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Worthy of a dinner date

Penny trudged up the four flights of stairs. She was exhausted. She had been working for 8 hours without a break and now wanted nothing more than to flop on their bed. When she entered her apartment, she noticed that Leonard wasn't there. It was strange, he was usually home by now, but she didn't dwell on it. She walked straight into their room and fell onto the bed with her eyes closed. When she fell, she felt something beneath her, and heard an "Ow" from below. She had worked out where Leonard was. He obviously had the same idea as her! "I'm so sorry honey" she said with a slight giggle, as she moved off of him. "It's fine, sorry for being here. It was just a rubbish day at work" he said with a sigh, as he looked into her eyes. "Me too" she said, looking sad.

Leonard sat up. "What happened today then?" he asked. Penny stared to explain her day. Bad tips, grumpy customers, the usual, but today was particularly bad. She had spilt two lots of drinks, and dropped three plates of food and her manager had given her a strike for it, and said that if she got one or two more (depending on his mood) then she would be out. Leonard took her in his arms, and said that it was only a mistake; she didn't mean to do it. He reassured her that she wouldn't get fired, that she was a good waitress and that everything would be okay. He kissed her on the top of her head and held her tighter. Penny instantly felt better, only he could do this. She believed every word that he said, and trusted him. They stayed like this for a few minutes before Penny realised that she found Leonard there, and he had a bad day too. "How was your day then?" she whispered, placing her legs over his lap. "Pretty rubbish, not gonna lie, my experiments aren't working, I can't work out some equations and just other stuff, but who cares about me? It should be you we are worrying about" he said, looking down on her. Penny felt her eyes well up. She always knew that he would put her first, but he never knew he would be more worried that she would be ok rather than him.

"But honey, we are talking about you, I'm fine now". She replied. "No, it's nothing worth worrying about, I'm sure Sheldon will be able to work it out, or at least be able to help me because he is that much smarter than me" he said, slight anger in his tone. Penny looked up at him, their eyes locked. "Honey, you're just as smart as Sheldon, probably smarter, you will figure this problem out, I know you will" she said, with a smile on her face. She knew how smart Leonard was, he was 10x better than Sheldon, and she wanted him to know that.

He stayed quiet, taking in what she had just said. To him, Sheldon was a genius, and he was just average. He thought that Penny was just saying that because she had to, no one can compete with Sheldon. "Aw that's nice, but I'm really not!" Leonard finally said. Penny pulled away from him slightly, so that she could glare at him. "You have got to be kidding me!" she said, still glaring at him, "Leonard, you are one of the smartest people I know! You're amazing, how could you think you're not smarter than him?!" she asked.

"Well…" he started.

"Nope, don't answer that! I don't want to hear your excuses, Leonard Hofstader. To me, you are the most smartest, kindest, most amazing person I have ever met, and I will not stand for you putting yourself down like that! I'm going to spend the rest of my life with you, and I can't wait to do so, but you have to believe in me, and believe what I say, because I speak the truth!" she said smiling at him. He pulled her in for a kiss. Once they broke he whispered ""Of course I believe in you Penny, you are everything to me, thank you so much." She laughed and moved into him for another kiss, this time more passionate. When they broke, they stayed holding each other, noses touching, looking into each other's eyes.

"Now" Leonard finally said, "Back to you." He smiled at her; Penny looked back at him, confused.

"Since you had a rubbish day at work, I say we go out for a nice romantic dinner to take your mind off of things." Penny's smile widened. "Am I worthy of a date?" she said. "Yes you are baby, you deserve everything" he said. Penny through her arms around him with a huge grin on her face. She loved it when he was spontaneous like this. She knew he was going to make her feel better, he always did. She just hoped that he took on board what she said, and that his problems will be solved too.