Disclaimer: Once again I don't own any of the characters, so no suing…
GUARDIAN ANGEL
She wasn't sure how she had come to fall so far so fast. A few months earlier she had been palling it up with the great heroine Kim Possible. Now she found herself slumped forward with her bruised forehead resting against the steering wheel, desperately trying not to throw up. The night had started out innocently and calm enough. She had been invited to a costume party at the home of two of her old friends, Liz and Crystal, who had moved in together a few months earlier and were already trying to adopt as a couple. That fact hadn't bothered her any, as she felt that she had seen it coming even as far back as their cheer squad days in high school with how close the two had always been, but it had caused a fair share of problems as Bonnie had caused one problem after another always saying just the wrong thing. The much-maligned Tara had finally taken her home before things had really gotten out of hand. The few shreds of memory that still hadn't abandoned her through the haze of booze showed her that she had really screwed up again. Sober she was a pretty conservative young woman, despite having finally gotten the body that she had always dreamed of to get all of the attention that she could but her drunk was an entirely different story.
She had often found herself coming home with less than half the clothing that she had left with hours earlier. Tonight had been no different. On such a short notice the only costume that she had been able to find was a harem girl outfit that ended up, of course, being about two sizes to small, with it barely managing to hold her all in. All night she had been stared at and ogled by every single person at the party, getting asked out so many times that she had finally got fed up and resorted to hanging a card around her neck on a string with the word no written on it in big bold black letters. Then the drinks had started to flow freely and everything had quickly become more than fuzzy. The next thing that she had known she had woken up with only a few hours till dawn and her clothes were nowhere to be had. An odd smell of mixed perfumes lingered in the air. Despite the pounding in her head she scrounged up what she could find of her clothes, slipping on a criminally tight beater to cover up for what she couldn't find, and headed for her car. She had almost made it home before the flashing lights had shown up in her rearview mirror.
"License and registration," The officer stated with an almost bored tone as he stepped up to the side of her car, his ticket book already out.
"Okay, just gimme a second here," Jessica yawned back slowly as she began to fumble around in her glove box looking for her registration before she was interrupted by the officer.
"Have you been drinking tonight ma'am," The officer asked with a curious look and one hand slowly moving back to his handcuffs, just in case.
"Probably, I can't be to sure, I don't remember to much honestly…I probably shouldn't have said that huh," Jessica shakily answered, her face flushed red in embarrassment before she unbuckled her seatbelt and slowly got out of her car.
"No…you probably shouldn't have, I think you should come downtown with me," The officer replied with a tired sigh before Jessica smiled sourly in defeat and handed over her keys.
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Four Hours Later
"God…how do I get myself into these things," Jessica moaned into her hands as she sat alone in a small concrete cell with one lone light hanging sadly overhead and a heavy metal door with a small window in it as the only other light in or out.
"That's what I'd like to know," A feminine voice interjected softly, more than a fair amount of concern in her voice, before Jessica lifted her head and saw Kim Possible standing in the doorway.
"Kim, what are you doing here," Jessica blurted out in her confused state, as she had to shield her eyes from the sudden influx of bright light.
"I wish I knew, there I was all nice and warm and comfortable in bed with Ron…and I get a phone call telling me that an old friend of mine got picked up for driving drunk, what were you thinking Jess," Kim replied with a clearly less than impressed scowl darkening her features as she kept her place in the doorway, leaving Jessica to look very nervous before she found her voice.
"I don't know, I guess I wasn't thinking," Jessica sourly replied with tears beginning to form in her eyes as she dropped her head and set her hands down at her sides on the cold concrete block that she was sitting on.
"I could have told you that, what are you supposed to be anyway, I can't quite tell," Kim shot back softly with an unconvinced look in her eyes as she squatted down in front of Jessica, taking the blonde's hands in her own.
"All I could find was a stupid harem girl costume, of course it was like two sizes to small and then when I woke up this morning I couldn't find half of it and had to borrows this top from Liz…which really isn't doing much to keep me warm…uh Kim…you okay," Jessica somberly remarked back with a few tears trickling down her cheeks before she noticed a blush covering Kim's cheeks and her eyes were focused just a bit below the blonde's chin.
"Huh uh…nothing, do you need a ride home or are you going to call a cab because I doubt that they'll let you drive yourself," Kim replied softly as she did her best to cover up her blush as she quickly stood back up and stepped back into the doorway.
"I could use a ride thanks, though my apartment manager's a real bitch…she's always on my case, she said that if I got arrested again I'd need to find a new place to live…so I'm pretty much screwed," Jessica nervously shrugged back with some apprehension as she stood up and tried not to equal Kim's blush, quickly then crossing her arms in front of her chest, suddenly becoming very aware of how cold it was in her cell.
"Ron and I have an extra room that you could use if you don't have anyone else to call," Kim offered with an inviting smile before she stepped aside as Jessica cautiously walked out of the cell, squinting at the suddenly very bright light all around her.
"You sure about this, my mom would probably never let me hear the end of it if I didn't at least ask her if I could move home again, but now I'm doubting whether I should even say anything to her at all," Jessica asked hesitantly at first before she looked away, unable to look Kim in the eye at that moment.
"She's your mother Jess, why wouldn't she want to talk to you," Kim wondered back with a confused and unsure tone to her words as she turned and picked up the small tray that contained Jessica's personal effects.
"Because the last time that we talked it ended pretty badly, we nearly went hoarse from screaming at each other," Jessica answered solemnly as she picked her watch up off of the tray and slid it onto her wrist.
"Was it about your drinking…or something else," Kim asked thoughtfully as Jessica collected her things and then got processed out.
"Kind of, pretty much that and the decisions that I make while I'm drinking," Jessica smirked back merrily at first before her countenance changed almost in a heartbeat to a grim expression as she pondered the meaning and truth in her words.
"They must be pretty bad then," Kim remarked quickly, almost without thinking, before going quiet and looking away.
"You have no idea, my mother nearly blew her top when I came home in only a blanket for the fifth time, that's when she kicked me out," Jessica drawled back as she recalled her past for Kim's sake, her cheeks turning a bit red unintentionally.
"Fifth time…that many," Kim very nearly gasped out breathlessly as her eyes went wide and she very nearly walked right into the front door without opening it.
"Yeah…you okay Kim, you look a little flustered," Jessica asked with a nervous and confused half smile as she opened the door for Kim, who slowly smiled back.
"Oh yeah Jess, I'm fine, well enough to know that Ron won't have a problem with you taking our spare room, and the next time that you decide to drink it's going to be with us, that way we'll be able to mitigate any consequences, besides I'm closer to your size anyway…I'm almost as big, we can share," Kim finally stated with an impish smile as she walked towards her car, leaving a stunned Jessica to stammer for a few more seconds before hurrying after her.
THE END
