Chapter 7: Explanations and Remembrance

Kim Possible and Betsy (and friends) do not belong to me. Isabella belongs to starving Lunatic. Alex belongs to My Heart in an Icebox. Katrina and Gordon Go belong to me, as does the HPA and all of its associates.

Minnesota


Ron looked across the table at his older cousin, Betsy. They were sitting at the kitchen table, and she was fidgeting uncomfortably in her chair. Tina was standing stoically, straight-backed behind her queen while Sinclair was leaning against the kitchen counter.

Ron spoke up "So, Please tell me what a vampire servant is" he said, his gaze never wavering. The effect was doubled with the reproachful stare of Rufus, who was sitting on Ron's shoulder.

Betsy fidgeted even more and looked to Tina with a pleading look on her face. It seemed the vampire was about to speak up when Sinclair shook his head.

"Don't even try that love, we explained to you what this bond means, and it's your responsibility to tell your own…protégé."

Betsy sighed and glared at her fiancé "Fine" she turned back to Ron "O.K., well as far as I can tell a vampire servant is a human who is bonded to a vampire"

One blond eyebrow rose, and Ron steepled his hands in the front of him "Bonded how" he asked calmly.

Betsy coughed "Well, erm well I suppose the bond formed when I fed you…um, my uh" she broke off.

Tina nodded politely "What her Majesty is trying to say is she saved your life by feeding her blood to you."

Ron nodded, but he looked a bit pale "Your blood huh, well that's really gross. I mean damn!"

Betsy looked slightly taken aback "Since when do you curse?"

Ron laughed weakly "Betsy, I'm a college student now, but never mind that- what does this mean for me."

At this Sinclair stood and walked over behind his Queen "Well, Your health will greatly improve, you are almost immune to disease and highly resistant to poison."

Tina spoke "You will also have greater speed and strength. You will be able to take far more damage than a normal human, and you will also heal faster."

Betsy brightened "Yeah also you seem to be tied to me, so you'll live as long as me, which is going to be a very long time."

Ron looked suspiciously at all the smiling (or in Sinclair's case not looking as stony as usual) "Yeah now tell me the bad news please, and tell me the truth"

Rufus chattered and nodded his head "Yeah! Truth!"

Tina and Sinclair looked at each other, then simultaniously put a hand on each of Betsy's shoulders and squeezed.

"Oww! Fine" she looked at Ron "Well, being connected to me means that if I die, you might die. It also means that you will need to be near me most of the time. I gave you some of my power and that means while having you around will make me stronger- if you go I will be weakened"

Ron frowned "Well that's annoying, so I'm stuck here?"

Sinclair answered "Just for the moment, right now things are looking…tense with the supernatural community."

Ron considered that "What you mean like Adrian?"

Tina nodded "Yes, but not only him- It seems that the Camarilla might want to cause some problems"

At that Betsy turned and looked skeptically at the shorter woman "Really? It seems to me that they were being quite commodious"

"Commodious? Don't you mean accommodating" Tina asked, brow furrowed.

Betsy waved her off and continued "I mean all the people from that delegation were very polite, and I approved of the way that Jean-Claude dealt with his subordinates."

Sinclair gave a wane smile "Unless Jean-Claude has changed much in the years since I first met him, I believe that was a carefully crafted performance…for you"

Betsy scoffed "for me, what do you mean Sinclair?"

"Oh Majesty, Jean-Claude as we knew him was always cool at best towards servants, at least in public" Tina said quietly.

Ron, who had been listening with interest, spoke up "So all that being friendly, he was fakin' it?"

"Indeed, he probably thought it would make him more agreeable in your eyes, you have so often spoken against the mistreatment of, uh… companions" Sinclair said steadily to Betsy.

"So what does all this mean" both Betsy and Ron asked, they smiled at each other then looked back at Sinclair.

"It means that someone in the Camarilla told him to make us feel…complacent, and the Camarilla does everything for a reason." Sinclair reasoned looking out the kitchen window.

Ron stood suddenly, looking a bit woozy. Betsy looked up in alarm "Ron? You O.K.?"

The blond boy smiled un-convincely as he offered his hand to Rufus, who jumped up onto the offered limb "I'm fine…I just gotta think about this"

He hurried out and sped to his room, where he closed the door. As he sunk onto the bed, fully clothed, the only thing going through his head was "Whoa Ron, Your in deep this time!"

Private Jet


The sleek jet was matte black and seemed to glide through the air silently like a large bird of prey. Kim looked out the window to see the water of the gulf coast far beneath them.

"You'll get sick if you keep staring out the window" Shego said amusedly.

Kim turned and frowned "I don't remember ever being scared of flying"

Shego was about to answer when a bit of turbulence caused the plane to shake. Kim squeaked in irrational fear and dove for Shego's lap, where she buried her head in the green woman's stomach.

Shego smiled softly at the girl's discomfort, but began to supportively pet the girl's hair. Kim made soothed purrs, which seemed to come from deep inside her.

"Kimmie, your inner panther is not yet used to some things, like planes, don't worry you'll be the girl who can do everything again soon enough." She said kindly.

Kim was about to respond when the plane shook again, more violently this time, she instead felt it would be prudent to grip harder to her green security blanket. Whatever she was thinking was erased and replaced with "This feels nice"

Soon, too soon in Shego's opinion (who had always liked the role of protector as Alpha), the turbulence lessoned, and Kim sat back up and looked towards the cockpit "I wish she would keep it steady, what's her story anyway?"

Shego looked over "Whom? Alex, uhh…well lets just say she has an even worse history than I do."

Kim looked over and raised an eyebrow "Care to explain a little bit more?"

Shego smirked and ruffled Kim's hair "Aw, does lil' Pumpkin wanna hear a story?"

Kim frowned at the older woman's patronizing manner but said "Please and thank you"

Shego sat back "She got her powers the same day as we did…"

The past


7 year old Alexandra skipped up to her aunts front door, her blond locks bouncing as she did so. She loved going to her Aunt Isabella's house!

She knocked on the door and waited for it to be answered, finally Isabella answered the door and looked around "Whose there, I can't see anyone?"

Alex giggled, knowing that her aunt was just playing around. She waved her little hand in the air and said "Down here Aunt Izzie!"

Isabella looked down and smiled "Oh there you are!" Isabella was a young woman of only 26 with long black hair and a well-chiseled face.

"Come on in Alex, Hector and the others are in the tree house" Isabella said kindly to the little girl.

"Thanks Aunt Izzie!" she tugged on Isabella's hand so she bent down, then Alex gave her aunt a big kiss on the cheek.

Laughing Isabella pointed to the back, and Alex scampered to the back door and out into the backyard. She started to call for her cousins, but then she saw what the five siblings did, a comet closing in. Alex only managed to get off a scream before it hit and the world around her darkened.

The Plane


"So while she didn't get hit by the comet, like we did, she still got super-powers" Shego said with a sigh.

"Really? I never saw her with Team Go" Kim said after a minute "how did she get the powers?"

"Scientists theorize that she inhaled some particles from the comets tail, and it landed her in the same ditch as us" Shego sighed "As for why she was never part of team Go, well the story isn't over"

Kim listened in rapt attention as Shego began her tale again.

The Past


Alex was just happy to be home, she and her cousins had been stuck in a hospital for several days after the accident. The sight of that rainbow colored comet still haunted her dreams.

They had all looked different, Hector had blue hair, Cassandra's skin had turned pale green, Micah had not only turned a light purple but so had his hair. Even the little twins Wallace and William had changed to a general shade of red.

Alex had been no exception, her hair- which had once been a golden blond, had turned into a midnight black. She hadn't minded that because it made her look like her papa and aunt Izzie. No, what scared her was her skin.

Aunt Izzie had a pale complexion, but her skin was pure white. Not like "I haven't been out in the sun" but "I've been buried 3 years" white. She wished she had her rosy complexion back.

"Well" she thought "It's just good to be home" she hummed a little tune and turned on her side.

Her parents had both been extremely happy to see that their little girl was fine, if a little changed. Gordon and Katrina Go were some of the strongest people in Go City, both mentally and physically. Gordon was a Master of Judo and Katrina was one of the city's finest lawyers, but had understandably been distraught at the imperilment of both their child and of Isabella's- who they were very close too.

The dream came again that night, except it was very different. Alex was alone this time, in a field of pale grass- her aunt's house and the tree house were nowhere to see. Still that comet came

Alex gasped as, seemingly from within; a black energy came and surrounded her. She screamed as the ground around her seemed to be dematerializing. She awoke screaming and the scream only intensified as she saw that the black energy was indeed around her.

Her parents burst into the room. They paused when the saw the dark energy around their daughter. Gordon did not hesitate further and he rushed as fast as he could across the room to save his daughter.

Unfortunately the minute he touched the black energy it quickly expanded and began to dematerialize every thing it touched, including Gordon.

The Plane


Kim gasped and put a hand to her mouth "That's horrible"

Shego, who was now looking anywhere but the cockpit nodded her head "Isabel found her the next day sitting alone in a crater where her house used to be…Gordon and Aunt Katrina were never found"

"That's…That's horrible" Kim said again.

"Kim, now you're just repeating yourself" Shego said smiling weakly. Damn it, are those tears in your eyes Shego, the green woman thought to herself angrily- I must act like an Alpha!

Kim saw the unshed tears and wanted to say something, but nothing seemed appropriate. Luckily her inner panther knew just what to do. Kim reached out and gently took Shego by the shoulders.

Shego blinked in surprise as Kim wrapped herself defensively around her. "No, I'm the Alpha…" Shego thought distantly, but she had already hid her face in Kim's mane of fiery red hair.

To Kim, just as it felt good to be held, it felt good to be in the role of protector. In fact it felt better, it felt right.

"What happened then?" Kim asked quietly.

"Well Isabel couldn't just leave her there, so Alex came to live with us. The Experience changed her though; the woman you see now has been through the trauma of killing her own parents." Shego took a deep breath "She lived with our pard, and at a certain point she became a killer"

Kim remained silent as Shego told her the facts "In a Pard you have to kill to stay in place, I've killed- but that is one of the reasons I left, It just never sat well with me, but Alex embraced it- Why I don't know, killing your own parents must do something to your head."

With a cough Shego extracted herself from Kim and sat back in her seat, to the mutual disappointment of her and Kim's inner animal. She excused herself to the lav and when she got there, she collapsed on the toilet.

Whenever she got near Kim her leopard would begin to purr. Now she let herself be dominated, Kim acting as protector! Her Leopard had only ever been Beta to Isabel, and even that was stretching it now.

"You gotta be careful, or she might some how be considered a…mate" as she said the word, her leopard purred in agreement.

Shego put her head in her hands "This cannot end well…"

When she finally exited the restroom, she found Kim asleep, curled up in her seat like a content kitten- all previous fear of flying apparently gone. Shego smiled, Kim did look awe fully cute asleep.

She sighed, if there would be any problems, they would deal with it later.

Several hours later they landed on a private landing strip owned by the Go family. The gathered their gear and exited the plane, this time with Kim keeping a distance between herself and Alex.

"So Alex, what exactly is the problem." Shego asked interestedly as they exited the Jet.

"Sabor has started an open rebellion against your mother, several pack mates have already died. Also he is rumored to be allied with a group of humans who hunt down supernatural creatures."

'Really, who are they" Shego asked.

"Uhh, them" Kim offered and she pointed at a group of six humans walking quickly towards them.

Their apparent leader, a middle-aged blonde woman held up a badge "HALT! You are all under arrest"

Kim reacted first "Under whose jurisdiction, and why?"

The suit smirked as she drew a pistol "The H.P.A.'s, and because you're all Fucking monsters!"

The Pistol fired, followed by a scream…


TO BE CONTINUED

A/N- Sorry about the cliff-hanger, but you'll be able to see what happens next time!

Next Time- The conclusion of this fight, more Monique….and you meet a certain green woman's mother