"As the World Turns"
By Eoraptor
AN: Based not on the soap, but on an idea by AlexThePrettyGood which happens to be very Soap Operatic. Kim Possible and all related characters 2002-2007 The Walt Disney Company, this is a fan-created work and not for profit.
::edit:: for those few of you who opened this to find "And I Feel Fine," Sorry, the site took the wrong document at first, it's fixed now though!
Shego looked up from her specially constructed plasma-and-claw resistant cell, and scowled even more deeply than before, "And what are you doing here? I didn't think the director personally interrogated prisoners."
The one-eyed head of Global justice spared the villainess a glance and shrugged slightly, "I wanted to see how the new container was working out. Your powers are a lot more destructive than Frugal Lucre's, after all."
The evil lieutenant snorted and waved a hand at the older woman, "Oh, is that why you let me keep my gloves this time? Well boohoo for you. I don't feel like playing lab rat for you today, and I need a good night's sleep, so I won't be trying to escape any time soon."
"So, she really did a number on you this time, didn't she?" the Director turned to fully face the incarcerated. "You and your employer made her very angry tonight."
Shego wiped her lip, still tasting copper from the split skin there that had yet to fully heal. "Yeah, well if Drakken had told me his plans to start with, I could have told him that screwing with the heart of a teenage girl was a bad idea, especially a redhead."
"And you had no part in this whatsoever?" Betty spared the imprisoned woman an accusatory glance, "I already have preliminary reports you know."
With a derisive snort, the thief gave her jailer a dirty look, "Oh of course you do. Yeah, I may have pushed a few buttons, but not like that's out of the ordinary for me. Now Drakken pulling off a working plan, ~that's~ new and unexpected."
"Well, you're certainly right there." The director nodded, an uncertain glance dancing through her lone eye. "Do you think he's really stepped up his performance level?"
Shego eyed her jailer for a long moment. Giving out the dole on her boss was not specifically barred in her contract, but it was still bad form. With a shrug, she decided this, at least, could be shared.
"I doubt it. If this was a new burst of energy for him, I think getting taken down by the blond sidedick probably drained it all out of him." She laid back along the bunk in the special cell and looked wanly at the ceiling.
"Sidedick eh?" Betty sighed and shook her head. "You ought to be careful how you refer to him in the future. I have a feeling he is becoming much more important."
"Oh please," the green woman snorted again, trying to clear a blood clot in her sinuses as much as showing her distaste, "Don't tell me you're still on all that Ron Factor bull shit?"
"You have to admit, Shego, that not only did he face down a killer synthodrone, but that he also provided the spark of inspiration Miss Possible needed at the right moment."
"Firstly," Shego immediately rose to challenge Stoppable's qualities, "It was his portable penis that stopped 901, not the dork himself. And secondly… fuck it. Who cares?"
Betty blinked her eye and frowned. It was very unlike the bombastic thief to deflate like that. After a moment, she felt she saw where the malaise was coming from, "You know, Shego… if you would just speak up about your feelings on the situation,"
"That what?" suddenly the fire was back in the mercenary's eyes as she leapt off of the bed and stormed right up to the transparent wall, "That everything would magically work out? That I'd no longer be a wanted criminal? That sh- that someone would see me as redeemable? Sure didn't work before!"
With a bitter sigh, Doctor Director shook her head, "What your brother did was a bit extreme, but you know that it came from good intentions."
"Yeah, because narcing out his sister to the police about breaking a rapist's arm was so well intentioned!" in a reflex, her hands exploded in flame as she stood and glared at the director.
"Shego… you know your family dynamics have always been… complicated." Betty held up her hands, "I don't think sibling rivalry played any part in that incident."
"No… just his all-superior ego." She spat a flaming green gob against the wall. It quickly fizzled without so much as welting the material. "Huh, really does work this time, doesn't it?"
"Yes, it does," She nodded warily, watching the taller, younger woman through the partition. "Now, about your relationship with Kimberly…"
"What relationship?" Shego nearly screamed, the last words the vexing redhead had said to her flooding back, "Do you know what she said to me? Right before she tried to kill me?"
Arching her surviving eyebrow, the director paid closer attention. Her impression was that it had been one more fight, and that Possible had merely had fortune to completely incapacitate her…. Foe. Apparently Shego felt differently, "No, Shego? What did she say to you?"
"She said" and here Shego held up one gloved hand, pantomiming a mouth, "'Do you know what I really hate, Shego?' No, what? 'You!'."
"Shego, don't you think it's about time you told her how you feel about her?"
"Tell her what?" the villainess growled and huffed, "What should I tell the girl who kicked me into a six story tall concrete pylon which then collapsed on top of me while she gleefully watched?
"You could start by telling her that you don't hate her," Betty supplied simply, "and that you'd like to do more than not hate her."
"Oh, easy for you to say." Shego growled darkly, "She still thinks you're the greatest thing since Ian Flemming. It's that sidekick of yours she can't stand."
"Don't talk about your little brother that way, Shego." The director finally resorted to glaring at the younger woman. "Just because he provided evidence about you to the authorities that was, perhaps distorted by point of view, does not mean that Will was wrong to be honest."
"Easy for you to say," Shego sneered, "You're not the one convicted of assault and battery for yanking a perverse little fucker off of an innocent woman. So tell me why the hell I should play for the good guys again? I make every bit as much money as you do, plus I have all the vacation I could want, as well as a Grecian villa and a private masseuse, all tax free. And it only took ~me~ six years. Why should I be good?"
"Because then you might have a shot with Kimberly."
"DON'T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE, MOM!"
This time, her hands exploded with enough heat to trigger the sprinklers in the cell. She sputtered and howled like a doused cat. The Director reached out after a moment and smacked the cutoff button, glaring at her daughter. "I hope that that cooled you off at least a little."
Glaring archly at the ceiling, the villainess growled, "So where is the little bastard, anyway?"
With a bitter sigh, Betty shook her head, "He's not a bastard. You both know who your father is. In fact, if you hadn't thrown a temper tantrum at him that summer, you would have been in Madrid with Will when the comet hit."
"Yeah, you really know how to pick 'em, don't you, Mom?" Shego rolled her eyes darkly, "Vacillating between Hego's dad and old Triple S for almost twenty years?"
"Shego. I think by now you know that women of our stature have… difficult personalities." Betty let go a breath, looking at her daughter. "I loved Hector and Antonio for different reasons. I still do."
"Oh fuck you." Shego turned her back, "You have no room to lecture me about my love life, or lack thereof. At least I've only got eyes for one person."
"If I am lead to understand," Betty sighed, not sure divulging this was a good idea, "then you are not the only one with eyes for her. I am told that Ronald escorted Kimberly back to her Junior Prom after I dismissed them."
"Escorted?" the captive villainess growled dangerously.
"Arm in arm."
"GOD DAMN IT!" Again there was an explosion of flames, followed by a torrent of cold water.
Betty decided that, perhaps, her troublesome only daughter should remain in GJ custody for the evening, "She who hesitates is lost, Shego."
"and she who gets kicked into space by the girl she loves is lost too…" the evil lieutenant bemoaned. "At this rate, I might as well take up with Drakken."
"Oh Shego, don't even joke."