I don't own these characters; Disney does. I also don't own the song "Dirty Diana," which the first chapter is based on. "Dirty Diana" as far as I know belongs to Michael Jackson. The rest of the story will be based on "Billy Jean," which also belongs to Michael Jackson.

"Take my strong advice/ just remember to always think twice/ do think twice/ do think twice…" Michael Jackson, Billie Jean.

7: Think

It was taking all of Shego's self-control both to not scream at the top of her lungs and to not jump to many, many horrible conclusions. She was standing in the home of Dawn…last name never given. She was looking at Kendra, a child that Dawn claimed was Kim's baby. Damn it if things did not look like Dawn might actually be right.

Shego tried to swallow down all of the terrible thoughts invading her mind, which all dealt with the fact that Kendra did indeed look like Kim. The baby was older than she had been in the photo that Dawn had shown them a while ago. She had hardly looked like Kim then, but now, Shego hated that she might actually concede that it was possible. It was possible that Kim might have cheated on her and had a baby with Dawn. She deeply and desperately desired to punch something at that very moment.

But, since Shego was showing self-control right now, she did not much anything. Her muscles twitched under her skin. Her nerves curled her fingers and uncurled them, wanting to make a fist, but not. The atmosphere around her was warmer than room temperature.

Kim could hardly believe her eyes. How the hell did that baby look so much like her when she was so certain that she never knew Dawn until the other redhead came along starting trouble?! How could they have had a baby if they never met? How could they have slept together? It was not possible! Her brain insisted that it was not possible, but Kendra's features made her doubt that very much. Her usually vibrant olive eyes made it seem like her heart sank into her feet and the sun had been snuffed out in her little world.

Dawn noticed the couple's expressions. Her already-dark smile practically turned to midnight as she continued to force her daughter to wave at Kim, taunting the young hero.

Baby Kendra started fussing, which brought everyone out of their reverie. The child was trying to grab her hand back from her mother; she had been using it for some very important business as far as she was concerned. Kendra wanted to suck her thumb.

"What's she crying about now?" Dawn wondered aloud with a frustrated sigh, but her eyes said something a bit different. She leaned down and caressed the baby's forehead, which did not stop Kendra from crying. Dawn sighed again and pulled away, folding her arms across her chest. "Take her back upstairs, Vanessa," she commanded her nanny, who was holding the baby.

"Yes, ma'am," Vanessa answered almost robotically and she turned to climb the stairs with the baby in her arms.

It was at those words that Kim found her voice. "Wait! I came here to see her." She pointed to the baby, her arm shaking from tension. Vanessa halted for a moment, looking back into the scene.

"You've seen her," Dawn countered in a bored tone, flicking her wrist in the baby's direction.

"For a second!" Kim objected in a rage, making a fist and sneering at the end of her statement. She needed more time with Kendra; she needed to sort out if she had really helped create a life.

"Ah, well. As the saying goes, that's life," Dawn remarked, having the nerve to smile as she spoke. She waved Vanessa on, so the nanny continued up the stairs.

"Hold on! I still wanna see her!" Kim declared with more passion than most would expect from a woman that swore the baby was not hers. Vanessa did not halt that time around and went upstairs, disappearing into the second floor with Kendra. Kim did fail to notice the side long glance she got from her lover.

"Too bad. Come back some other time," Dawn replied in a carefree tone, clasping her hands together and smiling.

"This is bullshit," Kim proclaimed, which shocked her girlfriend. It was rare for Kim to curse with such energy.

"Look, Bitchy Smurf, stop fucking around with us," Shego started in, pointing at the Scottish woman as she spoke. "You claim its Kimmie's baby and raise all this stink about her not taking care of the kid and now that she's here you're just going to deny her. What kinda game are you playing at?" she demanded to know. It was such shenanigans that kept Shego from fully buying in that Dawn had had Kim's baby.

"Kendra is Kim's baby. But, Kim had not been interested in her for so long, I'm sure this is all just some act to get in the public's good graces," Dawn commented with her nose in the air.

"I didn't even know she existed until you showed up!" Kim hollered, throwing her hands in the air before slapping herself in the forehead. She did not even consider the implications of her words. It seemed like she was arguing to see her child, not to see a child that merely might be hers.

"Then you can wait a little while longer to see her," Dawn countered.

Kim scowled deeply; her jaw was tight and her eyebrows bent to the point that almost touched. She was sick of the Scottish woman's games. What the hell did Dawn want from her?! She could not figure it out and wanted to chalk everything up to being a total mind-fuck, as Shego put it. But, it was hard to do that after seeing Kendra. Now, she had no clue what to think and she was more confused than ever.

If Kendra was in fact her baby, and Kim was still at least ninety percent sure that she was not despite everything, then she wanted to be a part of Kendra's life. She wanted to do things for the baby. She wanted to be there when Kendra grew up and she wanted her daughter to know her as well as she knew her own parents…if Kendra was indeed her daughter.

"Fine. I'm coming back tomorrow," Kim stated in a firm tone with a dark look in her eyes.

A cloud of black smoke seemed to cover Kim; or maybe it was just Shego's imagination running away with her. Dawn opened her mouth, undoubtedly looking to protest in someway. Kim shut her down before she could even say a word, putting up her index finger before continuing on.

"And don't fucking tell me you're not going to be here or something else like that," the hero said in the exact same tone as before.

Both Dawn and Shego were stunned by Kim's voice; they felt the blood in their veins run cold. It was one thing for Kim to curse with force, but the voice coming out of her mouth did not even seem to be her own. The redheaded hero for her part did not seem to notice the searing edge that her voice suddenly had in it.

"We'll be back tomorrow," Shego corrected her lover. It was about the only thing she could do after hearing Kim sound so…deadly. She was not quite sure how to take it; was Kim being forceful because of Dawn messing with them or was she being forceful because she wanted to see her daughter? Either way, she was going to be by Kim's side and she was going to find out what was going on.

The couple did not wait for Dawn to respond to that. They exited the house with powerful strides that seemed to proclaim them masters of the universe and returned to their car. For once, Dawn was not smirking as she watched them go.

"I need a drink," Dawn muttered to herself as she tried to get her heart rate back in order. She never would have guessed that a goody-goody like Kim was capable of making her blood freeze and sending frightened shivers up her spine. It would have been sexy if it was not directed toward her.

Dawn walked off, going deeper into the house to fix her drink. She tried to think of what she was going to do next.


Kim and Shego had a silent ride home; neither of them wanted to address the eight-hundred pound gorilla in the room, namely Kendra. Was she really Kim's baby? They were worried about what the truth might actually be, so they stayed silent. Not just for the ride, but in general.

It was awkward moving around their apartment, each thinking of the other as a simple ghost. They did not speak, they did not look at each other, there was no sort of acknowledgement. At least, not until they had to share a bed. There was no way that they were going to be able to sleep with so much tension so close.

"Kimmie…" Shego started and simply waited for Kim to fill the void. They were both looking at the dark ceiling, not yet ready to see the others' eyes and what the windows to the soul might actually hold.

"I know…I know I didn't sleep with her. I know it," Kim said in a strong, but distant tone. It was more like she speaking to herself as her eyes searched the ceiling for answers that would never be there. "So…why the hell does Kendra look like me? It doesn't make any sense."

Shego felt a bit better about herself because of Kim's confused voice. Once again, the hero did not sound like she was lying; it did not seem like she was even trying to come up with a lie. She was just lost, which made it more believable that Dawn was working some vicious plot against Kim rather than actually having had sex with Kim.

"…Maybe you got drunk or something," Shego suggested, giving her lover an opening to lessen the crime if she had cheated. Shego was not sure why she did such a thing, but she knew it had something to do with the fact that she needed and wanted to stay with Kim.

"I've never been so drunk that I'd sleep with someone while I'm dating you and then completely blank on her later on. You know me better than that," the redhead countered while turning to look at her beloved.

Shego nodded a bit. She had been to college parties with a very wild Kim Possible and even then, the hero never got, as the kids say, "completely shit-faced." Kim typically got drunk accidentally, trying to quench a thirst that she built up through out the night and going for the closest drink at hand, which was usually alcoholic in nature. Still, Kim recognized when she was drunk; she did have a habit of thinking she was less than drunk than she was at that point, but she was still quite capable of coherent thought and knew to stop. She never got messed up to the point that she would wake up not knowing what happened the night before or where she would wake up with a stranger in the bed.

"So…we're totally sure that Kendra's not yours?" Shego asked, still eyeing the ceiling rather than her girlfriend.

"I did not know Dawn long enough for her to have had my baby. I met her when you met her," Kim answered soundly.

"That's good enough for me," Shego lied smoothly, finally turning to face Kim.

Underneath it all, the former villainess was still thinking about how much Kendra looked like Kimmie; she had seen plenty of baby pictures of her girlfriend to know that the similarities were there. But, she did consider that maybe they were just seeing similarities because the idea had already been put in their heads that Kendra was Kim's daughter. It was hard to tell and her mind went back and forth on each possibility.

Kim sighed in relief, believing her beloved's easy lie. She cuddled up to Shego as she typically would and tried to go to sleep. Sleep still did not come, even though she felt better. Something still swirled inside of her, feeling almost like anxiety was devouring her insides. She was obviously still troubled with most things that happened that night.

Shego was the same. Her mind whirled, thinking and rethinking everything that was going on. Was Kendra Kim's baby? Was Dawn just lying and trying to hurt Kim? She could come up with evidence for each and her mind did that for the entire night, just going back and forth.


Shego woke up first, as usual. She went out into the kitchen, planning to make breakfast as she normally did. But, she never made it that far.

She sat down at the kitchen table, sighing as if she was weary and sitting gave her great relief. She saw her cell phone resting on the platform, not too far from her. She picked up the phone and dialed a number without even thinking. It was not until a voice said "Hello" did she realize what she had just done.

"Director?" Shego asked in a shocked voice with wide eyes. Why the hell had she called that one-eyed, walking-annoyance?! She could not figure that out.

"Shego?" Doctor Director countered with equal shock. "What the hell are you calling me for?"

"Hell if I know," Shego admitted, eyebrows now curled up in confusion. "But, since you're on the phone and you do have a big spy agency—"

Betty interjected. "We don't spy. We're more like a global bounty hunting agency," she corrected the former villain.

"Yeah, you don't spy and I don't snap at people anymore. Let's pretend we live in a world where you do spy, I know about it, and I'll tell some other people if you don't cooperate with me."

"Blackmail, Shego? Is this what we've come to?" the boss of GJ inquired in a slightly teasing tone. It had to be a hard day when Shego was not only seeking her help, but trying to blackmail her into doing it.

"I just wanna know about that bitch claiming she had Kimmie's baby," Shego said in a whispered hiss. She did not scream the statement for the simple fact that she did not want Kim to find out

"I'm looking into that already. We need to find out just what's going on and to make sure we can find out if this Dawn woman is lying. Not just lying, but doing it with malicious intent. We need to discredit her so that other people won't do this in the future," Betty pointed out.

Shego balked at the idea of other people coming out and saying that they had Kim's baby too. "Well, do you have anything right now?" she demanded to know in a huff. She wanted to know that those lazy-ass GJ bastards were not just sitting around with their thumbs up their asses, which she typically assumed they did in their spare time; of course, her precious Kimmie was not included in that assumption.

"So far, we're checking her background. We've only checked her past and her mother's past. Nothing's come up yet that's troublesome. She seems like a typical spoiled brat with a mother that made a lot of money and sent her off to a British boarding school."

"I should call England and tell them that the bitch is killing their accent," Shego remarked in a grumble.

"So far, everything is checking out normal. I'll call you back when some red flags start going off," Betty replied.

"You better," Shego ordered in a gruff tone.

The leader of GJ sucked her teeth and disconnected the call. Betty could guess that a lovers' tiff was on the rise, but that was to be expected. She hoped that things turned out well for her agent; she needed Kim, after all, and she needed Kim in her top condition.


Kim woke up and was not surprised that Shego was not in bed next to her. The absence stabbed her with the same pain she suspected a rusty, rigged broadsword would rather than filling her with gleeful anticipation like she usually did. Her heart pounded in her throat while her lungs seemed to working only partially. Part of her feared that Shego was not even in the apartment anymore and she did not want to get up to find out.

"Get it together, Possible," the redhead commanded herself, hoping to steel herself and freeze the aching doubt trying to overtake her heart.

She had to sit there for a few more seconds, trying to assure herself that it was going to be a normal morning. Everything that was happening was normal, she quietly told herself. Shego beat her in waking up and was more than likely be making breakfast…not that she smelled anything cooking. Damn it, and there went her resolve.

"I can't just sit here all day. I gotta go to work…" Kim reminded herself and she fidgeted a bit. "Not to mention I need to pee."

The hero's need to use the bathroom got her out of bed a few seconds after that. She then made her way out to the kitchen, hoping to the heavens that Shego was making breakfast. Instead, Shego was sitting at the kitchen table, staring blankly at her hands, which were on the table. Kim considered sitting down, but she was not sure if she should.

"Shego, you okay?" Kim asked curiously, worry caught in her voice and tugging at her face.

"I'm fine. Just thinking," Shego answered as normal as she could while looking up at her girlfriend.

"Um…no breakfast?" the hero inquired in a low voice, glancing over at the empty stove.

"I woke up later than usual. I'll buy you something on the way out," the former thief replied with a nonchalant shrug. How could she lie so easily to Kim, she wondered? How could she just say such things to the woman that she knew she had to love for the simple fact that she was still there, putting up with all of the crap that was now in their lives?

Kim nodded and forced out a smile. "Sounds good."

"Don't forget that we're both going to Dawn's house."

Kim nodded again. "Of course I won't forget. We should meet up here?"

"Sounds good."

The couple went off to get ready and they left for work. They stopped by a small shop they knew for breakfast and then went about their day as normally as possible, successfully letting those around them think that they were totally fine. They met up at home as they agreed to and went off to see Kendra.

"You think she'll be there?" Kim asked curiously, eyes on the road since she was driving again. She was driving not because of her lover's road rage, but because she needed something to occupy her or she would have been making every nervous tick, twitch, move a person could while stuck in the passenger seat.

Shego only looked at her girlfriend, a scoff so close to coming out of her throat. She had no doubt that Dawn would be there. The tone of voice that Kim had used on the woman yesterday, the dark look in Kim's eyes, the poisonous waves that seemed to seep out of Kim, infecting those around her; those factors had to influence Dawn. Shego figured the woman would have to be a complete and total idiot if she was not home after what happened yesterday.

They walked up to the front door and Kim knocked hard, close to pounding as if she wanted break it down. They both folded their arms across their chests as they waited. Kim's eyes began to cloud over, starting to look like they did yesterday, as the seconds ticked away. A scowl crept onto the redhead's face and Shego was not sure what to make of the expression; she did find herself inching away, though.

Before a dark cloud ended up engulfing Kim, the front door opened. A woman opened the door; she was wearing a dreary dark blue dress that suggested she was a maid. Her eyes seemed to suggest that her existence was as dreary as her dress. They expected no less for someone that was employed by a succubus like Dawn.

"You must be Kim Possible," the woman commented in a low voice.

"Yeah," Kim confirmed in a hard tone. She did not mean to sound like that, but her patience had not recharged after being left to wait for so long.

"Miss Dawn is waiting for you in the den," the maid informed them.

"To hell with her," Shego said, earning a wide-eyed expression from the plain woman. From the look on her face, a passerby might have thought that Shego had just confessed to the Kennedy assassination.

"We're here to see the baby," Kim informed the maid, sort of explaining why her girlfriend would make such a blunt statement.

"You will, but first Miss Dawn would like you to see her," the maid told them.

Both women frowned at the same time, equally annoyed that they had to interact with Dawn yet again. They followed the maid into the living room where Dawn was sitting with a cup of tea and magazine in hand. Upon further inspection, it was a magazine that she had interviewed her earlier about having Kim Possible's baby.

"I'm so glad you two could make it," Dawn commented, having the nerve to smile brightly at them, as if she was the one that invited them to the house. It would seem that she was over the initial fear that Kim had planted in her soul yesterday. Or she put on a good show.

"Wouldn't miss it for the world," Shego replied with a smirk of her own. She was ready to do battle with the bitch once again. "After all, this is only going to be a temporary thing until the world not only knows you're a lying whore, but the fact that you're, well, a whore," she added in.

Kim sighed, knowing what was coming at that point. She just prepared herself to hold Shego back if things go to the point where Shego was about to hit Dawn. Other than that, she did not care what Shego said to the Scottish woman; she secretly hoped that her girlfriend thoroughly hurt each and every feeling that Dawn had…though she secretly doubted that Dawn had feelings; she would be human if she had any emotions, after all.

"Well, for the moment, the world just knows you're a fool for staying with a woman that cheated on you and had a baby by a far more superior representation of the human race," Dawn shot back at the former thief. "Are you even human? I mean, look at your skin."

Shego rolled her eyes; ohhhh, a skin tone crack, like she never heard that before. "Look at your face. I'd be shocked if you're even of this planet."

"You're the one that looks like she came from Mars. Perhaps you need to phone home," Dawn countered, still calmly sipping her tea.

"Yeah, hand me a phone. I could use a weapon to beat some sense into that thick skull of yours."

And that went on for almost ten minutes. Kim had to hold Shego back a couple of times, but she also had to restrain Dawn just as many. She had to come between them a total of five times and that took some courage considering the fact that Shego flared her hands on those occasions.

After those very long ten minutes, Vanessa brought Kendra down into the living room. She was going to hand the baby over to Kim, but Dawn shook her head to the move. Vanessa kept Kendra in her arms, cuddled close to her chest. Kim was visibly annoyed with the move, scowling deeply and her eyebrow twitched.

"Just give her the goddamn baby," Shego huffed, speaking to Vanessa.

"Kim only wants to see our baby. I'm sure she's familiar with the old saying 'see with your eyes, not with your hands.' So, she may see our child," Dawn commented with a smirk.

Kim was about to interject how Kendra was not her baby, but her brain stopped her. As soon as she said something like that, she was sure that Dawn would have Kendra taken back upstairs and she would have just wasted her time coming to the bitch's house. So, she kept her mouth shut; Shego was going to do enough talking for the both of them anyway.

"What the hell are you playing at?" Shego demanded to know, sneering in the Scottish woman's direction.

"I'm not playing at anything. Kenny is Kimmie's baby," Dawn replied in a light tone while casting a loving gaze at the baby.

"Stop calling her 'Kimmie,'" Shego commanded in a dangerous tone, her teeth gritted together as her fists knotted themselves together.

"Oh, yes, I should've said 'my Kimmie,'" Dawn corrected herself.

Shego snarled at Dawn like an angry wolf. Dawn openly smiled at Shego's anger. Feeling her victory, Dawn pressed forward and announced that Kendra had been downstairs long enough.

"Wait, that wasn't even five minutes!" Kim objected. She had watched Dawn and Shego nearly kill each other longer than she had seen her so-called daughter. Like hell she was going to accept that!

"Ah well." Dawn shrugged.

"No, I'm not leaving yet," Kim declared and she stood her ground as Dawn tried to stare her down. She rolled her eyes. "Please, I've gotten into bed with people scarier than you," the hero remarked.

"Better looking too," Shego commented with a smirk.

"You may stay if you wish, but Kendra will be going upstairs," Dawn said and she dismissed Vanessa with a slight wave of her hand.

"Then I'll go upstairs," Kim proclaimed. It was not like it was the upstairs was Kim-proof.

Dawn challenged Kim's statement with her eyes. Shego could not help scoffing; Dawn did not seem to know who she was messing with. Kim did not know the meaning of the words "give up."

Not surprisingly, to Kim and Shego anyway, Kim got her way. She got to stay with the baby until she had her fill. She had her fill pretty quickly because Vanessa refused to let her hold Kendra or even touch the baby; she pulled away whenever it seemed like Kim would come in contact with the child. She and Shego left after less than a half-hour, but not before Kim let it be known that they were going to be back tomorrow.

As they were on their way back home, Shego's cell phone went off. She checked to see who was calling; the phone identified the caller as "The Chicken Shack." Shego answered.

"What's up, one-eyed wonder?" Shego inquired.

"I just found out who Dawn is. I think you might both want to hear this, so put it on speaker," Betty replied.

"Okay," Shego agreed. "Hey, Pumpkin, your kooky boss says she found out who Dawn is. She wants you to hear."

"Why? Who is she?" Kim asked curiously.

"Let's listen." Shego hit a button on the side of her phone. "Go ahead, eye-patch."

Betty could be heard huffing from over the phone. "Dawn is the daughter of a very successful English business woman, who's never even got a speeding ticket."

Kim and Shego frowned at the same time when they heard that. It would seem that Dawn came from an honest family. Or at the very least, a family that knew how to hide any wrongdoings very well.

"But, her mother does have one blemish on her character. It seems that she has very poor taste in men. She used to date a very angry Scottish golfer. They even got married and he was the father of her daughter Dawn. Dawn's last name is Killigan," Betty informed them.

"Killigan? As in Duff Killigan?!" the lovers screamed in disbelief.

"Yes, Duff Killigan," Betty confirmed. Well, that opened a whole new list of possibilities as to what was going on.


Next time: Dawn enjoys having power over Kim until she has a real crisis. Shego is getting closer to her breaking point.