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The Penny Paradox	By : MariaTeresaQuintanar Category: 1 through F > The Big Bang Theory Views: 12794 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter Six

            The slamming of the door snapped everyone out of the story. Penny half expected it to have been Sheldon that was the one that ran off, but no—it had been Leonard. They could hear him cursing from the hall, the scramble of keys, the juggle and search for the one he was trying to find.
            “Do you think I should tell him my door is unlocked?” Penny asked of no one in particular.
            There was a doorknob rattling and a curse outside.
            “I think he just discovered that,” Raj murmured, wiping his eyes free of the tears. “I don’t know when the last time I cried this much. I think it was when I saw the movie ‘Terms of Endearment’.”
            “You’re such a girl,” Howard said, but then blew into a tissue. But when all three of them there just looked at him, he explained, “Allergies.”
            None of the other three believed him.
            Leonard came slamming back into the apartment, asking, “Who dumped out all of Penny’s liquor?”
            Sheldon’s eyes flicked over to Penny, but said nothing. Raj and Howard looked to each other and shrugged in answer.
            “Sheldon?”
            “It wasn’t me,” he said quietly, watching Penny’s fingers plucking at her own jeans.
            “Penny?” She nodded. “You threw out your own booze?”
            “Yes,” she murmured, refusing to look up.
            Looking to the empty bottle, he looked back over to her. “Why?”
            Clearing her throat she murmured, “I promised…”
            “Sheldon, right?” Leonard demanded. “Just because you had a dream—a figment of your imagination…” He remembered the equation she had no business writing out and cursed to himself. “Why for him? Why not me? I’m the one you dated! I’m the one that loved you! Why couldn’t it be me?!”
            Anger, a fury long suppressed came bubbling up out of her. “Because you never wanted me! Any pretty girl would have done for you!” She stood up her hands in fists. “And if I was drunk, all the better, isn’t that right, Leonard? Because if I was just the stupid, drunk party girl, I could forget I was worth more than the label you put on me! And yes, I promised that other Sheldon, but I was also promising myself. Because I don’t want to end up a dead party girl who drank herself to death or a dead stripper murdered in an alleyway or just another crack smoking hooker in Hollywood…” Leonard’s eyes filled with horror at what she said. “So yeah, I promised him, but I did it for me!”
            She ran out of the apartment, leaving them all too overwhelmed to think. All of them except Sheldon.
            “Leonard,” he breathed. “This was never about you.” And he left to go find the one woman who had all the answers.
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            She had made the phone call to the Cheesecake Factory. Told them in a flat voice that was more reminiscent of Amy Farrah Fowler that she quit and wouldn’t be showing up for her last two weeks of work. It was simple. It was heart breaking as well. But it was done and she hung up the phone in time to feel eyes on her watching.
            She looked over to see Sheldon on the sofa next to her. Both of them were silent, sitting there in the emotional heaviness of the day.
            “What now?” she asked, hoping and praying to get a break of some sort.
            He moved close to her, began to rub her back counterclockwise and sang “Soft Kitty” to her. Smiling she rested her head on his shoulder and for that moment just breathed.
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            They had ordered Thai to be delivered for lunch, as none of the drivers there were in the mood to pick it up and no one had the energy it would seem to tolerate outside company. It wasn’t until everyone was settled in that Howard took note of a shift of sorts. Penny, who usually sat down in whatever space was available went to sit next to Sheldon.
            This wasn’t in itself odd or off putting, it was how they were communicating without words that seemed unusual. They passed utensils, condiments, napkins, and never once did they say anything to each other.
            “Okay, am I missing something here?” Howard asked, looking to the others there. “Why are they so…complimentary to each other all of a sudden?”
            Thinking it over, Sheldon whispered, “Fascinating.” He looked over to Penny. “I do believe Howard is correct in his estimation that we are in fact ‘complimentary’.”
            Leonard had expected Penny to misunderstand or at least get mad at the terminology. But all she did was nod, as she finished up the bite in her mouth.
            “That’s what the last Sheldon I saw told me too,” she said, her voice sounding calm for the first time that day. “Told me that even though we might not end up in a personal relationship paradigm that we would always be the closest of friends. And that if and when I did search out the ‘perfect mate’…” she used air quotes just as his counterpart had. “…that chances were better for Sheldon and myself to make a life long partnership in and out of the bedroom.” She frowned. “And he said it was for obvious reasons, blowing me off when I asked why.”
            It was Sheldon that choked on his food, excusing himself from the group and practically running back to his bedroom. Leaning against the door, he thought it over. Complimentary. In and out of bed. A partnership. A completeness. In bed. With Penny. Coitus.
            “Oh my lord!” he hissed to himself at the thought of her in his bed. Just the imagery in his mind of her in that place, where he never allowed anyone other than himself, had his heart hammering faster than a subatomic particle blasting through a particle accelerator.
            Taking a deep breath again, he focused his considerable mental facilities on the problem at hand. And the solution, though banal and rather mundane by anyone else’s standards, was for him a revelation. He straightened up and went back outside, sitting down in his spot.
            “Doing okay, sweetie?” Penny asked, watching him taking up his mee-krob again.
            “I’m well, Penny,” he murmured. “Thank you for asking. It just occurred to myself that I must start my courtship ritual with you as quickly as possible to avoid another male of my species from attempting mating rituals with you.”
            Penny just stared at him for a moment before saying, “You do know that speech coming out of any other man’s mouth would have him hog tied, right?”
            “Yes, Penny,” he murmured, as he continued eating his food.
            “Why don’t you hog tie him?” Howard asked. “I’d like to see it and I’m sure we can make a collection to pay for you to do it.” He looked to Raj and Leonard who both nodded reluctantly in the affirmative.
            “Yeah, but we’re talking about Sheldon,” she said, going back to eating. “That for him is his idea of romantic.”
            They all looked over to him to find the tall man blushing and giving a genuine smile to the woman next to him. It was truly turning out to be a very odd day.

TBC...
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And there went chapter six! Thanks for sticking around to read the story! I hate the late postings, but life being as it is has been keeping me busy. Thanks again and please have a wonderful day!
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