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4: A Regular Day

Shego stared at her bandaged wrist as she settled into her king-sized bed. Flexing her hand, she winced. What the hell have I gotten myself into? She wanted to be annoyed, upset, but a smile refused to leave her face. She knew just what she was into — a good challenge.

Trin was a hellcat if never there was one, but she was also an uppity bitch. Shego enjoyed being around her, for a reason that was beyond her. It was almost like being around Kim without all of the self-righteous rigmarole, hero complex, and all of the "goody-goodiness." The fighting was a bit more intense since Trin did not seem to know the difference between sparring and regular fighting. So, it was good to be around Trin and she accepted it as that, knowing she might have to put up with a little pain to go with her pleasure.

But, it was worth it. Spending the night kissing Trin, feeling soft lips and smooth skin was worth it. Sure, Trin had almost broken her arm, but she had never made any real effort to leave. It was like Trin could not allow herself to enjoy anything physical unless it was somehow a fight.

Damn Trin and her quirks, she silently cursed. Shego had plans to work passed them because a woman like Trin did not need to live her life frightened or disgusted with being touched, especially by Shego. She knew the blonde liked the attention, but she had to get the nineteen-year-old to stop resisting out of habit. She had a job ahead of her, but she was going to work through it.

"Trin won't know what hit her when I'm done." Emerald eyes fell to her wrist again. "In both the literal and figurative sense." Trin almost broke her damn wrist, after all. She could not let that go unpunished.

-8-8-8-8-

Tatsu stared at the dark ceiling while lying in her bed, which was little more than a cot. She did not need or want much in regards to comfort or luxury, which was evident from the fact that she lived in a one-room shack just behind her garage. The only thing it had beyond her bed was a sink and something like a shower. Her mini-fridge and microwave was kept in the garage, as that was where she was most of the time.

She could not sleep, which was nothing new. She tended to stay awake most nights, staying at the ceiling or the wall, unable to sleep for various reasons. She supposed it was a good thing she made her own hours for work or she would have been fired from her job a long time ago due to her sleeping habits. The thing keeping her awake now was the fact that she had agreed to date Kim.

She was not sure why she had done that. She did not regret the decision, only the fact that she made it while still in a relationship with Shin. It was just that she felt like she was more in a relationship with Kim than with Shin. It's been that way for a while.

"Should just call him and tell him it's done," she muttered. This did not seem right, though. He deserved more than a phone call. He had not been a terrible boyfriend, not by her standards anyway. Kim deserved the world, though.

If that was the case, she should probably tell Kim about Shin. It was the right thing to do, right? The decent thing and Kim deserved that and more. But, she was pretty sure that news like that would not be taken well. She liked having Kim around, so she did not want to do anything that might keep Kim from coming to visit her or not want to do things with her.

"Stupid," Tatsu berated herself, glaring into the night. She had already screwed things up. Nothing ever went her way for long, she reminded herself. That was just life. Her life.

-8-8-8-8-

Kim tossed and turned in her bed, trying to get comfortable enough to go to sleep. The quiet night blanketing her room usually was enough to sooth her into rest minutes after her head hit the pillow. She had no such luck tonight, though.

She was a bit troubled about her decision to date Tatsu. She liked Tatsu very much, but she wondered if she was just using Tatsu to discover her sexual preferences. If that was the case, would that be right? How else would she know what she was, though if she did not experiment?

"I don't want to use Tatsu, though. She's opened herself up to me and trusted me as a friend. I don't want to lose that," Kim sighed.

She was happy Tatsu agreed to date her, but she was already considering she did not feel that way about Tatsu. Maybe that was why she was feeling guilty. She liked Tatsu, but maybe she liked her as a friend and nothing more. Or maybe she was just nervous she might actually be… that way. What would people think? What would her parents think? What would her big sister think? Questions like that built anxiety in her.

-8-8-8-8-

Trin brushed her teeth for the third time. The sound of her brush scrapping against her teeth was like white noise against this haunted feeling she had. She was not sure what to call it, but she knew the cause of it.

She had gotten a visit from Shego again that night, which involved a lot of struggling on her end while making out. There was kissing, caressing, and grinding. It all should have been too much, too disgusting. The trouble was, she had not really fought Shego off. Instead, she allowed it, let kisses float across her skin, her lips, her chest. There was something about it that she did not want to admit to herself.

It was not the first time they had done this and she doubted it would be the last time. She hated to think Shego was winning the battle. After all, the first time it had happened, she had almost broken Shego's wrist to get her to stop and she had brushed her teeth almost a dozen times that night and actually guzzled all of her mouthwash. Now, she was down to three without mouthwash and she doubted Shego's wrist was even bruised from that session.

Worst yet, Trin was starting to believe she only brushed her teeth to out of force of habit. This was what she used to do whenever someone kissed her. If that was the case, it would mean she was actually getting pleasure from Shego's assaults. It was an odd thing for some reason that was beyond her, but getting pleasure from Shego seemed just as outrageous as her getting pleasure from, say, Shin. She could not figure out why that was. But, this disgusted her more than kissing ever could.

Trin looked at herself in the mirror. Stern teal eyes stared back her and the bathroom light somehow helped her look more demonic and serious. "You cannot allow this to go on." Even as the words left her mouth, she feared it was a load of crap.

-8-8-8-8-

Shin hanged off of his bed sideways, his ebony hair almost touching his carpeted floor. He had called Tatsu earlier and she had not even bothered to answer the phone. It was a first. Even if she did not want to talk, she would acknowledge his call by answering and just inform him she was working or whatever else might keep her busy for a while. He wondered why she would not answer.

"It's probably nothing," he muttered, but he felt like it was. It was too weird to be nothing.

He considered she might be upset with him. He was not the best boyfriend she could ask for. He did not do special things for her, take her out, or even buy her nice things unless his evil twin told him that he needed to get off of his lazy ass and do something for her. It's bad when someone as antisocial as Trin has to give me advice on what to do with my lady. But, even though he never did things like that and Tatsu still answered his calls. He could not figure it out. Something was probably wrong.

"Yeah, it's definitely something," he sighed. He did not bother to right himself on the bed and eventually fell asleep in that awkward position.

-*-(New day)-*-

Kim stood to face Shego in a rundown warehouse as Ron ran off to figure out away to stop Drakken's latest doom's day device, or doom's day disaster as Ron was starting to look at the machines. The redhead stared at Shego, who stared back. And then the hero spied something weird; Shego's hand was wrapped in a bandage. Who in the world was strong enough to injure Shego? No, that had to be an accident or something like that.

"Shego, what happened to your hand?" Kim asked as her forehead wrinkled and her eyebrows curled up. She really wanted to know how the villainess had gotten hurt. She just needed to be sure it was an accident. If not, she would have to find the person who hurt Shego and keep an eye on that person, just to make sure that person did not try their hand at villainy.

The pale woman laughed as her eyes drifted to her wrist for a moment. She hated to think what Trin might do to her if she told Kim, "nothing, your freaky anti-touch sister just didn't like where I was putting my hand." Once Trin heard about that, they were both going to need a lot of bandages, Shego figured. She was not in the mood to go through that.

"Something that was worth it," the thief opted to respond with devilish and amused smirk. Thoughts of Trin with her head thrown back filled Shego's mind for more time than was appropriate for the moment. Yeah, it totally was worth the sprain.

Kim's brow shifted as her eyebrows knitted in close together. "Like what?" She really wanted to know, not just for safety, but just for her own curiosity now.

Shego decided to stop the question and answer session by going at Kim. She was not looking to share how she enjoyed her time off. Besides, she doubted Kim really wanted to know, even if the teen thought she did. And, heaven help her if Trin even suspected she told such things to Kim.

The pair got into their usual tussle. While moving with Kim, Shego noted the differences between the hero and her older sister. In the beginning, she always thought it was obvious they were sisters, but now, she could see the differences quite clearly.

Trin was much more deliberate in her movements and devilishly calculating. Kim was smoother when she moved and much more defensive than her sister could ever imagine being. Kim was almost like water while Trin was a well-wielded blade, like a scalpel. Kim was not looking to hurt someone too much when she fought while Trin was looking to make her opponent think really hard on coming at her a second time.

Shego found herself thinking she preferred Kim's style to her sister's. There was something about the fluid motion that got to her. Yes, Trin was intriguing and made electricity dance down her nerves, but Kim did something more. Shego was not sure what it was, was not sure why she just now noticed, but it was in front of her now, greeting her like an old friend.

Kim noticed a change in Shego, too, beyond the bandaged hand. The green-skinned woman's seemed even more aware of her movements than usual. Now, she understood they had been fighting for a while now, but it seemed too much for the infrequency with which they saw each other. Shego fought her now almost as if they battled each other every day. The truth of the matter would be that Shego fought with Trin almost every day.

They went at each other for a few minutes until they heard Ron and Drakken yelling, which was followed by an explosion. They stopped as more explosions followed at an alarming rate. Ron came running toward them.

"K. P, let's get out here! Drakken's thingy is blowing itself up!" Ron explained in his usual excited tone, not bothering to stop to relay this news. He had not even touched anything for once. The machine just suddenly started going off on its own. Something had to be wrong with Drakken, Ron concluded because of such faulty work.

Shego sucked her teeth and rolled her eyes. Leave to Drakken's incompetence to spoil her fun. She had been enjoying working up a sweat with the redhead. She needed to fight Kim more often.

Now, Shego had to go make sure Drakken got out of the place all right and she had to make sure she got out all right. She would have kept an eye on Team Possible, but she knew they could take care of themselves, or so she hoped. She doubted Trin would want to ever see her again if Kimmie died while fighting against her.

"Later, Princess," Shego sneered as she ran off to find Drakken and give Kim the chance to catch up with Ron.

"That seemed a little weird," Ron commented, glancing back to watch Shego bolt off with an arched eyebrow. Usually, she would have stuck around to try to get them trapped in the lair or she would have had one last trick up her sleeve. She never just ran off, especially without saying something smart beforehand.

"Yeah," Kim agreed. The two heroes upped their pace as another explosion sounded through the lair. Kim glanced back, but she was not sure why.

-*-(New day)-*-

"Shin, don't you think you should go see your girlfriend since we have today off?" Trin suggested. She had plans once she got him out of the apartment to hopefully curl up on the sofa and get some reading in before Shego showed up.

The thief had actually called and said that she was coming over, warning Trin. This was not like her, but Trin was happy for this little step out of character. It was up to her to get Shin out of the house or explain to him that she was going to have company. She was going with the easier one.

"You think?" Shin asked, as he snatched up his game controller and was positioned to sit down in an armchair. His plan was to play some video games on the living room television instead of using the set in his room. This could mean he would be in the house all day.

"When was the last time you saw her?" Trin countered. If she had such an indifferent girlfriend… no, she would not care, actually. She would just let the girl continue being indifferent until she figured out it was time to call it quits. Maybe Shin's girlfriend was the same, she thought.

"Hmm…" Shin tapped his chin with his index finger and contemplated that question for more seconds than most mates should.

"Yeah, when you have to think like that, it's time to go see your girl," Trin pointed out quite seriously. "Without killing the car," she added because he had to be told things like that or she would have to put up with stories later on that started with "you won't believe what happened…" and that ended with, "well, you never told me not to, so technically it's your fault!" At this point, she might actually concede that to be true.

Shin sighed and put his game controller down. He went to put on some clothes that would not get him stopped at the door by his evil twin and then he was on his way. He did not bother with calling Tatsu since she seemed to be flipping a coin on if she was going to answer or not. If she did not want to be bothered with him when he showed up, he could always go see his parents and Trin's parents. He could also check up on Trin's younger redheaded clone, so it would not be a wasted trip.

Trin was glad Shin left and she did not even have to literally throw him out, which she thought she would. She wanted Shego to show up, even though she planned to struggle with the pale woman as always. She guessed she liked the company, but then again, she liked Shin's company, too. Hell, she even liked Shin's kisses; they had made out once in junior high in a failed attempt to have sex with each other. The thought of having sex with Shin was close to vomit inducing the memory of it made her gag. But, then again, the idea of sex point blank turned her stomach and that did not change if she considered sex with Shego.

The blonde decided not think about that. She grabbed the book that she wanted to read and got to that, knowing that it would be impossible to do such a thing when the villainess arrived. She made it through a good deal of the piece of literature before she heard a very small noise. She turned around from her seat on the sofa, facing her room.

"You should be in your room," Shego commented almost as if she was scolding Trin while stalking toward the couch.

"I'll be wherever I choose," Trin replied nonchalantly and then she noticed a mark on Shego's face. "What happened to your lip?" she asked, almost sounding curious, but she caught herself and sounded as she usually did.

"What? Oh, this?" Shego then licked the bruise as the corner of her mouth. "Your damn sister kicked the hell out of me," she explained as if it was nothing.

"That's my Mini-me," Trin remarked, putting her chin in the air. She could not be prouder of that kid if she tried.

"Yeah, she got me good," Shego muttered in agreement. She had not thought the little hero had it in her to whack her a good one, but it would seem she was wrong. She was silently impressed. "And I'm going to take it out on you," she decided.

"Come over here and I'll finish what my little sister started," Trin declared confidently.

Shego only smirked as she stood before Trin and then she lowered herself onto the sofa. Trin retreated from the advance somewhat, as far as the back of the couch would allow her anyway. Shego continued coming and attacked the blonde in her usual fashion when they were in the house, she kissed Trin. As expected, Trin resisted, but not too much.

-8-8-8-8-

Shin arrived at Tatsu's place surprisingly intact. She was surprised to see him when she answered the door. They stood there for a long moment, looking awkwardly at each other, almost as if they did not know what they should do. And then, Tatsu recalled Kim said she would be back; she had run off earlier due to a mission. It would not be in her best interest for Shin to be there when Kim finally did return.

"What are you doing here?" the mechanic inquired almost rudely.

"Want to go to a race?" he countered, not paying much mind to her curt question. He did not even think to kiss or hug her as a greeting. There was something about her that always seemed to say touching was off limits. Lots of his girlfriends had the same vibe and it never bothered him.

"I have work," Tatsu answered, pointing over her shoulder to direct his attention to the car waiting for her.

Shin shrugged. Ah well. He tried. The shrew had to give him credit for that. "Okay, well, I'm going to go hit the races. I'll come back by you before I leave to go home," he said.

"You don't have to if you don't want to," she assured him.

Shin shrugged again. Tatsu made it so easy to be her boyfriend, he thought. She was not nearly as demanding as the other girls he dated. He needed to stay with her, he thought. Well, while he was lazy anyway. There was always a chance someone new would wander by him and distract him. He was known to be would happily be distracted by people.

"So, bye," Tatsu bid him farewell rather hastily.

Before Shin could react to that, Tatsu shut the door on his face. Now, that he thought was weird. It was like she did not want him around. He knew she was like that with most other people, but she typically tolerated his presence. She had never slammed a door in his face before.

"What the hell is going on?" he mumbled. He doubted she would tell him, not right now anyway. Maybe when he came back, she would be open to talking about whatever was up with her.

He walked off, lacking a better thing to do. He went to the races like he wanted to and experienced something that happened often at the races. A few of the male drivers gave him looks, come-hither stares. He smirked to himself; he swore that it was just because he loved the attention. But, then he remembered the phone number for the club and rubbed his pocket, even though the paper was long gone. Shaking that feeling away, he focused on the race.

Once he was done, having fun placing bets and drinking, he ended up going to party with a bunch of the drivers afterwards. He did not think about Tatsu while he was out. He also reveled in the attention of several cute guys.

-8-8-8-8-

Kim showed up at Tatsu's place minutes after Shin left. Tatsu felt something flutter in her stomach and she knew it was not a good thing. She was nervous Shin might pop up again while Kim was here. She just wanted to enjoy her time with Kim. Damn it, I should've broken up with him he was here! Of course, he had not been there long since she practically shoved him out of the door, but she had missed a prime opportunity.

"Hey, you okay?" Kim asked.

Tatsu greeted her with a small peck on the mouth, which caused Kim to smile. Kim thought it was a bit funny that Tatsu was so considerate and knew the right things to do in a relationship for the most part, yet almost everyone around town thought the blue-eyed woman was some kind of monster. She knew for a fact that people's perceptions of someone were not always even close to accurate. After all, the whole freaking town hated her big sister and Trin was extraordinary and lovely in her opinion.

"How was your mission thing?" Tatsu inquired, looking Kim over and noticing a few Band-Aids on her arms. She brushed her fingertips over the bandages.

Kim shrugged. "It went pretty good," she answered and then she saw the mechanic looking at her injuries. "Don't mind these. They're not deep," she assured the older teen.

Tatsu frowned a little. "What happened?"

"Oh, well, Shego, that's the sidekick to the mad scientist I'm always going after, came at me to fight like we usually do. We fought like usual, but then she just suddenly slashed me. In return, I kicked her pretty hard in the face. For some weird reason, she apologized to me and said she scratched me because for a quick second she forgot who I was," Kim explained.

The hero had actually done a move that reminded Shego of Trin while they were fighting and she reacted like she would with Trin, realizing too late she was battling the little sister. It was a good thing she would not hurt Trin up too badly or she might have cut Kim alarmingly deep, but the wounds were no worse than if Kim had cut herself on a pushpin. Kim had kicked her so hard in the face more on instinct than anything else.

"Well, did you get the bad guy?" Tatsu asked, ushering Kim in deeper into the garage. She pulled out a stool for Kim to sit on.

"No, I didn't. I stopped his plot and everything, but he got away again as his lair started blowing up on its own again," the redhead answered with a bit of a disappointed expression. She shook her head. Drakken would be the death of her and Ron one day, she thought with the way his machines were now spontaneously combusting.

Tatsu put her arm around Kim's shoulders to lift the younger girl's spirits. "You did your best and you saved the world, anyway. You'll get the bad guy next time, I'll bet," she said in her usual mumbled tone.

The younger woman grinned widely. "You're too smooth for your own good, you know."

Tatsu scoffed a little. "Not smooth," she objected with her face scrunched up. She just liked making Kim feel wanted and good about herself. Kim was trying to do the same for her. She thought it was the least that she could do.

"Very smooth. So, are you going to take me out for saving the world or are do you have work?" Kim inquired.

"I could take you out," Tatsu replied. She did not like the idea much since Shin was wandering around the neighborhood, but it was big town and she was certain she could avoid the places he haunted when he was around. She would rather that than waiting around in the garage when Shin might just show up again. Besides, Kim deserved better than hanging around the garage for an extended period of time.

Kim smiled again and put her arms around Tatsu as a yes. So, they went out. When they were outside, they behaved like friends. Tatsu was not a fan of public displays, which was good because Kim was not looking to be openly homosexual around anyone just yet. She had not even told anyone that she was, not Ron, not her sister, and those were her closest confidants. She never thought she would keep secrets from them until now.

-8-8-8-8-

Next time: Shin and Trin discuss their relationships. Tatsu thinks over her relationships and more things blow up thanks to Drakken to the point he could be the death of Kim and Ron.