The Love of Rufus

AN: Let's face it, without Rufus the team of Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable would have ended long ago. This story is dedicated to the most overlooked member of the team, Rufus!

Since Kim has Ron, I have wondered who does Rufus have for his old age? Well read on to find out!

Chapter Two: Bueno Nacho

After Ron drops off the food at his house, Rufus asks to go to Bueno Nacho (Ron can understand Rufus to a degree.) so the four of them head on over to Bueno Nacho. Ron orders his usual, Grande sized. Kim and Monique order their usual, which is not Grande sized and that is when they notice Rufus seems a bit mopey since he wasn't devouring the food like crazy as usual.

Kim says, "Ron, is something wrong with Rufus? He's not eating very much." She points at a sad looking Rufus who is holding a half-eaten chip with cheese covering it.

Kim, Ron and Monique are all very surprised when Rufus makes a sad squeak and tosses the chip away. He doesn't even seem interested in the fact that he just tossed away one of his favorite meals away.

Ron quickly picks up Rufus and holds him in his hands before says, "Rufus buddy! What is wrong! Speak to me!" Kim and Monique move closer to look at Rufus as he just sighs before Monique says, "You know guys, it could be just me but he looks depressed about something."

Kim looks at Rufus and says, "I think Monique might be right, but what does a naked mole rat have to get depressed about?" She looks at Ron and says, "Did you two have a fight or something?"

Ron shakes his head, "No, I haven't had any fights with him and he seemed fine before we went to Smarty Mart."

Monique says, "Could going to Smarty Mart have depressed him somehow?" Ron shakes his shoulders and says, "I don't see how, I've been to Smarty Mart lots of times with Rufus and he's never had any problems before."

Kim nods and says, "That's right Monique, I have been with the two of them to Smarty Mart before and Rufus never seemed to have a problem before."

The three of them watch Rufus just sit there, next to a bunch of his favorite food before Kim says, "Do you suppose he is sick?"

Monique says, "I never heard of anyone getting sick so quickly, and besides... I think he is acting more like he is heartbroken than anything.

Before anyone could say anything more, a voice was heard and it was Avie approaching their table with a big smile on her face. At the sound of Avie's voice Rufus seemed to perk up for poking out of her pocket was Avalon!

Rufus got all excited and started to squeak in excitement, which did not go unnoticed by Monique even as Kim and Ron waved Hello. The closer Avie got, the more excited Rufus got and it didn't take long for Monique to figure out that Rufus had been lovesick for Avalon, especially since she saw Avie's little mole rat waving and looking just as excited to see them all.

Following Avie was a guy who smiled as he waved hello to them and when Avie stops at their table she says, "Hi everyone! I am so glad I caught all of you before we left. I was just telling my best friend, Knot Fall."

Knot says, "Hi everyone, it is nice to meet all of you." He then looks at Kim and says, "You're Kim Possible! Wow! You're just so cool!" Kim smiles and says, "No big, I just do what I can. What I do is just enough, I guess."

Knot chuckles and nods, "I had a feeling you would say something like that Kim if I ever got to meet you." Ron gets a weird feeling with Knot as he looks at him, and though he couldn't place a finger on it he looked Knot over. Knot was about as tall as Avie just like he was with Kim and he had short red hair with two strands sticking up from the back of his head in a kind of V pattern. His eyes were green with speckles of brown in them. He was wearing a blue t-shirt with a red stripe going across the center and army-green cargo pants with blue tennis shoes.

Avie pulls out her pet Avalon and says, "Hey Ron, I could use some of your naked mole rat pet care tips if you have the time.

Rufus runs towards Avie and Knot, wagging his tail happily even as Avalon hops from Avie to the table and she starts to squeak in naked mole rat tongue to Rufus with Monique watching even as Ron launches into his tips for taking care of naked mole rats, or at least Rufus in particular.

Kim listens to Ron and watches the faces of Avie, which shows genuine interest while Knot shows a cross between boredom, and being grossed out, depending on the topic that Ron covers with her at the moment. Kim is unable to shake the weird feeling she has about the two teens which gets interrupted when Monique whispers, "Kim, Hey Girl!"

Kim looks to Monique and says in a returned whisper, "What is it Monique?" before she notices that Monique is pointing at the table where she sees Rufus and Avalon chatting away happily at each other. She looks at Monique with a puzzled expression before Monique whispers, "There was nothing wrong with Rufus, he was just lovesick over that naked mole rat there." She points back at the two on the table and it is then that Kim sees with slowly, widening eyes that Rufus was indeed head over heels for Avalon!

Kim smiles in relief since she had also grown to care about the little naked mole rat almost as much as Ron did, even though she would never admit it to anyone. The two girls watch Rufus talk to the other mole rat for a while until Ron says, "My manual for taking care of Rufus is flawless because my best friend, Kim took care of him just fine when my parents and I went to France. Isn't that right KP?"

Kim didn't miss a thing and she says, "Yeah... I followed his instructions and Rufus had no problems." She looked a little nervous, as she still hadn't told Ron about chasing Rufus all over the place while he was in her care. She had not wanted to make her friend feel like she had let him down and Rufus remained quiet on the topic as well after Kim asked him not to tell Ron.

Avie giggles and says, "How sweet, you call her KP... it is just how I call Knot, KF sometimes too. What a small world huh?" Knot chuckles and says, "Yeah, though you won't let me call you by anything but Avie." to which she gives him a playful push on his arm while trying to look annoyed at him but failing because of her smile.

Monique looked at the mole rats before looking at KP and Ron, then looking at KF and Avie before something suddenly 'clicked' in her head and she had to bring a hand over her mouth to keep quiet. She smiled as she saw that the two of them and their pets were almost like mirror images with a twist. Monique wondered if either group had realized it yet. She decided that they might have suspected but she wasn't convinced that either group knew it.

Rufus and Avalon were squeak-talking to each other in their language with the two mole rats looking quite happy with each other. Ron and Avie were talking about the various ways of talking even as Kim and Knot were engaging in idle talk until Knot finally says, "Hey, I hear you go globe hopping and battle bad guys, that's cool."

Kim smiles a little before she says, "Thanks, but it really is no big." Knot leans over the table and says, "Maybe not to you, but to everyone else that you help it is and always will be a big thing." This causes Kim to lean back a little as she is taken aback by the force behind his words before she says, "I am not special, I just what I can and it seems that what I do is enough."

Knot leans back with a big smile on his face and chuckles, "Well, even though you've been hopping all over the world battling bad guys… I bet I've been to more places than you have."

Kim shakes her head and says, "I've been all over the world, even to exotic places that haven't seen the light of day for centuries. So, Knot I think I would have you beat no matter what." Her kimness that Ron has known about for some time starting to show and Ron would have recognized it as such if he'd been paying attention but he was distracted with giving mole tips to Avie.

Monique giggles softly as she watches her friends chat with their weird counterparts before she turns her attention back to Rufus and Avalon who seem to be holding each other's paws as they seem to become more quiet. She observes that the two of them seem to gaze into each other's eyes deeply.

Monique smiles as she watches them and notices that the way that those two act is very much like how Kim and Ron act whenever they are out on a date. She just couldn't help but admire how everyone was getting along even though a part of her was feeling a bit of the jel-n (jealous) feeling because Kim had Ron, Knot had Avie she assumed and now Rufus had Avalon.

Rufus wags his tail happily as he looks at Avalon before he squeaks something to her. Avalon then wags her own tail and nods a yes to Rufus before the two of them start to walk off together paw in paw with Monique watching them until they hop off the table where they disappear from Monique's sight.

Monique decides that she better follow Rufus and Avalon since their owners are too busy to even notice that their naked mole rats have left the table and probably are heading out of the room. She notices that Kim and Knot are arguing about who's been where and done more exotic locals than the other, she just had to shake her head as she heard Kim tell about some of the monkey temples that she'd been to because of that nut job who'd turned himself into part monkey thanks to in part by D-N-Amy's help.

Monique follows the two naked mole rats out of Bueno Nacho and she can't help but wonder where they are headed even as Ron and Avie reach mole tip #100.

Kim notices that Monique is missing and then she wonders where Rufus went. Kim then remembers that Rufus and Avalon had been acting like they were in love with Monique watching them.

Kim figures that Monique must have gone to follow wherever the mole rats went to before a thought struck her, "Where would two naked mole rats go?"


AN: Well, I hope you liked this chapter. Where would two naked mole rats go to get away from their owners? Good question! You'll just have to wait until the next chapter to find out! Any ideas where they'd go? I bet you all can figure it out.

The Incredible Werekitty: I agree with you, it is fun to write KP stories just for the name puns alone. :) I hope you liked the names I came up with for this story.

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