KIRONBON

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, Disney does.

CHAPTER 8-SCARY THOUGHTS

Ron awoke to find Kim's bra covered chest taking up his entire field of vision. While it wasn't a bad sight his mind was quick enough to realize that something was amiss. Trying to shake the cobwebs out Ron shook his head as he rolled away from Kim. When he finished rolling he looked around for Rufus but didn't see him anywhere. Instantly switching gears to check on Kim he whirled back around as best he could to see if she was alright. Other than a bruise near her temple she looked alright, though clad only in her underwear and lying tied up on a cold stone bathroom floor she was shivering, goose bumps and all.

"KP," Ron said softly with a worried look on his face as he struggled against his own binds while looking down at Kim. She seemed to be completely out. Ron was just about to try to squirm free of his ropes when the door to the bathroom burst open and a panicked looking Bonnie stumbled in, with a scared looking Rufus on her shoulder.

"Ron," Bonnie exclaimed with a scared but relieved look on her face as Ron could see a weight being lifted off of her shoulders before she rushed forward and nearly knocked him over with a passion filled kiss, while Rufus chirped loudly with joy before scampering away to check on Kim.

"Bonnie…what's going on," Ron asked softly with a confused look on his face when Bonnie finally broke the kiss and he was able to get enough of a breath to speak.

"Beats me, I woke up like this is another bathroom, how's Kim," Bonnie replied with a nervous shrug of her shoulders before she scooted around behind Ron and started to untie him.

"Not sure, she had a nasty bruise on her temple but I," Ron started to reply with a concerned look on his face before Rufus checked Kim for a pulse, sighed a sigh of relief, and then turned back to Ron and Bonnie and smiled as he gave them a thumbs up.

"Thank you," Bonnie whispered softly as she closed her eyes and counted herself lucky.

"How'd you get free, the guards," Ron asked with a now confused look on his face as he tried to turn his head around a bit to see Bonnie.

"Gone…I haven't seen a single one, they must have already left," Bonnie replied with an anxious expression on her face before she finished untying Ron.

"This does not bode well," Ron mumbled back softly with a curious tone to his voice before he crawled over to Kim and gently brushed some hair off of her face.

"Got that right," Bonnie added with a skittish look in her eyes before she and Ron quickly untied Kim, who still lay motionless.

"Come on Kim…time to get up," Ron whispered softly into Kim's ear as he bent over her and lifted her head up off of the ground.

"Wake up Kimmie…please," Bonnie said softly with a scared look on her face as she picked one of Kim's hands up and held it between hers, softly kissing the back of it.

"Nnh," Kim mumbled softly in between clenched teeth before she scrunched her face up in pain and tried to open her eyes.

"Kim," Both Ron and Bonnie exclaimed with a very relieved look on their faces before they both hugged her tightly.

"Ron…Bonnie, what happened…where are we, and why am I in my underwear," Kim asked softly, at first with a very relieved tone to her voice before her inquisitive nature took over when she managed a glance down and saw that she was only in her underwear. The cold feeling from the stone tile floor helped clue her in to her lack of clothes as well.

"We kinda fell down the stairs, must have blacked out after that," Ron replied with a nervous look on his face as he helped Kim sit up fully before Bonnie stepped in.

"As for us being in our underwear…beats the hell out of me," Bonnie added with a curious look on her face as she gestured to herself first and then Ron.

"Drakken probably wanted to make sure that we didn't have any gadgets hidden away to get free," Kim mumbled softly back in reply with a tired and weary look on her face as she rubbed her eyes.

"Let's hope that's the only reason," Bonnie said softly with an uncomfortable and grossed out look on her face before she added a full body shiver for the effect.

"Bonnie said that the guards are all gone, maybe Drakken and Shego left already," Ron suggested with a hopeful tone to his voice as he helped a shaky Kim up to her feet.

"Possible…but not before they got what they came for, come on…we have to see what happened, figure out how long we were out," Kim explained with a suddenly serious look on her face as she leaned on Ron while making her way out of the bathroom.

"I don't think we've been out to long, I ate just before we left and I'm not hungry yet," Bonnie declared with a deep in thought look on her face as she reached out and held the door open for Ron and Kim.

"I am," Ron announced with an unhappy pout on his face, a comment that received a sly grin from Kim before she spoke up.

"Ron…when are you not hungry," Kim shot back with a humorous wink before breaking out into a wide grin.

"Well," Ron stammered out with a flabbergasted look on his face before Rufus squawked out in alarm.

"What is it Rufus…oh shit," Bonnie started to ask the naked mole rat with a foreboding tone to her voice before her gaze followed to where he was pointing. Wired in between several of the workshops main support pillars was the biggest bomb that she had ever seen.

"Eep," Ron choked out with a terrified look on his face before Kim pulled away from him and hurried over to what looked like the main part of the bomb.

"If we can just…oh no, there's not enough time left," Kim started to say softly to herself with a determined drive before she saw the timer sitting atop the bomb. It was down to five minutes and the digital timer was speeding to fast towards zero for Kim to try and defuse it.

"Everybody out," Bonnie nearly screamed with a panicked tone to her voice before she shoved Ron towards where she remembered an exit being on her way to grabbing Kim.

"But," Kim started to mumble back with an overwhelmed look in her eyes before she realized that Bonnie was right. With no tools and no time for error her decision was made for her in that instant.

"Come on let's go," Ron shouted with a scared tone to his voice before he raced over, with Rufus already scrambling for the exit, before he grabbed Kim and Bonnie's hand and started to pull them away.

"But what about," Kim tried to say with a disappointed look on her face before Ron pulled a little harder, leaving Bonnie to almost fall over as she bent over and scooped Rufus up. The three of them kicked the exit door open before they raced out into the desert, moments before the entire workshop went up in the explosion.

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"Want an aspirin or something," Bonnie asked softly with a concerned look on her face as she sat down on the couch beside Kim, with a roaring fire in the fireplace, and Ron and Rufus in the kitchen fixing something to eat. After barely escaping the explosion the three had huddled together near the fire until the director had sent a retrieval team to pick them up.

"No…but thanks," Kim said softly with an almost vacant look on her face as she stared off into the fire and blew on her cup of hot tea.

"Didn't that bomb seem a bit odd for Dr. Drakken, I read your old case files and I don't remember that ever being there," Bonnie said back softly with a curious but also scared tone to her voice as she snuggled up next to Kim, laying her head on the redhead's shoulder and matching her gaze into the fire.

"His plan must be big if he tried to take us out," Kim replied softly after several silent moments passed between them, not really wanting to think of what plan could possibly be that serious.

"Let's hope that none of the other's get any ideas about copying him, I don't know if I can handle almost being blown up on every mission," Bonnie said back with an anxious expression on her face as she looped her arms around Kim's left arm and clasped their hands together so that the fingers of her right hand and Kim's left were interlocking.

"I don't even want to think about it," Kim joked with a grim smile on her face before she took a small sip of her tea.

"What if he wasn't trying to get rid of us…what if he was just trying to cover up what he stole, killing us could have just been a bonus," Ron offered up with a darkly humorous look on his face as he poked his head in from the kitchen and looked down at the two women.

"Hell of a bonus," Bonnie grumbled with an impatient frown on her face as she scowled at the fire.

"You can say that again," Kim mumbled out softly before she took another sip of her tea and let its warmth sink in.

"You two almost ready to eat, because I can only keep Rufus away from the food for so long," Ron asked with a curious look on his face as he briefly stepped into the living room before he looked back towards the kitchen, keeping an eye on his little friend.

"In a minute," Bonnie started to say half-heartedly with a meager wave of her hand, as if she was trying to shush him away, before Kim's cell phone went off.

"Who would call us now…it's so late," Ron wondered aloud with a confused look on his face before Kim rolled her eyes as she picked her phone up and answered the call.

"It's Joss…I gotta take this," Kim said softly with a nervous look on her face before she stood up, cup of tea in one hand and cell phone in the other, and headed for her bedroom, sounding like she was trying to calm her younger cousin down.

"She cares to much," Bonnie grumped with an unhappy pout on her face as she had half turned around in her seat on the couch and had her left arm up on the back of the couch.

"It's why we love her," Ron said back softly as he let out a sigh, before the two shared a glance.

"Uh huh," Rufus added with a serious look on his little face as he nodded his head and looked down the hallway in the direction of Kim's room.

"So…I guess it's just you and me for dinner tonight," Ron started to say with a slightly unhappy look on his face as he walked back into the kitchen for a moment and came back a few seconds later with two plates of what looked like meatloaf and potatoes. Bonnie turned back around to face the fireplace as he sat down and handed her a plate and then a fork and spoon.

"Uh Ron…you forgot the pepper…and the butter, and what are we going to drink," Bonnie stated softly with an impatient frown on her face as she set her plate down on the coffee table in front of them.

"Be right back," Ron squeaked out with an embarrassed look on his face before he set his plate down beside Bonnie's and raced off into the kitchen, leaving Bonnie to smile through a sigh.

"If he wasn't so good in bed," Bonnie mumbled out softly to herself with a sarcastic smirk on her face before she couldn't help but laugh a little, stopping just before he walked back into the living room.

"You say something," Ron asked with a confused look on his face as he thought that he had heard Bonnie say something.

"Nope…ah, now we're talking," Bonnie replied, a bit sheepishly at first, as a smile grew on her face as she grabbed the butter from Ron and began to pile it onto her potato.

"You sure…I thought I heard you say something," Ron asked again as he sat back down beside Bonnie and began to sprinkle the pepper onto his potato's.

"Okay…you caught me…I said that if you weren't so good in bed I'd leave," Bonnie finally grumbled out with a slightly annoyed scowl on her face before Ron nearly dropped the peppershaker.

"What…you'd leave," Ron choked out with a stunned expression on his face as he instead took a death grip on it. Bonnie looked immediately shocked at Ron's response. It took her a couple of seconds to figure out what he must have thought.

"What…no, Ron, of course not…it was just a joke, a little of the old bitchy Bonnie coming out, I'm not going anywhere, when I woke up after we got knocked out on the mission you were the first thing on my mind when I woke up, which is saying something since I usually only look out for myself, so you're lucky," Bonnie replied with a slightly cheesy smile on her face at first before she looked off into the fire and continued to speak. It was a habit of hers whenever she was saying something that she was being deadly honest about but didn't want whoever she was speaking with to know.

"You don't have to do that you know," Ron said softly with a concerned tone to his voice before Bonnie looked back at him.

"Do what," Bonnie asked with what she hoped was an innocent tone to her voice so that Ron would let it drop, he didn't.

"Look away, whenever you let what you're really feeling out you get scared and look away, it's okay…really…now look me in the eye," Ron said softly with a somber frown on his face as he let out a small breath before he set the peppershaker down and then set the hand that it had been in on Bonnie's knee.

"Ron," Bonnie begged with a suddenly scared and nervous tone to her voice as she half turned back until Ron could see the battle being waged in her soul by the reflection of the firelight in her eyes.

"I love you," Bonnie finally whispered softly out loud, almost to softly for Ron to hear and had he not been so close to her he probably wouldn't have heard it.

"Badical, now was that so," Ron stated back with an excited grin on his face as he gave Bonnie's knee a squeeze before she sent a scowl his way. "I love you to," Ron replied with an embarrassed grin on his face before he leaned in closer and used his free hand to pull Bonnie into an affectionate kiss. When he broke the kiss she let out a sigh with an almost dreamlike smile on her face.

"Y…you do, you're not just saying," Bonnie started to stutter out with a scared to believe look on her face, and the beginnings of a smile curling up the edges of her mouth, before Ron halfway nodded as he pulled her back into a kiss that led to their dinner being forgotten and Rufus scampering away back to his room.

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The Next Day…

"So how's Bonnie doing with the whole team thing," Josh asked with a slightly amused smirk on his face as he finished tying his shoes while Brick walked out onto the court. After high school, and thanks in no small part to his friendships to Kim and Bonnie, Ron had become friends with both Josh and Brick. Josh was trying to make it as a professional baseball player and had made it all the way up to the triple a level. Brick on the other hand was the head of security at a nightclub that Monique had opened shortly after graduation. Whenever possible the three men would get together and just hang out, seeing as how Ron had few friends outside of Bonnie and Kim and her family, and even fewer of those were men.

"Pretty good, could use a little work on her teamwork…but other than that," Ron replied with a sly smirk on his face as he liked having the ability to cut loose and joke around a bit.

"So what else is new, back when we were together she made me do everything, you don't know how many times I had to carry her food," Brick said back with a relaxed and slightly mocking grin on his face before he and Josh started to laugh while Ron looked up and grinned.

"She still having nightmares about the plane crash," Josh asked, a bit softer, with a somber look on his face as he picked up the basketball and began to dribble it.

"God no…I don't know if I could have stood another few nights with her waking up screaming in the middle of the night," Ron breathlessly replied with a very relieved expression on his face as he remembered Bonnie's strange rash of nightmares that had completely interrupted her sleep several months earlier. After seeing a story about a small plane crash on the news Bonnie had appeared fine. But that night, and several more after it, she had woken up about two in the morning screaming her head off, saying that the plane was going down and that they were all going to die. Ron had told Brick and Josh that he and Kim had rushed into Bonnie's room, shaken her awake, and reassured her that she was going to be fine. After that Bonnie had, as the story had gone, had made herself a cup of tea and then managed to get at least a few more hours of sleep. The real story however was different. The part with Kim and Ron bursting into her room to wake her up had been true. The difference in the truth being that after being woken up neither Kim nor Ron had left the room, both tightly holding Bonnie in a protective embrace until she was able to go back to sleep.

"Must be hard for her, every time she sees a story about a plane crash she probably has flashbacks, and she wasn't even on the plane," Josh grumbled with an empathic look on his face as he truly felt bad for Bonnie before he took a shot.

"Lucky for her," Brick added with an oddly guilty look on his face as he hurried forward and caught the rebound as Josh's shot had missed.

"Yeah…so Brick, any chance of you and," Ron started to ask with a curious grin on his face as he stepped out onto the court and took the ball from Brick.

"No…I don't want to talk about it," Brick stammered out with a very embarrassed look on his face before he angrily took the ball back from Ron and started to dribble away.

"Easy Brick, Ron was just trying to lighten the mood, he's got Kim…I've got Jill, we're just trying to look out for ya pal," Josh interjected with an anxious smile on his face as he tried to calm the situation down a bit before anything had the possibility of happening.

"Yeah, we're both happy and we want you to be to," Ron chimed in with a supportive smile on his face while back on the bench Rufus was all decked out in a small jersey and sweatbands, looking ready to take the court as well.

"I try to talk to her, but every time she looks at me…I freeze," Brick forced out with a guilty and embarrassed scowl on his face before he passed the ball to Josh.

"Really, there's a surprise…for a guy that," Ron started to say with a surprised look on his face as he accepted a pass from Josh before Brick spoke back up.

"Monique just looks right past me, it's like she doesn't even see me," Brick pouted back with a sad and unhappy frown on his face as Ron took his shot.

"Oh she sees you alright Brick," Ron joked back with a hopefully calming smile on his face before he grinned even wider when his shot went in.

"You sure…has Kim said something to you about it, Monique might have said something," Brick suddenly asked with an excited at the possibility look on his face as he turned back to Ron, looking for confirmation.

"Sorry…Kim usually doesn't say much about what she and Monique talk about, but if you like her so much Brick, say something to her, she had a thing for you junior year…who knows, you might get lucky," Ron replied with an unsure look on his face as he walked up to the much larger man and gave him a supportive pat on the shoulder. Before long the talk about who liked who ended and the game began.

END OF CHAPTER 8

Author's Note: This chapter starts out with the explanation of why the trio were all in their underwear. Basically it was because before, like in the movie, Drakken would just have them tied up, but leave with them all of their gadgets and things like that, making for them an easy escape. Though in the years since the movie he's learned a bit, or at least changed his tactics. The bomb was thrown in to add danger to the end of the mission. While Kim could probably defuse a number of bombs in this chapter she didn't have the time or knowledge of this particular bomb to do it. The bit with Bonnie and Kim on the couch was just the two of them talking about the mission and wondering about the being left in their underwear and the leaving of the bomb. Basically how they got into that predicament was when Bonnie ran out of the office chasing after Drakken they didn't see Ron until it was to late and they all went tumbling down the stairs, with Ron and Bonnie being knocked out. After that Kim would have had no choice but to surrender.

Bonnie and Kim share a few quiet moments before Ron throws in his two cents and tells them that dinner is ready. Kim gets a phone call from Joss and leaves the living room to take it in her room. Ron brings the food to Bonnie and sits down before she points out that he forgot a few things. The part about if he wasn't so good in bed is in her eyes just a stupid joke, as to her there's much more to Ron than that. Ron thinks differently and gets scared before Bonnie hurries to set him straight. Bonnie telling Ron that she was in love with him was needed to show the connection between the two as well as set up future events. The sex just came later on.

I brought Josh and Brick in mainly as friends for Ron to spend time with, friends that aren't female. As other than Wade Ron really doesn't have many guy friends that aren't related to Kim. I put Josh as being a AAA baseball player because to me it'd fit him and for Brick he's big enough that being the head bouncer would work. Ron lies about helping Bonnie to cover up what really happened. At the end Brick reveals that he has the hots for Monique, something that both Ron and Josh know about, but that he believes that she doesn't like him back. I'm only putting this in here in the possibility that Monique doesn't become the new girl for Ron, Kim, and Bonnie. I haven't decided if anything will come of it. Ron and Josh try to be supportive and egg him on to saying something to her. That's basically it for this chapter. Thanks to everyone for reading and reviewing this chapter. I hope that I stayed in character, at least for me, and didn't disappoint. As for who to add if anyone I'm still all ears. My forums are also available for any questions that you have about this Kim Possible story or my other one, feel free to post a question as I check my forums every day. Thank you all again.