Such beautiful red hair. I want to run my hands through it and feel its softness as she lies there. I'm sure she wouldn't feel my touch. My hands, holding the sprig of heather in its vase, shake slightly. Treading as lightly as possible, I walk over to the computer desk and gently deposit my burden there. Hopefully, she will see my gift as soon as she wakes up.
Kim stirs slightly in her sleep. Do I dare approach the bed again? If she wakes up and sees me in her room, what then? That would be a disaster beyond imagining. She doesn't know me yet, doesn't trust me. But before long, I will prove myself to her. I need to get out of here. Silently as a shadow, I slip out of her room, then her house. The October night is crisp and clear, but I do not smell the scents of autumn, and my feet make no sound on the path.
Kim Possible and I are very much alike. From the time I was young, I always had a very strong sense of right and wrong, and a very strong desire to help people. I even had fantasies about being a superhero. I would pretend I could go back in time and rescue people from concentration camps, slave plantations, and disasters. Charging into the burning building while the terrified crowd outside tries to hold me back, then emerging with the trapped child in my arms to the cheers of that crowd. Pulling terrified victims from shipwrecks.
Only, sometimes I wouldn't help right away. I used to daydream about looking down on the black ocean where the Titanic went down, where all the helpless people swam in the freezing water. Watching one frantic, writhing body spasm and be still, then another. Watching them slowly, almost peacefully, sink below the waves. Eventually, I would intervene and save some- those that I chose to save. And I would still be a hero because, after all, if it wasn't for me, all would have died in my fantasy.
So I never had the means to be a hero, only the heart to be one. Well, now I have the means. And soon I will prove to you, Kim, that I am worthy of you. Because inside, we are the same. I will give you the greatest gift I can and then you will be mine.