Chapter 1

"Dr. Drakken?" Shego uttered with a tone of concern in her voice as she waved a hand in front of the mad doctor's face. He seemed totally oblivious, his eyes seeming distant. She poked his shoulder trying to catch his attention. He turned and looked at her, his gaze appeared blank.

"Where am I?" He said softly in an almost child-like manner. She blinked confusingly at him.

"You don't know?" She asked. He shook his head, no, in response. "Dr. D, it's out lair…what's left of it anyways." Shego replied.

Earlier, a fight had broken out in the lair as Drakken once more tried to conquer the world. During all the madness, a beam had fallen on top of him that rendered him unconscious. Only moments ago, did he finally wake up.

"Dr. D? Is that me?" He asked pointing to himself. Shego's eyes widened realizing the situation at hand. Drakken had lost his memory.

"What's your name?" Asked Drakken with a smile.

"I'm Shego." She replied feeling awkward about having to practically introduce herself again to him. Chuckling he exclaimed, "Shego! That's a funny name!" She took a deep breath, trying to stay calm. After all, he couldn't remember anything, and it wasn't his fault. Any other time though she would have blasted him with one of her plasma bolts.

Getting bored, Drakken got up and began to wander around the room. Noticing all the debris that was scattered all over the lair he pointed out, "What a mess! I bet your Mommy is going to be mad when she gets home." He said wagging his finger at Shego. She stared at him watching him kick aside a piece of rubble with his toe. Did amnesia revert him back to his childhood?

This was all that Kim Possible's fault! She thought to herself feeling the anger boiling inside of her. Drakken sighed, "I'm kinda bored."

"Um…why don't you go watch TV?" She suggested forcing herself to sound nicer than she felt. Right now all she wanted to do was give Kim Possible a good kick in the…

"Alright, but where's the TV?" Drakken asked.

"Oh! Down that hallway there!" She said pointing to a long corridor across the room. It lead to the living quarters of the lair, where the living room, kitchen, and bedrooms were located.

"Thank you." He said cheerily, turning to leave. Shego sighed. At least she would have time to herself to think for a while on how to get his memory back while he was busy watching TV.

Before he left the room, he turned back towards Shego and said in a sweet voice, "By the way, I think you're really pretty…uh…Shego!" Her heart skipped a beat, surprised at the words she heard come from his mouth. In all the years she worked for him, never did she hear him talk to her in such a tone. She almost wished that he had said that to her before he lost his memory. After all she was his side-kick and she did a lot for him, a compliment every now and then would have been nice.

"Thank you." She managed to say rubbing her fore-arm awkwardly. Drakken smiled and skipped away towards the living room leaving her alone in the wreckage that had once been the lab.

Not in the least wanting to clean it up she summoned the henchmen to take care of it for her. Deciding she needed a rest and a chance to think, she headed to her room. The one place where she could have some "me-time" as she preferred to call it. She opened the door, stepped inside, and threw herself on the bed, feeling exhausted. After a few minutes of lying there staring at the ceiling, she began to get fidgety, and picked up her laptop, flipping it open, and turning it on. She waited a few moments for the internet to load and then typed in, "Amnesia" on google. A thousand different results popped up. This irritated her, she only needed one answer not a hundred different explanations about amnesia. Finally, she found a link that directed her to the answer she had been looking for in the first place. She read,

There are only a few simple solutions to getting rid of amnesia. The best solution is getting psychotherapy.

She shook her head. "No, no. That won't work." She mumbled to herself as she continued down the page.

Another is changing the diet, some foods can help keep your memories intact and prevent you from forgetting things.

She chuckled at that one. Drakken on a diet? Even though he remained at a reasonable weight, he could really pack it in, but she blamed that in partial due to his mother. She recalled once that he needed to eat a lot to be big and strong.

My final suggestion is try to gently present ways for them to remember things that they have forgotten. Perhaps bring out an old photo album and ask if they can recall any of the faces shown to them.

Shego sighed, that meant paying a visit to Mama Lipsky. She closed the browser and shut her laptop with a snap. She stared at the wall deep in thought. Maybe if she went into Drakken's room she could find something. He would never know and she figured in the end he would probably thank her for it once his memories returned. So, she got up from her bed and silently scampered to his room, quietly shutting the door behind her. She flipped on the light and looked around. She had seen his room only once before. He had a big round bed in the middle of the room surrounded by a green moat, which probably was filled with green water instead of acid.

She hopped across the moat and looked underneath his bed. She stuck her hand underneath and felt around for something. Her hand suddenly came upon something solid. She pulled it out and saw that it was an old shoe box. She opened the lid and carefully tossed it aside. Inside where a collection of comic books, possibly collectible. She groaned and put them back figuring looking at comic books weren't going to help him in the least.

She got up, hopping across the moat once more, and headed towards the closet. When she opened it she found that it was a tad bit smaller than she had expected. She pushed aside his clothes which mostly consisted of spare lab coats and black t-shirts. In the back she found old posters of 80s movies tacked up on the wall. Still not important. Her eyes fell upon some boxes stacked in a corner. She stared at them for a few seconds. "Maybe there's something in there." She muttered picking one up. She opened the lid and inside she found several thick old books, many of which were college textbooks and one called, "A Dummy's Guide to World Domination".

"Figures." Shego remarked quietly to herself with a smirk. She placed the box beside her on the floor and reached for another. She went through several more boxes before she finally reached the end. At the end of her search, she came up empty handed. Not a single picture in sight. She sighed in disgust and folded her arms, standing there for a moment before she put the boxes away and shut the closet door.

"And I thought I was bad." She mumbled leaving the room. Sure, she hated her past and didn't want much to do with her family, and she of all people wasn't in the least sentimental, but she had a few personal things that she took with her. Drakken didn't have anything, which she found a bit strange for him.

She went down to the lab and found that it was much cleaner then when she had left it. A henchman came up to her and tapped her on the shoulder. "I think you should have this. Found it near his desk." The man said handing her a piece of paper.

"Oh, thanks." She said with a small smile as the henchmen returned to work. She held the piece of paper up to her face and saw that it was the pictures her and Drakken had taken together in the photo booth during the "Moodulator incident".

"He kept these?" The memory of it had been disturbing to both of them and she figured he would have burned it or something. She folded it and put it in her pocket. Shego would only show him that if she got truly desperate. She leaned up against the wall, dismayed at the fact that she found nothing in the least to help Drakken regain his memories. Her thoughts drifted back to the Moodulator incident. How crazy she had acted over him. Then a thought occurred to her; she had been the one kissing him, he could have taken advantage of her at any time, but he didn't…why?

Suddenly, Drakken's voice called out to her bringing her back to reality. "Shego? I'm hungry." He told her. She forgot, he didn't remember how to cook now either.

"What do you say to McDonald's?" Shego asked, not wanting to cook at all. She hated cooking and the dishes that followed.

"What's that?" Drakken asked fidgeting nervously with his fingers. Wow, he really did lose his memories! Shego thought to herself. McDonald's was his favorite restaurant. Every time they went there he ordered the happy meal and every time she found herself being embarrassed when he began playing with the toys.

After about an hour or so they came home, this time the lab was entirely clean. "I'm tired." Drakken yawned. She looked at the clock and saw that it was about 10:30.

"Go to bed then." Shego suggested, eager to be rid of him.

At McDonald's she told him that he had amnesia. Needless to say, he didn't take that so well. He was very confused. He remembered some things, which mostly wasn't anything entirely important, and other things just seemed to be erased from his mind completely.

"Ok." She was surprised at how cooperative he was. Usually Drakken would have refused, stayed up late, and fallen asleep on the couch at 4:30 in the morning.

"My room is down the hall to right?" He asked.

"Yes!" She exclaimed, excited that he had remembered something.

He smiled glad to see her look happy. He was trying his best to remember things for her. For some reason that he couldn't quite begin to understand yet, was the weird feeling he had in his chest every time he looked at her. There was something about her that made him feel strange and he felt an impulse to act on it, but some part of him was holding back. He got the feeling that's what he always did. He wanted to act on whatever feeling he had now, but never did. It made him unhappy the longer he thought about it. Why did he hold back? Was it something that had happened to him in the past or something else? Drakken wasn't sure. Maybe…just maybe, he thought that he could try this once even though he wasn't certain about what he was doing. Something deep inside him told him it was right…

Suddenly, he pecked her on the cheek. "Night!" With that, he took off down the hallway and disappeared.

Shego stood there stunned at what had just happened. Drakken had just kissed her. He never did that. Well, he wasn't acting like himself. That's the only reason why. Once he got back to normal he would regret it, she would make sure of it. Why did he have to do that for? She thought for a second out-loud to herself, "Geez, Drakken seems to have more guts with amnesia than he does when he's normal…" She chuckled. "If you want to call being a mad scientist bent on world conquest normal." She shrugged it off and went to relax the rest of the evening watching her favorite program.

It was about midnight when Shego decided to go to bed herself. She quietly went to her room trying not to disturb Drakken. The last thing she wanted to do was wake him up right now. She opened her bedroom door. She almost flipped on the lights but noticed something lying on the bed. She rolled her eyes. Commodore Puddles was always sneaking in her room and lying down on her bed. She hated the smell of dog and he would always give her such a hassle about moving. She looked closer in the dark room and saw that instead of Puddles, Drakken lying there. She wanted to scream. He was invading her space, how dare he! He looked so peaceful though, almost immediately her anger melted away when she watched him sleep with not a care in the world. The only problem now was, where was she supposed to sleep? "Well, if he's sleeping in my bed I'm going to go sleep in his." She whispered shutting the door and heading down the hall to his room. One night wouldn't hurt. Tomorrow she would tell him, right now she was too tired and all she wanted to do was sleep.

Shego slowly climbed in bed feeling awkward about this. Never did she imagine that she would be sleeping in his room. When she started to stretch out she noticed that his bed was really comfy! This wasn't so bad after all. The blankets smelled like him and for some reason that comforted her, and slowly she fell asleep…