It had been five minutes since Shego's tired head had hit her pillow and thousands of miles away, Kim Possible was just pulling out of an uneasy slumber. She was feeling much like the way Shego was at the time: everything hurt and she didn't ever want to move again. A painful moan bubbled out of her throat and she struggled to sit up. Her shoulder almost blinded her with pain and she allowed herself to fall back down onto her pillows. From just those brief movements, Kim's head pounded furiously and she felt nauseated.
"The hell is wrong with me..?" She groaned, pressing a trembling hand to her throbbing forehead. As she finished speaking, her door burst open and a nurse hurried in. It was the one her mother had talked to earlier, Julie. She was carrying a tray of food, soup and crackers it looked like. Julie smiled and pulled a table looking thing over Kim's bed and set the tray down.
"Good morning, sunshine. I expect your hungry...Well, actually, I doubt it, that concussion is probably making you dizzy, eh?" Julie asked, folding her arms over her chest. Kim nodded weakly and her hand dropped back down to the bed.
"Anything else giving you grievances?" Julie asked looking over Kim, her eyes stopping on her injured body parts, particularly her leg. Kim thought for a moment and looked over at her shoulder.
"That one hurts..a lot.." Kim said, unsure why it would. Then the flashbacks hit her with the force of a kick to the shin. She remember Shego's heel slamming down onto her shoulder, a painful crack, blows and blows to her face, nothing for a moment, and finally an unholy pain in her leg. Kim remembered Ron picking her up, a bitchy Army medic, and a helicopter flight. No more after that, though..
Julie had remained quiet and still while Kim reminisced. Kim looked up at her, questions burning fire in her eyes. The nurse nodded and pushed graying hair out of her face.
"Well, let's start with your head. While you were fighting that girl-"
"Shego." Kim corrected her, though why she did not know.
"Shego, then. When you were fighting her, she delivered a couple of pretty decent hits to your head, giving you that wonderful concussion. It seems that right before that, she dislocated your shoulder. Then there's your leg. That thing is pretty bad...Really bad. She hit your main artery and you nearly bled to death. Nice, eh?" She said, shaking her head. Kim was looking at the nurse in disbelief; Shego had left her there to die and she couldn't comprehend it. Sure, Shego was capable of murder, but to actually carry it out?
"Yeah, it's was pretty bad." Julie said, misinterpreting Kim's shocked expression. "But you'll be out of here in no time at all. You'll just have to take it easy, very easy." She continued, offering a smile. Kim returned it, shaking slightly.
"Your parents will be in here soon and I'm going to leave you some pain medication. Don't take them until after they leave because you'll be out cold afterwards; they're pretty powerful."
Kim nodded at the nurse as she set two green pills on her table/desk. "If you're feeling better, eat your soup." Julie finished turning and leaving her room.
It didn't take too long before her mother. father, and Ron burst into the room. Ron was all smiles and so was her father, but her mother looked livid.
"It's about time they let me in to see my own daughter. It's not as though I don't know what's wrong with you.." She hissed, immediately striding over to Kim and adjusting her blankets, puffing up her pillows, etc. Kim's dad shook his head slightly and Ron took a step away from the female Dr. Possible.
"Heh, Mom? You feeling okay?" Kim asked, smiling sheepishly at her mother.
"Now that I can actually see my daughter with out getting yelled at, yes, I'm feeling just fine, Kimmie." Her mother said, the anger that had been visible on her face draining away. Dr. Possible looked her daughter over for a moment before sighing.
"Looks like you'll be in here for a week or so and you'll have to take it easy after you get out of here.." She said, shaking her head. "Kim, maybe it's time you started back off on these 'missions'."
Kim was almost beside herself with fury. Ron looked as though the entire idea of Kim backing off from anything was ludicrous; Rufus had popped out of Ron's pant pocket and glared up at Dr. Possible.
"Mom, you can't be serious..Shego and Drakken just stole the one thing that would guarantee their plots for world domination." Kim said, clenching her fists.
"Kim, I understand that, but look at you! Your face is bruised up, your shoulder is swelled to almost twice its size, and you have a hole in your leg the size of a quarter! You could die if you keep this up.." Her mother said, wringing her hands together. Kim shook her head.
"It's my life or all of yours and I refuse to be the one who stepped down and let Shego and Drakken take over the world." Kim replied swiftly.
"But, Kim, that Shego, or whoever you're talking about, would have killed you. Why don't you leave this to the Army, or something?" Dr. Possible urged on, but Kim shook her head.
"If Shego would have killed me, imagine what she would do to anyone who was being paid to kill her. She would so wouldn't step down. She wants to kill me, so I'll give her the chance. Everything is at stake for both of us, Mom." Kim continued, her face set.
"Bu-" Dr. Possible began.
"Enough. I've made up my mind. I have to stop them. At all costs." She finished deliberately and glaring around at all of them as though daring them to question her.
Ron grinned. "KP, it's not going to be just you! It's going to be the Ron Stoppable/Kim Possible Team!" He said, standing up straighter. Kim grinned fiercely at him and sat up, despite the pain that flared up in her arm.
"You're right, Ron. But! First thing's first...I gotta take my medicine." Kim said, reaching down to the table and picking up her pills. "If you all would excuse me, I'm going to have to go to sleep; these pills are supposed to be strong." Kim said, grinning sheepishly again. Her parents sighed but said nothing and exited the room. Ron, however, stayed and watched her gulp down her pills.
"Get better, KP. We have to take those two down, Stoppable style!" He said, looking arrogant and smug. So much so that Kim broke out laughing and laid down.
"Alright, Ron, I will. Now, lemmie.....sleep.." She said, her voice trailing down to a whisper as she drifted back into sleep. Ron smiled faithfully at her and left the room as well, switching off her light.
Not a word was spoken as the Possible's dropped Ron off at his house or as they entered their own home. It seemed it would take a while before they stopped absorbing themselves in their own thoughts..
A/N: Well, Kimmie's alive and desprately wanting to tear into Shego and Drakken, mostly Shego though. xD. It'll take a while, but I'm almost sure Kim'll recover perfectly. Next chapter, Shego is in training! I can't decide how much Shego will be able to fine tune her skills with the ring, but we'll see, we'll see. Also, for the record, the dear nurse Julie was not my OC, she was just a guest star. I think you'll all like her when she's introduced later on, but only for a while though =).