1,298Hey everybody. I usually write fanfiction for another show but I re-watched some older episodes of TBBT a few days ago and this idea has spun around in my head for a while now.
This is my very first TBBT story, so be nice :) Also, Leonard is a bit OOC, I wrote him with more confidence but the reason for that is explained in the story.
Also, I'm German so if you find mistakes don't laugh at them ;)
This is a repost of this story, since it got deleted by the admins claiming I copied some song lyrics that no one could tell me what they actually were. So even if you already red it, please review :)
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.
Enjoy :)
It was shortly after 1 am when Penny walked into the bar she found while walking aimlessly around Pasadena. It had been a very rough day. After years of only suspecting it, she finally had confirmation that her as-of-today ex-boyfriend has been cheating on her, not only once but numerous times over the years. She wondered why she had stayed with him for so long. Probably puppy love and a fear of living alone.
The light inside the bar was dim. Since it was a weekday, only very few people were there. Two guys were sitting at a table, drinking beer while conversing in low tones. Their demeanor told her that they were two guys probably fresh off their shift from whatever job they had, sitting back and having a tired but content look on their faces. The only other patron was sitting at the bar itself, knocking back a beer.
He looked peculiar, completely out of place in an establishment like this. Short and bespectacled, with dark and curly hair, wearing nondescript brown pants and a beige hoody. She sat down two bar stools to the right of him and put her travel case and purse on the floor in front of her.
"What will it be, young lady?" the barkeeper asked her after she sat down.
She was about to order her a stiff drink but before she could utter the words, she tried to remember if she had enough money for it. She took out her purse and checked the content, her face contorting when she saw how little money was in there.
"Just water please." she said and sighed. She really would have loved something strong.
"Give her a shot of vodka, Harry." said a voice. She realized it was the guy with the glasses to the left of her.
"It's okay." she said. "I can't really afford one right now."
"Put it on my tab." came the reply.
She frowned and wondered what his goal was. Did he see her as an easy girl, hoping for a score tonight? She really wasn't in the mood. "Sorry pal, I'm not looking for a hookup."
"Don't worry, I'm not planning on hitting on you." he said. "But you look like you need something stiff."
That was unexpected. And sadly true. "Okay, thanks." she said and the barkeep poured her a shot of vodka which she knocked back immediately, savoring the burning sensation in her throat and the warmth spreading through her body. She took another look at the guy. He was a far cry from the guys she usual considered hanging out with but maybe, after numerous failed partnerships with big and muscular types, a change was in order. Nothing wrong with knowing someone smaller.
"Thanks for that, I really needed that." she said and scooted over to the stool next to him.
"You're welcome. But I think it's not enough. Give her another one. And one for me as well." he said, directing the second sentence to the barkeep, who complied and poured them each a shot of vodka.
"I'm Penny, by the way." she said and lifted her glass.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Leonard." he replied and mirrored her stance. They clinked their glasses and knocked back their shots. Leonard wasn't used to hard stuff so he had trouble getting his breathing under control but as soon as the burning in the throat subsided, he too enjoyed the warmth of the new fluid in his body.
'Unusual name.' Penny thought. 'But he's kinda cute.'
Her eyes went wide when she realized what just went through her head. Before she could contemplate what it could mean, they were interrupted by the barkeep who poured them another shot each.
"Why are you here?" she asked and lifted her glass again.
"My roommate is driving me crazy. And I mean it, really crazy. I knew after a few days of living with him that he's nuts but sometimes I contemplate to go into his bedroom at night and smother him with a pillow."
"Ah, poor sweetie." she said and ran her hand up and down his arm, a move that brought his head up and his eyes boring into hers. 'What am I doing?' she thought to herself. 'Aw, those are cute eyes.'
"So, what brings you here at this hour?" Leonard asked, lifting his glass and mirroring her stance like before. She was grateful for him interrupting her thoughts but didn't know if she should tell him her pathetic story but the alcohol in her system and his sympathetic face and tone made it impossible to resist.
"I had to break up with my boyfriend after finding out he cheated on me for years and have now moved out. Now I need to find a new place."
"I would offer you to sleep on my couch but that would surely push Sheldon over the edge." Leonard said, clinked her glass and both knocked back their shot.
"Who is Sheldon?"
"My roommate. The genius slash crazy man I live with."
"He's a genius?"
"Yeah. With all the baggage that tends to come with them."
"Like what?"
"Strict adherence to a daily routine with almost no exceptions. Emotionally he's a child. And of course a narcissist. But when you go to college when you're only 11 years old, it's probably not that strange. But it's really frustrating and enraging if he lords it over you. 'Leonard you only have an IQ of 173 compared to my 187, so I'm infinitely smarter than you. I got my first PhD when I was sixteen. You only did yours when you were twenty-four.'" Leonard said using air quotes. "Those are the days I really want to put his head through a wall. That's why I'm here today. It was either sitting here getting plastered or being arrested for assault on a crazy man. Although I think any jury would acquit me if they spend a day with him."
"Wait, back up a second? You're a doctor with an IQ of 173?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I don't know, I just... wow!"
"What do you do for a living?"
"I work at Caltech. And you?"
"I want to be an actress. But I just got a job as waitress at the Cheesecake factory. That will hopefully be enough for my acting classes and new apartment that I still have to find."
"Listen Penny, you want to sit at a table?"
"Sure. Barkeep, a bottle of tequila please, with enough lime wedges and salt." Penny said and went to a table.
"You really want to get hammered, don't you?" Leonard snickered and followed her.
"You betcha." They sat down across each other at a table close to a window on the street side. Penny put her purse on the chair next to her and turned her back slightly to the window, putting one leg on the other chair. The barkeeper brought the tray with two glasses, a bottle of tequila, a bowl of lime wedges and saltshaker and put it on the table. She looked at her drinking buddy for the night and saw apprehension in his eyes.
"What's wrong?" she asked him.
"Nothing. It's just... I never drank tequila before. How does it work?"
"Easy. You put some salt on the back of your hand, like this." Penny said and put action to her words, sprinkling some salt on the back of her hand after filling their glasses with the amber liquid. She licked it off and took the tequila shot before biting and sucking on the lime. Leonard did the same and after downing his first he couldn't suppress a cough.
"Wow, that's disgusting." he stated after spitting out the lime wedge.
"Yeah. Have another one."
"Hit me."
They repeated the process three times in short order, downing half of the bottle between them. Combined with the vodka shots from earlier, Penny started to feel very tipsy. Leonard was even worse off, having had a few beers before she came in. That's when she slipped off her left shoe and started running her foot up and down his left leg. She knew he had noticed because he became very quiet and his brown eyes bored into hers, erupting goose bombs on her skin and butterflies in her stomach.
As she poured their respective fourth shots, all the while continuing her actions with her leg, she heard a loud voice behind her, one that was unfortunately very painful to hear.
"There you are! What do you think you're doing?"
Penny turned around and focused her inebriated mind to the last person she wanted to see now.
"Kurt. What are you doing here?" Penny asked her ex, who was clearly drunk as well, even more than her.
"I'm here to bring you back. You completely overreacted."
"Seriously?" Penny yelled. "In the four years we've been together you cheated on me with countless other women and when I even catch you with one of them in our bed, I should just ignore it?"
"Come on baby, you know I can give it to you."
"Ugh, you're a chauvinistic neanderthal. Those steroids must have fried your brain. Read my lips if you can't hear my voice. I AM NOT COMING BACK TO YOU! And now leave me alone."
"This is ridic... redic..." Kurt slurred, making Leonard laugh when he saw his difficulty spelling.
"The word you are looking for is 'ridiculous'." Leonard interjected.
"Shut up little man or I will do it for you." Kurt yelled, shaking his fist at Leonard. "This is crazy. Lets go home and we can talk it out."
"The hell I will. And don't threaten him. I've known for less than an hour and he's already more man than you." Penny yelled.
"This little dwarf? I could eat him for breakfast!"
"No, you really couldn't." Leonard said, strangely calm despite being the recipient of threats of bodily harm.
Kurt grabbed the almost empty tequila bottle and smashed it on the table, holding the upper half at the bottleneck and the sharp end at Leonard.
"Still thinking that dwarf?"
"Yes, cause I have friends."
Before Kurt could comprehend what Leonard had said, a strong hand grabbed his wrist and squeezed it, making him cry out and drop the bottle piece. Penny looked up and saw a huge man holding her ex. Although Kurt was tall and muscular, he was small compared to the other guy.
"I think that's enough for now, Mister. It's time for you to leave." the man said with an impossibly deep voice. Penny's eyes went wide when she really looked at him. He was at least seven feet tall, maybe even more, and had a lot more body mass than Kurt. "Are you okay, Doctor Hofstadter?"
"Yeah, thanks Frank. And I told you, out of the classroom it's Leonard."
"Right. Leonard. It's hard, I have too much respect for you." Frank said before turning his attention back to the man he was holding fast. "And you sir, it's time for you to leave."
"NO!" Kurt screamed and tried to get out of Frank's grip, knocking down chairs and a table in his attempt.
"Okay, that's enough." a strong but exasperated voice cut into the commotion. "You are under arrest for assault and damaging private property."
Penny noticed the two men who she had seen sitting at the table at the far end when she came in had gotten up. One flashed his badge to Kurt and the bouncer, who still held her ex down easily despite his attempts to get free, while the other was talking on his cell phone. Apparently he had called some of his colleagues because not two minutes later a squad car pulled up and after a short conversation, Kurt was led away in cuffs, still cursing and yelling.
"Don't worry Miss." one of the off duty cops said, "He'll spend the night in the drunk tank."
"Thank you." Penny said sincerely, her body still shaking from all the adrenalin coursing through her veins.
The two cops paid their bills and left the bar soon after. Harry, the barkeeper, came round the bar and helped his bouncer clean up the mess Kurt had left. They placed the table and chairs back where they belong minus the one Kurt had broken a leg off during his struggle.
"Do you need anything else? It's almost closing time." he asked them.
"No, thanks Harry, we're good. Let me get my wallet."
"Miss... Penny, was it?" Harry asked and Penny nodded. "Check this out. Okay, that's six beers at 1.80 dollars each plus five shots of vodka at 2.70 dollars each plus the bottle of tequila at 26.50 dollars, that comes to..."
"50 dollars and 80 cents." Leonard finished and fished a note from his wallet. "Keep the change."
"I love this guy. He can be drunk as a sailor and still do math in his head faster than I could ever do." Harry said and laughed before shaking Leonard's hand. "Always a pleasure."
"Bye Harry." Leonard said and then shook the bouncer's hand. "Frank, I see you on Friday. Remember, this week I'm using powerful magnets in my lecture demonstration, so no earrings."
"I'll remember. Goodbye Leonard."
Penny and Leonard stepped out of the bar into the warm Pasadena night with her bag around her left shoulder. She held on to his arm for fear of falling down due to her alcohol level. At least that's what she told herself.
"That huge bouncer. Is he really a student of yours?" Penny asked, having a difficult time to accept this.
"Yeah. He's taking the applied physics class that I teach. He's pretty smart."
"Wow. I would have thought someone like that is a wrestler or boxer or something."
"If you judge people only by their looks you miss a lot. You need to take the time to learn about the person inside that body or you will never have a happy life, only shallow relationships. And after a few years that will go too because we all get older. And once the people who only run on their popularity lose their looks, what have they left?"
As Leonard finished his short speech and started rummaging in his pockets, Penny thought about what she just heard. She knew he didn't meant it like that but to her it sounded almost as if he tried to get her to look past his own small stature at the person beneath the skin.
"I'm calling a cab. Where do you want me to drop you off?" Leonard asked and fished out his cellphone, snapping Penny out of her reverie.
"Uh, I don't know. I actually don't have a place to stay. I thought of going to one of my friends but I don't really want to disturb any of them right now."
Leonard had his phone in his hand but only looked at her instead of dialing. He looked into her eyes again and after a few seconds, which seemed like an eternity to Penny, started to pull her down the street.
"Where are we going?" she asked.
"There's a motel two blocks down."
"So much for not wanting to hit on me." Penny grinned.
"What?" he said, looking at her with a confused look. "Oh, stop. I'm not planning anything." he continued and pulled her into the motel.
"Do you have a spare room for the night?" Leonard asked the clerk, an older and plump female. "I'd like to pay up front, with added breakfast in the morning."
"Certainly." the clerk said and after typing in some information on her computer she printed out the bill and handed it to Leonard who paid and received the key in return. He led them to the room the clerk assigned to them. Inside, she saw a big bed, clearly made for two people, an en suite bathroom and a TV set. It also had a small closet with a full length mirror on one of its doors but Penny didn't need it for the meager stuff she had with her.
"Okay, you're set." Leonard said.
"Wait, why are you doing this? You don't even know me."
"I don't know. You're the first beautiful girl I met who didn't treat me like the nerd I am or tried to use me for her own gains. Also, I'm drunk. If I weren't, I wouldn't even be able to look you in the eye."
"You think I'm beautiful?"
"Well, duh. That's why I couldn't believe it when you said your ex had cheated on you. That someone would be that crazy."
"What do you mean?"
"Have you looked at yourself in the mirror?" he asked her, with an incredulous look on his face. "Come over here."
Penny went over to Leonard who was standing next to the mirror. He put his hands on her hips and placed her directly in front of it, leaning his head to his side to look at her in the mirror.
"Look at yourself. What do you see?" he asked her, his hands still on her hip.
"I see me. And your head floating next to mine." she answered with a giggle. She was massively aware that his hands had not left her hips and it felt good.
"Very funny. You know what I see?"
"What?"
"I see a lovely woman with a gorgeous face and beautiful hair. When she smiles a genuine smile, it lights up the room she's in." He turned her ninety degrees to the right. "And here. You have very nice legs in those shorts and your curves are breathtaking. That's why I can't believe your ex or anyone for that matter would cheat on you. If you were my girlfriend, your physical attributes alone would make me do anything to keep you. I don't know you very well but from what I learned about you today is that you seem to be a caring and funny woman. So you're not just a pretty package, the gift inside is also nothing to scoff at."
After having finished his speech he took her hands from her hips, a loss of contact Penny immediately missed, and turned towards the door. He pulled out his phone again, wanting to get a cab to get home finally. He had to go to work in the morning and Sheldon to take with him.
"Okay, you're all set for the night and you get breakfast in the morning too. I need to head home, I have to go to work in the morning." he stated and turned to leave.
Penny still looked at herself in the mirror, thinking about the description of her Leonard gave. It was one of the most beautiful things she ever heard. Kurt had never said something like that. He told her numerous times that she was hot but a lot of guys had told her that over the years since high school. But beautiful? A smile to light up a room? No one had ever said this before. In this instance, Penny made a decision. She might be regretting it later but right now she didn't care. Not that the alcohol in her body was helping.
"Leonard, wait." she said and turned towards him as he turned around to face her.
"What?"
Instead of answering, she ran over to him and threw his arms around his neck. She pressed her lips to his and shoved her tongue into his mouth, playing with his tongue which still wasn't moving. She knew deep down that his inactivity was caused more by the shock of her actions than any possible rejection and before she could ponder if she might have misjudged him, he put his arms around her waist to hold her tight to him and his own tongue became active, exploring her mouth the same way hers did his.
"Wait." Leonard said after separating their lips. "I thought you didn't look for a hookup."
"I know. But please" she pleaded. "Let us have this one night."
Instead of answering, he resumed kissing her. Not wanting to waste a second for fear of any doubt setting in, she shoved Leonard's hoodie off him and unbuttoned his pants, letting it fall to the floor. She did the same with her own lower body apparel, quickly removing her own shorts and panties in one swift motion before she turned both of them around, pulled his shirt off and pushed him onto the bed.
When he was prone, she quickly pulled his shorts off, leaving him lying naked in the bed and her standing in front of it, with her shirt and bra the only garments left on her. She bent down and crawled towards him, her position and the cut of her shirt revealing a tremendous amount of cleavage. Her feline appearance, combined with the look of pure lust and want wasn't lost on Leonard who felt his manhood stiffen and growing fast as this goddess got closer and closer to him. She placed herself on his abdomen, kissing him again. As far as Leonard was concerned, he died and went to heaven. Then a thought hit him that made him hesitate.
"Penny." he panted between kisses. "Wait. I don't have any..."
"Pill." was her only reply, correctly predicting his rather valid objection.
He didn't say anything else and just continued to kiss her. After a couple of minutes, Penny sat up and slowly removed her shirt and bra, smiling at Leonard's widening eyes as he took in the view on top of him. His hands went up her sides and on her breasts, caressing them and occasionally flicking his fingers over her hard nipples, making her gasp in pleasure. He sat up and wrapped his left arm around her waist, using his right hand to continue to massage her right breast while his mouth closed around her left nipple, sucking and occasionally biting it softly and letting his tongue circling her areola, making Penny moan every time he did it.
Finally she couldn't take it anymore. She pushed him down again, lifted herself up and sat down on his erection, eliciting a loud moan from both of them as the friction caused little explosions of pleasure in both their brains. After a few seconds of just enjoying the physical contact, she started moving, first in a slow forward-backward motion with her hands on his chest. After several minutes of re-enacting her horseback riding lessons in a very enjoyable way, she changed the tempo and direction, gyrating her hips in a rotating move that made Leonard moan even louder and her eyes roll back into her skull.
Alternating between her gyrating and straight movement, she felt her walls clenching and before she knew it, she was climaxing loudly and screaming his name, before collapsing on his chest. He pressed his mouth hard on hers, both fighting for dominance with their tongues. He still was inside her and luckily for her, he wasn't finished yet. Happy that he had more stamina than she anticipated, she sat up again, turned around on him and placed her feet on both sides of his legs and started to bounce up and down hard, the friction and especially him hitting her g-spot every time she was down again causing her to constantly moan his name. She kept this up for almost ten minutes, with his hands wandering between her breasts and hips before she realized that his breathing had changed which let her know that he was about to climax as well.
Leonard wanted her to climax again, this time with him so he took one hand off her hips, grabbed around her put his it between her legs, rubbing her in synch with her movements. It had the desired effect as he felt Penny clench around him again and her movements becoming less smooth. Not thirty seconds later she screamed his name again, collapsing onto his chest once more. The feeling of her orgasm pulled him over the edge as well and he released with a loud groan. They lay on the bed, panting and experiencing the occasional aftershock of their torrid lovemaking. Instead of parting, Leonard just pulled the comforter over them and held her tight.
Penny was a tad exhausted. She had had casual sex before but this had felt different the whole time. And although she had been on top the entire time it seemed like he had been in control. She couldn't explain it. Still lying on top of him with her back to him she bent her head to the side and turned it, making him turn his head towards her. She looked into his eyes and could only smile at him.
"Thank you. That was amazing." she said and kissed him.
"You were amazing." Leonard stated and kissed her back.
They continued kissing for what seemed like half an hour. That's when Penny realized why this felt different. You don't usually make out like this when having casual sex with a guy you only met that night. Normally, when that happened, they both went to sleep or one of them went home. None had ever held her tight and kissed her after the sex, not even Kurt.
It was then when she felt him getting hard again. She opened her eyes and saw the spark in his, something that looked like something between a plea and an order. She smiled and nodded, desperately wanting this night to go on like this. He let her go for a second and placed himself on top of her. She opened her legs wide, extending the most wordless but eloquent invitation she could muster at this point as his lips were still fused to hers.
His hands were at the side of her head, holding him up when he entered her again, her insides again welcoming his manhood. Leonard breathed a sigh of both relief and pleasure. He didn't have much experience with women but not once had it ever felt as great as this. Not only had she initiated it, she hadn't demanded him to leave after it was over and had even cuddled with him. And now, after his unspoken question, she was ready and willing for round two on his terms.
He made good use of his control, alternating the speed between slow and fast to prolong it but never stopping. He pulled her legs upward so settle on his shoulders, the change in angle sending more shocks of pleasure through both of them. In that position, it didn't take long for Penny to climax again twice before Leonard did as well.
Again their bodies were fused together, neither wanting the physical contact to end and kissed for what seemed to be hours but were sadly only minutes. Then, to Penny's almost complete shock, Leonard extricated himself from her arms and stood up.
"Where are you going? Are you leaving now?" she almost whined to her own surprise.
"Yes. To the bathroom. We should shower before going to sleep. And since I still need to get to work in the morning, I need to prevent a hangover." He said and moved towards the bathroom. "Care to join me? It saves time."
"It saves time? You sure you don't just want to seduce me for shower sex?" Penny grinned.
"As much as I would love to do that, I'm still just a man. And we men are like muskets. It takes a while to reload. So, just shower for now."
Penny laughed at the analogy and got up. She took some of her own shower gel from her travel case and they spent a good thirty minutes under the spray of water, washing each others backs. And although Leonard had been right in his assessment that he couldn't do it again right away, the same wasn't true for her. And after a few subtle hints, the shower ended with him pressed onto her back and her left arm around his neck, yelling his name again after his fingers did magic between her legs but that was after she had pushed him down on his knees and her pelvis into his face where he had proceeded to bring her over the edge three times only with his tongue.
At that point, she realized, they both appeared to be sober again as if they had sweated out all the alcohol they consumed. After they had dried themselves off, Leonard took a glass and and filled it up with water from the tap before downing it in three big swigs. He continued the process twice under Penny's curious gaze.
"Are you that thirsty?" she asked.
"No. But if you don't want a hangover in the morning, you need to get fluids into your body to dilute the alcohol. Each time you go to the bathroom you lose fluids but the alcohol remains inside your system until the liver has broken it down. That's what's causing the headaches. A lack of minerals and fluids." He finished his short speech and handed her the glass. Figuring that it couldn't hurt to try, she did the same, downing three glasses of water.
Before heading out, Penny grabbed two toothbrushes from her travel case, a used one for herself and a new one still in its original package which she gave to Leonard. She again was mesmerized by the situation. She had been with Kurt for four years and they had never brushed their teeth together. The whole thing seemed terribly domestic and for a second it freaked her out that she felt so comfortable.
Her reverie was interrupted by Leonard spitting and rinsing his mouth. She went out with him and her gaze fell to his clothing that was scattered around the room. Not wanting to risk him leaving, she grabbed his hand and let him to the bed, pulling him down with her and covering them with the comforter.
She lay down on her side and felt Leonard doing the same, molding himself to her back and putting his right arm around her waist. She smiled contently and interlocked her fingers with his before her eyes fell shut and she drifted off into a satisfied sleep.
Penny woke up with a start when she felt movement behind her. In her sleepy condition she realized Leonard had gotten up. It was still dark out. Why was he getting up. Was he sneaking out? She was about to turn around and call out that she didn't want him to leave yet and for him to come back to bed when she heard the toilet flush and realized the reason for his activity.
She smiled to herself when she felt him get back to bed and again pressing himself into her back and putting her arm where it had been the entire time they had been lying here. She soon fell asleep again.
Not thirty minutes later, she woke up again, this time it was her own body craving for her to hurry to the bathroom. She quickly obliged and sat on the toilet for quite a while, wondering where she could have stowed all those fluids. After flushing she went back to bed, pressing herself against Leonard again. She realized they were still naked when she felt him getting hard again and wondered if he was awake and attempting to go to round three.
But his slow and regular breathing told her that he was still fast asleep. She wracked her brain to remember some of the things she learned in biology. Right, males had several erections during night, the last one colloquially known as early-morning hard-on or morning wood. She tried to ignore it and go back to sleep but their position brought his growing manhood in contact with the one spot on her body that made it impossible to ignore.
And suddenly her own body betrayed her when she realized that she was pushing her butt against his abdomen so his manhood rubbed over her folds. She felt herself getting wet, cursing her horniness. So far, she had had eight orgasms that night. How could she want more? She heard Leonard inhale sharply and although he was still asleep, his body reacted to her ministrations by pushing his hips forward which in turn got Penny even more aroused.
They repeated this process a few times until Penny couldn't suppress a loud moan anymore. Unbeknownst to Penny, Leonard had been awake for a several minutes now, enjoying the fact that Penny got aroused by rubbing against him while at the same time he pretended to be asleep as to not scare her off. But when he heard her moan, he couldn't control himself anymore.
Putting the hand he had wrapped around her waist so far further down he started rubbing her between her legs while simultaneously pressing kisses on her neck elicited a surprised yelp from Penny at the sudden change in pace that quickly turned into another loud moan as she pushed her hips against his hand. Still pressed against her back, Leonard put both his arms in front of Penny and angled them up to her shoulder, holding her tight to him as he rolled them onto her stomach, with him on top of her.
Penny, sensing what his intention was, grabbed below her body between her legs and guided his erection to her opening and when Leonard started to push forwards rhythmically and hit that one sweet spot again and again and again, her eyes rolled back into her head and her world went white with pleasure.
Leonard was awakened by the vibrations of his phone on the night stand. He looked at it and realized it was his 7:30 am alarm. As much as he wanted to stay in this motel bed molded against the naked body of this absolutely gorgeous woman, he knew that he needed to get up so he could drive home, pick up Sheldon and get to work.
He slowly extricated himself from Penny to not wake her and went into the bathroom. After relieving himself, he washed his face and upper body and used the toothbrush Penny gave him to brush his teeth. He looked in the mirror and saw bite marks on his chest and neck, a testament to what a tiger Penny was in bed. Going back into the main room, he collected his rumples clothes from the floor and got dressed. He wasn't as quite as he thought he was when he heard her voice.
"Leonard?" Penny asked, still sleepy and unable to properly open her eyes.
"Shhh. Go back to sleep."
"Why are you leaving?"
"I have to go pick up my roommate and then to work. I want to stay here but I really can't."
"Okay. But before you leave, come here." she said and Leonard went over to her. He bent down to give her a goodbye kiss on the forehead but Penny wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down, pressing her lips to his and her tongue into his mouth. After thirty seconds she released him when air became a necessity but left her arms around his neck and took a few deep breaths.
"Thanks for an amazing night." she said and kissed him again.
"No, thank you." he said and kissed her one last time before reluctantly heading out.
Penny woke up with a start, momentarily confused by her surroundings before remembering the night before. One thing she noticed was the fact that she had no hangover, so apparently the remedy worked. She couldn't stop smiling. What she had intended to be a simple one-night stand had turned into a love fest that left her more sated than in a long time. Suddenly her face turned to shock. No wonder it had felt different than any other one-night stand she ever had. All the kissing in between, all the cuddling. They didn't just have sex. They had made love.
They had made love.
Penny was confused. She realized she might have to talk to Leonard about the night and what it might entail. She grabbed her phone to check her message and then it hit her. They hadn't swapped phone numbers. She didn't really have any means of contacting him, she only knew his name and that he worked at CalTech. Maybe she could visit him at some point. But what could she say? The night was great, lets do it again? Lets start a relationship? Did she want that after just getting out of a terrible one?
She got up to use the bathroom and when she collected her clothes, her eyes fell to the table in the room. On it was a tray with an empty cup, a thermos flask, a newspaper, a bag and a note. She took the note and read.
Good morning beautiful. I took the liberty of getting you a thermos flask of coffee and some pastries so you don't need to wait on room service, not that this motel has a good one. Also, I got you a newspaper and circled the one ads, maybe it'll help you find a new apartment faster. Have a nice day. Leonard xoxo :)
Penny's heart melted at the note. This was way more than anyone she dated had ever done before and he barely knew her. After she used the toilet and shower, she ate the two bear claws Leonard bought for her and drank the coffee and used the remaining time the room was booked for to circle a few apartments she liked and probably could afford.
As it turned out, the apartment search went better than expected. It took her only three hours to find a place, scout it and rent it. Now she stood inside her new apartment, unpacking the boxes of her belongings she had gotten out of storage. It had been a not so nice surprise to see that the elevator was broken but she thought it wasn't that high a price to pay for such a nice place. Also, taking the stairs daily could be beneficial in terms of keeping her fit.
She heard voices coming from the stairwell, it seemed her new neighbors were on their way up. She knew from the woman on he third floor that two males lived in 4A and were not gay. Maybe by using her feminine wiles she could convince them to let her use their shower, since hers was still broken and the repairman was scheduled the next day.
When she turned around after hearing one of them commenting on the fact that they had a new neighbor, her heart skipped a beat. Standing next to a tall, lanky guy in the hallway, eyes large with shock, was Leonard.
'Holy crap on a cracker.' Penny thought. Her new living arrangements have become quite interesting indeed.
Okay, this has become longer than I originally intended. Now, there are three options possible now, all depending on the reviews (if there are any ^^)
Option 1: You didn't like. If so, I will stop immediately and go back to writing Castle :D
Option 2: You liked it as a one shot. If so, I will write more one shots, as soon as my time allows it ;)
Option 3: You liked it as somewhat of a pre-pilot. If so, I could write a follow-up because the pilot episode might have gone a lot different with this as pre-story. Lets see what happens ^^
Review please :)