The trees are blushing
Title: The trees are blushing
Rating: PG - 13 (only for language)
Pairing/Characters: Penny/Career is probably the main ship. Slight, and I mean extremely slight, undertones of Sheldon/Penny.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the characters or the show The Big Bang Theory.
Summary: Penny is writing a novel. Sort of.
Author’s Notes: SO after about a million years of writer's block, THIS is what I cough up. I really have no idea what it is, it sort of feels like a jumble of things but hopefully it's enjoyable! Concrit is very welcome, as is any comment you want to leave!
In Nebraska the trees have leaves that change color. The trees blush in October, her mother always used to say, see Penny, they're blushing with the memories of silly summer days spent out in the sun. Penny misses the trees in Nebraska.
This really has nothing to do with the story that is about to be told, but it's something about Penny that needs to be shared with someone, at some point.
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Penny is writing a book. She's sure that it's going to be a bestseller, and it'll be made into a hit movie and maybe people like J.K. Rowling and Oprah will want to have coffee with her and discuss things like fame or something.
Anyways, Penny's writing a book. It doesn't have a title yet and there isn't really a plot, but it's a book. And she's writing it. Sort of.
Okay so she hasn't exactly started writing it, but it's all there, in her head, she just has to get it out onto paper, and how hard can that be?
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Pretty fucking hard is the answer. Because apparently what sounds like a terrifically eloquent sentence full of beautiful imagery in her mind will always come out sounding like a load of shit, which isn't really what she's striving for.
She'll have to fix that, she decides.
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It really is a testament to how different her life is with these boys that she doesn't even blink when Howard and Raj burst through her door and Raj is carrying Howard in a piggyback and good god they're wearing furry. leggings.
Penny doesn't even comment until the animalistic growls in her ears get to be too much and she has to tell the boys firmly that the leggings really don't bring out her primative urges. Whatsoever.
It's something she definitely would have found gross at one point, but now she just wishes they'd be a bit quieter about it all.
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When she tells the boys about her writing, these are their reactions:
Howard asks her if it’s gonna be porn. Or maybe have raunchy scenes. Well can there at least be a sex scene? Please? The answer (in case you were wondering) is always and for eternity, no.
Raj is quiet because, well, Raj is always quiet that’s just Raj. But he rolls his eyes at Howard and pokes him in the ribs to get him to shut up about it, and that makes Penny smile.
Leonard is encouraging, and he says, “That’s really great Penny! Really!” And then he tells her quietly about fanfiction and suggests that maybe that’d be a quicker, easier way to satisfy her creative juices. But Penny’s never done easy very well, so she just pats him on the shoulder and says thanks.
Sheldon just laughs and tells her “good luck.” Penny pinches his arm and congratulates him on finally getting the hang of sarcasm.
All in all, the reactions are pretty much more than she could have hoped for.
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Just a warning, this story isn't going to end with Penny getting published and becoming a famous author. That's a bit cliche don't you think?
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Sometimes, when she's got writers block, or she just can't get motivated (because facebook is seriously a lot more tempting than an empty word document), she writes in the boys’ apartment. She’ll just grab a pen and paper, pour herself a cup of juice, settle on the couch, and write.
It’s a surprising comfort; the rhythmic sound of markers on the whiteboards playing through the apartment like music as Leonard and Sheldon scribble equations and formulas, solving the problems of their universe as she builds her very own with words.
In these moments she thinks that the three of them would make an awesome superhero team. There's absolutely no explanation for where this thought comes from but Penny's even imagined them up superhero names and outfits and powers. It's pretty bad ass.
She thinks it might be called procrastinating.
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Penny shows the boys the beginning of her novel, only like, ten pages or something (okay so nine pages and three sentences but who's counting) and nothing fancy, and these are their reactions:
Howard dissects every sentence looking for sexual innuendo, but the fact that he tells her it was really, actually pretty great, before asking if she modeled one of her main characters after Chad Michael Murray (“She’s a girl, Howard.” She reminds him. He rolls his eyes. “My point exactly.”) sort of makes her smile a lot. Which is weird because Chad Michael Murray is a bit of a douche.
Raj is still quiet, which, yeah Raj is always quiet, we’ve established that, but still, quiet is unbelievably nerve-wracking when he’s got her words in his palms. She’d rather he be laughing is ass off at her than just sitting there, flipping through the pages, quietly. But when he’s done, he grins, gives her a double thumbs up, and she barely resists the urge to ruffle his hair.
Leonard smiles and squints up at her, telling her it's good, it really is. He also tells her some of the places she could improve and then asks her where she wants to take the rest of the storyline. They sit on the couch for over an hour just talking about her story arcs she's got all planned out, and she doesn't even have to be sitting in Sheldon's spot to feel empowered (but she does anyways cause, duh, why not?).
And then there’s Sheldon, who tells her it's alright and then proceeds to circle pretty much every damn word in red pen and annotate the shit out of every page. She reads over some of the notes later and seriously Sheldon, a formula to help her spell certain words correctly? Impressive.
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On the first page of notes and writing, scribbled across so much that it’s practically all blue, there are telltale signs of each of the boys. That note across the bottom about glasses being sort of cute? That’s all Leonard. A drawing of furry leggings with tiny hearts all around it? Totally Raj and Howard. (Howard had also drawn a pair of boobs in the top left-hand corner, but that’s been so scratched out by Penny that you can’t see them anymore unless you hold the page right up against a light bulb). And that jumble of equations along the top of the page? That’s Sheldon; copied from his board on a long night when it had been just the two of them, working out the problems of two different worlds.
Penny keeps that first page because she’s sentimental that way. And one day in the future, it hangs, framed, on the wall beside a napkin signed a by Leonard Nimoy. Even if it never gets published (remember, we're not ending the story that way, even I don't know if her story gets published) that first page marks the beginning of something great, so Penny keeps it.
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One late night in January Sheldon steals Penny's entire novel so far (now up to an impressive 122 pages) and reads the whole thing as she peers over his shoulder.
When he finishes he turns to her and says, quite solemnly, that she should probably start all over again. But there's not nearly as much red this time, which Penny takes as a victory.
Plus, she pokes him in the neck with a twizzler and then amuses herself with watching him disinfect himself for the next few minutes, so that's a bonus too.
Rating: PG - 13 (only for language)
Pairing/Characters: Penny/Career is probably the main ship. Slight, and I mean extremely slight, undertones of Sheldon/Penny.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the characters or the show The Big Bang Theory.
Summary: Penny is writing a novel. Sort of.
Author’s Notes: SO after about a million years of writer's block, THIS is what I cough up. I really have no idea what it is, it sort of feels like a jumble of things but hopefully it's enjoyable! Concrit is very welcome, as is any comment you want to leave!
In Nebraska the trees have leaves that change color. The trees blush in October, her mother always used to say, see Penny, they're blushing with the memories of silly summer days spent out in the sun. Penny misses the trees in Nebraska.
This really has nothing to do with the story that is about to be told, but it's something about Penny that needs to be shared with someone, at some point.
\\
Penny is writing a book. She's sure that it's going to be a bestseller, and it'll be made into a hit movie and maybe people like J.K. Rowling and Oprah will want to have coffee with her and discuss things like fame or something.
Anyways, Penny's writing a book. It doesn't have a title yet and there isn't really a plot, but it's a book. And she's writing it. Sort of.
Okay so she hasn't exactly started writing it, but it's all there, in her head, she just has to get it out onto paper, and how hard can that be?
\\
Pretty fucking hard is the answer. Because apparently what sounds like a terrifically eloquent sentence full of beautiful imagery in her mind will always come out sounding like a load of shit, which isn't really what she's striving for.
She'll have to fix that, she decides.
\\
It really is a testament to how different her life is with these boys that she doesn't even blink when Howard and Raj burst through her door and Raj is carrying Howard in a piggyback and good god they're wearing furry. leggings.
Penny doesn't even comment until the animalistic growls in her ears get to be too much and she has to tell the boys firmly that the leggings really don't bring out her primative urges. Whatsoever.
It's something she definitely would have found gross at one point, but now she just wishes they'd be a bit quieter about it all.
\\
When she tells the boys about her writing, these are their reactions:
Howard asks her if it’s gonna be porn. Or maybe have raunchy scenes. Well can there at least be a sex scene? Please? The answer (in case you were wondering) is always and for eternity, no.
Raj is quiet because, well, Raj is always quiet that’s just Raj. But he rolls his eyes at Howard and pokes him in the ribs to get him to shut up about it, and that makes Penny smile.
Leonard is encouraging, and he says, “That’s really great Penny! Really!” And then he tells her quietly about fanfiction and suggests that maybe that’d be a quicker, easier way to satisfy her creative juices. But Penny’s never done easy very well, so she just pats him on the shoulder and says thanks.
Sheldon just laughs and tells her “good luck.” Penny pinches his arm and congratulates him on finally getting the hang of sarcasm.
All in all, the reactions are pretty much more than she could have hoped for.
\\
Just a warning, this story isn't going to end with Penny getting published and becoming a famous author. That's a bit cliche don't you think?
\\
Sometimes, when she's got writers block, or she just can't get motivated (because facebook is seriously a lot more tempting than an empty word document), she writes in the boys’ apartment. She’ll just grab a pen and paper, pour herself a cup of juice, settle on the couch, and write.
It’s a surprising comfort; the rhythmic sound of markers on the whiteboards playing through the apartment like music as Leonard and Sheldon scribble equations and formulas, solving the problems of their universe as she builds her very own with words.
In these moments she thinks that the three of them would make an awesome superhero team. There's absolutely no explanation for where this thought comes from but Penny's even imagined them up superhero names and outfits and powers. It's pretty bad ass.
She thinks it might be called procrastinating.
\\
Penny shows the boys the beginning of her novel, only like, ten pages or something (okay so nine pages and three sentences but who's counting) and nothing fancy, and these are their reactions:
Howard dissects every sentence looking for sexual innuendo, but the fact that he tells her it was really, actually pretty great, before asking if she modeled one of her main characters after Chad Michael Murray (“She’s a girl, Howard.” She reminds him. He rolls his eyes. “My point exactly.”) sort of makes her smile a lot. Which is weird because Chad Michael Murray is a bit of a douche.
Raj is still quiet, which, yeah Raj is always quiet, we’ve established that, but still, quiet is unbelievably nerve-wracking when he’s got her words in his palms. She’d rather he be laughing is ass off at her than just sitting there, flipping through the pages, quietly. But when he’s done, he grins, gives her a double thumbs up, and she barely resists the urge to ruffle his hair.
Leonard smiles and squints up at her, telling her it's good, it really is. He also tells her some of the places she could improve and then asks her where she wants to take the rest of the storyline. They sit on the couch for over an hour just talking about her story arcs she's got all planned out, and she doesn't even have to be sitting in Sheldon's spot to feel empowered (but she does anyways cause, duh, why not?).
And then there’s Sheldon, who tells her it's alright and then proceeds to circle pretty much every damn word in red pen and annotate the shit out of every page. She reads over some of the notes later and seriously Sheldon, a formula to help her spell certain words correctly? Impressive.
\\
On the first page of notes and writing, scribbled across so much that it’s practically all blue, there are telltale signs of each of the boys. That note across the bottom about glasses being sort of cute? That’s all Leonard. A drawing of furry leggings with tiny hearts all around it? Totally Raj and Howard. (Howard had also drawn a pair of boobs in the top left-hand corner, but that’s been so scratched out by Penny that you can’t see them anymore unless you hold the page right up against a light bulb). And that jumble of equations along the top of the page? That’s Sheldon; copied from his board on a long night when it had been just the two of them, working out the problems of two different worlds.
Penny keeps that first page because she’s sentimental that way. And one day in the future, it hangs, framed, on the wall beside a napkin signed a by Leonard Nimoy. Even if it never gets published (remember, we're not ending the story that way, even I don't know if her story gets published) that first page marks the beginning of something great, so Penny keeps it.
\\
One late night in January Sheldon steals Penny's entire novel so far (now up to an impressive 122 pages) and reads the whole thing as she peers over his shoulder.
When he finishes he turns to her and says, quite solemnly, that she should probably start all over again. But there's not nearly as much red this time, which Penny takes as a victory.
Plus, she pokes him in the neck with a twizzler and then amuses herself with watching him disinfect himself for the next few minutes, so that's a bonus too.