A/N: Disclaimer. The characters Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable and others that are used in the Disney Series "Kim Possible" are in fact owned by the Disney Corporation. Also note that I don't make a penny let alone a dime from these fictional stories.

I want to thank CajunBear73 for his tireless effort in trying to make me sound good and seem intelligent. If you think that I am, trust me it is because of his skills.

This story is the second of the "Once Again" series that I just got bored and started typing a while back. The first one was "Winter Adventure" please read that one first as they are related. For some reason I decided to write a romance, yeah I know Sentinel a romance? And everyone looks around to see if the devil is wearing a parka.

Let's get ready to have some fun…..

A Lasting Love

Chapter 1

Middleton Colorado:

He walked out of the store with the last of his purchases. Each piece he commissioned complimented the others. It was the perfect set, all custom made there were no others on the planet that were like these. When she finally had it all, she would be truly stunned. 'Maybe it would become a family heirloom to give to the eldest daughter or something.', he mused. The whole thing would take a few more years to give her, but he was sure. He knew he was lucky. For now the next part would be ready, the rest would go into the safety deposit box at the bank for later.

He looked at his watch. Grimacing he dialed Kim's phone, "KP? Yeah I'm going to be a few minutes late. I have to stop at home for a few minutes. I have to give something to Dad OK? Yes, I love you too.", he told his girlfriend.

It only took a half hour to drive home from the store in Upperton. He quickly put everything of value into his safe that was hidden in his closet behind a false wall. Kim didn't even know he had it, and he hoped Wade didn't either. Ron knew he had to get moving, Kim would be waiting at the mall with Monique. He promised to take them out to a movie and dinner. Everyone in Middleton knew that you didn't keep Monique waiting. That is, if you didn't want the ringing in your ears to die away within an hour or two.

He didn't want the redhead and the raven headed one mad at him at the same time. He would meet up with them in the food court and escort them to a new casual-dining restaurant in Middleton. They had gotten to the mall via one of Wade's robot cars that he had been experimenting with. Kim was never really happy with them. She liked being in control.

The date plus the third wheel actually went off pretty well, except that Kim kept giving Ron some funny coy looks. When this happened Mo always started giggling. It was a heck of a way to spend his birthday, but Ron's parents really never celebrated birthdays. So if he wanted to do something, it had always been with Kim. Ron's parents already had told him they would be gone during prom weekend too, and barred Ron from having any girls over to the house until they returned. It was a bummer, but Ron knew he had to live within the rules.

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Last Christmas he gave KP the necklace. Gold and emeralds. She gasped at the beauty of it, and the kiss Ron received in return took his breath away. "Good present, good present.", he stammered and shook his head to revive himself. Then Kim ran upstairs and called her best female friend, Monique. They talked for hours about the significance of the lovely piece of jewelry. When they went out to dinner the next night KP wore it and hung onto Ron's arm all night. Then a little dancing and about a whole hour of saying 'good night' to each other

For her birthday, only about ten days previously, she received the earrings. When she got them she immediately realized that the necklace matched them perfectly. Quickly she ran back upstairs and put them on as well. She had changed into one of the dresses that Ron bought her with Monique's sound advice. In one word, she looked stunning. James Possible gave a halting laugh as he closed Ronald's gaping mouth. Only to have it fall open again after he took his hand away.

Only a serious "RONALD!", got Kimberly's boy friend's mind back on track.

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With the limo, the dinner, and the flowers the next item would be fabulous. He already told his and her 'rents to be ready, he would give it to her before they left for the big party that night. It would be a Prom to remember. It was going to be the perfect Prom for his beloved. She had helped him pick out his tux, but she was keeping her dress a secret until she unveiled it that evening. The only clue he has was when Monique warned him, "Sidekick, you better have a bottle of super glue to hold your eyes in after you see Kim."

'The royalty money was taking a hit, but it was going to be worth it.', he thought with a smug smile. 'I wonder who's eyes are going to pop out, Mo?', Ron chuckled to himself.

"Where did you get the money for the necklace and ear rings Ron?", a worried Kim Possible asked her boyfriend.

"Well KP you know that restaurant that I work at? They pay me real good. Soon with that and a little royalty money I have coming in I can afford a few things.", he told his girl. 'Good thing she hasn't figured out that the trust owns the place. It's a good place to learn the business.', he thought wryly.

'Wow what a difference a year's made.', the blond haired teen thought to himself, 'KP and me got through the moodulator. And yeah I had a couple of bruises, but I've had worse. It was too bad I had to break up with her afterwards. That screwy device messed with her head. Then we finally became a couple after the Junior Prom. I was sooo scared when I opened up to her. That damned Eric and Dr. D almost screwed her mind up forever. And he almost succeeded with that "THING" too.', Ron gritted his teeth.

'I am so lucky. I made the varsity in football, and was the best running back in the state. It was great KP cheering for me, the recognition and the big trophy, Barkin was so surprised when I gave it back to the school. Doing it for her was worth it, at least she trusts me now. Still it's pretty hard to show all that I can do. Sensei said it was important that no one knows until the last trial. It's funny how I almost always can tell what's going to happen. Why is that? And why do I keep having the bad dream where she turns out hating me?', he asked himself.

Since right before Christmas he had begun to receive funds from the account. Sensei had told him that he was nearly finished with the first part of his trials and needed to accomplish several things soon. Ron did a few searches until he found what he was looking for. He had gotten the birth certificate and began to construct a different identity. 'I sure hope I don't need to do this.', he thought grimly.

Someone had filed the birth certificate in California. Unfortunately the child died only a few days later. Ron looked at the name. He had some friends destroy the only copies of the Medical Examiner's Report and the Death Certificate. 'It will work.', he grimaced, 'Never thought I'd make Bonnie's words come true though.'

It had taken some time and money, but the Yamanouchi School had succeeded. However Master Sensei would not be amused by the choice of name that Ron had as an alias, that is if he knew. Ron just hoped that his recurring dream wouldn't happen for real. If he was cast aside he knew that his part in her life was over. He would be ready to begin a new path in his life. If he was made to leave he would be ready, but it would tear his soul to shreds. At least the girl that he gave his heart and soul to would be fine. He would not return. What purpose would that hold for him? His life without her would become cold and cruel, at least he could help those in need while he remained alive. He had inspected the documents earlier and everything seemed in order. They had been put in the safe with the other valuables.

Ron had already begun diverting large amounts of the royalty money from his original trust and had been diverting a significant portion of it into the fund where only he had access. He made sure his father had control of the rest. Ron's new fund had nearly two dozen front companies to waylay any suspicion of who owned what. 'Paying attention to how Dr. D planned his operations sure worked out.', he laughed to himself. Virtually none of it was done on computer, so most of it couldn't be hacked or traced. Working with Wade Load had taught Ron what a genius could do with a computer and he knew that he wouldn't want that to happen to him. Dean Stoppable showed him the ropes. He only knew that his son had to do something and couldn't tell him.

"It's for everybody's safety Dad. Do me a favor, make sure we set aside enough for my little sister to live on, would you? Just in case something happens to me and I'm not around anymore.", Ron asked his dad as he gave him an envelope. "Uh...Dad are you and Mom going to be able to come over to KP's house. I want to give her the...well...you know. I'd like to know if she really accepts me as the only guy in her life or if we're just gonna stay friends.", he stammered.

"We can't Ronald, your mom got called yesterday to go to this conference, and I'm going too. We're going to take Hanna so you don't lose your big weekend. As for Kimberly, your mother and I give our full acceptance of her into our family, and I think her parents are the same for you. Jim and Anne will be there for you. Have a good time at the prom.", he told his son. "As for the money and your sister, don't worry Ronald, I'll make sure it happens.", he replied to the worried teen. He opened up the large envelope to scan the contents labeled "Last Will and Testament".

"Sorry Dad, just in case you want to know, it's just the revised version.", Ron told his father calmly, "Anyway I have to go, KP and Monique are waiting for me at the mall. I promised them movie and dinner, and you know how they are when I'm late."

'Sensei and his 'people' helped at lot with ideas. I guess it's a ninja thing.', he chuckled to himself hoping that none of this would come to pass. Ron got into his car that he had just purchased. It wasn't new and fancy, he didn't want to look like he had money. It was basic transportation. KP was happy with it, at least it ran good and was comfortable and clean. And the most important thing was that it had a good heater, Kimberly Anne Possible hated being cold.

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Only several more days till the Senior Prom. They wouldn't be showing up like they did last year after the worldwide attack by Drakken: him in that ugly blue tux and her in the singed dress. No this was going to be an all out production. Ron had put out the word to the villain community. Drakken, Shego, the Seniors and even Dementor were on board with giving the teen heroes the weekend off. Yamanouchi sent out a special kind of warning to the evil people of the world and it got their attention too. Kim Possible and Global Justice had no idea what had caused the villain commnity to be very quiet for a few weeks.

Yes this year he was going to look like he belonged on her arm. They had a heck of a night planned. It appeared that Kim, Monique and Tara were conspiring on something and were keeping it away from their dates. A few months previously Monique had told Kim that she and Brick Flagg were an item. As to how she got hold of him while he was in college was a matter of pure speculation. As for Felix and Tara, you just had to look at them to see how they felt about each other.

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When he dropped Kim back off at her home after taking Monique to her home first, she made it up to him. Ron had to wait a few minutes for his blood pressure to come back to normal after KP released him before he could start his car for the short drive home. 'I'll give up all kinds of birthday presents for that treatment.', Ron thought evilly.

"Rufus, I swear KP curled my toes for over twenty minutes. Buddy that was the best present ever.", he told the naked mole rat as he headed into the shower.

Twenty minutes later the blond was getting to sleep while he crushed a pillow up to his chest wishing it was a certain redhead. He dreamed of the 'one': the green eyes, the slim neck, small hands, the fine red hair, the fit female body. The whole package, ahhh.

Then it started again: The tall aliens. The female he knew. Warmonga or something, KP and Shego defeated her once. Why is she back? Who's the big male with her? God he's got a hold of KP's leg. What am I going to do? I gotta save her. Who said that? I'm the What? So I AM! (The view began to have a blue tint to it.) He's taunting me, Warmonga is laughing-----laughing at KP-----NOOOOOOO! You can't have her, she belongs here with her friends, with her family.....with me. Please God, with me!

Panting Ron woke, 'Third time this week. How am I ever going to get any sleep? Should I call her to make sure she's OK? The last time she wasn't happy. She'll think I'm obsessing, or worse, going insane. At least she didn't dump me this time. Well I guess no sleep tonight.'

He got up and threw some clothes on. Quietly left the house, not wanting to disturb his parents. They needed their sleep for the upcoming trip. He made his way, in the dark, to the home of his beloved, to make sure that she was safe in his beleaguered mind. He climbed the tree outside her window and sat on a limb for hours watching over the beautiful sleeping form that was under his care. Nearing dawn his eyes were sagging. He got up from his often occurring vigil to return home to get a few minutes of sleep. It would be another long day. He tried stretching on the way home, to little avail.

After his alarm rang he got up and showered. He had to drop by the Possibles' house to pick up his beloved. She opened the door when he knocked. "You look terrible honey.", she exclaimed to Ron.

"Aw, just some bad dreams. Didn't let me sleep right. I'll be fine.", he smiled at her. They walked to school talking and joking around just like they had for years.

Finally Kim stopped and pulled Ron to a halt as well. "What's wrong Ron? I know something is bothering you. I've always been able to tell since we were little.", she told her boyfriend.

"It's nothing KP, I'm just a little tired.", he replied to his love.

"No Ron, it's something else. I know it, just as well as I know you.", she told him.

"KP, it's stupid. It's not even worth talking about.", he tried to waylay her.

Not having anything to do with that line of thought she pressed, "Tell me Ronald Dean Stoppable.", Kim ordered.

"OH alright, have it your way. I'm scared. I'm scared of graduation. It's gonna change everything. I mean that you've been getting all those college acceptance letters back and what have I got? Nothing, that's what. I guess I am the big slacker, and now everyone knows it too. I'm afraid that you'll go off to a fancy school, meet some incredibly smart and pretty guy and forget about me. I mean I know it might not happen, but I'm afraid that we'll grow apart and I'll never see you again.", he told her his base fears, not the ones keeping him up at night.

"Ron, you a slacker? Maybe a couple years ago. Don't you think that people remember the Diablo thing, or what you did on that mountain top? And everything that you did for me? Aren't they giving you scholarships? I can't believe that you didn't get anything back by now. Your grade point is a 3.0 now too. That's pretty good, you made a lot of progress in the last couple of years. To get it up there you had to make a lot of A's.", she told him with pride.

"Thanks honey, but I can afford the schools so I don't worry about the costs. I have enough naco money left to pay for any school that I want to go to. It's just that I haven't even been accepted to anything. I guess Bonnie was right about the 'loser' thing. I don't know what's going on.", he told her looking down at his feet. He felt lower than a snake.

"Well, if that's the case then I won't go anywhere other than home to go to school, I've been considering Upperton anyway.", she told him trying to calm him down, "Do you want me to have Wade trace it down and see why you're not getting any responses?"

"Nah KP, I gotta do this on my own. It'll work out in the end. Please don't let where I get to go affect where you go. It won't be fair to you and your family. I mean we're talking about affecting the rest of your life. You've worked so hard for this, I can't stand to see myself getting in the way for you to better yourself. Maybe Sensei can get me in to one of those cooking schools in Japan.", he told her hopefully.

"I'd rather we went to school together Ronnie. I don't want you out of my life. I want to spend my life with you, just like we talked about.", she reminded him while pulling him to a stop again, "Remember Ronald Stoppable I wanna be Mrs. Ronald Stoppable someday. Make sure you get that into your head and keep it there." This she punctuated with a deep kiss.

The tweebs took that moment to turn around. They began grabbing their throats and made gagging sounds.

"Tweebs!", Kim growled, "Just wait until you start dating. I am so going to make your lives so miserable."

"You'll be an old maid...", Jim started.

"... of thirty by the time we start dating sis.", Tim finished.

Kim took off after her two demon brothers, ranting all the while.

'At least she will have family and friends at her side, when it finally happens.', he thought sadly, while watching the Possible children play their never ending game, 'I wonder if they know how lucky they are to have each other? I hope this doesn't hurt Hanna, but she's too young to know anyway.'

Ron decided he should watch the sidewalk in front of him to keep his eyes hidden from the redhead while he mused about what might be, but probably wouldn't. 'She has no idea so why make her worry.' A few minutes later they were all on the school grounds and Ron began to feel better.

The school day went off without Ron getting on Mr. Barkin's nerves so he only had the normal homework load that his teachers assigned.

Kim and Ron walked home together. She was happy. After the prom committee met, she was satisfied that the event of the year would be great. Even Bonnie was happy for once. Mainly that was because Junior was buying her presents left and right, though. She was even too busy and happy to annoy Kim and Ron, for the most part. Ron looked into Kim's eyes and saw the love for him there. He pulled her quietly into a warm embrace. "I'll love you always KP. Please remember that.", he told her softly as he pulled away and turned to go home

Kim watched him leave. 'Something is still bothering him. Maybe I can get Ronnie to come over for dinner tonight. His 'rents aren't home again, maybe he's lonely.', she wondered as she watched him walk away slowly.