Chapter 1

How it Ends and Begins

Kim lay in bed, it is late at night and she is having trouble sleeping. Beside her, a female with long, dark hair and like green skin tone sleeps quietly. Shego Kim remindes herself, she's sleeping next to Shego.

As Kim looked over at the clock beside their bed and watched the moments tick away, she thought about everything that had happened in the last few months. Everything that had led her to this, sleeping with the woman she had hated as long she they'd known each other. Course, to say that Kim didn't have any regrets about the past few months wouldn't be a total lie, nor would it be totally true. She had a few, but as far as the choices that led her to this bed, at this moment, she didn't give them a second thought. Sure her family and friends dissaproved, but she wasn't going to listen to them anymore, they had tried their hardest to get her to "see the truth" as her mother had put it. Her mother had really been a hypocrite, as Kim had seen it. Anne Possible had always told Kim to "follow her heart" and all that, but when Kim really did do just that, all of her family and close friends had ganged up on her and tried to force her to do what they wanted her to do. She'd resisted as long as she could, but it eventually became too much for her and she'd taken the only option that she'd seen that felt right for her - she had run. Not looking back until now.

Kim yawned and lay back down on the pillow, the familer comfort of sleep finally overtaking her. The last two things she did for drifting off was plant a kiss on the base of Shego's neck and put her arm over woman. If she had seen the green woman's face, she would have seen a warm, but goofy smile form on Shego's lips.

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Several weeks earlier.

Kim woke with a start and looked at the clock beside her bed. It read 8:11AM

"AHH I'M GONNA BE LATE FOR SCHOOL!" she shrieked and ran into the bathroom, almost tripping over her piles of books and clothes. Unknown to Kim, this wasn't just a bad start to a day, it would turn out to be a bad start to the worst period in her life.

This day is gonna suck Kim thought to herself as she got ready, grabbing the closest shirt she could find and running down her room stairs to the bathroom.

Last night had invloved a late night rescue in the Rocky Mountains that had included a conflict with Drakken and Shego. That wasn't the odd part. The part that had made her sleep so restless and really confused her had been when she had been knocked off the cliff. Not by Shego or Drakken or even Ron for that matter. She'd tripped on a rock and fallen. And who had saved her from death? Shego. Kim had fallen off many things; cliffs, helicoptors, mountain lairs, skyscrapers, you name it. But this time, this time her head wasn't in the game and even more confusing, she didn't know why. Her life was going great, she had a steady boyfriend, was still cheerleading captain at school. Her grades were still high. Nothing could explain why, on that particular night, she wasn't paying attention to what was going on.

After a very quick shower, she raced down the stairs, still pulling her socks on and nearly colliding with her mother along the way

"Kimmie, you're up" Anne Possible remarked "Running a bit late?"

"Why didn't you wake me?" Kim asked painfully as she ran into the kitchen to grab any kind of food that was available

"Oh, we tried, but you were in a very deep sleep" her mother answered with a shrug. Kim finished putting on her shoes and ran out the front door, barreling right into her boyfriend, Ron Stoppable

"Ow, hey KP. In a hurry?"

"Ron, hi. Yeah. I'm late" she scrambled to get up. He picked up her books and handed them to her. He was so sweet, with his unique personality, never be normal attitude and his unshaken loyalty. They had only been dating a few months and Kim had no plans to ever end it. She really did love him and she was kind of fond the naked Mole Rat he kept in his pocket.

"Kim, about last night..." Kim looked at him "I'm sorry, I should have been there for you" he hung his head. She let herself smile and placed her hand on his cheek

"Ron, it's okay. I forgive you. It wasn't your fault" she smiled and leaned forward, planting a kiss on his cheek as thanks for helping her with her books and to hopefully make him feel a bit better.

"Shall we?" he jestured towards her car. The Roth SL Coupe that Kim's kid brothers, Jim and Tim, had built her. The car was a hunk, not as streamlined as say a Porsche, but it was more of everything else.

Kim and Ron got in and were quickly off. Kim at the wheel. Ron turned to his girl

"You okay, Kim?" Ron asked

"I'm fine. I just didn't sleep well" she answered

"You sure? Cause you look pretty..."

"I look what?" she snapped at him

"Tired, Kp, tired" he answered quickly. Kim sighed

"I'm sorry Ron" she said "I guess..."

"It's okay, you're stressed. I know the feeling" he smiled and once again reminded Kim why she loved him.

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"POSSIBLE!" Barkin yelled and slammed his hand down on her desk "WAKE UP!"

Kim nearly jumped out of her chair Now I know why he's called "Barkin" she thought and tried to calm herself down. She put her hands on her desk and tried her hardest to stay awake, but it was a losing battle and Barkin's lecture wasn't helping

"Sorry, Mr. Barkin. I had a late night" she said

"I'm not interested in your excuses, Possible. Did you at least get your homework done?"

"Homework? What homework?"

"Your History paper. The one you were assigned two days ago" Crap

"I, uh, haven't had a chance to finish. I got called away last night" Kim wore a sheepish grin on her face

"Very well then" Barkin said in a softer voice and wrote something down on the clipboard he was holding and walked back to his desk.

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"I am SO glad that class is over" Kim said to Ron as they walked out of the classroom

"Kim!" came a voice from behind her I am so not in the mood for this right now Kim thought to herself. But she put on a smile and turned around. Standing behind her, in full cheerleader outfit, was Bonnie

"You did remember that we have cheer practice today?" Bonnie said in the annoying voice that made Bonnie Rockwaller, Bonnie Rockwaller "Or are you too busy saving the world?"

"I didn't forget, I'm heading there now" Kim said, trying to sound polite, though she was incredibly annoyed.

In the Gym...

Ron sat on the bleachers and watched as Kim, sporting her purple, white and yellow cheerleader outfit, just as the rest of the team. She exectued the routine flawlessely, just as she had done so many times before. He couldn't tear his eyes off her any longer than it took to blink.

Every flip, every movement was perfect. Her body moved with flawless precision. When it was over, the girls retreated to the locker room, Kim yawning fiercly, managing to have held off from yawning during the practice routine.

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Kim came out of the girl's locker room, dressed again in her normal clothes with her duffle bag slung over her shoulder. Ron was, of course, waiting for her outside.

"So how was that?" she asked

"Well, your second dismount was a little rough and your footwork could use a little work" he replied. She glared at him, but he was laughing "Chill KP. I'm kidding. You were incredible, as usual" Kim let herself smile. She expected this kind of thing from him and, well, she did enjoy it. But today, she was having such a bad day, so she tried to just shrug it off.

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After school, the two gathered at Bueno Nacho, as they usually did. Kim was in a foul mood to say the least, her mind kept going back to what had happened, mostly because there was one question about it that kept going through her mind, Why?

"You okay Kim?" Ron asked as they sat down at their table with the food "You seem a bit off today" Kim thought for a moment before answering

"I've been better. But I'm fine. Just a little tired" she said. Kim looked down at the plate of food and then over to Ron's as Rufus dived into the grande sized plate of nachos that Ron had ordered.

"How about a movie?" Ron asked. Kim looked up at him and remembered that he usually knew what to do to cheer her up.

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When Kim got home that later evening, she went right up to her room and collapsed on her bed. Her mother came upstairs soon after.

"Hi Kimmie. How was school?" she asked

"Fine" Kim answered as politely as she could. Anne sat down on the bed

"Doesn't sound fine. What's up?" she asked with concern in her voice

"I just had an off day is all" was Kim's answer. It wasn't that she didn't want to talk to her mother. She trusted her mother and was usually the first person Kim would choose to confide in. It wasn't just that she didn't want to talk to her mother right now, she really didn't want to talk to anyone right now. She just wanted some time alone to think, Anne could tell that easily.

"Alright. I'll be downstairs when you're ready to talk" she got up, smiled and walked out.

Kim rolled over onto her back and stared up at her ceiling Why did she do it? she asked herself She could have let me fall and be done with it. Why save me? Kim had wished that she had asked, but unfortunatly, Shego and Drakken had bolted very quickly, so Kim didn't have time to ask. It's not like that was the first time she's saved me Kim reminded herself But all those times it had been in her best interests. She was becoming more and more confused. Part of her wished that Shego and Drakken would make another move so Kim could have an excuse to ask the green woman.

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"I still don't know why you saved her. Why didn't you just let her fall?" Drakken was trying to chew out Shego "We could've saved ourselves a lot of trouble in the long run" he asked. After he didn't get any response, he turned around to see Shego laying under her tanning lamp "SHEGO!"

"Huh? Where you saying something, Doc?" she asked, lifting her shades. Drakken just grinded his teeth in frustration

"Why did you save Kim Possible?" he snarled

"Because" she answered in the vauge monotone that annoyed him so much

"Because why?"

"I have my reasons" Shego said Mainly because I need a challenge every now and then and no one else ever comes close to her. Shego thought to herself

"Shego, what have I said about keeping secrets?" Drakken started "I've always said..." Shego lit a hand and Drakken stopped "Never mind" he said and ran off.