This is part 3 of my long running series, End of Innocence is part 1, A Helping Hand is part 2 and now Aliyah is the latest saga in Ron's transformation from normal goof to high powered assassin. Have fun reading, I hope you enjoy it. I do not own Kim Possible or any of the characters on the TV Show.
Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable have been consigned to MOKKIS for the last three weeks and have settled into their new routine. They enjoyed having all their classes together again, even if they weren't allowed to leave the room or mingle with the rest of the school, as long as they had each other everything was fine.
Ron had been assigned to Middleton Keep Kids In School program after he vanished for a month, and refused to disclose where he had been. He was found by the school psychologist as being mentally unstable and sentenced to MOKKIS for the rest of his senior year of high school.
Kim had been expelled after a failed anti-war protest and after she had punched the school psychologist in the nose after she suggested that Kim was sexually repressed.
Kim then went on to formulate a plan to break Drakken and Shego out of prison in order to help take down The Man.
The plan was discovered by Wade and Ron; it also came to Ron's attention that Kim was a thrill junkie and would do almost anything that looked dangerous if she were bored. Ron defeated Kim and her new boyfriend Angry Bob on a hillside just outside Tri-County Penitentiary.
Kim and Ron reunited as a couple and at a team meeting of Team Possible, Kim was voted sidekick and Wade worked his computer magic to smuggle Kim back into Middleton High School by putting her into MOKKIS with Ron.
They would sit next to each other in the small class inside a mobile home just behind Middleton High School and flirt and talk about life after high school. Ron let Kim do most of the talking as he was planning to Aliyah to Israel and such talk would upset Kim.
Ron was happy to see Kim happy again and didn't want to upset her; he had mailed off his paper work and had received his passport in the mail along with promises of grants and subsidies to help him start his new life in Israel.
He was happy with the way things were progressing but today Ron Stoppable had romance on his mind. He scribbled out a quick note and passed it to Kim. He was smiling as what he had planned was going to be fun and exciting enough to keep Kim from getting bored and getting into trouble.
Kim took the note with a suspicious look, "What is he doing now?" she thought to herself as she opened the little triangle shaped note.
Kim opened the note, and looked over her shoulder at Ron and lifted an eyebrow at him. Kim picked up her pen and twirled it around in her fingers as though she were mulling the question over.
"Do you like me…circle one…yes…no." was what the note had read.
Kim finally circled one of the responses and refolded the note and looked around carefully before passing it back to Ron.
Ron took the note and opened it, "Yes" was circled. "Booyah" he thought happily as he wrote his next question down and folded the note back up and passed it back to Kim.
"What are you doing…Ron you are such a nut." She thought as she opened and read the note.
"Would you like to go to the Valentine's Day dance with me? Circle one…yes or no." Kim smiled as she read the note.
She turned towards Ron and flipped her hair so that it covered her left eye and then raised her eyebrows and tuned back towards the note and scribbled an answer. Then she folded it back over and handed it to Ron.
Ron was smiling and feeling pretty good about things until he opened the note, "Maybe" it read.
Ron made a display of slumping in his seat and acting disappointed, and then he brightened and scribbled on the note some more. Then he folded it back up and passed it over to Kim.
"Ok…What's he doing now?" She thought as she opened the note.
She let out a soft giggle and then looked around to make sure no one had noticed, the note read, "PLEASE!" Kim smiled and wrote a reply and folded it up and passed it back to Ron.
Ron took the note and opened it up, "Oh Ok" it read and Ron nodded his head and smiled.
Mrs. Taylor looked up from her romance novel and noticed the time, "All right class it appears that the school day is now over. You may leave in an orderly fashion…Except for you Mr. Stoppable and you Miss Possible." She said as the other seven students ran out of the room.
"Uh oh…busted." Ron thought sadly.
Kim and Ron walked up to the front of the class; Mrs. Taylor looked at the two of them, "Why are you two here? I mean, I know why the others are here, they have behavioral problems…You two however don't really fit in?"
Ron smiled and raised his hand, "Prisoner of conscience here."
Kim giggled, "I guess that makes me a political prisoner then."
Mrs. Taylor shook her head, "I'm going to talk to Principle Kelby and see if there's any way of returning you to your normal classes."
Kim looked at Ron in a panic, "Ummmm…no…I mean…we enjoy each other's company…and…not a good idea." Ron stumbled for a reason.
"I think what Ron means to say is…ummm…Our grades have improved so much by being in here and we'd hate to leave…right Ron?" Kim smiled uneasily.
"Hehehe…Yea…What she said?" Ron stammered.
Mrs. Taylor smiled at the two of them, "I see you two have started going together…a real MOKKIS romance story….I won't interfere then." She said happily as she placed a book mark back in her romance novel and locked it in her desk.
Ron smiled and nodded, "Thanks Mrs. Taylor for keeping our secret, certain people don't like the fact that I'm dating a former cheerleader." Ron whispered conspiratorially.
"Oh no trouble at all Ron, I can see now that Kim has a thing for the bad boys." She told the two as she finished picking up her stuff to get ready to leave.
Kim blushed and Ron smiled as they put their things away in their cages. Ron pulled on his coat to get ready to leave for the day and put his hands in his pockets and held out an elbow for Kim to take.
Kim linked her arm with Ron's as they walked out the mobile home that was now their makeshift school house, "I don't have a thing for the bad boys." She whispered.
"Oh yes you do." Ron whispered back as they headed out to Ron's car.
The weather was cold and drizzly, typical early February weather. Kim cuddled up closer to Ron as they walked, "Well…maybe just a little." She confessed.
Ron smiled a big toothy grin as he opened the car door for Kim, "Well then Kim Possible, I guess that's why you've chosen me to go to the Valentine's day dance with…We will be the best looking bad boy, bad girl couple there."
Kim waited for him to slide into the driver's seat, "Ron, I don't think we're allowed to attend school functions anymore." Kim said sadly.
Ron nodded and raised an eyebrow, "That's the beauty of it Kim, no one will see it coming until it's too late…All will bow down before our badselfs…BOOYAHAHAHAHAHA." Ron let out a fiendish laugh and Kim just shook her head.
"Ron…Are you ok? Doing risky things is not normally what you like doing." Kim was worried about her friend.
Ron put the car in reverse and started to back out of the parking lot, "Kim, I'd really like to take you to a dance and have fun with everyone like we used to…If a little risk involved…So be it." He told his girlfriend confidently.
Kim scooted closer to him in the front seat and Ron put his arm around her and drew her in closer to him. He enjoyed the trips to and from school the most, sometimes they would talk, other times they would just bask in each other's company.
Ron pulled up into the Possible's driveway and Jim and Tim were there to give Kim a hard time about being in MOKKIS, "Hey Kim, you guys back from the psycho room?" Tim asked.
"Kim is it true you guys are chained to the desks and forced to wear gags?" Jim wanted to know.
Kim glared at the two and threatened them, "Take off dweebs before I chain and gag you until mom and dad get home."
Kim put her hands on her hips and watched the two boys run away, "They think they're so smart since they skipped a few grades." She said to Ron angrily
Then Kim shook her head sadly and asked Ron, "You want to come in for a while?"
"I'd love too, but I can't…I have to toil away for The Man tonight…Smarty Mart…" Ron stopped talking when he realized Kim's shoulders were drooping and she was looking at the ground.
Ron winced, "Sorry KP, I wasn't thinking." He told her as he took her into his arms.
"It's ok Ron, I just miss seeing everyone and I miss the cheer squad…I…I just wish…I didn't have to hide." Kim said sadly.
Ron let out a heavy sigh, "I know Kim, I figured you'd enjoy seeing everyone again once we snuck into the dance on Saturday night."
Kim shook her head, "I don't know Ron, I really like spending time with you…After last summer you sort of became…I don't know…"
Ron gave her a big hug and a kiss, "That's all behind us now, Kim…I want to spend as much time with you as I can before…June." He told her.
Kim smiled sadly, "Before you leave for Israel…I'm starting to accept it…I still want you to stay with me though."
"I know…I have to go though…I feel a pull and I just can't explain it…I wish you could go with me." Ron said with a smile.
Kim shook her head, "I can't…Ron could you do me a favor?" Kim asked sadly.
Ron nodded his head, "I will, if I can."
"I want you to take me to the Odyssey this Thursday night. You took Monique and Lacey…but you've never taken me there." Kim said sadly.
Ron smiled and said, "You got it KP, we'll go to Thursday night ritual…I have to leave for work now…If your still feeling down later…give me a call…ok?"
Kim smiled, "I'll be ok…I think it's just this yucky weather we're having…I miss the sun…I miss…" Kim stopped talking and wiped away a tear.
Ron frowned and hugged Kim hard, he nuzzled his face into her hair, "Who's my number one girlfriend?" he asked.
Kim chuckled, "I am…Go to work…I'll be ok…Pick me up tomorrow?"
"Natch…Same time tomorrow then, I'm off tomorrow night…We'll come up with a plan for Saturday night…ok?" Ron said trying to comfort Kim.
Kim smiled and nodded, she kissed Ron goodbye again and watched him get into his car and leave pull out of the driveway. He made the right hand turn at the stop sign and headed out of the subdivision.
She turned and headed back into the house and walked up the stairs to her room. There was an indescribable sadness about her, which she couldn't quite put her finger on. She lay in bed and stared at the ceiling and let her mind work through her emotions.
"I love Ron and I don't want him to go to Israel…We've gone out on more dates and he's always been well mannered…He handles me like glass now…He never used to do that." Kim thoughts were coming but she was still having trouble putting her finger on the source of her sadness.
Kim rolled over and looked at Panderoo and pitched the cuddle buddy aside, "After Ron came home from Japan, he started the whole I'm going to Israel business…I wonder what happened to him there? Ron seems to have a terminal sadness to him these days…I can't put my finger on it, but I think…I think too much." Kim thought as she let out a deep breath.
"Maybe…he wants to have sex with me but is afraid to ask? I know he had sex with Yori and Monique…Maybe I am sexually repressed…No…Ron's never made a move to try to push things towards sex." Kim thought shaking her head.
Kim looked around her room, she sat up and crossed her legs and looked into the mirror, "I used to be the one watching out for Ron, now its like the roles have reversed…Ron seems so much older now…He's gone through so much over the last year…Maybe that's it, he's grown up a lot, and I've stayed the same."
"He's changed so much the rest of the team made him the leader and now I'm the sidekick…I guess I had it coming…I don't know what I was thinking trying to break Shego and Drakken out of prison…I almost lost everything." Kim thought sadly.
Kim looked up and heard her mom pull into the driveway, she left her room and decided to have a chat with her mom.
She passed the twins as she walked down stairs, "Psycho" they teased.
Kim just stuck her tongue out at them and shook her head, "They get to go to high school now and I'm in a trailer…Life is so unfair." She thought sadly to herself.
Kim went into the kitchen as her mother was coming in the door, "Monday night pizza night…Yeaaaaaa…I don't have to cook night." She said happily.
Kim giggled, "Mom….I need to talk to you."
Mrs. Dr. P. raised an eyebrow, "What did you do now?"
"Nothing…I'm staying low profile and out of sight out of mind at school." Kim said sadly.
"Missing your friends?" Mrs. Dr. P. asked.
Kim nodded her head, "Yea…I mean…Ron's been great and everything, but I miss seeing everyone…and then…there's Ron." She said sadly.
Mrs. Dr. P. nodded, "Well…not to sound mean but your lucky, you have what you have for school…It was either MOKKIS or G.E.D. classes from what Ron told me…Maybe you can visit with your other friends at the mall" she suggested.
"Yea….I guess…It's just not going like I thought my senior year would be like….I guess it's kind of a let down…" Kim said quietly.
Kim let out a sigh and continued, "Then there's Ron…He…He doesn't treat me the same as he used to…"
Mrs. Dr. P. looked at Kim, "He's not treating you badly is he?"
"No…no…nothing like that, when we were dating before he went to Japan…We…we'd…make out and I'd occasionally have to slap his hand from time to time or say "Down Boy"…Now he…doesn't push things on dates now." Kim said sadly.
Mrs. Dr. P. let out a breath, "Well…that's a relief…I think your father would like to hear that." She said with a smile.
Then Mrs. Dr. P. noticed Kim start to turn away and so she continued, "Let me guess…you'd like him to push things along a bit?"
"Yea…I mean…I know he's been…active with a few girls now…So…it's not a case of not knowing what to do…He just doesn't appear to want…to be active with me." Kim said looking down, hoping that her mother would pick up on what she was trying to say.
"Oh…ummm…I see…hmmm…Truthfully honey, I never thought I'd ever be having this conversation about Ron…Have you tried talking to him about it?" She asked, not quite knowing how to handle Kim's dilemma.
"No…I'm not quite sure how to talk to him about it…Mom…How did you know, when you were ready…to…you know…the first time?" Kim asked.
Mrs. Dr. P. froze, and then tried to explain as best she could, "Ummm…I…Well…everyone's different honey…There just comes a time…when you just…know."
"That's it?" Kim asked.
"Well…ummm…Don't let your first time be in the backseat of a car…Not that that was my first time of course." The older woman laughed nervously.
Mrs. Dr. P. looked at the ceiling, "Ahhhh Bobby Thornton and that beat up old Chevelle of his." She quietly reminisced before being brought back to reality by her daughter.
"MOM" Kim said and then began to chuckle.
"Look honey…If you do decide…to go that way with Ron…I can write you a prescription for birth control pills or pick up some condoms from work, if you decide to go that route. I don't think I'm ready for grand kids just yet." She said softly.
"MOM" Kim said in mock horror.
Mrs. Dr P. gave her daughter a look that let her know she was serious, "Honey…It's the responsible thing to do, and the last thing you or Ron would need to worry about is an unwanted pregnancy."
Kim nodded her head, "Yea"
Kim looked at the ground for a long moment, "I never thought about that."
"Well you need to think about it, long and hard before you decide on what you should do…Try talking to Ron first…He might be ready but is afraid of your reaction…" Mrs. Dr. P. suggested.
Kim looked puzzled, "Afraid of my reaction?"
Mrs. Dr. P. chuckled, "Honey…you have a tendency to be…a little…extreme with your reactions."
Kim bobbed her head around, "Yea…I guess your right."
Mrs. Dr. P. recognized an opportunity to escape the uncomfortable conversation, "I'm hungry let's order those pizzas."
"Mom…go ahead and write prescription for me….just in case." Kim said quietly.
Mrs. Dr. P. closed her eyes and nodded her head, "Alright honey…Just be sure to use your head…ok." She reminded her daughter.
Ron was heading for work at Smarty Mar and he pulled the Ronnuicator out of the glove compartment and keyed the button for Wade.
The thirteen year old computer genius appeared on the screen, "What's up Ron?"
"I want to run a date idea by you." Ron said.
Wade chuckled, "No thanks Ron, I don't think Kim would understand."
Ron started laughing, "Good one Wade, no here's my idea for a date with Kim as soon as the weather warms up…Night time bungee jumping off Forester dam."
Wade nodded his head, "Sounds life threatening."
"And stupid" Ron added.
"Kim would love it…I don't think you'll get permission to do that at the dam though." Wade said.
Ron smiled, "Even more dangerous then."
Wade laughed, "Kim would love it even more then."
Ron pulled into work at Smarty Mart, "Just thought I'd run that idea by you before work."
"Sounds good, how's Kim adjusting to her new school sitch?" Wade asked.
Ron shook his head, "I don't think she's happy about it…I try and keep her entertained…I just want her to finish school." Ron said quietly.
Wade nodded, "Yea…well I better let you get going…Have fun working for The Man."
Ron nodded, "Thanks…oh…don't say stuff like that in front of Kim…I made that mistake today…kind of hurt her feelings." Ron said sadly.
Wade winced, "I'll keep that in mind Ron, thanks…see ya."
Then the Ronnunicator went dark and Ron put the device back into the glove box and went inside to start his shift at Smarty Mart.
Ron swiped his badge through the card reader to clock in and reported in for his shift to Mr. Dotson, "Ron good to see you, you've been transferred."
Ron's mouth fell open, "Transferred…where?"
Mr. Dotson gave him a big grin, "You'll love this department, Jewelry…Report to Ms. Lieberman up at the front of the store." He told him.
Ron looked horrified, "Jewelry…I don't know anything about Jewelry."
Mr. Dotson laughed, "Soon you will know more about women's jewelry than you ever wanted to know in your life…Now head on up front." His supervisor told him.
Ron turned and took the slow walk up front and made a right at the $10 Smarty Mart wrist watches until he came to the Jewelry counter.
"I'm Ron Stoppable…and I'm looking for a Ms. Lieberman." Ron asked the rather attractive girl working the counter.
"You found her, come on around here and let me teach you about the fascinating world of jewelry." She told him.
Ron smiled weakly and walked around the end of the counter and back to where Ms. Lieberman was standing, "Great why couldn't I have been transferred to sporting goods or something." Ron thought sadly.
"So Mr. Stoppable, what do you know about diamonds?" Ms Lieberman asked.
"There a girls best friend?" Ron said in a rather cheeky manner.
Ms. Lieberman lifted an eyebrow, "Right…I got me a smart one don't I…Well this may not excite you much but you are going to learn something today so listen up." She told him.
"The five things you need to know about diamonds or the five "C's", Carat, Color, Cut, Clarity, and Cost, here take this." She said as she handed Ron a jeweler's loupe.
Ron took the jeweler's loupe and then a ring from Ms. Lieberman, "Tell me what you see?" Lieberman asked.
Ron stuttered nervously, "Ummm…I…I…well…it's a diamond that looks like it has lots of little cracks in it?"
"Right…The diamond has many imperfections, which is why it's a Smarty Mart special. What else can you see?" She asked as she told him to have another look.
Ron was getting a little more confident, "Ummmmm…It looks slightly yellow, there's a stamp on the ring…10k?"
"Ahhhhhhhh sharp, 10 karat gold ring, yellowish diamond with many imperfections, here now try this one." She said as she handed Ron another ring.
Ron took the new ring and looked at it, "This one the points look rounder, it's very clear, there's a stamp on the bottom that says C.Z.?" Ron told her as he handed back the ring.
"Good catch on the points, this ring is cubic zirconium, that's why the C.Z. stamp on the setting. A real diamond will have sharper points from being cut rather than being pressed, also the lack of imperfections is another tip that it's not a real diamond….See your learning." She encouraged Ron.
"Now a lesson on cut, she held up two rings, which diamond do you think is heavier?" She asked.
Ron shrugged and pointed to the larger one on the left, "That one looks bigger." Ron told her.
"Nope, the one on the right, see the one the left is cut shallower to look bigger than the one on the right…So the one on the right actually weighs more and is more expensive but the one on the left is big and gaudy so it will sell faster." She told him.
Ron smiled weakly and nodded, "Great"
Ms. Lieberman reached into her purse and grabbed her cigarettes and a lighter, "See you learned something today, now you watch the front…I'm going to go outside and have me a smoke, be back in fifteen minutes." She told Ron as she walked quickly towards the door.
Ron watched her go towards the front and then just stared at all the rings and bracelets and watches, "Great…This is stuff I'll never ever use in the real world." He thought to himself as he let out a heavy sigh.