Kim Possible: A Year In Silence

Chapter one: A beautiful day

September 10, 2009

(Note that this is one year prior to the prologue)

Kim was lying in her bed. She looked at the watch, it said 6.58 AM. Anytime now, it would happen. 6.59. Soon now, just one more minute! 7.00. The door to her bedroom opened. She had still not gotten completely used to a normal door in her bedroom; the Tweebs and Kim had switched rooms just two weeks ago. This was so that the Tweebs could launch rockets from the inside without any damage to the house; their parents were tired of always having to repair things in the house. But still it was incredible that her parents had agreed on that, really; to actually allow them to launch things. Kim herself was totally against everything the Tweebs were doing. Well, the door to her room had opened, and in came her family, and they started to sing "Happy Birthday". After they had sung, the Tweebs lit their homemade fireworks, which – although meant for indoor use - ended up the wrong way; ruining Kim's closet.

"Tweebs!" Kim said irritated, getting up from her bed.

"Um… happy 21st birthday!" they said nervously, before running out of the room, with their mother close after. It was amazing that they still ran like some small babies when they were seniors in high school already, and 15 years old.

"Happy birthday, Kimmie-cub" Mr. Dr. Possible said. "Have Ron called yet?"

"Dad. It's seven in the morning. Not even Ron would ca…" Kim's cell phone rang.

"What was that?" her dad said. Kim picked up the phone.

"Sorry for calling you so early…" Ron said. "But… you havin' a rockin' birthday yet?" Ron asked.

Kim was a little irritated on him for calling so early in the morning, but she knew that was how Ron was, and that was part of what she liked with him, really.

"It's just started, so not much has happened; only the Tweebs wrecking my belongings… again!" Kim said.

"Yeah, typical them." Ron said. "So, pick ya up at ten?"

"What about work?" Kim asked.

"I got the day off." Ron said. "Barkin's gonna do the paperwork." he continued.

"Oh, that's great, Ron" Kim said.

"Well, see ya at ten, then?" Ron asked.

"Yeah" Kim said.

She got up from her bed, and took on her white dressing gown. She wondered what Ron was planning for the day. A movie and Bueno Nacho? No, that was their average date. Today was her birthday. Ron had surely prepared something else. But what? She didn't know. She figured it would be better to wait and be surprised. Yeah, that would be the best. At any rate, now she was going to take a bath. She went out of her room, and to the right, and then she was in the bathroom. She tapped hot water into the bath tub, before undressing and then slipping into the hot water.

'Ahh… lovely' she thought. It was some time since the last time she had taken a good, hot, normal bath, rather than just a shower. 'Oh, I just hope there won't be any villains today' The last times she had celebrated with Ron, their 4-year anniversary and his birthday, had both been interrupted by villains. She just hoped it wouldn't happen today.

She looked at the clock next to the bathtub. It showed 7.45. She had thought a lot those 45 minutes. But now, it was time to get up. She started to empty the tub, and whilst it was emptying, she dried herself with a towel, and found her clothes. She got on her clothes, and headed down to the kitchen. Breakfast was already prepared for her; eggs and bacon. A completely normal breakfast, even though it was her birthday. And, a little present for her as well, to start the new day. It was from Ron. She opened it after eating up her breakfast, and inside was a pair of earrings, with one small sapphire hanging from each of them. 'It seems Ron's job as general manager of Middleton's Smarty Mart is well paid' she thought to herself. Martin Smarty had appointed Ron as general manager of Smarty Mart Middleton some months ago, and the job had went surprisingly well for Ron. At least the pay had to be good, since he could pay for something like that.

Kim, on the other hand, had become the top GJ freelance agent. That meant she got paid for saving the world. She didn't really like the idea of it, but she had to make a living, and what was better than doing what she always had done? And as long as those she saved didn't have to pay, it was kinda okay with her. The only thing new to the job was that she was also required to do some paperwork; she had to make detailed logs of her missions for example, and some other pretty boring stuff as well. She had 6 work hours a day, except Sundays, and the missions came in addition to that. Today was a Sunday, so she didn't have to fix it so that she could have her day off, like Ron had to. The only bad thing was if there was any villain activity, she would have to stop them, regardless of which day it was.

Well, she went up to the bathroom again, and started to prepare herself. She had one and a half hour to prepare herself, which would be plenty of time to put on make-up, find a good dress, fix her hair, and everything else.

She put her hair the way she had it the night they had gotten together; that was, the night of the Junior prom, and equipped a long, blue dress. She also took on the ear rings Ron had prepared, and put on some lipstick. She still had some time to kill before Ron got there, so she decided to go to her computer and finish the log of yesterday's mission to Brazil; to stop Drakken from taking control over the world's mosquitoes. What would be the next? Kim could not help but wonder if Drakken ever was serious. Well, after doing that, it was 5 minutes before Ron would come, so Kim got down, took on her shoes and a jacket, and waited for Ron to come. Two minutes passed, and then her cell phone rang. She answered it. It was Mrs. Stoppable; Ron's mother.

"Oh, Kim. I am sorry to say it, but Ron is very ill." she said.

"Ill? He forgot to mention that on the phone." Kim replied

"Oh, it happened after he rang. He suddenly collapsed, right before he went out the door. We called an ambulance, and he is now being taken to the hospital."

"Okay. Thanks for letting me know." Kim said. She hung up, and put the phone on the table, before she rushed out of the door, into the garage, and got into her car. She started it, and drove as fast as she could towards the hospital.

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When she arrived at the Middleton hospital, it was around 10.30 A.M. She quickly found out where Ron was, and hurried over there. Inside, Ron was lying in a bed, and he was now conscious. Kim walked over to the bed, and sat down next to him. Tears were streaming down her face.

"Don't cry, Kim. I'll be alright" he said, trying to comfort her.

"You will?" she asked, still crying.

"Yeah. They didn't find anything wrong with me; I just fainted out. I have to rest here the next days, they said, and then I can go home."

"Oh, I'm so happy to hear that" Kim replied, a little relieved.

Rufus then suddenly popped up, and seemed very nervous; the little naked mole rat jumped up and down, muttering something almost like he was in panic.

"Hey, what's wrong, little bud? Don't worry; they probably have burritos or something in the hospital" Ron said, and put him back in his pocket, to Rufus' protest.

"Well, I'm going now." Kim said. She gave him a small kiss on the lips before leaving the room. Well out of the room, she grabbed her Kimmunicator.

"Wade, can you check Ron, just to be safe?"

"I thought they already checked him, and found nothing wrong" the now 15-year old supergenious replied.

"Yeah, but I'm not so sure that he's completely alright, and neither is Rufus. Just check him to be sure, will you?"

"Okay, if you say so" he replied.

Kim shut the Kimmunicator, and headed towards her car. She got in, and drove away. Although she was a bit relieved, she wasn't completely happy.

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Well home, Kim wondered what she would spend her birthday doing, now that she couldn't be with Ron. Her parents were both working, and being with her brothers, the Tweebs, was out of question. Monique, her best friend, was visiting some relatives in San Francisco. Who was left? Cousin Larry? Not a chance. Well, it seemed like she would spend it with no one but herself. At least until her family got home. She sat down in her couch, and started up the TV. American Starmaker was on. It was a reprise of yesterday's show. Jordan Lightning was singing as she turned it on. He was this year's favorite. As Kim watched, she began to feel drowsy. After not so long, she had fallen asleep on the couch.

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"Kim? You awake? Kim?" Kim opened her eyes. Her mother was right above them. She just now realized what had happened; she had fallen asleep on the couch.

"What time is it?" Kim asked.

"6 PM" her mother answered as she walked into the kitchen. "It's dinner time."

"Yeah, I'll be right there" Kim said. She got up from the couch, and headed towards the bathroom.

When she got down again, the others were sitting around the dinner table. Kim sat down at her usual place, and grabbed a giant slice of pizza.

"Hungry, Kimmie-cub?" her dad asked.

"Yeah" Kim answered.

"But didn't you eat with Ron?" her mother asked.

"Oh, didn't I tell you?" Kim asked.

"Tell us what?" Jim and Tim asked.

"Ron… got ill. He suddenly collapsed"

"He did what?" her father asked, very surprised.

"He collapsed. But it's nothing serious. At least that's what they said in the hospital."

"Oh, I sure hope so" her mother said, relieved.

The Possible family continued their dinner normally. After dinner, it was present time for Kim. She got some sweaters from Nana, some stupid, nerdy video game from her cousin Larry, a Club Banana discount card from Monique – valid for ten uses, a new closet from her brothers, some new mission gadget from Dr. Betty Director, a bunch of freshly made cheese from her family at the Crooked D ranch, and her parents, who had obviously run out of ideas, gave her some money. Finally, Ron gave her – in addition to that earlier present – that one dress Kim had wanted so much. It was long, and azure, and so beautiful. Kim was so happy!

After opening the presents, they talked a bit, and then ate a cake, and some other good stuff. It wasn't until the next Saturday she would have her family over to celebrate, though. After eating some cake, Kim went up to her room, and tried to find out what to do the rest of the day. It was almost 8 PM. She decided to log onto her website, to check a few things. But, as she logged on, it looked completely different from what it had before. Right then, the Kimmunicator beeped. Kim took it up, and on the screen "Happy birthday, Kim" was. She knew that this was Wade's doing. He had changed her website – for the better – as her birthday present. She spent some time looking through the website. It looked awesome now, thanks to Wade.

When she was done, it was almost 10 PM. She had used some more time than she had expected on looking through it. Now, she decided to go to bed. She notified her parents that she was going to bed, and got into her bed. She was looking forward to a good night's sleep.

She just hoped Ron was all right…