It's A Stoppable Life

AN: Hah, so sorry for taking forever for adding a new chapter! Algebra homework was trying to kill me; my internet connection was trying to commit digital suicide, and top it all off I've been sick. So here's the long awaited chapter 7, and if this chapter is short or anything (I don't think it is .. but if it is ..) then don't worry cause the nest chapter is going to be extra long and full of Ron/Kim shipper-ness and stuff, and I know you'll all love it! Boo-yah! So for now, enjoy chapter 7, and thank you all for the reviews! Oh and one more note, no one should complain about this being a short chapter because after finishing it, it's about 10 pages long on Word, and over 4,000 words, Boo yah! So in other words, it's rather one of the longest chapters, which is surprising considering it was suppose to be one of the shorter chapters. Oh well, enjoy! - Jessie

Chapter 7: Cold Changes By Jessie

As fast as snapping, or wooshing as Ron called it, seemed to be, there was nothing more whip snapping fast than the sudden chill that overcame Ron. He hadn't realized it before, but Hollywood was very warm, even in the winter, even though it had it's weird weather, it was till rather warm, even if everyone there was saying it was freezing.

Now that they were in Middleton again, or at least, Junior Ville, where snow lay on the ground, he remembered how cold it was, how bone chilling.

And the thought of him not existing was easily ten times more bone chilling. His mind brought him back to earlier, he thought, as he fallowed Marilyn and Remus through the snow to where ever they were headed, it was wasn't that long ago Ron was practically on the brink of death. Sure he and Kim had been in near-death experiences before, but Ron never remembered a time before where Kim wasn't there, and he didn't have that feeling she was going to save him in time. You know, even when Kim and Ron are separated, and one of them, usually Ron, is in mortal danger, Ron could always feel, in his heart that Kim was right around the corner, ready to save him at any cost.

That's what Ron really liked about Kim, he knew she was always there, if anything else, take her looks away, take her smile, her eyes, hair, take away all the things people think are important in love, and Ron knew she was always right there.

But when Ron felt that car coming, he didn't know what to think, maybe it was because this time he had put himself in danger, no villain had captured him, and he had betrayed Kim, he had run from her, from everyone, and away from that safety, into a place where danger loomed, and no one could hear him. Maybe Kim had betrayed him, he didn't know, all he knew was that he was cold, and he lacked a best friend at the moment. Even in the most freezing of temperatures, Ron knew without Kim, there was nothing colder.

Rubbing his arms, and blinking, in order to make sure his eyelids weren't frozen together, he let out a breath which instantly turned to ice. Dang, it wasn't his imagination, it really was freezing. How come it wasn't this cold earlier when Marilyn and Remus had rescued him? Maybe he hadn't thought about it, maybe he hadn't notice.

"Where are we going?" Ron said as loud as he could, hoping Marilyn and Remus would hear him, he could barely hear himself.

Marilyn and Remus turned around, Ron notice they didn't look that cold, they seemed perfectly casual, like they could easily get in bathing suits and feel just as cozy in this weather. Marilyn instantly noticed Ron's shivering, "Oh you poor dear," Ron almost gave her a crazy look, but then kept reminding himself that she wasn't Shego, she was Marilyn. Marilyn took her palm and touched Ron's forehead, almost instantly Ron felt like he was in Hollywood again.

Letting out a deep breath, "W-why d-didn't y-you d-d-do that b- before?" Ron tried as hard as possible to shake off the frozen feeling.

"Didn't realize we forgot to make you warm again, I'm sorry," One thing that didn't look normal on Marilyn, was because she was in Shego's body, was that she had an innocent, sweet look on her face, like she was really apologizing, but with Shego, you'd only get an 'I'm sorry' out of her if she were being sarcastic.

"It seems weird," Ron said, as he finally spoke normal again, "You don't seem to be as pushy or easily ticked off as you were not too long ago."

For once Ron was noticing something that he should have noticed, Ron suddenly felt cold again, as Marilyn and Remus frowned, it wasn't the weather, he felt an ice cube inside.

"We just," Marilyn sort of avoided his gaze, "Don't want you to feel - what's the word?" She looked to Remus for help, being new at this, sometimes it was hard to explain things.

"We don't want you to feel guilty, or anything like that," Remus finished for her.

"Yeah, that's it," Marilyn nodded, not looking too happy.

Ron scoffed, "Why would I feel guilty?" Obviously trying to hide the truth, we all know Ron is one of the most sensitive guys, like, ever.

"About Monique," Marilyn sighed, taking her hand and pushing some loose hair behind her ear.

"Dude, just spit it out already, I mean, it's not like I'm in love with her, and how big of a change could it be?" Ron crossed his arms, waiting for an answer.

It is true; Ron and Monique are only friends, and only friends they will always be. After all, we know who Ron really loves, as if that isn't totally obvious. However, even just friends, or not friends at all, you never know how much you effect peoples lives until, well, you get a couple of angels to show you what life would be like without you. Even if that doesn't happen every day, not that any of us would know.

Marilyn and Remus led Ron into the Junior Ville Mall, which, just as Ron suspected, didn't look that much different. All his favorite stores were still there, and he even saw some people he recognized walking around, not looking that much different, at least as far as he could tell. Minus out the fact that everything was a bit more Junior-tized, it was all relatively normal.

"Ooh! A sale on plushies at the Disney store," Ron's eyes lit up like a five year old in a candy store, Marilyn quickly dragged him past the Disney store as Ron sighed in disappointment.

Remus looked around and nodded, "This is the place," All three of their eyes drifted up to the store's name.

"Club Banana," Ron read, for possible the millionth time, "Yeah, well I know Kim and Monique are into that store, but I prefer Smarty Mart," Marilyn shuddered at the thought of discount clothes, then again, when you're an angel you can get clothing for free, so it's not like she has had to deal with discount clothing for a while.

Marilyn looked back to Ron, "Lets go inside," And within a second the three were waltzing into the store, of course, with going through the solid doors.

Ron shivered, "Dang that's so cool," He laughed and looked at Marilyn and Remus, "How do you guys get used to that? It's so freaky!"

I don't think it really needs to be typed that Marilyn and Remus rolled their eyes, I'm pretty sure even the author is rolling her eyes at this point.

"So, what's different about," Ron's mouth dropped open as his train of thought came to a crashing halt as soon as his eyes gazed at the mess inside Club Banana.

Dr. Drakken was filling up bags of money from the cash register, as a self-centered teen employee stood idly away as she attempted to blow her freshly painted nails dry. Shego was fighting with those Team Impossible kids, and nearby she had a few bags full of stolen Club Banana merchandise. However, what had Ron most baffled was that helping along side Shego was none other than Monique.

"Monique? Working with Drakken and Shego?" Ron had to rub his eyes to make sure he was seeing what he was seeing.

Monique did a running flip and grabbed a shirt off the rack, and then did a cartwheel back to Shego, "What do you think about this shirt? Bad color?"

Shego grunted as she attempted to kick James Rhond away from her, "Honestly, does it matter? Just grab everything and lets get out of here!"

Scoffing, Monique shook her head, "I wouldn't be caught dead with bad clothing in MY closet," Monique overlooked the shirt again, "Hmm, I think I have some pants that'll match this."

"Yeah, that's Monique alright," Ron said dully, but then shaking his head, he turned to Marilyn and Remus, once again, in confusion, "So how'd Monique become evil and join forces with Drakken and Shego?"

Ron looked back and saw Roxy had stopped fighting and was caught up with browsing the clothing.

Roxy hummed, as she and Monique seemed to be going through the clothing, "I wish I had a clothing brand named after me," Roxy sighed as she leafed through some pants, and Monique gave her a weird look.

"Shouldn't you be fighting Shego?" Monique asked.

Roxy shook her head, "No, no, that's James's job," She held up a while shirt with a big red heart on it, "You think this would look cute on me with a denim skirt?"

"Oh totally," Monique nodded.

"You know for a villain you have good fashion taste," Roxy pointed out as she continued to browse, Monique replied with a small 'thanks'.

Marilyn shrugged, "Kim met Monique through you Ron, so, you know, without you, Monique was just another kid who never met Kim Possible, and one day Drakken and Shego decided they wanted to apprentice someone, so they kind of abducted Monique. She's not that good at it really," They observed for a moment Monique yelling to Shego she'd be right back, saying she needed to try a skirt on, "But, she does have some good moves when she feels like using them."

Ron nodded silently, but he was busy watching James and Shego fight.

"Why don't you just give up now little Jimmy-Boy," Shego grinned, "You know it would be so embarrassing if a girl beat you up," Shego spun around and lunged a foot at him. Jame's eyes narrowed and he blocked the foot and kicked back at Shego, sending her back, crashing into a dressing room.

"James Rhond doesn't give in that easily Shego!" James stood in such a heroic way, you know, hands on the hips, proud and brave smile on his face.

Ron laughed, "That was such a hero thing to say!" Ron smiled and looked at Marilyn and Remus, then back to the action. Some how however, Shego had knocked down James with practically the blink of an eye.

Drakken held many bags full of money in his arms, "Are you ready Shego? Monique? We need to get out of here fast before the police show up, quick, to the get-away floating car thingy!"

Shego jumped out of the dressing room, several bags of stolen clothing with her, "It's called a hover car genius!"

Drakken waved his free hand in a 'pish-posh' way, mumbling, "Whatever."

"Yo Shopping Queen-y, you done?" Shego yelled to the dressing rooms, as Monique ran out, nearly tripping on some loose medals and clothing pieces on the floor that had scattered during some of the fighting Shego had done.

"I'm coming!" She shrieked as she skipped over random things.

With in seconds as Roxy helped up the fallen James, the three villains were gone, and the rumble of clothing and mess just sat there like ruins.

The self-absorbed teen employee walked up to Roxy, "Do, like, my nails look dry? I would, yanno, call the police, but I wanna be sure like my nails are dry so I don't mess them up while dialing on the phone." Roxy simpled narrowed her eyes and grunted.

Ron rubbed the back of his neck, "Gee, I really wasn't expecting Monique to have that big of a change cause of me. Wouldn't the more logical big change would be something like Shego and Drakken turning out nice?"

Remus and Marilyn shrugged, and then Remus replied, "Ah, well, they were already evil before they met you, so really, there's no reason for them to have that much change."

Ron nodded, "Good point," and then took a deep breath, "Where to next?" Ron held his stomach as he heard it growl, "Hey, do angels eat? Could we stop by Bueno Nacho and get some grande sized snack-age? I'm starving!"

Bitting her lip, Marilyn said nothing, and just nodded, not even looking at Remus. She snapped her fingers and they were outside again, somewhere.

Ron looked around, scratching his head, "Umm, ok, where are we?"

Remus looked at Marilyn, they must have been able to read each others minds, because Remus had a look on his face like he was yelling at her for taking them there, and Marilyn had a pleading look on her face, apologizing. Some how a pleading face on someone who looked like Shego didn't look that natural.

"We're .. at .. Bueno Nacho," Remus said slowly.

Ron turned to them, "Ok, what's up with this, I know my Bueno Nacho, and this is not Bueno Nacho, this is just some street with an old store or something is in ruins. Maybe you miss understood," Ron cleared his throat, "Bueno Nacho, the Mexican fast food place, with the big hat ..thing .. and .." Ron paused, "Why do you guys have that look?"

"What look?" Marilyn replied way too quickly.

Ron's voice became shaky, "That, 'there's no Bueno Nacho without you Ron' look."

"Turn around Ron," Remus sighed.

Ron suddenly saw, right there, his heart sunk. His beloved Mexican Hat that had once sat proudly atop of Bueno Nacho, was just now broken pieces of where Bueno Nacho had once stood.

"No ," Ron's mouth formed, but he didn't hear the words come out of his mouth.

"We're sorry Ron," Marilyn kept her eyes to the ground, the worst thing was that she knew this was only the beginning of the horrible things he was going to see.

"How'd this happen?" Ron didn't feel tears at his eyes, but they were certainly pouring, if not on his face, in his heart.

Remus didn't give Ron full eye-contact, "Well Ron, you're Bueno Nacho's number one customer. No one eats as much there as you do, and without you, Bueno Nacho went out of business a long time ago."

Ron let out a deep breath he had been holding in, "Geez, it's like the world is upside down without me."

Thoughts ran through Ron's brain, one thought stained his train of thought in particular. You guessed it, he was having another flash back.

"Slow down Kim!" A young Ron covered his eyes as he rode on the back of Kim's bicycle. He would have gone on his tricycle, but it just isn't proper to ride a tricycle to a Restaurant opening.

"I wouldn't have had to hurry Ron if you hadn't taken an extra half an hour on deciding what to wear. You're worse than my babysitter!" Kim said in more of a teasing way than anything.

Ron crossed his arms and pouted, "Well I wasn't sure what would be right to wear to a Restaurant opening thingy!"

Kim laughed, "Ron, you are so weird."

Smiling to himself, Ron looked at Kim in a rather loving way, even though she couldn't see because she was concentrating on pedaling, he replied, "But you like me."

"Huh?" Kim raised an eyebrow; she didn't hear what Ron had said in such a soft voice.
Ron shook his head, "nothing."

Shrugging, Kim hummed back, "Whatever."

For the little while Ron continued to hang onto Kim for dear life as she put the pedal to the medal and made that little bike go as fast as it could go. Dodging every car that came near, and even ignoring the little shrieks Ron gave every time danger seemed to be lurking near, even if it wasn't really that dangerous. Example, he saw in the window of a car a little kid holding a stuffed monkey toy, Ron of course thinking it was real.

"Hang on Ron, we'll get there on time!" Kim said with an adventurous smile, "We'll just need to take a little short cut."

Ron groaned, "A short cut?" Just the thought of the extra danger made him hold onto Kim tighter.

"Don't worry Ron, I promise this time the short cut will actually be shorter than the normal way, and no way at all dangerous!" Kim said as she turned a different direction down an alley.

"Oh," Ron shivered at the darkness and creepiness.

"Just think Ron, one day we could go on real adventures all the time, it'd just be me and you. We could even fight evil if we wanted to. We could do that for a living, and even get married if we wanted to! Ooh, and we could have kids too, and they could go on adventures with us!" Kim laughed, it sounded like the perfect life to her.

Ron pondered this for a moment, "No monkeys?"

"No monkeys," Kim promised, and then gasped in shock as she came to a screeching halt. Right in front of, guess who, Bonnie, and a group of other kids. A couple looks like some future jocks and cheerleaders at Middleton High.

"Oh look, the geeks are going for a ride, going somewhere with your boyfriend Kimmie?" Bonnie crossed her arms, glared, and smirked all at once.

For a little kid, Bonnie was actually adorable, in a cute little purple dress outfit, with her short brown hair and a big purple bow, who would have ever thought she would turn out to be such an evil brat. Well, Kim and Ron certainly saw it coming.

"Move aside Bonnie," Kim glared, "Ron and I have to get to the opening of Bueno Nacho, and it opens in fifteen minutes!"

"Oh then I so need to make sure you guys don't get there on time!" Bonnie giggled evilly. Sort of like in 'The Emperor's New Groove' when Yzma turned into a kitten near the end and she had that high pitched voice, yeah, that's kind of what Bonnie's evil laugh sounded like, a freaky, disturbing, evil kitten, "Get them," She hissed.

Instantly Bonnie's midget gang ran after Kim and Ron, and it was rather scary too, I mean, a bunch of little kids ready to attack has to be scary to anyone.

"Come on Ron, this is the adventure I've been waiting for," Kim smirked, "Bring it on!"

Ron gulped and grabbed Kim's waist ultra-tightly and whimpered, "Just don't let me fall off Kim!"

Seconds later Kim was pedaling away from the kids as fast as she could pedal. Even at one point practically screwing up the laws of physics, by racing on the side walls of the alley, and then coming back in front of the kids, knocking over a bunch of trash cans to block their way, and getting to Bueno Nacho just in time.

Even though that's a rather vague way of explaining what happen, it all happened so fast that would have been impossible to explain it accurately. And that's how it all played in memory in Ron's mind anyway.

"Wow Kim," Ron breathed, after not breathing from terror for several minutes of action-packed bicycling.

Kim just smiled at him as they stood in front of the new Bueno Nacho, "No big."

Ron couldn't help it, he gave her a big hug, and he felt like he could kiss her, but suddenly his stomach growled and he knew he could kiss her some other time, right now was the time for eating. "Lets go eat!" Ron said in the ultimate victory voice as the duo headed into Bueno Nacho for the first of many, many, many, times. He recalled some point during that visit Kim and Ron had promised, through pinky swear, they would always be there for each other in every adventure they come up against, forever.

Ron snapped out of flashback mode, shaking his head. He knew one thing had crossed his mind this whole time. One thing was itching in his head to be asked, he looked at Marilyn and Remus, and gulped. Not one of those small gulps, one of those large, huge, can't-hides gulps.

Marilyn was going to ask him where he wanted to go next, but she somehow knew that question was all ready being asked in his head, and it was just killing him to find out the answer. His breath was practically shallow at this point; his mouth just couldn't form the words, though he knew he had to.

"Marilyn? Remus?" He looked at the two, just making sure they new he was ready to tell them where he wanted to go next.

"Yes, Ron?" Marilyn responded instantly. She knew what was coming, though somehow, you just need to hear it from him first, before granting him the wish. Just to make sure he knew what he wanted to see.

"I, that is, can I see," Ron rubbed the back of his neck again, something he often does when he is confused, or scared, "What I just want to ask is," His breath gave in, as soon as he exhaled, the words came out like oxygen, "Where's Kim .. without me?"

"Is that what you want to see, Ron?" Remus eyed Ron for a moment, he knew he didn't have to ask, it was pretty obvious, if he couldn't tell by now, that Ron wanted to see Kim next. He had seen a lot so far, and it really only seemed right that after this long of a wait he would be allowed to now see what Kim was like without him.

Ron felt that cold creep up inside him again, "Yeah, yeah, I want to see Kim."

Marilyn looked to Remus, "You think it's time?"

Remus nodded, "I don't think we even need to question it, lets go."

Marilyn sighd and nodded, with a snap of the fingers, and a sudden woosh, they were in front of the cozy Possible home.

Ron rubbed his eyes, he didn't even feel like cracking some silly or stupid joke about wooshing or making some comment about warning him when they would snap so he could feel prepared for it next time. Some how, his mind was way too serious at that moment for him to even think of any sort of joke to spit out. A quality that put Ron way out of character in seconds as he stood there staring at the Possible residence.

"It doesn't look different, on the outside," He quietly nodded in a low voice.

Remus shrugged uncomfortably, "Yeah, well, on the outside, this always look the same, but on the inside, everything's different."

Ron gulped, fearing the worst, what would be on the other side of those doors he knew so well? Or at least thought he knew so well. Would Kim be evil, like Monique? Would she still be a hero, with the best crime- fighting partner ever? Perhaps a better best friend, and one who happens to be that partner. Or even worse, does she have a boy friend? So many thoughts raced through Ron's mind, and he just had to know, who was replacing him?

Holding back his fear, he stood strait and turned to Marilyn and Remus, "Take me inside," He said, with every bit of courage he had in his body.

To Be Continued.