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Author's Note: This is my first KiGo fanfic, so I am going slow with this. I have made up Shego's parents' names and Shego's as well. This isn't canon. And there is no specific time line. As always, read and review.

Between Two Lungs: Chapter 1

Stella took a deep breath and walked down the stairs into her parent's living room.

"Mom, dad there is something I need to tell you, do you guys have a minute?" Stella asked walking into the room.

"Sure honey what is it?" Her mother asked looking up from her book.

Stella sat down across from her parents and looked at them with tears in her eyes.

"Mom, dad, I beg you to listen before you pass any judgment. Let me explain this before there is an uproar." Stella said, taking a deep, calming breath.

Her parents sat, brows furrowed, looking bewildered at their 16 year old daughter.

"I've known since I was very young that I was different. The way I saw the world and perceived its events, were way different than that of any one around me. Then the comet struck and we were forever changed and completely different, and now I know that it will be even more difficult for society to accept me as I am. I don't want to be a super hero any more; I want to live my life the way I want to. I am not stupid and I understand that life will be difficult, but I have come to terms with who I am, every part of who I am, and I want you guys to know that…that I am gay." Stella said.

There was a thick moment of silence.

"What?!" Her dad explained.

"I'm gay." Stella said again.

Her mother stood up at once and advanced on her daughter who stood as well to face the on coming wrath. She was not disappointed. A loud crack sounded in the air and Stella stood their holding her cheek in her hands, tears falling down her face.

"I will not…stand for this! My only daughter! A…A…A Dyke!" Her mother said outraged.

She was shaking with rage and grief.

"Helena, there was no need to slap her." Her husband said getting to his feet as well.

"How can you be so calm about all of this Graham?! I refuse to believe that our daughter is a carpet muncher!" Helena said still shaking with rage.

"I am who I am, and you should accept it!" Stella hissed, her tone dripping with malice.

"Do you have any idea what people will say? What they will think?" She asked.

"Quite frankly, I don't give a damn what people think about me." Stella said curtly.

"You don't care what people will think about us? About your brothers? It's bad enough that you all have super powers, and now your sexuality has to be changed too?" She asked.

"First of all, this isn't about you, it's about me. Second, my brothers can handle themselves; third, my sexuality has always been the same since I first noticed that I was different." Stella replied.

"But what about all those boys you dated? You even had sex with one! Don't deny it! I heard you!" Helena said as Stella shook her head.

"I had to be sure, I had to see if it was just a stupid phase, but I found out that I didn't like it! I'm not straight, I'm gay!" Stella said anger rising in her voice.

Her body began to glow with the heat of her plasma, her hands ignited, clenched into tight fists. She stood there, shaking with anger; she didn't expect them to understand right away, she knew it would take time. This anger that her mother was exhibiting was infuriating. She never expected this.

"You dare ignite your fists at me!" Her mother shouted.

"Helena stop." Graham said placing a hand on his wife's shoulder.

She glared at her husband, but backed away from their daughter. Stella faltered under her father's unusually stern gaze.

"Stella, Helena you both need to calm down. There is no sense on talking about this when you're both angry." He said standing between the two.

"Dad this isn't about me being angry. It is about me trying to be open with you guys like you asked. You guys have always been honest with us, and this is a secret I have been keeping for a long time, and now I see that it was a great mistake to tell you guys this," Stella said not looking at her father.

Helena scoffed and left the room, leaving her husband and daughter alone.

"Dad, I'm sorry I never meant for this to happen." Stella said.

"Don't worry about your mom, she will come around." He said placing a hand on her shoulder.

"She won't, and I am not sticking around to wait for her to look at me like she used to alright." Stella said heating up again.

Her father pulled his hand away as his daughter's temperature rose.

"I'm just going to go dad. I think that will make this easier on you and mom. If I just disappear then it will be easier. Tell everyone I graduated early and left this small town. Because that is exactly what I am doing." Stella said as she walked towards the door.

"Stella…" He said, but she had already left the room and up the stairs to her bed room where all her stuff sat waiting in four duffle bags and two boxes. She picked up the duffle bags and carried them down the stairs and walked out side to her truck. She put the bags in the cab and then walked back inside to get the two remaining boxes.

"Stella what's going on?" A voice asked from inside her empty room.

"I am leaving Maddox." Stella replied simply picking up one of the boxes.

"Why?" He asked.

"Because I'm gay Maddox." She replied.

"I already knew that." Maddox said looking at his sister.

"I know, I'm sure it was obvious to you. But Mom didn't take it so well, so I am leaving. I can't stand to live with the ridicule and bigotry anymore. I need to get away. I'm sorry Max." Stella said.

"You have to do what is best for you, no matter how much it hurts other people; you shouldn't have to hold back anymore Stella. I mean do something that makes you happy for once." He said.

"And I am. I am leaving. I have some money saved. I can get my own place." She said.

"Let me help you get this to your truck." He said picking up the remaining box and carried it down the stairs.

"You know for what it's worth Stella, I support you no matter what. I love you." He said putting the box down in the floorboard.

"I love you too Max." Stella said.

Then he embraced her. She climbed in her truck and didn't look back as she started the ignition and drove away.

And that was when she left behind Stella Pandora Von Geisler.

TBC…