Chapter 24

Shego circled the plane around the small island again so Kim could get a better look at their new home. "Oh, Eme, it's beautiful!" The older woman smiled affectionately over at the redhead, acting like a child seeing Disney Land for the first time, "how much is yours?"

"We! own all eight islands" Kim turned and stared at the dark-haired beauty

"what!? You own an entire island chain in the Caribbean" it's all Shego can do to keep from laughing at the expression her young lover's face.

"No, we own an island chain in the Caribbean" still struggling to keep a straight face she continues "it's a small chain. The smallest island is less than five hundred meters across." sounding like a schoolmarm at a lecture, "the main island is only twelve miles long by 5 miles wide. The house is built against the mountain, back away from the beach to protect it from storms. It's also built right next to a series of natural springs that are fed from the mountain's glacial pack. They'll provide us water year-round and fountain down through a series of heated basins progressing from ice-cold to painfully hot."

She pauses in her narration as she begins her descent to the VTOL pad "the real mystery of this island is why does an island so small have a glacier pack." Within just a few minutes, the Kiminator lands not far from a three-story house built right into the side of the mountain. Moments later, the two descend the steps from the craft. "Welcome home, I hope you like it," and she bends down to kiss the smaller woman.

Breaking off and breathless after several minutes, Kim smiles" we need to check in with base and find out if Wade has found anything. I assume you have Com gear."

Shego smiles, "follow me. When we're done with the check-in, would you like the grand tour?"

The little redhead smiles up, bouncing on the balls of her toes, "please, and thank you."

At the back of the house, there is a false panel leading to a radio shielded control room with equipment that puts even the bat cave to shame. With the push of a button, Shego connects to the stateside base. Above the console appears a life-size 3D image of wade "Hay nerdling."

"Shego?!" the shocked look on Kim's face, gets both Shego and Wade Laughing. Sticking her tongue out at her exotic dark-haired beauty, she turns to the image, "What's the sitch, Wade?"

Wade turns serious in a heartbeat, "looks like most of the agents made it. I have confirmed ten captures." looking down at his notes, "Two are dead, electrical burn marks on their heads. The autopsies say their brains were basically boiled in their own skulls while they were alive and probably conscious. four more have been found with the same marks on their head, alive but with severe brain damage, to the point of being non-functional as human beings." Wade looks up, "the other four are still unaccounted for."

Kim was feeling a little nauseous from the description," Have Dr. Director, and agent Du reported in yet?"

Wade nodded, "yes, she uploaded a copy of the secure offline database to our server. then they blew the server shack so the Psychos chasing us can get at it."

Shego came up behind Kim wrapping her arms around the smaller woman's waist. Kim leans back into the warm comfort "ok, thanx Wade, we'll check in with you twice a day. If something comes up, use the priority code, and the system will alert us." the young genius just nods and signs off.

"This reminds me of something Wade showed me once, he said they were recordings from an alternate timeline." Looking up at Shego, who was still holding her from behind. They showed a world where the bad guys won. Someone with some actual brains united most of my enemies and actually took over the world. I think it's really happening but under different management, and were running three steps behind."

Shego pulls Kim a little closer. "hm? Well, if we check on the bad guy that won in the alternate timeline, maybe we could pick up a hint." Kim just shook her head, "why not we don't have much else to go on."

Kim turns in the encircled arms, "no, that person has an ironclad alibi."

"Really, what?"

Kim leans forward, placing her head against the crook of the taller woman's neck "because you have been with me the whole time."

There was silence for several moments, "oh… OH!" Kim smiled it's not often she can get her Eme to blush, and blush she did

After several minutes of standing there in the silence, Kim looked up, "Eme, you promised to show me the house."

Shego started in the basement where there was a Pool room with a full-sized table, a theater that would sit Twelve, and an unfinished room. "I thought we could fix this up as a playroom for the girls when they're older." The first floor had a large kitchen and dining room, an enormous living room with sliding doors leading out back to the swimming pool and hot spring basins. There was a half bath for guests. And the entry hall which had both an outer door and an inner door. The second floor had five bedrooms, the largest looked to be wired for an office. The second largest was almost entirely full of cuddlebudys. There were also three full bathrooms and a couple of closets. At the top of the stairs for the third floor, there was a small landing with a palm locked door. "This is ours." she then palmed open the door. The top-level was not as large as the rest of the house but was a single master suite. The main room was so large that a king-sized bed would look too small. Two walk-in closets the size of small bedrooms flanked the bathroom. The bathroom held a sunken tub that looked more like a hot tub than a bathtub and a large shower/steam room with benches you could lay down on. There was also a sauna in the corner large enough to be comfortable for two, and maybe a little more.

Kim kicked off her shoes and ran her toes through the thick, lush carpet "I think I would like to make a rule, no shoes past the entrance hall" Shego's only response was to remove her shoes and place them on a shelf in her closet. "Eme, what are we going to do about furniture?"

Shego wraps her arms around her fiancé "We'll slip into town tomorrow and pick some up."

"Um, Eme, we're in hiding, remember."

"Around here, I am known as Sheila Hearts. A little makeup to make me look tan and temporary hair color for you no one will know."

"So, where are we going to put the bed?"

Shego walks over to a place near the wall "I was thinking about here."

Kim came over and joined her, "Here?" she asks, Shego nodded. Kim stretches up and kisses the taller woman "good. I think its bedtime," Kim begins to slowly undress her lover.

They made love there on the carpet with only the warm breeze from the open windows to cover them.

Around dawn, the breeze turned cooler but still not cold. The difference was enough to wake the girls. They entertained each other until the sun crested over the edge of the island. The Kim sighed, "We probably ought to check-in." she rolled away from the warm body next to her and reached for her clothes.

Shego stopped her, "you won't need those yet." She then pulled Kim over to a corner and toggled a hidden switch, a small panel opened, revealing a small communication workstation. "Look," Kim looked at the outgoing image there was she and Shego dressed entirely in what would be considered regular clothes for each of them.

"So any time we use the com, it will show us dressed?"

"Yes, and I have uploaded the program to the plane too. You will need this, though," handing over the brush she had been using.

Monique was operating the com station this morning "hey girlfriend how you been"

Kim smiles at her ever exuberant and best girlfriend. "Hay Mo what's the sitch."

The dark-skinned beauty reaches over and grabs a note pad. "Let's see. All but one of the known captured agents have been found, but none in any better shape than the ones found yesterday. Wade suggested that we give Dr. Director the coordinates to the base as a possible safe house. However, it's not our place. Do we have your permission?" Monique pauses and looks up. After a quick exchange through their link Kim and Shego both nod. "Ok, we will get that info to her at the next check-in. Wade is kicking himself for not being able to find the bad guys." She looks down at her notes, "there were fourteen robberies last night that wade thinks are related to the current situation. By the time we got the info, it was too late to do anything about it. At this point, no one knows what was taken." she looks up, "do you have anything to report?"

Shego looks down at Kim, wondering what the caramel-skinned girl would if she knew both she and Kim were nude talking to her and smiled. "We're going into town to see that we can pick up some from local contacts. We'll check in when we get back."

After cutting the connection, they showered, donned their disguises, and departed for the day's adventure.

Several hours and three islands later, "why am I so tired" Kim leans back against the wall of the store they just left." it had been a whirlwind no holds barred shopping spree the likes of which Kim had never seen.

Shego just laughed, "you mean besides hours of power shopping and island hopping. Walking all over creation and the fact the only time you have sat all day is in the short flights from island to island?"

"Yes, well, we have done a lot, but I still shouldn't be this tired." The redhead bent at the waist, laying herself flat against her legs, smiling at the feel of the baby knot not yet big enough to impede her movement.

Shego just shook her head, "True, but the determining factor here is, one, you're still recovering from your illness and two, you are pregnant to boot."

Kim looks a little thunderstruck, "We're not that far along."

Shego just laughed, "if my calculations are correct, we should be just about six weeks along." She reached down to rub the hard knot behind Kim's pelvic bone and then sends a slow surge of energy into the younger girl as a pick me up.

"That's not going to tire you, is it?" the younger woman asked. Shego just shook her head. Kim reaches over and touches the knot that is Shego's womb and starts to return the energy creating an energy loop that invigorates both women. The close, loving contact lasts almost to half an hour before Kim's stomach loudly rumbled, and both women laugh.

"So, what has the little one decided she wants for lunch?"

Kim looks down and rubs her still flat tummy. "So what do you want, little one?" she pauses thoughtfully for a moment then looked up at the currently tan looking Shego "you going to laugh at me."

"Probably, but let's hear it anyway."

Kim grins sheepishly, "I want a naco, possibly two, original, extra cheese and guacamole."

Shego did laugh, "there's a Bueno nacho not far from here. Let's go."

Rounding the corner, the girls see the still-smoldering remains of a Buenos Nacho building. Asking around the locals, they find that just after opening this morning, the place was attacked by a group of masked monkeys and burned to the ground. The monkeys then vanished utterly.

Arriving back at their island home, Kim noticed several men packing stuff out of the house. She Looked over at the still disguised Shego in alarm. "its ok, princess there just delivering our orders." Getting up from the pilot's chair, Shego leads the way to the exit and into the house.

The workers were rolling up plastic walkways used to keep the carpets clean and hauling out the garbage. Stopping to Look around the front room, everything is placed just the way Sego explained it. Kim went from room to room, checking the setup. Everything was perfect. Shego joined her as she entered the master suite, again everything was set up perfectly. "Um, Eme, how did they know exactly where the bed went? It's not like we took measurements."

Shego laughed "oh that was easy, I just told them to center it over the stains on the carpet" Kim exploded into red all the way down to her feet

A short time later, they heard the motor on the delivery boat roar to life as the workers left. Shego rearmed the alarm system and began to remove her clothes. The tan makeup had worn off in several places where the cloth had rubbed it. Tossing her clothes into the laundry chute, she turned to Kim, "you know brown is really not a good hair color for you. Come on, let's get showered and looking like ourselves again. Then we can check-in."

Kim was still in a mortified blush when they entered the shower, though it didn't take long for it to turn into an excited flush. It was another hour before the two of them exited the shower (unlimited hot water had its perks) clean and sated.

Standing in front of the com station in their room, waiting for it to connect Kim turns and kisses the taller woman on the bare collar bone, Shego shivered from the contact.

Moments later, the holo shimmers to life Wade back at the other end. "Hey ladies, how's it going on your end?"

Before Shego can say anything, Kim blurts out, "Where's Ron."

Wade blinks "with Yori in their room, I think, why?"

Kim Sighs with relief, "I need you to check on attacks at Buenos Nachos in the last few days."

"Uh, ok," his fingers fly across the keyboard. "There has been an attack almost every four hours since late last night, starting with Middleton" he scratches his chin "it looks like they have all been carried out by monkeys in ninja masks."

"Dam, it sounds Like they finally got monkey fist unstoned." Kim starts pacing. Shego smiles as the motion does fascinating things to her unclad body "he is sending a challenge to Ron for a rematch and using Buenos Nacho as his gauntlet."

Still watching Kim, (poor geekling doesn't know what he's missing right in front of him), the thought passes quickly when Kim glares. Apparently, the link enhancers are working. Out loud, Shego snaps, "Monkey Fist better hope Ron catches him first. If I get him, I will burn my losses out of his hide" she looks up to see both sets of eyes looking at her "what one of the things Drew gave me in that folder was his ownership of Buenos Nachos."

Kim stares a moment longer "someone is feeding Fisk info on how exactly to get Ron's attention, and I don't like it. DAMN IT! Why are we always three steps behind."

Shego walked over to Kim and wraps her arms around the younger woman from behind. The instant the link strengthened from the skin, contact Kim felt the soothing calm flowing from the larger woman. Shego looks up. "Wade, I need to get the Princess here something to eat. We'll contact you later," disconnecting the comm she swings the younger woman up piggyback so as not to break the connection and begins to radiate energy.

The combination of skin contact, soothing thoughts, and energy inflow begin to relax the redhead "Eme I can walk."

"Stay put you need this right now. We are going downstairs and snuggle on the new couch until your hormones relax then I will go to the kitchen and make you whatever sounds good now."

Kim's voice is tiny when she replies, "Eme, you're too good for me."

"Wow, this from the person who nearly gets herself killed just to say sorry for something that wasn't really her fault." Shego just shakes her head as she shifts the smaller girl around. Pulling her Lover on to the lap, they snuggle down in the overstuffed couch, "I'm a bitch Who enjoyed her life of crime and reveled in the sheer violence of our encounters. I wanted to leave a permanent mark on your body so you would never be able to forget me." She pulls Kim closer "however I never wanted to do permanent harm to you. I enjoyed the challenge you presented to much." Kim shifted around until she faced the reformed thief snuggled in and cried happy tears.

Her ear was on Shego's chest, and she could hear the steady heartbeat, and their tummies flat against each other. Both could feel the hard knot pressing the other as their babies rested as close as physically possible, not even clothes to separate them. "I think you succeeded in leaving your mark." They both grinned at the thought.

Shego Smiles, as Kim continues to try to get as many points of contact as possible, "you know I think I began to love you when as Ms. Go. You immediately accepted me, no finger-pointing. You even invited me into your house. Even after I changed back, I wanted to be your friend, but I didn't know how." Shego wrapped her arms just a little tighter. "now look at me holding my fiancé and our unborn children. This right here is worth more than everything I own." In the total openness of the moment, she is unable to block the conclusion to that thought 'and please don't ever leave me, I don't think I would survive it.'

"You know you have left two permanent marks on me," Kim smiles here," placing one hand over her heart "and here," putting the other between there tummies. Then her stomach let out a growl that sounded like a grizzly bear.

Shego laughed as she extracted herself from the embrace and headed for the kitchen, "still want nocos?"

Author's note

Sorry, it's been so long since I have posted. Life has been hectic. I will try to do better