KP in Halloween's Child

Chapter 4: Coming Up

The Anniversary party continued in full swing with Kim and Ron being greeted or congratulated by nearly everyone at the party. It had only been a hour since the party had started when a surprising someone showed up.

Bonnie walks up behind Kim who was talking to Jessica, another cheerleader friend of hers from High School says loudly, "Your husband chose the right spot for you to celebrate your Anniversary in as cheap a fashion as he could."

Jessica glares at Bonnie as Kim turns to see her old-time rival, "I suppose you're happy as well with your super-rich idiot husband?" She answers back.

The two rivals stare at each other for a bit before they both burst out laughing. Kim tilts her head at Bonnie, "Oh that brought back some memories of how things used to be."

Bonnie smiles at Kim as Junior steps up with some punch in both hands, handing one cup to her, "Yes, can you imagine I was so vain back then? Things sure have changed since then."

Junior blinks, "Are you speaking of the same person I am thinking of because just last week..." He stops when he is elbowed by Bonnie and manages to somehow keep the drinks from spilling.

Kim knew of the incident all too well from Tara but she played dumb so there wouldn't be a scene at her Anniversary. "Yes Bonnie, things sure have changed for us since High School. Who knew huh?"

Bonnie smirks as she crosses her arms, "Exactly! Who knew that you would marry first and then I would marry my Junior. The two of us having kids and even becoming friends, sort-of." She adds at the end.

Kim half-chuckles at Bonnie's joke, "You're right Bonnie but don't forget, just about all our other friends have gone off to get married, have kids, great jobs and all that."

Bonnie smiles as she pulls Junior close, "At least I am the only one of us who doesn't ever need to work."

Kim narrows her eyes at Bonnie ever so slightly, "Well not all of us can be married rich and choose to be lazily getting a tan on a tropical beach whenever we like."

Bonnie lets go of Junior to pose, "Oh? You've noticed the tan I put on just for this occasion? Thank you Kim, I knew you would notice since you haven't lost your sense of style."

Kim double-blinks at the compliment, a rare thing even though they were now kind-of friends instead of well... rivals like they were in High School. She figures that Bonnie must be feeling really good and generous to say that.

"And let's not forget, that your Ron turned out pretty good in the end. Rich from all the Naco sales at Bueno Nacho again, where he wisely invested in both the food place and that store *ugh* that he used to work at before he combined them into that mega-hit. Yet, even with all that money. The two of you still find the need to go save the world every so often." Bonnie says as she takes the drink from Junior finally and drinks from it before turning to walk off, "I guess there are some things I'll never really understand about you Kim but Happy Anniversary. I'm off now to talk to some of the lesser girlfriends, ta-ta!"

Kim just shakes her head, "At least some things never change." She is surprised when Shego pops up from behind, "At least she was cordial. Hey Princess, how are you enjoying the Anniversary shin-dig your guy is throwing?"

Kim steps back and spins quickly to face the green woman and is surprised to see her standing there calmly with a nice green dress on. She blinks and thinks, "Did Ron..." Before Shego smiles and says, "I can see the confusion on your face, and in case you're wondering. Yes, Ron invited the both of us. We may still be enemies but we're calling it a truce just like on Christmas to let our hair down and celebrate."

Kim glances around, "Drakken's here too?"

Shego nods and points a hand to where Ron was chatting and laughing away with Drakken by the punch bowl.

Kim just shakes her head and thinks, "Only Ron could pull this off..." before turning back to Shego, "So any plans I should know about?"

Shego grins, "Princess, you know better than to ask me to talk shop at a place like this."

Kim shakes her head, "No, no, I mean about you and Drakken. Have you finally picked out a new place to hold the games?"

Shego laughs, "No, we're still looking for a new place after our last place got built over by the competition of Smarty Mart." Kim points at her, "Which you promptly attempted to destroy." Shaking her head, "No way, don't you go pointing any fingers at me. That was all Drakken's idea for revenge."

Kim leans in to whisper, "Maybe so, but I noticed you were fighting a bit harder than usual."

Shego blushes for a moment and growls at Kim, clenching her hands into fists before Kim holds up her hands, "I know, how about we talk about our kids?" Shego takes a deep breath and smiles, "Yeah, how is yours? Still wanting to go on missions?"

Kim sighs, "Yes but I think Rose is far too young to be going on missions against the villains of today."

"Were you any different when you started? Remember, I've seen your profile." Shego points out.

Kim glares at Shego, "And what about yours? I think the last I heard, your daughter Maddy was quite the prodigy. She's ready breezed through High School in just a few weeks hasn't she?"

Shego and Kim stare at each other before Shego finally says, "Yes, Madelaine is a smart one and if you ask him about her, he'll never shut up about how proud he is of her and that all his smarts come from him but the one thing she's never really been into is fighting."

"Sounds like to me she's another Wade in the making, you should be proud." Kim says with a smile.

"I am, but I do wish sometimes that she had more fire instead of being pushed around by all those people who hate nerd-girls." She growls, "I've had to set a few straight."

Kim had heard about the boys and girls that had tried to abuse Shego's daughter, all of them usually ended up seeing a doctor afterwards. "I honestly don't know what's worse Shego, a daughter that wants to follow in your footsteps or one that doesn't."

Shego wraps her arm around Kim's shoulder as they start walking towards their husbands, "I don't know but I still love my daughter with all my heart." Kim nods to her, "As do I Shego... As do I..."

(Meanwhile in another more magical world)

Rose follows Dean to a old-style town, which when she saw it looked more like something from one might see in a movie like Halloweeen town. To which was a mixture of old and modern with a huge splash of old magic to it. She could not believe her eyes with a small bit of a jaw drop as Dean chuckles and takes her hand, "C'mon... you act like you've never been to a city before." Rose just stammers and blushes as she realizes that she is holding hands with him before falling silent.

Dean guides her through the city on the cobblestone path eventually flowed to ones that seemed like cement but she wasn't sure as it still felt like a gritty kind of cement. "C'mon, we're almost there."

Rose blinks and shyly asks, "Um, where are we going?"

Dean turns to her, giving her a warm smile that just about melted her heart, "We're going to my home. I could take you to some other places but they will charge you for the call."

Rose smiles at him and gives his hand a quick squeeze. She almost jumps out of her skin though when a large shadow appears overhead and when she looks up she sees what could only be a huge dragon flying over them! It is then that she noticed that there were witches flying on brooms as well. She points up and loudly says, "A dragon! Witches!"

Dean looks up and chuckles, "Oh, good eye! That would be Waidell and some guards off to make sure that the world stays safe as our world and the natural world come close tonight."

Rose looks at him and quickens her pace, "What do you mean?"

Dean glances back at her, "You know, our world... the magical world. There's another world where the powerful Crimson came from to save us from the evil Jade all those years ago. Unfortunately it was a little before my time but the way you hear my older sister and parents talk about it. It was the battle to end-all battles with the fate of both worlds hanging in the balance!"

Rose becomes more and more confused as she had no idea what he was talking about until she begins to remember hearing a conversation between her parents one year when she was very young...

(Flashback)

Rose was clutching her small teddy bear with a little collar that read "R.S." on it by the neck and walks down the hallway to find her parents and ask for a glass of water when she hears her parents up and talking. She walks up to the crack in the door to peek in.

Kim is sitting at her vanity, facing Ron as she says to him, "Ron, don't you think it is just strange that it has been so quiet between our world and the magical world ever since we defeated Monkey Fist? I'm worried."

Ron sighs as he gets up from the edge of the bed, "Look Kim, Crimson told us that she'd work hard to make sure no more bad guys come after any of us. Even Waidell and Moni assured that they would work diligently as well. Are you saying that you don't think they can do it?" He puts his hands on his hips where his pants promptly fall down.

Rose didn't understand who they were talking about. She'd never met any Wade-all or Mo-ni's in her young life and the thought that bad guys would try to hurt any one made her clutch the teddy more tightly with her eyes glowing a little.

Kim stands up and walks over to Ron, "I know, and I have faith in them but sometimes the bad guys have a way of slipping through."

Ron wraps his arms around her, "Trust in our friends, the magical world and ours will be safe for the both of us." He then looks down, "Uh, and on that note, could I pull up my pants now?"

Kim smiles as she leans up against him, "Why? Don't you like having your pants down?"

Rose figures that their conversation was over and opens the door, where she stands with a yawn, "Mommy, daddy... I'm thirsty." She had not seen her father somehow get his pants back up in the time she had opened the door but as she stood there in the doorframe. She noticed they were up and her parents were a couple feet away from each other.

Kim moves quickly to pick up her daughter, "Mommy will get you a glass of water and then you're off to bed, all right?"

Rose just yawns again and nods, "M'okay" she says to her mother.

Kim glances back at Ron and walks out with Rose in her arms.

(End of Flashback)

Rose snaps out of trying to remember anything more when Dean stops walking and says to her, "Well, we're here!" He looks at the two story house with the pointed roof, white walls and the aqua-blue trimmings. He opens the white gate on their picket fence and takes her hand again to lead her down a cobble path and past a small garden growing to the right.

Dean opens the unlocked door without any problem and a small squeak is heard coming from the hinges.

A woman's voice shouts, "Dean? Is that you?" from the kitchen at the end of the hallway.

Dean shouts back, "Yeah, and I've brought a friend!"

Rose follows Dean forward as his mother comes out with her hands wiping on an apron that read, "Kiss the Witch, Spare the curse" and had a comical looking witch on it.

The woman smiles at Rose, making her squirm as she felt like the eyes were gazing into her very soul. "Oh! You didn't say she was a cute one Dean." She says with a teasing tone.

"Mom! She's just someone who I found in the forest and needs help calling her family." Dean protests a bit loudly.

From upstairs another female voice, younger than the mother's shouts down, "Dean? What are you complaining about now?"

Dean looks up as his sister walks down the stairs, "Oh hey there, I see you finally got yourself a girlfriend... and she's cute. Good work!" She says teasing him.

Dean glares at his sister, "She's not my girlfriend Kamilla! Why are you and mom both saying that?"

Kamilla smirks as she points down between Dean and Rose, "Because you're holding hands and she's blushing."

Dean looks down as he realizes that he was still holding Rose's hand and then up to see that Rose was indeed blushing, from embarrassment or what, he couldn't tell but he immediately lets go of Rose's hand before he spins to Kamilla as she reaches the bottom of the stairs, "That's mean sis! Rose never did anything to deserve your teasing!"

Dean's mother had been watching Rose and Dean carefully and saw how Rose seemed to have a bit of a crush on her Dean. She had also seen Rose's look of disappointment when Dean let go of her hand. "Rose? That is such a beautiful name." she says to Rose while Dean and Kamilla start arguing back and forth.

Rose nods to her, "Thank you, my mom tells me that she named me that because I had rose cheeks when I was born."

Dean's mother giggles, "Well, come into the kitchen and I'll make you a snack. When those two get going. It is hard to get them to stop unless I use magic."

Rose nods a little, following her into the kitchen, "Uh... I hope you don't mind me asking Mrs...?"

Dean's mother opens the oven and pulls out a pie, "That's Ms. Royanna Esmeralda Vanish now, but you can all me Ms. Royanna or if you want to follow my son's example, you can call me Esmeralda. Either is fine by me." She places the pie on the table in the kitchen with a little magic as she then says, "My husband and I divorced a year after Dean was born and so he's had to endure growing up in a household of nothing but girls. So please forgive him if he seems a little dense."

Rose walks over to the table and sits down, "Are you really a witch?" She asks quickly, hoping she wasn't offending her.

Ms. Royanna pauses in surprise and then tilts her head as she sees the girl in a new light, "Yes, I am. Am I the first you've met?"

Rose nods silently.

Ms. Royanna thinks, "I wonder if she's from the other world, the two worlds are close enough that the random crossing happens." She gets out a plate and some silverware, putting them down in front of Rose without magic as she already seemed nervous, as if she expected to be hexed or something. "Where did you say you were from again?"

Rose looks up, "Middleton, in the US of A and I have no idea where I am or how I got here."

Ms. Royanna decides to relax Rose, "I've never heard of Middleton or the US of A, and as to how you got here. I think I have an idea about that but first will you relax? I'm a good witch. I am not going to put any spells or whatever you're expecting onto you."

Rose instantly relaxes and smiles, "That's good, because I was worried you were going to put me in a big pink bubble like the one my friend Julia and I were in when we first arrived over the castle." She then leaps up to her feet as she cries out, "Julia! I forgot all about her!"

Ms. Royanna would have laughed, if she hadn't realized just what castle she was talking about. There was only one castle nearby in the forest and no one went there. Not if they valued their lives.


AN: Well everyone, what do you think of this chapter? A lot sure has happened hasn't it? Just you wait and see the next chapter that I have planned! What do you think of the party that Kim and Ron are at so far? Were you surprised to see Shego and Drakken there? What did you think of the info about their daughter? What do you think about Rose's adventure in the magical world so far? Can you imagine a girl crushing so much and seeing all that she has, that she forgets all about her bff being in trouble?

As always reviews, votes for this story, ideas for new plot twists, guesses as to what's going to happen next with Julia, and more are always welcome.