This is a short story that dates after "The Dream" but before "Worth It".
Drakken's lair crackled with electricity. Giant blue arcs jumped thunderously from node to node all around the Faraday cage. Only in between jolts could either Kim or Shego taunt each other clearly. Shego stood, not in her normal green and black catsuit this time, but instead, it was just a black, ribbed, tank top with tight black exercise shorts. Kim appreciated the exposed muscular arms and thighs, but she had a job to do. And this time, a new goal.
Shego suddenly flaunted giant metal claws, held her hands high beside her, and curled her fingers menacingly. The chatoyant weapon glimmered in blue and white as the flash of electrical current jumped around both of them. "Like my new outfit Princess?," she grinned wide.
Kim matched her grin with a suggestive smirk, "Electrifying." Kim pulled out something that looked similar to a taser gun but with a rectangular brick at the front and pointed it at Shego. She fired.
Immediately, Shego dodged effortlessly and that brick-like object embedded itself just behind Shego on the ground, "Geez, Kimmie, I never thought your aim was that bad. Are the claws that intimidating?"
A muted chuckle, "On the contrary, Shego, I think they're very attractive." She pressed a button on the gun and the brick hummed a moment just before Shego was thrown backwards, hands first, towards it. A surprised yelp was heard after another crackle around the cage and Shego was pinned to the floor as the claws clung to the electromagnet.
Kim went over to Shego with a celebratory grin and straddled her hips, "I'm going to kiss you now."
Shego was shocked at what she heard as she struggled to get free, "W-what?" A little quiver in her voice, "What did you say?"
"I said," she leaned close to her lips, "I'm going to kiss you now."
Kim parted her lips but Shego interrupted, "Are you up yet?"
The question confused her, "Huh?"
"You're gonna be late if you don't get ready soon. Kim?"
Further confused, "What?" Kim's eyes fluttered to the sound of her mother's voice.
"Kim, I gotta head to work. You've got about ten minutes before school. You better get going."
Kim rubbed her eyes and groaned into her pillow, "Okaaay!" Damn it! Five more seconds! Couldn't give me five more seconds!? "I'm getting up!" The weight of her head felt immensely heavier having not woken up naturally. The effort to yell was a nuisance in of itself. Even though Kim was a morning person, waking up from that dream was far from desirable that morning.
Despite what Kim thought was enough to have her mother off to work, Dr. Mrs. Possible continued, "Okay good, I'm heading out. There's a roast in the fridge for dinner, your father and I are going to be late tonight. Don't eat junk food and make sure your brothers eat too."
"'Kay Mom, got it." Yeah, because eating a couple pop-tarts after school is going to kill me.
"Love you, bye!"
"Bye!" Uggghhhh!
~oO0Oo~
Kim dumped her book bag on the couch after coming home from cheerleading practice. To say the least, she was ready to eat. "Tweebs! You home?" No answer came but two loud bangs were heard from the den. She spoke quietly to herself, "Yeah, they're home." She was actually relieved as she left them by themselves for only a smidge of time. They, too, had extracurricular activities that timed up well with Kim's schedule. She eyed the pop-tart box on the counter but opt to start pre-heating the oven for the roast instead. Her stomach grumbled at her, It's just a pop-tart, it's no big. She took out the manufactured sugar squares and began munching to her satisfaction. She went back to the couch and took out her assignments and started her studies while waiting for the oven to heat. Her Kimmunicator suddenly went off. An arched brow, "Hey Wade, what's the sitch?"
"Might want to get your battlesuit ready for this one Kim, Shego's out with Drakken stealing a military grade radio jammer and some top secret tech from a temporary storage facility downtown. I guess they were waiting for it to be in a less secure holding spot before deciding to steal it. All the guard's look they've been taken out by Shego. I'll get more details about that when I get them but this is out of the ordinary for Drakken."
She thought a moment, "Hmm, frequency jammers don't seem to be his style either. Ride?"
"Six minutes away heading towards Ron's house."
"Thanks Wade, you rock. I'll be there in three."
With his usual smile, "Wade out."
Kim balled her fists excitedly and did a silent dance. She rushed to her room to put on her suit and then she remembered, "Tweebs." She picked up her Kimmunicator and quickly dialed.
Monique picked up, "Hey Kim, what's-"
"HeyMoniqueINeedYourHelpCanYouComeOverAndBabysitTheTweebsIt'sReallyImportantAndI'llOweYouBigPleeeeeaaase!?"
"Woah! Slow down," she sighed after her brain caught up with what Kim said so rapidly, "Alright, fine, but this is seriously the last time. Your brothers set actual rockets off in the house! Nearly took my head off, girl! And then they threatened to put me in a vortex bubble. What even is a vortex bubble?"
"IKnow!I'mSorryPleasePleasePlease!"
"Okay okay, I'll be right over but you're giving me deets on why you're so excited. Not to mention lunch at Café Mousse."
"OKAY, THANK YOU, BYE!" Yes! She quickly got ready, wrote a quick note about the roast, and headed out. Wait, she wants to know why I'm excited. Whatever, I'll think of something later. Eeee Shego time!
~oO0Oo~
"KIM POSSIBLE!? AND THAT… guy I can never remember. Roy something something." Drakken spoke from behind a console.
To this day, still in disbelief, "Ron! IT'S RON! Not that hard! Come on!"
"Erm, whatever. Shego, get them!"
Shego dropped a large, heavy crate she was moving to the 'get-away-ship', "Yeah, 'cause I'm not doing anything important. Just lugging around a heavy ass crate of whatevers!"
"They're not 'whatevers', Shego, they're hyper oscil-"
Shego cut him off, and dragged her words long, "Don't caaare, Dr. D.!"
Drakken grumbled something along the lines of 'I explained all of this to you before' as Kim turned to Ron, "Ron, you think you can handle Drakken while I take down Shego?"
"You can count on me K. P." Ron said confidently as he tightly gripped his belt buckle.
Kim put herself in mission mode, "Really Shego, I'd think you would have given up on Drakken by now. With all your heavy lifting and hand holding, I can't help but think you put him down for naps too."
Drakken turned to Kim angrily, "Hey! I heard that!"
"She knows, Dr. D. THAT'S THE POINT! Gonna be honest, Kimmie, some days I gotta find his favorite jammies."
He waved his hands around embarrassingly, "Shego! Way too specific!"
"Just go handle the blonde, you've got those laser thingies."
He drove a pointed finger in the air, "Ah ha! Yes, that's right!" and gave his usual evil laughter.
Kim began to rush towards Shego from far across the room, "Shall we?"
Shego charged her hands and smiled. Not a grin like her usual, but a pleasant smile as if she just really needed to unwind. "Show me what you got!"
Kim and Shego danced in their usual brutal way - kicking, punching, grappling - but managed to engage in some conversation between blows. "Bad day?" It wasn't a taunt despite sounding as such. Kim was actually curious.
Shego swiped at her with her hands and followed through with a high kick, "Hasn't been the best. I think he's hormonal with his last failed project." She grumbled at the memory.
A back flip and a twirl. She sidestepped on some crates and leapt off towards Shego. Between her blows, she spoke in a way that only Shego could hear, "You can't reduce every bad behavior on just hormones, Shego. That's like him saying we're on our period when we have a legitimate reason to be upset about something." Kim retreated into a defensive stance and aimed to get farther away from Ron and Drakken.
Shego gave chase to get close to Kim and then stopped, "No… no, I literally mean, he was handling mutated hormones and he messed up. The guy hasn't been himself since. I'm just glad it's wearing off, but a hell of a lot longer than I wanted, though." A wheeled kick, a jab, and a backhand swipe.
"Oh. That kind of explains the whole…," Kim dodged the first two strikes that landed into storage crates but blocked the last, "Hey, kick me that way," she subtly pointed toward a large window that lead to the street outside, "I've got an idea." Shego raised a brow curiously. "Just do it." She shrugged and followed through and Kim went flying through it rather than near it. Shego briefly tightened her neck as she surprised herself with the intensity of her own kick. She didn't intend to kick her so hard.
She played it cool until she was entirely out of Drakken's view and then scampered along hurriedly. "Um, you're a lot lighter than the henchmen."
Kim held the arm that blocked the kick and tried not to wince from how painful it was. She shook some of the shattered glass from her face away, but remained on the ground. She grunted, "Hrmf, it's fine, the suit took most of the impact."
Shego extended her hand to help Kim up, "I'm-I didn't um, I just needed to-" It was clear that Shego wanted to apologize, but she just couldn't say the words. She's a villain after all and villains don't apologize. Then again, villains don't offer a helping hand either.
Kim took her hand, "It's fine, Shego." Shego lifted her to her feet. "You'd have to hit me a lot harder than that for me to give it a second thought, it's no big. Besides, you've kicked me harder without the suit." A brief moment to act tough in front of Shego felt silly but she wanted to impress.
"Feh, sure. Alright, what's this idea of yours?"
"I know this area, there should be a..." she looked around and immediately smiled, "this way."
Shego looked around as well, or rather, she looked around for any authorities, "'Kay." She shrugged her eyebrows and followed Kim just around the corner to the back alley of an ice cream shop. She could still hear the subtle irritation Ron was giving Drakken and the petty retorts Ron gave. "And what will we be doing here?" she asked as Kim was standing around staring at the wall of the shop.
"Well, it's closed, but you know, it should still be alright if I pay for it, I just don't want to be seen by any cameras." The idea that she was committing a crime gave her anxiety, but she kept pushing the feeling down with the intent to pay.
Shego immediately blew a hole into an electrical box, "Oops?" She looked at Kim who was glaring at her as pieces of debris were still falling, "What? You're the one going to commit a breaking and entering."
"Don't… say that, I'm just… getting a well deserved victory treat. And like I said I'm going to pay for it… and apparently for damage to the electrical box too," she sighed, "Please don't blow anything else up?"
"First off, just blame me, Collateral damage, doy. Second, victory huh?"
Kim smirked, "But of course, you owe me."
Shego leaned a hand on her hip and craned her neck, "For what? You 'won' the last fight."
"Shh, I'm going in," Kim used her suit to magnetically unlock a window and crawled in. Shego was unsure why she was shushed, but after a couple minutes passed, Kim was coming out again, "Hey, hold this."
Shego arched her brow and held the double scoop ice cream cone with Oreo and Strawberry, "So, you going to tell me why I owe you anything."
Kim smiled, "Yes. You are stressed and you need a treat. And that treat is on me."
Shego smiled at that, "Alright, I'll give you that, where's yours?"
"We'll share. I only had enough money on me for this." Kim lied. She lied so confidently it rolled off the tongue as natural as her desire to be with Shego.
"Oh…," Shego was surprised with Kim's suggestion and somewhat froze.
Kim realized it may not have been so proper to assume Shego was comfortable with sharing and became very nervous, "Un-unless, you don't want to. It-it's yours, really."
Shego blushed, "N-no, it's okay, I just thought that you-"
Kim started gaining a rising smile again, "I'm fine with it if you are." She looked at her a little more suggestively.
Shego began to relax a little, but wasn't sure entirely of Kim's look. She understood this relationship as a platonic one but that look wasn't making her so confident. She shook the thought away when she remembered the note on the mini-shampoo bottle she was given. It was from a fight they had almost a year ago and Kim had given her a bottle of her favorite scented shampoo to reconcile for something she had done to Shego. It was then that she realized there was more to Shego than just being a villain. The note said she 'wasn't her cupcake' and it made nothing beyond friendship very clear. Kim isn't interested in that kind of relationship, she's too young for you anyway, Shego thought. She took a bite of the ice cream and passed it to Kim. She thought to continue a past conversation they had in their previous encounter, "How was your last exam?"
"Oh that? Aced it. I worried over nothing. I actually had to correct one of the questions since it asked an 'or' but the subject covered two topics." She took a nibble on the opposite side of Shego's bite, still unsure of Shego's comfort level, and passed it back.
"Haha, that's good. It's one thing when students think they know something and try to rub it in the teacher's face, but you actually know your stuff."
"That I do. How 'bout you, how've you been? You know, besides Drakken on monster hormones."
"Oh, um," she thought a minute and tried to think of something mildly engaging, "I added some more flowers to my garden last weekend. Nothing really interesting. They were pretty young, I'm not sure they were ready to transplant, but it didn't look like I was going to have time to plant them when they were ready. Now or never I guess." Another bite, a little closer to Kim's last one and passed it back.
Kim thought that was unexpected, "You have a garden?"
"What? Big green terror not a allowed to have a garden?"
"No no, just surprised. Besides, you are not a terror," again another suggestive look, "What did you plant?"
What is with that look? Maybe she's tired. "Some hydrangeas. Should go nicely with my chrysanthemums."
"Wow. It sounds beautiful. Think you could share a picture with me someday?" Kim kept her gaze on Shego's eyes as she took an overlapping bite, and once again, gave it back to Shego. Kim tried to read her face to see if it was okay to make such a daring move.
Shego was trying to read Kim's face as she answered and wondered why she was staring, "Oh," Shego's heart began quickening. It was Kim's gaze. Subtle but still suggestive. "Maybe I can take you there." Shego shocked herself, she had no intention of taking anyone to her secret gardens. But that look made her weak.
Kim hadn't looked away, her eyes locked to Shego's, or rather, she was lost in them. "I would really really enjoy that."
They stared at each other a lot longer than they both realized and the ice cream began to melt in Shego's hand. She snapped out of her trance, "Uh-ah oh, gotta eat it." Shego lapped at the drippings.
Kim snapped out of it as well and lunged forward trying to save the ice cream from falling over with her tongue. Their faces only a short inch from each other until Shego bumped Kim's nose when she felt Kim's hands gently grasp her wrist. Kim was surprised by the chill on her nose, "Gah!" and stepped back.
"Oh uh, I didn't mean, I thought this was… Kim?" She stared at the woman in front of her with a dollop of cream on her little nose. "Kimmie, I'm, I thought you wanted to be friends."
Kim stepped forward with a careful smile, "We can be… but I don't-"
"K.P.! NEED A LITTLE HELP HERE. DID YOU TAKE CARE OF SHEGO!?" Ron shouted as loud as he could.
"HOLD STILL RALPH, THESE LASERS TAKE TIME TO CHARGE!"
"IT'S ROOOOON!"
"WHAT-EVER! AND STOP TOUCHING THINGS! YOU ALWAYS BREAK SOMETHING!"
"DOY! I'M TRYING TO BREAK THINGS! K. P.!?"
"BE THERE SOON, RON!" She started walking back to the storage facility. She turned to Shego who was following, "You can take the jammer if you leave the top secret tech behind. Sound fair?" Kim stopped to wipe her nose with one hand and outstretch the other for a handshake.
Shego reasoned, "You did get me ice cream." Kim smiled brightly. As she went to shake Kim's hand, "What were you going to say? You don't what?" Kim's smile turned more devious as she gripped Shego's arm tightly. "Wait, I know that look, Kim. That's my look. Just tell me, you don't what?"
Kim, with the power of her suit, threw Shego into another window closer to Ron's and Drakken's direction. Kim released a breath she was holding, "I don't want to be 'just friends' anymore." Kim held her smile and pondered on whether she should repeat those words so Shego could hear. Or maybe, she thought, I'll tell her she wasn't nearly as heavy as the henchmen.
Minor update to the story. I added a bit more context to the "shampoo bottle" reference so there isn't as much disconnect if you hadn't read "The Dream" yet. I correct a couple spelling errors, but I'm not confident I caught them all. So, if you see any, please let me know. :)