Well the first chapter was interesting enough wasn't it? So, what do we have here, Kim thinks she's twelve or she's twelve and thinks she's an adult. This three-chapter little tale is the launch story of another ARC by me although I don't know if I will put the rest out although it is finished. Actually, I wrote this except for the last chapter in about 2008 or 9 and I decided to finish it and post it because it is something different. Remember this is an assignment given to me by Spectre666 and was to be written in the first-person perspective of a 12-year-old girl (Kim). I have to tell you that I have never been a 12-year-old girl and haven't been a 12-year-old anything in a long, long time. Also writing in the first person is way different than anything else and it takes effort to keep from going my 'default' style so try to stay with me as I struggle with this.

Again, thanks for the people who have read and reviewed this and thanks to CajunBear73 for all his beta work. You can thank Spectre for the idea if you can find him.

So, let's get this on the road,

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Cuddlebuddy Huggie Kim's View

Chapter 2

Five hours later, after all the women in the house, including me, had been giving daddy the cold shoulder, the phone rang. Dad picked it up first. I picked up the phone and I heard Grandpa's voice over it, "James pick me up at the airport." I saw Dad hurry out of the house so fast I wasn't able to sneak into the backseat. Somehow, I felt his arrival had a few elements of a very interesting discussion accompanying this event. But, before I could insert myself into the car, Mom grabbed me and motioned to let him leave.

About an hour later, I saw Grandpa Rick walk up the sidewalk to our home. I opened the door to give him a big hug. Noticing a straggler, I just stared at dad, who sorta looked like a whipped puppy, 'I wonder what they had been talking about…I guess it's a dad thing.' Anyway after a few minutes grandpa asked if we had anything to eat 'cause he left on short notice.

Mom told him that we had the makings for corned beef and cabbage. Immediately afterward, I could see Grandpa drool.

"Grandpa.", I told him, "Ronnie is a great cook, so why don't we get him to come over and cook it? I'll bet he can do it better even than Gramma Phyllis."

"Better than you're Gramma? This I have to see...well taste.", he answered. Looking at Daddy, "James, do YOU have a problem with that young man coming over and cooking a nice dinner for me? I mean us?"

Daddy showed just how smart he was when he shook his head no. I picked up the phone and called my best friend. About ten minutes later he was at the house looking a more than a little nervous. I grabbed him by the hand and led Ron over to meet Grandpa.

Grandpa Rick took Ronnie's hand and shook it, almost bouncing my poor husband all over the place. He asked Ron if he knew how to cook the corn beef and cabbage that mom had gotten at the store a couple days before.

"Sure Mr. O'Shea, I can prepare it. It's pretty easy. Normally it takes a while to cook it, but since you're really hungry I can cook it fast. It just won't be quite as good, and it'll take about hour and a half," he replied.

Then Mom said, "Well get started Ron, it won't cook itself."

I watched Ron head into the kitchen with mom. I could hear him telling her what he needed. I was surprised when I heard him ask for a skillet and mom's huge pressure cooker. In a few moments, I could smell the browning meat. Sniff, sniff, hmmm onions and garlic too. Soon we all heard the chopping of potatoes and cabbage. I swear within ten minutes everything was in mom's pressure cooker.

I looked around and saw GP Rick head in to the kitchen. I knew Ron always cleaned up right after he finished using something in the kitchen; a complete reversal of what his room looked like. I was going to follow when I felt mom's arms around me. "My Daddy wants to have a little talk about your Ron.", she told me.

"It's OK mom, but I wanna watch and listen.", I told her, she nodded and let me go.

I just stood by the doorway….and GP was indeed talking to my man.

I watched in amazement at how Grandpoppa talked to my Ronnie. He started off, "Ronald, Kimmie tells me you're her best friend. How much do you like her? I know that I'm a big guy and that might scare you, but I want you to know that I love my granddaughter very much and I want to see her happy. What would you do to make her feel safe, comfortable and loved?"

My Ronnie answered GP Rick, "Mr. O'Shea, KP is my bestest friend. We've known each other our whole lives. When she's sick or not feeling good I watch over her when Mrs. Dr P isn't home. When she's sad I try to make her feel better. When she's hurt, I think it hurts me more than it does her. I would do anything for her to keep her safe even if it was to stay away from her like Mr Dr P wants. I would do anything for her even if it cost me my life. That's what I would do sir."

Grandpoppa took Ronnie's hand and shook it, "Thanks." he said, "You know son, it takes a man to make a pledge like that. It takes a bigger man to hold to it. I think you're that kind of man and I think you're a good man for Kimmie. Just between the two of us and the red headed terror behind us watching. And someday Ron, I think you may be calling me Grandpa Rick, too. Is that OK for you Kimmie?", he turned to look at me.

I blushed, I got my wish. I just got GP Rick's approval. "Guys, so you know daddies are overprotective of their daughters. Jim will be fine, just give him some time while the rest of us work on him some OK."

I saw Ron nodding at GP Rick. It looked like Nana's plan was working already. With the rest of us, Daddy would soon cave in.

"Grandpa Rick, thanks for coming so fast. Could I...um talk to you for a few minutes?" Kim asked.

"Sure honey. Ron, I see my baby wants to talk to me. We'll talk later, OK, son." he asked.

"Grandpoppa?" I tell him, "I think you need to hear the story, it's not ALL Daddy's fault that he freaked, I guess, but I had the dream and it was all so real, oops…Just a second, I'll be right back." As I run into the kitchen and give Ron quick hug and kiss for coming over so fast and cooking for GP Rick. Ron fell down again. I had to pick him back up.

Running back out to see Grandpa, I noticed that he followed me, only after I plowed into him. Then he gave smile showed me what he thought of the event in the kitchen.

We sat down in the family room and I began the story. "Grandpa.", I began, "You know that I always tell you everything, right?" He nodded. "I guess I need to tell you all about the dream. Some parts of it might have sent Daddy off a bit."

So, I told him about the missions, about Ron getting the monkey power, of Wade being our tech guy and Ron going to a ninja school. All of it, well maybe not all, not the brain switch and not the Moodulator. I didn't want Grandpa to know that I had been in Ron's body and Ron had been in mine. And, I didn't want him to know what I had planned for Ronnie during Middleton Days that year. I did tell him about the Lowardian invasion and everything about Ronnie saving the world. Then how Ron had to leave to go to the alien's home world and later learning that it was a trap. I looked up and saw Nana, I realized that she and Rick were listening very closely to me.

I gathered my courage and told them about the first time Ron and I did it. It was after we had been briefed by the President in a hotel we were staying at while in DC. We were both really scared, we felt that we may not ever see each other again. I went to Ron's room 'cause I was sooo scared, he held me. Well, one thing led to another and that's how we had James Dean and Barbara Anne nine months later. GP Rick interrupted me by asking who the President was at that time. When I told him, his eyebrows arched. Anyway, in the morning Ron disappeared. I found out later that he boarded an alien spaceship. That's when I started to figure it out.

"Kimmie, how did you get your Pandaroo? You know they're pretty rare." Grandpa Rick asked, "I was looking for one to give to someone special, but the last one had been sold."

"Pandaroo?" I replied, "Oh Ronnie bought that for me. He had to work a whole bunch of jobs to make the money for it. He got it for me 'cause everybody was making fun of me at school because of my braces. I guess he gave it me a couple nights ago…Or was that ten years ago? Anyway, he was damaged in the alien invasion. Ron found him and repaired him for me."

"Ronald did that, because you were feeling sad?", GP Rick looked at Nana and nodded to her. She smiled back at him.

"Yes, he did, now do you wonder why I love him Grandpa and Nana?", I asked.

I could see the smiles on their faces.

GP Rick started again, "Don't worry Kimmie, this will all work out. James will come to his senses soon…Won't you James?"

I turned and could see Daddy and Mom had come in to listen to our talk.

Daddy was still being a butthead, so Grandpa Rick and Nana decided to have a little talk with him. GP Rick and Nana both seemed to work for the government…doing something. I don't know what they did, but they seemed to know stuff. Daddy told me to leave, but Nana told me to stay. Since this was going to concern me anyway.

I listened to GP Rick, someone who was not as a fan of one of my favorite cuddle toys, but as a man with great experience behind him. "James, I want to hear why you have a problem with the young man who's preparing our dinner?" Rick started, "He seems like a nice young man. And…while I know that fathers tend to be protective of their daughters, you are going way to far over the edge. What would you have done if I told you not to date my Anne, and that you weren't welcome in my house?"

"Rick.", James replied, "Kimmie-cub is my only daughter. Basically, Ron isn't good enough for her. He doesn't do any boy stuff. He always does what Kimmie wants to do. He's lazy and unmotivated. He gets bad grades at school. I mean she's only twelve, they've been best friends since they were four. Kimmie has no other boys around her but the twins. She doesn't that many girlfriends. She's around that boy way too much. As for not being allowed to date Anne, I don't see the point."

Rick began again, "You know Anne likes Ronald, right?" James nodded. "Do you know why?" James shook his head. "I guess it's time to tell you about Anne's first boyfriend." Everyone looked at Anne, there were tears in her eyes, her lips were quivering.

"You see Annie had met a boy, I guess when she was six or seven. His name was Efren Cox," he started. Then seeing Ron, he motioned for Ronald to come as well and put his arm around Ronnie's shoulder, "Anyway Efren and Annie went everywhere and did everything together. I was a little unenthusiastic about this relationship myself. Phyllis was a lot more 'forgiving' than I was. I just wanted her to be more outgoing. Be around more people. When Annie was nine, I asked him the same questions that I asked young Ronald a little while ago. You know, I got nearly the same answers. He was willing to die in her place."

I looked at mom, her face was buried in her hands. 'Why was mom crying like that?'

GP Rick continued, "Anyway, one day they were coming home from school, I think Annie was ten or so. Anyway, they were walking home alongside the road, we didn't have shoulders at that time. And there was a car that was traveling too fast for the road, and the driver lost control. He swerved into the kids. Efren, seeing what was happening, shoved Annie out of the way and into the ditch. Efren knew what would happen. He knew that he only had time to save one of them. Unselfishly, he saved my daughter's life at the cost of his own. Annie told me later, that she watched her friend die. And she couldn't do anything for him. All she could do was hold his hand. She watched his eyes glaze over as his life left him…All she could do was hold him. That is the reason that she is the person that she is and the doctor she became."

"James, I know one thing. You will never convince my daughter that a boy is not good enough for her daughter. You will not win it. All it will do is drive you two apart, as it almost did to me and Phyllis. So, you had better make up your mind about this right now. Do you want your wife around you or do you want to be lonely? You have painted yourself into a corner James. How you get out of this will tell us all what kind of man you've become.", he finished.

I watched Daddy. He was trying to say something, but it wouldn't come out.

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Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable and any of the rest of the 'canon' characters of the show 'Kim Possible' belong to Bob, Mark and the Disney Corporation and not myself. This is just a hobby to keep me occupied since I'm retiring next week.

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