"Shego you love her."
The green woman's head jerked roughly allowing her glare to focus completely on the speaker of those blasphemous words. Her glare however did nothing daunting to the woman before her, which only fueled Shego's fury.
"I'm incapable of loving anyone other than myself you know that, even said so yourself."
Any person of a lesser mind would have said, 'well anything is possible for a possible and she tripped you into falling head over heels in love with her.' However she knew Shego, sleeping with someone for two years tends to at the very least allow you to recognize their body signs. At that moment Shego very much resembled a cat that had been backed into a corner, in fact she was willing to bet that if the green woman had a tail it would have been completely poofed out. She was playing a dangerous game, but still for the red head that she had become so fond of she took a chance figuratively rolling the dice of fate.
"You took her mountain climbing on more than one occasion, after that you stayed with her for cuddle time on the couch in your log cabin in the Andes. You risked arrest to watch her cheer competitions and I'm willing to bet that the Rockwhaler girls bad luck streams from you. Don't give me that you don't care about her crap because you do. You took her out on her birthday, you showed up when you knew she was having bad days just to make her smile. Have I said anything that is untrue?"
Silence for a moment before Shego crossed her arms about her chest green flame in her eyes as she all but growled her next line.
"That doesn't mean that I love her."
Leese didn't bother to reply to that statement both of them knew the truth . Shego was in love head over heels, frolicking through fields of flowers, listen to sappy music while you plot your wooing strategies love, with Kim Possible.
"Damn."
Sighing her hands fell to her sides as her shoulders slumped, glancing over her shoulder at the sleeping brunette in her bedroom she glared back at Leese. There was no arguing with that woman, part of the reason their romantic relationship had deteriorated yet she still spent time with the pixy. Somewhere in her subconscious she supposed she was just naturally soft on red heads.
"Can we at least have this conversation somewhere that we wont wake the dead?"
The question raised Leese's eye brow but the shorter woman stepped aside her hands creating a grand gesture telling Shego to lead the way.
"How the hell'd I wind up here?"
She muttered to herself as she walked out upon her balcony, glancing up to stare up at the sky thinking to herself that perhaps the stars held the answers she needed. She would find no answer there fo thousands of stars were completely obscured, blocked out by the dark clouds that blanketed the moon.
"Well if we're having story time, you should start at the beginning."
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"Okay guys, that was great!"
Kim's enthusiasm at the end of practice remained unrivaled as every other squad member slumped forward releasing a breath of relief. The last minute eight hour practice had worn out everyone, well . almost everyone. Still there were quite a few cheerleaders who as they stripped out of their uniforms participated in chatter; which Kim usually ignored however as Bonnie's voice increased in fervor her ears perked up.
"Tonight's going to be rocking, I'm going to be wearing a Camilla original, it'll be on the shelves next month in Pairs."
Alright so that wasn't what had caught Kim's interest; honestly, she could care less what Bonnie was wearing to a party as long as it wasn't KP Mission attire. Luckily that ship had sailed and now was resting at the bottom of the ocean alongside the titanic. Nevertheless closing her locker she found that she once again was pulled back into the conversation.
"It's going to be huge! Yes, even Stoppable is going to be there. You know the criteria has to be low if he's on the guest list."
Under normal circumstances she would have instantly stepped in to argue on Ron's behalf however one painful detail paralyzed her tongue. Her mind pulled back to the night before. Ron had been attempting to tell her that he would be busy; it had taken the entire flight for him to simply figure out how to work the headset in the military jet . rather than suffer through another earful of static Kim had accepted his absence without an explanation of where he would be, now though she wondered if Ron's mechanical trouble had been an avoidance tactic.
Feeling a hand on her shoulder she looked up into the face of none other than Ronald Stoppable. Instantly a lecture was on her tongue however before her mouth opened she noticed that the locker room was free of all other females. Swallowing her words she stood smiled at him then they slowly walked towards the door. She was mentally debating weather she should bring up the issue. On one hand it would put Ron on the spot and that was one thing she never wanted to do, he'd know she knew that he'd avoided the truth, and that would make speaking with him akweird. He always got jumpy when she caught him in a lie, his voice would rise and his speech patterns would simply collapse in upon themselves. And as he would babble over nothing while she would wonder if he had an off switch.
So, in the end she opted to go a different way.
"Am I boring?"
What she really wanted to ask was 'why am I never invited to things like that?' however she wasn't allowed to bring up the whole party thing so she'd have to go down her list of negative adjectives to find what Ron believed.
"No, KP come on you climb mountains for pete's sake. You are the farthest thing from boring. You're a bit stuck on the straight and narrow and you're wound a bit tight but that's cool. I mean you're good. Dependable, which for someone who is out saving the world every other day dependable is a must. A serious must, it's a good thing. Aww man I'm so not saying this right. Rufus help me out here buddy."
There was a sound that sounded suspiciously like an 'uhh nnnhh' coming from the pocket of his cargo pants and had they been discussing something other than her lack of a social life she would have laughed. As it was she managed to nod and smile at Ron. He instantly relaxed and soon they were talking about food, it was Ron the conversation topics ran from food to video games to naked mole rats then back to food again.
They were both somewhat relieved when they reached his house, and while Ron walked up to his house wondering where the rift between himself and Kim had started, Kim walked away wondering why.
Because as she walked down the street in the darkness she wondered why she didn't deserve a life. She dedicated all of her time to saving the world, preventing evil, promoting what GJ proclaimed to be good, and at the end of the day she patrolled the streets in the darkness alone while her peers partied, while her for lack of a better term sidekick, partied alongside them.
"Dependable, my ass."
Beep Beep Da Beep.
She was tempted to throw the communicator into the street and watch as an eighteen wheeler crushed it to bits, however as her fingers wrapped around it's slim frame and the muscles in her arm contracted allowing her to remove the device she merely stared at it in her hand.
Beep Beep Da Beep.
Her hand shook as every muscle in her arm contracted at that moment, her body reacting to her rage and the device, the world needing saving while she was throwing her own party albeit a pity party, she wanted a night to herself for once. She wanted to not be 'dependable' after all what diehard romantic says "and this is my lover her eyes shine brighter than the stars, she makes my heart flutter, when I see her walking towards me I sigh with sheer delight. Ahh but her best trait, she's dependable."
Damn.
Her thumb however had a mind of it's own and instantly she pressed the video cam button looking down she offered a forced smile that to any observer appeared natural.
"Go Wade."
"Geesh Kp for a minute there I didn't think you'd pick up. We've got a standard Monkey Fist plot in Germany, feel like having some good old fashioned sausage?"
Vaguely she wondered 'what if I say no?' She wanted to voice her statement just to see the look on his face, to see the look on the worlds face as Kim Possible the great dependable Kim Possible took a night off. The most ironic thing about that scenario would be that her 'partner' Ronald would have been the one that broke her. Shaking her head she sighed.
"No problem Wade. When does my ride get here?"
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She stood knee deep in snow shivering, in the middle of the German wilderness, waiting for a ride that Wade had promised would be there three hours ago. For the first thirty minutes she had been greatfull for the gum that Wade had packed in her bag, it was the only thing preventing her from becoming hypothermic . When dependable Kim Possible runs to save the world she doesn't always have time to grab a jacket so in her standard mission gear she waited, shivering in the snow.
As the night progressed she began to wanted, walk about , anything to keep at least try to move her up.
After what felt like hours, because in actuality it had been hours, she found herself on the outskirts of a town, that was completely closed down. Even the small town inn owners had closed down for a night so if you didn't already have a room and a key to the lobby you were out of luck. She began to search for any place open and after around five minutes she had crossed the entire town, and the sounds of a blasting base line captured her attention. Following the beat hoping that the owner of the sound system could possibly hook her up with some hot chocolate she saw that it was a rather large warehouse with strobe lights coloring the windows.
Great.
The bouncer at the door took one look at her and sighed.
"Wanna come in girly?"
Blinking twice Kim tried to cover her shock, and had her lips been any color other than blue at that moment she would have been over joyed, all she could manage at that moment was relieved.
"Yyyoouu spspeak Englisshh."
He nodded.
"Yes this is an American owned club. Come now, you must get out of this weather. Your outfit is not equipped for this cold."
opening the door he ushered her inside, where the pulsing beet pulsed through her body. The warmth was more than she could have asked for, she wasn't even flinching at the hard core grinding occurring on the dance floor, rather she focused on the fact that she was no longer exposed to the elements. The bouncer led her to the bar, and ordered a hot chocolate for her. Before she could protest over her lack of money .
"You will drink this, after all how often is one in Germany? I must return to my post, will you be alright?"
She nodded and opened her mouth to thank him however he only shook his head and smiled at her.
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Shego couldn't believe her luck, Germany. Yep Kimmie was indeed in Germany half dressed in the middle of winter. For a moment she considered slipping out the back door but something in the way the teen hero hunched over the hot chocolate, well she couldn't turn away. Sighing she slipped onto the bar stool next to the still shivering teen placing a plasma warmed hand on the girls thigh.
A provocative intimate touch that at any other time she was sure the teen hero would have shrugged off but at that moment, the only thing on Kim's mind was 'warmth.' Grinning devilishly she draped an arm over the young teens shoulders.
"So Possible what brings you to Germany."
It was as if her voice snapped Kim out of her daze, leaping out of her seat Kim's eyes widened as she caught sight of Shego, something about the teens reaction made her laugh, an almost giddy feeling rising in her chest.
"Monkey Fist."
Something in the teen's tone, struck a chord of déjà vu. Though she knew for a fact that she'd never been around a Kimmie that had ever used that tone of voice usually the teen hero was focused intent on riding the world of evil. This Kimmie was resentful, and if she didn't know better she would have said that her little Kimmie was livid.
"Where's your buffoon?"
Again lightning flashed through the younger red heads eyes and pieces began to fall into place.
"He's at a party."
It was in that moment that Shego made a split second decision. She could have brought back their day jobs but they were at her German hole in the wall, finally warming up, no Dr.D to worry about, and it looked like Kimmie had left her hero holier than thou attitude back in the states. Asking herself what the hell could it hurt, she offered her rival a friendly grin.
"Well Kimmie, so are you."
Shaking her head the red head sighed as she finally settled back onto her bar stool leaning on the bar she looked back at the off clock villain.
"I have to figure out how I'm getting home."
It was all coming back to her, Ontario when she was seventeen, the final straw on the camels back, her brothers had left her in the cold for hours, she'd had to hitch hike home. Something told her that no matter how hard she tried, hitch hiking wasn't going to get princess home.
"I've got a jet but the ticket comes at a price. You my little Kimmie are mine tonight, and tomorrow say the word and I'll take you wherever it is you want to go."
Kim's eyes lit up for a moment, she bet it was the thought of returning to a warmed climate.
"Nothing illegal and you've got yourself a deal."
Grinning Shego put her arm once more over Kimmie's shoulders allowing her plasma to take the edge off the frost, and she felt Kimmie relax the teenager finally melting with the happiness. Grinning once more like the Cheshire cat nodded to the bartender.
"Two of your best beers."
She felt Kim's eyes on her the moment the words left her mouth.
"Those both better be for you."
Laughing Shego looked back down at the teenager sitting on the stool. There were signs of stress consuming the teenagers face, and she remembered exactly what It was like she had been there once upon a time and the spiral to villainy is well, less than fun although she had to admit that once she had broken away from the hero business her life had gotten so much freaking better.
"Kimmie you said nothing illegal, but Princess your in Germany. It's completely legal here the drinking age is 'if you can walk up to the bar and order it, you can buy it and drink it."
Kim's eyes remained on Shego as if to say 'and your point is?' Sighing she wondered how she was going to get the beverage in the young hero, and then it clicked.
"You are in Germany it's the middle of the night, you're in a rockin club with a beautiful woman willing to buy you drinks which you can legally consume and you're saying no why? Live a little Kimmie, you're not doing anything wrong. Hell I'm not even wanted in this country the last German warrant for my arrest expired six moths ago. Give me one good reason why you shouldn't cut loose for once in your life?"
She watched as little Ms Perfect finally renounced her title and the second the mug, which happened to be standard for Germany appeared Kimmie's had reached out. The glass proved to be a bit much for the teenager so she took it in both hands taking a rather large gulp. Laughing Shego waited for Kim to spit in out only for her own eyes to widen as Kim swallowed and grinned at her.
"So what's the plan for tonight?"
Laughing Shego took a gulp herself of the German beer, it was the only alcoholic beverage she was willing to consume. Laughing at Kimmie she took the red heads hand dragging her out to the dance floor as the sounds of three oh three blasted through the speakers. There was a protest on Kim's lips and reserve in Kim's eyes and she wanted just for a moment to give the kid a night without having to worry about what was going on in her mind.
"Hey Kimmie, knock it off. Don't worry about it. Let your body react to the music like you do in cheer only sleeze it up a bit."
The lights flashing, bodies crashing into one another with the pounding music Kimmie finally got it, that she didn't have to measure up to anything, that for one night no one was dependent on her. She remembered what it was like to be there , to have the world expecting you to know exactly how high to jump and do so every five seconds for eternity with no break. Relaxing into the beat Shego instantly lost herself in the music as well.
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"Oh…Ngghh. My head. Where am I?"
The small red head rolled over lost for a moment.
"Go baccck to sleep Princess."
Green and red relaxed for a moment as their muddled minds slowly caught up to where they were and
Three
Two
One.
"WHAT THE HELL!"
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