A Price To Pay

Chapter Two- A Villains Price

Standard Disclaimer - These characters belong to © The Walt Disney Company, and whoever else has stake in Kim Possible. Kim Possible was created by Mark McCorkle & Bob Schooley. All rights reserved. This story is a work of fiction and for fun, so copyright infringement is unintended.
Story Specific Disclaimer – Some liberties have been taken with the general character builds. Kim and Ron are 19 and Shego is 22, eventually I'll post more of the changes that I've made on my profile. Some parts will be non-canon but hat is only because I felt that there needed to be some explanation for Kim being as incredible as she is.
Rating- M for possible violence, some harsh language, and intimations of a physical relationship between two consenting adults (eventually). So if any of the above offends you, I apologize, but please don't read past the disclaimer.
Violence – I figured I should toss this in there just in case, you never know when Kim might suddenly get into a fight with a super villain or something; she's only a cheerleader right? Of course there's violence. It's not like I'm putting out a story about Kim and company sitting around knitting (and even then a villain would probably bust through the ceiling) Kim is teen hero so fights are very likely, how detailed hey are really depends on how well I can write them.
Subtext – So this is an alternative fan fiction so it's pretty safe to say that Kim and Shego more than likely have feeling for each other that aren't strictly related to their "work" relationship. I mean just take a look at episodes like "Stop Team Go" and the subtext isn't even subtext any more it's main text.
So - having read this lovely disclaimer, if you then read the story and are surprised that Kim and Shego are kissing each other, I warned ya. If you're offended by it, I apologize but maybe you shouldn't have read past the disclaimer.

Author's note- Minor damage control on this chapter. This has been one of the hardest chapters for me to write in this story so far, considering the fact that I have several other chapters already written out of order. Originally everything was going t be explained by Kim in this chapter but after shuffling through everything I realized that I would extend the explanation into the 3rd chapter. I apologize for the point where this chapter becomes difficult to read. Trust me I feel your pain this is my least favorite chapter and probably one of the most important

Any and all comments are always welcome.

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Shego

Her brain supplied the villain's name seconds after her body had already spun into motion, twisting in the grip the older woman had on her wrist. It was like trying to move a brick wall and Kim cursed under her breath as she glared up at Shego. The older woman's face contorted in anger as she squeezed harder on Kim's wrist forcing her to release the syringe that she caught and pocketed before the teen had time to react. Her breathing sped up as she tore her concentration from advancing on the hero and keeping her rising anger from spilling over in its most common physical form. She could already feel the teen's skin heating up under her hand as her plasma attempted to rush forward. Kim had to stifle a gasp as she surged forward with a punch from her free hand that Shego shoved aside, grabbing both of her hands in one, long fingers circling both wrists.

"What the fuck is going on Kim."

The anger behind Shego's words lashed against Kim as she looked into the older woman's eyes, the usually bright green orbs smoldered with an expression that made Kim want to look away, but the anguish in Shego's eye's kept her frozen in place. Her mouth opened in an attempt to come up with an explanation, a band tightened around her chest her breathing picking up as she struggled once more against the hold on her hands.

"Let me go. NOW!"

"You're not in any position to make demands Pumpkin, now answer the question before I have to force it out of you," the threat was punctuated as Shego twisted the teens arms behind her back. The pounding in Shego's ears quickened as the girl in her grasp attempted to fight against her. Well it would only count as fighting if it didn't feel like Kim was trying to tickle her, instead of break a hold that could easily dislocate her shoulders. The fight from earlier in the day crossed her thoughts as she recalled the sting and force of every blow the teen had landed on her.

This doesn't add up.the Kim she held in her grasp never would have been capable of going toe to toe with her for a minute let alone nearly a half hour. Kim's grasp as her hand tightened around the teens floated past her as she studied the frail form. Kim's body couldn't even react to the properly to the sudden motion as the pressure in her chest built up even more. Sharp pain's shot across her left side that her already disconnected brain couldn't cope with. Her brain felt slow and uncoordinated, refusing to offer up any solutions for the situation. She drew in another sharp breath as a wave of pain rolled through her and she had no time to fight the darkness that came with it, her eyelids fluttered shut as her body gave out, slumping against the villain.

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Training from her teen years with Team Go kicked in as the hero in her grasp went limp. Hego's insistence that they all know how to treat injuries rang in her ears as she lowered Kim to the ground, a cold wash of fear sweeping over her. He training had been the only suggestion of her idiot brothers that she had agreed too completely. Knowing how to treat their own wounds had come in handy since they all healed relatively quickly. Her brother's had dragged through the first aid and CPR certification with eh usual complaints and had stopped at the basics, Shego had flown through the basics and moved farther, past the basics to becoming a first responder and an advanced first aid specialist. She had found herself signing up for seminars at the Go city hospital and shadowing doctors in the ER. They had welcomed her childlike enthusiasm and unique view on the world of medicine endearing until her fallout with Team Go.

She dropped down next to the teen as her eyelid's twitched and her hands skittered across the floor as if she was chasing away phantom spiders. The older woman had to pounce on the girl as her movements became more erratic, limbs jerking and catching Shego across her jaw. She tasted blood in her mouth and she ignored the sting in her jaw as she used her greater height and weight to her advantage as she pinned Kim down, her medical knowledge jumped to the forefront s she took in Kim's appearance, trying her best to not cringe at how malnourished the girl was. Kim's skin, nearly a shade lighter than Shego's, was clammy, the convulsions, and her wildly jumping heart rate told Shego that the teen hero was having a heart attack and a seizure, which wasn't possible. The villain could almost hear Kim's voice as a familiar motto rang in her ears.

"What the hell is wrong with you Kimmie?"

The question echoed in the room punctuated by the break's in the teen's breathing as her body rolled through another set of convulsions that nearly unseated the older woman. Her heart rate leapt to match Kim's as a gnawing in her stomach spread to the rest of her body, bringing a fear that she hadn't felt in a while with it.

"Well I believe having her arch enemy assault her might have caused her already depleted levels of calcium, potassium, and zinc to drop even further, leading to the reaction she is currently having. "

The voice sounded directly in Shego's ear and she whirled around to locate the source of the voice in the still empty room. Her hands reacted on their own as she released Kim and sent a ball of plasma soaring towards a body hat blinked into existence near the bank of computers. The plasma barely disrupted the image of the pixie featured woman as it passed through her middle in a shimmer of static before hitting the wall behind her in a puss of smoke. Laughter spilled from the shorter woman's lips as she moved towards the open mouthed villain.

"What are you going to do, attack a hologram?"

Her plasma flickered out as she stared at the 'person' in front of her, her brain trying to process the fact that a hologram was apparently heckling her. The thoughts made her brain freeze up even more as she fought between this new development and the still convulsing teen underneath her. A stuttering gasp brought her attention back to Kim as the motion under her surged up with a strength that told her adrenaline was now working the teen's system, and sent her into the workstation behind her as he teen's convulsions lifted her off the floor before stopping completely.

Shego's heart dropped as she stared at the still form before her, not feeling what she knew was probably a cut in her forehead where she had connected with the table, a feeling of deep seated loss tearing through her. The claxon alarms from the monitors behind her didn't register until a semitransparent hand distorted Kim from her view. The waif stood in front of her a look of extreme panic marring her delicate features as she shot glances from Kim's still from to the still dazed Shego.

"HEY! Do something."

The volume of the shout was deafening nearly sending Shego flying back into the table again, adrenaline surged up as she moved back o Kim reaching for a pulse point before realizing just what the alarms in the background were signaling.

"Shit."

He hands started shaking as she went through the motions of CPR on the familiar body. Tilting the teen's head back she could make out the faintest of scars on her chin from one of her boots. Her hands moved to the center of Kim's chest where her rib's met, feeling the slightest of indentations from a healed rib, moving up and down to stimulate the organ below them. The alarms shut off as they registered her artificial respiration of the teen, and she shoved the noise away for a time when she could focus on the feeling it stirred in her. Her own heart stopped as she realized just how cold Kim's lips were against her own as she forced air into her lungs. The frustration of the situation filtered in as several minutes went by with Kim still not responding to Shego's treatment. Water welled up in her eyes stinging as she blinked them away her motions becoming frantic as the CPR devolved into a pounding on the teens chest.

"Fuck this Kimmie, you do not get to go out like this. Do you hear me! You will wake-Your-Ass-Up!"

Each word was punctuated by the sound of Shego's fist striking the teen in her chest in an attempt to force some response out of her as Shego began to shake. A brilliant pulse of nearly white plasma flared from her fit, connecting with the teen's chest and then disappearing, leaving Shego to stare dumbfounded at her hand on the teen, another gasp filled the room as Kim drew a breath in. The teen lurched into a sitting position as she coughed weakly against Shego's body. Strong arms wrapped around her pulling her into a fiercely protective hug that sent warmth spreading across her body. The heavy-ness of her limbs kept her in place as she relaxed against Shego's body as the older woman reassured herself that the teen was really alive.

Fiery red hair hid her hands from view as Shego ran them through the hair, fingers slipping to the teen's neck to check the pulse that bounced against her fingertips in time with the rise and fall of Kim's chest. She released her hold slightly as she pulled back to look at Kim's face, the prominent bones brought fresh tears to her eyes as she took in the flush on the hero's cheeks and the fog that clouded her eyes. Shego couldn't even fight the rush of warmth she felt as Kim's green orbs locked with hers in a moment of startling clarity. Then the teen blinked and the fog reappeared leaving Shego dazed for what had to be the hundredth time that day. Kim found herself not even trying to fight the lethargy gnawing at her limbs as Shego gently stroked her hair, at the back of her mind she knew she should be fighting against the older woman but the overwhelming feeling of safety kept her in place. The faintest of sobs reaching her ears as the villain's body shook slightly and then the sobs were gone, replaced by a soft keening song that led her into the realm of sleep.

A shift in the teens breathing let Shego know that Kim was well on her way to the land of sleep that, judging by the condition she was in, would be the first time in several days. With the slightest rasp of skin against cloth Shego stood, easily shifting her balance to accommodate carrying the teen. Her eyes sought the hologram that was still standing against the wall her mouth slightly agape after everything she had seen. The protective hold that she had on the girl tightened as Shego moved forward a growl of words leaving her mouth as she eyed the see through figure.

"Where's she keep the bed in this place?"

A shimmering hand pointed to the far wall as a whirring sound revealed a twin sized bed dropping from the ceiling, the body behind the hand following after Shego as she headed for the bed. Tightly made sheets were pulled back as she placed Kim on the bed and turned to the hologram, or she tried to Kim's arms tightened around her as the villain tried to move away, a whimper of pain stopping Shego's movement. Another heart stopping moment that left Shego slipping onto the bed next to the teen shooting a glance at the hologram that was looking at her with the oddest expression.

"You're going to want to use that syringe in your pocket at some point, or else you're going to have to pull off that nifty trick from earlier again."

Shego's eyes widened as she fumbled in her pocket for the syringe, studying the bright green contents before glancing down the teen currently using her as a cuddle buddy. A frown spread across her features as the Kim tightened her hold even more, the monitors beeped louder as her heart rate picked up again. She didn't even hesitate as she plunged the needle into the girls arm depressing it without a second thought. Her eye's narrowed as she counted the seconds it took for the beeping to return to normal, she sighed in relief beckoning the hologram forward.

"Start explaining. NOW! Starting with what the hell you are, and ending with why Kimmie here looks like she's been living in a third world country for most of her life."

Her words hissed through clenched teeth that had the hologram stepping back involuntarily.

"Uhm well, maybe we should wait for Kimberly to wake- or we could just start talking now."

A growl and a beckoning hand from Shego had her stepping forward and dropping cross-legged onto the floor next to the bed. She found it odd that the woman currently holding her creator to her with what seemed like an unconscious gentleness could glare at he with so much force that it would have knocked her socks off, if she actually wore socks. It went against all her programing to even talk to anyone about her creator and her software, but Kimberly had left at least a few loopholes in her programming that let her make executive decisions if the situation presented itself. Generally that meant contacting Wade, but she felt it would be more appropriate to tell Shego what was going on. She spared a second to route through the information that she had on Shego, most of which came from discussions that Kimberly had had on the subject. Respect was the word that came up on all of her interfaces. The one feeling that her creator consistently displayed towards her arch-foe, which was more than enough for her to use as an argument when she ad to explain why she had shut off all the monitoring devices in the room.

"My name is Mechanized Artificial Intelligence, but I prefer Mai, not thing or it or hologram. Kimberly created me about four years ago, when she created the P.K.H and began taking supplemental injections to counteract her body's inability to create the necessary chemicals."

'Whoa hold on the P.K. What? Supplemental who?" Shego cut off the hologr- Mai as her attempts to ignore the pounding in her head.

"Portable Kim Hologram. It's what gives her a normal appearance during the day, the technology employs the use of several different forms of visual and biometric technology that gives anyone viewing Kimberly the impression that she is for all intents and purposes a perfectly whole and healthy teen."

Mai's explanation slipped into the realm of unbelievable for Shego and she had to clench her jaw shut to keep from interrupting again. The overwhelming urge to punch something was surfacing as she realized just how long Kim had probably been in this condition for. Since her first year in high school according to the AI, Kim would have been fighting her for nearly two years by then, meaning that she had been fighting this fake Kim for four years. Pushing her anger aside she forced her attention back on what Mai was saying.

"Her supplemental formula allows her to temporarily regain her natural levels of oxytocin, adenosine, zinc, b-12, and several other chemicals that affect your basic levels of functioning. Allowing he t continue to fight crime, go to college, and attend to the other activities that she does in her daily life." Mai paused as Shego shook her head in disbelief giving her a look that bordered on homicidal rage.

"Are you telling me that she did THIS to herself in order to be normal?"

"Well yes when you put it that way she has gone to extreme measures in order to pass herself off as what she believes is a normal teen."

"Did it not occur to her, in that apparently brilliant mind, to not do everything that she does? That maybe she should have asked for help, or I don't know stopped being a hero if she wanted to be normal."

Shego spat the last word out as she removed Kim's hold on her with as little force as possible, standing and pacing to the far side of the room where the window stood. Her breath fogged the glass as she glared at the just appearing stars, her mind cycled through what the teen had apparently been doing to herself. There was no excuse that the girl could give her to make it all right; there was no excuse that she could come up with to forgive herself for not realizing what was going on sooner. She should have been able to see through the deception, detected that something was wrong with the girl. Years of encounters and fights, thousands of moments where she could have realized it and done something, could have stopped the cycle that she knew Kim was now stuck in.

And what would you have done kidnapped her and forced the truth out of her? She's smarter than that, hell if she really did invent those things she' probably smarter than Drakken.

Tears welled up in her eyes as she stared at the slip of a teen in the windows reflection, looking for the entire world like the bed had swallowed her. Shego's hand crackled with plasma as she balled it into a fist and struck out at the wall in front of her. A crack resounded through the room as she smashed a hole into the wall, falling to her knees as her emotions won out. Plaster and specks of blood littered the floor around her, blood dripping from several gashes on her hand. Any pain from the injury forgotten as anger, guilt, and overwhelming sadness crashed in on her.

Mai watched through wide eyes as the woman cracked through what she knew to be an incredibly well built wall before falling to the floor in tears. Her knowledge of humans inflicting damage on themselves was limited. But she knew enough to recognizing that approaching Shego wouldn't end well.

"I should have noticed."

The whisper made her hesitate as her interfaces flared red from the pain in Shego's voice. She shook her head as she turned back to the bad, starting when she realized Kimberly was awake. Kim sat stock still in bed, clutching the pillow to her as she watched Shego shake silently on the floor. Her heart hitched as she realized that Shego was blaming herself for what she had done to her own body. She winced as her chest expanded painfully, her body felt like it had been hit by a steamroller.

"It's not your fault."

The effort it took to drag the words out of her own throat shocked her, never in the past four years had she been in bad enough shape for talking to hurt. She recognized that Mai must have told Shego to inject her with the stimulant. The familiar rush of warmth as the nanobots went to work was accompanied by an odd disconnected feeling that made her realize something was wrong this time around.

Green met green as Shego lifted her head to meet Kim's gaze, the cut on her forehead thrown into the light. The woman in front of her looked nothing like the Shego from before she blacked out, and she had to stop and think about just how long she must have been out for. Her eye's held the slightest spark of fire that belayed the puffiness of her eyes and the tears tracking down her face. An already fading bruise on her jaw had Kim wondering what had happened while she had been floating with darkness, one minute Shego had held her in a death grip, and the next minute she was in bed and Shego was looking like ninja monkeys had attacked her. The only damage to the room was the hole that she had seen Shego make in the wall and she knew her security system couldn't be broken without extensive hacking skills. The only people who had ever broken it were Wade, and now Shego, she frowned at that thought an expression that brought Shego to her feet.

"Your right, it's your fault for letting yourself get into this condition."

The pain flooding Shego's system dragged the words out of her as she met Kim's eyes. The sad, empty eyes that were a shadow of what she once was. It brought her anger to the forefront again as she attempted to concentrate on something other than the husk of her Kimmie sitting in the bed.

"You don't get to judge me, I had no other choice."

"You always have a choice, what happened to anything's possible for a Possible"? You have an entire world that would jump at the chance to help you. Global Justice, Team Go, and hell even the National Guard would have jumped at the possibility of helping you protect the world. Which, by the way, is their job, not some half grown teen who's not even out of school."

Kim flinched as she recognized the truth in her words, but her mind was already switching to right mode in response to Shego's anger.

"And do what? Let people know that I'm just like every other hero out there, incapable of withstanding pressure. Have the world look at me with pity; look at me like you are Shego. I'd rather die than let that happy."

Shego shot forward, grabbing Kim by the front of her shirt as she shook her.

"You already did the Possible. And if you ever think of pulling that shit again I'll-"

Her threat was choked off as her throat closed up, tears welling in her eyes as the few minutes where her heart had stopped with Kim hit her again. She shoved Kim back onto the bed and returned to the window. She could just make out Kim's face growing paler as her words sank in.

"I already did what?"

Shego's breathing stopped as she kept her back to the teen and the burning in her eyes was soothed by her falling tears. A silence filled the room as Kim shook her head, clutching at the blankets around her as she fought against what Shego had said. She couldn't bring herself to believe the villain, no matter how she felt. There was no way she could have died. Fear set in as she watched Shego's breathing jump irregularly.

"No. . . No that's not possible, you're lying."

The villains shoulders fell as Kim's words hit her with an almost physical force and her body shuddered in reaction. The teen's words struck a nerve as she realized there was no real reason for Kim to believe her. The tears began to blur her vision completely when Mai spoke from behind her.

"She's telling the truth Kimberly. You were dead for approximately fifteen minutes before Shego managed to revive you."

The words were like a blast of cold water dousing her in a numbing spray that settled over her body with the words. Kim didn't know if she was more shocked by the fact that she had died or that she now owed her life to the villain. Thousands of excuses and explanations for how something like that could happen to her and her heart dropped as she realized there was only one excuse. She had let it happen.

"They asked. They asked and I couldn't say no. How do you say no when you're the only person they can turn to?"

Kim's broken whisper struck a chord with Sego as she remembered the thoughts of a naïve young girl who had once been a part of Team Go. Back when she had actually believed that helping people was the greatest thing in the world. She had held onto her belief of the greater good, until her eyes had been opened by the underhanded dealings of Global Justice and other world organizations. Who were taking advantage of a bunch of underage kids who had been grace with super powers. And when Team Go had been broken up they had turned to the next victim, Kim.

"You should have said no Princess; your life isn't worth the world."

Shego's words left her mouth before she had a chance to stop herself and she was glad that she had her back to the teen. It didn't stop her from seeing Kim's mouth drop open in the mirrors reflection and she felt a slight blush spread over her cheeks. She fingered he lock on the window before shoving it open and turning back to the teen, hoping the shadows would hide her darker skin tone.

"I'm not going to stand by and let you keep doing this to yourself. So you either fix this, or I will."

Shego's eyes flashed as she met the teen's stare before dropping out the window. Leaving a slack jawed Kim behind.