A/N - I am back with another! It seriously makes me happy that you guys are loving these so much. So thank you for the reviews, they make my day. Writing this one was worth the pain of not wearing my sling in order for me to be able to type properly. So, I hope you enjoy this addition :)

"Are you almost done in there?" Leonard asked through the bathroom door.

"Almost," Penny replied back, scrunching up her face.

"How long does it take to-"

"Leonard, shh, I'm trying to pee on this second stick and you talking is not helping!" Penny snapped in the direction of the door, her face relaxing when she heard a quiet "sorry" followed by silence.

A few moments later upon hearing the toilet flush, Leonard cautiously asked "can I come in now?"

"Yep."

Stepping inside the bathroom, he glanced quickly at the two pregnancy tests resting on the edge of the bathtub face down, before turning his attention to Penny, who was washing her hands. "How much pee do you need to get onto a pee stick? You took ages."

"I'm sorry, but in case you hadn't noticed, it's slightly harder for a girl to aim her pee at something than it is for a man." Penny rolled her eyes, snatching up the hand towel to dry her hands. "Plus I had to stop peeing halfway through so I could do the other stick, and I drank a lot of orange juice."

"Alright, I guess that's fair. Though I still don't see why you made me wait outside." Putting the toilet seat lid down, he sat down on it as Penny sat opposite him on the edge of the tub beside the sticks. "You don't close the bathroom door anymore, but the start of testing for pregnancy I have to miss out on."

"It's not a particularly attractive activity." Penny pointed out with an amused laugh. "It's okay, you get the best part. Or at least, what I hope is going to be the best part." Nodding her head to the two sticks beside her, they both knew she was referring to the best part being turning them over to find they were positive. "Don't you think it's odd how you decide to have a baby and then your fate relies on peeing?"

This got Leonard chuckling. "Not sure that's quite how I'd phrase it, but, yeah, sure, it is odd."

"It's so exciting." Penny grinned, bouncing her legs up and down, before reaching out and taking his hands in hers. "I'm so glad we decided to do this. Have a baby, I mean. It feels so... it feels like it's definitely the right thing to happen at this point in our lives."

"Me too." Leonard agreed, smiling. It hadn't been a particularly exciting conversation they'd had when they'd decided they wanted to have a baby. Penny had been sitting in bed, fiddling with her pill packet, and he'd asked her what she was doing. She'd simply turned her head to look at him with a soft smile before asking "what would you think if I stopped taking these and we started thinking about children?" - and that was that. It had surprised him how readily she had made this decision and how confident she'd been about telling him. Tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, Leonard's smile grew into a grin. "And it's been fun trying."

"Of course it has." Penny grinned with her tongue between her teeth. "You'll have to forever remember how good those times were, because if that's positive, I am never going to look that good naked again."

Taking her comment too seriously, Leonard assured her, "don't be stupid. Of course you will."

Shrugging, Penny giggled. "Suit yourself, you're the one who has to look at me that way! Meanwhile, I'll have an excuse to eat all the ice cream I want. I'll just hit up the gym afterwards, it's hard work looking this good you know. Plus I'll drag you along and we can get Mr. and Dr. Biceps in gear."

"What is it with you and my arms?" Leonard enquired with an amused smirk.

"Your arms are amazing." Penny replied simply, running her hands up and down them as though to prove a point. Suddenly, her phone alarm went off, and she pulled it out of her hoodie pocket to switch it off. "Ooh, moment of truth!"

"Oh God." Leonard looked at her seriously, brows furrowed, before pulling out his inhaler and taking two puffs. Nodding, he pocketed it again. "Okay. How do you wanna do this?"

"One each and turn them over at the same time so we both see?" Penny suggested. "By the way, if our kids an asthmatic dumbass, I'm gonna start believing that he was conceived that time we did it twice and you had to use your inhaler in between."

"Uh, I don't think that's how these things work."

"Shut up and take a stick." Penny said, handing him one of the two sticks as she clutched the other in her hand.

"Okay." Using his free hand to take Penny's free hand, Leonard looked up at her and he felt her squeeze his hand. "One the count of three?"

"Uh-huh." Penny bit her lip nervously.

"One... two... three!"

"Oh my God, yes, Leonard!"

"Oh my God, yes, Leonard!"

Sheldon stopped in his tracks as Penny's squeal travelled through her apartment and through to the hallway between 4A and 4B, a deep frown of disgust covering his face as he shuddered, recoiling as her exclamation was followed by a scream. "Not this again." Digging his key out of his pocket, he quickly stepped into the safety of his quiet apartment. Not that it had always meant quiet, but it seemed to do the trick this time.

Unfortunately for him, Sheldon had learned over the years what Penny's use of that specific phrase meant, and it always made him uncomfortable. Even more so when Leonard had lived with him and the couple would spend the night in his room rather than at her apartment. No matter how many times he told them, they seemed to ignore his plea that they not do such things when all that separated them was a wall and two headboards, one of which would be too busy hitting out a questionable Morse code message to be an effective barrier.

Sighing, Sheldon placed his mail down on his desk and went to make himself a Strawberry Quik drink to accompany his newly planned afternoon of scheduled TV-watching. Just as he changed to the channel he needed, the door burst open to reveal an incredibly excited Penny, followed by Leonard.

"That was fast." Sheldon commented quietly as he frowned down at his watch.

Ignoring his comment, Penny stood with Leonard beside the TV. "Is Amy here?"

"No, she is visiting a colleague in hospital who got quite the horrific monkey bite on their hand." Sheldon sighed.

"Oh. That's too bad. Oh, hell, I'll tell her when she's back." Penny shrugged, putting an arm around Leonard.

"Tell her what?"

"We're pregnant!" Penny squealed.

"Oh! Is that why you, not long ago, exclaimed 'oh my God, yes, Leonard'?"

Blushing, Penny nodded. "In this instance, yes, that is why."

"Good." Sheldon smiled, relieved, before standing up. "Well, congratulations, both of you."

"Thank you, Sheldon." Penny smiled at him, and to her surprise he came over and quickly enveloped her in an awkward hug, before shaking Leonard's hand and hugging him too. "Oh, okay. Thank you."

"You said thank you twice."

"Yes... I know." Penny giggled. "I'm gonna go text my parents and see if they can talk on Skype, sweetie, I'll let you know what they say."

Leonard watched as Penny left the apartment to cross back over to their own. Sheldon came to stand in front of him. "I thought you would be positively ecstatic about this news."

"I am!" Leonard said quickly.

"Reading facial expressions isn't one of my strong suits, but your face seriously says otherwise."

"Sheldon, I am happy, of course I'm happy." Leonard sighed, sitting down on the couch. "I just suddenly thought as we came over... what if I turn out to be like my own father?"

Scoffing, Sheldon sat back down in his spot, taking a long sip of Strawberry Quik before placing it back down on its coaster to make up for the sentence he was about to say. "Leonard, there are few times I have been wrong. And even fewer that I have admitted I am wrong. But your hypothesis that you could turn out to be like your own father requires the sacrifice of my dignity."

"It's not a hypothesis, just-"

Holding up a hand, Sheldon cut him off. "First of all, I have often doubted the worthiness of your contribution within the field of Physics. Second of all, I constantly doubted that you would ever last with Penny. Third of all, I truly believed that those 'smart and beautiful' babies you mentioned when you first met her would be imaginary."

"I am very well aware of all of these things."

"Good. In which case, you should be well aware that I was very clearly wrong." Sheldon said seriously. "Your work has often been substantially useful and worthy within the field. Obviously, you are still with Penny. And now, you are going to have a baby with her."

"Again, I am very well aware of all of these things."

"Exactly. Leonard, those three things are all a result of how passionate you are about your job and your wife." Sheldon pointed out. "Even when you were at the point of failing, you never gave up. In all the years I have known you, you have never spoken so passionately about anything as you have about your work and Penny. The way you feel about them both is the way I feel about trains. And you know how much I love trains." Sheldon grinned.

"Yeah, I do." Leonard chuckled.

"What I'm trying to say is that, you were passionate enough to pursue and maintain both your career and relationship without ever having to sacrifice one or the other. Now, you are having a baby, and I have no doubt that you will be an excellent father. You have been waiting for this since day one, and that child is going to be lucky to have a father like you, who is not only passionate about his career but also his family, and is able to juggle both without ever putting down the other. Neither yours nor my father had that balance."

"Wow." Of all things Sheldon could have said, that was the last thing Leonard had expected to hear from him.

"Honestly, Leonard, for somebody so smart you can be incredibly stupid sometimes." Sheldon shook his head, turning back to the television. "Turn out like your own father... like your mother would allow for such a disastrous conclusion to her sons upbringing anyway."

"I don't think she'd care." Leonard pointed out, though at this point he didn't care about that either - he was too overwhelmed and touched by the words of his best friend. "But thank you, Sheldon. That was very nice of you."

"Oh, she would. And you're welcome. Now please, you've eaten into my viewing time and you have a pregnant wife to get back to."