Getting Warmer

"KP, KP, can you hear me? Oh please be okay," A strange, far away voice said.

The young girl's eyes slowly returned to focus, the whole world lost in a blind, blurry mess of squiggly lines. Kim Possible winced a little as her beautiful green eyes slowly opened. A blonde, freckle faced, young boy appeared before her weary eyes.

Kim blinked "Ron, is that you?".

Ron cheered and eagerly hugged Kim, nearly yanking her off her feet.

"Boo-yah, KP is OK, oh yeah, pain" Ron shouted.

Ron gasped and pulled away, remembering Kim was still recovering from her injury from Monkey Fist.

"No really, I'm all right Ron, I just got a splitting head ache" Kim said.

Ron nodded "Yeah you were out of it for like half an hour, really wigged us out".

"Freaky wiggy" Rufus squeaked.

"Got a wicked scar on the back of your head, a definite 10 on the EW factor, but I think you'll be all right," Ron added.

Kim slowly stood up and rubbed the back of her head, wincing a bit as her legs started to feel wobbly again. The young Ron Stoppable gasped and quickly ran to his female friend.

"Whoa, whoa, hold the pom poms there missy, you got to chillax for a while" Ron said.

The girl groaned as she sat back, allowing Ron to go behind her and gently stroke the back of her head. Kim smiled a little, almost crooning at how soft and gentle Ron's touch was.

Kim's Thoughts

Mmmmm…wow, Ron really knows how to make someone relax. That feels better already. I never realized how soft his touch was, it feels almost…soothing. Who ever thought Ron Stoppable could be soothing.

The cheerleader softly giggled to herself, smiling back at a blank face stricken Ron.

"Thanks again Ron, you're the best" Kim said.

Ron smiled "Hey no prob KP, that's what goofy sidekicks are for".

Kim smirked "No seriously, you were really something out there tonight. Honestly, I don't know what I'd do without you".

Bashfully blushing, Ron stepped back a bit, rubbing his nervous face.

"Gee thanks KP, means a lot" Ron chuckled.

Kim looked back and noticed Ron trying not to look at her, his heartstrings being yanked viciously by this sudden rush of emotions. Ron Stoppable had fallen in love with Kim Possible, and the tension between them was tearing his heart apart.

"Remember the friendship, remember the friendship, don't be an idiot, don't throw that all away" Ron silently uttered to himself.

Nervously concerned for her friend, Kim approached Ron and bit her lip.

"Ron is something wrong? You're not acting very…well Ron like" Kim asked.

Ron laughed nervously "What, I am so Ron like, I mean look at me, I am Ron, Ron-Ron, don't get much more Ron then Ron".

The girl blinked at his odd behavior. Sighing a bit, Ron turned his eyes away from Kim's beautiful orbs, unable to look at them without feeling the racing thump of his heated heart.

Ron gulped "KP, maybe you'd be better without a sidekick".

"Say that again?" Kim gasped.

"Well I really just don't think I can cut it anymore. I mean, you got hurt because I goofed up. I thought I could be as good as you could, but I keep screwing up on every mission. I don't want to see you get hurt……because of me" Ron said.

The girl was truly taken back by Ron's words; she had never seen Ron talk or act like this before. After all the years, all the birthdays, all the memories, how could this be happening?

"This isn't the Ron Stoppable I know" Kim thought to herself.

Ron blinked as he felt his hand being held by another, a warm, gentle, soft-skinned hand. Kim Possible smiled sincerely to the baffled boy as she looked to his eyes and gently stroked Ron's freckled cheeks.

"Don't" Kim said.

"Don't?" Ron asked.

Kim nodded "Don't, don't ever think, act or talk like that. You've helped me out lots of times. True most of them have been goof ups, but I wouldn't be even alive right now if it wasn't for you and your goof ups. You're my best friend, and no training or special skills will ever ruin the friendship that we have".

The boy smiled a bit, feeling much better and much better about himself from her words. The only thing that tweaked the young boy's mind was the mentioning of the word "friendship". Of course the thought that Kim didn't want to be more then friends had crossed Ron's mind before, he still wasn't sure how she truly felt about him deep down.

Ron coughed "So were solid? Were good, like even, oh one might say, close good?".

Kim blinked and blushed a bit, clearly unprepared for that question.

"Well close is an uh……very um, that's really, I don't know I just uh" Kim stuttered.

Ron noticed she was stressing out over the question, he panicked and quickly tried to change the subject.

"So you got the crib to yourself tonight huh?" Ron asked.

Kim nodded "Yeah actually, total me time. The Dweebs are staying over at a friend's house for the week end, and mom and dad are taking some vacation time off from their jobs".

Ron laughed "Yeah, I imagine working robot like hours at a hospital and a science lab would drive anyone into vacation village".

The 2 teens sighed a bit and casually sat down, kicking their feet up and idly sitting next to one another.

"So uh when will they be back?" Ron asked.

"Oh about 4 days" Kim answered.

Meanwhile……

The Red Dragon growled as he slammed a hapless secretary against Dr. Possible's office wall, the young girl screamed in fear.

"What do you mean he won't be back for another four days?" the Dragon scowled.

The blonde haired woman gulped in terror, her legs scrambled her fallen black high heels off her feet.

The secretary squeaked "Dr. Possible w-w-w-went on a vac-c-c-cation, he's out with his wife. It's impossible to contact him".

The armored samurai growled to himself, frustrated with anger. With Kim Possible's parents gone for the rest of the weekend, it will take too long to find them and kill them. Red Dragon knew that without Kim's family, he could not deliver ultimate defeat to the teen hero, he growled again.

"Does he have any family or friends that would know, ANYONE?" Dragon shouted.

The girl hesitated, until Dragon shoved a gleaming sword under her neck. Trembling flesh shook violently under the cold, stinging feel of that razor sharp blade.

"I d-d-d-d-d-d-don't" the woman started to stutter.

Dragon frowned and smacked her across the face with his red armored hand, knocking her unconscious.

"Curse that little brat; I can't just wait for her family to come back from vacation. None of the nit wits at either of their workplaces have any idea of where they went" Red Dragon said.

The blood red bounty hunter wrapped his metallic digits around the chrome jaw line of his facial armor.

"I have no choice; I'll have to track down a personal friend of hers. Hopefully the Possibles have some sort of close friend of the family, close enough to know the location of Kim Possible's parents. Then all I have to do is find them, kill them, and initiate the first steps of bringing Kim Possible to her inevitable demise" Red Dragon said.

The bounty hunter leapt into the air and vanished into the night. The Red Dragon was secretly plotting the dark demise of his hired opponent, Kim Possible. And in the middle of all this mess, was Ron Stoppable. A boy who as we speak, is walking back home from Kim's house, racking his brain repeatedly with the image of his beloved female friend. Ron entered his home and shut the door, unaware that he, Monique, Bonnie, Wade, and anyone tied to Kim was in danger from the deadly samurai known as Red Dragon.

"It will not be long now Kim Possible. I have already met your enemies, and soon I shall meet your family. After a little talk with some of your school friends, I will have all the information I need in order to CRUSH your heart, and then, I will go down in history as the one who KILLED Kim Possible" the Dragon cackled evilly.

To be continued……