I know, this took forever. But life has a habit of getting in the way, it couldn't be helped unfortunately.

JKnight: I'm German, and here it's called "Kaffeekanne", which literally means coffee can, hence me using it.

Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the franchise. I write here only for my own pleasure and that of others who read the story and I don't make any money. Any similarities to song titles or lyrics are absolutely coincidental and unintended. Some dialog is verbatim from different episodes and are there to keep the story going.


"Cut!" came the call. "That's it for today."

"That was okay?" Penny wondered. "Quinn almost broke."

"It's fine, we don't see his face in the last shot." Steven told her.

"Alright." Penny shrugged. "Hey Steven, how is the schedule around Thanksgiving?"

"Got plans?" Steven looked at her.

"Um, yeah, don't you?" she wondered.

"As you know, we have to hurry with filming to make the deadline for the networks, but rest assured, we're not filming on Thanksgiving day or the day after." Steven assured her. "I think if we did, we'd have a revolt on our hands."

"Okay, that allows me and my husband to prepare everything for tomorrow." she nodded. "Even though he's already preparing some of the things, I'd feel guilty if he had to do everything on his own."

"Speaking of your husband." Steven began. "Could you do me a favor?"

"Sorry, I don't think he swings that way, he likes girls." Penny grinned.

"Very funny." Steven rolled his eyes. "No, could you ask him if he was interested in reprising his role as your husband on the show?"

"Are you sure?" Penny was hesitant. "You know that he's not an actor, right?"

"That's fine, he doesn't need to learn any dialogue." Steven reassured her. "He just needs to be present for a few scenes filmed in the house."

"Would the filming happen on location or here in the studio?" Penny asked.

"I haven't decided yet, but I'm leaning towards doing it in the studio, it's much easier and quicker to change the scenes to what we need." Steven told her. "If we went on location, we'd have to move the camera setup to other rooms all the time. But it's not final, I have to talk to the writers what they have in mind for those scenes."

"Would we film all the scenes you want him in?"

"Yeah, so you would have to learn the dialogue for those from several episodes." Steven nodded. "However, there's not that much."

"Out of curiosity, what would happen or need to happen if you gave Leonard dialogue?" she wanted to know.

"Well, for one, we'd have to think of a name for his character at some point." Steven thought about it. "Then, he'd have to be in the credits and of course, he would receive his SAG card and be officially listed as an actor, albeit one that wouldn't be actively looking for work and he'd get paid more money for taking part in the scenes."

"Oh, then I'll ask him if he'd be willing to have some dialogue." Penny giggled.

"Thanks." Steven said. "Now, everybody go home, we'll see you back in two days after Thanksgiving."

"Bye." Penny smiled and headed to her changing room.

Once inside, she took off her pants and shirt and washed the TV makeup off. She applied a small amount of regular makeup before putting on her private clothes, leaving the room once she was done. As she left, she waved to Quinn and Hector, who were still sitting in the makeup chairs and waited for the makeup ladies to remove their own.

At her car, she noticed and waved to Marcia, who was also leaving. Penny got into her car and weaved into traffic, cursing at the rush hour traffic that made the forty minute drive into sixty. Finally, she parked her car and walked up the stairs and upon entering her apartment, she saw her friends all already present.

"Hey honey." Leonard greeted her with a smile. "How was work?"

"It was fun." Penny grinned.

"Do you have to film tomorrow?" he asked.

"No, we get Thanksgiving and the day after off." Penny told him. "So, I can help you tomorrow with all the cooking stuff."

"I already have the turkey out so it can thaw." Leonard pointed to the kitchen island.

"Good." Penny nodded and sat down on the chair next to Leonard, receiving her food carton from him. "Is Sheldon not here?"

"He's in his room, why?" Leonard wanted to know.

"Because Bernie is sitting in Sheldon's spot." Penny chuckled.

"If he complains, Bernie will just scare him into silence." Howard quipped.

"Forgot my water." Penny grumbled and got back up.

"Have you guys seen this feature that lets you talk to Siri without pressing any buttons?" Raj changed the topic.

"No." Howard shook his head. "How does it work?"

"You just say, uh, Hey, Siri, what time is it?" Raj tried-

"The time is 6:37 p.m." the electronic voice on Raj's phone replied.

"So now anyone can control your phone?" Howard smiled. "Hey, Siri, show me pictures of naked grandma butts."

"Nice try. It only recognizes my voice." Raj rolled his eyes.

"Hey, Siri, show me pictures of naked grandma butts." Howard repeated, only this time using a thick Indian accent.

"I don't sound like that." Raj complained.

"Here are some images of naked grandma butts." his phone suddenly said anyway.

"Apparently, all Indians sound the same for Siri." Penny quipped.

"Siri, why are you being racist." Rak whined.

"I cannot be racist. I'm also installed on black IPhones."

"Did your phone just make a joke?" Penny wondered.

"Yeah, turns out that Siri can actually tell jokes." Howard nodded.

"That's cool." Penny was impressed. "Hey Siri, why do people always tell actors to break a leg?"

"Because every movie and theater production needs a cast." came the reply.

"That was actually a good one." Penny laughed.

"Hey Siri, tell some fat mother jokes." Raj told his phone, still laughing from the previous joke.

"Your mother is so fat, when she sits around the house, she really sits AROUND the house." Siri told one.

"Do another one." Raj laughed again.

"Your mother is so fat, she falls out of both sides of the bed in the morning."

"Have some decency please, my fat mother is dead." Howard complained.

"Your mother is so fat, when she died, they needed a dump truck for her ashes."

"Wow, that's mean." Penny commented.

"Your mother was so fat, her urn is the size of a wine barrel."

"Okay, Siri, that's enough." Raj said shocked and deactivated Siri before putting his phone away.

"Hey. Good news, everybody." an appearing Sheldon greeted them, holding what looked like a ticket. "Now that I'm no longer with Amy, I have an extra ticket to the annual Thanksgiving lunch buffet at the aquarium cafeteria. Who wants it?

"Well, you realize you won't be going alone, I'll be there the whole time. Providing fish and pilgrim facts." Sheldon continued when nobody reacted.

"Can you people hear me?" he finally asked when still nobody reacted to his offer.

"Well, we're having everyone over." Leonard argued when Sheldon looked at him, pointing to Penny and himself.

"Yeah, Leonard and I are gonna be cooking all day." Penny added.

"Otherwise we'd love to." Leonard lied, clear to everybody but Sheldon.

"But we can't." Penny gave him a fake smile.

"Yeah, poor us." Leonard looked at her and raised his hand, Penny smacking hers against it in a high-five.

"And Raj and I are volunteering at the soup kitchen, feeding food to the homeless." Bernadette preempted any question towards her and Raj.

"Well, Howard, what about you?" Sheldon looked at the engineer.

"Oh, I can't." Howard said and Penny could see how his brain was rotating in trying to come up with an excuse. "I'm going to the soup kitchen, too."

"You said that sounded like the worst thing ever." Bernadette wondered.

"If you can't support me when I'm lying, why are we married?" Howard huffed. "Well, I'm going there, so I can't go with you to hear all your interesting facts about pilgrims and fish."

"How long are you going to do this?" Penny asked.

"Why?" Bernadette looked at her.

"Well, we need to know when you come over for dinner." she argued. "We don't want to have everything ready and sit here while you scrub dishes at that soup kitchen."

"I'm sure that we'll be done before you start." Bernadette said. "When do you start?"

"Five." Leonard told her. "Plenty of time to eat and be merry and then curse ourselves for eating so much when we feel as if our stomachs will burst."

"That's what I always loved about Thanksgiving." Raj smiled.

"You like a cramping stomach?" Howard wondered.

"Well no, but the idea that you can simply stuff yourself with wild abandon." Raj explained. "Back in India, we had to fight for every scrap of food."

"Oh please, your father is rich and you had servants." Bernadette rolled her eyes.

"But most other people aren't." Raj tried to argue.

"Don't." Howard shook his head when Raj wanted to say more.

"You're in my spot." Sheldon suddenly spoke up, pointing at Bernadette.

With exasperation, Howard and Bernadette moved to let Sheldon sit down. Penny could see that Sheldon was quite irritated that nobody was going with him to that aquarium thing but even if she and Leonard didn't have to cook all day, she wouldn't have accompanied him. She could also see that he was missing Amy terribly, no matter what he said and she made a mental note to call her friend to ask her about her dating.

But for now, she would just enjoy the companionship with her friends so prepare for the hard day of cooking tomorrow, followed by more companionship while eating the food they were going to prepare.


"You got everything?" Leonard asked when she came into the apartment.

"Everything you put on the list." she nodded and put the bag on the table. "So if there's still something missing, then you go out to buy it."

"I hope not." he chuckled. "The first pie is done."

"Look at us." she grinned. "Our first Thanksgiving as husband and wife."

"To be fair, this would be our seventh Thanksgiving as husband and wife." Leonard chuckled.

"Well, the first six don't count, we didn't know we were married yet." she said. "So, lets just say this is our first Thanksgiving since we truly know that we are married."

"I know. I feel so grown up." he nodded.

"Sweetie, you are grown up." she pointed out.

"Really? How many grown-ups do you know who have Mr. Spock oven mitts?" he grinned, holding up his mitts with the fingers turned into the V-shape. "Hey, the recipes for the other cakes are on my iPad. Will you pull 'em up?"

"Yep." she nodded and grabbed his tablet, seeing the screen that required unlocking. "What's the code?"

"My birthday." he said and she typed it in.

"It's not working." she said after it got rejected.

"It's just the four digits, month and day." he specified.

"Nope." she said after trying it again.

"Let me see." he wondered and took it, unlocking the screen immediately. "Yeah, there. What number were you putting in?"

"Your birthday."

"You don't know my birthday, do you?" he smiled with some surprise.

"Of course I do." she protested.

"Well, what is it?" he looked at her.

"May the seventeenth." she said resolutely.

"That's true." he wondered why it didn't work. "Wait, let me log out so you can enter it again, maybe you just typed it in wrong."

"It's four numbers, how wrongly can I type them in?" she argued and began typing. "Zero, five, one, seven. There, doesn't work."

"Oh, okay, that's my fault." he accepted. "In the international science community, we use day, month and year instead of month, day and year, so I'm used to that order."

"Oh, so it's one, seven, zero, five?" she realized and typed it in, the screen unlocking right away. "Alright, since you're making the pies, what can I do?"

"There you go." he smiled.

"What is this?" she asked, looking at the stuff he pushed towards her.

"It's for the stuffing." he told her.

"What do I do with it?" she needed to know.

"This." he winked and pushed a piece of paper towards her.

"Alright." she sighed when seeing the recipe.

She began by putting the white bread into the toaster, only a minute to give it a light toast. Once that was done, she took the onion and chopped it, wiping away the tears that it caused before doing the same with the two stalks of celery. She tore the bread into small pieces and put it onto a plate which she pushed into the pizza oven to harden them.

Glancing at the recipe, she grabbed two eggs and lightly beat them. Next she took a saucepan and put a generous amount of butter into it, letting it heat so the butter melted into the pan. She put the onion and celery pieces into the pan and cooked them, stirring to prevent anything from burning until they were soft, after which she turned off the oven and drained the overflow of butter.

After collecting the bread crumbs into a pot, she added chicken broth powder and the eggs to the pot. Following the recipe, she stirred until the entire mix was moist without getting mushy and then added the cooked vegetables and some salt, pepper, rubbed sage and garlic powder. When the mixture was ready, she grabbed a baking dish and greased it up, then added the mix into the dish before pushing it into the pizza oven again, since it was already preheated from the bread.

While the stuffing was in the oven, she helped Leonard with mixing the pie ingredients. She had to admit that he did a good job, as if he had done this for years. Every time he finished with a mix, he poured it into a pie dish and placed it into the oven before starting on the next one. They repeated this twice more and after a while, she checked on the stuffing, finding it crisp and brown.

"Stuffing's done." she proclaimed, taking it out of the pizza oven.

"Nice." he nodded after taking a whiff.

"When do we have to put it into the oven?" she wanted to know.

"Well, it's fifteen pounds, so between three and three-and-a-half hours." he said. "If the stuffing was raw, then it would take an hour more, but since it's already baked, we can eschew that hour."

"So, we put this into the oven at one-thirty, give or take?" she asked.

"Yes, thereabouts." he nodded. "I'd suggest that we have our soup for lunch and then put it in."

"Alright." she nodded. "Hey, by the way, there's something I wanted to ask you."

"What?" he looked at her while still kneading the dough for the final cake.

"Steven asked me to ask you, if you were interested in being on the show." she said and he stopped working.

"What?" he was confused.

"My TV show." she clarified. "You were in the movies, so Steven wanted to add you to a few episodes."

"He knows that I'm not an actor, right?"

"Yeah, but you don't have to do any dialogue, essentially you'd be window dressing in the background as my husband during a few scenes." she chuckled. "Although, Steven said that if you did have dialogue, not only would you get more money, but also a credit, plus your SAG card."

"More money sounds nice, but I don't care about the rest." he shrugged.

"Just think about it, okay?" she smiled at him. "I'll make it up to you."

"Oh, how would you do that?" he chuckled.

"Well, the best way I can." she shrugged theatrically. "Plenty of sexual favors."

"I spent a lot of time thinking hard about this, and after weighing the pros and cons, I reluctantly agree to appear on your TV show as an extra." he said, trying to pretend to be serious.

"Good to know that I still got it." she giggled and pressed a kiss on his lips.

"Okay, the soup is ready, wanna eat here or at the living room table?"

"Here." she said and pushed some of the stuff away that was blocking most of the kitchen island.

The soup was basic, a very small amount of turkey meat cooked instead of baked, mixed with herbs and some soup noodles. The taste was fine, nothing special, and filling and Leonard had just made enough for one serving each, to avoid eating too much, given that they would be stuffing themselves later.

As Penny washed the dishes, Leonard took the last pie out of the oven and put it onto a plate to let it cool before putting the other pies into the fridge. When the time was right, he grabbed the plate with the turkey and put it into the oven, setting the appliance to the correct temperature and setting the timer to three-and-a-half hours.

"So, what would I have to do in your show?" he asked her when they sat on the couch.

"As I said, mostly sitting around like an extra." she shrugged. "Steven didn't go into detail, since he doesn't know if you wanted to do it."

"Wanna call him now?"

"Nah, I'll tell him the day after tomorrow when we're filming again." she shook her head. "I'm just glad that they gave us the two days off at all, given how urgent the filming schedule is."

"How do you film anyway?" he wanted to know. "One episode at a time?"

"Normally, we would." she nodded. "However, because we need to get these episodes done by Christmas, we're filming back to back. To back, to back, to back. Ten times to back."

"How does that work?"

"Well, they have the scripts for all the episodes done, so whenever a scene is at the headquarters, we film every scene from every episode that happens at the headquarters." she explained. "Unfortunately, that means that we can't really learn all the lines, so we do a scene, and while they set up the next, we learn the lines for that particular scene."

"I'd think that's very difficult, especially when the dialogue is technical or complicated." he said.

"Yeah, I don't envy Marcia, her lines are very technical sometimes." she chuckled. "However, they told us that we could improvise some dialogue if we can't remember it. If if doesn't sound too bad, they just keep it."

"I hope that won't make the episodes too murky."

"Me too." she sighed. "But that's the problem when you get the show so late in the season. If we get another season, a full season, then we'd film like every TV show does."

"Here's hoping." he said, before he began to chuckle.

"What's so funny?" she wondered.

"I just thought, what would the conversation had been if you truly hadn't known my birthday."

"Well, it's not like you know everything about me." she poked out her tongue.

"Your birthday is December 2nd, the farm you grew up in is on Perkins street and the last four digits of your social security number are seven, six, two, one." he smiled at her.

"Pff, show-off." she gave him a playful smack on the arm. "Granted, I don't know your social security number and you never told me the street name you grew up on."

"That's okay." he shrugged. "I'm a nerd and have loved you from the beginning, so naturally I learned stuff about you."

"Really?" she lifted her eyebrows and turned her body to face him. "I had a dog when I was a kid, what was his name?"

"Pepper." he said.

"Hmpf." she huffed. "Pet pig?"

"Moondance."

"Favorite spice girl?"

"Baby."

"Who's my favorite member of NSYNC?"

"Justin."

"Who's my favorite Backstreet Boy?"

"Nice try." Leonard scoffed. "NSYNC forever."

"Damn it." Penny smacked the couch. "How can you know all this?"

"Because I am the king of husbands." he grinned. "Over the years, you told me these things and I remember."

"That makes me feel so inadequate." she let her head rest on the backrest of the couch. "I do know though that your were born in the same month as Empire Strikes Back was released."

"You're so hot right now." he grinned. "By the way, what's in the bag you brought home yesterday?"

"Oh, that's a costume for a scene I'll do on a few days." she told him. "Why, did you look in the bag?"

"Of course, I had to make sure I didn't damage what was in there when I accidentally stepped on it." he nodded. "It's just clothing."

"Yeah, it's racy, though." she chuckled. "I'm supposed to do a scene where I torture someone."

"Wait, what?" he gasped. "Isn't that a bit r-rated?"

"You don't see any torture." she explained. "Essentially, you see me, in that outfit, talking to the man I'm supposed to get information from and then showing the tools I would be using. Then it cuts into the other room where my compatriots are and you can only hear his screams."

"Jesus!" he said wide-eyed. "But why is your character wearing that leather outfit?"

"Luring him to that room." she chuckled.

"Can you put it on?" he grinned.

"No." she shook her head. "It's very racy, and I know exactly what will happen if I show it to you now."

"Spoilsport." he moped.

"Don't worry, I'll show it to you eventually." she winked.

"Not tonight?"

"Lets face it, after tonight's feast, neither of us will be able to do much." she laughed. "Not to mention that I will most likely not fit into that outfit."

"Is it that tight?" he wondered.

"It is." she nodded. "That's why I took it home. I tried it on but I could barely breath, so I want to wear it for a few hours while you guys are at work just to let it out a tad."

"Now I'm really intrigued." he grinned.

"Maybe I'll show you tomorrow night." she winked at him. "So, what do we do while the turkey is in the oven."

"Lets just watch a movie." Leonard said.

"There was a time when you would have dragged me into the bedroom." she sighed theatrically as she joined him on the couch.

"Yeah, but we do have food in the oven, and I know that we might fall asleep if we have sex now." he argued.

"Fine." she accepted.

They watched some stuff, mostly shows and even some videos on the internet. Leonard regularly went to the oven, checking the turkey before rejoining her. Close to the expected time for the turkey to finish, Leonard headed towards the back rooms, leaving Penny to do the last check. She opened the lid and was hit with the full force of the hot steam, glad that she wasn't wearing glasses right now.

"Hey, where are you?" she shouted. "I can't tell if the turkey's done."

"I'm on the toilet." he yelled back. "Use the meat thermometer."

"How?" she wondered loudly.

"Wait." came the loud reply shortly before she heard the toilet flush and Leonard reappeared twenty seconds later. "A man can't even take a dump in peace."

"Yeah, yeah." she chuckled.

"You take the meat thermometer and put it into the thickest part of the bird." he told her. "It's usually the thigh."

"Alright." she nodded and watched how he did it.

"The temperature should be around a hundred and seventy degrees when the stuffing is in there." he continued. "And see the juices flowing where I pierced the thigh?"

"Yeah." she said.

"They need to run clear."

"They are." she pointed out.

"Which means, it's done." he nodded and turned the oven off, but closed the lid as well. "Lets leave it in the oven until the others arrive."

"Happy Thanksgiving!" a high-pitched voice said after the apartment door opened.

"So glad that you knocked." Penny rolled her eyes as the others piled in. "How was your food kitchen work?"

"It felt good to do something." Raj nodded. "Is the turkey done?"

"Yep, it is." Penny confirmed. "Take your coats off, and sit down."

"Are we eating at the living room table?" Emily wondered.

"No, we got some folding stools for the kitchen island." Leonard pointed to the corner at the window. "Can you get them?"

"Sure thing." Raj nodded and he and Howard went over to get the five folding stools Leonard had pointed out.

"Bernie, can you help me?" Penny asked. "I need to get the window table from my apartment."

"Sure." Bernadette agreed and followed Penny.

The two each grabbed the corners of one side of the table and carried it over to the other apartment. They placed it next to the kitchen island and Penny filled the table with most of the things they wouldn't constantly need. The group sat down around the kitchen island where Raj began filling their plates with mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts and green bean casserole, placing one in front of each person.

"And here it is." Leonard proclaimed and placed the turkey on the kitchen island, close enough to his seat so he could easily cut it.

"Looks good." Emily said.

"Who wants what?" Leonard asked.

"I'll take a wing." Raj smiled.

Leonard began cutting the meat, first the wing for Raj, then more pieces for the others and finally a big piece for himself. He left the turkey on the kitchen island so that anyone could cut off another piece of meat if they wanted more while Raj had to hand the bowls with the mashed potatoes or cranberry sauce from Penny's table.

An hour later, they left the table and flopped onto the couch, stomachs filled with food. Leonard and Penny cleaned the kitchen island, the former using the meat scissors to cut the remaining turkey meat off of the bones and packing it as well as the remaining mashed potatoes and casserole into tupperware boxes.

"By the way, where is Sheldon?" Raj asked.

"He went to the aquarium with Amy." Penny told him as she and Leonard were bringing the various pies to the coffee table.

"Are they getting back together?" Bernadette gasped.

"I don't know." Penny shrugged. "I haven't talked to Amy about it yet."

"Oh my god, I feel ready to burst." Howard groaned, holding his stomach. "How much did we eat from that bird?"

"Hm, based on the remaining weight, I'd say eight pounds." Leonard told him after weighing the box with the remaining meat in it.

"It looked like we ate more than that." Emily stated.

"Well, about three or four pounds of it were just bones, so..." Leonard shrugged. "Even after Sheldon eats his share, I think I'll have turkey sandwiches for lunch a week."

"I don't think I can eat another bite." Raj said.

"Oh, so you don't want any pie?" Penny asked.

"Pie?" Raj sat up. "What do you have there?"

"Pecan, pumpkin and blueberry as well as the standard Thanksgiving pie, apple." Penny pointed to the various pies on the table with her cutting knife.

"Oh, I think I want some pecan, but not too much." Raj said.

"This much?" Penny asked, cutting the pie in half and holding her knife against another part which would make a tiny piece.

"A little more." Pie smiled.

"This?" Penny asked again, holding the knife at a different position which would make the piece a bit larger.

"Come on woman, just cut me a big piece." Raj threw his hand up.

"Raj!" Emily hissed, hitting his arm. "Show some respect."

"It's okay." Penny chuckled, cutting an eighth of the pie off and putting it on a plate for Raj.

Everyone took a piece of cake, despite all of them feeling full, and ate it slowly. Raj and Howard even had a second piece each and after the rest of the gang declined, Leonard took the pies, put the remaining pieces on a single plate and placed it in the fridge. He returned to the armchair and leaned back, everyone else doing the same. Since Raj still had to sit on the floor, he just went flat, eyes closed and looked as if he went to sleep.

Penny was glad that she had the next day off as well, otherwise, she might not have been able to act at all.


"Good evening." Leonard smiled at her when she entered the apartment, almost missing the door handle.

"Coffee!" she held out her hand as she walked towards the kitchen island where Leonard was standing.

"Here you go." Leonard handed her a steaming cup with the black liquid.

"Mh, I needed that." Penny hummed after taking a big gulp, even though the heat of it burned her mouth.

"Filmed tough scenes?"

"No, we filmed only dialogue." she sighed and put her head on her arm, trying not to fall asleep right away. "But coming off of a week of night shoots, and ending it with twenty hours of straight filming really takes it out of you."

"You love it though." he stated.

"Oh my god, I do." she chuckled. "At least they gave us tomorrow off again to rest."

"I got it, I just call the experts!" Sheldon suddenly spoke up.

"What's he about?" she wondered.

"We were working on calculating the surface tension of domain walls when he began humming a song." Leonard explained. "And since then, he has not stopped because he can't figure out what the song is."

"And who is he calling now?"

"Hello, yes, I was hoping you could help me." Sheldon spoke into the phone. "What song is this? La, la, la, la, la, la."

"I feel like I heard that song somewhere." Penny mused.

"You don't know? Well, how dare you call yourselves a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?" Sheldon asked the person on the other end, also answering Penny's question as to who he was calling. "My goodness. Do you sing along to the greatest hits of Elvis Presley with that mouth?"

"They probably do." Penny chuckled.

"Well, they were no help at all." Sheldon complained after hanging up.

"Which is crazy, since rock and roll is all about good customer service." Leonard said sarcastically.

"So you have a song stuck in your head. It happens to everybody." Penny pointed out.

"Well, I'm not everybody." Sheldon countered. "I have an eidetic memory. I should be able to remember what song this is, but I can't. Something's wrong with me."

"I told you if we were patient, he'd figure it out for himself." she whispered to Leonard.

"I was always afraid this day would come." Sheldon whined. "This might be the first step of my descent into madness, where I gradually test the limits of public nudity."

"Public nudity?" Penny was nonplussed.

"Eh, that just means going barefoot." Leonard waved it off.

Leonard went to his desk to continue working on their project while Penny drank a second cup of coffee so she could stay awake for long enough to get her regular sleep schedule back. Sheldon kept humming the song for roughly an hour before going into his bedroom and returning with a small keyboard, which he started to play the notes that he used to hum on. While at first she wasn't too bothered, after two more hours of him doing it, Penny was starting to lose her nerve.

"Why can't I recall this song?" Sheldon suddenly began singing to the notes. "This is taking far too long. The urge to bang my head against the wall again and again and again and again and again is strong."

"Put on some headphones." Leonard said exasperated.

"No they make my earlobes sweat." Sheldon retorted in the same singing cadence.

"Hey, sweetie, why don't you take a break and do something else for a while?" Penny said tiredly, sitting down on the armchair and grabbing a bag of snacks.

"There was a project I've been thinking about starting." Sheldon shrugged.

"Okay, great. What is it?" Penny asked, even though she wasn't interested at all, but everything to get him to stop playing the tune.

"I'll show you." Sheldon said and took his phone where he started the camera and held it in front of his face. "Dear Crazy Future Sheldon, you were driven mad by an earworm. Your mind, once your most trusted asset, is now a sack of parrots and monkeys. So, I'm going to tell you everything you need to know. Uh, first, music is dangerous. The movie Footloose tried to warn us, but we wouldn't listen. Oh, wait." he realized and sang again. "Everybody cut footloose. Nope."

"I'll pay a thousand dollars to watch you cut footloose." Penny said, meaning it a hundred percent.

"This is Penny." Sheldon then said, pointing the camera at her. "She is your friend. If she offers you food, it's safe to take it. You probably paid for it, anyway."

"Very funny." Penny rolled her eyes. "Need I remind you that you practically begged us to live with us?"

"Why is that important?"

"The least you can do for this inconvenience is feed me." she shrugged and laid her head back. "What time is it?"

"Not bedtime yet." Leonard said.

"Ugh, I'm so tired." Penny almost cried.

"Just go to bed." Sheldon said.

"If I go to bed now, I'll wake up at four in the morning."

Despite her plans to stay awake until their bedtime, she fell into a nap when Sheldon again began playing the tune on his keyboard, the sound almost hypnotic in its repetitiveness. She was awoken by her husband some time later, Leonard already showered and his teeth brushed, so she went into the bathroom herself to take a shower and clean her teeth as well. After putting on her nightgown, she joined Leonard in the bedroom.

"That nightgown would not look out of place on a date." he chuckled.

"You don't like it?" she smirked.

"I love it." he winked. "Just saying, I've seen you wear similar stuff when we went out to places.

"Yeah, it's multiple use." she grinned and got under the covers before putting her lips to his ears to whisper. "Though if I wore this outside, I'd have to wear underwear."

"You minx." he grumbled.

"Not tonight honey, I'm tired." she said. "For real though, I'm dead tired."

"I know." he nodded.

She closed her eyes and just as she was about to fall asleep, the tune once again came through the wall, Sheldon clearly still trying to find out which song it was. Shaking her head in exasperation, she tried to use it to fall asleep, just like it had before when she had been sitting in the living room. This time however, she had over an hour of napping behind her, so the music did the opposite. She even banged on the wall to get him to stop but to her horror, she did in the same cadence as the melody, which only helped Sheldon.

"Oh, my God, he won't stop." Penny groaned.

"How does he keep coming up with new ways to be annoying?" Leonard said with the same exasperation that she felt."

"Nobody knows. That's why he's number one." she whined. "God, I'm so tired."

"Me too." he agreed.

"Not like me, you haven't been working for twenty hours straight." she said, her anger rising.

"Are you getting angry?" he looked at her.

"Oh, does it look like it?" she growled.

"Good." he smiled, surprising her. "The cause of your anger is in the room next door, playing a tune on a keyboard in the middle of the night."

"It is." she realized and got up.

"I love you." he said and she could practically hear him grin.

"Yeah, yeah." she huffed as she left the room and entered Sheldon's.

"What are you doing in my room?" a surprised Sheldon asked when he saw her.

"Give me that." she said angrily and grabbed the keyboard.

"Stop it. That's mine." Sheldon complained, trying to hold on to it but Penny pulled it inexorably towards her. "Why are you so strong?"

"Sleep!" she ordered and left, returning to the other bedroom where she put the keyboard down on the bench at the foot of the bed. "Problem solved."

"Oh, yeah, he got a tuba." Leonard revealed when the melody returned, just with a loud metallic sound.

"Is he actually going to do this all night?" Penny asked.

"You even have to ask?" Leonard retorted.

"Screw this, lets go." she said and got up, putting on her robe.

"Go where?" he wondered.

"Over to my apartment, to sleep." she told him.

"Really, now?"

"Leonard." Penny sighed and looked at him. "I'm extremely tired but right now, I'm feeling very awake due to some anger I'm feeling at our whacky roommate. As such, I need some way to get tired again."

"I don't understand." Leonard interjected.

"One of two things will happen now." she stated. "One, I'll go over there and try to fall asleep while you stay here or two, you come with me and I will ride you until you beg for mercy so I can get some sleep from the exhaustion."

"If that had been Sophie's choice, the movie would have been a lot shorter." Leonard nodded and got up, putting on his robe as well.

As Sheldon continued to blow the tune into his tuba, Penny pulled Leonard past his door and through the apartment. The same speed saw them traverse the living room and after managing to grab his keys, Leonard pulled the door closed behind him while Penny opened the door to her apartment. Leonard hurried in after her and saw her discarding the robe the moment she stepped into the bedroom.

"Clothes." Penny ordered.

Understanding, Leonard discarded his robe, then his shirt and lastly his shorts while Penny rummaged around in her nightstand. He didn't know what exactly Penny wanted to do so he just stood there, waiting for her decision which came in the form of her grabbing him by the shoulders and pushing him onto the bed.

Smiling, Leonard scooted backwards to be on the bed proper and Penny climbed on it after him. She moved forward and without much ado, grabbed his manhood and took it into her mouth. Leonard began groaning when Penny viciously blew him, her head bobbing up and down fast and occasionally letting it plop out to take a deep breath before continuing.

She did this for only two minutes until he was rock hard, almost pulsating in expected release. Giving him a wicked smile, she revealed the rubber band in her hand and clasped it around his base before mounting him. She realized that her body must have gotten very used to him pleasuring her with his mouth when she noticed a slight but distinct resistance when he entered her.

The feeling was only fleeting though and ten seconds later, her butt cheeks were pressed against his upper thighs, Penny moaning at the feeling of him filling her. She didn't waste any more time and began moving, forward and back, roughly getting the friction she desired. Leonard tried to put her hands on her breasts, but they were still covered by her nightgown, so his hands went lower and attempted to lifted her gown.

Noticing his attempts, she removed her hands from his chest and sat up straight, feeling him go even deeper. Without stopping her movements, she pulled her gown off in one swoop and threw it away. Leonard's hands moved to her breasts, kneading them gently while Penny again put her hands on his chest and moved even harder, feeling his manhood hit every spot inside her.

His groans told her that he would probably have climaxed already were it not for the rubber band holding him back. Penny continued to let loose, feeling climax after climax coming and going but never slowing down. Sweat began pouring out of her pores and she began chasing the big one, sitting up to get the perfect angle for it and once she found it, she increased her efforts even more, her lower body almost violently moving on top of him. She began screaming her pleasure into the room until the coil snapped, her upper body collapsing on top of him and all of her shaking in orgasmic bliss. She began humming in content when the shakes subsided and closed her eyes to enjoy the feeling.

"Penny, please." she heard him almost squeal, reminding her of the little piece of fabric.

"Sorry." she apologized and sat up a bit, reaching down between her legs to unclasp the band before letting herself fall back down again.

Leonard grabbed her ass and held her down as he furiously began pumping his hips in order to climax too. It took less than a minute but Penny both heard him groan and felt his spill enter her. While she was glad that he finished, she sighed at the prospect of having to get up to get clean, though after another minute, she felt the sweat beginning to cool, making her shiver.

"Thanks, I needed that." she giggled as she got up.

"Isn't that usually my line?" he chuckled and followed her into the bathroom. "Need help?"

"Nah, I'll just wash up." she shook her head and stepped into the tub, where she used the shower to spray her entire body before reaching inside her vagina with two fingers to clean herself out.

Since Leonard hadn't done much, he just washed his face before returning to the bedroom. When Penny joined him again, he was already dressed in his shorts and shirt, holding her nightgown for her to take. She put it back on and joined him in bed, hugging his body and putting her head on his shoulder.

Thoroughly sated, she quickly fell into a restful sleep.


"Sheldon, lunch!" Penny called, putting the three plates with their fried rice onto the kitchen island.

"La la la la la la." Sheldon still sang his song as he came out of his bedroom. "By the way, where were you this morning?"

"We slept over at my apartment." Penny told him.

"But you were contractually obligated to spend last night here." Sheldon complained.

"We would have but some crazy guy decided to play a freakin' tuba." Penny squinted at him.

"I had to, you took away my keyboard." Sheldon argued as he sat down.

"Lets just eat." Leonard sighed.

"Bah, bam, bum-bum, bah, bum, bum." Sheldon kept going with his song. "This song is never going to stop. Have you ever dealt with something so relentlessly irritating?"

"That's a trick question, right?" Leonard looked at Penny.

"Well, I shouldn't be surprised." Sheldon sighed. "There's a rich history of brilliant minds descending into madness."

"Come on, Sheldon. There are plenty of smart people who don't have mental problems." Penny pointed out.

"Yup, she's right." Leonard agreed. "For every Newton who had a psychological issue, there's an Edison who was just a jerk. That could totally be you."

"Empedocles thought he was a god and jumped into a volcano." Sheldon started to list. "Pythagoras had an irrational fear of beans. Tesla fell madly in love with a pigeon who he claimed loved him back."

"Maybe he just had bread in his pocket." Penny quipped.

"No time for jokes." Sheldon said. "This song is driving me crazy."

"Why don't you use your phone?" Penny had enough. "There's an app that can find any song based on melody."

"Penny please, as if a phone app was smarter than me." Sheldon rolled his eyes.

"Fine." Penny retorted and took her phone, opening the app in question. "Go ahead, hum your song into the phone."

"Alright, I will humor you." Sheldon was clearly doubtful. "Mh mh mh mh mh mh."

"Again." Penny said. "Keep going until there's a result or it says it can't find something."

"Mh mh mh mh mh mh. "Mh mh mh mh mh mh." Sheldon continued doing it. "Mh mh mh mh mh mh."

"Oh look, there's a result." Penny smiled when it came up.

"What is it?!" Sheldon gasped.

"It's the song Darling by the Beach Boys." she told him and saw him with a far away look on his face. "Sheldon?"

"Yes, I remember now." Sheldon nodded. "Oh, thank goodness. I'm not crazy. I don't have to take a pigeon as my bride."

"There goes our shot at him living on the roof." Leonard joked.

"Finally." Sheldon still smiled and suddenly began almost inhaling his food.

"Pace yourself." Penny advised.

"I can't." Sheldon said, his mouth full. "I have to search the song online and listen to it fully."

"Suit yourself." Penny shrugged. "But if you choke, we're not going to do the Heimlich."

Despite her worry, Sheldon managed to eat his food without choking on it. He put his plate into the sink and left for the couch, where he took his laptop and searched for the song. A minute later, it was playing, Penny bobbing her head along, until it was over. To her horror, Sheldon immediately restarted the song, not nodding along but attentively listening.

"I wonder why it was this particular song that was stuck in my head." Sheldon remarked when Penny had joined him on the couch, Leonard cleaning the plates.

"I don't know. It's pretty catchy." Leonard remarked.

"Do you even like the Beach Boys?" Penny asked him.

"They have beach right in the name, what do you think?" Sheldon rolled his eyes.

"Well, now that you can focus again, what do you say we get back to surface tension of domain walls this evening?"

"Of course. I'm already seeing a more efficient way of taming the ultravi…" Sheldon began but stopped.

"What's going on?" Leonard wanted to know.

"I know why the song was in my head." Sheldon suddenly said.

"Why?" Penny was curious.

"It's about Amy."

"Okay, look, I know Amy's like an old lady, but she's not old enough to have a song from the sixties written about her." Penny scoffed.

"It's about how she made my life better." Sheldon clarified. "Consider the lyrics. I was living like half a man. Then I couldn't love, but now I can. More soul than I ever had. I love the way you soften my life."

"She did soften your life, didn't she?" Penny agreed.

"Yes, she's like the dryer sheets of my heart." Sheldon said and walked towards the door. "I have to go."

"Aw. Am I like the dryer sheets of your heart?" Leonard smiled at her and sat down next to her once Sheldon had left.

"Better." she smiled back. "You're the lint trap of my love."

He started kissing her and she kissed him back. His tongue asked for entry and she granted it, running hers around his and slightly spreading her legs while one of his hands began roaming her chest. She started moaning into his touch and was just about to swing her legs over his lap when her phone rang.

"Great, what now." she grumbled and looked at the screen. "Oh, it's Annabel."

"Pick up." he said. "It might be important if they're calling on your day off."

"Hey Annabel." Penny greeted her boss and put the phone on speaker while at the same time straddling Leonard.

"Hey Penny, sorry for disturbing you on your day off." Annabel apologized. "I just wanted to ask if you have talked to your husband yet."

"I did, and he agreed to do it." Penny told her. "Though he's not sure about dialogue."

"No problem really, we can film the scenes with him just in the background." Annabel said. "I'll tell Steven, so he can plan the scenes. When is a good day for Leonard?"

"Give me a sec." Penny said and turned off the microphone. "When?"

"I can take a day off if necessary, or we do it on a weekend day." he shrugged.

"He can take a day off or on a weekend day is fine." Penny said to Annabel after turning the microphone back on again.

"I'll talk to Steven and call you back when I know more, okay?"

"Sure." Penny confirmed and Annabel ended the call before pulling off her shirt and bra. "Now, we were about to do something."

"Yeah, we were." Leonard grinned and latched his lips to one of her nipples.


"Good morning." Penny greeted the people she met, still tired.

"Why do you people hate sleep." Leonard muttered.

"There's coffee over there." Steven chuckled and pointed to a table with a breakfast buffet on it as well as several thermos cans. "But thank you for coming in."

"No problem." Leonard nodded and shook the offered hand.

"I was actually surprised that you agreed." Steven said.

"Well, I still don't see why I'd be so important but I love my wife and if I can help her have success, then I'll do it." Leonard shrugged.

"Aw, love you too." Penny was touched and gave him a kiss.

"Wanna walk me through it?" Leonard asked.

"Sure, come with me." Steven nodded and led Leonard to the set where stage hands had already placed the stuff that was Penny's character's house in the show.

"So, most of the scenes are you just sitting there while construction workers are moving around, some others are where Penny's character is talking to her crew." Steven explained.

"Am I just sitting there like a stuffed doll or do I actually do something?" Leonard wanted to know.

"You're going to be typing on a laptop." Steven replied. "Story wise, we wrote Penny's husband to be a college professor. Since you're working at a university anyway, it's not that far fetched and would explain why you're on your laptop all the time."

"I don't have to say anything, right?"

"No, we haven't written any dialogue since Penny said you don't want to." Steven said. "However, if you find yourself able to say something that makes sense with the scene, just say it. It will give you a mention in the end credits as well as more money."

"We'll see but I think I stay quiet." Leonard chuckled.

"Alright, get to makeup, you two." Steven ordered.

"Really?" Leonard groaned.

"Don't be a baby, come on." Penny giggled and grabbed his hand.

"Fascinating, isn't it?" an appearing Annabel grinned as she watched Leonard and Penny walk towards the makeup room. "Their chemistry is beyond ridiculous."

"Yeah, you were right, how often do I need to say it?" Steven rolled his eyes.

"I'll tell you when it's enough." Annabel laughed.

Makeup for Leonard took only a few minutes but almost half an hour for Penny, since they had to fix her hair as well. Since they had written Penny's hair accident into the story, her character's hair was also growing out again but needed to be fixed into place for some scenes. They returned to the set and Steven showed them how they would film it.

Leonard sat down on the couch for the first scene and put the laptop on his lap, typing nonsense into the editor because they had to turn it on, otherwise the lack of reflection in Leonard's glasses would have given away if it had been off. Penny greeted Leonard, though he stayed quiet, and bent down to give him a kiss before she and her co-stars went into the kitchen of the set house. For Leonard, the scene was over but he stayed on the couch and continued typing to keep up appearances in case the group had to return.

"Cut!" Steven shouted. "Scene two!"

As per his cue, stage hands rushed the stage and removed some things before adding others. Leonard, as per the instructions, took the laptop and walked into the kitchen set, sitting down at the table and waiting for the cue to again start typing while the group around Penny did their scenes in the living room.

Since the camera wasn't on him right now, he took the time to just look around. The kitchen set was fully built though the oven was fake. The fridge was also fake, just a fancy cabinet with a light inside that turned on like the one in a fridge, and in it were only items that weren't perishable or flat out fake.

For the next two hours, Leonard sat in the kitchen, since the group had to repeat the scenes quite a few times. Sometimes one actor made a mistake or forgot their line, at other times Steven wanted to film it differently. When there was another break in filming, with Steven talking to the group from his chair while the makeup artists brushed up the actors, Leonard decided to fill a few glasses with drinks, having learned before what they liked.

"I thought you might be thirsty." Leonard said to the group after the makeup people had left, carrying a tray with two glasses of apple juice and two glasses with water.

"Thanks, honey." Penny smiled and took one of the water after giving him a kiss, Marcia taking the second one while the two guys took the juices.

"Thanks man." Hector nodded towards him. "Sorry for delaying everyone, it's apparently one of those days."

"We all have those." Marcia chuckled, knowing that they all had days where they continuously screwed up certain lines.

"Well, I let you work." Leonard chuckled and returned to the kitchen where he grabbed a water for himself and took a swig.

It took another hour until this particular scene was finally done. The crew rushed in to change it again, Steven calling out the third scene they'd film. This one went more smoother, needing only two takes to be in the can and the crew got back to work. For the next ten hours, they continued to film numerous scenes, the actors joking between takes. At the end of the filming day, they filmed a scene with lots of extras playing construction workers who were pretending to build something in their characters' home.

"Cut!" came the call from the director. "That's in the can."

"Any more scenes with me or was that all of them?" Leonard asked, getting up from the couch, two stage hands immediately carrying it away.

"Well..." Steven hesitated.

"I already don't like it." Penny said when she joined them. "What's the hesitation?"

"There is this one scene with you two that the writers put onto the story board of the seventh episode." Steven shrugged apologetically and pointed behind them where the stage hands were placing their character's marital bed on the floor while another pushed the fake wall behind it that showed their character's bedroom wallpaper.

"What's the worry?" Leonard wondered. "We filmed her getting up topless once already for the movie, remember, so us being in bed isn't such a big issue, is it?"

"Well..." Steven winced.

"Oh no!" Penny gasped.

"What?" Leonard looked at her.

"Don't tell me that you want us to film a sex scene!" Penny almost yelled.

"It's not my idea, the writers did it." Steven apologized. "We don't have to use Leonard though, the story board doesn't show him."

"Who wrote the script? Or the scene?" Penny wanted to know.

"JESSICA!" Steven yelled, making a young looking woman run over to them.

"You bellowed?" Jessica did a mock bow.

"Penny has a question about episode seven." Steven said to her.

"Steven told us that you wrote a sex scene." Penny said.

"Yep." Jessica smiled.

"Why?" Leonard asked. "I mean, is it important to the episode or is this just to show off her body like when we did that her getting up to go to the bathroom?"

"Give me a second." Jessica said and ran off, returning half a minute later with a large board in her hand. "Look."

"This is the story board?" Leonard was impressed at the row of sketches drawn on paper. "I thought everything is done on computers now."

"I like to do it this way." Jessica shrugged. "It feels more tangible for me."

"So, you don't see me." Leonard pointed out.

"No." Jessica confirmed. "It's her on top, riding you, and all we see is her naked back."

"Won't it destroy the disbelief if viewers can see her underwear?" Leonard wanted to know.

"No, as you can see, any visibility of her lower parts up to her hips is blocked by the comforter." Jessica pointed to the pertinent drawing. "The only part of your body visible will be your feet sticking out from under the covers and your hands on her hips."

"Guys, no." Penny shook her head. "I don't want to do this. Leonard is not an actor and while it wasn't an issue kissing in bed, pretending to have sex is very different. Also..."

"Wait." Leonard interrupted her, seeing Jessica's sad face. "Is the scene important?"

"Frankly, I've never seen a sex scene in a TV show, especially one rated for sixteen or older." Penny pointed out. "The only thing you ever see is the very beginning before they are naked and then maybe the aftermath, when they're cuddling."

"Come with me." Jessica sighed and walked off with the board, Steven, Penny and Leonard hurrying after her into the writer's room, where they found Jessica standing in front of more story boards. "Look."

"What am I looking at?" Penny asked.

"So, the sex scene leads into an attempted home invasion by agents of your character's enemies." Jessica described, pointing to various images where Penny and Leonard's character dropped from the bed and she grabbed a gun and shooting to the side. "You then fight them off, your husband runs into the panic room and you then engage in some spy badass-ery and kill all the intruders. I got the idea from the series of events from a movie."

"So that's why you had us film those scenes with me just at the kitchen table while workers pretended to install stuff." Leonard chuckled.

"Yes, and this series of events will then lead into the remaining episodes where she then will hunt down all of your enemies for daring to break into your home."

"By the way, we got the green light from the producers." Steven threw in.

"REALLY?" Jessica squealed. "Thanks dad!"

"Oh, you're his daughter?" Leonard looked at her more closely, finally seeing the family resemblance.

"The green light for what?" Penny asked.

"The big finale." Jessica smiled. "The one we envisioned requires a lot of extras and equipment, so we needed the green light for the expense."

"Still, I don't want to do a sex scene with Leonard." Penny crossed her arms. "And it's not because I'm a prude, it's because I know that I can't pull it off if it's only make-belief and I'm also sure I won't be able to do it if I'm sitting on top of one of the extras."

"I bet there would be a stampede if you asked the male extras for a volunteer to have Penny on top of him." Leonard chuckled. "Especially if she were actually topless."

"Well, I do remember you and him starting to kiss heatedly when we only wanted you to do a good morning kiss." an appearing Annabel added with a grin. "What's the problem?"

"The sex scene." Jessica whined. "She doesn't think she can pull it off when it's fake."

"They can hardly do it for real, even if they are married in real life." Annabel pointed out as the group returned to the set area. "Is the scene really that important?"

"Well..." Jessica sighed. "The idea is that her character is so badass that she can fight off a group of attackers naked at first and then with only a pair of sweatpants and a shirt. Wouldn't have the same impact if they sat on the couch watching TV."

"I have to use the bathroom. Will take a few minutes." Penny said and hurried away.

"Well, you may have to rewrite the scene." Annabel said. "I'm not comfortable forcing Penny to do it, not to mention that our intimacy coordinator will throw a fit if we did."

"Hm." Leonard hummed, looking at the bed on the set.

"What?" Steven looked at him.

"How would you film it?" Leonard asked. "The sex scene, I mean, not the shooting stuff."

"You mean camera angle?" Steven looked at him and Leonard nodded. "Jessica?"

"Like this." Jessica said and held up one of the drawings that were still where Jessica had left them before they had gone into the writer's room.

"What I mean is, how would it look on screen?" Leonard corrected. "Where's the camera's point of view cutoff?"

"Wait." Jessica said and ran back to the cameras, with everyone following her, where she began fiddling with the camera until they saw on the small screen next to it how it saw the scene. "There."

"And how would we be in the picture?" Leonard asked.

"Wait." Jessica said again and looked around, until her gaze fell on someone. "OLAF! GET OVER HERE!"

"What is it?" a somewhat large man came over, his voice thick with what sounded like a Scandinavian accent.

"Get on the bed." Jessica commanded. "Lie on your back, in the middle."

"So, what now?" Olaf asked after doing what he was ordered to do.

"So, you'd be visible like this." Jessica said loudly to be heard after climbing on top of Olaf and beginning to move as if she was having sex with him.

"Did I miss something?" a reappearing Penny asked, seeing what was happening on the bed.

"Jessica is demonstrating how much of us would be visible on camera." Leonard explained.

"Wow, she's not shy, isn't she." Penny chuckled when she saw Jessica put Olaf's hands on her hips while continuing to grind, the covers around her lower regions the same way she had drawn.

"They're sleeping together." Steven grumbled. "She thinks I don't know."

"And Olaf still works here?" Penny had to fight hard to avoid laughing.

"She's an adult." Steven shrugged. "And Olaf is a good man, despite his condition."

"So." Jessica said after climbing off of Olaf and rejoining them. "Now you see. And it would be ten seconds of this before the shit hits the fan, so to speak. The scene shows the bad guys outside in their car, getting ready to attack, then the camera moves towards the bedroom window and as it gets closer, you hear the moaning. Then it goes in and we see her back on top of you."

"That part would be filmed by a camera drone, obviously." Steven threw in.

"I see." Leonard nodded, Penny looking at him confused. "How good is your editor?"

"Why?" Steven wanted to know.

"Can he superimpose images?"

"ANDERS!" Steven yelled and Penny saw another man walking up to them.

"Why do you guys have to yell for everyone." Penny grumbled.

"Olaf, get off the bed and help the others." Anders said to the man who was still lying on the bed, who quickly got up to follow the order.

"Where are you from?" Leonard asked after hearing the man's accent.

"Denmark." Anders told him. "We came here four years ago."

"We?" Penny asked.

"Me and Olaf." Anders told her. "We're brothers."

"Can I ask what's wrong with him?" Penny said. "Steven said he has a condition."

"Olaf has a form of autism." Anders shrugged. "He needs to be told what to do but then he does it to the letter. If he's not told, he'd be at home and he would do anything necessary for living on autopilot, like eating and using the bathroom."

"Anyway." Leonard interrupted. "Look at this picture."

"Okay." Anders shrugged and looked at the screen that showed a loop of the recording of Jessica and Olaf. "What am I supposed to see except my brother and Jessica engaging in mock sex?"

"How difficult would it be to replace textures?"

"Which ones are we talking about?" Anders asked.

"The background?" Leonard said.

"The wallpaper and knickknacks on the wall?" Anders needed clarification and Leonard nodded. "Child's play."

"The bed?"

"If it's the frame, no problem." Anders told him. "Neither it or the wallpaper are moving."

"What about the sheets?"

"They are more difficult." Anders said. "Parts of them are moving constantly, so I'd have to replace every pixel for every frame of said moving part."

"What are you thinking about?" Penny interjected, looking at her husband.

"Steven, can I borrow those sheets?" Leonard grinned.


And chapter ends here. Sorry again for the long wait. I don't know if the next one will be quicker, life is pretty hectic these days.

Still, review please :)