Disclaimer: Copyrighted material belonging to Disney and Bob Marley, the only thing belonging to me is the storyline and a few original characters.


The temperature in the air that morning more annoyed the students of Middleton High than anything else. An entire year of students stood yawning in the morning dew as the morning was nowhere as warm as summer had been, and offered absolutely no comfort. However it was not nearly cold enough to wake up the drowsy students, who were shivering close to each other, trying not to kick up freshly-cut wet grass on each other.

Everyone wasn't huddling closer to someone. The Queens for instance showed no signs of participating in anything but cheerleading, kicking grass and shooting off some snide remarks. Kim had no one there to huddle close to, and of course the gym teacher was late. Story of her life, yet again.

Kim had no idea where Ron or Shego were, Wendy was not even going to Middleton High, so no luck there. She sighed and rubbed her arms, ignoring the pointed remarks from the Queens and the pitying looks from the others, she was focusing on not breaking down once the class started and the real hell began.

A few minutes later, a not as happy and perky voice as usual rang out over the grassy field where the students were assembled.

"Alright everyone, let's get started!" Kim winced and braced herself as Barkin apparently substituted for the regular gym teacher again. She really should have skipped class today. Apparently her friends had realized that was the smart thing to do. Too bad she didn't.


Ron had realized nothing as he woke up in his tree house about two hours after Kim woke up in her bed, and an hour after the gym class started and Barkin cursed all the absent students thoroughly.

He bolted up, banged his head on a branch poking in through a hole in the wall and quickly decided it wasn't his day to go to gym class. Born a slacker, staying a slacker. It wasn't the best way he could put his motto, but that was the essence of it. He figured it worked well enough as he ate a huge breakfast and played some videogames until it was time to go to the classes after gym. He would have made it if he hadn't been too late for another, more important thing.


Shego came to roughly the same time as Ron hit his head, and she was not in any mood to realize anything, feeling not nearly as well as he did. She was lying under Wendy, who in Shego's opinion was rather heavy, and they both were drenched in liquor of varying labels. She heaved Wendy away from her and was rather satisfied as Wendy flicked her hand around in her sleep and managed to bring down a bottle from the table on top of her head, ensuring everyone present that this girl was out for another few minutes.

Shego shook her head with as big a smile as her hung over head would allow and staggered to the bathroom and hoped to not get caught by Wendy's parents. That had happened a few times before, and the three first times they had to convince her parents that they were not lovers and no, they hadn't "gotten it on" the night before.

After a refreshing shower, Shego was almost human. She jumpstarted the water boiler and made some coffee. She was a little bit more alive after three black cups with a few aspirins. At that point Shego glanced at her cell phone that lay next to Wendy. The clock read 9:23 and she was officially 1 hour 23 minutes late for gym class. Luckily, she had decided to start skipping certain classes again, and had told Kim that yesterday and hopefully the redhead would get the hint and do the same.

Shego paused to think a few seconds, then frowned and cursed everyone ever named Murphy just in case and walked over to her phone to make 100 sure she really had sent that message. She clicked up the "sent messages"-screen and read through the few there were. Even if she couldn't remember the wording, she knew she should have sent a message to Kim telling her that she was gonna skip class.

Said message from last night wasn't there. This was bad, according to Shego.

"Wendy! Dammit, wake up you lazy bum, you're late for your…" Shego glanced at the timetable pinned to the wall, "biological chemistry class! Get up!" She punctuated the last few words with a kick to Wendy's rear end, which brought her a response among the lines of "bugger off…" Shego repeated her last kick and finally got Wendy up and off the floor.

Wendy got up and sat on the couch where she was handed a cup of coffee and could frown at Shego who was sitting on the small table in front of the sofa, scowling.

Wendy was clearly annoyed at being woken up. "Shego…If you look at the correct day and class here," Wendy jabbed a finger at the timetable behind her, "then it clearly states that I have advanced algebra in half a… Shit!"


Kim was in the literal hell of school shared by chubby kids, smart kids or the socially awkward kids. She had just been playing dodge-ball alone against the Queens personal meat-headed, football playing boyfriends and she was absolutely exhausted from the whole dodging part. Rather fed up with the entire school that day, she was seriously thinking about skipping her next class when Barkin announced that they could finish a few minutes earlier.

She showered and dressed quickly and rushed out of the changing rooms just before the Queens entered. She had barely escaped another small hell. She started walking through town towards the school, annoyed at the ridiculous idea to move all gym classes in the summer half of the year to the grass field across town.

She never paid any attention to the group of girls following her, looking around to make sure no one was around.


Ron glanced at the clock on the wall and sighed, shut off the gaming console and picked up his backpack from the floor. Walking out the front door he called out a "goodbye" to his parents and locked the door behind him before starting to walk to school, leaving Rufus to sleep in his pocket.


Shego glanced at the clock on her phone and sighed as well, she put down her half-empty coffee cup and walked out the front door, flipping a "see you later" to Wendy, who still was rushing around trying to find a pencil to bring to class, and a borderline rude gesture to Wendy's parents who sat at the kitchen table ignoring their daughter and her friend.


Kim had by now discovered that the Queens were following her, and she was pretty nervous as she noticed that the streets were very much empty by now. The Queens started quickening the pace little by little, and Kim felt that she would soon be like a deer in the headlights of that truck she had imagined about at the start of the school year. To Kim, those days felt painfully distant, like they came, went and never would come back. Those days when she and Ron had made two new friends.

'If only Shego or Ron was here…' Kim thought, but this wasn't exactly a movie where everyone is at the right place at the right time.

This was proven to be absolutely right in about five minutes after Kim started cutting into side streets that looked like short cuts.


Ron whistled a small tune as he walked to school, not really bothering with tying his shoelace, holding a correct note or even making sure he was on time. He was busy thinking about what Shego had told them to think about yesterday when he was pretty sure he saw a certain redhead rush out from an alley a block ahead of him. He got as sure as he could be when the distance shrunk and a group of girls rushed out after Kim. Ron looked around, there were no other people around, the girls were on the other side of the street, and he saw Shego closing in on the group, just from the other side of the road. This was turning into a messy morning indeed.


A few minutes before…

"Shit!"

"Now, now Possible such language is inappropriate, right girls?" The group of girls behind Bonnie giggled and started closing in on Kim.

"Maybe we should give her a lesson in lingistivistics, or what do you say girls?" Kim didn't bother correcting Bonnie, she was pretty sure she could outrun them if she could find an opening by playing along. Keywords here being "pretty sure she could".

"And now that the green-skinned freak isn't here to interrupt the class, maybe we could get something done."

One of the other girls tapped her chin with her finger and pondered aloud. "Why isn't she here really? Shego usually hangs around this one…"

Bonnie almost growled at the girl, but restrained herself. "Don't fucking say her name I said!"

Kim couldn't really help herself and asked what had popped up in her mind. "Why do you hate her so much?"

Bonnie smiled a little too sweetly. "I knew there was something the bitch had left out. You see, pumpkin, this Shego isn't really that reliable. Maybe you should stick with the retard and the rat, because your dear little Shego is really…"

Back to the present…

Shego started running the second she saw the Queens, cursing Bonnie's name as she sped around the corner and saw what she really didn't want to see.

The Queens were standing in a loose semi-circle around Kim, who was staring hollowly at Shego, and Bonnie smirked triumphantly at them both.

'No way, the bitch couldn't have told her…'

"What the hell did you do to her?"

Bonnie answered in a tone commonly used to talk to kids or mentally retarded, making Shego want to strangle her. "Well, well, Shego, looks like little Kimmie here can explain that to you herself if you want to know." As if it was a cue, a single tear fell down Kim's cheek and she brushed past the Queens, standing in front of Shego, staring up at her with piercing eyes. The soft green was replaced by a hard emerald that demanded answers.

"Is it true?"

"Kimmie, just what the hell did she say to you?"

Ron had caught up so much that he could see Kim and Shego across the road where he stood, but before he could run across the road to them; Kim screamed something and actually slapped Shego hard across the face.


A few seconds ago…

"They said you used to have Bonnie's place in the fucking Queens!"

"Pumpkin I…"

Kim jabbed a finger in Shego's face and repeated her question. "Is it true, Shego? And don't you fucking lie to me now!" Shego was taken back as much as the Queens at Kim's language and could only stammer out a few syllables.

"Kim…I…yeah…but let me…" She closed her eyes as she felt the slap sting across her face and heard the pounding of feet as Kim rushed away from her.

Kim had seen Ron, and needed him more than ever. She would need more than that in a moment.

"KP! Stop!" Shego turned around as she heard Ron scream. Her eyes widened and time began to behave very erratically for her.


Some people say time slows down when something they can't believe is happening. Shego couldn't speak for the others at the time, but to her, time seemed to slow down and speed up at the same time. She saw Kim run out in the street to get to Ron, her shoes beating against the asphalt so slowly Shego could almost count the number of freshly cut grass straws caught under them. At the same time, it all seemed to happen so fast Shego couldn't possible make it to Kim in time as she saw the car closing in on Kim.

Time kept slowing down and speeding up. While Shego could do nothing as the car hit Kim in the side, she could hear and see everything clearly as the sky. She heard the front bumper drive into Kim's knees, hearing the joints snap and bones break as the ligaments tore and the legs bent sideways. She could hear the pelvis shattering as it hit the grill of the car. Worst of all she could hear the soft thud as Kim was thrown onto the car and another as her head bashed against the windshield, cracking it. Time sped up as the car's brakes worked overtime to stop the vehicle and Kim slid off the car to the side to finally hit the pavement, letting everyone hear a final snap from her arm.

After that, everything was silent.


Ron stood with one hand out, mouth hanging open as he failed to comprehend what he was seeing.

Shego just slumped to her knees, staring at Kim's battered body bleeding on the sidewalk.

No one noticed the only two people who could move, the driver who staggered out of his car and slowly walked over to the body of the girl he had hit. Tears were streaming down his face and he bit so hard into his fist not to scream that it bled and drops of tears fell to the road where he had stopped.

The other person was actually Bonnie, who incredibly calmly took up her phone and dialed 911. The ambulance was on the way, but Shego didn't even hear the sirens as they closed in, she was focused on the horrible sound of Kim hitching in slow, fast breaths as pain flooded her entire body. Kim slowly fell into blissful unconsciousness.