Author's note: The series resets with this episode. Remember that as this story progresses, many times they resume the storyline as if never having sex before with each other. So is the case in this episode.
One of my readers requested adding pictures of the new characters, but this is not allowed by Literotica. When a new character is introduced, I will put in parenthesis the character's real name so you can look them up on the internet.
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Howard and Sheldon were playing their instruments on their Nintendo Rock Idol and Raj was singing loudly.
Penny came in and asked them to quiet it down slightly, it was too loud.
Howard commented, "Penny, come on. We were just finding our sound."
She made a face and replied, "You found it, it's the sound of a cat being run over by a lawn mower."
Just then Leonard came out of his bedroom. He was speaking on the phone, "I have been rather busy. Is there any way we can put this off until I have more time to prepare?" He listened to what the person on the other end of the phone was saying, he replied again, "Of course, but, uh, you understand my trepidation"
Penny came into the room from the doorway, "What's that about?"
Howard looked on, "Not a clue!"
Leonard continues, "Can't we just postpone it till the spring? Maybe next summer?"
Sheldon took his guitar off, "This should be fairly easy to deduce. He's holding the phone to his left ear. Ears do not cross hemispheres. He's using the analytical rather than emotional side of his brain, suggesting that he has no personal relationship with the caller."
Leonard speaks into the phone once again, "No, I didn't realize it has been so long. Sure, I guess there's no other choice but to go ahead and do it."
Sheldon turns back to Penny, He's referring to an activity he has done before. It's unpleasant and needs to be repeated. This suggests some sort of invasive medical test, like perhaps a colonoscopy."
Leonard raises his voice into the phone, "Aren't there any other options? There's not a lot of room. It's gonna be uncomfortable."
Sheldon smiles, "Yes, yes, I'm definitely going with colonoscopy."
Leonard finally finishes his call, "Okay, bye!" He hangs up and sees everyone staring at him. He looks dejected, "My mother's coming to visit!"
Howard scoffs and looks to Sheldon, "How about that? You were right!"
A couple days later Penny is coming upstairs from the laundry room and sees a woman standing before the elevator looking at the caution sign. She had a travel suitcase with her. Penny looks from her to the sign, "It's out of order!"
She looks to Penny, "Yes, I can read the sign. I'm just pondering the implications."
Penny bites her lip, "I think it implies that the elevator doesn't work."
She looks back at Penny again, "Again, I can read the sign. The sign and tape are covered with a layer of dust which indicates the elevator had been nonfunctional for a significant amount of time which suggests either remarkable passivity among the, I assume 24 to 36 residents of this building based on the number of mailboxes and given typical urban population density or a shared delusion of functionality."
Penny stood there with her mouth open, listening to her going on and on. Penny suddenly realized it and replied, "You must be Leonard's mother."
"Oh, I don't know if I must be, but yes."
Penny smiled at her, "Uh, I'm Penny, I'm his neighbor."
"Oh, I'm Dr. Beverly Hofstadter (Christine Baranski)."
Penny puts out her hand to her, "Oh, nice to meet you."
She looked down at Penny's hand, "Oh, you're a hand shaker, interesting." She shakes Penny's hand
"Uh, come with me. I'll walk you to the apartment."
"Oh, all right. Would you like to exchange pleasantries on the way?"
Penny stifled a smile, "Yeah, sure, I guess."
"All right, you start."
"I've always been curious. What was Leonard like when he was little?"
As they headed up the stairs Beverly replied, "Oh, I think you mean young. He's always been little."
"Right, what was he like when he was young?"
"You'll have to be more specific."
"Oh, um, okay, like five or six." Beverly stopped on the first landing and looked at Penny over her glasses. Penny stared back and added in a meek voice, "Five!"
"Oh at that age, he was in what Freud would call the phallic stage of psychosexual development."
Penny scoffed, "An outmoded theory, of course."
"But the boy did spend most of his waking hours with a tight grasp on his penis."
Penny chuckled, "Oh, yeah, Leonard mentioned you were a psychiatrist."
"Well, that is one of my degrees. My primary field is neuroscience."
"Oh, well, I'm an actress."
They stopped on the landing of the third floor, Beverly giggled, "Why?"
Penny laughs too, "Ha, what do you mean, why?"
"There were studies what suggest many who go into the performing arts suffer from an external locus of identity."
Penny looks to the ceiling and wines out, "Yeahhhhhhh, I don't know what that means."
"Well, it means you value yourself only as others value you, which is often the results of unmet childhood emotional needs."
"Oh, well, I had a wonderful childhood."
Beverly once again peers over the top of her glasses at Penny, "Tell me about it."
By the time they reached the top of the stairs, Penny is crying as she speaks, "I know my dad wanted a boy. I--I just--I tried being good at sports, but I hated getting dirty."
Beverly stopped before Leonard's door, "And then, I'm assuming, you entered adolescence."
Still wining Penny replied, "Uh-huh, he called me slugger until I got my first training bra and then he just stopped playing catch with me. I wasn't slugger anymore." She knocked on Leonard's door and when he opened it, she called out to Leonard, still crying, "Your mother's here!" She walked dejected to her apartment.
Beverly turned to Leonard, "If you want to have intercourse with that girl, find out what cologne her father wore." She walked in without as much as a hug.
Leonard picked up her travel bag and replied, "Good to see you, mother."
The next day the fours nerds and Beverly were in the cafeteria and Howard starts ragging on Leonard and Leonard strikes back. Beverly belittles Howard and Raj and repeats over and over again that it's time for Leonard to show her his lab. He relents and shows her and he's totally destroyed by the evening.
Leonard leaves Sheldon and Beverly alone in the apartment and sneaks off to Penny's place to hide. He knocks on her door and she opens it, "Hey?"
He looks beaten, "You got alcohol?"
She's wearing a sweatshirt and matching pants and a baseball cap, she replies, "Your mom still here?"
He nods, "Yep!"
She holds up a bottle of booze, "Come on in." He grabs it and she stops him, "Wait, she's not gonna come here looking for you, is she?"
"Oh relax; she took Sheldon to the hospital to get a brain scan."
She's shocked, "Oh, my God. What happened?"
"Nothing, mother likes looking at brains and Sheldon likes getting his brain scanned."
She flops down on the sofa, "Jeez, what a fun couple."
He sets the bottle down and two glasses, "Ugh, she's only been here a day and a half and I'm seriously considering alcoholism as a new career path."