Authors note: hope you all caught the Bond reference in the title. I posted the title on Facebook and no one decided to correct me of it being 'Cue' and not 'Q' so that's a plus. The little reference to Kim wanting a title secquence like that is a nod to the Opening of 'So The Drama'
Chapter: Homes and Hearts.
"Run it again." Cal ordered.
"I've ran it through every single program I have." Wade said, "even wrote a program to determine if anything is edited."
"and your absolutely sure?" Cal asked.
"Yeah" he answered, "The Photos of You and Kim are Legit…" Wade rubbed the bridge of his nose, "you need to tell them."
"Wade, you know I would never-"
"I know." Wade frowned, "but for their sake, what could go wrong?"
"Make the Call" Cal ordered.
Ron and Kim walked Middleton High. Gwen was starting to grow concerned. Cal had not called, texted or even updated a status. Her two friends started to worry for her, Monique muttered under her breath.
"I smell something fishy." Monique said with a glare.
"maybe we should head over?" Ron said with a hint of worry.
"if he needs us he'll call us." Gwen said.
On Cue Kim's Kimmunicator went off. Wade had informed the 4 that Cal ran into a bit of trouble and would like to see them. They agreed to head to Cals house after school.
Cal sat in a chair of his bedroom. His stepmother knocked on the door.
"your friends are here." She said calmly. They all entered the room. Cal got up and hugged Gwen.
"what's…going on?" Gwen asked.
"I…ran into something." He slid the file folder to his side, sitting on his desk. "As many of you, Monique excluded, I am a guy of several weird useless talents from fighting to Building a Bike."
"Not useless." Gwen smiled.
"I have Monique here as the Neutral side"
"For what?" Monique asked. He handed her the File Folder.
"This effects Gwen, Ron, Kim and I." he sighed "I searched over the photos several times. I couldn't find anything."
"This is serious." Monique closed the file folder, "when were you going to tell us."
"Show Kim." Cal ordered. Monique handed her the file folder, only for Gwen and Ron to look over her shoulder and look at the Picture of Kim and Cal acting like a couple.
"where did you get these?" Kim asked, "This is…what the…" she looked to her Boyfriend and Gwen "look…these are Fake. Obviously they're fake…"
"They're not fake." Cal sighed "obviously it's us. That's us Kissing, but we don't have an Alibi for those pictures."
"why's that?" Monique asked, Ron and Gwen sat down on the bed.
"Those were taken 4 days ago." Cal answered, "I had Wade check them out. They're legit. Nothing on there is cropped or altered. It came from a camera."
"Why would you show us these?"
"because I want you all to know why I've been quiet the past few days." Cal sighed, "Gwen…I'm sorry."
"How could you do this?" she got up, "was it all a lie? The cheating, her? what else are you not telling me?"
"Gwen."
"I trusted you, I asked you; 'Do you Love Kim' and you told me, You fucking told me 'No'." Gwen started to tear up. "oh my god…that's why you haven't told me you love me…cause you don't."
"No hold on that's not true." He shook his head, "none of that is true."
"The Proof is right there." Ron looked at Kim "so what? Am I a joke to you?"
"Ron why would I give you up?"
"he'd fight alongside you, he made himself gadgets so he can help us." Ron defended, he looked at Cal "so what? Beating Brick was part of your plan to get into Kim's mouth?"
"Ron I would never do that to you" Cal defended.
Gwen shook her head. Ron left the room only for Gwen to follow. Monique looked at the two.
"Go." Kim ordered, "make sure they don't do anything stupid." Monique nodded and left the room.
"that didn't end how I wanted it to." Cal sat down.
"your…intentions were…" Kim stumbled upon her words.
"Noble?" he sighed, "I just lost the greatest woman I could know."
"yeah" Kim sat on the table beside him, "and I just lost the Greatest Man I Ever Knew." The two looked off.
"who would do this?" Cal asked.
"I can name a few." Kim shrugged, "okay…one." She picked up the photo. "how can this be?"
"I don't know" Cal answered, he looked at Kim "you're not leaving?"
"Ron's mad at me. And Gwen is thinking I want to steal her man." She looked at Cal. Cal took the Picture from her and looked it over, he shook his head.
"maybe I should move back to Tucson." He sighed and smiled "least there I know what I'm getting myself into." As he kept looking at the picture, he tilted his head, "Wait a minute." He grabbed a red marker and circled his hand.
"what?" Kim asked, "What is it?"
"I'm pulling you in." he answered, "usually whenever I Kiss Gwen, I pull her in, like this."
"So?"
"I'm left-handed." He looked at her "in this…I'm pulling her in with my right." He kept circling the picture, "everything is opposite…You supporting yourself, and I'm about…2 inches taller than you… this shows us at the same height. But theres also no obvious overlaps"
"so…That means" Kim smiled,
"That's not us." Cal got up.
"but where were these taken?" She asked, "I've been down every alley in Middleton and I don't recognize it."
Cal took a magnifying glass from his holder. "TMK…" he sighed "I know where…"
"where?" Kim asked.
"Tucson." He sighed.
Gwen and Ron sat at a Table across from each other at Bueno Nacho with Monique sitting next to Ron.
"Stupid Men…" Ron said, "Can't believe I was wanting to do all that with her."
"Can't believe I thought someone like him could want to date someone like me." Gwen folded her arms.
"I can't believe you two acted how you did." Monique chimed in.
"What do you want me to say?" Gwen asked, "Ron and I always suspected there was something between them, and they both denied it."
"They don't have a Lullaby."
"Alibi" Gwen corrected, "But they don't."
"4 days ago what were we all doing?"
"Here." Ron answered, "Working the Room to get Naco Night back."
"Home eating my uncles Jambalaya." Gwen sighed, "I texted Cal he told me to save him a plate" she smiled, "Told him my…mom was celebrating sobriety with her family and he told me to enjoy and that she really needed it" she shook her head "What am I doing?" she asked.
"you're remembering the good times." Monique looked at Ron, "12 years with her Ron. You honestly think she'd throw that away? Over what? A guy she's known for about a few weeks if not a month and a half?" she calmed down, "Ron, you're not going to find another girl like Kim. she Genuinely loves you. No question/ and you think she wants to throw that way over…what? Sex? Gwen, I may not trust Cal, but I can tell that he loves you more than you think he does. Why else would he not fight about this, of all things. Somethings fishy about this and instead of Talking you two stormed off and want to throw it all way."
"Monique…" Ron sighed "Cal is experienced, Maybe Kim wants someone who has experience like that. Who knows what he's doing…to you know…seduce her."
"Ron you know that Cal only wants Gwen." Monique looked at Gwen "and you know how Thirsty for Ron Kim can be." She sat back "she told me herself. Why throw any of that way? You make Kim Possible go from disabling a doomsday device to thinking of how you'd look in a speedo."
"Yeah right." Ron sighed with a scoff.
"Actually…" Gwen Blushed, "she does. She told me what she…does when she thinks about you…and well…"
"really?" Ron asked, "to me?"
"I think you both need to go apologize." Monique smirked "Naco Night signatures and Your Uncles Cajun food can wait another few hours or more." Gwen and Ron both got up.
Gwen and Ron walked up to Their respected other halves houses. They met back up at Ron's only to say the same answer. Kim and Cal went to Tucson in their Mission outfits.
Kim almost got hit by a car. He had never uttered the words that came out of her mouth in her 17 years of life. but she covered them while Cal just smirked.
"so where is it where going?" she asked.
"I've been down every alley for a shortcut in this area." Cal answered, "when I moved back in with Dad I would use these to cut through from the Mall."
"Was that…Legal?" Kim asked.
"Tucson Bike laws are Finicky." Cal answered. they approached a Game store where Cal walked in. he was greeted by the Employees.
"Haven't seen you in a long time" one of them said.
"you kidding he past by here without even saying hi."
"That's actually why we're here." Cal said, "can you…tell us what we were doing?"
"well…" The employee said, "you were with…her. and she was all over you."
"anything else?" Kim said with anger in her voice.
"yeah you were clinging on like an overly attached girlfriend."
"where were we headed?" Cal asked. The Employee pointed.
Ron was in his mission gear as he met up with Gwen who had her own gear in mind. A pair of black leather pants, a purple top and a magenta hoodie with black boots and black gloves.
"best you can do?"
"yeah" she straightened her gloves.
"How are we going to get to the Port?" Ron asked, Gwen shrugged. As they walked down the street, a red car pulled up beside them.
"you kids need a ride?" a Boy with tanned skin and black hair asked, beside him was brunette with just as tanned skin and blue eyes.
"Ron, I don't think we should…"
"it'll get us there faster." Ron said, "we owe you a favor."
"we're just happy to help out." The Girl smiled at the two of them, "I'm Angela. This is my brother Eric."
"I'm Ron. This is Gwen."
"it's very nice to meet you" Eric said with a smirk.
Kim and Cal walked down an Alley. Kim couldn't believe the trash that piled up.
"okay, you know that I would never make out here." Kim said.
"Same." He said, "to many places to get caught." Cal took out the picture. "let's see…I was standing…" he pointed, "right there."
"so that means…" Kim took out her Kimmunicator and scanned the ground. A pair of Footprints showed up with 'Fresh' in the caption. She walked over. "about a size 8 in women's." Kim said.
"the heel shows it's a flat." Cal walked over "and she's approximately 145..."
"I do NOT want to know how you know that?"
"a lot of crime shows." Cal stood up, "that would make her…bout your height."
"so far Bonnie is in the ranking." Kim shook her head "if she could bear being in an area like this."
"Let's not rush into closing this." He looked at the other pictures. "according to these, we were still in Tucson."
"which means we spent the day here." Kim sighed.
"even better" he looked at her. "we went to the mall."
After leaving the Port and thanking Eric and Angela, Gwen and Ron took a plane to Tucson. After exiting the Air Force Base they went down the road to hop a bus.
Cal and Kim walked down the Mall. Kim kept being offered samples of skin cream, which she took as an insult. Cal was being offered a phone service. They stopped in front of a store that matched the picture. They walked in.
"I told you two never to come in here again" the employee said.
"Look, I know this is…weird for us. But let us explain."
"OUT!" The employee yelled "before I call security."
"look, we're working a case. It led us here and…" Kim began but was interrupted.
"You a Cop?"
"Do you not know who I am?" Kim asked with a cocked brow.
"Kim Possible." Came a voice from behind them, they turned to see a long-haired Redhead in blue jeans and a T-shirt, her brown eyes glazed over her as her black lipstick formed a smile. She looked over to Cal and scoffed a laugh, "and Cal Cible." She shook her head, "I haven't seen you since."
"yeah." Cals eyes Narrowed, "How've you been Rachel?"
Ron hung up his phone. Wade had told him that Cameras spotted Kim and Cal go into the Mall up the street. Ron wanted to stop into the nearest Game store, which Gwen accepted.
"Kim never lets me stop into places like this while on missions."
"I wouldn't consider this a mission." Gwen put down a pokemon plush, "if anything this is search and rescue."
"still time is of the essence." Ron said with determination.
"which one do you think he'd like?" Gwen asked.
"get him the fire-type." Ron smiled.
Kim was offended. After telling the Store Manager and Security that the people who came in were imposters the two asked what exactly went on, only to find out that there were inappropriate displays of sexual activity which Made Kim furious and Cal nearly break his thumb.
"really?"
"we had to call the cops and delete the evidence." The manager said, "by the time they got here you two were gone." She shook her head "we had to close the mall early just so we can look for you. Cameras found you heading towards the wash, but by the time they got there, we couldn't find a trace of you two."
"not us." Cal said.
"Can you tell us what was found?" Kim asked.
"some sort of Slime substance" The Security guard said.
"Slime?" Cal asked.
"Hinky." Kim said.
"very." Cal sighed "look… you know anything else…Tell us." The Manager nodded.
Kim and Cal exited the store to find Rachel sitting on a bench.
"you never call, you never text, never write." She shook her head, "you even blocked me on facebook."
"well you cheated on me and made me feel stupid for trusting you." Cal said, "what did you want me to do?"
"aside from forgive?" Rachel asked, "not be a giant baby about it."
"he insulted me in Spanish as if he didn't have to guts to say it to me in English." Cal defended, "I cared for you, trusted you and you do that. I gave my all to you.".
"the light died out." Rachel said, "you went from Sexy boyfriend to the one who wanted to play it safe."
"well maybe I didn't want to have Kids at 17 when I wasn't even ready for it." Cal defended.
"and you think that's what I wanted?" she laughed "please, I had my whole life ahead of me."
"well you obviously had a funny way to show it." Cal was growing angry, "you could have said 'I don't want to be with you anymore' but instead you decided to play me. Use me, make me feel stupid for believing you still cared."
"I think what Cal means is…" Kim sighed "you could have ended on good terms and not cheated."
"I'm sorry who asked you?" Rachel smirked.
"someone who pretty much lost the greatest guy I can ever know over falsified black mail."
"I see." Rachel smiled "so you're not one to talk."
"that's what we're looking into now." Kim defended.
"well if you like em big then look no further." Rachel said, "that's the only difference that was between you and Connor."
"shut up" Cal growled "There was no comparison between me and Connor, I gave a shit about you. I didn't rush into things with you, when you needed help I gave it. at least I got to know you before I decided to ask you out." Kim looked at Cal and took his hand and walked away. They looked over to see Rachel walking away towards one of the exits with a look of sadness on her face.
"not a Bueno Nacho in sight" Gwen said looking around the food court.
"and no Club Banana" Ron said, "KP would never go to a mall without going into club banana."
"you try calling?" Gwen asked.
"Kimmunicator is still off" Ron answered, "and it went straight to voicemail." They sat down at a table.
"I'm not really one to worry." Gwen sighed "but…what if we went too far?"
"KP is the one I should apologize to." He smiled "her and Cal."
"yeah but do you think they'll forgive us?" Gwen asked, "Kim and Cal both have made us feel…I don't know. Better than we are."
"please you can turn heads more than I can." Ron tapped his fingers on the table.
"yeah but Cal looks me in the eye." Gwen shook her head "they've been good to us and how do we treat them?"
"like we don't trust them." He sighed "I need to apologize."
"you should apologize no matter what you do." A voice came behind them. They turned to see the familiar redhead. "if you can get a girlfriend maybe there's hope."
"I'm sorry…" Gwen said, "who are you exactly?"
"someone who made the biggest mistake of her life a few months ago." she sat down next to Gwen.
"why should I apologize for everything I do?"
"cause you're a guy" the girl answered, "it's never the woman's fault it's the guys."
"I accused my boyfriend of having feelings for someone else and not trusting he was cheated on." Gwen spoke up.
"Men cheat." The Girl said, "Women find comfort in someone else."
"that's still cheating." Ron said, "I treat her like she's the one person I lose, and I keep things from her that I think would upset her."
The three talked, Ron talked about Kim and couldn't stop talking about her, Gwen talked about Cal who even though he was their age he seemed very old. Rachel went into graphic detail about her first night with her previous boyfriend and how it ended when she started dating her now ex. Gwen blushed and confessed, she hasn't been that far with her boyfriend yet.
"So…" Kim said, "that was her?"
"That was her" Cal answered fidgeting with his gloves. "when I first…talked to her the first thing we were able to talk about was what shows we watched every night." He smiled "we talked every night for 5 weeks until I asked her out. She said yes. we dated for…3 weeks until we decided to take it to the next level. And we…god I was so nervous. She was too…"
"when did she…?" Kim began "you know…"
"New guy came to school. She thought he was attractive and was…willing to hit on her in front of me. I tried to tell her but she brushed it off." he shook his head "when I got to her place, he answered the door. I saw her behind him getting her shirt on…I was heartbroken…"
"oh." Kim sighed.
"Mom…my biological mom…wanted me to move on fast but…I didn't want to. Dad offered me a way out and I took it." He smiled "mom wasn't doing anything for me at the time. Plus she'd let in all the hardcore addicts and blew everything on booze and smokes. Caused to her divorce with her second husband."
"so you…moved to Middleton because…you wanted to get away?"
"I got away. And I wanted to keep to myself." He shook his head, "turns out the best option for me was to want to let people in. I left my problems in Tucson. I blared Hank and Waylon all throughout New Mexico. When we got to Colorado Springs, that's when I was able to let my heart mend."
"so all that wisdom…all those talks…"
"Cause I was jealous. And I knew if you didn't talk to Ron about being jealous, you would be paranoid over…I don't know. Monique."
"You're a good man Cal." Kim smiled "and I'm sorry she did that to you." She turned back on her Kimmunicator, Wade had sent her a video message about Ron trying to get a hold of them both.
"Ron's in Tucson?"
"I think Gwen is too." She called Ron back, Ron was in the Food court with Gwen. Cal got up and led the way. As they got to the Food court, they saw Gwen and Ron talking to Cals ex. Ron waved over to them, Cal looked at them both as Rachel looked at Cal, then back to Gwen, who was smiling at them. Kim looked at Cal.
"you got this." She said to him, "you've moved on. You built yourself a life in Middleton, you have friends and a girlfriend who loves you." She smiled "how many people said goodbye to you when you left here?"
"None." He sighed "I was a loner."
"I'm not one to…make people feel like shit." Kim said looking over to Rachel who winked at him, "but in this case, I would definitely be on board to do so." They walked over to the table. Kim picked up her boyfriend by the face and gave him a kiss. Cal sat next to Gwen who set down a bag.
"my way of saying sorry." She sighed. He took out the stuffed Pokémon and smiled, "I think…I was in the wrong to call you out on your…life before."
"What?" Rachel asked.
"he was wronged." She shook her head "by you. Cals Genuine. He's sweet. He looks me in the eye even if I did want him to look at me." She smiled "face it, you had the best thing in the world, and you left him hanging. Where were you when he needed someone?" she looked at Cal "when we get home, My treat. I'll cook you something and we can spend the rest of the night or so in the garage working on something." Cal scoffed a laugh, he smiled and looked at her.
There was No ill-will. Rachel finally broke down and said her boyfriend cheated on her and he called her out. It took her until 4 days ago to realize she needed to change. She asked Cal for forgiveness in which he accepted. As the Group left the mall, Rachel stayed behind.
"be good to him" she smiled, Gwen nodded. she walked back over and wrapped her arms around Cal.
"I Love you." Cal smiled. She looked at Cal and gave him a kiss.
"I Love You, Too."
The friends spent the rest of the trip in Tucson. Ron wondered how people were able to get a license. Kim asked about the White Bicycles on the side of the road, Cal Tensed up. Gwen noticed the various sizes and took his hand.
"oh…" she said.
"This is why you watch for bikes." Cals voice cracked.
"I gotta say," Kim said, "Tucson is…Rather lovely."
"it had it's moments." He shook his head, "but…that's not where my hearts at." He folded his arms "Let's go home." Cal smiled at his friends.
The Two couples sat at the Restaurant Cal Mentioned several times. They laughed as Cal talked about the time he got detention for being late to class because he needed to take a detour to get to school.
After a brief silence it was Gwen who spoke up.
"we're just worried." She sighed as she ran her hand through her hair.
"Why is that?" Cal asked his girlfriend.
"it's because Ron and I…" she looked at Ron, "well, we're dating you two."
"I think what she means is that…" Ron sighed, "we…trust you guys." He looked at Cal "I mean…she looks at you the same way KP looks at me, ME. Of all people."
"is this about the pictures?" Kim asked.
"we know you wouldn't do anything like that" Gwen said, "but it did hurt."
"well if we knew what it was that was impersonating us, then maybe we can narrow it down." Kim took her boyfriend's hand.
"we can go based on the clues we found." Cal smiled, "but Right now...i want to go home."
"I think..." Ron smiled at Kim, "we all need that right now."
Will our Heroes ever Find Who is behind the impersonation. and what is the Green Goo found at the scene.
Wrote that on a whim because i discovered i didn't edit it completely before uploaded the chapter on here.
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Til then