VEILS OF SECRECY

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Security

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"SHEGO! SHEGO, LET ME IN, PLEASE!"
Shego awoke to a frantic pounding at her door.
"It's Adrena!"
"No, really?" Shego grumbled as she kicked the bedclothes off her body. She set herself on the floor and sauntered to the door, blinking the last traces of slumber from her eyes.
Her drowsiness evaporated the second she saw Adrena standing in her doorway. The pale-haired girl was shaking tremendously from head to foot, her eyes wide as saucers.
"What's wrong?" Shego questioned, concerned.
"I had a nightmare...c...can I stay with you?" Adrena begged in a frantic whisper.
Shego wrapped one arm protectively around Adrena's waist. "Of course."
Adrena and Shego lay down; Shego jerked the sheets up over both of their heads. Adrena curled up against Shego's body. She was still trembling. Instead of asking what about the nightmare had so terrified Adrena, Shego stroked Adrena's shoulder blades until the muscles in her back unknotted.

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"Not so extreme after all, are you?" came the singsong, taunting voice from above her.
Adrena felt her eyes expand as Kim Possible swerved and dipped violently, as if thrown into a whirlpool. Adrena's vision spun; she couldn't see, and dizziness gripped her. If Kim Possible dropped her...!
"Are you?" The words drilled into Adrena's brain.
"No," Adrena moaned as the ground rushed up to meet her, then immediately fell away. Adrena's stomach heaved. Her limbs flapped uselessly behind her; if she fell, her legs would be jelly when she landed, and would snap easily.
Suddenly Kim Possible's tight grip on Adrena's arms vanished. She was spiralling in midair, plummeting to the solid, unforgiving ground. Adrena screamed, a panicked, keening sound, as she plunged towards the earth headfirst...
"Adrena! Wake up!"
Adrena woke drenched in cold sweat, wrapped in Shego's comforting arms.
"You were thrashing like a fish out of water. What the hell were you dreaming about?" Shego demanded.
"I dreamed Kim Possible flying me around with her jetpack and she dropped me." Adrena whimpered. "I thought...maybe with you nearby..."
"I will rip her heart out for scaring you so bad." Shego promised, holding Adrena even tighter. "Just a few weeks until we watch Kim Possible go down. Just a few more weeks." Shego pulled away from Adrena. "Lie on your stomach." she commanded. Adrena obeyed, and Shego deeply massaged the shivering girl's back. "Better?"
"Mm-hmm," Adrena breathed. Her pulse was beginning to sound more like a human heart and less like a herd of stampeding buffalo.
"You sleep," Shego murmured gently.

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When Adrena stirred the following morning, she found Shego already awake; she had been lying motionless so as not to disrupt Adrena's sleep.
"Mmmm...hey, Shego," Adrena sighed, burying herself against the older villainess. She pressed her face against the dark-haired woman's neck, loving the feel of Shego's tender skin beneath her lips. "Do we have to get up now?"
"We don't have to do anything." Shego smiled, caressing Adrena's small, coiled-up body. "See, we're villains. We have no rules."
"Works for me," Adrena replied breathily, her lips moving down to Shego's chest. Shego suddenly flipped Adrena onto her back, her mouth against Adrena's neck.
Startled by how easily Shego had moved Adrena's body--against her will--Adrena stiffened. Shego noticed, and backed off instantly.
"Did I hurt you?"
"No...I'm just...startled. Can we just lie here?"
"Of course. Whatever you want."
Shego lay motionless, and Adrena tucked her head into the cup of the other woman's shoulder. Shego let out a contented moan and draped her arm protectively across Adrena's back.
"Shego?"
"Hmmm?"
"You know how you sort of flipped me over a few seconds ago? Can you try not to do that? Please?"
"Reminds you of being thrown around by a biatch wearing a jetpack?"
"Yes."
"I'll be gentle with you. I don't want you to be scared. I care too much about you."
Adrena smiled and nuzzled Shego's side. "Thanks."
The two girls lay there for a long time. They only stirred when Adrena's stomach growled.
"Was that an earthquake?" Shego smirked, sitting up.
"Sorry. They barely fed me in prison."
"No kidding. Come on, let's get you something to eat."
Shego stood up, and Adrena followed suit, catching up with Shego and taking her hand.
Adrena followed the dark-haired villainess to the kitchen. They ate sitting at the table. Adrena sat with her chair right next to Shego's, her head resting on Shego's shoulder.
"Adrena, are you glued to me and I don't know it?"
"No. I want to be with you, that's all."
Shego slowly trailed one fingertip down Adrena's arm. "Don't get the wrong idea. It's not like I mind. But to change the subject, I should probably show you how we're going to crush Kimmie after we're finished eating."
Adrena kissed Shego's cheek lightly. "Whatever you say."

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Later, Shego reviewed exactly what the two girls would do to bring Kim down. Adrena was paying complete attention to Shego--but that didn't necessarily mean she was listening to what the other woman was saying.
"So, whatever you do, don't let Kimmie tick you off. If you lose it and try to attack her too early, the whole plot will go down the toilet...are you listening to me?"
"Not really," Adrena replied dreamily, stroking the nape of Shego's neck.
"If you don't listen, I will hurt you. Okay? Now pay attention." Shego turned Adrena's head towards the floorplan of the building they would be using in their trap.
Adrena tried to pay attention, but Shego's arm sliding down from her face to her waist was a bit distracting.
"Are you listening now?"
"Mm-hmm." Adrena replied absently.

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The days passed quickly after that. Adrena and Shego made a few trips to the warehouse, where they ran over the plan. Adrena would have to stall Kim and Ron so Shego could come up from behind and push the two crime-fighting teens through a trapdoor. They would fall into a pit set with iron spikes. No chance of escape.
Adrena rarely spent time in her own room. At night, she slept next to Shego, so when she woke from a nightmare, Shego would be there to calm her down.
"Tomorrow's the day we put the plan into action," Shego whispered one night. "Hopefully that will put an end to your nightmares."
"Tomorrow," Adrena whispered back, running her fingers through Shego's silken hair.

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A/N: Chapter 5 will be up ASAP.