Kim was losing and she could tell. Obviously being so weakened, she knew she never had a chance in the first place, but she had to at least try. She was handling herself well, considering the circumstances, until shego managed to kick her midsection where she had had to get stitches three days ago. She felt the wound tear back open and she couldn't hold back the cry of pain. She fell to her knees, bent over with her arms over her stomach where blood poured out. Her purple shirt was soaked in seconds with the red warm sticky substance and she started feeling light headed.

"Princess!?" Shego exclaimed a mix of horror and confusion showed on her face. She didn't do that did she? No, there was no way, she'd kicked her plenty of times before and that never happened. The green skinned woman was at her side immediately while Monique and Drakken could only stare in shock. The villain knelled in front of Kim and softly coaxed her to remove her arms so that she could see. The redhead tried to fight her off, but she didn't have the strength and before she could say "No big" her shirt was lifted enough for the other three to see her wound. Shego didn't hesitate as she removed her own shirt and began tearing it up. This is when Monique finally snapped out of it and ran to her friend. She was too alarmed to even consider the chance of Shego finishing her off. She pulled the hero onto her lap and cradled her slightly as Shego used her torn shirt to try and stop the bleeding. Kim was still conscious (barely) but she was out it. Nothing registered in her mind as the villain and her sidekick tried to help her.

The room spun before her before she finally found peace in the darkness that overcame her.

Shego and Monique left a bewildered Drakken as they carried the unconscious redhead up to Shego's room. They laid her on the bed and Monique removed the girls shirt so they could get a better look at what was wrong. They both gasped in shock when they found there was no place on her torso that was not marred. There were scars, old and new cuts, bruises, blisters, and burn marks. They carefully turned the girl over to find her back was even worse. She was bleeding badly from both sides and the two self-appointed care takers weren't sure what they could do. Shego brought a plus size first aid kit and tended to her as much as she could.

She had faced so many things and people throughout her life. She had watched her mother kill herself, watched her father die from the meteor that had ruined her life, she had been tested on and experimented on in science labs and hospitals, she had fought hundreds of people, but this was different. There was one thing that the villain had never been, but was now. Shego was scared. She was torn between slapping herself in an attempt to wake up from this horrendous nightmare, or cry. She decided she couldn't do either. She might not have been able to figure out why she cared about the bleeding teen in front of her, but she still did no matter what she did, so she was determined on helping her.

Monique couldn't stop the tears that formed in her eyes. She had never seen Kim in such a condition, and she certainly didn't know how she had gotten that way. It was most likely a mission, but if that were the case, wouldn't she have told somebody? She watched the elder woman as she went to work trying to fix the beaten cheerleader up. She didn't know why Shego was actually helping, she even wondered why she didn't suspect her of being the cause of this. She looked into the raven-haired woman's eyes and realized there was no way she couldn't have done it. She cares for her Monique realized. But why? Wasn't she the one constantly trying to kill her? They sat in silence for a minute neither one knew what to say or do, but they didn't have to think too long on it because a groan came from the redhead.

They watched in surprise as the young hero's eyes fluttered open and she looked between the two of them.

"Shego!" She said recalling they had just been brawling. She jumped to her feet before anyone could stop her and almost fell over when her head started pounding. Shego and Monique were about to come to her side when she put her hand up and stopped them.

"No" She said firmly holding her head a few seconds before lurching forward and grabbing the African-American's hand and pulling her towards the exit. Monique tried to stop her and get her to calm down, but her pleas had no effect. The redhead simply pulled her along before fleeing the lair all together as she had the day before, again leaving it standing in one piece.

Kim ignored her friends questions and comments as they made their way down the street getting soaked in the rain at a slow pace seeing as how the hero could barely walk. Monique tried countless times to get her friend to at least stop and rest if she wasn't going to answer her but the teen was stubborn. She wouldn't stop and sit down, she had to get home. The sooner the better. The tweebs were still out but at least her father would be home, which meant her mom wouldn't try anything. Kim always wondered why it was that her mom hated her, but she couldn't figure it out for the life of her. For as long as she could remember, her mom had always despised her, at first it was just yelling and growling when no one was around, but by the time she was five, the woman began to physically hit her. She didn't see how she was still standing today or why her mom wont just make it easier on both of them and just kill her already. She didn't know how much longer she could last until she cracked, and her friend seeing her darkest secret terrified her. Monique obviously hadn't figured it out yet, but she knew she would soon, and that meant someone would know. That only meant it was going to get worse.

Monique had slipped her jacket over her friend's shoulders when they made it outside and Kim had realized her top was bare. She was curious as to why Shego seemed to have been helping her rather than hurting her. Wasn't she supposed to be out to get her? Kim also couldn't believe that this was the second time she had just left from out completing her mission.

"Kim, stop!" Monique finally yelled putting her foot down quite literally to stop them from going on any further. "We need to get you to a hospital, you're hurt! You don't gave to tell me how, but you are and damn it, I can't let you die!" She cried and Kim felt her heart break slightly as she sighed.

"Monique, i'm not going to die." She stated.

"How do I know that? I didn't know you were so banged up just now! I don't know how you got banged up, and I don't know why you didn't tell me, but if or when it happens again, how do I know you're not gonna die?" Kim opened her mouth to say something to hopefully soothe her friend when there was an explosion from a few blocks behind them. Smoke billowed up from where they just came from.

"Drakken" kim growled before mustering as much strength and energy as she could to charge off in that direction.