So I took the SATs today which means I should have more updating time, at least for a few days.
"Where the hell is she!? She should have shown up by now, but she's not even looking!" Monique winced at his booming voice as their captor ranted furiously about the teen hero who had yet to show.
"Well obviously you don't know Kim very well" She muttered to herself, but he seemed to have overheard as he cut himself off.
"And what do you mean by that?" He demanded harshly getting into her face.
"She means that Kim is never going to notice we're gone." Ron spoke up from beside her.
"Yeah, knowing that girl, she's probably thinking I'm mad at her." Monique informed the villain.
"And she's mad at me." Ron chipped in.
"So she's not expecting to be seeing us anytime soon. You might have picked her right-hand people, but you did so at the worst time." Monique concluded. She could almost see the steam shooting out of his ears as his face went red with rage.
"Agh! You two are completely and utterly worthless!" He screamed to no one in particular before pacing back an forth. Monique and Ron looked at each other a moment before looking back to the nutty man.
"That's it!" He growled suddenly after having thought about it. "I'll just have to get someone she will surely notice is missing." Ron and Monique shared the same look of fear as the man left his room calling for his Hench men.
Rufus slipped through the crack in the door of the hospital room as a nurse went in. The lights were off and the blinds were closed, but Rufus could still spot the lump under the blanket on the bed. With a squeak of relief, he climbed up onto the bed and went to the head of the bed. He started squeaking loudly before the figure in the bed groaned and turned over, pulling the blanket down to reveal that the woman in the bed was not Kim.
The woman screamed seeing something that her mind registered as a "Freaky hairless rat", and Rufus jumped out of his skin. He leaped down off the bed just as a nurse came running into the room. She spotted the naked mole rat that the frantic woman was pointing at and she grabbed the coat rack that was next to the door as she started trying to swat him. The pink creature ran for his dear life, barely dodging the metal pole before he finally made it out of the room.
Kim sat in her chair out on the balcony watching the sun start to set over the horizon. She let her thoughts wonder to her father whom she had yet to get in contact with. She wondered if he would ever forgive her, or if her brothers even knew what she had done. They most likely did and probably resented her for it. And then there was her mother. The dream had felt realistic to her, especially when she swore it started out as a memory. She knew her mind most likely had made it up, but she couldn't help feeling that her words had a ring of truth about them. If it weren't for her, her mom would be happily living at home as a successful neurosurgeon and loving wife, rather than being portrayed as a criminal.
The hero honestly couldn't see how the woman had been in the wrong. She was her child, she should be able to raise her daughter in any way that pleases her. She felt kind of mad at Shego for sticking her nose in their business, but she couldn't really be angry with the green-skinned woman. She did after all think she was doing it for Kim... but her mom must have thought the same.
"You okay?" Shego asked coming up from behind her. Kim didn't bother turning around or answering. She just kept her gaze trained off to the distance. Shego walked up beside her and leaned against the guardrail and looked towards the horizon as well. She sighed and her breath could be seen because of the cold evening air. Neither spoke, letting the silence become almost deafening. Shego wasn't sure what to say or do seeing the usually confident, perky hero so distraught. Her eyes had a hardness to them, showing dark shadows of a past that she didn't fully remember. She looked like she either might start crying or punch something.
"Shego" Kim broke the silence still not moving her gaze.
"Yes?" It was now that the redhead turned to face her, only, the hardness in her eyes was gone with sadness and a pleading sort of look that filled the void as the tears welled up.
"Do you think my dad will ever stop hating me?" She asked her voice cracking. Shego couldn't take the sadness she saw in the girl and stepped down to embrace the young hero. Kim buried her head in her shoulder much like she had the night before and let the tears run silently, with the exception of the occasional sniffle. Shego rubbed small circles into her back, being careful to avoid her stitched up wounds.
"Hey, your father loves you, I know that for a fact." Shego said confidently not lying for the fact that she was talking about her real father. She didn't know about James, she hadn't seen him since he went down to the station, but now she was wanting to go find him and give him a piece of her mind. How could someone just abandon their daughter while they're so hurt? Her anger deflated as she realized it was exactly what she had done. At least he had only left her in the hospital rather than a street at night like she did. To think if she had only checked, if she had just had the guts to actually confirm her daughter's death, she just might be in Go city right now, still a hero with a kick-ass hero daughter standing by her side. She cringed at the image. Maybe she'd have just left the heroics to Kimmie. The idea of having to be a part of Team Go again was repulsive.
"How could he after what I did?" She practically demanded and Shego pulled away and met the gaze of the same eyes she had.
"Hey! You didn't do anything. Stop beating yourself up over it, if anything, you should be blaming that woman." She almost growled with distaste for the doctor.
"Shego, you just don't understand. It IS my fault, no matter how you look at it I destroyed my own mother! If I was never born, do you really think she'd have anything like this to make her look bad?" She asked lifting her shirt to reveal a long scar that stretched across her flat stomach. Shego yanked the fabric back into place and took Kim's chin to make her look into her eyes, hoping she could get through to the stubborn red head.
"Don't you dare talk like that, if you were never born do you really think any of us would be here now? You have saved countless lives, brought together families, hell, you even stopped a world war III from happening! If you were never born, the rest of us would be as good as dead." She stopped her little rant when she saw the fresh tears in the hero's eyes and hugged her close. "You haven't done anything wrong, and I'm sure you're not about to." The two again were silent before Kim spoke softly to the villain.
"I just want a family, one that can love me, is that wrong?"
"Of course not Pumpkin." Shego felt horrible at that moment. Her only child was sitting here crying because she believed she didn't have any family left. The girl thought she was alone and hated and Shego wanted nothing more than to convince her otherwise. Well maybe that's what I need to do. She thought. She was being selfish, Kim had a right to know who her real mother was, and she couldn't put it off any longer. Who was she to keep it from her?
"Kimmie.." She said not knowing how to start out. The red head sniffled as she rubbed her eyes dry before turning her attention to the moss-hued woman.
"Yeah?" The former villain took a deep breath closing her eyes momentarily to try to get it together.
"I-I want to tell you... about... my daughter." She managed to get out finally. Bright green eyes rounded in shock as Kim wondered why the woman had the sudden need to share something about her past that was obviously a sore subject. Maybe it has to do with my sitch she thought briefly. It made sense that she would share a story to make the red-head feel better so maybe that's what she was going to say. The hero straightened up a little and cast her gaze onto the former thief to show that she had her undivided attention and Shego began.
"A long time ago, I fell in love with this man." She decided the best way to approach the subject was tell the story and hope the red head inferred the rest. "He owned a coffee shop in Go City where I used to go to a lot."
"Is that how you met? Did he serve you your drink?" Kim naturally curious asked and Shego shook her head.
"No, actually I was at the shop when it was attacked and after I jumped into battle, he jumped in along with me. I didn't even know he worked in the cafe much less owned it until a week later when he told me. Anyways, he would sometimes tell me stories about his mother who had died and left the cafe to him. He would always speak of her with admiration in his voice and relay to me all about how wonderful she was. He said that he wanted to find someone special, settle down and have a daughter that he could name after her. I was 19 at the time and a school teacher along with super hero and he thought that was great. A year later we got married and then the year after that I gave birth to a little girl. She has my eyes and his everything else." Shego smiled at seeing so much of her past lover in her daughter. "We loved this girl to death and wanted to raise her in the best way we could so that's what we tried to do. We were what I thought of back then as a perfect family, and I thought nothing could ever get in the way of that until my little girl was three. Johnathon, my husband, came home late one night and woke me up looking frantic. he told me that we needed to leave right then and that there was some sort of danger. I didn't understand what he was talking about, he just said grab the baby and run. So I ran to her room to find Gemini trying to sneak away with her."
Kim was reminded of the memory she had with Gemini trying to steal her as a child. If Ron hadn't woken her up she would know exactly what happened.
"Luckily I was able to stop him just in time, but then I heard a gun shot. By the time I ran out to the living room, Johnathon was already lying on the ground... dead." She had to pause a moment to recollect herself from continuing. "I-I didn't even see who it was, but someone hit me from behind and grabbed my kid before running off and I chased them down the street for a ways when a truck came out of nowhere and smashed into them. I-i-I thought s-she was d-dead, there was n-no way anything could have survived that collision and I-I couldn't bring myself to l-look. I-I didn't think I could h-handle seeing t-the b-body." Silent tears were streaming from the woman's eyes and Kim could feel her own stinging. "I lost my own family that night." Shego whispered.
"I'm so sorry." Kim said really meaning it. She couldn't imagine how horrible that must have been having to go through that. She never realized how strong the woman in front of her was.
"I couldn't handle it. I couldn't go on knowing that I just lost everything that mattered to me, so I went to Bets. She told me that Johnathon had been one of her undercover agents and one of his past enemies was the one responsible for murdering them. I got angry and started yelling at her before just breaking down into a sobbing mess. And then I asked her to make me forget."
"Forget?" Kim asked wondering how she had meant it and Shego nodded not being able to meet her eyes. The woman kept her gaze to the ground.
"I had her scientists wipe my memory but I still remembered Johnathon, so the only thing I forgot..."
"Was your daughter." Kim realized and got another sad nod.
"It was a terrible and selfish thing for me to do. I still regret it for many reasons today. I was a terrible mother." She said bitterly in her current self loathing.
"No you weren't." Kim tried to reassure her. "I'm not sure anyone could have gone through that and left unscarred in some way." Shego wasn't sure how to respond to that so she stayed silent. After a minute, Shego spoke again to conclude the story.
"Not too long ago, Betty called me back in saying she had something important to tell me. I went down there and they restored my memory. She..." Now Shego looked up to meet the teen's gaze.
"She told me my daughter's alive. She said the girl was found that night and was later adopted into a family. She also informed me that the girl inherited my powers but doesn't know it and if she doesn't do something soon, the plasma could kill her." Kim's eyes again widened taking this information in.
"Well who is she? Why haven't you told her anything?" The hero asked.
"Well what do you expect me to do? Run up to her and be like 'hey, I'm your mom, you were adopted and if you don't start throwing green plasma from your hands you'll die'?" She asked sarcastically.
"Okay, so I see your point, but you could at least tell her who you are." Kim pointed out.
"I'm trying to." Shego admitted.
"So what's the problem?" Shego looked away from the girl again and turned back to the rooftops of the city.
"She doesn't seem to get it. And I don't really think she'd be too happy to have me as her mother. She would probably hate me." She sighed dejectedly.
"Oh come on. I'm sure she won't hate you." Shego scoffed.
"Please, how would you feel if I, out of nowhere, told you I was your mother?" Shego asked again looking at the girl not letting her face betray her nervousness.
"Well.. I don't know actually, I probably wouldn't believe you, but that's because I know I wasn't adopted."
"She thinks she wasn't either." The green-skinned woman informed her. The teen was about to say something when suddenly a metallic ball fell onto the ground between them with a clang and smoke began pouring out from it. By the time the two could look up and try to find who dropped it, they were enveloped in darkness.