Chapter 7: Backyard Fun

Shego and Rose were about to leave the kitchen and head into the backyard when they heard someone outside the kitchen running through the corridor. They exchanged worried glances, Shego lit her hands up with her power and Rose took off a Pokeball from her belt. The door slowly opened and the girls stilled their breaths... that certain someone walked in... it was Drakken.

"Oh, speak of the devil!" Shego smirked, though relieved it wasn't Kim Possible. "Lonely in the laboratory or did your Spycam run out of power?"

Drakken scowled at her, then walked over to the fridge, opening it and rummaging through for something. "I'm hungry, can't I get something to eat without your tauntness behind my back?"

"Well excuse me for even caring what you were up to!" Shego snapped, her hands formed fists and glowed slightly. "I was only trying to be nice."

"I know, and I don't blame you," Drakken sighed, he pulled a plate out of the fridge, pushing the door shut with his foot. The plate contained doughnuts covered in plastic-wrap (1)."If you're hungry, help yourselves to these doughnuts."

"Thanks anyway," Rose denied politely. "Shego and I were just about to go into the backyard. There's a garden and a swimming pool not that far from here... I know there's a meadow and a beach, too."

"I suppose you know a lot about this house, since it was your home recently?" Drakken asked, not really sure.

"Actually, my vacation-home." Rose nodded. "I've been here on vacation four years ago with my cousin and we invited our boyfriends."

"I see, so that boy with the Pikachu was your cousin's boyfriend... What about the other boy?"

Rose narrowed her eyes in annoyance. "Tracey is just my friend... not my boyfriend!"

Drakken was confused. "So who was this other boy?"

"Why are you interested all of a sudden?" Shego asked. "There's nothing you could do, Drakken."

The doctor was about to comment back when Rose interrupted, "Hey, I don't mind explaining how my boyfriend cheated on me with my friend's girlfriend. It happened two years ago, no big really. The guy is already married and probably has a child by now."

"And you haven't been lonely or depressed?"

"Neither, Drakken." Rose replied, though she had more hidden. "Okay, so I went out on a few dates with my friend... didn't work out as well, but we're still good friends."

The doctor understood, he got up from his seat. "If you're going outside, include me in, there's nothing else that I need to do in the Laboratory."

"Not unless you count the Spycam," Shego added, snickering. Drakken sneered at her for that, ignoring his mind screaming out a good comeback for the comment. Then again, he really didn't want to get Shego mad and fried with her glowing hand power.

Rose laughed. "As much as I love this, you two should cut back on the bickering... you sound like little kids."

"Little... little kids?" Shego raised her eyebrow, half-insulted but not really.

Rose giggled, but faltered as if scared. "Yeah, little... LIKE FIVE YEAR OLDS!"

"Hold up, there's something wrong here." Drakken replied, folding his arms and staring the girl down sternly.

"What?" Rose questioned, she saw that he was indicating downward. "Oh... my shoes?"

"I don't want my floor scuffed up," Drakken told her firmly. "Take them off."

"Okay," Rose said, taking off her spiky black high-heeled sandals. Without the shoes, she felt as if she shrunk two inches.

Drakken was grinning from ear to ear, like he had played a card game and cheated to win. (2) "Who you calling little now?"

Rose had to look up to the doctor and his assistant, she was only a foot shorter than Drakken and five inches shorter than Shego, but then felt like a teenager all over again. Even though she realized the height difference, she knew how to get revenge.

"You are," Rose smiled, she ran out of the kitchen and out the backdoor, barefoot.

Shego was laughing, not as if teasing someone, but just because it was funny. "Oh, that was good. So we suppose to go outside and bring her back in?"

"Not exactly, Shego." Drakken replied, smirking. "We'll go outside, but not to get Rose though. I haven't seen the backyard since we first moved here, so let's get going."

They headed out of the backdoor and into the back garden, it was huge. A patio table and chairs were set out in the middle of the lawn which was bordered by different colored rose bushes, a set of swings were off to the left and a hammock had been tied up between a couple of Palm trees at the bottom of the garden.

"Well I must admit," Drakken said, approving the surroundings. "The Machavelli family has excellent taste in horticulture."

"Tell me about it," Shego agreed.

"Just look at all these rose bushes!" Drakken pointed out. "I guess the female Machavelli's must really like roses."

"You don't say," Shego replied with a grin, "I'd never have guessed."

Drakken grinned back at her, knowing she was only joking with him.

"Hey guys!" Rose jumped in appearance, interrupting the calm moment. "Come on, I wanna show you something!"

They walked over to a signpost that was stuck into the ground next to the hammock. There were signs pointing to a swimming pool and to the meadow.

"I guess your family doesn't want us to get lost." Drakken said, nodding to the sign.

Rose nodded in agreement, "I know my ways around this place. So where do you want to go from here?"

"Let's check out the swimming pool, it sounds interesting." Shego replied.

"Okay, let's go." Rose said.

They followed the path that led down to the swimming pool, which turned out to be a large lake at the base of a large waterfall.

Shego grinned, it was a really beautiful sight and tranquil too, but the peace was soon shattered by a scream and the sound of someone landing in the water. Shego turned to see Rose splashing about in the water, shouting obscenities at Drakken whom was laughing in the non-evil way.

The peace returned, Rose swam away from Drakken and closer to where Shego was standing. She was still muttering incoherent words under her breath, wanting to get revenge.

Shego smirked and decided to help, she saw Drakken now standing close to the edge looking out at the jungle. Grinning sneakily, she tiptoed up behind the doctor and pushed. With a yelp, Drakken tumbled into the water but not before grabbing hold of Shego and pulling her in after him.

Rose cracked up laughing, watching Shego smack Drakken upside his head playfully. Probably didn't mind that they were wet, it was so hot there anyway.

They spent the rest of the day in the pool messing around and having fun, of course.

§To Be Continued§

(1) They are actually riceballs with sweet fruit filling.
(2) Card Clash on the Kim Possible website, I was beaten by both Drakken and Shego, and with both decks! UGH!