Hello again! Look who came home tonight and wrote a whole chapter!
I don't own TBBT, but I own Alex.
Thanks for the reviews and whatnot. They were a pleasent surprise when I woke up this morning.
Snoogans and Snoochie Boochies!
Moonpie,
Meet me at 3875 Pasadena Ave tonight at 6pm. Leonard will be by the University to pick you up at 5pm. He's bringing your black suit for you to change in to. Can't wait to see you.
Love,
Penny
Penny,
Meet me at 3875 Pasadena Ave tonight at 6:00p.m. I have taken the liberty of purchasing you a dress for the occasion. You will find it in the pink bag in the nursery closet. Bernadette will be by to pick you up at 5:30p.m. Please do not be late as timing is everything this evening.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper, PhD
"How does that sound?" Leonard asked Bernadette.
"Sounds good." she said in her high pitched voice. It was even a little higher given her level of excitement. "They're going to be so surprised. I can't wait."
"You sure you can keep it together in front of Penny?" he asked, and Bernadette nodded.
Howard walked in to 4A as Leonard placed the note for Penny on the couch. He knew already that the second she got home from work lately, she'd sit on the couch to rest her achy feet first before she even bothered to change.
"I think everything's set. Now all we need is the happy couple." he smiled and hugged Bernadette.
Bernadette pulled in front of 3875 Pasadena Ave cautiously. Per her last text message from her Howie, Sheldon had just arrived and they were ushering him inside. She was glad the coast was clear when she pulled up front, and let one of the valet's take her car.
"Why did Sheldon want to meet me at an events hall?" Penny asked, looking up at the building, curious as to what her Wack-a-Doodle had in store for her tonight.
"Not sure, just following orders." Bernadette said, holding back the tears as she led Penny inside and off to a side room.
"Sounds busy out there." Penny said as Bernadette shut the door to the small room. Penny turned to find a seat because her feet were still tired from the full day at work she'd had when she spotted her dad standing to greet her. "Daddy?" she said, rushing to him for a hug.
"Hey Slugger." Wyatt said as he embraced his daughter. "You ready?" he asked.
"Ready? For what? What are you doing here?" she asked, fighting back tears. She was so freaking emotional lately. She cried over nearly everything.
"Ready to get married." he smiled at her.
Leonard had gotten a text from Howard that Bernadette and Penny were close. He practically had to drag Sheldon out of his car and into the building.
"You're going to be late! Come on, we have to get inside." he told Sheldon, breaking a few rules as he grabbed his friends arm and pulled him through the doors to the events building, and then down a small hallway where they went through another set of doors. Sheldon froze when the doors opened and took in the sight before him.
"Leonard, who's getting married?" he asked in a hushed voice, although he was sure he already knew the answer, which was only cemented further when he saw his MeeMaw sitting in the first row on the grooms side of the aisle.
Penny took her dad's arm and Bernadette handed her a bouquet of flowers before picking one up for herself and heading out the door to the small room, Penny and her dad following. They walked down a small hallway to another set of doors before they stopped.
"You ready?" Bernadette asked Penny, who nodded, still fighting back tears. Bernadette smiled as Howard walked up next to her, dressed in a respectable black suit and tie, then they pushed the doors open and headed down the aisle as the bridal march started to play.
Penny's eyes instantly found Sheldon's when the doors opened. She didn't see anything but him, and the room may as well have been empty, because in that moment, he only saw her.
Leonard, Raj, Howard, and Bernadette had really outdone themselves.
They'd invited Penny's parents and siblings, along with Sheldon's mother, his MeeMaw, and sister and brother. They'd invited every close friend the both of them had as well. They had even coerced Stuart from the comic book store into taking a course to become an ordained minister, and found him a suit that looked exactly like the one that the 11th Doctor wore, right down to the sonic screwdriver that rested in his jacket pocket.
The rest of the small room was decorated with flowers. Ton's of flowers. Roses in shades of white and TARDIS blue (which the boys had specially made just for this occasion) lined each aisle and matched the bouquet that Bernadette and Penny carried, along with the flowers that surrounded the alter.
There were candles lining the stairs and all around where Sheldon stood with Leonard as his best man and Raj and soon Howard as ushers. Amy Farrah Fowler was already at the alter, waiting for Penny and Bernadette.
"Who gives this woman away?" Stuart asked in a shaky voice.
"I do." Penny's dad answered. He held out his daughters hand for Sheldon to take, and Leonard had to nudge him to get him moving. Penny and Sheldon hadn't stopped looking at each other since the moment the doors opened.
"Hi." she whispered to him as they joined hands and stood in front of Stuart, facing each other.
"Hello." he whispered back. "You look aesthetically pleasing in that dress." he told her and she smiled. Her dress was an off white that went to the floor. It was silk, and looked more like an evening gown, which was the plan when Raj and Bernadette had gone shopping for it. The straps were wide, and it had a modest dip in the front, showing off a little of the extra cleavage Penny had acquired thanks to the pregnancy.
Penny couldn't help the tears that started to flow then. Bernadette took the bouquet from Penny and handed her a tissue.
When they got to the vows, Stuart asked if they had their own they'd like to say, and Penny and Sheldon both nodded.
"Penny, you have been a nuisance since the moment that we met. You have managed to disrupt my life in inconceivable ways. Everything I had known for the past twenty five years was thrown right out the window on that day Leonard insisted on saying hello to you." he started, and Penny scowled at him before smiling slightly. "You are the definition of chaos, and I do not, for once in my life, have the words to describe the way you make me feel. Joy, happiness, and love do not do it justice. I will be eternally grateful to Leonard for insisting on saying hello to you that day. I never conceived in any of the universes that I exist in that I would find you, that I would know this feeling. And I feel pity for any of those Sheldon's who never find you." he said and smiled to her.
"Sheldon, I never, in my wildest dreams, though that I'd find the love of my life in apartment 4A. Especially not with you. You drive me insane. I don't understand half the things you tell me most of the time. You have a schedule for everything. But you make me feel loved more than I ever have before. You never make me feel stupid, and you push me to be a better person. I never imagined that my life would revolve around Halo night and Thai food, oatmeal day and vintage video games. But it does, and I couldn't ask for anything better."
The time came to exchange rings, and Leonard and Bernadette stepped forward, handing the bride and groom the white gold bands that they had selected for them. Penny and Sheldon both inspected the rings they had been given to give to the other, and both smiled when they noticed the engraving inside.
"0000"
"You may now kiss the bride." Stuart said, a little more confident than when he'd started. Sheldon placed his hands on Penny's cheeks and pulled her towards him as she rested her hands on his chest as he placed a gentle kiss on her lips. Slightly opened mouth, but no tongue.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. I present to you Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Cooper!" Stuart said, getting a little caught up in the moment, shedding his own tear. The group of family and friends who'd been there as witnesses stood and cheered for the couple.
Raj leaned down and hit play on the stereo he'd had next to him behind a stand of flowers, and the room filled with the Glee cover of "My Life Would Suck Without You." starting at the chorus instead of the first verse. Penny and Sheldon both smiled to each other as they ended their kiss and faced the audience, then made their way back down the aisle, hand in hand.
"Dude, it's totally their theme song." Raj had said while him and Leonard decided on the exit music for Penny and Sheldon a few days earlier.
"Son," Wyatt started as he placed a heavy hand on Sheldon's back, "my little Slugger seems quite taken with you. Now, I appreciate the fact that you wanted to make an honest woman of her, and I appreciate your call asking my permission, and that it happened before you both knew about my little grand-baby you got on the way. But you ever hurt my little girl, and I got a shotgun at home with your name on it." he said, smiling and patting Sheldon on the back as Sheldon nearly spit out his Virgin Diet Cubalibre.
"I just wish it had been a church wedding. But I 'spose Jesus is just happy that y'all got married at all." Mary Cooper told Penny. Penny tried to hold back her laugh as best she could. "Now if you'll excuse me sweetie, I got a church group to call and thank for all the prayer circles that helped get us to this moment. I new Jesus would give me a grand-baby."
"Raj did a good job with the music." Penny smiled to Sheldon as they slow danced. They were married now, with a child on the way, so they left no room for Jesus between the two of them. Sheldon had her pulled as close as her growing belly would let him, and she rested her cheek on his chest, right above his heart.
"Every other song is a Glee cover." Sheldon commented.
Penny looked up at him. "You don't like the way Kurt sings 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'?" she asked, which was the song they were currently slow dancing too.
Sheldon just shrugged slightly. "It's an acceptable version. I understand the meaning behind him choosing this song, given my normal aversion to physical contact."
Penny just smiled and placed her cheek back on his chest. "He did good." she smiled.
"Well, you've had that marriage license for months. If we didn't do something before he was born, it wouldn't happen until he was at least a year old." Leonard said.
Penny and Sheldon looked at each other and nodded. Leonard was right. She was five months in and they were no closer to planning their wedding than the day that Sheldon had proposed. The only thing they had done was gotten the marriage license.
"Thank you." Penny told him and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. "It was beautiful and perfect." she said as she pulled away.
"Yes, quite." Sheldon smiled, and then did something that Leonard never expected, never dreamed would happen. Sheldon leaned down to his friend and gave him a hug.
"Welcome home Mrs. Cooper." Sheldon said as he pushed open the door to 4A, then lifted up Penny bridal style, and walked across the threshold, and promptly set her down. He was, after all, a theoretical physicist, not Superman.
A/N: I made the address up. I feel "meh" about the vows, but I won't ever get them perfect I guess. Hope they didnt suck to hard.
If you haven't heard it, Kurt's cover of "I wanna hold your hand" from the season 2 episode of Glee called "Grilled Chesus" its AMAZING. I highly suggest it, as I plan on dancing to it at my own wedding, whenever that happens.