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A/N: As fair warning, I am currently recovering from one really cold, REALLY nasty ruck and spent last night recuperating with my feet up and my cup continually filling with whiskey and Coke—which probably explains chapter four. That being said, these next chapters will include a bit more fluff (by fluff I mean story) and fun…and by fun I mean smut. The story has already made itself and I know where it’s going. The vehicle is already PMCSed, so strap in and wear your helmet. And those of you who think Sheldon would do exactly what he did in the shower, I tip my hat to you. I always thought that was why Leonard called him a “semi-pro” at the sperm bank, and why Sheldon says that not only are his goods “aesthetically pleasing,” but “fully functional” as well. It’s canon! hahahaha
Cht 5
“So how’s life treating you, PJ?”
“Eh, it’s alright Mom,” Penny said, wedging the phone between her shoulder and her ear so she could use her hands to strain the ramen she was making.
“How’d the move go?”
“Surprisingly, it was not that bad,” she stated, dropping her voice as she glanced across the island at Sheldon, who was currently clacking away at his computer.
“He actually helped move some things, even though he tried to organize everything in my room. The painting was no problem, even though he put down about a dozen tarps and double-taped the edges of everything. We went through four rolls of blue tape.”
“At least he’s thorough. I’ll bet it looks great, too.”
“Yeah it does,” Penny conceded, “even though I wanted to stop the first day and finish it the next night. He couldn’t handle just leaving that one last wall unpainted for a while. So he stayed in there while I went to class and he did it all himself.”
“So not only is he thorough, he likes to finish what he starts. Good qualities in a man…” Helen mused.
Finally picking up on her mother’s subtext, Penny snorted. “Mom!” she hissed into the phone. “That is so not Sheldon! He thinks the idea of sex is revolting and messy. And he’s—he’s germphobic!”
“Okay, okay,” her mother sighed, “I just like the way he maneuvered you in there. You know, he’s not overbearing and hulking like Kurt. I don’t have to worry about him getting too carried away and hurting my baby girl.”
“Aw, Mom.” Penny bit her bottom lip, wondering how mothers got to be so perceptive. Kurt had in fact once pushed a little too far over the blow up after he cheated, and Penny had worried that he might hit her. He put a hole in the wall instead.
“Besides,” her mother cut into her thoughts, “he’s not mousy like that last guy either.”
“Leonard was not mousy,” Penny countered.
“Baby doll, you rolled right over him and he let you,” her mother said flatly.
She loved her girl, but that girl had a little too much spirit for that little guy. He would have wound up cowed and resentful. But that was neither here nor there, this new guy, the roommate of all things, sounded promising. Helen liked the way he skillfully maneuvered her daughter into a better, more comfortable life. She was now majoring in a subject that made her happy, she was saving money, getting home earlier in the evenings and had someone there at night.
True, Kurt had been a bit too domineering, which is probably what sent her running to Leonard who was nearly the exact opposite. Helen Harlow had a feeling that Sheldon would be a nice happy medium. She almost chuckled at the memory of Penny telling her about the prank war they had waged. Now that was a spark if she ever heard of one. This fella could be just what the doctor ordered. Helen loved that she got to sit back and hear it unfold.
Knowing that her daughter must have dropped her voice for a reason, Helen decided to test the waters of what Mister—no, Doctor Cooper—would overhear and how he would take it. So she changed her questioning.
“Now Penny, speaking of men and your love life,” Helen began. Penny groaned over the phone, and Helen paused to smile. “What’s this new guy you’re going out with tonight do for a living?”
“Well, he’s actually a visiting professor at Caltech, so I’m not technically supposed to go out with him,” Penny acknowledged. “But since he’s actually from UCLA and not a permanent staff member I don’t consider it wrong, really.”
“Uh huh. What’s his name?”
“Trevor.”
Penny was too busy with her noodles to register the fact that the keys had stopped clacking for a moment as Sheldon went still in his chair.
“And what exactly is Trevor a professor of?”
“He’s an English professor. I had to go listen to this lecture on The Epic of Gilgamesh and creation myths for that one last comp class I have to take, and it just so happened that he was giving the lecture.”
“Huh. So what’s he like?” She didn’t sound excited, and frankly, Helen was pleased. Sounded like Sheldon still had a chance, if her darling daughter would get her head out of her behind.
“He’s…well…he’s tall,” Penny began as she rinsed her now empty bowl before loading it in the dishwasher, “and he wears a lot of tweed.”
“And he’s named after the toad in Harry Potter,” Sheldon muttered under his breath. Luckily Penny was too involved in her conversation to hear him.
Clearly, he thought, he had to step up his game and initiate phase two of Operation: Woo Penny. But first, to get rid of an interloper.
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