. When her knees hit the edge of her mattress, she let herself fall back and pulled Sheldon down on top of her. They laid there and kissed for a while before Penny readjusted them so their heads were at the pillows.

"I love you." she told him and then kissed him again gently. "And little Alex loves you too." She kissed him one more time before snuggling herself against him.

It took Sheldon nearly ten seconds to catch on. Penny just watched his face go from puzzlement as to why she would bring up Alex at a time like this, who'd been back in his own time for months now. But she had said little. He was nearly as tall as Sheldon when he'd been here. He was in no way little…

Sheldon looked down at Penny, quirking an eyebrow. "Am I to understand that you are not referring to Alex, our son, who was here a few months ago?"

"Well, I'm referring to him. Just a much much smaller version." she smiled and placed her hand on her stomach.

It was only logical that Leonard moved in to Penny's apartment and Penny moved in with Sheldon. Leonard's old room would be converted into the nursery. After the baby came, well, then they'd worry about buying a house. Sheldon could only take so many changes at one time before his head exploded.

Leonard was only slightly opposed to the idea. He was totally okay, actually way more okay than he thought he'd be, at the fact that he'd lost Penny for good. But it didn't mean it still didn't sting a little to be moving in to her old apartment. Lots of memories associated there. A little heart ache. But he'd get over it in time.

The landlord thought the boys were playing a joke on him. He thought he'd heard them wrong at first, and was supposed to be moving Sheldon in to apartment 4B . But after much reassurance, and having to drag Penny down to sign the lease forms for the changes, he'd believed them. It was just one of those things that he wasn't going to believe until he saw it.

So the arrangements had been made, moving day had been established, and on the first Saturday of March, Howard and Raj showed up and helped Penny and Leonard switch apartments.

It wasn't really that hard either. For the most part, Penny was donating what she could to the Good Will. There was furniture she no longer needed now that she'd be sharing a room and bed with Sheldon. She did keep her dresser, and her personal belongings, but everything else was either staying in the apartment, or getting donated to Good Will. Any furniture that Leonard didn't want went to Good Will as well.

"We need a bigger bed." Penny said, once she'd finished putting her clothes away in the allotted space in Sheldon's closet. Well, now it was both their closet. (Some of the clothes ended up in the nursery. Penny had a lot of clothes.)

"But there's nothing wrong with my current bed." Sheldon said, only letting a tiny bit of fear come across compared to what he was actually feeling.

"It's to small sweetie. We both barely fit in it now. Imagine when I'm huge. You'll be sleeping on the couch." she told him as she closed the closet door. She walked to his side and sat next to him on the bed. "I know this is a lot. I know things are changing fast. I appreciate everything you're doing, and how calm you're staying." She placed a gentle kiss on his cheek and took his hand in hers. "If you want to freak out now, you can." she smiled.

Sheldon took a deep breath. She watched as his eye twitched and his mouth quivered. And then he was calm. It wasn't quite what she was expecting, but if that was it, she'd take it.

"Better?" she asked, kissing his cheek again and he nodded.

"If we're to get a new bed, I'll need to do some research. I'd prefer to find this bed in a larger size if that is all right with you?" he asked.

She appreciated him asking. She nodded. "Just think, as soon as we get the new bed, we can have a lot of fun breaking it in."

Sheldon wanted to comment that he wasn't going to be buying a new bed if they were just going to break it… but then Penny watched as the realization of what she had implied crept across his face. He blushed ten different shades of red and nodded.

"I've also got a new roommate agreement for you to sign…" he started, but she cut him off.

"A what?"

"A new roommate agreement. Penny, please don't interrupt me." Sheldon rose from the bed next to her and walked out to the living room with Penny hot on his heels.

"Sheldon, I'm not your roommate. I'm not Leonard. I'm your fiancé. I'm going to be your wife. I'm harboring your child for God's sake!" Penny's hands were waiving here and there as she spoke. Sheldon sat at his computer.

"But Penny. You must understand. With your current condition, we must keep as much structure as possible. For your health and for Alex. What I'm suggesting is…"

"With MY current condition? No, this is OUR current condition. And I'm all for structure, but there is no way I'm signing a roommate agreement. I'm not your roommate. I'm willing to try to stick to a schedule, but I will not sign something you'd give to just anyone walking in off the street to be your roommate."

"Penny don't be absurd. I wouldn't let just anyone off the street be my roommate. Not unless they past the tests first. Which is another thing. You won't have to take the test." Sheldon smiled. He thought he's compromised rather well in that he was letting Penny bypass the standard testing typically required to cohabitate with him.

They argued like that for nearly two hours before Sheldon finally broke. He drew up a schedule for them both based off items in the agreement she refused to sign. He'd been about to schedule coitus, he had the "coi" typed in when Penny looked over his shoulder.

"If you type what I think you're about to type, it wont ever happen again." she warned him.

Sheldon backspaced, and the "coi" was gone.