If you noticed, I started to use Commander Argus' ° in the last chapter. I was unable find anything else that would allow me to show change in settings. So when I asked about it in the forum, Commander said that he used the degree sign, I tried it and it worked so I hope he doesn't mind me stealing it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kim Possible or any registered characters or trademarks of the show. The story is mine and if you plan to steal it at least be sneaky enough that I don't catch you.

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Chapter 2: Christmas With You is the Best

Tall trees lined the streets like soldiers in single-file formation. Their leave-less branches covered in white powdery snow. The streets were empty save for the spare car parked near the curb. In various yards children played in the snow, some building snowmen and others having snowball fights. In Middleton Park, atop a hill Ron sat aboard his sled. Behind him sat Kim, whose arms were loosely wrapped around his waist, almost as if they weren't touching him at all.

"Ready," he asked her.

"Ready and waiting," Kim replied.

Ron pushed off with his hands and down the hill the sled went. Snow flew up alongside them as they laughed on down the hill.

"Let's go again Ron," Kim said while getting up.

Ron followed suit, picking up the sled and following Kim up the hill. There at the top, Ron saw Tara talking to Kim. While his attraction to Tara had gone away, she always had this way of looking so cute and innocent.

"Hi Ron," Tara said, smiling at him. "Has Kim told you about her new boyfriend? I hear he's a real hunk."

"Really," Ron replied. "Kim, are you keeping secrets from me?"

"Tara," Kim said with feint anger. "I told you not to tell anyone."

"Sorry, I thought you would have at least told Ron." Turning to Ron, Tara said "From what I know he's definitely a great school mascot."

Ron just blushed knowing now that Tara had been teasing him the whole time.

"Well hey," Tara said cheerfully. "I'd love to stay and tease you some more but I'd better go check on my sisters."

"Merry Christmas Tara," said Kim and Ron together.

"Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukah," Tara replied while running down to the bottom of the hill.

Kim turned back to Ron and couldn't help but smile at that goofy grin he had on his face. His eyes stared into hers like a laser through diamonds but in a much more softer way. His hand reached to cup her face as he moved in for a kiss, only to go right through her.

"Ron, I'm a hologram remember?"

"Oh right," said Ron who was filled with complete embarrassment over trying to kiss a hologram of his girlfriend.

"C'mon," Kim said while heading in the direction of their favorite little fast food place. "We need to pick up the food and take it home to me… err the real me."

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When they reached Bueno Nacho, Ron raced a head of Kim towards the doors but then remembered that Kim was a hologram and he needed to open the door for her. Behind the counter was once again Ned. Ron had often wondered if he worked there twenty-four seven but not now. Now the only thing on his mind was two orders of Nacos, grande sized and a Chimerito combo.

Getting his food in no time, Ron made his way over towards Kim who was staring out the window.

"Hey KP, I got the food," he said but she paid no attention to him. "Earth to Kim."

"Ohh sorry Ron, I uhh…"

"What were you staring at?"

Kim pointed out the window to a little boy with red hair and a girl with blonde hair across the street at the playground.

"They do strike an odd resemblance, don't they?" he asked.

"Yeah," she said smiling, then turning and heading for the doors.

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"Hmm," Kim said as she wiped a bit of diablo sauce from the corner of her mouth. "That was a good chimerito."

Ron simply patted his belly and then leaned back in the chair, a small burp escaped his lips.

"Excuse you," Kim said while trying to contain a burp of her own.

"So did you have fun sled riding?"

"Yeah it was fun."

"See I told you it would be. No since in you missing out just cause I'm grounded."

"Well actually, you had fun as well."

"I did?"

"I really wanted you to be there and Wade wanted to test out his new version of the holo-Kim."

"So did everything go ok?"

"It went great. In fact no one could've suspected that it wasn't you. Except when I tried to kiss you and went right through you."

"You tried to kiss me? The holo-me?"

"It was after we got done talking to Tara. I kinda forgot that you weren't you for a moment there and tried to kiss you. Luckily no one saw except for Wade."

"Whoa whoa whoa. First off Tara saw us?"

"Yeah and she totally believed it was you. She knows about us by the way."

"Did you tell her?"

"No you did."

"I did? Wait how did the holo-Kim know?"

"I told Wade. He had to know incase a situation like that came up."

"I know that, I just thought that I'd be the one to tell him."

"I'll let you tell Monique, how's that?"

"Alright, but do you know who I really want to tell?"

"Felix?"

"No actually I want to tell my best friend."

"Your best friend huh?"
"Yeah he's this really great guy who may be a little weird but I like him."

"So, what's his name?"

"Ron Stoppable."

"Ron Stoppable huh," said Ron while leaning in towards Kim, taking her hand in his. "Just how do you plan on telling him?"

Kim leaned in and kissed Ron on the lips. Softly at first but then began to apply slight pressure. Her other hand reached up to tousle his blonde hair.

"Booyah," Ron whispered as their lips broke apart.

"Booyah," said Kim in return.

A coughing sound came from the doorway causing the two young lovebirds to turn their heads to look. Upon seeing Kim's father they immediately pulled away and settled back into their respective chairs.

"Kim, Ronald," James said.

"Hi dad," Kim said hoping he wouldn't say anything more.

"Hi Mr. Dr. P," said Ron hoping he wouldn't be taking any space flights soon.

James simply opened the refrigerator door to retrieve a bottle of water and then returned from whence he came.

With her dad again out of the room and thankfully not causing a big stir about things Kim decided that it was time for her and Ron to retreat to a more private of settings. She arose from her seat and headed out of the kitchen and up the stairs, knowing that she didn't even have to mention for him to follow along.

When they reached the top of the ladder to the attic Kim paused before opening the hatch. She turned around slightly nearly knocking Ron off the ladder. "Now I have something that I need you to help me with. Think you can handle it?"

For two flights of steps Ron had been closely watching Kim as she climbed up in front of him. She was wearing a tight pair of shorts that were very much short and thus at the time of Kim's question, Ron's mind was somewhat in a naughty place. "Oh, I definitely think I can handle it," he said with a confidence that surprised even himself.

Kim simply smiled at him then opened that hatch and led them into her room. Once inside she moved over by the bed to sit down and looked at a very surprised Ron. "I need you to help me clean."

Ron said nothing but instead took a few steps towards the bed and then collapsed on it, causing various items to fall off of it and crash onto the floor creating various thumping sounds.

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Kim's room was nearly spotless but it still had some work to do. Most everything had been reorganized except for the various scrapbooks and CDs that were scatter about on the floor. On her bed she sat, legs folded Indian style, sorting through various items. Some were thrown into a large black plastic bag while others were set aside for the time being. As she flipped through an old history notebook, checking to see if there was anything worth keeping before tossing it, a picture caught her eye. Hand drawn and not very good, the picture was of a Christmas tree and it, as well as the artist reminded Kim of just what was coming up in about a week. I've gotta go Christmas shopping.

Normally Kim was very punctual about her Christmas shopping like she was with nearly everything else. Every year she would do her shopping on the same day, exactly one week before Christmas. That day was tomorrow. I gotta go shopping tomorrow. Oh right I can't. Stupid grounding.

Grounding or no grounding Kim was determined not to allow this minor setback from preventing her from getting Ron a gift for their first Hanukah as a couple. Quickly she was out of her room and downstairs much like a flash of Wally West.

Ann Possible was sitting in the living room of the house reading a book when her daughter busted into the room.

"Mom," said Kim. "I have to go shopping."

"Kim your grounded remember?"

"I know but next Sunday is Christmas and that means that Saturday night we'll celebrate and Ron and I'll exchange gifts and its our first Christmas or Hanukah or whatever you want to call it together and I don't have a gift for him and I can't not have a gift for him and tomorrow's usually my shopping day… actually to day would have been but I didn't realize it until now and all the stores are closed so I have to go shopping tommorrow," Kim said in one long overextended breath.

"Look dear I'm off Wednesday so how about we go shopping then?"

"Thanks mom, you're the best," Kim said then placed a kiss on her mother's cheek before running back up to her room.

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It was late Thursday morning and Ron was entering the Middleton mall. Kim's parents were loosening up on her grounding and had let her leave the house. Of course the only reason she was allowed to leave was so that she could go volunteer at the hospital her mother worked at. She had asked Ron to go with her but he declined, deciding that this would give him an opportunity to do his Christmas shopping. Truth be told he actually liked to shop. Well, he liked to buy things, that is. He was a very generous person with his money. Perhaps he was a little too generous. There was a time when he lost ninety-nine million dollars in the course of a week. Sure Dr. Drakken stole some of his money and used it to fund his plan which Shego rightfully called a colossal waste of time, but Ron did his fair share of money wasting. Though the jet was quite nice, of that even Kim would agree. Yet still the problem was there, as long as he had money, he had seemingly no control over spending it. After the incident with the first Naco royalty check, his parents began to put the funds into various savings accounts. He was granted a small amount of spending money each month to do whatever he wished with but once it was gone he would have to wait until next month to get more money. Only in the rarest of circumstances, such as holiday shopping, when he was given a bonus amount of money with which to purchase gifts, would he be given any extra allowance money.

At first Ron struggled to not spend all of his money in one place at one time. He decided to have his parents split up his monthly limit into weekly limits to help him better manage it and not spend it all in the first week. So far it was working out pretty nicely.

Today though would bear witness to one of Ron's poorest managements of money yet. Holiday shopping was one of the few times of the year that he both hated and loved at the same time. He loved picking out various gifts for his friends and family almost as much as he loved Kim, Bueno Nacho and Zombie Mayhem. He just wished that he could buy everything he saw. Well he had the funds to, he just didn't have access to the funds. Perhaps that was an even bigger problem then his money management, he was sure that Britina was never told to stop buying things and if his math was correct, he had more money than she did. However without having access to the money Ron couldn't afford to buy every gift he wanted to. This of course didn't always stop him from trying.

Last year he had bought Kim's present first, a silver charm bracelet that cost him almost all of his allotted spending money. This left him with very little cash to spend on the others he was getting gifts for and it was quite obvious who mattered most to him when it came time to open the gifts. This year though Ron decided to take the opposite approach to his holiday gift buying. He had made a list of all the people he needed to get presents for; Nana Possible, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Possible, Jim and Tim, his parents, Rufus and of course Kim. He had decided that this year he would buy Kim's gift last. Hopefully this would enable him to better balance out his gift spending money and at first he did.

The gifts he bought for the others were all roughly of the same price and yet still were the perfect gifts for each individual and he still had a generous amount of which to spend on Kim. The problem though was that if Ron saw something he wanted and he had the cash to purchase it, it would be his.

The item in question was in a rectangular shaped cardboard box lying across the backseat of his mother's Volkswagon Beetle. What am I going to do? Stupid sword. The sword, measuring thirty-seven and a half inches overall, had a thirty inch long blade made from mirror polished stainless steel. The cast metal handle and guard are fashioned to mirror a fierce fire breather with outstretched wings. Our first Christmas as a couple and I've got nothing. Nice going Stoppable.

Outside a few dark clouds gathered over the town of Middleton and let a pour a dismal freezing rain. Small pieces of hail began to pound on the car, disturbing Ron from his self-loathing. Great. Doesn't this just fit.

He left the parking lot and headed home in the storm. The radio cranked up so loud he would most likely be deaf by the time he made it there, Ron sang along with an angsty rock song that appeared to be about a guy apologizing for the way he messed things up, most likely to a former girlfriend.

With the music so loud and because he was concentrating or at least trying to, on driving home in the storm, Ron did not hear his cell phone which had been ringing repeatedly for a while now.

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Kim stood just inside the doors of Middleton hospital with Kimmunicator in hand, once again attempting to reach Ron on his cell phone. C'mon Ron pick up already. He had promised her that he would pick her up when she got off which was now nearly thirty minutes ago but every time she called, he never answered. Normally Kim would have assumed that his lazy behind just hadn't gotten out of bed yet but she knew overwise. Why couldn't he just have come with me?

She was about to try him again when she noticed him walking up towards the hospital, trying to hold onto an umbrella in those gusty winds. "Just where have you been? I've been calling you for half an hour now."

"Sorry KP I was sleeping. I didn't hear the phone ring." Ron knew that Kim was upset with him but luckily for him, he also knew the perfect solution. He stroked her hair away from her eyes and back behind her ear, gazing deeply into her eyes, he did his best impersonation of the puppy dog pout. "I'm really, really sorry."

A smile cracked her lips as Kim stared into those deep brown wells. She couldn't stay mad at him when he looked at her like that. All she needed was some Ronshine. "Let's go," she said while taking his free hand.

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"So what did you get me," Kim asked as she played with the car's radio. "I know you went Christmas shopping earlier. Monique said she saw you walking around the mall."

"I umm… well it's a surprise Kim," he said nervously.

"Oh come on," she teased. "How about a little hint, huh? Is it Bueno Nacho bucks?"

Bueno Nacho bucks thought Ron, what a great idea. Those are affordable and won't seem like a last minute gift coming from me.

"Is it a charm for my bracelet," she asked, holding up her right arm to show off the silver chain wrapped around her wrist.

Ron tried to maintain his silence, focusing on the road. He had no idea what he was going to do. Why couldn't she just leave it alone?

Kim didn't leave it alone though, instead she pressed on, hoping to trick him into revealing some hint as to what the gift was. "I'll give you a hint on what I got you. It's a box that contains six round things in it. I'm hoping that we can use some of them Christmas night while were snuggled up together. Wouldn't that be nice?"

Gulping, Ron's pants started to become uncomfortable, seeming to get tighter and tighter by the second. Of course Kim's hand sliding up his leg wasn't helping much either.

Still though he said nothing maintaining his silence while trying to keep his mind off Kim's hand.

"Fine then have it your way," she pouted, pulling her arm back before the hand reached the cause of his discomfort.

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Tonight was the night of the Possible Christmas party and as such that meant everyone from the twins to Ron were busy getting ready. They had all just returned from Happy Harry's Happy Holiday Trees with a tree that did not look as if it would fit inside their house let alone through the doorway. Eventually, after a few tries and various I told you so's from the women to the men, the tree was in the living room and ready to be decorated.

This task fell to the hands of Kim as there were many other things to do. Ron was in the kitchen checking to make sure that he had everything to prepare the nights meal. In the past Mrs. Dr. Possible had always fixed the meal but this year Kim insisted that Ron do the cooking, telling her mom that while she loved her cooking, once she tasted Ron's, she would want him to cook dinner for her for the rest of her life.

The twins were outside hanging colored lights and placing various decorations around the yard.

Ron had decided that he would make sure to be inside the house when the lights came on this year so as not to be blinded like he was last year.

Ann was busy decorating the inside of the house and doing some last minute cleaning while James was in the garage trying to fix the repairs to the eggnog machine before he had to go pick up his mother from the airport.

This left the job of tree decorating to Kim, who was spending more time in the kitchen then with the tree.

"The tree isn't going to decorate itself Kim," said her mother as she was passing by.

"I know mom I'll be on it in a minute," was the reply from Kim who was staring at Ron.

Ron was well aware that Kim had been staring at him intensely for a few moments now and decided to tease her some. He gyrated his hips seductively while pretending to not know what he was doing.

Ann had always been somewhat of joker and much more loose than her husband. As she was walking back through the hall, past the kitchen, she noticed Ron's little booty shake and whistled.

Ron turned his head at the whistle but Ann had already past on, thus leading him to believe that Kim was the one from where the whistle came. "KP, are you checking me out?"

Kim was finally snapped from her deep stare as she couldn't help but smile at the blonde who could be so silly yet so perfect. "Well you do have a cute butt," she said as she sauntered on over to him. Kim's arms wrapped around Ron and her hands traveled down the small of his back before giving him a tight squeeze.

She moved in for a kiss when Ron held up a hand to stop her. "Hold on a sec KP," he said whilst digging in his pocket. Ron pulled out a red headband with a branch of mistletoe attached to it and put it on his head, adjusting it so that the mistletoe would be hanging over both of their heads. "There we go, all set."

Kim laughed a little then went back in for her kiss, which was reciprocated very affectionately.

"I've got to go decorate the tree," said Kim.

"I'll help."

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The Possible family including Ron and Rufus, sat around the living room, its carpet replaced by torn wrapping paper. Dinner had been a honey-baked ham with mashed potatoes, brown gravy, green beans and biscuits.

Now as the night started to wind down, Ron knew that the inevitable was coming. All of the other presents had been distributed and the only ones left where the ones he and Kim were to give each other.

"Here you go," said Kim and she handed Ron a rectangular shaped present, wrapped in Fearless Ferret wrapping paper.

Ron remembered the conversation he had in the car with Kim the other day and wondered if she really wanted him to open it in front of her parents.

"Go ahead," she said.

Slowly and cautiously, Ron began to tear at the paper. "Wow KP," he exclaimed. "The complete first season of the Fearless Ferret. I love you!" He pulled her into a tight hug.

"You're welcome," she hissed, trying hard to breathe as he squeezed her like an anaconda. "So where's mine?"

All of the joy and sensation in Ron's body was swept away like dust by a janitor's broom at her question. "Listen KP," he said, nervously. "I umm… well I… well last year I brought your gift first and spent nearly all of my money on it and it was quite obvious who I favored most. I mean I ended up getting my parents Bueno Nacho bucks, one dollar for each night of Hanukah. So this year I bought everyone else's gifts first, trying to keep things even and I had enough money for your gift but then I saw this replica of the sword used by the king in the Master of the Small Gold Band That You Wear On Your Finger saga, and well…"

The ding-dong of the doorbell interrupted Ron's quickly said and barely understandable apology.

Ann rose from her chair, "I'll get it."

"Ron," said Kim hurt as she started to sense what he was trying to tell her.

"Well… I'm…," he stuttered.

"Kim honey, it's for you," her mother called, returning with a long slender envelope.

As Kim began to open the envelope, her Kimmunicator beeped in her pocket.

"What's the sitch Wade," she said into the blue device.

"Hey Kim did you get the package," asked Wade.

"Yeah it just came," she replied.

"Okay good. Tell Ron sorry but it got lost in the mail."

A confused "huh" escaped her mouth.

"Didn't he tell you," asked a smirking Wade. "That's Ron's gift for you. He came up with the idea, I just helped him to make it."

Kim placed the Kimmunicator down on the coffee table as she returned to opening the long slender envelope.

Ron moved up behind her, placing his arm around her waist and mouthing a silent thank you to Wade.

"Ron, what is this," Kim asked while removing an illustrated book from the envelope. "Kim Possible: So the Drama," she said reading the front cover. She then began to flip threw the book finally coming to a stop on the last page. A picture of two people, boy and girl, blonde hair and red hair, at a prom, kissing.