TBBT 4A Apartment.
"Why? Why? Why?"
As soon as the schoolyard bully Penny left, the perpetually bullied Leonard looked at Adam in displeasure. "Why did you say that to Penny?"
"Don't get worked up."
Adam smiled. "I merely told her a fact.
Don't bully honest people.
Any adult can snap and turn dark in an instant.
It was for her own good, too.
And taking ten thousand steps back, it doesn't seem like you have any relationship with her right now, does it?
Don't act like something has already happened between you two."
"..."
Leonard froze, able only to mutter bitterly to himself, "Penny really is never coming over again this time."
"Don't think too highly of her."
Sheldon, who had been "focusing," suddenly chimed in. "As long as Adam keeps coming over often, Penny will definitely come back."
"What do you mean?"
Leonard glared at Sheldon unhappily. "Are you saying Penny is vain?"
"Isn't she?"
Sheldon said matter-of-factly.
"Shut up! Read your book!"
Left speechless, Leonard snapped in embarrassment and anger.
Los Angeles.
St. Bonaventure Hospital of San Jose.
VIP ward.
"Dr. Duncan, you really should see him. His Porter ballet is absolutely fantastic."
A middle-aged man proudly introduced his son.
"Dad, it's petit pas ballet."
The handsome fifteen- or sixteen-year-old lying in the hospital bed could not help correcting him.
"Right, that's what I meant."
The middle-aged man was not offended in the slightest and clapped his hands.
"You said it in English, but that's a french word, right, sweetheart?"
The middle-aged woman beside him reminded him.
"That's right, Mom."
The young man nodded with a smile, then looked at Adam. "Let's talk about the cancer, Dr. Duncan?"
"Of course."
Adam nodded and looked at Violet standing beside him. "Dr. Evegarden, please begin."
"Jack Fisher, fifteen years old,