A/N Here's Chapter 2! I just wanted to thank you all so much for reviewing and following this story!

This chapter may be a little of a filler chapter, I don't know. It's all in Penny's third person POV and I think most of the story will be like this. So I hope you all enjoy! :) Also, I wrote this in a rush so there might be a few mistakes in spelling and grammar and such. Sorry!

Chapter Two

The rest of the trip back to their apartment building was silent, Sheldon kept his gaze out the window and didn't look at her once after his confession. They walked up the floor flights of stairs in silence, he remained one step ahead of her. When they reached his door he finally turned and looked at her.

"Thank you for the ride, Penny."

He didn't look at her for long and soon his gaze was on his feet and his fingers were playing with the strap on his messenger bag.

"You're welcome, sweetie. Now go and get some sleep." Smiling she patted him on the cheek and then turned to go to her own apartment. All she wanted to do was hop in the shower and maybe relax with a glass of wine…or two. But his next words stopped her.

"I will be heading to bed as soon as I work on some equations."

Oh no.

"One hour." She said firmly, arms crossed over her chest and she gave him a stern look.

"One hour?" He gave her a look of confusion, eyebrows furrowed together over his blue, blue eyes. "I'm afraid I don't understand."

"You have one hour, Sheldon Cooper, to work on those equations and then you are going straight to bed to start those REM cycles."

"Penny," he looked down at her in his condescending way. "You can hardly put a time limit on science."

"That may be so, but I can sure as hell put a time limit on you." She gave him a small push into his apartment. "Now get your tall, skinny butt inside and get what you need to get done." She followed him inside and shut the door after herself. "And when that hour is up you can either walk yourself to your bed or I can drag you there Junior Rodeo style."

~S-P~

Sheldon was taking notebooks, pens and other various things out of his messenger bag. Penny had no idea how he fit all that stuff in there. His bag was like the Mary Poppin's bag of science.

He spoke with his back to her. "You know, Penny, you don't have to stay here. I am perfectly capable of knowing when an hour is up."

Ha! You may know when an hour is up, Moonpie, but that doesn't mean you'll stop working.

"Nice try, Sheldon." She plopped herself on the couch, using the pillow in Sheldon's spot as a cushion for her head. "I know that if I leave and not check up on you in an hour you'll probably work the whole night."

He grumbled as he positioned several notebooks perfectly on his desk, each edge perfectly aligned with the one underneath.

"Oh," she spoke up again, eyes closed. "Your hour started five minutes ago, by the way."

He squawked and immediately flew to his whiteboard, marker in hand.

~S-P~

Twenty-five minutes in, Leonard stumbled into the apartment. Slightly drunk and alone. So he had not gotten lucky on this Anything Can Happen Thursday bar excursion with Howard and Raj. Sheldon didn't even look at him, his eyes fixed intently on his board. He probably hadn't even noticed that his roommate had come home.

But Leonard took one look at Penny, who was still laying on the couch but with a magazine, and brightened. Any day he got to talk to Penny was a good day.

"Hey, Penny." His words were slightly slurred. "Whatcha doing?"

She didn't even look at him as she flipped a page in her magazine. "Just making sure Sheldon doesn't overdue it with the science." Checking her phone, that had been laying on the couch next to her, she called to Sheldon's back. "Sweetie, you have thirty-five minutes."

If he had heard her he didn't show it.

Leonard looked between the two and wondered what was going on between the two of them this time. Sometimes he didn't want to know and right now he was too drunk and tired to ask.

"Well, I'm going to head to bed. Goodnight, Penny." He smiled at her and walked to the hallway. "Goodnight, Sheldon." He said to his roommate as he passed by.

"Night, Leonard."

This was said by Penny and the only goodnight he received. It was the only goodnight that mattered, though.

~S-P~

Penny jolted awake when her pocket started to vibrate. Taking out her phone she saw that it was her alarm going off. Sheldon's hour was up. Now to tell the man himself.

She sat up, stretched. "Alright, Moonpie, time's up!" She knew she probably said that a little to cheery for it being almost one in the morning, but if it broke him out of his science spell than so be it.

He turned to her, panic on his face at the thought of abandoning his unsolved equations. "But Penny-"

"Nope!" She grabbed him by the arm and began to drag him to his room. "You can solve the mysteries of the universe tomorrow."

"But, Penny, I need to work on them now. I've almost-"

"Sheldon, you have work in the morning. You can work on them then, when you are actually getting paid to work on them, and you need your sleep now." She poked him hard in the chest and he stumbled into his room.

He glared at him and rub at his chest. She smirked.

Ah, there you are! Now I can finally say I'm in Sheldon Cooper's presence and not some workaholic robot.

"You have five minutes." She held up her hand and spread her fingers out. "Five minutes to put on your pajamas and then I'm coming back in here."

Shutting the door, she effectively shut off any protests he was going to give her. She stood there against the door and didn't hear any movement.

"Four minutes and counting, Sheldon!"

Her hand covered her mouth to stifle a giggle when she heard his unhappy sigh and a drawer opening. She knew she was probably having too much fun bossing him around, but she knew it was actually for his own good. He was going to make himself sick if he didn't start getting some sleep. And she knew they, especially her because she would be the one to take care of him(damn you, Leonard!), didn't need another 'Code Milky-Green'.

Not really keeping track of the time she figured he had had enough time to get dressed so she opened his door and walked in. She heard a yelp and turned to Sheldon, who was standing by his closet clutching a white t-shirt to his chest. He had his pajama bottoms on, but was naked from the waist up.

"Penny! I would appreciate if you wouldn't just barge into my room, even though people cannot be in room, and violate my privacy!"

She rolled her eyes. "Stop acting like a teenage girl. It's nothing I haven't seen before. Vapor Rub, remember?"

Ignoring her, he demanded. "Turn around."

"Sheldon."

"Penny." His eyes narrowed and so did hers. They were having one of their infamous stare offs.

"Fine!" She threw her hands up in defeat and turned around. Not two seconds later he declared that he was decent.

"Good." She pointed to the bed. "Now get in bed, mister."

"Can I at least brush my teeth first?"

"Oh. Yeah. Sure. But you better come right back!"

She felt like she was talking to a six year old. A tall and incredibly smart six year old.

Few minutes later he returned smelling minty fresh and once again yelped in surprise when he saw where Penny was sitting.

"Penny, you're in my bed. People can't be in my room and they can't be on my bed!" He stood there with his arms crossed angrily over his chest. He looked just short of stomping his foot in frustration.

She pushed her back against the headboard, crossed her feet at the ankles, getting comfortable. "Do you expect me to sing you 'Soft Kitty' standing up? Not after the shift I worked today."

"But 'Soft Kitty' is only for when I'm sick. I'm not sick."

Yet.

"Look, do you want me to sing it to you or what?" She was getting impatient and tired. She wanted to get this over with and go to bed. She had an early shift in the morning.

His eyes widened and he scrambled into to bed, settling directly in the middle. Assuming his vampire pose, he pulled the comforter up to his chest and looked up at her, waiting.

She couldn't help but smile at his eagerness.

"Are you ready?"

He nodded and closed his eyes.

"Alright." She cleared her throat and began.

"Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty purr purr purr."

She looked down and smiled at how peaceful he looked laying there. With one finally glance she slowly lifted herself off the bed, trying to not jostle Sheldon, and headed for the door.

"Good night, Penny," he said softly.

"Goodnight, sweetie." She stopped at the doorway and looked at him one last time. "Oh, and I'll be sleeping on your couch so don't even try to sneak out once I'm gone."

She closed the door behind her and couldn't help but smile when she heard him say, "Drat!"

~S-P~

Thunk!

Instantly Penny was up. "Sheldon, I swear if that's you- Oh, hey Leonard."

"Um, hey Penny." He was rubbing the back of his head sheepishly and closed the refrigerator door with a bottle of water in the other hand. "So, um, what are you doing on our couch?"

"Just making sure Sheldon doesn't come sneaking out of his room to work."

"Oh, about that." He came over and sat adjacent to her on the armchair. "You know you don't have to do this for him. He gets like this a lot and you shouldn't waste your time on him, he'll get himself out of this in no time."

Damn him! He was jealous! She could read it in his face. He was jealous because she was spending time with Sheldon. It didn't matter that she was only doing it to help. More time with Sheldon was less time with him. Damn him! He had absolutely no right to be jealous. No right at all! If he would actually take a look at his best friend, if any of them took a look at him, and not at her they would see how he really was.

But to Leonard, Howard, and Raj the less of Sheldon the better. And even when he was there, hanging out with them, he wasn't there. His mind was somewhere else and she noticed how his fingers would twitch on his thighs, as he sat in his spot, aching to hold a marker.

She wanted to scream and yell at all of them. It was all their faults and they were doing nothing to help. Sheldon had said that he forgave them, but she hadn't. Everyday there was less Sheldon and more robot. She didn't know what she would do if one day he would forever get lost in his mind.

She felt tears sting her eyes and quickly blinked them back. There was a time and place to confront Leonard on the subject, but not now. Not with Sheldon asleep in his bed in the other room.

"Leonard, he's been working late a lot this week. I just don't want him to get himself sick. I mean, haven't you noticed how late he's been out? Aren't you worried?"

"Come on, Penny," he sighed. "It's only been a couple nights and he hasn't been eating lunch with us for awhile."

"Wait." She jerked and looked at him. "He hasn't been eating lunch? What the hell, Leonard! And you still think that there is nothing wrong?"

"Well, we assume he eats lunch, y'know, just not with us."

He seemed flustered and it served him right. Sheldon was his best friend, he could, at least, check on him once in awhile to make sure he was still alive.

"Alright, Leonard." She suddenly felt very tired and didn't want to argue with him right now. After all, she had to get up in a couple hours for her shift and she wanted to spend them sleeping.

"Um, okay." He couldn't help but feel like he was being dismissed.

He totally was.

"Goodnight, Penny." He stood up and made his way back to his room.

"Night." She grumbled after him.

A/N Reviews? Please?

I just wanted to tell you all that I just got the Comic Con magazine and of course I had to get the Big Bang Theory one! I love the covers! The front has Sheldon, Leonard and Penny and they are all dressed in black. Leonard and Sheldon look to have black leather jackets on! :D And then you flip the magazine over and the rest of the cast is on the back. They all look amazing as well!

So I was flipping through it and I stopped at this picture and there was this girl posing with some of the cast and she had a dress that was made out of TBBT totes and bags, so it had all of the cast on it. It looks awesome and I would totally wear it!

Well, I'm done rambling.