This story picks up where The Kimchi Cornhusker Connection left off. Read it if you loke. References will be made

I Own Nothing

Leonard was sitting at the lunch table with Howard, Sheldon, and Raj trying to figure out when the Star Trek Movie would come out on Blue Ray considering that they had all missed it in the theaters because of their Korea trip.

Howard looked up at Leonard and asked, "Leonard, Bernadette wants to know when that fiancé of yours is going to stop by the company Doc and get checked out for that neurotoxin business. How has she been anyway"?

Leonard pushed his salad around on his plate, "She seems pretty good, short of breath coming up the stairs a bit but who isn't? I'll remind her at dinner tonight. You coming over"?

Raj looked over, "I'll be there if you can get her to stop ordering that Kimchi. The smell is really off putting".

Sheldon said, "You know, Kimchi is the national dish of South Korea. They had to make special rations for the Korean Army".

Howard said, "Yeah, great. The stuff still stinks".

Penny was just finishing up picking up a tip from her last table. She looked at it and shrugged. The shine had come off the novelty of being back in Pasadena and the Cheese Cake Factory had returned to the hum drum bustle that she had known all too well. The only thing she was excited about was dinner tonight with the guys. She had not gotten over the feeling of being with her friends and her fiancé Leonard. Fiancé…... That was a word that always sounded odd to her. It wasn't a word that she ever thought she would be associated with. And even if she was, she thought she certainly wouldn't use it.

As it turned out, it was a word that she absolutely loved. She would introduce Leonard to the most casual acquaintance just to hear the words "my fiancé Leonard". She loved saying them and she loved hearing the words coming out of her mouth. She couldn't wait to get home.

Sheldon and Leonard were driving home from the university. Sheldon brought up a topic that was on his mind that he was not sure how Leonard would react. "Leonard, now that you and Penny are officially engaged"….

Leonard questioned, "Officially engaged? Sheldon, what is that supposed to mean… Officially engaged… couldn't you just refer to us as engaged"?

Sheldon tried to clarify the topic. "Leonard, the two of you have been a pair bonded couple for six years, it is only very recently that it has become official".

Leonard was now confused, "We have only been a couple for just short of two years. And that is not even a continuous two years. How do you come up with six"?

Sheldon was now becoming exasperated. "Leonard, on the very first day you met Penny, you were convinced that you would have smart and beautiful babies. Whatever and whenever the circumstances and events were that either brought you together or broke you apart are irrelevant. To all observers either casual or intimate, you two have been destined to come to this inevitable end".

Leonard just gave in at this point. "Fine, Sheldon, what is on your mind now that Penny and I are OFFICIALLY engaged"?

Sheldon smiled at once again prevailing in an argument. "Yes… well… now that you are officially engaged, we will need to discuss changes to the roommate agreement"….

Penny was humming one of the country songs she had heard on the radio on the way home as she tidied up the apartment. She had taken to keeping things a little more organized since the engagement night at Stewart's store. She figured it would be good practice. As different as Leonard and Sheldon were, Leonard was still a little persnickety about things being in their place. When Leonard walked in the door, she got a big smile on her face. "Hi Honey, how was work"?

Leonard walked over to the fridge and got out two waters and handed one to Penny. He sat down on the couch and said, "Work was fine but on the way home, Sheldon said we needed to DISCUSS changes that needed to be made to the roommate agreement".

Penny sat down next to Leonard and put her arm on the couch behind him and started to play with the hair on the back of his head. "That Wackadoodle never DISCUSSED anything in his whole life. What does Professor Fussy Face want to talk about"?

Leonard smiled at Penny's remark. "I have no clue. Hey… Howard asked a question at lunch today about you going over to Bernadette's company physician and getting checked out for that neurotoxin thing. Did you ever do that"?

Penny scrunched her nose. "Nah, I keep putting it off. I should go though, I've been a bit winded lately and I'm tired a bunch. I'll call her and set it up. You know, I can't understand why you have put up with all that Crap from Sheldon and with that roommate agreement all these years".

Leonard took a drink of water and pulled Penny closer for a hug, "I don't know, it just seems easier than trying to fight it. It's like swimming in the ocean, another activity that I don't really like much and avoid like the plague. You get caught in a rip tide and it just sucks you out into the deep water and you get exhausted and then you die".

Penny gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Hey… I can think of at least one time you were Ok with swimming in the ocean. Anyway…., I think that if you do sign something again you should fight for more stuff that you want. Don't let him get away with it always being his way".

Leonard chuckled. "That one time had very little swimming associated with it and we could have died. And as far as the roommate agreement, you just want me to get rid of the Penny specific section, don't you"?

Penny hit him with a throw pillow. "Sure, NOW you're Mister Observant"!

Leonard picked up the pillow and threw it back at her. "That's Doctor Observant to you Missy".

After they had dinner, Leonard was cleaning the dishes as Penny went over to Bernadette. "Hey Bernadette, Leonard tells me that you are getting all Naggy on Howard's ass about me not seeing your Doctor for that neurothing"?

Bernadette was clearing her own dishes. "Well, Penny, I just think we should try and make sure that you got the right treatment. Things seem to have been better lately. I just think you should get checked out to make sure there aren't any lasting effects. I can get you in tomorrow if you can make it".

Penny shrugged and looked at Leonard. "OK, OK, the morning is better for me, I'm working late tomorrow. See you then". She turned to Leonard, "Happy now? I'll see him tomorrow".