(Shego's P.O.V.)

Finally, a break from Dr. D. Luckily, my favorite hideout is solid safe. I headed to the camouflaged rock/treehouse, more like a condo, really, but hey, it's enough for me to relax from these frustrating fights with Princess (Kim). Lately, she had been strangely hesitant to fight against me, and seeming like something's bothering her.

I came to the bamboo door, and saw that there was something inside the rim of the door. I pulled it, seeing it as a card. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. Dr. D isn't the kind of person who could leave a card like that. Have someone else found the hideout?

I opened it, and read it twice, thinking that it's a joke. How dare someone taunt me like that, acting like the lost daughter I had! Yet, for some reason I kept the picture, and burned the card. Luckily, I had the entire 24 hours day off, and managed to relax, teasing the birds, and warily watching crocodiles snatch wild pigs out of midair.

But the picture remained with my thoughts, and I had to take a closer look, and seeing that the person is a woman, more than a decade younger than me, yet she reminds me of him. I knew David was dead, yet Rachel, our daughter had vanished without trace. David must had done something to hide Rachel from the danger. Yet what if Rachel's power had drastically developed in that dangerous day, and she must had to listen to David to do that, and hide. Oh, lords, has that been so long?

If Rachel had been here now, she would have been 15, in high school. She could do gymnastics, or soccer since she had been watching tv for both sports when she discovered how to turn it on. She was so clever, she nearly gave me dozens of scares in that crazy game, Hide-and-seek!

I sighed heavily as memories flashed by. Soon, night fell, and I took to watch the news on tv. Nothing interesting happened, and tired, wanting to read a book in bed, and I did. I went to bed, and soon into dreamland, everything changed.

I was fighting Princess for a moment, when she shifted into the woman from the picture. I was confused as hell, yet the woman said nothing, only pointing to something out of my eye. I turned, froze. He was standing there, no blood or anything in his clothes.

"David?". I murmured in shock. David smiled sadly, his eyes full of love and pain. He reached into his pocket to pull out the locket, the one from that day. I slowly stepped forward, and David seemed to nod, dangling the locket into my hands. I tenderly touched the surface, and I looked up at him. He gestured, smiling.

I took a breath, turned my right hand to show my green/black aura, and suddenly, I was there like a shadow, standing in the house, watching younger me, with David and Rachel. I realized soon enough that it's the day, the day I lost them. With horror, fear, anger, anticipation, hope, shock, love, and finally forgiveness, I saw it all.

The emotions overwhelmed me, and I woke up, panting and sweating, barely noticing that the bedsheets were scorched like I ignited my plasma shortly. Lords, did that really happen? I blinked furiously, trying to calm my thoughts down, slowing down my adrenaline. The picture was on my side table, leaning against the lamp, looking upon me. I instantly knew the dream was real. David was telling me that Rachel is alive, out there! My daughter, my Smiley! I have to find her! Please, have her forgive me. She never knew me...never realized the love of a mother for so long.

I exhaled out, now determined to find her. I grabbed the picture of my daughter, knowing now how she looks like. I cradled it tenderly as memories flashed by again, how she loved to hear my stories, how she seemed to sense me before I was even in any room, how she loved to be rocked to bed.

I saw my bedsheets, now reminding me of Dr. D. I huffed, realizing that I had a contract with him on the condition he pays me monthly. I prefer to be humble in my travels, paying modestly, through I am very much technically rich. I knew I didn't need the monthly pay, for the job kept me somewhat busy before, but now with the revelation of my daughter alive and out there, I knew I have to quit on Dr. D. Through I could miss these fabulous battles with Princess. I hope Dr. D listens.