The Smart and Beautiful Baby Actualization - The setup

Finding out about season 12 being the last, is a blow to what possibilities may be in the show's production. Now the future of the characters will rely on those that live in the fantasy fiction realm. The unbridled imaginations of authors that roam these halls will be left without the imposed canon realities. Not that they were necessarily a hindrance in the past. I make no claims to ownership of any characters that are formally associated with the production of the TV series The Big Bang Theory.

This particular morning started off as normal as many others had on an average Saturday, Penny was snuggled deep into the covers milking the slumbering morning for all it was worth. She had more of a reason than normal to be tired this morning however. Leonard had had a mid night craving for some "Dancing in the Sheets". He had awakened from an extremely amorous dream ready to go, so to speak, and without much effort, convinced Penny to partake in some Horizontal Refreshments.

It all began with Leonard snuggling up close behind, his breath tickling behind her ear. Penny had gone to bed wearing her Hello Kitty sleep shorts and a white tank top. From what she remembered, Leonard wore a t-shirt and a pair of camouflaged boxer shorts. What caught her attention and stirred her from her own dreams was the distinct feeling that there were decidedly NOT two layers of clothing separating the two of them and Leonard was poking around the edges of her shorts with something that was NOT his hands. One of those had found it's way under her tank top to her breast and the other was starting to fish it's way down the front of her shorts. Penny reached behind herself to feel the naked butt of her husband. As much as she was trying to sleepily put together the circumstances of her clearly naked bed-mate making advances upon her, she was strangely comforted by the feeling of his sock covered feet. Undoubtedly, Leonard had some preparation time he took advantage of and this was not a spur of the moment impulse. Penny turned in the bed while shedding her tank top and smiled as Leonard pulled her close causing their chests to meet. As her hands went to caress his tushie, his roamed her bare back moving to her sides, moving around front, settling one on each breast as she kissed him deeply, their tongues dueling. When Leonard refocused his attention on her still cloth covered lower regions, Penny helped by shimmying out of her shorts. Still facing Leonard, she kept her left leg up and around his hip leaving a welcome easy invitation for her lover. Never one to miss an opportunity, Leonard gently joined with his wife as they both let out a pleasing moan.

Penny enjoyed sex as much as the next girl and rarely denied her husband. The time of day... or night, as it were, rarely was a concern or impediment. She smiled as she remembered her youth and had to admit to herself that she also never gave much pause to position or location of her sexual satisfactions. Penny threatened often enough to withhold "it" if she thought her partner deserved not "gettin any", but in the end, she was usually brought back to reality and, in Leonard's case, caved under the pressure of his puppy dog eyes.

After their first wedding night troubles, they never spent a night apart that was not necessitated by some professional lecture for him or some pharmaceutical sales trip or training for her. It was a rare thing that they went to bed angry at each other, a fact that made the previous night that much easier for him. It didn't hurt that he was just SO good at pleasing her. Once Leonard got started, he was like the Energizer Bunny. Penny could barely get him to stop, almost begging him to finish for himself after what he would do to her. The first round this past night was fairly straight forward, Leonard was packing a powerful urge and Penny was more than willing to receive him. It was what followed that made their intimate times together so special. Leonard knew all too well what his limitations were and the need to recharge was a matter more of biology that desire. While he waited, Penny was more often than not the recipient of inventive and caring displays of true affection. Leonard always did his homework and then made every effort to show Penny just how much he loved her. After pleasing her once again, Penny gathered herself, took the initiative realizing her husband had once again become ready, and proved she was a well deserved recipient of those junior rodeo trophies that adorned her old bedroom back on the farm in Nebraska. Leonard was in no way able or willing to deny Penny her pleasure at that moment as he loved both the feeling of his wife upon his hips and the view he enjoyed as she rode the bronking buck he tried to be as he attempted to match her twisting and turning hips.

She never could live down the time she actually fell asleep while he was performing one of his prolonged foreplay demonstrations. Last night seemed to be going down that road once again only this time, in her defense, Penny had already ridden out two climaxes before she succumbed to sleep just after pulling Leonard with her in their mutual ending pleasure for the third time that night, quickly falling asleep with his arm pulled around her so he could softly caress her left breast as he so loved to do.

Pulling Penny from her cozy mound of warmth this morning was the smell of bacon and coffee. Two of her favorite morning smells. Leonard was obviously making breakfast as a reward for letting him have his way with her last night. Penny smiled somewhat guiltily, knowing full well she enjoyed him just as much he did her the previous night. And now, she was going to get out of bed and be served and pampered. It was times like this that made her wonder why she was in denial for so long and afraid to commit to him when he so early on voiced his love for her.

Penny made her way to the kitchen to see Leonard dancing slowly to Brian Adams song, I do it for you. He was standing facing away, mixing eggs. "Search your soul... when you find me there, you'll search no more..." He then seemed to spin to the stove to tend to the bacon. "Don't tell me... it's not worth tryin for. You can't tell me its not worth dyin for..." Penny put her hand to her chest. Leonard didn't seem to notice her as she stepped back leaning on the wall. "You know it's true... everything I do..." He then poured a cup of coffee and held it out for Penny to take. "I do it for you... Morning sleepy head".

Penny quickly wiped the tear in her eye as she smiled at her husband, taking the offered cup of coffee. "Thanks Sweetie... but its your fault I'm so tired this morning".

Leonard poured the whipped eggs into a skillet and scrambled them and scooped them onto two plates next to slices of bacon. "I'll take credit for coming up with the idea, but you didn't exactly refuse, and then it was ALL you at the end."

Penny took a slice of bacon, biting the end and then pointing it at her husband. "I owed it to you after what you did to me while you were recharging... Where do you come up with that stuff?"

Leonard smiled as he walked over to his wife opening her robe and smiling at the realization she had not put on any clothes after getting up. "I gotta keep my woman interested". He then moved his hands from her hips to her breasts.

Penny smiled and rolled her eyes. "Gettin a bit cheesy there Leonard." She then opened his robe and her eyes widened. "Now, THAT'S what I call interesting!" She backed onto a stool at the breakfast bar and pulled him in close, putting her legs around his waist as he found his target.

It was just a while later, empty breakfast dishes strewn on the coffee table, with the couple lying together under an afghan upon the couch, Penny with her head on Leonard's shoulder, drawing circles on his less than perfect chest. She thought back to what might have been with so many boyfriends and dates with boys and men that were "her type"

Penny sat up, bringing the afghan with her to cover her chest. "Do you ever think about having kids?"

Leonard sat up dragging the afghan across his lap. "With you?"

Penny immediately had a look of surprise, confusion and just a touch of anger. "Yes with me... Who else would it BE with!?... And now your answer may very well determine that very possibility!"

Leonard took a breath and rubbed his forehead with his fingers realizing how his words must have sounded to the woman he was married to, the woman who was the love of his life and the woman he had just made love to. "Okay, okay... lets not get out of hand here. First of all, everyone thinks of having children at some point. But considering being picked on and being a nerd, the possibility of NOT having children is actually probably more of a thought than actually having them. Second, YES, I have considered the possibility of us having children. Actually, for quite some time."

Penny considered his words, feeling a little guilty after hearing the picked on remark. "Alright, not a bad start, when did you first think about having kids?"

Leonard sighed. "To be clear, we're still talking about OUR children." Penny immediately rolled her eyes so far he could almost here the implied "Oh my GOD!" Leonard waved his hands. "Of course, of course. Well, to be honest. the day Sheldon and I went to get your TV from Kurt."

Penny seemed to be surprised. "Really? We just met".

Leonard held up a finger. "Actually, we met WAY earlier".

Penny frowned. "It was the same day!"

Leonard winced. "Yeah, but after we got back from your old apartment, without your TV and without our pants, it was an appropriate "non creepy" time after we met. You can ask Sheldon if you want, he maintains that any children we may have would be imaginary."

Penny frowned. "Yeah, okay, I'm not doing that. So... if you've thought about it that long, you can't be mad."

It was Leonard's turn to be confused. "Mad about what?"

Penny bit on her lower lip. "I kind of stopped taking my birth control pills".

Leonard was surprised. "KIND of stopped? Like missed taking one every once in a while?"

Penny now chewed on her thumb nail. "Okay, actually STOPPED taking them."

Leonard's eyes went wide. "WHEN? For how long?"

Penny wasn't all that sure this conversation was going well. "A month or so..."

Leonard was breathing deeper, and his breaths were shorter. "OR... SO!?"

Penny looked down. "Okay, maybe six weeks."

Leonard looked around for his inhaler. "Six WEEKS... PENNY!"

Penny sighed. "Hey, it's no big deal, it takes a while for lady parts to get back into the swing of things. I'm still irregular. I had a period when I was in San Diego on that training thingy and haven't had one since. I can go back on them."

Leonard sat up straighter. "Penny, that trip was three weeks ago and you were away for almost a week. It may not matter if you go back on the pill, and it actually would be better if you don't. We weren't exactly shy with each other when you got back."

Penny was a little annoyed. "Excuse me for loving my husband." She then sighed and looked a little sheepishly at him. "Would it be so bad... if... you know."

Leonard smiled and took her figiting hands in his. "Penny, I can hardly understand why you would go out with me in the first place. If I was perfectly honest, I was sure you were going to turn me down when I asked you out that time after you broke up with that guy Mike. Me having a child with you is nothing short of a miracle."

Penny sighed. "And you call yourself a genius. If you remember, it was ME that practically threw myself at YOU when you came back from the North Pole"

Leonard thought. "Yeah but it was ME that asked YOU out again after we broke up and then started our Beta Test. And THAT was after you called me an asthmatic dumbass."

Penny poked her husband. "Well, it was ME that asked YOU to marry Me."

Leonard giggled. "That was only after you said NO... TWICE... and it was ME that had the ring, so I clearly was prepared and wanted to get married first."

Penny sat up pulling the afghan with her. "Well it IS... ME that thinks we should try for a baby, and I have been thinking it for a while... that's why I stopped taking the pill. YOU were obviously surprised." She then pushed Leonard onto his back and straddled his hips running herself along his length easily feeling his mounting ararousal."

Leonard smiled as he gently massaged his wife's breasts. "There's my girl". He then pulled her down to him as they continued their weekend marathon.

The day continued, neither of them putting on any more clothes than their respective robes and then only when they thought it was absolutely necessary.

Sheldon had come to the door at one point being met at the door by Penny in her robe. "Amy is at the University working on something squishy with Wolowitz. I need you to take me to the train store in Altadena."

Penny stood in front of her tall friend. Her hair was all over her head and she was breathing heavy. "Sheldon, I'm not doing that. I'm clearly not dressed for it, I haven't showered, and most importantly, I don't want too."

Sheldon tried to peer around the door into the apartment. "Surely Leonard will take me. LEONARD?"

Penny let the door open showing Leonard lying on the couch under the afghan with one arm down to the floor, gasping for air. "Leonard is not feeling up to it a the moment and I need to take care of him."

Sheldon looked on in relative horror, pulling his shirt up over his nose. "Perhaps Raj is available". Penny watched as Sheldon retreated across the hall and she closed and locked the door behind her.

The couple never did put on more clothes and found themselves making a light supper of salad and ramen noodles. Penny smiled and held up the packet of seasoning and pouring it into the water after getting a glare from her husband while making the noodles.

Leonard watched as his wife took a mouth full of ramen. "What made you decide it was time to start a family?"

Penny slurped the noodles and tilted her head and shrugged her shoulders. "Everyone else was moving ahead with their lives and relationships... and I thought we... well, ME really, could maybe do that too."

Leonard frowned. "What do you mean"?

Penny sighed and slumped her shoulders. "Amy's gotten married... to Sheldon no less... On purpose! That's HUGE. Just think of where those two were a few years ago. Bernadette and Howard have TWO kids. Who would have thought that would happen. Bernadette never wanted kids and when we met, I would have bet a MILLION dollars that Howard would never have any." And Raj is working on not being so spoiled and being more self sufficient. Who knows, he might even find a girl."

Leonard saw Penny hesitating. "And what about us?"

Penny sheepishly looked up. "That's just it. We've known each other for what seems like forever. It's been twelve years. We've been married for THREE years. You tried writing that letter about how great our life was and we couldn't come up with anything."

Leonard looked sad. "Are you not happy"?

Penny smiled sweetly and took Leonard's hands. "Oh Sweetie. I am SO happy! I love my life with you. You're so great. There seems just like there's something that could be different, something better... So I figured maybe having a baby."

Leonard pulled Penny in for a hug. "Okay, I think I get it. I'm in. I think we should... make a baby. So when should we start?"

Penny laughed. "Sweetie, we've had sex like eight times since last night. I think we're already there."

A/N: This will be a little different take on the next great adventure of their lives. I have a map, but don't really know how I'm going to put the pieces of this puzzle together. Bear with me.