Chapter 23: Last Days' Goodbye

The next day was the last day of the Villain Convention. It was already Friday, but it seemed like a few weeks or month went by.

Rose had been pondering over her new-second dream, it seemed so real... The kiss she shared with... her dream prince. Though realizing that the kiss would never happen again, Rose concluded it was all a dream.

"It just can't be..." Rose mumbled to herself at breakfast. She couldn't stop thinking about the dream, it was embedded in her mind and wouldn't disappear. "I know it's not true."

"What's not true?" Shego asked, seeing her cousin talk to herself.

"Oh, this dream I had yesterday. It..." Rose stopped in mid-sentence, realizing that Shego wasn't the only one listening. "There's no way I'm telling you! That's non of your business!" She got up from her seat and walked off, toward the direction of the suites.

"Something must have happened." Shego replied, resuming back to filing her nails. "If it wasn't for you guys trying to eavesdrop, she'd tell me."

"I know Gill told me yesterday that he couldn't find Rose during our game of hide & seek." Junior admitted, he received a nasty glare from Gill. "I think he then said that she didn't want to play anymore and she was sleeping or something like that."

"Yeah... What he said." Gill muttered, finishing his fish stew.

Shego suspected something wrong, she knew that's probably not true what Junior told about Rose... If she were not deep over thought of the dream she must have had. She even wondered why Monkey Fist was acting suspicious when Junior had mentioned of yesterday's hide and seek game.

Later that day, the weather was awful due to the rain from yesterday evening and it didn't look like it was gonna clear up either. No thunder or lightning, it was perfect to sit under a porch and not worry about anything.

'Let the rain fall down and wake my dreams. Let it wash away my sanity. Cause I wanna feel the thunder, I wanna scream. Let the rain fall down. I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean.'

"Rose," Shego knocked on her cousin's room door. No answer from inside, but the door was unlocked. She walked in and saw that the slides were open to the back sliding glass doors, though no sight of her cousin in the room.

Shego walked to the back doors and opened them, finding her cousin wrapped in a blanket and sitting on a lounge chair. "Hey, there you are. I've been looking for you everywhere."

Rose jumped slightly, her thoughts disturbed. "Oh, hi Shego. I was out here the whole time, it's really peaceful when it's raining like this. So I thought maybe I'd relax out here..."

"Trying not to believe that dream, huh?" Shego sat down across from her cousin in the other lounging chair.

"More than that." Rose smirked, she pulled out a box of colored pencils and a sketch pad from underneath her blanket. "The visions from my dream... they seemed so real... I drew this picture, it's not that good though."

Shego took the sketch pad and flipped it open, the first drawing was inside a beautiful ballroom and two people were dancing alone. There was a young woman with cherry-red hair wearing a shimmering purple ball gown. Dancing with the woman was a handsome man. He had jet-black hair that spiked out from his forehead, you couldn't see his facial features because he wore a monkey mask. He wore a midnight black jacket with ivory ruffles at the neck and sleeves, black gloves and boots, and cream-colored breeches.

"What do you mean the sketch isn't good?" Shego was shocked that one image from a dream could actually be remembered on pencil and paper. "This looks so real! Is that girl in the ballgown suppose to be you? And that guy with the monkey-mask..." She took a closer look at the picture. "Hey, if I didn't know better... is that suppose to be Monkey Fist?"

"No!" Rose blushed, she snatched back her sketch pad and hid it underneath her blanket. "It was... Someone else."

Shego rolled her eyes and smiled knowingly. "You can trust me, Rose. If it wasn't him, all right, but I know for a fact..."

"Okay, it was him." Rose blurred out, her face more redder. "He appeared in my dream the first time last Friday night, when you and Drakken went out and I was home alone."

"I see," Shego nodded. "So what happened in this new dream you had?"

"The same ballroom... Same masked dancers, enchanted music, different ball gown, and he was still there." Rose said dreamily. "I refer to him as my mysterious prince, since I had no idea who he was in the first place... But now I do."

"That's so sweet." Shego really meant that, and not sarcastically like she does around Drakken. "Anyway, I only came out here because Monty wants to talk to you."

"He wants to talk to me?" Rose asked, her face still rosy in blush. "It probably has to do with yesterday!"

"Maybe, but now might be your chance to admit your feelings." Shego told her cousin. "You never know what'll happen, and I don't think he'd turn you down."

Rose smiled hopefully. "You really think so?"

"Trust me," Shego nodded. "I know so." She practically knew that Monkey Fist had an infatuation with her cousin since arrival last Sunday evening up through this whole week. Of course, Shego had to confront the English Lord if it were true and her accusations were correct; though solemnly swearing that she wouldn't tell another living soul... until today.

"All right, then." Rose got up and went inside her room. "I guess I'll go over."

"Don't you wanna change into some clothes?" Shego asked, stepping inside. She smacked herself senseless when her cousin already had clothing on after pulling off the blanket.

"This is fine, right?" Rose examined her reflection in the full-length mirror in her room, wondering is she should change or not.

Rose wore a pink tube top with a white sparkly design on the front and a long black skirt with a pink sparkly design on the front and a little white bunny in the right corner. On her feet were 2-in platform sandals, and in her cherry-red hair (left down) were pink sparkling stones.

Shego sighed, though approving. "Yeah, you're fine."

They walked out of the bedroom to find Drakken and Killigan in the living room.

"I see you're not at it with the spycam." Rose said, relieved for once of that. "That better not be on when I leave."

"I'm the Boss." Drakken informed. "I should be aloud to do whatever I want."

"And what about my rights?" Rose asked, half insulted. "I may be your prisoner, but I still want my freedom!"

"You'll get your freedom when..." But a warning glace and the powered up plasma-green claws from Shego made Drakken change his mind quickly. "Okay, have your freedom, just don't hurt me!"

"You call yourself the Boss even when your assistant threatens you?" Killigan chuckled. "Ha! Dream on, blue-boy!"

"Killigan, now's not the time for wisecracks," Drakken grumbled, upset that he can't be braver than scared.

"I better go see what Monkey Fist wants me for." Rose said, walking toward the main door. "And no spying!" She opens the door and enters out, the door closes behind her.

"Thought she'd never leave." Drakken muttered, he opened his laptop and was about to start up the spycam until he realized something. "Then why am I doubting everything?"

"Doubting what?" Shego asked, looking up from reading the Villain's Digest.

"Oh nevermind." Drakken waved it off, he shuts off the laptop and closes it."

The room was silent for the time that seemed to pass by. Killigan fell asleep, Shego was almost completely done reading her magazine, and Drakken stared off into space while bored out of his mind.

"That's it!" Drakken yelled, disturbing Killigan from sleeping and Shego from reading. "I can't take it anymore! I have to know what's going on!"

"But did you have to scream so loud?" Killigan yawned, he sat up on the couch and watched Drakken start up the laptop.

Shego watched out of the corner of her eye, waiting for something to go wrong.

"You've got to be kidding?" Drakken gawked at the screen, a rectangular red box appeared and said inside in white letters 'ACCESS DENIED'. "It was just working minutes ago! Worthless piece of..."

"Didn't Rose warn you not to turn that spycam on?" Shego snickered, she knew that Rose hacked into the computer in the other suite, cutting the access power of the spycam.

Drakken growled. "She knows not to touch anything of mine, including my spycam!"

"Knock-knock" came on the door.

"Is that her already?" Drakken asked, he got up to answer the door. "It's about time..." He opened it, expecting to see Rose, but someone else. "WHAT? WHERE IS SHE?"

"Who, Rose?" Gill asked, standing outside. "Isn't this the suite that she's sharing with Shego?"

"Yeah," Shego said, pushing Drakken out of the way. "Rose isn't here, though. She's doing something with Monkey Fist."

"Oh, so that's why Drakken is with you." Gill nodded. "Anyway, since it's the last day, there's gonna be a party downstairs tonight around 8 o'clock till 11 o'clock."

"Good. We'll be down there, thanks for telling us." Drakken slammed the door in Gill's face and resumed back to the living room. He sat down and starts up the laptop again. "There's only one other way I can contact to the other computer."

Darken68 has logged on

On the screen, the list of chatrooms came up and Drakken clicked on the villain chatroom.

"Damn, he's not there!" Drakken cursed, he closed off the chatroom and clicked on his buddylist.

Monkey75 was online, but an away message was up.

Darken68: Monkey Fist? You better answer me now!

Monkey75: I am away tight now tending to monkey business. Leave a message and I will return.

Darken68: I HOPE THAT MONKEY BUSINESS DOESN'T MEAN TOUCHING MY PRISONER!

Darken68 signs off

"Will you leave Rose alone?" Shego asked, slightly annoyed. "She can take care of herself and doesn't need supervised."

"But I kidnapped her in the first place, so she's my responsibility!" Drakken whined and pouted. "If I did this alone without your help, then she'd be within my sight constantly!"

"Someone's a wee bit overprotective." Killigan chuckled. "The lassie will show at the party. No need to worry, Dr. Drakken."

"I hope so!" Drakken replied. "Cuz if she isn't, her prisonment will be enforced for a verylongtime."

Later that night, there was a party in the 'Meeting Room'. A good-bye party since it was the last day of the Villain Conversation.

There was normal conversation and then a few different card games, but then a fight of arguing over something caused a lot of confusion in the room.

"YOU... SINGING?" Rose gawked at Junior disbelievingly. "No... I really can't see you singing. There's just no way!"

"I too can sing." Junior replied, then turning to Señor Senior Senior. "Father, tell Rose that I sang before."

"It wasn't that long ago," Senor Senior Senior thought back to that dreadful day. "We almost succeeded over Kim Possible with the O'Boys kidnapped in our grasp. Yes, Junior's birthday to be exact. A perfect birthday gift were these dooms-day devices to take over the world, but it seemed that Junior wanted his one dream to come true..."

"To be an international pop sensation!" Junior finished, smiling proudly.

Rose stifled a giggle. "Oh my gosh! I really can't see you as an... INTERNATIONAL POP SENSATION!" Then she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"All right, Rosalind. That's enough." Shego replied, waiting with the others so they could continue their game in silence.

"Sorry," Rose said, embarrassed. "Anyway, so what happened on your birthday? With the O'Boys?"

"Kim Possible took away the O'Boys." Junior frowned. "I never became an international pop sensation, but I did have my own show."

"Oh, I remember being told this." Rose nodded, a full-blown smile on her face. "Seems that the audience was dead that night, or so I heard you were not so sensational or popular."

"You say you're better that me?" Junior asked, annoyed of rivalry.

"Those words never even crossed my mind," Rose said.

"Unless you're hiding more information." Shego smirked.

"Rose narrowed her eyes, annoyed. "No, I am most certainly not."

"Sure," Shego rolled her eyes, using that tone of voice that said 'I know you're lying'.

"Fine, whatever," Rose grabbed her backpack and walked toward the door.

"And just WHERE are you going?" Drakken asked, curious of her whereabouts.

"To bed, I want a good nights' sleep if we're leaving tomorrow morning." Rose was half way out the door. "As they always say: Early to bed, early to rise makes a girl smart, pretty, and wise. Ta-ta!" She waves and closes the door upon leaving.

So the party continued on until 11 o'clock, then everyone decides to head up to sleep.

The week had gone by so fast, it was now time to leave. Rose had lots of fun meeting new people and forming friendships, growing closer to her cousins, and falling in love. She couldn't possibly ask for anything more unless given to her on a silver platter.

§To Be Continued§

This chapter ends the Villain Convention, but not the rest of this series. Review this if you must and I shall post up chapter 25 ASAP. Thanks!