I do not own Kim Possible. I know, sad but true... 'sigh'
Chapter 2: The Truth
Kim looked at Shego, Kim still in her fighting stance.
"Kimmie, calm down. I'm not going to do anything."
Kim didn't relax.
"I want my questions answered. Now!"
Shego sighed.
"You saw my tattoo, right?"
Kim nodded.
"It's not just a tattoo. It's a symbol of my true form. I'm not human. My entire family isn't human. Or at least the women of my family isn't."
Kim finally relaxed in her stance, but only slightly.
"What do you mean you're not human? What else could you be?"
Shego looked at the redhead.
"Do you want to really know?" she asked. "I guess I should tell you. You're not human anymore either."
"What?"
"You're not human. You're the same as me."
"I am nothing like you!"
Shego frowned.
"We may have different goals, personalities, jobs, lives, but we are the same."
Shego stepped away from Kim and in a flash if blinding green light, became a dragon. She was the same size as when she was human, but her bright green wings and long neck added to the fearsome image.
Kim fell to the ground, her expression one of fear.
"Shego?" she asked, her voice quaking.
There was another flash of green light and there was Shego.
"Kimmie?"
Kim didn't respond, she was staring at Shego as if the woman might eat her.
"Kim? Are you okay?" Shego asked, taking a step towards the redhead.
Kim started backing away quickly.
"Kimmie," Shego said in a calm voice. "It's me. Shego. I won't hurt you."
Kim just stared at the woman.
"Kim."
Shego took another step and was glad when Kim didn't back away.
"You okay, Kimmie?"
Kim slowly got to her feet, not taking her eyes off of the woman in front of her.
"Are you going to eat me?"
Shego blinked twice before bursting into laughter.
"Eat my Kimmie?" Shego laughed. "No! I won't eat you! Unless you mean in some other sense," she said, winking. She then looked up and down Kim, her eyes filled with lust.
Kim blushed, her face nearly as red as her hair.
"Let's... let's not do that," Kim said, looking away. She then felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning, she found Shego's emerald orbs gazing into her own.
"Kim, I had to show you what you'll become."
"What I will... What I will become?! You mean I'm going to change into a dragon?!"
Shego nodded as she stepped to stand in front of the redhead.
"Why? Why did you do this to me?"
"Those answers lie with your first questions. First the kiss. Why do people kiss each other? Hmm?"
Kim's face went scarlet once again.
"Huh, Princess? Why do people kiss?"
"Affection," Kim said, her voice barely heard.
Kim was then turned to looked at Shego.
"Kimmie, I've loved you since I met you."
That got Kim's attention.
"Loved me? Since you met me? But that was three years ago."
Shego nodded with a smile.
"Three years. Three years of watching you. Three years of looking out for you. Three years of letting my feelings for you grow."
Kim stood shocked. Her arch-foe was deeply in love with her. And by her own words, madly in love.
"You love me?"
Shego pulled Kim into a gentle hug.
"I love you, Kimmie. I love you more than I could ever express."
Kim slowly returned the embrace.
"If you love me, then why did you cause me pain?"
Shego leaned back to look into Kim's eyes.
"I was leaving my mark on you to state that you were mine."
"But did you have to bite me?"
Shego nodded.
"Biting one's intended is the way a dragon mates."
"We're mated? What does that mean?"
Shego chuckled before stepping back.
"We're married, Princess."
Kim's mouth fell open.
"WE'RE MARRIED?!"
Shego laughed at the squeakiness of Kim's vice.
"Not officially, but yes."
Kim backed away.
"But if the bite was the marking, why did you pour plasma down my throat?"
"That's how dragons changed a human into one of their own. You're a dragon now, Kimmie. Just like me."
Kim woke with a start, shooting up in bed to clutch her heart.
"It was only a dream," she said after looking around her room.
But when she looked down, she noticed that the hand over her heart had claw like nails.
"What the hell?" she asked silently. That was when she felt something uncomfortable. Reaching under her blanket, she pulled out something that she could feel her hand grab. Pulling it above the covers, she saw she had a tail.
"It wasn't a dream!" Kim gasped before passing out.
The next time Kim woke up, she looked at her hands. The claws were gone, and she couldn't feel her tail.
"Morning, sweetie."
Kim looked toward her door and saw her mother.
"Morning Mom," she said before slipping out of bed.
"Breakfast is on the table."
Kim nodded as she lifted her shirt to put on a different one for school.
"Kimberly Ann Possible!"
Kim's gaze shot toward her mother.
"Mom?" she asked.
"When did you get that tattoo, young lady?"
Kim turned her back to the mirror and looked over her shoulder at it. It was a black dragon tattoo with deep red eyes.
"Oh, no," Kim said as she walked over to her bed and sat down.
"Well?"
Kim looked toward her mother again. Anne was standing at the door, her arms crossed, and a frown on her face.
"I'm waiting, Kim."
Kim sighed as she leaned forward.
"You won't believe me if I told you."
"Try me."
Kim looked at her mother out of the corner of her eye.
"I'm a dragon now."
"Is that a joke, because I'm not laughing."
"I didn't say you were."
"This isn't funny. You went and got a tattoo?"
Kim shook her head.
"I told you that you wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"You want me to believe you're a dragon? Dragons do not exist."
"Apparently they do. Shego's a dragon."
"Kimmie, until you can start telling the truth, you're grounded."
Kim sighed again.
"Fine."
"That means no missions."
"Fine."
"No date's with Ron."
"Fine."
"No... Aren't you going to argue with me?"
"Nope," Kim said as she walked over to her closet and got ready for school.
Kim walked downstairs and ate her breakfast while her mother told James about the tattoo. She didn't respond to her father's scolding until it was time for her to leave.
"Sorry Dad, but I need to get to school. You can ground me into the ground after I get home."
Kim then walked out the door after leaving her Kimmunicator on the table by the couch.
That's what caught both of her parents attention.
"She left it here?" Anne asked as she looked at her husband.
James was just as surprised as Anne.
"KP!"
Kim looked over her shoulder and forced a smile as she saw her boyfriend coming toward her on his scooter.
"Hey Ron."
"How's my girlfriend?" he asked, his smile broadening.
"Spankin'!" she said with an enthusiasm she didn't feel.
The day didn't get any better for Kim. She was onto her next class when she stopped by her locker.
"Kim!"
Kim looked at the screen of the computer in her locker.
"Hey, Wade."
"Kim! We've got a major problem! Drakken's stolen some highly experimental explosives! And his target's Middleton High!"
Kim looked at the screen.
"I can't do it, Wade. I've been grounded from all missions."
"But Kim! This is at your school!"
Kim sighed.
"Where?"
"Drakken and Shego are in the boiler room!"
That's when Kim perked up. She was about to have a face-to-face, or hand-to-hand, conversation with Shego.
Kim is about to see Shego after the strange dream and the even stranger things that happened after the dream. What other surprises will Kim experience? And what will Shego have to say? Will she remember what transpired in the dream? Those answers and more next time. Til then,
Talon Earthstone
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