Going Places
Author: Prospero Hibiki
Disclaimer: Kim Possible and its characters are the property of Disney, Mark McCorkle, and Bob Schooley. In no way are these aforementioned characters being used for my own personal profit, and this is not meant as an infringement of the copyright owned by any of the above entities.
Author's Comments: So positive responses about the last chapter. Let's see if I can top it. Special thanks to Belle Morte Rising and Azulera for the continuous feedback.
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"Wherever You Will Go"
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Kim worked on putting the finishing touches on her makeup at the vanity. She never wore much, but she wanted to make sure that everything was perfect before she met her parents. She'd run through this day thousands of times in her head and she still had no idea what she was going to say. Not the graduation part. That was easy. For once she just had to go up and accept her diploma and move on.
While she'd already decided that today was the day she was going to come out to her parents, but the exact timing was kind of in question. After she picked them up from the hotel, at brunch, after graduation?
Arms wrapped around her and she met Shego's eyes in the mirror. The older woman smiled at her and kissed the back of her neck. "You need to calm down. Everything is going to be fine. Your parents are some of the coolest people in the world. I mean your dad told your brothers to, 'scoot over and make room for your sister's arch-foe'. I think they can handle you coming out of the closet."
"That still doesn't make me any less nervous."
"Not much I can do about that." Shego looked at the clock they had sitting on the counter top. "You'd better get going."
"Yeah." Kim turned around and wrapped her arms around Shego's neck. "Thanks for booking the private room at the restaurant for me. I've been so busy lately that I completely forgot."
"No problem, Princess. I'm glad I was able to help."
"Awww, you do care."
"No I don't!"
Kim looked away and then turned the puppy dog pout onto her girlfriend. "You don't love me?"
"Gah! Don't do that! You know I hate that!"
Kim only grinned at her. Giving her a peck on the lips she gathered up her stuff so she could pick her parents up at their hotel. She was reaching for the doorknob when Shego grabbed her and turned her around once more. The kiss that followed left her kind of dazed and she grinned again. "Wow. That's some goodbye."
"Yeah, I just didn't want you to go without telling you I love you." Kim teared up a little at Shego's words. It was the first time she'd actually flat out said those three words. She'd hinted around at it before and alluded to it, but she'd never said the actual words. Kim had to move quickly to make sure her makeup didn't get smeared, but the other woman wasn't quite finished. "Now just remember you're Kim Possible, and you can do anything."
Kim nodded and kissed Shego one more time before she slipped out the door calmer and with a much lighter heart than she'd had ten minutes before.
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That calm was noticeably absent when she stepped into the lobby of the hotel. Looking around she spotted her mom's distinctive hair in one of the sitting areas of the lobby.
"Mom!" Before she knew it she was wrapped in a hug by her mom. "Okay, Mom, you can let go. It's only been a few months. Mom? Air?" Finally she was released only to get grabbed by her father. "Hi Dad."
"We're just so proud of you Kimmie-cub!"
"Jeez. We haven't even-" "-made it out of the hotel yet." Spotting the speakers over her dad's shoulder she was surprised to find that she hadn't realize just how much she missed the Tweebs until that moment. "At least move this outside-" "-where we can embarrass her properly." And then the moment was done. Still she did give each of them a hug. What they said next did surprise the hell out of her though. "We did bring you something." "It's right over there." They waved at the other person she'd completely overlooked upon seeing her family and Kim's jaw dropped open in shock.
"Doesn't your bestest friend since Pre-K get a hug too, KP?"
"Ron! What are you doing here? Last I'd heard was that you were somewhere in the mountains of China."
"What kind of friend would I be if I didn't come to your graduation? Anyway funny story there. Apparently the whole ninja training journey thing? Totally Bueno Nacho free. Rufus and I were almost willing to kill for some nacos. So when we heard about you graduating early through the secret ninja mail service, we just had to come. We crashed on the floor of your brothers' room last night."
"We?" Kim had a sudden feeling of dread at the pronoun. She knew from their very infrequent communications that he'd started seeing Yori over a year ago.
"The Ron-man and Rufus of course!" The naked mole rat poked his head out of Ron's pocket and waved at Kim. There was more than a little relief added to the joy she felt at his presence.
Kim gave Ron a hug but she really had no idea if his presence would be to her benefit.
With the addition of Ron to the group Kim figured it would be easier to take two cars. She took the opportunity to separate Ron from the others by offering to drive him to the restaurant in her car while her family took the rental and followed her. Mostly she just wanted to give him the heads up about the total drama he was going to be in the middle of.
"Wow. You're doing it today?"
"Yeah." While he didn't immediately jump out of the window of the moving car, Kim would have felt much better if Ron hadn't said that as if she were about to face a firing squad. Or if Rufus hadn't squeaked and offered her a cigarette and a blindfold.
"So I'm going to guess the decision to come out means you've gotten a girlfriend now."
"What?! What makes you say that?" Her denial would have been much more effective if she weren't blushing like mad.
"It's not like you'd have to tell anyone if you didn't have a girlfriend. I mean until now you might have been into girls but you weren't actually dating any."
"Wow that's really well thought out, Ron. I almost didn't-"
"Well, that and the fact you've got a hickey behind your ear that's covered up by your hair." The grin that appeared on his face was enormous. Kim immediately slapped her hand over the indicated spot. "Booya! KP got lucky last night."
"Ron!"
"Come on KP, give me something here."
"No! I don't ask you about your sex life. Ewww. It's like thinking of the Tweebs dating."
"I'm guessing it's serious then. Even I know you wouldn't have a one night stand the day before your graduation. Are you going to introduce her to your parents?"
"I don't know. She's really kind of...private I guess is the right word. I think she's wanting to see how things go today before she meets them. You know, get them used to the idea of their little girl is attracted to women in an abstract kind of way before hitting them in the face with the reality."
"I can see that." He paused before chuckling to himself. "At least they're going to find out in a better way than I did."
"That never happened Ron. Never happened. If you ever tell anyone about that there is not a single place on this planet that you can go that I won't find you."
"It's nothing to be ashamed of Kim. So what if I walked in after you found some magazines under my bed and started reading them not realizing that you were also-"
"It. Never. Happened!"
"I guess now would probably be a bad time to mention that your mom was hinting that it was a real shame that we 'broke up' after high school."
"Oh God." Kim briefly dropped her head onto the steering wheel. That was all she needed right now.
"If you want my advice..."
"What have I said about giving advice?"
"Not to. But that's really not fair."
"Four words, Ron. Spinning Tops of Doom."
"You're really going to hold that against me for the rest of my life aren't you?"
"Um...yes. Yes I am."
It surprised her but joking around with Ron had actually calmed her down quite a bit. Though as they walked from the parking lot to the private room Kim felt her nerves start to ramp back up until Ron purposefully bumped her shoulder with his.
"Remember if you really get desperate just say Bueno Nacho and I'll use my new super ninja techniques to create a distraction while you escape out the back."
Kim stared at him for a few seconds before she giggled. "We'll keep that as Plan B."
The maître d' had them all seated at a round table and Kim blinked in confusion when she realized something. As they'd walked in there had been exactly the correct number of chairs at the table. It was odd, because the reservations had been made well before she'd found out that Ron was going to be joining them. Kim shrugged it off. This was a fairly nice place so it made sense that they would be able to move a chair into place once they showed up.
The brunch buffet was incredibly well stocked and taking the time to visit it allowed her to calm down slightly. Since she'd left first and didn't have that much of an appetite was the first one back to the room. Or so she'd thought.
While they'd been gone the ever efficient waitstaff had apparently come and gone once more. Not only was there water at every place setting, her mother's seat had a small bouquet at its side. More importantly though there was indeed yet another extra chair at the table. With someone sitting in it.
Shego looked beautiful. She'd clearly spent a great deal of time working on her makeup before she came and it the effect was stunning. If Kim hadn't known it was her she didn't think she'd have made the connection. She was wearing a long sleeve blouse in her signature green and a pair of loose black slacks. The older woman also looked even more nervous than Kim herself and actually knocked her chair over backwards when she stood up. Kim didn't care about that at all. She was too busy putting her dish on the table and grabbing onto the other woman.
"You never told me you were planning on being here."
"I wasn't sure I was going to be here either. But I wasn't going to let you do this alone, Princess. We're a team now."
"I love you."
"I love you too, Princ-" The rest of her words were cut off as Kim yanked her down the rest of the way into a steamy kiss.
A kiss that was interrupted by the crashing of several plates from behind them as Kim's family all came back into the room at the same time.
"Fuck me sideways." The curse drew two responses neither one of which was a surprise given the circumstances. Shego or course chuckled. Kim's mother on the other hand was not as pleased.
"Kimberly Anne Possible! Watch your mouth young la..." She trailed off and blushed and it was obvious that her mind had returned to the thought of what her daughter had been doing when she'd walked in.
Kim couldn't help but smile. After all the worrying about how she would tell her family that she was gay and she finally knew just what to do.
"Mom, Dad, I'd like to introduce you to my girlfriend..." She paused and looked at Shego not quite sure what name to call her by. Shego surprised her by finishing her thought for her.
"My name is Teresa Go but you probably know me better as-"
"Shego." The name was breathed out in a whisper by Ron, who in this case was just as stunned as the rest of the Possibles.
"Yes, Shego. And as you might imagine, Kimmie and I have something to tell you." No one in the room was in doubt as to what the next conversation would be about.
Especially since each of the two women absentmindedly grasped the other's hand for support.
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End "Wherever You Will Go"
Author's Comment (Continued): Kind of sappy. Sorry. Well not really. It just kind of called for it. Expect brunch to continue...maybe. We'll see where the story takes itself. As I've mentioned before there is actually a plan...of sorts. Unfortunately the plan gets derailed by things like reality and drama. Who knew?