Okay kids it's been a great ride, but it's time for the last chapter. And so here it is the final chapter for this story. It has been a joy reading you reviews thank so much and enjoy the show.

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A few hours later Leonard is still asleep in the hospital bed. Penny is sleeping in the chair next to him. After a while Leonard opens his eyes and looks around, at seeing Penny safe, he smiles. Remembering how uncomfortable the chairs in a hospital can be, Leonard sits up puts one of his pillows under Penny's head.

Penny, suddenly waking up: "Abraham Lincoln."

Leonard: "Sleep well?"

Penny, wiping away drool from her mouth: "I dreamt I was on a game show and I couldn't talk."

Penny, realizing that Leonard is awake: "Wait a second you're awake, how are you feeling?"

Leonard: "A little thirsty, hungry and my legs feel a little num, other then that I feel fine."

Penny's eyes go wide with fear as she hears his legs feel num. Before she can say anything in walks David wearing a pair of glasses and dressed as a doctor.

David, smiling: "Excellent you're up and awake, Miss Morgan would you mind stepping out side while I examine the patient."

Penny, to Leonard: "I'll just be outside okay."

Once Penny leaves the room David takes her seat.

David: "So does she know about you?"

Leonard: "No I never changed in front of her or anyone else."

David: "Good, Listen before you got shot, was you exposed to any silver?"

Leonard: "Yeah it was right before I got shot, why?"

David: "The silver made your body more tolerable to pain and damage for a few minutes, in that time one of the bullets did some damage to your spinal cored."

Leonard, Worried: "I'm paralyzed?"

David takes out a pen and pokes the bottom of Leonard's foot coursing it to jump.

David: "Nope you'll be fine; the only bad thing is you maybe using a walking stick for a while, Oh and don't change until you can walk without the stick. It'll be frustrating. "

Leonard: "Well how long is that going to be?"

David: "Six months give or take, don't worry a year tops."

Leonard: "I guess that's something to be happy about."

David: "Anyway you'll be discharged in two day's your apartment building will be complete in about a week."

Leonard: "You know I think I'm really going to miss this place?"

David, getting up to leave: "Get some sleep kid, I'll tell your girlfriend and her family your okay."

Leonard: "We're not going out."

David just smiles to himself as he leaves the room.

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A little over a week later and Penny is waiting outside Leonard and Sheldon's apartment door.

Penny, calling down the stairs: "You know I can't believe the new super fixed the elevator and you don't want to use it?"

Leonard slowly coming up the stairs: "I need the exercise, I kind of wish it wasn't working?"

Penny: "Seriously?"

Leonard, just getting to the top of the stairs: "It has a sense of familiarity."

Penny: "You know it would have been a lot quicker, if you would have let me help you up the stairs."

Leonard: "Like I said I have to get use to this, so I might as well practice when somebody is around just incase I do need help."

Leonard finally reaches the top of the stairs.

Leonard: "Although at this pace it's going to take me all morning just to pick up the mail."

Penny, hands Leonard an envelope with his name on it: "Speaking of mail I found this tapped on to your door."

Leonard reads the letter and a look of depression appears on his face.

Penny: "What's up?"

Leonard, depressed: "It's a letter from Sheldon, he had a new lock installed and he left me a new key in our mail box."

Penny: "So if it's the stairs give me your key and I'll go and get it?"

Leonard: "Well there lies the problem the only key we have for it is on the table next to the couch in the apartment."

Penny: "I'm guessing from the fact that this letter is here Sheldon is out somewhere else?"

Leonard: "He's giving a lecture, and he won't be back until tomorrow night."

Penny: "You can stay at my place until then."

Leonard: "Is that okay I don't want to be an inconvenience?"

Penny entering her apartment: "Don't be silly, get in here we'll have a movie night I'll make some popcorn."

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The next morning Leonard and Penny are both asleep on Penny's couch arms around each other protectively. Penny is the first to open her eyes, as slowly as she can she gets up trying not to wake up Leonard, and goes to her bed room to get changed for work.

As she comes back in Leonard is just standing up.

Penny, seeing Leonard wobble a little: "Hay you should have called me, here let me help you."

Leonard, holds up his hand to stop her: "I'm okay I got it."

Penny: "I can't believe I have to go back to work today."

Leonard: "Anything I can do to help out?"

Penny: "Can you carry three meals while other people ask you stupid questions?"

Leonard: "What kind of questions?"

Penny: "Well there was this one time when a customer complained because her scrambled eggs was too scrambled."

Leonard: "Point taken anything else I can do?"

Penny, heading out the door: "Nope not really, Just I don't know relax."

Leonard: "Err Okay."

Penny leaves the apartment and Leonard goes over the refrigerator and looks inside.

Leonard, to himself: "Well no Batteries this time, although no food in ether, I guess I'll get some groceries for today."

As Leonard leaves Penny's apartment, he finds Penny deep in thought in the hallway.

Leonard, Confused a little: "Penny I thought you went to work, what are you doing here?"

Penny: "I err forgot some thing."

Leonard: "Okay I'm going to grab some groceries you want anything?"

Penny, nervously: "Nope I'm fine."

Leonard, starting to walk away: "I'll see you tonight then."

Penny, blurting it out: "How come you've never asked me out?"

Leonard, stopping dead in his tracks: "What?"

Penny: "I just can't figure it out, I mean I know you like me and I know you've had relationships before, so I'm thinking why?"

Leonard, feeling the patchiness of sweet appearing: "We err you see I umm, that is, I thought you would say no and we wouldn't be able to spend time together."

Penny: "Are you telling me a guy, who runs into a burning building, faces off against a mass murder and takes three bullets in the back to protect someone. Is scared to ask a woman out?"

Leonard, nervously: "Well technically, I was in the building at the time but essentially yes."

Penny: "Fine, how about if I ask you out?"

Leonard, speechless: "What?"

Penny: "Do you want to go out tonight on a date?"

Leonard unable to form words just nods his head happily.

Penny, smiling: "Okay now I'm really late so have to go I'll see you tonight."

Leonard: "Great I'll see you tonight."

Penny: "Oh and before I go."

Penny walks over to him and kisses him passionately on the lips, after they part lips both of them have massive smiles on their faces.

Penny, winking at him: "I'll see you later hansom?"

She then rushes off to work.

Leonard, still standing there with a huge grin on his face waits for the elevator to arrive.

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After what feels like too long of a day, Leonard walks in to the lobby of the building carrying some grocers. After calling the elevator he enters, just as the doors are about to close Penny enters.

Penny: "Wait, wait hold the elevator."

Leonard stops the door from closing while she gets in.

Penny: "Thanks."

Leonard: "No problem."

A silence starts to set in between them.

Penny: "Are you nerves about this date as well?"

Leonard: "I'm so nerves that my sweet glands have stopped working form exhaustion."

Penny: "So what shall we do for this date I mean?"

Leonard: "Well we can catch a movie then dinner at that new steak house."

Before Penny can reply the lift jerks to a stop.

Penny, while pushing the buttons: "You've got to be kidding me, everything is brand new."

Leonard: "Which floor are we on?"

Penny: "Id say some where between floor three and four."

Leonard, takes out the emergency phone: "Hello, hi we're stuck in the elevator between third and four floor….. Oh okay thank very much."

Leonard, after hanging up: "They said as soon as the super gets back from his civil war reenactment party he'll get on to it."

Penny: "So we're going to be here a while?"

Leonard: "Looks that way."

Some time later in to the very late hours of the night Penny and Leonard enter the hallway between their apartments.

Penny, stopping outside her door: "Hell of a first date right?"

Leonard: "Well I had a great time."

Penny: "Seriously?"

Leonard: "Well what could have been better then spending it with you?"

Penny: "Oh that's so sweet but how about having something to eat, I'm just going to grab a sandwich go to sleep."

Leonard: "Well that could be a problem?"

Penny: "Oh god now what?"

Leonard just points to her apartment door smiling. She opens the door to find Maggie putting some steaks onto two plates.

Maggie: "Leonard texted me and asked to bring some steaks and start cooking them."

Penny: "Who are you?"

Maggie: "Just call me Mags, I'm a friend of Leonard's."

Penny: "How did you get in?"

Maggie: "I picked the lock, sorry about that and on that note I better go, champagne is in the fridge along with desert."

Penny: "Thank you I guess."

Maggie: "Don't worry about, Bye."

With that Maggie leaves Penny's apartment with just her and Leonard in it.

Leonard: "Are you angry?"

Penny: "A little yeah but more confused when did you text her?"

Leonard: "When I asked you to turn around so I could pee into that bottle."

Penny: "Well it was a surprise and I do love steak, so no I'm not angry."

Penny takes out the champagne and pours two glasses and hands one over to Leonard.

Penny: "So what shall we drink to?"

Leonard: "To finding our way?"

Penny: "To finding our way."

Outside the building as Maggie is exiting she bumps into Sheldon.

Sheldon: "Oh Maggie, hello I suspect from your exit Leonard has returned, how is his condition?"

Maggie: "Hay good looking he's holding up well enough, in fact at this moment I think he's feeling the best he's ever been, how's that theory of yours coming around?"

Sheldon: "Well since you ask I'm still working on it."

Maggie: "You know I've got the rest of the night off, you want me to take a look at it for you."

Sheldon: "I believe the percentage of there being a second error in my work is highly unlikely."

Maggie: "Really so what was the percentage for there being a first error?"

Sheldon: "Very well but if anyone asks your waiting for Leonard."

Maggie: "Don't worry your secret is safe with me?"

Sheldon: "I'm sorry was that an attempt at a humors joke?"

Maggie: "That and some light flirting, shall we?"

Maggie walks back into the building.

Sheldon, to himself: "How odd my heart rate seems to have increased."

With that he follows after her.

The end.

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Yeahyyyy!!!!! I've done it, okay people just to let you know I am working on a sequel. But first I'm going to write it out completely. By the way let me ask you a question, If lycans and vampires hide in the shadows of mankind, what hides deeper in the darkness.