Chapter 4
"Let's review, what do you do first?" The emerald-eyed thief asked the small girl. The two of them sat in the living room on the ground with a map drawn out in front of them. The 'map' showed an imaginary bank that Shego had come up with to help her in her teaching.
"Spot the cameras" The young girl said with confidence.
"Okay there are two here, one here, and one here." Shego pointed out the spots to indicate where they were to the little girl. "Where do you go?"
"There" Kim pointed to a section on the 'map'. "Wait till it's moved then walked passed it." she declared proudly.
"Alright, you make it to this hallway here and there are two guards guarding the entrance. Now what?"
"Cause a disaction , take them out or do both" The small redhead said using Shego's words from earlier.
"Distraction." Her mentor corrected. "You set a distraction and the guards ran off. You enter the room and you see the vault on the far end guarded by two more guards. How do you get passed them?"
"You open the vault?"
"No Pumpkin, before that."
"You... Oh, You stay hidden and then attack them when you're close!" She exclaimed enthusiastically.
"Yes, Now you open the vault, but how?"
"make it go boom!" the six-year old said throwing up her arms to add to the effect causing the woman to laugh.
"Yes. You've now got the money, and the alarm is going off, what do you do now?"
"Go out the window and climb to da roof!"
"Why?"
"because the ride's there?" Kim said meaning it as a statement, but it came out as a question.
"That's right, the mission was a success! Job well done Princess." They had been there for over an hour going over different methods of entry, evasion tactics, and quick getaways, Shego playing them all out on her made up map. She had taken the week off from Drakken because she felt that it was time she started showing the munchkin the basics. She wanted Kim to start young so she could be more agile and experienced in her own prime time. She figured She would take the former hero on her first heist when she turns 8 but would make sure she starts getting everything down now. Not everything though, for the moment she was just occasionally showing her the small things. She'd worry about hostages, team efforts and code breaking later.
Shego folded up the paper before them and put it up on the fridge so it was available for later use, but didn't get damaged by a certain wild little fire-ball as she had been recently referring Kim to. She figured that with her hair and her energy the name was just made for her. On her way back, the phone rang, so she switched course and headed towards the device on the Kitchen wall.
"Hello?"
"Jayden, it's nice to hear from you again." Shego suppressed a groan of annoyance hearing who it was on the other end.
"Mom?"
"No it's your husband" Came the sarcastic reply. Shego rolled her eyes knowing that it was her mother's way of complaining about her not having settled down yet. She was only 25 for goodness sake, at least she wasn't thirty and all alone like the cyclops.
"What do you want mother?" She asked tiredly.
"Now is that any way to speak to your mother?" The voice scolded her.
"Sorry" she huffed just wanting her mom to get to the point.
"Good. I'm in town at the moment and I thought it would be nice to spend some time with my daughter."
"Sorry, I'm busy." Shego said without hesitance.
"Oh? you can bring the child you know."
"What?!"
"You know, the darling little red head. The one you're caring for. From what I understand, that little girl is the only business you have at the moment. You've taken off time from work, and I know you don't have any other plans."
"Would you butt the hell out of my life? How do you know what I have planned to do?"
"Jayden Lynn Goode, I raised you with proper manners so I would appreciate it if you used them!" She was scolded again.
"Whatever."
"Good, I'll see you in an hour at the old park we used to have picnics at."
"The boys wont be there will they?" she asked praying she'd say no.
"I'm afraid they couldn't get away, your father's on a business trip, and your brothers are all actually busy." There is a God.
"Okay, See you then." Both women hung up the phone at the same time and Shego turned to see a hand sticking out slightly from the hallway.
"If you're going to eavesdrop, you should at least hide yourself better." Shego said as she grabbed the hand that tried to jerk away and pulled her little monster into sight. Kim grinned up at Shego sheepishly, embarrassed for having been caught.
"Are we going somewhere?" The petite red head asked excitedly, bouncing up and down.
"Yep. We're going to go see my mom." She informed the little squirt.
"Your mommy?" Her eyes rounded like she had just said they were going on a trip to the moon.
"Yes, so we need to get you dressed up real nice and pretty or she'll have my head." Shego said lifting the child up.
"Have your head?" The six-year old asked confused.
"It's just a saying Princess, don't worry about it."
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"Stop that." Shego said lighty slapping Kim's wrist. She kept fidgeting in her car seat, trying to kick off her black dress shoes, pullin down on her green dress, and now she was tugging on the white pantyhose that covered her legs. Shego was about ready to throw her out the window by the time they reached the park. The emerald eyed thief got out of the car and went around it to help Kim out of her seat. The little girl was dressed up in a way fit for church and she didn't like it one bit.
"Shegee" she whined looking at her with pleading eyes while still tugging at her dress.
"I said quit that." The woman scolded taking her hand that was tugging on her clothes to get her to stop. Before the red head could voice her discomfort, a voice greeted them as a woman approached the pair.
"Jayden, how nice to see you." The woman said in a pleasant tone. She had skin that was pale like Shego's only without the green and her hair was like her daughters too, only with a couple streaks of grey mixed in with it. Her eyes however were a shocking blue with a sort of warmth about them, unlike Shego's sharp, emerald eyes.
"Mom, it's Shego." The younger woman growled. Her mother ignored her as she turned to the small child attempting to hide behind her daughter's leg.
"Hello, I dont believe we've met." She told the shy girl with a warm smile that matched her eyes. Kim looked to Shego not seeming to know what to say.
"Mom, this is Kimmie." She told her although she was pretty sure her mom already knew that. She had far more connections than her daughter liked.
"Well Kimmie, its a pleasure to meet you, I'm Jade's mom." The girl stared up at the woman before turning to Shego in confusion.
"Jade's Mommy?" She echoed. "I thought she was your Mommy" she frowned trying to wrap her brain around it.
"I am Jade, its what she calls me." Shego explained in as few words as possible.
"Because that's your name." Her mother said. If Kim hadnt been there, she was pretty sure she would have lost it just then. She hated her name and her mom knew that, she was purposely pushing the younger woman's buttons.
"Now how bout we go eat?" Samantha Goode suggested.
"Eat?" The little red head parroted. No one had tol her anything about food. Shego had known they were going to be having a picnic since her mother seemed so fond of them and had to have one whenever she saw her children.
The three of them made their way to a blanket already laid out on the grass covered in a wide spread of food. There were sandwhiches, fruit, crackers and drinks which excited the youngest most. Shego made sure to keep a grip on Kimmie before she could start eating everything. She knew of the red heads habit of eating herself a stomach ache, so she made her sit on the blanket and served up her food for her on one of the paper plates her mom provided. After she got the girl's food, she made sure her munchkin was sitting properly with her legs toegther before giving her her plate. After she warned kim not to get any food on herself, the green-hued villainess served up her own plate.
The lunch wrnt surprisingly well, Kim had opened up to the older woman and once she was finished eating, the two of them had a tickle fight. Shego just watched in amusement until the girl landed in her lap so she decided to join in on the fun too by tickling her little monster.
Once the game was over, Shego had to snatch the red head up when she found her heading for the soda her mom had brought. She didnt want to know would happen if she let her little fireball drink that, she might have spontaneously combusted.
After runing around in an impromptu game of tag, the three returned to sitting on the blanket to just talk.
"So Kim seems to be happy to be with you." Samantha commented out of nowhere in Shego's opinion. She looked at said kid to find the little monster had fallen asleep with her thumb in her mouth. She had developed the habit a couple days ago, where? Shego had no clue, but she did her best to stop it out in public, although at the moment she just let it go. She had after all been on her best behavior, and she didnt have her puppy with her which Shego knew the girl needed in order to sleep usually.
"She's just a naturally happy kid." Shego explained and Mrs. Goode nodded.
"So I noticed. Though I cant help but wonder what you plan to do with her." Shego rolled her eyes at that.
" I'm sure you know exactly what I plan to do with her. Its like you've got the damn house bugged or something."
"Oh please, you know i have much more fun ways of keeping tabs on you."
"Not like you'll tell me any of them."
"Well where's the fun in that? Besides, you're probably going to be the same way. Constantly wanting to know where she is, what she's doing, who she's taliing to. It's just something you cant help. Just look at Anne and her daughter. I bet Mrs. Dr. Possible is just worried sick-" her mom started but the thief cut her off.
"Stop! Okay, just stop. I didnt come here to have you nag me on what i'm doing or who i'm doing it to. It's none of your business so just leave me alone."
"But dragon fly-"
"I better get Kimmie home and in bed." She stated ignoring her mother's use of her old nickname. She didnt want to be there anymore, she hadnt wanted to be there in the first place, so she gently lifted her Princess gently, being careful not to wake her.
Samantha Goode just watched her daughter put the small child in her car seat and get in herself. She sighed knowing exactly who the little girl was and what her daughter was doing with her. She only hoped her Jayden could do the right thing in the end. She always did before.