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Author's Note: It seems as tho a few readers have ferreted out the ending so I'm posting the final three chapters so others won't guess it too soon. Enjoy.
The Closet
Chapter 9
Ron watched the last semi truck and trailer pull away with his last shipment. It was early Friday morning and he was surprised he had got everything done in a little over two days. He was also anxious to get out of that particular lair since Wade was probably still hot on his trail and he had Kim locked up in the tiny office bathroom with no light, food or water. Kim had only been there for forty or so hours, unlike the sixty plus he had been locked away in the janitor's closet, but he quickly realized he couldn't stay mad at her for very long once her incarceration began.
Ron slowly shook his head over that fact. Kim could hold a grudge against him for at least two or three days, especially if he had done something really stupid that had any affect on her. Ron, on the other hand, could never hold a grudge for more than fifteen, eighteen minutes tops. He was a bit taken aback that his initial feelings against Kim, for locking him in the closet, had lasted so long. It first started Saturday afternoon after he finally finished wallowing in self pity over his situation and lasted until he walked away from the room on Wednesday.
Four days. The grudge against Kim and Josh had lasted four long, excruciating days. Maybe it lasted so long because it was partially, well mostly, because he thought Josh had taken Kim away from him.
Yeah, that must be it. Ron's grudge was mostly against Josh, not Kim per se. He could never be mad at Kim for very long so he must have resented Joshua Mankey for taking Kim away from him; From maneuvering her out of Ron's life. Ron felt better for having disposed of Josh. After all, that wily weasel had probably planned out the whole, entire breakup of he and Kim. Maybe Josh even willed Kim to kick the door closed in Ron's face. That Mad Monkey Boy probably used mind control over Kim so it was perfectly, truthfully righteous for Ron to kill Mankey.
Ron left the big door on the loading dock open as he walked into the office and went to the small slit. He slid it open and peered inside. Kim was lying on the floor with her back to him. It appeared as if she were asleep.
"KP, are you okay?" Ron warily asked. "Are you awake?"
"How long have I been in here," Kim asked, not moving a muscle to roll over, "And why do I have a cut on my neck?"
"You've been in there just over a day and a half, maybe forty hours," Ron guesstimated, "and I made that cut on your neck. I got rid of a tracking microchip Wade implanted in you the same way I got rid of the one he put in me." Ron pulled his collar aside to show her the bandage on his neck but she didn't move to look at it so he changed the subject. "Would you like something to eat or drink? I'm not angry with you anymore so I'm going to let you out."
"I'll deal with Wade and his chipping me later…" Kim firmly answered and finally stirred from her place on the floor. She rolled over onto her back and slowly sat up. It seemed to take all the effort she had in her to simply stand up and walk over to the slit. "… but I'm not getting out of here just yet. You were locked in the janitor's closet for sixty hours, Ron, I've only been in here for forty. You should leave me in here for another day just to make us even."
"But I don't want us to be even," Ron said as he unbarred the door and swung it open. Kim immediately shielded her eyes from the lamplight in the outer area and moved to the shadowy corner of the smaller room. "I never shoulda got mad and punished you, KP, it wasn't your fault. I realize I was more mad at Monkey Boy cause he was taking you away from me." Ron slumped in defeat as he muttered, "I guess I'll be leaving you anyway since I killed him. The police will find my fingerprints on the art room door or his brushes when they discover he was poisoned."
"I doubt that will happen," Kim slyly stated as she came out of the smaller room and went over to the desk to turn off the lamp throwing the room into near darkness. "Your fingerprints, along with every other student's fingerprints, are all over the school. There's no way the police can pinpoint you that way. Plus, you may not know this but Josh's family is deeply religious. They believe in God's wisdom and won't allow an autopsy to be preformed to find out the cause of his death. They'll simply accept it as God's Will."
"Then I guess you'll just have to turn me in," Ron sadly said as he held his arms out, hands limp, waiting for handcuffs to be placed on his wrists. "I committed murder and you'll want to take in the guy who killed your boyfriend."
"I'm not going to turn you in, Ron." Kim bent over as she spoke and touched her toes a couple of time to stretch her body like she did every morning after waking up. "I'm completely over Josh and the hotness I thought he was. It was only a crush and I've moved on to a new hottie."
"Well," Ron started as he slouched back into the desk chair, "whoever this new guy is I hope he handles himself better on missions than I did."
"I suspect he'll be almost as good as you," Kim coyly said as she arched back until her hands were on the floor then kicked up to a handstand. She began to do inverted push-ups. "He's not much to look at but I know he'll always have my back."
"Sounds like he's a bit of a loser but has some potential in him," Ron glumly sighed. "I hope you'll be happy with whoever he is."
"I have been for the last ten years," Kim giggled as she flipped back to a standing position. "After all, he's kept me safe and on an even keel for that long."
"Really?" Ron said in a bit of shock. "Who have you been hanging out with for ten years?"
Kim walked over to Ron, sat in his lap and gently took his face in her hands. "Why, you of course." She planted a firm but gentle kiss on his lips. "Ron, you complete me and keep me in balance. Whether you know it or not, you're the best thing I have in my life so I'm not going to turn you in to the police and you'll never give me the slip again. You're the Yang to my Yin."
"I'm the what to your what?"
"You're my…" Kim started to explain but giggled and shook her head when she realized that the concept might be too deep for Ron to fully comprehend. "Let's just say you keep me centered… more down to earth while I bring out the best you can be. We compliment each other to the point that I want you to be my next and only boyfriend for the rest of my life."
"So, we're good for each other," Ron nodded in realization. "I don't really get what you're saying but I'll take your word for it. So, what'll we do now? You've been missing for two days and I've been AWOL for a week. I don't want to go back to my old life and face my parents or Mr. Barkin."
"My life hasn't been a bed of roses either, Ron," Kim said as she moved over, sat on top the desk and crossed her legs. "I've joined so many committees and clubs and teams in school this semester my life has become way to hectic. While I can usually handle the sitch, sometimes…" Elbows on crossed legs and head in hands, Kim slouched in despair of her sometimes overwhelming situation in school.
"I might have the solution, KP," Ron said as he leaned over and opened one of the desk drawers. He pulled out a stack of papers and handed them to Kim. "I wasn't planning on going back to my old life after losing you and what I did to Josh so I set things in motion to start a new life."
"Video games?" Kim questioned as she scanned through the pile of invoices. "How can you start a new life by shipping out someone else's video games?"
"But they're not just ordinary video games," Ron said cunningly. "Let me tell you what I did to them."
After explaining how he had retooled and altered the games Kim agreed Ron had a sound plan, if not for the scale he was working on. His scheme would need a big boost in the distribution department if it were really going to succeed. She also agreed that they needed to get out of the warehouse, deal with Wade and find a new hideout. Kim also wanted to get a few things from home if she and Ron were going to run away together, as she suggested, and start a new life.
They loaded up Ron's copter leaving the refrigerator behind so there would be room for Kim to sit comfortably, and flew to the Possible house. While seeing a helicopter of any sort land in the Possible's driveway at that time of the morning wasn't a common occurrence for the neighbors, things settled down quickly when they saw Kim and Ron hop out of the almost silent, homemade copter. After all, everyone in the neighborhood had heard the news of how the local duo had saved a Japanese toy manufacturing plant from some whacked-out villain just last week so they knew Kim and Ron needed transportation of some sort to get around the world.
As the teen couple entered the house they were beset upon by the Doctors Possible. "Kim," James said in his stern fatherly tone, "where have been for the past two days? Your mother was worried sick about you."
"Hi Daddy, hi mom," Kim nervously laughed before she quickly regained her composure and spun off the story she and Ron had agreed upon in the copter on the way over. "We sorta got sidetracked after I found Ron. We were grabbing a bite to eat at Bueno Nacho when the Minister from India approached us. He told us about some monsoonal flooding going on in his country. Of course we immediately left on his private plane to help out."
"And Wade didn't know anything about your trip to India," Ann stated as she first hugged Ron and then her daughter before turning to her husband. "I thought the explanation for Kim's disappearance would be some kind of miscommunication."
"Sorry about that Mrs. Dr. P," Ron sheepishly said, rubbing the back of his neck, "that was my bad. I kinda got my signals crossed and thought Wade had sent the Minister to contact us. I guess he spotted us walking in to BN as he drove by and recognized Kim from the news so he took a chance and followed us in."
"I hope the mission went okay," Mrs. Dr. Possible said as she examined the bandage on Kim's neck. "Did you get hurt in India?"
"The mission was no big," Kim laughed as she broke from the embrace and rubbed her hand over the bandage. "The cut, on the other hand, is a big. Wade planted a sub dermal tracking chip on both Ron and I. Ron discovered his first and we got rid of them ourselves."
"Sub dermal tracking chips are a tad unethical," Mr. Dr. Possible said in a bit of a tweak. "I hope you'll talk to Wade about the implications and consequences of doing such a thing."
"Oh we will, daddy," Kim said as she took Ron's hand and started to lead him to the stairs. "We'll talk to him soon but right now we should get some sleep. It was a long flight back from India and we're both too tired to do any good in school. You don't mind if Ron crashes here, do you?"
"We don't mind," Ann kindly said as she intercepted her daughter and directed Kim off to the side of the staircase. "Ron, why don't you go on up to bed. I just need to talk to Kimmie for a minute."
"Oh, okay, Dr. P," Ron happily said as he went up the stairs to Kim's bedroom.
The brain surgeon again turned to her husband. "Dear, this is just a little girl talk so you can head off to work."
"If you say so, Hon. I'll see you all tonight." Mr. Dr, Possible answered and left the house.
"Everything seem to be all right between you and Ron," Ann hushed to her daughter at the foot of the stairs. "Are things back to normal between you two?"
"Things are spankin," Kim answered with a slight dreamy look in her eyes. "After our talk the other day I got over my silly feelings for Josh and thought about what I need in my life. I now realized its been right beside me all along. It's Ron."
"Are you sure honey?" Ann queried in a worried, motherly tone. She was concerned that her daughter was jumping into another crush-type relationship without thinking things through. "You might meet someone else later on."
"I'm positive mom," Kim said assuredly. "We won't get married for quite a while but he's all I'll ever need for the rest of my life so I won't be looking elsewhere." Ann was about to question her daughter's decision further but Kim placed her hands on her mother's shoulders and cut her off. "I'm absolutely, one-hundred percent sure mom. Ron is my Yang."
"I'm so happy for you, Kimmie," Ann said in relief as she hugged her daughter. "I always thought you two would eventually hook up."
"We have, mom,' Kim said decisively, "and Ron and I are going places together." With that, Kim leapt from her mother's arms and raced up the stairs. "Have a great day at work, mom. Love ya!"
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The teenaged duo waited until the two doctors had left for work before they made their move. They quickly descended the stairs with the two bags of essentials that Kim had packed and stowed them in their awaiting copter. Kim left a note stating they were going to check in at school and then go to Wade's house to confront the boy over his chipping the two. She wrote that they had been invited to stay overnight at Wade's because had some new survival and camping gear for them to test in his backyard.
They landed in an open park about a block away from their intended target. They knew their target would be busy at his computer but they didn't want to disturb his neighbors. Kim and Ron moved the copter behind the target's abode and easily infiltrated the house. They made their way to his room where they found Wade, just as they had thought he would be, playing Everlot on the computer while working on some mission gear schematics at the same time.
Wade wasn't too happy when he was disturbed by the intrusion because he was about to win and take over the Kingdom of Everlot but he was more afraid of the two as they laid out how they were going to the authorities over his unethical chipping of the duo. Kim told Wade he could possibly go to prison for the deed and while he might find comfort while in solitary lockup, he would still have to shower with the other inmates and that the convicts would absolutely love the cute but chubby pre-teen in ways he might not find appealing.
Of course Kim wasn't going to tell Wade the truth which was as bad if not worse than going to jail. If she and Ron did report Wade's actions he would be sent to an overcrowded Juvenile Hall and probably banned from all use of the computer. Kim felt that scenario would throw Wade into a major panic attack and then he wouldn't cooperate with what she had in mind.
After their little talk, Wade was putty in Kim's hands and agreed to help the duo.
Ron laid out his entire scheme and Wade grinned manically as he went to work. Wade agreed that the plan sound and tweaked Ron's program on the laptop a bit to make it flawless. Wade then set about creating an email to send to every computer in the world. To back up the email, Wade also sent the special program imbedded in a commercial to all the television stations in the world so it would be played there too. The ad was way beyond cute to a point that everybody would want to watch the commercial over and over no matter what it was trying to sell. The entire process took only minutes for Wade.
The plan was simple. Ron's program simply showed a repeating, subliminal, visual message that told everyone to accept Ron, and Kim after the tweakage, as the new rulers of the world. It even had an accompanying subliminal audio track to reinforce the message. They only needed people to open the inviting email message or watch the commercial and they would be hypnotized into accepting Ron and Kim as their King and Queen. Of course the teenaged two promised Wade they wouldn't report his unethical chipage and that he could be the absolute ruler and administrator over the internet during their reign.
As Friday wore on the three had to decide how they would rule and where they would rule from. They finally decided that the day-to-day governing of the planet would still be conducted by the current ruling parties but all major decisions would be run by them first. One example was if any country attempted to take over another by war or other means the plot would be nixed by either Kim or Ron and the governments would have to obey since they were hypnotized into following orders of the duo. If the hypnosis began to wear off, Wade could always step in and bring them under control again.
As to where they would rule from, it was finally decided that Kim and Ron would find several houses, free from all government rules and taxes, in a few different countries. They would get free rides between them and of course, at Ron's suggestion, each house would have its own Bueno Nacho. When they didn't eat at their personal BN, food would be brought in free of charge or prepared by Ron who was turning out to be a fairly good cook himself. When asked where he wanted to live Wade simply stated that he would never move from his room unless the house caught on fire and burned to the ground.
This planning session lasted throughout the day and into the night and the three finally went to sleep around eleven PM.
