Car Alarm Surprise

AN: Ever wonder what might have happened if Ron hadn't lost his courage in the episode "Car Alarm?" Well, wonder no more.

Chapter 25: Family Rules

(The Next Day in Las Vegas, Nevada)

Anne turns her head to look at her mother and sister fighting when a man walks up and gets between the two quarrelling women. She says, "James, look! I think that is Harold! I haven't seen him since they were married."

James looks over and says, "You're right, it is him. Boy, the years have been kind to him. I swear he looks ten years or so younger than he is."

Anne smiles at James and says, "Well that's just how he is. He has always looked young for his age."

James looks a little miffed as he says, "Still, I would have thought that he'd look like he was at least older than my daughter."

Anna says, "Oh, he looks older than her… I think he looks pretty good for a 28 year old man."

Anne laughs and says, "He's 48 but I think he'll be happy to hear you said that."

Anna's jaw drops and she says, "What? No way… he looks much too young to be 48!"

Anne smiles as she says, "He hears that all the time. Personally, I think he's found the fountain of youth and isn't sharing it with anyone." She laughs at her own joke.

Tom says, "It really is quite astonishing how young he looks, what is his secret?"

Anne says, "If I knew that I'd try to package and sell it after using it for myself. He says it is just his genes and I think he might be right. His mother is twice his age and she looks a little above the age where he should be."

James grins at his wife and says, "You don't need it because to me you'll always be the beautiful woman I met and fell in love with."

Anne blushes as she playfully pushes at Jame's chest and says, "Oh you… If I didn't know any better I'd think you were just teasing me."

James shakes his head while still smiling and says, "I'd never do that. I know what you would do to me if I ever lied about how breathtakingly beautiful you are to me."

Anne's blush deepens while the others at the table chuckle, except for Shego she was too busy thinking.

Shego thinks, "I wonder if DNAmy or Dr. D. could crack the secret. I sure wouldn't mind staying young looking if what they're saying is true…"

Anna says, "Really? That is amazing!"

Shego says in a distracted voice, "Yeah… that's amazing all right…"

Just Carmen turns away and notices that Kim and Ron are missing so she storms off in search for the missing couple.

Jane and Harold walk over to the table and Jane says to Anne, "Hi Anne, will you apologize to Kim and Ron for me when they come back? I didn't mean for them to feel like they had to leave because of me."

Anne waves a hand at a nearby seat and says, "Don't worry about it. I am sure they're happy that you played interference for them. You know how difficult mother can be."

Jane sighs as she sits down and says, "Yeah… I hear that."

Harold sits down as well in a seat next to her and waves his right hand as he says a friendly, "Hello everybody" to everyone to which gets a friendly and collective 'Hello' back.

Jane says, "Do you think they'll come back?"

Anne looks up at the ceiling and says, "I think they will when they're certain it is safe to do so. In the meantime, it'll be nice to do some catch up Jane."

Jane smiles at her sister and says, "Yeah, it will be. So, how are things going with your boys?"

Anne says, "Oh they're fine. They're in the room right now cooking up some new invention. I think they are going to make sure that Kim's next wedding goes a bit more smoothly than this one."

Jane grins and says, "Well at least they're not focused on making trouble for her like they usually are."

James chuckles and says, "I think nearly losing their sister has made them decide to go easy on her for a little bit."

Jane laughs and says, "I guess any port in the storm is a good one."

James says, "Right you are."

Jane looks around and says, "I thought I saw Slim around earlier at the chapel? Where is he?"

James looks down for a second at the table before he looks up at her and says, "My brother? Well… his daughter was also caught in the collapse with another one of Kim's friends and they're in the hospital right now. At least the good news is that Joss has woken up and appears to be fine."

Jane looks at James with sympathetic eyes and says, "I'm glad to hear that she's ok. What about the friend?"

James says, "She's woken up too though she was hurt some because she saved Joss in the collapse." He chuckles a little bit and says, "Although last I heard, Joss and the ninja girl were talking about forming some kind of team. I don't know if they have or not but knowing Joss, she won't take 'no' for an answer easily."

Jane laughs and says, "You're probably right about that."

Harold chuckles and says, "Joss fits in perfectly with this family, always full of action and courage."

Jane smiles and jabs her elbow at Harold and says, "Says the bravest and best firefighter in all of Chicago, Illinois."

Harold grins at Jane as he rubs his side and says, "Hey there, be careful… I might need to rescue someone."

Jane leans over and kisses him softly on the lips, "Does that make it better sweetie?"

Harold grins at Jane and says, "I don't know… I might need another one just to be sure."

Jane smiles as she says, "Oh you… come here you." She gives him a bigger kiss on the lips this time and when they finally part, Harold says, "Oh yeah… that kiss will get me through the next big fire."

Jane smiles with a soft blush as she says, "Oh you…"

Shego rolls her eyes and begins to walk off as she says, "Ugh… I think I'm going to be sick." The last thing anyone hears before Shego is out of earshot is her saying, "And to think it was bad enough when those two did that…"

Monique just walks in then with little Hana in her arms as Felix wheels up beside her and she says, "Hana is so adorable, I really appreciate you letting be baby-sit her for a while."

Anna takes Hana from her with a smile and says, "Are you sure she didn't give you any trouble? Hana has a reputation for being difficult with her babysitters."

Monique smiles as she leans over and brushes Hana's cheek with a finger and says in a cutesy voice, "Awww… who'd ever believe you could be difficult for anyone. Everyone just loves you, oh yes they do! Who loves you?" To which Hana laughs and pats Monique's hand before Monique who was still in her goofy voice says, "That's right! That's right! Monique loves you, you adorable little baby…"

Monique suddenly stops when she feels a tugging on her sleeve and looks at the source, which was Felix with some irritation.

Felix says, "Um, you're making everyone stare…"

Monique looks around and sees that she indeed was drawing attention. She says to Felix, "Thanks" and he replies, "You're welcome."

Monique looks around the room and notices that Kim and Ron aren't in the room. She looks over to Anne and says, "Where are the lovebirds?"

Anne gives Monique an apologetic smile as she points up at the air vent and says, "I don't know where they exactly went but you could try the air vents."

Monique looks up at the aforementioned air vent and mumbles, "Great… make it hard for a girl to find you why don't you…" She turns to Felix and says, "C'mon, we better find them before those two get into any more trouble."

Jane watches as Monique walks off with Felix and chuckles before she says, "That girl just loves her babies. I bet she'll be a wonderful mother when she grows up."

Anna smiles at Monique for a second and then looks down at the happy baby in her arms before she says, "I think you're right and Hana sure seems to like her a lot. Normally Hana just gives all our babysitters so much trouble that the only one we can secure for any length of time is her older brother, Ron."

At the mention of Ron, Hana shriek-giggles and says "Brother!" while clapping her hands together softly.

Everyone at the table goes "Awwww!" at Hana's cuteness even as Shego bites her lower lip to keep from doing the same in front of her brothers.

Shego wished that someone, anyone would come and take her away from her brothers. Even an annoying villain from her hero past would have been a welcome distraction. At least until she remembers her plan to make the next wedding better for Princess.

At the thought of the nickname for her foe whose wedding she was in, something that she would never have believed could happen in a million years. She had to admit that for the first time since coming up with it, Kim was truly living up to it in how she was even if she wasn't an actual princess. She was the sweetheart of the world and as such she was a princess in a land that had no official royalty.

Shego growls at her brother Hego as he annoys her with the way he is eating his meal and gets up to leave from her seat when suddenly Jim and Tim run into her, knocking her down on her green tush.

Shego shouts, "Hey! Come back here!"

The sound of tires screeching can be heard as Jim and Tim come to a stop quickly.

Jim hunches into his shoulders as he says, "Did we just…" with Tim in a similar pose as he finishes the sentence, "Just knock down Shego?" The two of then turn their heads slowly to see Shego getting up to her feet and grumbling as she rubbed her bottom and together they say, "Oh man… we are so dead!"

They could tell that Shego looked pretty upset even with one of her brothers trying to soothe things out for them.

(Meanwhile)

Drakken looks around one of his lairs and sees all the cobwebs that have invaded since the last time he had visited. He lets out a big, heavy sigh and says, "Ever it be so humble, there is no place like home."

He runs into a spider's web on the way the cleaning closet and grumbles, "Where is Shego when you really need her… she could just blast all these webs in no time."

He gets out a vacuum and starts to suck up most of the webs, rejoicing as spiders would get sucked in along with the webbing by saying something like, "HA! Now you know the folly of spinning your web in Doctor Drakken's lair!"

After cleaning up the place some he decides to take a break and catch up on what has been going on with his arch-nemesis, Kim Possible by turning on the TV.

Drakken doesn't have to search for long as the story of the day seemed to be about Kim Possible having to be rescued when a chapel collapsed on her because of one of her foes that traveled with monkeys. The moment this part of the news was mentioned, Drakken frowns and growls, "Monkey Fist! I bet he was going after the buffoon again."

Drakken continues to listen to the news, amazed that even Kim Possible or anyone for that matter could survive the collapse but what really surprised him was when he saw Shego being unearthed with Kim.

Drakken throws his arms up in the air as he shouts, "Great! Is she out to destroy Kim Possible too?"

Drakken pounds his fists into the armrests and growls, "This will not do! I won't put up with it! Shego shouldn't be acting out against Kim Possible without my…" He suddenly stops when he sees Shego standing in front of Kim as if asking her something instead of demanding it like she usually did.

Drakken couldn't hear what was being said but judging from her reaction where she started hugging it was something shockingly good for her!

Drakken runs his hand through his hair as he asks himself aloud, "What is going on? Has the whole world just gone crazy while I was locked up?"

AN: Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry it is so late coming out. I've been so very busy with classes lately. So what did you think of the discussion about Harold? Kinda silly huh? Did you find Shego's thoughts amusing about her plans for Harold? What do you think of Harold? At least Yori seems to be ok for now, though whether or not a new team is formed for now is still being left a mystery. What did you think of Monique and Felix's scenes in this chapter? In character? What did you think of Shego's response to being knocked down by the tweebs? Could this mean that Kim will be having two less family members attending her wedding? What did you think of Drakken's reaction to what he learned on the TV? Has the whole world indeed gone crazy while he was locked up?

As usual all thoughts reviews, thoughts, ideas, suggestions, new musical lyrics, pictures of B'loonies that look like Kim, Ron or Shego and more are always welcome.