Chapter Two

Penny was puzzled hurtling towards pissed. Where did Sheldon get off on pretending not to know her? After all the times she took care of his crazy ass and drove him around. And what was up with this 'Lee Cooper' crap? She opened her mouth to tell Sheldon off when Leonard interrupted her windup.

"Penny! I didn't know you were coming over! What a surprise!" Leonard exclaimed in his 'I'm lying and I am really bad at it' voice. Hurrying towards her, Leonard pulled her close to whisper in her ear, "I'll catch you up in just a sec. Just go with it." More confused than ever she turned toward Sheldon. 'Might as well use some of this latent acting skill I have' is what she thought as she smiled charmingly at 'Lee.'

"Penny. It's so nice to meet another of the guys' friends" she smiled as she took in the changes in Sheldon. She was almost surprised what a few changes could do to change his entire appearance. He was wearing a plain white t-shirt with fitted jeans and rocking a pair of converse. He had some stubble that gave him a roguish look about him. All and all he was actually pretty cute. 'Who knew? Sheldon, or Lee, cleans up pretty good. Or scruffs down. However that works'

"Very nice to meet you. Leonard didn't tell me that he knew such a fine-looking woman. Although his description probably couldn't do you justice" Sheldon said while leaning in closer to Penny. Penny flushed bright red at his statements. 'Sheldon Cooper is hitting on me. This is sooooo weird' she thought laughing appropriately.

"Well Miss Penny. Would you like to join this party or we could go have our own little party…"

"Alright Lee" Leonard got between the two while Howard and Raj laughed in the background. "Penny probably wants to go home and change since she just got off work. I'm going to walk her over because she needed help with her internet. Be ready to go when I get back, kay?" Pulling Penny out the door, she could hear Sheldon remark to Howard and Raj "Hate to see her leave but love to watch her go." She was once again bright red when she got into her apartment. Turning to Leonard she found that lost anger from earlier.

"What the hell is going on Leonard? Why is Sheldon acting like that and why do we have to call him Lee?" she huffed as she got that out and waited for his response. "It better be good Leonard"

Leonard sat down on her coach pressing the heels of his palms against his eyes. Letting out a loud sigh, Leonard looked up at Penny with resignation.

"You weren't supposed to know Penny. This is our biggest secret. This is something that should never be mentioned to Sheldon. We've kept this from him for awhile now." he said while massaging his temples.

"Leonard! He's right there! What is he not supposed to know?" Penny wasn't finding any connection to what she just saw and what Leonard was telling her.

"Penny, Sheldon isn't over there. That is what I am trying to tell you. He has dissociative identity disorder"

"Disso-what? Leonard, I don't understand what that is. I don't speak…." Penny was shocked out of finishing when Leonard let out a sigh of frustration. Looking up at her, he smiled humorlessly. Shaking his head, Leonard let out another frustrated sigh.

"You are right in a sense. The guy over there is Sheldon but he isn't" standing up Leonard look her straight in the eye "Penny, Sheldon has multiple personalities"