Congratulations. I opened the fanfiction site and when Cliff Hanger saw it, he screamed and ran away. But remember, he's like cockroaches, he'll always threatens to return ;)
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Disclaimer: I don't own the characters that appeared in the show.
Disclaimer2: I'm again using the Penny family members that TerribleWaitress created, simply because I'm used to it :D
Penny couldn't hear anything. Blood was rushing past her ears as she stood transfixed, drowning out the shouts of her family. When her eyes connected with Leonard's, feeling returned into her extremities and she dropped the small pistol she had shot the attacker with, the bullet having entered his spine in the upper lumbar region while Wyatt, who had been about to pull the trigger of his shotgun lowered his weapon again, putting it on the steps to comfort his daughter who was still unresponsive.
Leonard pushed Caspar off of him, the other man giving out a shout of pain while unable to move his legs at all while his arms felt numb enough not to be usable for the moment. Leonard fought himself into a sitting position, holding his left side and Penny could only imagine how the wound must look under the material of his body glove.
"Thank you." Leonard said sincerely, his eyes piercing into her soul.
"I shot him." Penny said numbly.
"You did." Leonard nodded and limped over to her, gently taking her hand. "And you saved my life and the lives of your family."
"Yeah." she agreed and promptly threw up.
"Let it all out." Meryl said, kneeling down next to her and holding her hair back. "See, I told you that you wouldn't be cut out for something like that."
"Actually, that may not be the case, I threw up after my first kill as well." Leonard interjected. "And way more violently than she is doing."
"Not helping!" Meryl hissed.
"Sorry." Leonard apologized and hobbled over to the prone Caspar who was whimpering.
"Help, I can't feel my legs." he cried as Leonard turned him around.
"The bullet destroyed your L three and L four vertebrae." Leonard told him. "You will never walk again."
"That can't be." Caspar whispered.
"Tell me something, Caspar." Leonard gave him a slap in the face, getting his attention. "Why did you do this? Why try to kill me? What did I ever do to you?"
"You're destroying our business." Caspar said accusingly. "And you keep us young people from getting anywhere and earning a lot of money."
"Okay, I'll play along." Leonard sighed. "How exactly am I doing that?"
"Don't act as if you don't know." Caspar said accusingly. "You take the best contracts and you don't even touch the smaller ones, leaving us to fight over the scraps of what you and the other old hands ignore."
"I'm in my early thirties." Leonard pointed out.
"And all we hear in the hotels is about your exploits. Killing the child rapist? Destroying an entire drug cartel with a vial of poison? And all the others before." Caspar whined. "And then you and the other old guys take it upon yourself to go after a drug and human trafficking ring without any hope of payment. What kind of businessmen are you?"
"The kind that sees brotherhood as more important than mere money." Leonard said.
"At least do the decent thing and call the doctor." Caspar demanded.
"No." Leonard shook his head and grabbed his knife from the floor. "Consider your membership in the brotherhood... revoked."
"No wait, please..." Caspar tried but anything else was replaced with gargling as Leonard drove his knife into the man's chest, directly into the heart to limit the amount of blood that would spill out.
"I..." Wyatt tried to process what he had just seen.
"May I use your phone?" Leonard asked. "My cellphone has been damaged in the fight."
"Uh... sure." Meryl pointed to the phone on the table, Leonard going to it and sitting down next to it before dialing a number.
"Yes, I'd like to order food for thirteen people at the address of this number, with dessert." he spoke into the receiver. "Yes, I'll be here."
"Oh god, how do we get rid of all the bodies?" Meryl asked.
"We wait." Leonard said and opened his body glove, slowly pushing it down to his hip, revealing his bleeding hip wound, the stitches having gotten torn during the fight. "I could use a bit of help again."
"Oh god, do I have to play operation on you again?" Meryl was worried.
"No, some iodine and a lighter will suffice this time." Leonard chuckled. "Only have to sow it up again."
"How you can do that without screaming is still beyond me." Bridget winced as Leonard drove the needle and thread through his skin once he got supplied with the lighter.
"You wouldn't do that even in an emergency, I guess?" Leonard asked.
"Are you kidding?" Bridget looked at him with wide eyes. "If that happened to me, I'd be screaming my head off. I have a very low tolerance for pain."
"Just wait until you give birth to a child." Meryl threw in.
"Right." Bridget scoffed. "I will do that sitting in a pool of warm water after they have used a garden hose to fill me up with pain medication."
"Penny, you should lie down." Wyatt counseled, trying to pull her to her feet so she could walk up the stairs.
"Okay." Penny just nodded, still visibly in shock from having shot Caspar.
"Does she realize that she actually hasn't killed the guy?" Bridget wondered when Penny was gone.
"I don't think Penny can think straight right now." Meryl admonished her oldest daughter. "Cut her some slack."
"Sorry, mom." Bridget sighed and looked at the two corpses in the living room. "Jesus, this is actually the first time I've seen a dead man."
"Don't worry, they'll be taken care of soon." Leonard said from his spot at the table, where he was finishing with sowing up his wound.
"Let me take care of that." Meryl said and took the bowl with the bloody needle. "You need the needle back?"
"No, you can throw that out." Leonard shook his head. "I hate to ask, but could I trouble you for another shirt?"
"Of course." Meryl nodded before leaving for the kitchen, from where she went upstairs and returned downstairs with a shirt and pants in hand, Wyatt right behind her.
"Penny's sleeping, for the moment at least." Wyatt told them. "So, what do we do with those bodies?"
"They will be..." Leonard started but was interrupted by the door.
"Oh no, what now?" Wyatt worried about more attackers.
"It's fine." Leonard told him.
"I'll get it." Meryl said and opened the door, revealing a short man and five large, burly-looking men behind him.
"Good afternoon, mam." the short man greeted her, taking off his hat, his words reminding her that it wasn't even that late yet.
"Um... hello." Meryl stammered, not quite sure how to react to the man and especially the five men behind him who all had stoic faces.
"Hello Charlie." Leonard came over to the door.
"Good to see you, Leonard." Charlie nodded at him and stepping into the house, seeing the two bodies on the floor. "You said thirteen on the phone."
"The others are in the fields outside." Leonard told him. "I put GPS trackers on them."
"Frequency?" Charlie asked.
"Here you go." Leonard handed him a piece of paper.
"Thank you." Charlie smiled and tilted his head, telling his men to start working.
Meryl, Wyatt and Bridget watched on in awe as the five men came into the house, carrying mops, cleaning supplies and several rolls of stretch wrap. Two of them began to wrap the corpses into the wrap, making several layers and carrying them outside while the third collected their weapons and other gear and the remaining two cleaned the floor and wall with bleach before adding a lavender-scented coat to mask he smell.
When the two bodies in the house were taken care of, the men went outside, carrying a transceiver to find the GPS beacons that Leonard had placed on the corpses. The process took a while since the men Leonard had taken out were spread out but several hours later, when the sky began darkening, they carried the last body to their vans.
"I made a few sandwiches, if you're hungry." Meryl offered them a plate full of bread-enclosed meat and salad.
"Oh, thank you so much, mam." one of the burly men said, with a surprisingly high voice.
Faster than she had ever seen someone eat, the five men wolfed down the ten sandwiches, before nodding their thanks and leaving the house. Charlie stayed behind, his hat still in his hands and expectantly looked at Leonard who nodded and got up from his chair.
"Thanks, Charlie." Leonard said and handed him twenty gold coins while Charlie gave Leonard the GPS beacons.
"Wait, what about their cars?" Wyatt wondered.
"We'll take care of those too." Charlie nodded at them and left the house.
"It's the dessert part of my order." Leonard explained after they closed the door.
"This code talking is really confusing." Wyatt shook his head.
"It's a lot better than having to explain to law enforcement why you ordered the removal of a dozen corpses should they ever check your phone records." Leonard shrugged.
"Well, if you say it like that..." Wyatt had to admit and sighed. "You got any sandwiches for us too?"
"I'll make some more, you take care of the animals." Meryl told him.
"Yes, honey." Wyatt smiled and left the house.
"Can I help with something?" Leonard asked.
"Nah." Meryl waved him off. "You saved our lives and you're wounded."
"I put you in danger in the first place." Leonard argued, getting up.
"Sit down." Meryl ordered and Leonard felt compelled to do so.
"Your mother can be very authoritative." Leonard said when Meryl had gone to the kitchen.
"Tell me about it." Bridget chuckled. "So, what exactly happens to those bodies now? And their gear?"
"The bodies will be brought to the hotel I stay in, where they will be burned in the crematorium beneath it." Leonard told her. "Their weapons and other gear will be dissolved in acid and their clothes will be burned. If the weapons have no other crime attached to them, they will be repurposed for people like me."
"Jesus, what kind of organization is this?" Bridget gasped.
"I think it's safe to assume that for everyone like me, there are a few hundred people working in support." Leonard shrugged.
"Do you do jobs everywhere in the world?"
"Yes, though we tend to stay in countries where we can blend in." Leonard nodded. "I kinda stand out in Asian countries."
"Yeah, I guess." Bridget accepted. "Do you speak other languages?"
"Yes, I speak German and some Russian and Spanish, though the latter two only broken."
"Here you go." Meryl announced, bringing out another plate of sandwiches.
"Thank you." Leonard nodded to her.
"You can sleep in my son's room this time since Penny is in her bed tonight." Meryl told him, more or less ordering him to stay the night.
"Of course." Leonard nodded as Wyatt came back and took a sandwich. "I'd like to use your laptop again if that's okay."
"What for this time?" Wyatt asked.
"I had to kill one of our own, I need to report it to the others." Leonard told him.
"Will you get into trouble over it?" Bridget wanted to know.
"Unlikely." Leonard shrugged. "Caspar broke the rules by interfering in my job, he tried to kill me first and I'm known in my circles for my integrity, so there won't be a problem about people not believing me. It will also act as a little reminder to the young people, so to speak, that there are consequences."
"Okay, I'm beat." Bridget sighed. "I'm heading to bed and tomorrow, I'll have to return to Kearney anyway."
"We'll go to bed too." Meryl agreed with her daughter and got up, Wyatt heading up the stairs first so he could use the shower.
"Leonard, sleep well." Wyatt said before he reached the top of the stairs.
"Thanks, you too." Leonard nodded and sat down on the armchair, Meryl's laptop in front of him, his flash drive plugged into the machine.
He looked up to the stairs and waited until the sounds of footsteps were gone, only the sounds of showers running reaching his ears. He booted up the laptop, the machine reading his flash drive and loading up the specially made operating system housed on the small handheld device. He opened the messenger program and checked if the person he was looking for was online and luckily for him, he was. He quickly began typing.
Lone Wolf: H., you there?
Lord of the Gear: L., I heard about the bomb. How are you?
Lone Wolf: I could be better. Got injured from debris.
Lord of the Gear: Does the hotel have a new doctor yet?
Lone Wolf: No, not yet. Collapsed and was brought to the family of the girl you saw in the recording I told you to alter.
Lord of the Gear: Was that a good idea?
Lone Wolf: Not mine, was barely conscious at that point.
Lord of the Gear: By the way, want me to send you a copy of the finished alteration?
Lone Wolf: Sure.
Lord of the Gear: Sending now. Anything else?
Lone Wolf: Yes. I need you to send a message to the board. I had to kill one of our own.
Lord of the Gear: Oh no, who?
Lone Wolf: Caspar. He was the one who planted the bomb and he wanted me to die in the explosion. He also hired a crew, they all dressed up as cops and searched the home of the family who took me in to find me.
Lord of the Gear: You killed all of them?
Lone Wolf: Yes, the bodies are already taken care of and their cars were taken away as well.
Lord of the Gear: Charlie being thorough as usual?
Lone Wolf: Very.
Lord of the Gear: Need me to call a car service for you?
Lone Wolf: No, I'm staying here for the night, the family offered and I'm still weak from the fight and my reopened wound. Shouldn't be any more problems.
Lord of the Gear: Not if the others hear what you did. Did Caspar tell you why he did it?
Lone Wolf: Yes, jealousy. He was angry that me and the other "old hands" as he called us, take the best jobs and leave nothing good and valuable for them.
Lord of the Gear: Someone should teach these guys some history. We all started like that.
Lone Wolf: I know, but Caspar was beyond understanding.
Lord of the Gear: Will post it, don't worry. You need some new gear?
Lone Wolf: I have one damaged body glove, other than that, everything's fine. Also, tell B. that her concoction worked like a charm.
Lord of the Gear: She'll be glad to hear it.
Lone Wolf: One more thing. It's possible that I'll bring someone new to you for a fitting and gearing out.
Lord of the Gear: What, who?
Lone Wolf: The girl I saved and who saved me twice. I get the feeling that she wants to do what I do and no matter what I say, I can't seem to dissuade her from the notion.
Lord of the Gear: Did you explain that you shouldn't want to do what you do?
Lone Wolf: Yes but she already did her first kill, or at least that what she thinks. She shot Caspar when he was about to kill me.
Lord of the Gear: Caspar got the better of you?
Lone Wolf: Hip and shoulder wound.
Lord of the Gear: Alright, understandable. When can we expect her?
Lone Wolf: If she really does want to learn, I'll have her be trained in combat techniques first. If she doesn't give up there, I'll bring her to S. for the theoretical stuff. And if she manages to get through that without killing herself, I'll come to you guys.
Lord of the Gear: So, a year or thereabouts. Oh, before I forget, we got your overnight package. Thanks.
Lone Wolf: What for? I owed you.
Lord of the Gear: Not that much.
Lone Wolf: Just take it.
Lord of the Gear: Oh, we will. B. is ecstatic because now we can afford a new genetic sequencer. She can concoct a lot better poisons now.
Lone Wolf: Which only helps me.
Lord of the Gear: Video has finished sending
Lone Wolf: Thanks, H. I'll review it and then head to bed.
Lord of the Gear: Sleep well and get healthy again. The boards are filling again with high profile targets and the brotherhood is still dealing with the fallout of the child abduction case.
Lone Wolf: The Omaha, Nebraska arm has been amputated. Unfortunately, thanks to Caspar's bomb, I couldn't get any data from their hard drives.
Lord of the Gear: You got an address? Maybe they have an offsite server.
Lone Wolf: Rose Club. Owner was...
Lord of the Gear: No need, got everything. Will dive into the web. You, sleep well.
Lone Wolf: Thanks, H. See you soon. Tell B. I say hi.
Lord of the Gear: Will do. Bye, L.
Leonard logged out of the messenger, the program deleting any logs as soon as it closed. He checked a few message feeds and looked at available jobs on the board but decided not to accept any right now, since he still had to recuperate from his wounds. While he would have no problem doing some of the information gathering jobs, he didn't want to risk it. Lastly, he looked at the video, seeing the alteration that was made to it and instead of him going into the alley and coming out with Penny, a gang of bikers went in and came back out.
He booted down the operating system and shut off the laptop, then disconnected his flash drive again, leaving no trace of use on Meryl's laptop. He leaned back and yawned, finding the time shortly before midnight, his work having taken a few hours. He got up and walked upstairs, entering the room of the son and finding the bed made and a fresh shirt as well as a fresh pair of shorts lying on it.
With a smile of gratefulness at their generosity, he took off his bloody attire and put it into a plastic bag before heading into the shower. He once more put a plastic covering over the stitches and cleaned himself from the sweat and residual blood he had on his body. As he dried himself off, he thought about how his life had changed the past few weeks.
What had began as a cut and dry poisoning of a child rapist had led to him meeting a beautiful and fascinating woman who had been so quick in accepting what he did and also meeting her family who also accepted what he did, or at least pretended to. And even though he had put them in danger by his presence, they still invited them into their home to spend the night. He could only hope that his measures would stop anyone else from messing with them since he didn't know if he could stomach if something happened to them because of their association with him.
Although he knew that he probably shouldn't do it, he left the room and entered Penny's, feeling the need to check up on her. He opened her door and found her asleep, the moonlight coming in from the window illuminating her face. He smiled at her peaceful expression, hoping that the experience of her shooting someone, even if she didn't kill him, hasn't destroyed her remaining innocence fully.
"Leonard?" she suddenly said, startling him a bit.
"Sorry, I didn't want to wake you." he apologized.
"What are you doing here? What time is it?" she asked, a bit confused.
"I wanted to check if you're alright, since you were quite in shock earlier. And it's just past midnight." Leonard replied. "How do you feel?"
"Better." Penny sighed, sitting up and pointing to her bed, where Leonard sat down next to her. "How do you feel?"
"Better." he repeated what she said. "Not my first wound that reopened and won't be my last."
"I can't believe I shot a man." Penny mused. "And do I have to worry that I feel nothing?"
"No, it's a good thing." Leonard shook his head. "I would be worried if you had said that you liked it. But to put your mind at ease, you didn't kill him."
"I didn't?" Penny looked at him in surprise. "But I shot him in the back."
"Yes, and you saved my life in the process, twice over." Leonard reminded her. "But he wasn't dead. I killed him afterwards."
"Wait, what did you mean with twice over?" she wondered.
"Your dad was about to shoot him as well." he told her. "And while I don't doubt that your dad can shoot, a shotgun blast at that range would have hit me too."
"Then I'm kinda glad that I took the shot." she chuckled.
"So again, thank you." he said sincerely and gave her a kiss on the cheek before making a move to get up.
"Wait, Leonard." she stopped him and properly kissed him.
"We shouldn't do this." he mumbled, yet made no move to separate, returning the kiss with full force, his arms slung around her body, though he felt the sting in his hip due to his position, his upper body turned left.
"No, we shouldn't." Penny agreed, though with a hefty dose of sarcasm and humor, getting up and swinging her left leg over his lap, strengthening the kiss.
"We should stop." Leonard said when he separated his lips from hers, his mouth moving down her neck, but he wasn't serious and Penny knew it.
"Yeah, we really should." she nodded and pulled her top off before kissing him again.
His hands moved from her hip up to her breasts, his palms coming to rest on them and gently squeezing, his index- and middle finger gently rolling her nipples between them. Penny moaned into the kiss and began humping him, her hips moving back and forth. Leonard knew he should end this but the way that Penny was pressing against him, he doubted he could stop her short of knocking her out.
He also didn't want to. The last time he had been with a woman was almost five years ago when he had infiltrated a North Korean spy ring to find a mole in the state department and used sex with one of the women there to get information while the woman had tried the same, unsuccessful in that regard, having never met someone like Leonard.
But this felt different. This was no way to get information, this was genuine and wanted. Penny opened the buttons of his borrowed shirt and pushed it off of him, making sure she wasn't bumping her hand against his wound. Both now topless, Penny renewed her assault on his lips, aware that he might end it at any point but determined not to let him get out of it so easily.
Suddenly, she felt herself lifted into the air and put on her back. She expected Leonard to stand up and leave her and formulated a number of responses and arguments as to they they should continue. But instead of doing what she thought he would do, Leonard kept kissing her while his hands moved to her jeans shorts, opening the button and pulling them down to her thighs.
Normally, he'd have to stop kissing her to pull them off completely but he had a different idea. His hand moved between her legs, applying pressure against her core through her panties and Penny began breathing hard, her hips pushing against his hand for more friction. As wound up as she was, it didn't take long for her to topple over the edge, her body beginning to shake from the climax he had caused.
He finally released her lips and stood up, his hands moving to her shorts and pulling again. She closed her legs and let him take them off of her and lifted her hips when he followed suit with her panties, leaving her naked in front of him. His eyes roamed her center, his tongue flicking over his lips in anticipation and she sat up, pushing down the shorts he was wearing and leaving him as naked as she was.
Doing what she was used to from her recent past, she leaned forward and took him into her mouth, Leonard groaning in pleasure as a result. She felt him twitch and adjusted her efforts accordingly until he pushed her head away, bending down to kiss her again. Then something happened that never happened before in her life, ever since she became sexually active.
Leonard went down on her.
As her hips undulated as hard as they could to get more friction, she realized that no boyfriend she had before nor anyone of her clients ever did that to her. Her clients never cared for her pleasure anyway, Kurt had only used her to get his and her earlier boyfriends usually had no experience but never wanted to try.
Four minutes later, she climaxed again, a suppressed wail escaping her mouth, her hand covering it to avoid her sister, who was sleeping in the adjacent room, from waking up. Leonard stopped and stood up again, Penny turning so she was on the bed proper and Leonard climbed on it again, moving towards her. Penny spread her legs and awaited him and after lining himself up, Leonard pushed in.
He wasn't the most endowed she ever had, but this felt better than any she had before. After a few seconds of adjusting, Leonard began moving, slowly at first but getting a bit faster while Penny wrapped her legs around his waist and squeezed him close to her.. She heard him groan a few times and for some reason, she felt it was from pain instead of pleasure. After a few minutes, he took her right leg and pushed it away from her body, keeping her hand on it while he kept thrusting.
With shock, she realized the reason he did it. Squeezing him, she had put a lot of pressure against his wound and she was impressed and thankful that he had continued anyway instead of stopping. Pushing her leg to the side more, he got the signal and let go, his hand returning to her face to hold it while they kissed.
Thinking for a moment about what direction she had to go to, she rolled them over his right side, making sure her leg wasn't scraping over his left hip. She knew she couldn't bounce on him and she also couldn't squeeze her legs against his body for obvious reasons so she kept her legs spread apart and gently rode him, her hips moving back and forth, sometimes alternating with gyrating motions, leaning back her body to avoid touching his bad spot by accident.
More and more minutes passed and suddenly, he grabbed her and flipped them back around. He began pounding her hard, his mouth on hers again and she squealed into his mouth while he groaned back as he climaxed, slamming down hard with every impulse. When he was finished, he rolled over on his right side and gave a satisfied sigh.
"Wow." Penny giggled, her body flush with endorphins. "That was... something."
"Agreed." Leonard said and pushed against her skin, telling her without words to turn onto her right as well, both ending up spooning. "Though it will probably be more enjoyable for me next time when my injury is healed."
Penny didn't say anything but did a little happy dance in her mind because what she had just heard was him saying that he didn't want this to be a one time thing. With a smile, she closed her eyes and despite the fact that she had slept for hours already, she fell back into a satisfied rest.
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