"Sheldon, love. Calm down please." Penny begged the lanky man.

"I'm sorry, I just..." he hyperventilated. His head in his hands, elbows on his knees.

"That's alright, Sheldon. I'm not mad. I'm really flattered you know."

Sheldon turned even more red. "Flattered?!" he spat unbelievingly.

"Yeah. I understand you don't have a lot of... experience. And it doesn't matter to me. We have all the time in the world. We'll just go slow. You can decide how fast we go and we can use a safeword. Do you want a safeword, honey?"

"I, euhm... Yes, maybe... Trains?" the doctor stuttered.

"Trains?" Penny smiled inwardly "Trains are perfect. Come on, do you want to hug?"

Sheldon shook his head. "I'm going to clean up and..." he stood up, eyes on the floor "...scrub my pride of the floor." he ended the sentence muttering.

"Alright, do you want me to wait here for you?"

"That's not necessary, we're expected for dinner in half an hour. You should go."

"Okay, I'll see you there?"

No answer.

"Please?"

"Yes, Penny."

"I'll clean the spot for you beforehand." the blonde offered.

"Cleaning! God, the germs and I'm just..!" Sheldon shouted and stormed out of his quarters in the direction of the bathrooms. Hopefully he wouldn't encounter someone.

Penny grinned proudly and felt moved by what had happened.

Their lips touched and Penny let out a soft moan. It made Sheldon groan. His hands were spasming by his side, not knowing what to do with them. "Touch me, Sheldon." the beautiful woman next to him said with a throaty whisper.

Sheldon was dizzy. So many feelings. Soft, slightly wet lips, moving sensually over his. He tried copying her movements as she was the more experienced of the two.

This kiss was a lot more different than the kiss he forced on her not an hour ago.

Penny took his hands and put them on her hips, their knees were touching.

An unbearable warmth was straining in his pants. It had been a long time since he felt any action in that area.

She sighed in his mouth. He opened his eyes and saw that hers were closed. He closed them, opened them again, closed and opened to stare at her beautiful face. The little freckles, the...

"Oh God!" his thoughts screamed loudly when Penny put her hand on his thighs. Sliding them softly up and down.

"It's too much." Sheldon's last comprehensible thought was.

Then she opened her mouth a bit and stuck the tip of her tongue between his lips. Wettening them and sliding softly to the sides.

Sheldon was panicking, this is... undescribable.

Penny moaned again. The most filthy and sexy thing the Captain has ever heard. His breath was coming in short puffs, he was, oh please, oh yes, OH HOLY COW!

She bit his lip and stars exploded inside his head.

"Aaaaggggnnnh!" he groaned very loudly against her mouth. Penny used this opportunity to put her tongue even deeper sliding alongside his.

But he was already lost to the sensations.

He tried pushing her away and they stared at each other. Completely flushed red. Penny saw Sheldon's eyes widen and she tried wiping away his worries with her hands on his thighs.

He gulped audibly, breathing shallow and trembling legs.

She frowned. "Sheldon?" Penny asked in a hoarse voice. The kind that you had when you just came out of bed.

Sheldon grabbed her hands frantically and she noticed he wanted to push them away from the top of his legs, but it was too late he was already passing the edge, and he clamped down on them with his own long fingers. Almost painfully.

"PENNY!" he tried to swallow the shouting of her name. But she noticed and her eyes strayed down for a second. Long enough to see a pulsing inside his pants and a wet spot appearing, bigger and bigger.

The blonde looked up again, astounded, trying to make eye contact again but he was clamping his painfully shut. Sheldon groaned softly for a couple of seconds and then total silence except the beating of their hearts and their short breaths.

"Sheldon, are you... Did you..?"

Sheldon lifted his eyes tiredly. Mortification painting his face. Deep shame portrayed by his big blue eyes.

He met her eyes for a second and then looked immediatly down again.

"I apologise profusely, Miss Bouvier." the crazy whack-a-doodle bit out selfhate and shame lacing his voice.

He covered his lap with the blanket and when he saw the evidence of his.. indiscretion. That was when he flipped and started hyperventilating.

Penny walked down to the cafetaria. Feeling better than ever before. She was horny and wet as hell, if she could say so and Sheldon... It was just so damn sexy his total loss of control. She could make him do that with almost nothing. The power felt so amazing. The perfect controlling Doctor and Captain at her feet. She felt loved, proud, secure and beautiful. She hoped there would be more opportunities to do stuff like that. It was wonderful helping him explore the more sexual side of life and she would gladly take years, if that was what it took, to make him comfortable with sex without ever getting something herself. He was so beautiful and sweet... Give her a couple of weeks and he wouldn't feel ashamed about his needs anymore. She'll make him used to it that she loved him no matter what. She would get it inside his thick skull.

The cafetaria was almost empty, only a couple of people in the corner talking quietly.

"I'll take a table and wait for the rest." she thought to herself.

Other people were slowly filtering in. Suddenly a voice next to her.

"You do know he is using you?"

Penny looked up and answered with an exasperated sigh "What do you mean, Leonard?"

His face was twisted in a mask of jealousy and anger.

"He doesn't feel like normal people. He'll fuck up eventually."

"Leonard! What the hell is your problem? He makes me happy and if he were normal, I wouldn't be half as interested in him as I am now. Try to accept it. I love Sheldon."

"More than you loved me?" he whispered in a broken voice.

"Oh Leonard... I... I'm sorry we didn't work out. I care for you deeply, but it was not enough. And I love you as a friend. You'll just have to accept that I'm with Sheldon and if I have it my way. I'll be with him forever."

"Do you mean that? It's just.. I always pictured you by my side. I always dreamt of having someone like you."

"Do you hear yourself speaking? I'm not some trophy to parade by your side and you can't have me as I am not a possession. Please Leonard, just drop it and go on with life. You'll accept it and I'm pretty sure you'll meet someone el..."

"NO!" he shouted and grabbed her wrist in an effort to make her listen more carefully.

"Aw, Leonard, you're hurting me!" she didn't want to hit her friend.

"No, Penny, please. Think again about what you're doing. We could be so great together!" and he drew her closer to him.

"Leonard, let me go." Penny stated as calmly as she could. By now they had an audience, but nobody stepped in.

"Let her go." another voice suddenly spoke up.

"Sheldon." Penny sighed relieved.

"Or what?" Leonard dared to say when he turned to the genius behind him.

"Or I'll knock some sense in you." the tall darkhaired man threatened.

Leonard snorted. "You do know you're going to mess this up. You'll fail. No empathic abilities whatsoever, no sexual progress to speak off..."

Sheldon winced when the short man said this.

"Aha, see. I hit a snare. You know you can't keep up with somebody like Penny. She belongs with me!" Leonard sneered.

Penny saw Sheldon battling his own insecurities behind his eyes and she was afraid he would agree with the spiteful man. Then suddenly he put his chin up and strode forward. He grabbed Leonard's polse and did something painful that made him let go of Penny with a small yelp. The Captain shoved Penny protectively behind him and gripped the small man by the lapels.

"You listen carefully now, Leonard. We are not friends. Not roommates. No longer real collegues. You leave Penny alone because she is the love of my life. I will fail her, undoubtedly, but I have the rest of my life to make up for my incompetencies. She is good and will grant me time and forgiveness. As will I to her. She is beautiful and smart and kind. And when she is old and all wrinkly, she would still be beautiful to me. Her character is what makes her a goddess in my eyes and I will not allow you to threaten that. You will stay away from her and try to make peace with yourself. In the meantime, I invoke your rights. You are no longer welcome in the Calculus team and you will serve in the kitchens until you learn humility. You will also give Penny the letter I wrote to her and ask for her forgiveness until she decides she'll forgive you. You address me as Captain Cooper and Mr. Hofstadter. I have no longer need of your so called 'advice' and you'll treat me with respect and fear. Be sure to fear me, because I am no longer the Sheldon you remember and I will hurt you if you hurt Penelope." Sheldon said with a certain finality in his voice.

He had pulled up Leonard by the lapels and now he put him back on the ground. Not even showing any sign of strain and it made a very big impression on every one who saw it happen and heard what he said. Leonard was red in the face and stormed out of the room. Too afraid to say another thing and while he was walking down the hallway, a feeling of intense shame and guilt crept over him.

"Sheldon does has feelings. Was I really that wrong?" and he decided then and there that he would work on himself because he wanted his friends more than he wanted Penny for his own.

"What wouldn't my mother say if she saw me now?" he said bitterly out loud.

When Leonard had left the room, it was completely silent. Sheldon's shoulders were trembling slightly from rage. Penny put her hand on his back and stepped in front of him.

"Sheldon?" she said in a weak voice.

Captain Cooper looked in her eyes and they softened.

"I'm sorry if I spoke for you, I don't have the right to make decisions in your stead." he apologised.

"Stop apologising."

He snapped his mouth shut.

"I love you." Penny stated simply like that.

"I return the feeling." Sheldon said with a shy and breathy laugh.

His answer was a 2000 watt smile that lightened his soul.

Leonard has decided to change his life and Sheldon, too, had decided something that very moment.

Penny was his universe. His sun and she centered his very existence.

Should I go on? Or is this a nice place to stop?