A/N - Hello! I am incredibly un-sleepy right now, and I've been on a bit of a writing spree today, so... here is this. Hope you enjoy :)

Penny stopped her urgent pacing as Leonard walked into 4B with a brown paper bag, closing the door behind him and locking it. "Did you get them?"

"No, I just got a brown paper bag." Leonard raised a brow.

"There's no need to be sarcastic!" Penny exclaimed.

"Well considering I went out specifically to get pregnancy tests and a chocolate brownie, why wouldn't I have them?"

"Umm, once you went with the guys to pick up the takeaway and came back with a box of random crap." Penny pointed out, folding her arms.

"That was like... years ago!" Leonard protested. "Anyway, the point is, I have the pregnancy sticks and a chocolate brownie."

"Alright, sorry, I'm just nervous and I drank like a whole carton of orange juice." Penny said, bouncing from foot to foot.

"Okay, here," Leonard took the brownie out before passing the paper bag to her, "go pee on these."

Penny laughed. "That's such an odd thing to say. But okay. Otherwise I'll pee on the floor and all that orange juice will be for nothing. Put our phones on silent, I don't want anybody ruining the moment."

As Penny hopped off to the bathroom, not bothering to close the bedroom or bathroom doors, Leonard smiled. She was so confident that the tests would be positive; it warmed his heart. They had agreed to start trying for a baby a few months back, and this was the first time that Penny had felt the instinct to take a pregnancy test.

Upon hearing her begin the process of peeing on three differently branded pregnancy tests (how pleasant, he thought), Leonard shook his head and took his phone from his pocket to switch it onto silent and place it down on the coffee table beside hers, before doing the same to that one too. He put the brownie on a plate - surely her request for a chocolate brownie was a sign of pregnancy cravings? - before taking it with him into the bedroom, shutting that door behind him too and setting the brownie plate down onto her bedside table.

"How's it going in there?" He asked, sitting down on the edge of the bed.

"Done all three." Penny said, and he heard the toilet flush. "Messy business."

"That's... nice."

Washing her hands, Penny rolled her eyes. "You're the one who asked."

"Could have done without the messy detail."

Coming back out into the bedroom, Penny sat down beside him and put the three sticks upside down between them. "Well, messy or not, it got the job done. Now we wait."

"How long?"

Penny nodded to the alarm clock. "Based on what it said when I came in to go to the bathroom, once the big hand hits the 10, it'll be definitely ready to see."

"Okay." Leonard began bouncing his leg up and down anxiously, before Penny put her hand on his thigh to stop him. "Sorry."

"No, it's okay, it's just making me even more nervous." Penny said, her brows furrowing. "I'm just so certain they're all gonna say positive, but what if they don't?"

"I guess we just... accept it and keep trying."

"While I have no objections whatsoever to the 'keep trying' part," Penny paused to smirk, "when you have an idea in your mind of what they're going to say, it's hard to shift it. It's like, in my brain, the image of them being positive is literally set in stone."

"With a chisel?"

Penny giggled. "With a chisel."

"Did you know Sheldon once gave me a history of the chisel?"

"Uh, why?"

"Because I wanted to see if he got the chisel reference that time you didn't. Instead of a simple 'yes' or 'no' or even his usual comment along the lines of 'of course Penny didn't get it', I got a history of the chisel. Not even a condensed history. He went on for like, a half hour."

"Wow." Penny raised her brows. "Amy sure is a lucky girl."

"I think Sheldon lets her off and just gives her chisel factoids." Leonard chuckled.

"You laugh but that's probably true."

"Yeah... well, those two enjoy their factoids, so we don't have to worry about that. I bet Howard would've made about fifty chisel jokes by now. Or at least thought them."

"Leonard?"

"Yes?"

"This is a very long conversation about chisels."

"It is. I'm trying not to think about the test."

Penny wiggled her brows at him. "Now I'm trying not to think about your chisel."

"My chisel? I don't own a chisel." Leonard frowned in confusion, before his face lit up in understanding. "Ah. I get it now."

"You're kind of adorable when you do that."

"Do what?"

"When you take a few seconds longer to get the innuendo."

"I'm glad that even in your nervous state you can still come up with them."

"Eh, it's kind of a talent of mine." Penny grinned, before her eyes focused on the alarm clock behind him. "It's time!"

"Serious?"

"Yes!" Penny squealed, gripping onto his arm.

Pulling his inhaler from his pocket, Leonard took two deep puffs before nodding at her. "Oh boy. Okay. Are you ready?"

"I think I am." Penny smiled, her heart beating wildly in her chest. Either their lives were about to change, or they weren't. It was as simple as that, yet there was so much more to it. "Lets close our eyes."

"Who'll turn them over?"

"You. I did the peeing, you do the turning."

"Okay." Leonard gave her a quick kiss, before they shared an excited grin and shut their eyes. As he patted out to find and turn each stick, he could hear Penny squealing quietly under her breath. "All done."

"Open on the count of three?"

"Mississippily?"

"Umm... yeah. Mississippily. But you count it out loud." Her voice trembled slightly with a mixture of nerves and excitement.

"Okay." Leonard took a breath. "One, Mississippi. Two, Mississippi. Three... Mississippi!"

Eyes shooting open, their heads shot down to look at the three pregnancy sticks between them. Three positive pregnancy sticks.

"Yes!" Penny yelled, throwing her arms around Leonard, practically launching herself onto him and kissing him full on the mouth.

He only got the chance to utter out "oh my God!" when she pulled away and sat back up, her eyes returning to the sticks. "Penny, we're having a baby!"

"I know!" She grinned, her eyes shining. "A baby! A little Baby Hofstadter!"

"This is amazing!"

"Oh God, it really is." Penny nodded, her smile briefly faltering as she picked them up, the reality setting into her, before the grin was back in full force. "Okay, brownie first, then chisel."

"Fine, then I'm gonna have some of the Super Chewie Wookie Cookies I made earlier."

Penny rolled her eyes. "God, you're gonna use that stupid Star Wars cookbook to teach our child to bake, aren't you?"

"Yup. That learning technique is set in stone with a chisel too."