Okay, this is the last chapter. I think. If I wake up tomorrow and realize this was a terrible mistake, instead of just forgetting it ever happened, I'm going to do something about it, fix it, maybe add another chapter if this needs to be made so, and make it all better! Yes, future Mrs. Penny Hofstadter, I hope you're reading this!

I own nothing. At all.

"I'm sorry," Sheldon said, "but I will follow through with my promise to leave the room if we watch this version of the movie."

"Quick, put it in," Leonard said.

"That's what she said," Raj quipped.

"Oh my God," Howard began.

"She said that, too," Raj said.

"Shut up!" Howard snapped. "Sheldon, does the song really matter? It's just a little at the end."

"It's the original product," Sheldon said, "and change is never fine. Only fisherman's tales change for the better in the retelling."

"Did Stacy's fishing tales get better each time she told them?" Raj asked Leonard.

"She was brutally honest," Leonard said. "Once I asked her to exaggerate so I could tease her about it, so she said she caught an eight inch fish instead of six."

Howard yawned.

"Are you tired?" Sheldon asked him.

"No, I was simulating Leonard's likely response to that story," he said.

There was a silence, while Leonard rolled his eyes. Then Sheldon spoke. "So we're really watching this?"

"Get over it, dude," Raj said in annoyance. "Just watch the friggin' movie and shut up."

"Hang on," Leonard said. "Sheldon, do you have the VHS version in your room?"

"I do."

Leonard looked at him for a moment, and then motioned impatiently toward the hallway. Taking the hint, Sheldon jumped off and bolted to his room, returning triumphantly, holding up the tape. "I present to you all the real Return of the Jedi, complete with the Ewok Song sung by the Ewoks themselves." He started up the tape and returned to his spot.

Leonard looked up at the knock on the door, and smiled as Penny entered the apartment. "Hey guys," she said, smiling.

"Homette," Howard said, nodding.

Penny nodded back, and then she looked at Leonard. "Hey, baby," she said, drawing the first word out and grinning.

"Hey," he said cheerfully, beginning to get up. "I'll get you a chair."

"Eh, don't bother," she said, marching around the table and sitting down in Leonard's lap. She swung her legs over the arm of the chair closest to the kitchen area, leaning her back against the other arm. Leonard smiled and slid his right arm around her back, the left resting on her knees. "How's this?" she asked him, smiling.

He returned the smile. "Perfect," he said, patting her knees.

"Mmmm," she said, leaning down to kiss him.

"So you guys are finally back together," Howard said once they broke apart, smiling like he didn't know. "That's great."

Raj nodded, giving them a thumbs up.

"So, what are you waiting for?" Howard asked with a teasing tone to his voice. "Go on, say it."

Leonard and Penny looked at each other. "I love you," he said, his hand running up and down her side affectionately.

"I love you more," she said, putting her hands on her hips. They grinned at each other, and then looked back at the other three people in the room. "How was that?"

Sheldon threw up his hands in annoyance at the PDA, and Howard held up a hand warningly. Sheldon looked at him, put on his batman smile, and stayed quiet. This was what he wanted anyway, no matter how difficult it was to sound or look sincere.

"You know how much I've missed this?" Penny asked Leonard later that night. "It's been so long."

"Are you counting the 'Mistake'?" he asked her.

"No," she said, sitting up. "Not the sex. Not just the sex. I mean this." She lay back down and cuddled up to him.

"Ah." He tipped his head to see her better. "I missed this, too." He pulled her closer. "When can we tell your dad?"

"Let's wait on that," she said. "He'll want to come out and see us again and I want you to myself right now."

Leonard leaned his head against hers. "Good point. I don't want to have to share you."

A thin meow was heard from the floor next to Penny's side of the bed. "Up, kitty," she said, and a moment later Schrödinger was standing on her side, looking at Leonard.

"Looks like the cat's alive," Leonard said.

She smiled. "I never doubted that."

"I'll see you guys at home," Penny said the following day, smiling as Leonard, Howard, Raj, Amy, and Sheldon got up from their table.

Leonard leaned over to give her a quick kiss. "Bye, honey," he said.

"Mmmm, bye." She smiled, watching them leave, and headed back into the employee room to get a busboy for the table.

Bernadette entered then, smiling. "Look what Howard just gave me," she said, holding up a long stemmed flower.

"Romantic," Penny said. "What are you going to do with that until your shift is up?"

She shook her head. "I have no idea, but it's the thought that counts, right?"

"Right," Penny said, smiling. "I'm just in such a good mood today!"

"I bet you are," Bernadette said. "All back together with your nerdy boyfriend…" she grinned. "We're the luckiest girls, aren't we?"

"True dat," Penny said, nodding enthusiastically. Then her face changed to a look of disgust. "Ugh, I hate this song."

"Never was a Rhianna fan," Bernadette said, nodding.

Penny's phone buzzed and she smiled at Bernadette politely before looking at the message. It was from Leonard. Is it too early to plan Valentine's Day in Switzerland, Love Bug? She smiled. Definitely not! She sent back, complete with smiley faces.

She put the phone away and attention was immediately drawn back to the song, which appeared to be playing louder than usual. "Damn, I really, really hate this song!"

Bernadette cocked her head. "Leonard doesn't make you feel like you're the only girl in the world?"

Before she could answer, her phone buzzed again. It's a date, then. Love you.

"You know what?" Penny said, looking up from the text and over at Bernadette, who was still grinning at her teasingly, waiting for an answer. "No. He doesn't. He makes me feel like there are three billion girls in the world, and I'm his."

Hope you liked it! I had a lot of fun writing it! Check my profile page later tonight or tomorrow for a link to the soundtrack! :D