A/N - As it's Mothers Day today in the US, and Leonard & Penny just got engaged (aah! eternal excitement!) on the show, I thought I'd write and put this up today. Got the whole gang in this one, fun fun fun. Hope y'all enjoy this one. Been loving the reviews, so glad you have like the two before this :)
"I'm gonna go help Leonard bring up the groceries and takeaway," Penny said to Bernadette, pocketing her phone as she stood from the couch. "You and Amy can go over to 4A and let the guys know."
"Sure," Bernadette nodded, standing and picking up her bag as Penny flounced out of the apartment to head downstairs. Taking her mug over to the sink, on her way back to the door she called "Amy, the foods here so we're heading over to 4A."
"Yeah, I heard!" Amy called back from the bathroom. "I'll meet you over there."
Shrugging a shoulder, Bernadette left for 4A, finding the guys as expected: engrossed in a video game. "Takeaways here, Penny's just gone to help Leonard bring it up with their groceries."
"Where's Amy?" Sheldon asked, noticing the absence of his girlfriend without even having to turn his attention away from the game.
"Bathroom. Don't think those bran muffins agreed with her." Bernadette frowned, putting her bag down and sitting in the empty spot beside Howard.
"It's always a shame when that happens." Sheldon sighed, sitting back as his character was shot, his controller vibrating to let him know that his game was over.
"Oh my God, Bernadette!" Amy yelled, her voice high, as she practically ran into 4A.
"What?" Bernadette jumped up, panicked.
"Look at this!"
"Oh my God!" Bernadette whispered, her eyes growing wide behind her glasses. "Where did you find that?"
"Penny's bathroom trash!"
"What did you find?" Raj asked, pausing the game and looking up at the two girls curiously.
"This!" Amy exclaimed, brandishing the pregnancy stick in her hands to the room, a mixture of panic and excitement on her face.
"Is it yours?" Sheldon asked, raising his brows.
For a moment, Amy's expression turned into one of disbelief. "Really?"
Sheldon grinned proudly. "I'm kidding. I know it's not yours."
"Well whose is it?" Howard asked, dropping his controller beside him, gaping at his wife.
"Lets see, it was in Penny's trash, and it's a pregnancy stick, so my bet is its Leonard's." Bernadette rolled her eyes. "Whose do you think, dumbass?"
"What's Leonard's?" Penny's voice came from the doorway, and the gang turned their heads, wide eyed, to look at her. Raj let out a nervous squeal reminiscent of the noises he'd make back when he couldn't speak in front of girls but wanted to get the attention of his friends.
"Umm." Amy pivoted slowly to face Penny. "This?"
Penny's hands tightened their grip on the bag of takeaway she was holding against her chest. Her tone was flat as she asked, "where did you find that?"
"The trash can in your bathroom." Amy raised a brow at her question; if it was her pregnancy test, surely she would know where it had been found.
"Oh." Penny looked at it for a moment, before snatching it from Amy's hands. "Why were you going through my trash?"
"I blew my nose and threw my tissue away, it was right there at the top." Amy explained carefully as the rest of the room listened in a tense silence.
"So you just thought you'd pick it up without even thinking maybe I don't want you to?"
"What's the big deal?" Bernadette finally piped up. "It's negative anyway."
"Yeah. That one is." Penny said sharply, placing the takeaway down on Sheldon's desk, which made him flinch slightly.
"Does your uterus say otherwise?" Sheldon asked, glaring at the bag of hot takeaway food sitting beside his laptop.
"Well, the other two pregnancy tests say otherwise. And the blood tests say definitely positive. So yes, I would say, my uterus does say otherwise." Penny folded her arms across her chest, her eyebrows raised high as a stern expression took over her face.
"So you are pregnant?" Bernadette asked.
"I just figured you were either trying or just thought you might be." Amy said quietly. "And didn't want to tell us."
"You guys are not to say a word to Leonard." Penny said strictly, pointing a finger around the room.
"First you put a bag of hot food on my working desk, and then you expect me to keep a secret?" Sheldon looked at Penny questioningly. "That sure is a lot to ask for one person."
"You say anything and I swear to God, Sheldon, you're going to need a General Surgeon to remove this pregnancy stick from wherever it ends up after your ass."
"Gross." Raj turned his head down in disgust at the thought of what Penny had said as Howard put a hand over his mouth, gagging slightly.
"That applies to all of you. Got it?" Penny now pointed the stick in her hand around the room, jabbing it in the air toward each of them. "Not a word to Leonard."
"Not a word about what to Leonard?" Leonard asked, walking into the apartment as he put his phone away into his pocket. "I had to call my Mom, she doesn't believe in celebrating the day you were expelled from a birth canal, but she does believe we should thank her for the way we were raised. Getting to listen to her question where she went wrong with me is an annual treat."
"Penny put food on my desk." Sheldon said quickly, pointing accusingly to the bag.
"Sorry. I'll move it." Penny said quickly, jamming the stick into her pocket and grabbing the takeaway bag.
"You urinated on that stick and put it in your hands and then touched the food bag?" Sheldon stood up in outrage. "Have you no sense for proper hygiene?"
"Relax, Sheldon, I touched the bag, not the actual food!" Penny exclaimed loudly, putting the bag onto the kitchen counter.
Howard and Raj shook their heads while Bernadette and Amy looked at each other and rolled their eyes. They all knew that neither Penny nor Sheldon were particularly good at keeping things to themselves, especially when there was even the smallest argument going on between them.
"What did you pee on?" Leonard asked, confused, finally stepping inside and closing the door behind him.
"Oh balls." Penny muttered, as Sheldon was forced to sit back down by Howard tugging at his sleeve. "Okay, look, I wasn't going to tell you until later when it was just us two."
"Tell me what?" Leonard raised a brow as she walked toward him shyly, though he was pretty sure he could guess what was coming.
"Okay, you know-" Penny began, before she seemed to change her mind. "Can we not do this in front of everyone?" She hesitated, before taking his arm and leading him through the apartment. "Come here, I need to wash my hands anyway."
"Thank you." Sheldon mumbled.
Dragging him into the bathroom, Penny shut the door behind Leonard, running the toe of her shoe across the line of tape on the floor that Sheldon had placed down to indicate where the guys were to stand at the toilet.
"Umm. Why are we in here?" Leonard asked.
"Oh, right." Penny looked back up at him, shaken from her thoughts. Putting her hands on his arms, she bit her lip. "Remember how I told you that band-aid on my arm was because I accidentally cut myself? And how I was on the phone to my Mom this morning and stepped out into the hallway to talk to her and said I had bad reception in the apartment?"
"Yeah..."
"I didn't cut myself, it was a blood test. And the reception in the apartment is perfectly fine - I don't know why you believed me on that one, actually." Penny tilted her head. "So that one is really your own fault."
"Alright, I suppose it is." Leonard replied, wanting her to get to the point.
"I stepped outside to tell her what her present was for Mothers Day and I didn't want you to know just yet. It's grandchildren. For Mothers Day I told her she was gonna be getting a grandchild." Penny explained. "And in case your mind is too in shock from working that one out, the blood tests were to confirm that I was pregnant. Two of the sticks said positive, but this one said negative." Pulling out the stick from her pocket, Penny put it in his hands. "Okay, I need to wash my hands now, I've been touching that way too much."
Leonard stood there, stunned, as Penny simply turned and washed her hands at the sink. She dried her hands on her sweater, seemingly deciding not to risk being told off by Sheldon for using his hand towel.
"Anyway, I thought I'd tell you later and then you could give me your own little Mothers Day treat. This mama deserves some extra love." Penny smirked, before sighing when she saw his expression hadn't changed. "Oh, come on sweetie, I thought you'd kinda figured it out when you asked me what I peed on!"
After a moment, Leonard finally nodded his head. "Kind of. But still. When you actually say it, it still feels like a surprise."
"A good surprise though, right?"
"Definitely." Leonard smiled. "An amazing surprise."
"I was hoping you'd think that." Penny grinned. "Now throw that away, wash your hands and kiss me. Sheldon ruined the surprise and he'll hate the idea of my pee stick being in his trash and us making out in his bathroom."
"Making out?" Leonard turned his head from where he'd reached the sink, tossing the stick into the trash and turning on the tap.
"Yeah." Penny shrugged matter-of-factly. "I'm pregnant, you finding out the news needs some form of celebration. Our food will be a little cold but that's pretty much the only reason we'll be stopping at making out in here."