A/N: Disclaimer. This story is a work of fiction. Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable and other characters that you saw on the show are owned by the Disney Corporation and not me. Other parts are real live things, if you can call a B1 Lancer live. They are mostly owned by the United States Government. You'll notice them when they pop up. All persons and actions mentioned in this story are not real. Just for the record I don't make any thing on this story, it just helps my ulcer feel better.

Thanks to Cajun Bear73 for his fantastic beta skills and encouragement. Also a great thanks to Spectre666 for his beta skills as well. His encouragement and humor have helped me stay on track and task. A big thanks to Jeriddian for his excellent punctuation guide that he cleverly disguised as the fantastic story "So the Drama: The Resolution" which I stole with his blessing. Another thanks to him regarding the data on recovering from particular injuries.

Thanks to the guys who wrote reviews; Katsumara, Cajun Bear73, Spectre666, Solarstone, Screaming Phoenix, Daccu65, Nutzkie and Waveform. Also, I would like the reader to be aware that CB73, Spectre666, S C, Daccu65, Jeriddian, Nutzkie and Waveform are all much better writers than I am. Please take time and read their wonderful stories. They are truly enjoyable.

Also, I would like you to that I did add a real person to the story. He was the best soldier I ever met. Sadly, he died two years ago. His name is Donald Legge.

This is a re-written chapter and should finish tying everything in.

ST 103

Once Again

Chapter 4

Middleton Hospital, Colorado:

"Mom? Dad?", Ron asked looking at the newcomers. He continued, "Does anybody know what happened? Because, I'm not sure what happened. I sorta remember telling Mrs. Dr. P that I wanted to get some take a bit of a walk. I think I called KP, cause it was getting late. Then it got kinda fuzzy. I think I got mad for something, I don't remember why. Then I wake up here."

Kim started, "Ronnie, three days ago you disappeared in the afternoon. Mom called me up and me and Monique started looking for you. We tried to call you a bunch of times, but you didn't answer. Then Mo figured out you couldn't hear the phone."

"Anyway, late in the afternoon we get a call from you telling us where you were. You told us to text you with what we were going to do. So we did. We told you to stay where you were. We came to get you. When we got there a policeman was getting ready to take you in cause he thought he couldn't get through to you. You got knocked out when you were getting into police cruiser. We brought you back to the hospital and here you are." Kim didn't want to fill Ron in with all the details. She didn't want him to worry about everything.

"I didn't hurt anybody, did I, KP?", Ron asked worriedly.

"No honey, you didn't do anything wrong. Some people got the wrong impression and thought you was a hobo, we straightened everything out. I DO think that somebody's going to be taking some extra training.", she told him.

Kim knew that Officer Hobble and the chief of the Lowerton department had begun teaching a course on how to deal with returning vets and other people that were incoherent with out roughing them up. A few of the officers were less than receptive. The two teachers made each of the students feel what it was like to be on the receiving end of that kind of treatment. That seemed to get their attention.

Anne had a few things to bring everyone up to date on. She told them about the weak veins that the image testing had found a few days before and what had been done to correct the problem. Anne didn't feel the need to tell Ron and his parents how long the operation took and how close he came to never seeing his child. For the time being it was enough that they knew he was safe and was healing. Anne decided to bring up another subject which would affect Ron's integration back into society.

Anne started, "Ron we think we can fix your hearing. James told me that Dr. Renton at the space center has developed nanobots that can be used to repair body parts. Felix has been the test rat for some of the research, but they need to try it on more applications. Well, James mentioned Ron's hearing loss and that it might be long term. That got Mrs. Renton's attention. She would like to try and fix Ron's hearing. If you want to Ron, we can try the procedure AFTER I say that you are healed OK? Of course Ron you understand that the government has to give their OK as well because you're still their property for the next half year or so."

To say the least, all the Stoppables and Kim were extremely happy about this turn of events. Ron thought, 'Oh man this could be so great, KP not having to worry about me. Being able to hear her say our vows and being able to hear the baby.'

Anne continued during Ron's bemusement, "You understand that this is experimental and things may not turn out as well as we expect."

Kim asked, "Mom, how could Ron's hearing get much worse? I mean is the procedure life threatening or anything?"

"Kimmie, I doubt of Ron's hearing can get much worse, but in doing this his natural healing might be impaired if we attempt this.", she told her daughter. "However, it may be a moot point if the government says no. Then we have to wait until Ron is discharged from the Army. First of all Ron has to heal enough. We are going the run image scans everyday until I'm sure that he's OK, then we'll worry about his hearing. So in the meantime Kimmie-cub you will have to continue to be his ears." Adding, "I don't think the procedure that Dr. Renton is talking about will have any adverse effect on Ronald's health. Felix had been undergoing this for the last few months and he is walking again with no pain."

For Ron it ended up being a boring day, if you want to call boring laying on a cold table with a machine around you for several hours. Then more cold tables with X-ray machines. Then another table with other machines where he worried about why the probes were going into the places they were placed. For most of it Kim had to stay outside the rooms that held such equipment. Dr. Possible told the staff what she would do the the operator of said equipment if she found her daughter inside those rooms while Ron was being tested.

By the end of his first day back awake Ron felt like he had ran a marathon. He hurt in places that he didn't even know he had. In the evening he was being tucked in when members of the staff brought in an extra bed. James was there and directed the placement of it next to Ron's. Making sure that Ron could see his mouth Mr. Dr. P told him, "Ronald, do me a favor. Keep Kimmie-cub here tonight, she gets on our nerves when she can't cuddle up with you, and we're not getting much sleep at night."

Ron nodding said, "Sure Mr. P what ever you say, KP can stay up here with me. Where is she anyway?"

"Well son, I think she went home to pack a bag for a few days. Anne wants you to get the full treatment. So you are going to get poked and pricked in every place, in every way. Anne always does it for me every year.", he laughed. James continued, "I swear she has a super computer to crunch all the data. I just wonder if she does it just because she can."

Both men laughed at this. Ron began to wonder, 'just invasive are these procedures gonna be?'

Kim came back a little later, she noticed her father talking with her fiancée. 'I wonder just how pleased Dad is now that he figured out that me mades our vows to each other before we made the baby?', Kim mused as she watched the two for a moment. They were getting along great. She told her dad to go outside for a few minutes while she changed. He started to say something, but decided he didn't want to know anyway. So he did as was told. Later the door was unlocked and James was allowed to reenter. Kim was in pajamas and a robe. Ron was in sweat pants and a tee shirt. Kim pulled back the covers and slid in pulling Ron in behind her.

James wondered if he really needed to see what was going on until he found nothing was going on. Just two lovers getting ready to sleep in the term's literal sense of the word. 'Doesn't look like any funny business tonight. They already took care of 'that' months before.', he mused happily aware of their impromptu wedding vows a couple months before, 'I Wished they had waited a bit though.'

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In the morning Kim thought it was time for a frank discussion. She made sure that Ron could see her face. "Honey?", she asked.

"Yeah KP.", Ron answered.

"I was wondering. You know when we broke up...you know before? Why didn't you try harder to get me back? It was like you gave up. It always, you know...bothered me. I thought that you didn't love me enough to want me. I guess..I could have lived with the secrets, but I wanted you to know how I felt about them. Breaking up was so wrong, I wished we could have fixed it then.", she told him not aware of how she had been played.

Ron looked into her eyes and decided to go with the flow and get to the bottom later, "KP, I...I always had this fear deep down inside...it was like I never felt I was good enough for ya. Then you were mad about the secrets that I had with Sensei. And Yamanouchi. Then Josh showed up...and you were blushing and all. To me it looked just like before when he showed interest in you. I just...you know felt like I blew any chance I had with ya. I knew that I couldn't get into one of those prime schools because of my grades and you might leave me anyway. Remember all those acceptance letters that I was hoping for and when they never came?...It was just more proof to me that I was a liability to you. So when I saw Josh talking to you and then later at the restaurant kissing you and both of you calling me a loser and all... I guess I saw my fears become reality. I just implimented my plans. I'm sorry honey. I guess I missed all the signals. I really wasn't that smart about dating and girls, you were the only girl friend that I really ever had. Zita only lasted like two dates. And well, I guess I needed to grow up a lot.", he told her softly.

Kim kissed Ron to assure him, "You know if you had tried, maybe we would have got back together...."

"KP, we can't go worrying about ifs and buts. We can't second guess ourselves, maybe we had to take this path, I don't know. One thing I do know, we can't beat ourselves up about this. We worked this out, we found that we still love each other and we want to spend our lives together. We've decided to make this a lifetime commitment. I DO know is that I love you with my whole being.", he told his lover.

Kim snuggled back into him, she knew it would be all right. Hmmm, he's so warm and cuddly. I know it's gonna work out.', she mused before trying to get a little nap.

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For a week this arrangement worked well, Kim and Ron slept together in the same hospital bed. The only problem came when one night they drew blood with the lights mostly out. They got Kim's blood instead of Ron's. The doctors' eyes nearly popped out over that, from then on blood was only drawn with the lights on.

Anne had Ron run through all the tests everyday. Finally, after a week, she was sure that he would be OK. She came into Ron's room, well Ron and Kim's room. Anne told Ron that he would be released the next day and that he would stay at their home under the previous arrangement as long as he went in for his daily tests. Kim was sitting there listening with a mischievous smile on her face. Anne looked at her, "NO getting frisky until I say it's alright to." "I think I can read your mind young lady. I want him to heal all the way, well most of the way before you try to wear him out.", she informed the younger redhead with a smile on her face.

Kimmie tried for her infamous 'puppy dog pout', but forgot that her mother had developed the technique. "All right mom, I can wait. Just try not to make me..I...ah...mean us wait too long. We have a lot of catching up to do.", she told her mom.

"Ron says he has to make a few phone calls and he wants Daddy and Mr. S. to help him with something. He won't tell me anything about whatever it is. Do you think we can trust the men together? I mean they're prone to getting into trouble.", she finished.

"Kimmie, I think we can trust them a little bit.", she told her daughter.

Kim and Anne finally got Ron back to the Possibles' in time for dinner. Anne wouldn't even let Ron cook. She was determined that Ron heal. She kept an eye on Kimmie to make sure that she didn't try to sneak off with her fiancée. 'Now is not the time for this. Maybe later, just not yet. Honey just let him heal few more days, please? We just want to be sure. We all know that you love each other.', Anne thought.

"Kimmie, would you come in here and help me for a bit?", her mother asked.

""Uh sure mom, what do you need?", Kim asked.

"I need to talk to you for a while honey. I know you want to get Ronald off alone. Please promise me you'll wait just a few more days. It's really important, I mean that. Your dad and I both know what he means to you. If we hadn't brought him home. Ron would still be in Germany 'resting'. For the next few days that's exactly what he needs. Then you can have him for some 'gentle exercise' if you know what I mean. Ron's come a long way since he got his injuries, that relapse last week nearly killed him. I want you to promise just cuddling and kissing for just a few more days, then he should be fine.", Anne asked her.

"OK mom, I said that we had time. I can spend the next few days getting to know him better. We can spend time snuggling and smooching in front of the TV and stuff.", she answered.

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That night Ron asked the two men that he admired to help him with a project while the ladies were clearing the table. Listening, both soon had large smiles on their faces. Both announced that they would be taking a day or two off. Ron suggested that they get his mom, Anne and Kim go shopping the next day on him. The women were very surprised when Dean gave them a wad of money from the trust to do some dress shopping.

Unknown to Kimmie, instructions were soon being passed to the mothers of the kids.

At ten the next morning the ladies took off to the mall. Ron dialed the number that he needed, it was 9 AM there, or 0900 hours in Tacoma, Washington.

"2nd Ranger Battalion, Commander's Office.", was heard over the phone. Ron announced who he was and that his father would speak for him because of the hearing loss. Dean explained that his son was on convalescent leave and needed particular items sent to his home address as soon as possible. The clerk told hem that he would call when he had everything and would express ship the items. Dean told the clerk to send it COD and that they would be waiting.

James asked Ron which...then he realized that Ron wasn't looking at him. He moved so Ron could see him and again asked where he stationed. Ron told him that his Battalion was located at Fort Lewis and that most of the Battalion was currently deployed except for a single company in training and a few stay behind personnel that worked on equipment and other things.

Ron told them a little about the Battalion that he had been a member of for a few years. After several hours the phone rang. Dr. Possible answered and told the person on the other end that they would be home when the packages would be due in three days. The caller also told James that instead of being sent, a courier would bring them instead as he wanted to speak with the young Ranger. Ron wondered, 'Why would anyone want to speak with him?' After that they piled into Mr. P's car to do some of their own shopping. At a particular store they met up with some friends from Ron's past and some relatives that would be in his future. The selection and fitting took only about two hours.

That night Anne was willing to let Ron try his hand at cooking again, under her supervision of course. She watched him closely as he worked. She was always amazed at the way Ron handled a kitchen even when he was clumsy at anything else. 'He could probably even fight some of those goons in here while cooking dinner, and still have everything come out perfect.', Anne laughed to herself.

Anne told them at dinner that she had an early procedure in the morning and asked Kim what she had going on. Kim told her that she had to get back in to Global Justice to oversee some training and to bring the Dr. Director up to speed on Ron's recovery. She also had a lot of paperwork to complete. For some reason Betty was very interested in how Ron was doing. Therefore, Anne asked Dean if he could bring Ron in for his tests in the morning and that she would bring him home after. Anne still wasn't about to let Ron drive. Don had told her that he would as he had to go out for some things anyway.

On the drive home Anne tried asking Ron some questions about the previous day. She knew that the men of the family had gone out shopping and she wondered what they had been up to. Ron told her it was classified and as soon as he was declared healed that information would be on a need to know basis. She did see the smile on his face though. It was funny, the twins had even made a trip back home overnight and left earlier in the morning.

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A couple days later Ron was back in the hospital for his final daily round of tests. After this he would come in a couple times a week. Ron had taken to treadmill and weight lifting workouts between his adventures in the labs. That's where Dean found his son that afternoon. Ron's eyes almost popped out of his head when he realized who was standing with his dad. He tried to get up quickly, but didn't quite make it.

"Sir.", Ron started.

"At ease Sergeant, sit down please.", the older man told his trooper. "I see you're trying to recover. I brought the items that you needed. I was coming to see you anyway to check on you. Check them out to make sure that it's what you needed.", he added.

After a quick look in the bag Ron smiled. Then he opened the small box, his smile widened. Both older men gazed into the small box. Both chuckled. Dean started, "But how did you get those son? I thought you had placed them in a safe deposit box?"

"Dad you know that I put the engagement ring on KP's finger the last time I was home. Well while I was in transit back to my unit I had these sent to the Company via secure courier. I seriously doubt that anyone in their right mind would try and rob a Ranger Company, but we have security boxes there too. I thought it was a good place to keep the set since I was planning on not getting married to Kim until I rotated back home. I guess that last mission sorta changed my outlook on that. After I woke up I knew right then that not being with KP was the most painful thing that I think I have ever experienced...You know with the baby on the way and all, my last thoughts before everything went black was KP and our baby, I just couldn't chance it anymore. The bag contains my dress blues for obvious reasons.", he told him.

The Regiment's EXO looked at Ron approvingly. "Ron, you have done very well. I'm glad you're recovering. There are couple of things you should know. First the request for you to get married is approved, that paperwork, as well some the things you requested are in the bag. You really didn't need approval for marrying an American Citizen, but I'm proud that you asked.", he told him. Just then the door opened and the two Possible redheads came in looking for Ron. "Um...maybe we should continue this discussion in an office somewhere. The Army has made some decisions about this young man and they should be conveyed in a more private area.", he finished.

As they made their way to Anne's office Kim came up behind Ron and put her arm around him wondering what was in the bag. She didn't know that he had casually slipped the box into a pocket of his sweat pants when she and her mom appeared.

Entering they all sat down. "Well Sergeant,", his EXO started, "I don't think that you're going to be doing anymore combat operations. We don't think that you'll be up to the standards of the Rangers before you're due to get out. Therefore, we are are going to give you a medical discharge. You will qualify for disability pay after you're tested. So, as of now you are on leave until your term of service is up. Since this will be the sixth year of your commitment you will not have any reserve time to do. When you get to within a week of your ETS date, come up to Battalion HQ and we'll have your paperwork ready. One more thing Sergeant, in four weeks time you are hereby ordered to HQ for a ceremony. The official notification will be mailed to your home address. You will be in Class A Uniform understand?", he told Ron.

"Yes ...yes sir.", Ron replied.

"One more thing, there has been talk of studying this battle. Since you are the only survivor, the War College wants to know if you can be involved with the ongoing seminars. I know this is difficult Sergeant, but we have to study what went wrong and what went right. That's the only way we can improve. Just so you know, you did everything right, the platoon did everything right. The failure was not at your level. Your platoon took on 2500 men on their turf. Let me know of your decision son, we are proud of the way you and your men handled themselves.", he told Ron

Ron looked at his superior and nodded, he had feared that he would blamed for the screw up. And this cleared the air for him a lot. "Yes sir, I would be glad to help out.", he told the officer.

Then Kim spoke up, "Sir, we are having a cookout this afternoon, would you join us? Ron's going to man the grill. If you thought he was a good soldier., you need to see him working over a stove. He won several awards in high school for his cooking skills."

"Miss, if you didn't know it already, the Sergeant's cooking skills are widely known in the Ranger community. When he announces a feed we usually have brothers from the other battalions dropping by. Since they're in other parts of the country that will tell you what we think of his food.", he told her.

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Later that evening after dinner, James announced that he and Anne were going out of town for the weekend and asked if Kim and Ron would watch the house for them. Kim looked over at her mom and got a smile and a wink. Kimmie smiled back Before they got ready for bed Kim wanted to confirm the earlier observation. Anne just told her daughter not to break him and laughed.

As Kim got into bed she asked Ron, "Ronnie do you want to go to that new seafood restaurant in Upperton for lunch? I hear they have fresh oysters and they're really good."

Not knowing what this was all about, Ron said, "Uh...sure KP anything you want." As she snuggled closer.

"Hey honey, not to pry. But I was wondering...you know when we went shopping for those outfits that you needed when I was here last?", he asked.

"Yea, Ronnie.", she answered.

"Well you saw all your cheerleader buddies and wanted to talk?", he continued.

Yea, I remember.", she responded.

"Well you acted like you and Bonnie were good friends. I just wondered why.", he asked her.

"Honey, I didn't tell this to you. When Josh dumped me. Well Monique, Tara, Wade and Felix helped a lot, but it was Bonnie that helped me the most. If it hadn't been for her, I might have gone crazy. There were days that she almost had to carry me, while I was grieving about losing you. I don't know what would have happened to me if she hadn't been there to pick up the pieces." Kim confided in her fiancée, beginning to tear up.

"I'm sorry KP, I didn't know. So you two made up huh?", he asked soothing his beloved.

"Yes we did, she's a good friend now. We talk all the time." she told her lover as she snuggled into him.

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As they were speaking Anne and James were involved in another conversation. "Are you sure he wants that?", Anne asked her husband.

"Positive honey. I didn't know he was that devious. He's already got hold of Dr Director. She had Kimmie signing papers; after a couple of hundred, Betty slipped the license application in on her. She didn't even know that she signed her part.", he laughed.

Anne was having a hard time holding it in. She was rolling on the bed in near hysterics. Finally, Anne got control of herself and began dialing her cell phone. Within an hour she got everyone making plans to head to town over the weekend to finish getting the things done they could. While she was doing that, James called Dr. Renton to make plans on the Tuesday after to make the attempt to fix Ron's hearing. Anne had told him she wanted to run more tests on Ron after the upcoming weekend's athletic events were over. Dr. Possible doubted that her daughter would even know that her friends were in town this weekend considering what she thought Kim's plans might involve.

Kimmie let Ron spoon into her back taking in all of the warming sensations of his body as she drifted off. 'It is soo good!', she mused as her eyes closed.

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Tuesday morning came. It was wet and cool. Kim took Ron to the hospital for his appointment with the unusual technique. Doctor Renton told Anne and Ron what was going to happen, Ron thanked her in advance. The nanobots had already been programmed; and they were waiting. A nurse was waiting with the syringe laying on the table next to her. Motioning to Ron to sit, she rubbed his arm with alcohol and picked up the syringe after finding a suitable vein. A few moments later the procedure began. They took Ron to a bed to wait. Kim sat next to him. Ron was anxious. A lot of plans hung in the balance right now, well their timing did.

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Across town Monique Jenkins smiled as she called the orders in. 'Man has that skinny boy stepped up to the plate this time, I hope Kim is amused by all he has done to put this together.', she chuckled to herself, 'Otherwise I hope he can use those mad Ranger moves of his to keep from getting killed.'

The morning of the third day after the injection, Ron sat in the acoustic testing room after taking off his hearing protection. He now had ear phones on. Little noises, he was able to hear little noises. Hmmm maybe they're not that good. After nearly a half hour they opened the door. Everyone was smiling. "Ron," Anne started, "it's not perfect......."

Suddenly he realized that he heard Anne. He started crying, grabbing for her he sobbed, "Mrs. Dr. P, mom P, I can hear..I can hear!"

Kimmie glomped onto him, her tears mingled with his. Tears of joy.

Anne continued, "It's not perfect but you're almost in the normal range Ron. I think this might be the best we can do, but it's pretty good."

Ron told them, "Well at least I won't need at hearing-ear dog. Thanks Mrs. P., you don't know what this means to me."

Kim scolded him, "that's seeing-eye dog. Ron."

Ron told her, "Whatever. Listen, I have to make a few phone calls. I'll be back in twenty."

Ron rushed off to find a private place.

Monique hung up the phone thinking, 'Baby boy is moving fast I gotta call in some favors. He is so devious, using Bon-Bon as a get together reason for the Bachelorette Party!'

After about a half hour Ron emerged from his hiding place. His ears were ringing, but he was happy. He walked up to the group and flashed Anne a huge smile. "When?", she mouthed noting that Kim had her back to her.

"Later.", he mouthed back.

Ron thanked Dr. Renton and asked if Felix was around. She told him that he was in Lowerton working on a project of his and would be back later.

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At the Stoppable home invitations were going out express mail. Wade had already been contacted and everything was moving well. The call from Ron didn't really surprise them, but now everything shifted into high gear. They called their Rabbi while James called his minister. They already had a church. 'Organization was a wonderful thing.', Barb thought, 'Who knew Ron was so thorough?'

A week later Ron asked Kim if they could go somewhere. She asked where. "Ron said, "It's a surprise."

An hour later they entered the lawyer's office. An hour after that Ron had Kim drive them to see their new home. They entered. It was a nice ranch design sitting in a quiet area not far from their parents' homes. It had four bedrooms and four baths a very nice kitchen and dining room. It was very nice.

Kim asked Ron, "How?"

"Well KP, do you remember when you told me about our baby?", he asked.

Kim nodded.

"Well, I had dad look for a house that was almost completed. He put the down payment on it. He sent the rest in the other day. So it's ours.", he proudly told her.

Kim gave Ron a big hug, "It's fantastic Ronnie, it's just right, we each have an office and a couple extra rooms. We have room to grow our family even more."

"That's sorta what I had planned Kim, but I didn't know how big a family you wanted. They're going to be able to grow up in the same environment that we did, and that wasn't so bad was it?", he asked her.

Kim smiled; she loved the idea of being close to both set of parents. She was totally unaware of the other plans beginning to come together though. Ron walked Kim through their new home. They walked into one room. It was right next to the master bed room. Kim felt Ron come up behind her and put his arms around her. He held her tightly whispering in her ear. "You know what this room is don't you KP?", he asked.

"Honey, oh it's so beautiful, our baby's room. Her nursery.", Kim told him leaning back into him as his arms wrapped around her tiny frame. 'Soon it would have a tiny occupant.', she thought. Her eyes watered. Suddenly, Ron's cell phone rang. As he answered it he went out and opened the front door. A moving van had backed up on the driveway. They began to unload.

Kim looked on. 'So this is why he had me park on the street.', she mused. About two hours after the furniture arrived both sets of parents came over, followed by Monique and several other friends. They unloaded boxes of dishes, glasses, pots and pans. By evening the furniture had been installed and the first three loads of dishes had been run through the dishwasher. In the span of less than a day the home was nearly done.

Ron called a halt to the operation announcing that he was tired and told them where to meet for dinner.

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The following Friday, a C-130 landed in Middleton. Down the lowered ramp walked a number of hard looking men, who seemed to be enjoying themselves tremendously. Ron and Kim met the soldiers. Ron had told Kim earlier that they would be meeting his comrades. They would be in town for a few days to conduct some seminars, hopefully to get high schoolers interested in the military.

A little later Monique, Anne and Barb asked Kim to join them for a going away party for Bonnie. She was taking a job in Norway with Mrs. Stoppable's company.

Kim told them, "Mom, I wanted to spend time with Ron tonight. Since it's for Bonnie and I owe her it's the least I can do."

"Yes you do Kimberly, and Ronald does have his buddies in town tonight so he won't be lonely.", she told her daughter, wondering if she would catch the slip up.

Later, Kimberly Anne Possible could not believe her eyes. Her mom and mother in law dancing with the only male in the room and he was dressed in a skimpy swimming suit and a bow tie!!! The girls from the cheer squad were enjoying themselves too Marcella was really enjoying the lone man. Monique seemed to be the chief culprit of this enterprise, though Nana seemed to be a close second-in-command. Nana had come to town a few days before to see her and Ron.

Everybody was having a great time at the mostly girl party. The guest of honor was enjoying her self tremendously. Bonnie was dancing and gabbing with everyone. She looked very excited about her promotion. Kim, however, had mixed feelings about her once arch rival not being able to maybe make the wedding. Bonnie made her promise to send a DVD so she could enjoy it too.

At the men's party the Rangers handled themselves with dignity and decorum...that is until the first drink was finished. Slides were shown, stories were told and lies were swapped. The few underage attendees had to make do with colas. The adults mostly preferred other types of beverages. In the morning headaches abounded. Even the two father's-in-law were soon to wince. They had less twelve hours before the real events were to occur. And recovery time would become precious. Fortunately, some of the attendees were quite experienced with operations of this sort.

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Kim and Anne walked in on the semi-nude forms laying all over the place in their sleeping bags. All at least had gym shorts and tee shirts on with some sort of Army motto printed on them. Several of the inscriptions looked a bit vulgar. Several of these wonderfully built human forms were already up and about. All seemed to have a similar problem as a few of them were groaning. Anne noticed her future, well if Kim didn't kill him first, son-in-law: He appeared to have come under the same malady most of the other young men present seemed to be afflicted with. And Kim ended up meeting some of his fellow soldiers before the go to Ron.

One of them looked to be a bit older and introduced himself as Donald Legge. Ron had already warned him not to spill the beans to the females. He just told them that he was a former training partner of Ron's. Then he thanked them for their hospitality.

Slightly disgusted that the men seemed to have had an even better previous night then the girls did, Anne went looking for the two seniors that were supposed to be responsible for the previous evening's mostly male gala. She looked in one of the other bedrooms. There on the bed were both future father's-in-law sleeping, fully clothed, and snoring. One of them, James, was cuddled up with Kimmie's old Pandaroo. Just then Kim walked in with her pocket digital camera, all-the-while remembering all embarrassing pictures of her and the two matriarchs of the families on the eve of this morning's discoveries. 'This is going to be soo good getting even for all those years of daddy showing the slide shows; me in the buff on the bear skin rug and bath scenes when I was a baby.', Kimmie-cub wonderfully considered the payback she was going to have on her father with an evil smile on her face. With her trusty camera she devilishly stalked her prey to make things right in the world again.

As the room became bathed in flashes from the camera, Dean became aware of his surroundings first. Instinctively, he knew that he wasn't the primary target of the redheaded terror that was soon to be the bride of his son. Within minutes everyone in the house found out about the women that were present and realized that others would be arriving in force after several phone calls went out. The last two men making their appearance came out of the basement in what looked like coveralls. One of them looked at the other, "Gus I told you that we shoulda got rooms last night. This the third bachelor party I've been to with these guys. I guess it's better than the last one when we woke up outside in a driving rainstorm in Alaska. man that was cold! I swear half that rain was sleet."

"Yeah, I heard about that one Lenny. That's why I decided pull in some favors to get this gig at the last minute.", Gus explained. Continuing Gus said, "Hey I wonder what happened to the Load Master and Crew Chief."

Lenny told him, "Those two have been doing this longer then we have. They didn't take that last challenge and took a cab back to the airfield instead. I think they're sleeping in the plane."

Ron groaned as he saw spots form in front of his eye from flashes of light. After the room had turned white again for a moment and realizing what happened, he reached for the camera. Being blinded for a moment, he didn't realized what he had just groped. Kim tossed the camera to her mom, pushed Ron back in the bedroom, closed and locked the door behind her.

After about a half hour Ron stumbled back out followed by a red faced Kim. By now everyone was up. Quite a few were drinking coffee. Ron realizing that this constituted most of of the attendees of previous evenings events. He began, well finished the introductions as Monique was currently engaged in a 'conversation' with one of the Rangers. Heck even Bonnie showed up, it appeared that she had a certain man interested in her as well. 'Well that works out pretty well, since he's in the wedding party too!', Ron chuckled to himself.

While this was going on Barbara called a local restaurant to make reservations for breakfast. She told them it was for Ron Stoppable. After several moments they told her the room would be ready in twenty minutes.

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Soon they were pushing away their plates; even the Army boys seemed to be full. Ron was glad that his dad had bought into this business as well. Mr. Stoppable listened to the wise investors creed by not putting all his, well the fund's assets in one nest.

Kim put her hand on Ron's leg and asked him what was going on. All Ron told her was to do what her mom and Monique told her for rest of the daylight hours. At this point Monique wondered just how far she would obey when she said, "Kim shut up and give Ron a kiss."

Almost everyone was amazed when she did what was told. The Rangers looked on wondering what that was all about; their buddy had told them about his fiery fiancée. They had never met a famous world saving teen hero before, but since most of them were card carrying members of the unknown hero's club too it didn't bother them that much either.

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Most of the people attending the service later in the day decided to rest and recharge. The previous night had taken it's toll and it seemed everyone needed a nap for some reason. Anne had ordered her daughter to come to the house, the funny thing was----she did. Anne thought, 'Wow all it took to get Kimmie-cub to behave was to get Ron to make her obey. I wish we had tried that years ago.' By this time Kim was close to wearing through her last nerve. Both her mom and her best friend, well other than Ron, were ordering her around. She was sitting in the family room when Monique told her to take a nice warm bath to relax. Grudgingly she did, mumbling under her breath.

While this was going on Monique entered Kim's room and started packing for the surprise that would happen later in the evening and even later on. Before Kim returned from her bath, the bags were sent off. Monique paid close attention to the orders given her. One particular bag would be all that was going to be needed for the next day or two. The rest were given to another driver after the first left the house.

When Kim got out she was ushered into her room, a stylist was waiting for her. An hour later her hair looked wonderful, not that it didn't look that way normally. The next to walk in on her was a lady to do her makeup. Kim looked at her mom. "Motherrrr," she started, which let everyone know how annoyed she was by this time, "I can do my own make up, please and thank you."

Pretty much everyone ignored her complaints by now. After the makeup lady left Anne and Monique proceeded to dress her. Kimberly Anne Possible finally figured it out. Putting two and two together her eyes suddenly widened and she quieted down. The best friend and the mother took turns working with Kim. Soon they were both on hand to pull the dress out. Kim's eyes watered a little. 'Those rats, they didn't tell me. They played me. Well I hope I figure out my lines.', she mused, not knowing that they had already been written for her and were sitting in an envelope on her dressing table. Tara, Bonnie and Joss showed up a little later looking a lot better than they had only hours before.

Kim looked at Bonnie, she was dressed ad a Brides Maid as well. They laughed and hugged after Bon Bon told her, "Gotcha K!"

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Meanwhile, a certain blond haired young man was putting on his dress blues. Or as they're formally called "Mess Dress". The uniform is a throw back to the late 1800's when the uniform was blue. Ron didn't know how much longer he would be able to use this uniform and decided earlier to honor his beloved by being dressed in it on their wedding day. He looked at himself in the mirror. He was pleased, it took over five years of hard work to accomplish the training and discipline that was evident by the medals on his chest. He wasn't given this uniform, he earned this uniform through countless hours of training, effort and even some blood.

Picking up his phone Ron made several phone calls to make sure that everything was in order, he was pleased that he could hear now, he planned on giving Felix's mom an nice big kiss. He chuckled a bit as Monique told him how much Kim had been fuming and now had quieted down with a smile on her face. 'She is so going to get even over this, I hope I survive long enough to see the baby.', he thought with a smile.