Forget me not!

Kim and Ron go on a mission, only one of them ends up with amnesia! What will the other do? What CAN the other do?

Chapter 4: A fury like no fury…

Kim paces her room as she says to Monique on the phone, "And then Shego had the GALL to kiss my boyfriend on the cheek right in front of me! I tell you Monique! The next time I see Shego, she is going down!"

Monique says, "Calm down girl, I totally understand how you're feeling! If my arch-nemesis laid a kiss on my boyfriend… (Which I am so glad at the moment to have neither of) I would want to punch her into next month too but I think you're forgetting something Kim."

Kim grumpily says, "What's that Monique?" before she sits down into her chair before the computer a bit hard.

Monique says, "Your Ron, not the one you fought with is still in there!"

Kim's face softens as she says, "You really think so Monique? I'm not just hoping for something that's lost forever, am I?"

Monique shakes her head as she says over the phone, "Uh-uh, I don't believe that any ray could completely ever erase what you two have. I think you just need to dig deeper and find a way to bring more of the boy you love back to the surface."

Kim gets up and paces the room as she says, "And just how am I supposed to do that Monique? Even the times I thought Ron was back only lasted for no longer than a second!"

Monique sighs and says, "I don't know. Use the connection you two have. If there's anything that can bring back even a person out whatever happened to him. I'd say it is the connection they share and girl, I think yours is stronger than most people. You've just got to find a way to use it."

Kim plops into her chair once again as she says, "But Monique, unless I can get Drakken and Shego to fight me in Bueno Nacho, I don't think there's anything I can do!"

Monique says, "Well girl, I'm all out of ideas. Why not try talking to Wade?"

Kim sighs as she says, "Wade's busy researching for ways to reverse the ray and turn Ron back. I don't know who else to turn to Monique!"

Monique says, "There's always your parents. Maybe they will have an idea?"

Kim rolls her eyes as she says, "Sure… they'll know how to restore Ron after he's been zapped with an amnesia ray."

Monique frowns as she says in a firm voice, "Aren't you the one with a mother who's a big brain surgeon? If there's anyone who knows how a brain works, I would say it would be her!"

Kim is stunned in silence as she thinks, "Why… Why didn't I think of that?" She says, "Thanks Monique! I'll go talk to her right now!" She quickly hangs up without saying anything further and runs down to find her mother.

Monique shakes her head as she presses the "End" button on her phone and places it back into the receiver before she says, "Sometimes I wonder about that girl…" Still, she had to admit that if something like that had happened to her, if she would have been anywhere nearly as calm as Kim at the moment.

Monique walks into her bedroom and walks over to a bookshelf where she had picks up a blue photo album. The album was decorated with stickers from before she had moved to Middleton.

She carries it over to her bed where she lays down on it and opens the blue album up to show pictures of her friends that she had back in her hometown. She starts to flip through more of the pages, pausing to reflect upon memories with those friends before she stops at the 12th page because it held a picture of her own childhood friend.

Monique stares at the picture and thinks, "I know exactly how Kim feels. My best friend that I had all my life was taken away from me too." She feels her eyes tear up and it isn't long before a tear, which is quickly followed by another, hits the water-resistant holder for the picture.

Monique brings her hand up to wipe at her eyes as she says, "This is silly of me… crying over things beyond my control, and after so long already." She softly says, "Why did it have to happen to Kim too…?"

She closes the photo album and pulls the pillow down to where she was before she begins to cry into it, as she didn't want her mother wouldn't hear her crying.

(Meanwhile)

Kim says, "Mom! I need to talk to you!"

Mrs. Possible says, "Can it wait? I have to go pick up the boys from practice."

Kim says, "It is important! It has to do with Ron!"

Mrs. Possible stops moving at the moment that she hears that it had to do with Ron. She turns and says, "What is it Kimberly? What can I do to help?" Her voice was tinged with concern, as she knew that Ron meant everything to her daughter, even if Kim didn't know herself yet.

Kim says, "You know that Ron's got amnesia and that Drakken kidnapped him right?"

Mrs. Possible nods and says, "Yes, has something happened?"

Kim growls suddenly, surprising her mother as she says, "Oh, you bet something's happened!" She stomps her foot before she says, "Drakken and Shego have turned Ron evil!"

Mrs. Possible widens her eyes as she thinks, "Oh my… no wonder she is so mad!"

Kim says, "And to top it off, Shego has claimed Ron as her boyfriend! She even went so far as to kiss him on the cheek!" She brings up a fist that she shakes in her anger, "When I see Shego, I am going to teach her a thing or two about messing with another girl's boyfriend!"

Mrs. Possible could tell Kim was angrier than she'd ever been before! She walks up to her daughter and says, "Calm down honey. You know that she was only doing it to rile you."

Kim growls, "Oh, I'm more than riled Mom! I am downright angry! How dare she treat my Ron like that!"

Mrs. Possible thinks, "She went from 'my boyfriend' to 'my Ron' so quickly. I wonder if she realizes it?" She says, "Where is Ron now? Were you able to get him back?"

Kim's mood suddenly shifts and she says, "N…No… in fact, they had Ron fight me!" She looks down sadly as she then says, "He really tried to hurt me too…"

Mrs. Possible can sense that her daughter needs her and wraps her arms around Kim as she says, "He didn't hurt you did he?"

Kim shakes her head before she says, "Not physically… even though he came close." It was obvious to her mother though that she had been hurt in another way.

Mrs. Possible runs her hand over Kim's head as she says in a soothing voice known only to mothers, "But he didn't Kimmie, and that's the important thing. I am sure that the Ron you know and love is still inside and that he would never willingly hurt you."

Kim looks up at her mother with tear-filled eyes as she says, "That's what Monique said too… Do you really think I have a chance to get Ron back? What if the ray really erased him and he's gone forever?"

Mrs. Possible shakes her head before she says, "Now if there is one thing that I know, and that is the brain. Your Ron is still in there, and I bet he's fighting hard to surface. You just need to poke enough holes in this evil Ron so that the Ron you love will surface."

Kim rubs at her tear-filled eyes before she says, "You're sure? I couldn't deal if I'd lost Ron for good." She looks away in thought as she says, "Still, there were times in our fight that seemed like my Ron was in there."

Mrs. Possible softly says, "Trust in your instincts Kim. I believe that they will lead you safely to Ron, just as they have always kept you safe in your life."

Kim doesn't understand but she says, "Ok Mom… but I hope it will be enough to bring back my Ron…"

Mrs. Possible says, "I believe it will be… just have faith in yourself."

Kim says, "I guess I just have to believe this falls under the "I can do anything" right Mom?"

Mrs. Possible smiles softly at Kim and nods, "Yes sweetie." She looks at her watch and says, "I really must go and pick up the boys now or there will be trouble. Will you be ok until I get back?"

Kim nods and says, "Yeah, go on and pick up the tweebs. I'll be ok." She even makes a shoo-shoo motion with one hand to get her point across.

Mrs. Possible could tell Kim was being strong for family's sake but she trusted Kim to be ok until she got back. She made a mental note to herself to have another, longer heart-to-heart talk with Kim when she got back.

Mrs. Possible walks out to the car and starts the van, she doesn't drive off immediately as a small war begins within herself. The war of a mother who had to go pick up Jim and Tim before they got into some mischief and the war with a sense telling her to go back in because Kim wasn't done needing her.

She could only begin to imagine what the twins were up to at the school but the woman inside her was asking that nagging question… "If someone had made her husband forget who she was, then tell him that she was not only the enemy but had actually tried to hurt her, and then claim him as their own… would she truly be as ok that quickly?"

It was that question that made her remember her life with him, all the joyful times, all the love that they'd shared together, all the times good and bad, and then to have that person suddenly forget her and everything else Kim had mentioned? The question grew like a balloon within her as the van idled in the driveway until suddenly two teardrops land on her lap.

Mrs. Possible blinks in surprise as she looks down to see the wet spots on her lap before she brings a hand to her face to discover that they were tears! Somehow, she had started to cry and not even realized it!

Mrs. Possible knew then what she had to do! She turns off the engine and gets out of the van. She knew that Kim needed her, despite her assurances and being a strong, independent woman, no woman should have to take what she was going through alone!

Mrs. Possible runs back to her house to discover that Kim hadn't moved from her spot. In fact, she found that Kim was crying on her knees with her hands buried in her face. She had no doubt that Kim would have tried to hide it by the time she got back but the sight was too much for her, as a woman, as a mother she couldn't leave her only daughter who meant the world to her to face the pain alone.

Mrs. Possible runs up to Kim and wraps her arms around her. She can feel the flinch in surprise before she says, "I'm here Kimberly… I'm here for as long as you need me." She hugs Kim more tightly as she feels the arms of Kim slowly rise up before they wrapped back around her in a hug.

Kim says, "Thanks… Mom…" before she continues to cry, with this time her tears being comforted by someone who loved her, her mother. She knew that even her mother couldn't fully take away the pain or the sadness but it certainly felt better than going through it alone.

Kim had shooed her mother away for the sake of her brothers, thinking she was strong enough to deal with it alone but then… that image of Ron trying to save her from forgetting Ron, her family, her friends… just popped in there along with the last time she had seen Ron when he had tried to hurt her.

Kim couldn't help but wonder, "If that ray had hit me, would I have become like that? Someone who could forget my best friend and try to hurt them?" The part that scared her, the most was that she knew that she probably would have hurt the people she cared about… even Ron. That simple little thing had caused her to break down because she had never wanted to hurt anyone, especially Ron.

For Kim, the world felt numb as she cried her tears of frustration, emotional pain, sadness over what happened to Ron, and tears of loneliness at the thought of never seeing her Ron or seeing him smile and laugh at her like he used to. She had on some level, always assumed that Ron would always be there to make her smile and laugh whenever anything got her down and now… he was the source, but not the cause… no, that was Drakken and Shego's fault.

Kim just cries harder into her mother as everything that had been repressed ever since the day Ron had been taken from her just came pouring out. She couldn't even say anything other than "Why?" between sobs. Fortunately her mother did her best to try and comfort her through her pain.

Mrs. Possible thinks with her eyes closed, while running a soothing hand over the back of Kim's head, "Drakken… Shego… I will never forgive you two for causing my Kimberly to suffer and cry like this!" She knows that this time that tears are flowing down her cheek before she tilts her head and rests her cheek against Kim's hair.

The two strong, Possible women continue to share their tears in the middle of the Possible living room while somewhere else, the source of all those tears was preparing for more evil but somewhere inside all that darkness was a small person bathed in blue light that was repeating, "Gotta save KP!" over and over in the same way he had thought just moments before getting zapped.


AN: Well I hope you all enjoyed that very emotional chapter. I don't know about you, but I cried writing it so I hope you shed at least one tear. What did you think of the conversation between Kim and Monique? What did you think of Monique? What did you think of Kim in this chapter? What did you think of Kim's Mom? I know that most parents can get so busy and overwhelmed at times that they don't see the times when their children truly need them, especially in a family with multiple kids. What did you think of the ending with Ron in the blue light? Is it hope? Or merely a fragment of memory that the ray wasn't able to elminate? Thoughts please. As usual, all ideas, thoughts, suggestions, miracle cures for the common cold, bowling tips to get my score above 120, and more are always welcome!