It was weird, most of the neighborhood still seemed like it was frozen in time. It had been so long since she was back here, but it looked like everything had waited for her to come back. Even their old Elementary school was still the same! She did some checking before she came back and found out that Frank's parents still lived in their old home, and she hoped they were ready for a shock. She knew Frank's dad wasn't that forgiving sometimes, and would probably hate her for what she did to his son. She was honestly scared, because his dad had a talent for making people feel lower than whatever ate pond scum! Frank had always said that if it wasn't for him and his mother, his dad would be the real life Darth Vader. What was scarier was that was always an understatement!
After she did her best not to look at her old home as she walked, she found herself at the front door of Frank's old house. She took a deep breath, and knocked on the door. Thank God she wasn't in her jumpsuit since that might just add insult to injury. That's when she wondered if she should be wearing a blind fold right now?
The door opened, and showed a woman in her early fifties with shoulder length black hair that was turning gray. She just seemed to freeze as the woman saw her, and Shonna gave her a nervous smile.
"Hi, Mrs. Harris." She said as she looked at the woman.
"Shonna? Is that you?" she asked in the same voice she remembered.
"Long time, no see?" she asked her, wondering if she should run right now. She was surprised when the old woman grasped her in a warm hug, like a mother seeing her daughter again.
"It's good to see you again. Come in." the woman told Shonna as she led her inside.
As she walked into the house, she noticed a few things had changed since she was last there. Brand new TV, recliners, couches. She noticed a few more pictures here and there. She also smiled a little when she saw the Harris family portrait, with her in it, was still hanging on their living room wall.
"Shonna, it's been years!" Mrs. Harris said before she grasped her in another hug again. Shonna gulped as she saw Mr. Harris walk into the living room. His hair was still long, with it mostly gray and thinning at the top. She saw that he was walking with a cane now, and wore wire framed glasses like his son did. He seemed to freeze a little when he saw his wife hugging Shonna, then smiled a little bit.
"It's nice to see you again Shonna." He said as his wife broke her hug. Shonna was a little confused at Mr. Harris' reaction. For as long as she could remember, he had one serious sadistic streak that he tried to use as much as possible. So this was a little weird, even for her!
"Please, sit down." Mrs. Harris told her.
Shonna sat on the couch, while Mr. Harris sat in a recliner and Mrs. Harris sat beside Shonna.
"I know it's been a while, and I know I'm not in your good graces," she started to say before Mr. Harris raised a hand to stop her from talking.
"Shonna, it's okay. Frank calls us almost every other day. We know you two are back together again." He told her.
"I should have known that. Sill, I feel like I owe you two an explanation for what I did." She told them.
"Shonna we don't approve of what you do now, but Frank told us why you left. I'm glad you came here to tell us yourself." Mrs. Harris told her.
"Wait a minute! How can you twojust forgive me just like this? I mean look at what I've done!" Shonna told them, confused at their reactions.
"Shonna, you're like a daughter to us. Still, you are right. For a while, you weren't that well liked. I couldn't believe what you did that to Frank. After he stuck by you through so much. He even took a bullet for you.I will tell you this, I am glad you're back with Frank, but; I still can't approve of what you've chosen to do with your life." Mr. Harris told her.
Shonna just looked down at the floor, not wanting to meet their gaze. He didn't have to yell, it was the tone in Mr. Harris' voice that made the guilt wash over her. She didn't know how he did it, but he was just able to make guilt come out of nowhere and have it fill your entire body in no time flat! Of course her mind was telling her that she deserved it. She probably deserved worse than what she was feeling now.She hadn't just betrayed Frank when she left, she betrayed her second family. Thefamily that looked past the green skin and plasma when her own parents couldn't look past it at first!This made what she was about to say even harder.
"I'm sorry I wasn't here when Paw Paw died. I didn't even know. I-I wish I could've at least said goodbye." She told them. She felt Mrs. Harris embrace her in a hug, telling her it was okay.
"There's something I have to ask you, and it's the main reason I'm here. I ran into an old friend of Frank's, from High school. He said Frank ran away from home after he found out about my – career change. I was wondering if he was telling the truth or not." She told them.
Mr. Harris took a deep breath before he answered her.
"It's true. Frank didn't take it well at all, Shonna. We got a cal from a few of his college friends the day the news reported on your capture. They were in the Student Lounge studying foran exam when they broadcasted it. After the report, they said Frank just ran out of there. He didn't take anything with him, and we didn't hear anything from him. IT turned out that he went to Houston, to his other Grandparents.His other grandparents had moved there a month after my father died and left us the house in Middleton, so he decided to head out there to Texas. When his grandparents found him, he had been living under a bridge for quite a while. He was filthy, and just about starving to death. After they took him in, he stayed in his room for weeks." Mr. Harris told her.
Shonna just glanced down at the carpet, trying not to meet his disappointed gaze.
"It's all my fault." Shonna said to herself.
Mr. Harris heard what Shonna said and started talking again.
"They didn't give us too many details, but one day he just got up and went out. For a while he seemed normal. He was taking his camera with him, and seemed to be almost on some kind of rush when he would come home. They confronted him to see if he was on drugs, but it turned out he had been working out and got a job at a small paper as a photographer. Then something strange happened a few weeks later.
He went out one day on an assignment, and came back totally depressed. He stayed in his room for a week without saying anything. When he came out, hetoldhis grandparents he was moving to New York. They didn't know what had brought it on. He kept in contact with us, telling us about some of the things he went through. You should have heard him when he was telling us about a brand new car he had bought, and was stolen a week later!" Mr. Harris told her.
"Did they ever find out what happened to make him stay in his room for a week?" she asked him.
"I don't know. Frankly, he's been acting a little odd ever since he went to Houston. Maybe everything will go back to normal now that you're with him again." Mrs. Harris told her. That's when one question popped into Shonna's mind.
"Has he called recently?" she asked them.
"No, why do you ask?" Mr. Harris asked Shonna.
"That bastard!" Shonna said to herself as she shook her head. "We'll, something big has happened. We're still together, but I guess he's decided to let me tell you." Shonna said as she raised her left hand to show the ring Frank had given her. Mr. and Mrs. Harris just smiled as they started to congratulate their soon to be daughter in law.
"James, could you get that please?" Dr. Andrea Possible asked her husband as she hung Christmas decorations along the kitchen walls.
"No problem, honey." Dr. Possible said as he finished hanging his twin son's stockings.
When he answered the door, he saw a man with long black hair, tied in a ponytail, and wire framed glasses standing at his door.
"Hi, is Kim Possible here?" he asked the man.
"Who are you?" he asked the man, guessing his weight for the calculations and adjustments he would have to make for a deep space probe.
"My name is Frank Harris, I'm a friend of Kim's from Upperton University." He told him, hoping the man in front of him would buy the lie he just told him.
"I'll check." The man said and closed the door again. In a few minutes, Frank was greeted by the red headed hero.
"Frank, what are you doing here?" Kim asked him.
"This is going to sound pretty pathetic. Besides the Phantom, you are the only friend I've got." He told her.
"What about the people you knew in High School?" Kim asked them.
"They're off doing their own things, and I lost contact with them over the years. Besides, I came here to tell you something, and ask you for a favor." He told her.
"Really? What is it then?" Kim asked him.
"First of all, I'm getting married." He told her.
Kim's eyes popped out her head when she heard this. He had only been here for a little bit, and he was engaged?
"Frank, I'm going to take a wild guess at who it is. Does she happen to have green skin?" Kim asked him.
"Kim, I love her. And after all this time, she still loves me." Frank told her.
"But how do you know she won't leave again? Frank, she has a very dangerous life and I doubt the police or Global Justice will just sit by and let you two get married in the open!" she told him.
"Kim, I'm not stupid. It's going to be hard, but I don't care. Would you want someone to talk you out of being with the one person you love?" he asked her.
"No, I wouldn't. Still, I would make sure she wasn't going to walk away from you again before you start picking out fine china." Kim told him.
"I think she's not. I got a call from my family, and she was there with them. She just told them about our engagement, and they couldn't be happier. That's why I need to ask you for a favor. I just need you to promise me one thing." He told her.
"I have a feeling I'm going to regret this." She told him.
"Kim, promise me you won't try and bust her for a little while." Frank told her.
"Frank, I can't promise that!" she told him.
"Kim, Shonna and I are getting married next month. The last thing we want is a wedding behind bars. Please Kim." He asked her.
It went against Kim's gut instincts, and it was against her better judgment. However, she found herself coming to a reluctant decision.
"Okay, I won't try to bust her. You've got my word on that. I'm hoping everything goes well for you two." She told him.
"Thanks, Kim. That means a lot." Frank said as he gave Kim a hug. "Merry Christmas." he told her as he took off down the street. From the way he was smiling, she could have sworn he was ready to try and take on the world!
"This is interesting." Drakken said as he looked at the article he called up from a website archive. The article was about the incident at the Go City airport with Aviarious in 1998. Drakken had found it interesting that Shego had never mentioned her so called sidekick the whole time she was in his employment. Drakken smiled as he read the ending of the article, describing how Shego wouldn't leave his side.
"Well, well, well! Next time Shego doesn't want to go along with my plan, I think I've found my little insurance policy." Drakken said as he called up the data on Frank's current location, and satellite footage of Shego entering the address listed on the data about Frank. Drakken just chuckled as he thought of a way to put his sidekick into her place!