Kim Possible: The Sociopath Episode

Everyone except Valia Ryan and Nev Killbourne were made by Bob and Mark.

Chapter 21: Conclusion

Something bright. Blinding.

"Is she waking up?" a familiar voice asked.

Kim was slowly coming to, finding herself in a hospital bed. "Am I...? Where..."

Her parents were next to her, her mom grabbing her hand. "You're in the hospital, Kimmie. You're going to be okay. They found you earlier this morning on the shore of Upperton Lake, and you're back in Middleton."

Her attention went elsewhere, "And Ron? What about Ron?"

Her dad pointed to her other side. Ron on another bed with Rufus on his lap.

He gently waved at her. "Hey."

"Hey," she smiled back.

"We'll leave you two kids alone." her dad smiled as he got up with her mom and walked out of the room.

"What happened?" Kim asked.

"Sounds like Val's disrupting signal went dead when we destroyed his suit, letting Wade get a lock on us," Ron replied, "They found us on the shore unconscious, alive, but barely. They said I had my arm around you."

Kim tried to reach her hand out towards Ron, and he placed his hand in hers.

"Ron?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks."

He turned towards her, "For what?"

"Coming for me. I don't know what would happen if you didn't show up."

Ron turned shy, staring at the ceiling. "Well, I had to do what I had to do, KP. That's what best friends are for… I mean, I'm just glad you're all right."

Kim of course, knew that even if they were going out, they were still best friends in a sense. Both sighed in relief. It was all over and they were alive.

"Um, Ron, you said it was three weeks, right?"

"Uh, yep."

"When's graduation?"

Ron froze. "Uh..."

At this point, Rufus was pointing to the calendar. It was this coming weekend, and it was only Tuesday. Her parents came back in at the sound of graduation. Kim almost shook her hand off of Ron's as a reflex, but didn't.

"Don't worry, Kimmie-cub. It's all taken care of," her dad spoke.

"When we found this note, we had a feeling Ron wouldn't let us down," her mom resumed, "So, we ordered your graduation cap and gowns, and the school is well-aware of the situation."

In Mrs. Possible's hands lay the note Ron left behind.

"Let me see that!" Kim excitedly demanded, grabbing the note from her mom.

"KP!" It was one of those things he was too embarrassed to show her.

Her parents again left the room, her mom with a smile on her face.

Kim read parts of the letter out loud. "Kim has been kidnapped and it's all my fault. She's always been there for me, and I've failed in trying to repay the favor, when she needed me the most. I'm going to save her. I don't know how, but I'm going to save her, and you won't see me ever again until I bring her home. I'll be back with Kim. I promise."

She turned to Ron with the biggest smile on her face. Ron's face was completely red. She then took a few seconds to analyze the picture he drew of her.

"It's beautiful, Ron."

Ron had a hard time speaking, "Uh, you see, ug I needa hooda guyin and a... geebee..." It didn't take him long to catch himself.

"Don't speak." she gently smiled, "What would I ever do without you?" Her thoughts turned back to the dome, wondering what it would be like to spend a second there longer.

"I thought you told me not to speak," Ron replied.

"Ron! You have to answer that!" she snapped back with a sly look on her face.

But both of them couldn't come up with an answer. One word came into both of their minds, 'dead'. It would ruin the moment. Both looked embarrassed.

"Rhetorical question?" Ron asked.

"Yeah, for now," she replied. "So... did anyone ever say how we were doing?"

"Your mom said earlier that we'll be released in a few hours after your leg starts to feel better. Thankfully, other than a large cut that spread throughout your leg, it was just a sprained ankle.

"Thankfully?Just a sprained ankle?" she asked.

"They thought it was broken when they found us. Besides, you suffer from sprained ankles all the time in cheerleading practice."

"Ron, they suck. A lot. I just don't show it."

Kim looked at the clock. It was almost 3 PM. "It's early."

"Say no more, KP," Ron replied, "Bueno Nacho and a movie, how's that sound?"

Kim's face turned pink, "Actually, I was thinking that I was in desperate need of a shower... but after that, Bueno Nacho and a movie sound perfect, and I wouldn't go with anybody else."

Ron gave her that big goofy smile she loved. It was good to be home. Just then, the Kimmunicator went off. It was on the little table between Kim and Ron's bed. Kim grabbed it.

"Long time no see, Wade."

"You can say that again. Glad to see you're both still alive. I was sort of beginning to lose hope after that second week," Wade calmly sighed, taking a sip of his soda.

"So, what exactly happened?"

"Well," he paused, "When you guys destroyed Valia's suit, it completely deactivated the jamming signal, for the most part. The dome itself had its own jamming signal, so I could trace both of you, but I couldn't contact you. So when we noticed you were in Upperton Lake, we sent a few favors your way, and they found you two on the shore later on."

Kim and Ron's thoughts turned elsewhere, but Wade beat them to it.

"And Valia? Someone found a chrome left metallic hand, but no body to go with it. Presumed dead, crushed under the rubble of his own lair."

"No older than we were," Ron replied, "And life really hasn't started to kick in."

Kim didn't speak.

Wade continued, "So once the people in Upperton found you, they took you to the hospital up there, and when your conditions upgraded to stable, you were transferred to Middleton, and that's when your parents came."

Kim hadn't noticed Ron's parents at all, "But what about Ron's?"

"They were here earlier. No big." Ron replied.

"Nev wanted to send his regards, but he didn't think Valia would trap himself in a collapsing underwater lair, and he's not good with death, so he couldn't-"

Kim cut him off, "We understand."

"You guys rest. You deserve it," Wade finished as he closed transmission.

Kim leaned back in her bed. "You know what's sad, Ron?"

"Hmm?"

"Val. He took the whole 'I was a good guy but people treated me like dirt' thing a little far, but in a way, I can't blame him. When you hurt people and those they love, they're not going to put up with it. There's too many people like that, and it kind of makes me sad. I'm glad I haven't made anyone's life rotten, I think."

"I know, KP. Honestly, I could sympathize with him on a few levels, but he held grudges, not to mention trying to kill us. You know, maybe he just wanted something to end it all, and that wound up being us." Ron responded.

Ron never really noticed how many people had given them a hard time in life, and the list grew and grew. Bonnie, the kids in D hall, Gil, the former seniors of Middleton, Shego, Drakken, Erik, and more. But he didn't go mad. With someone like Kim at his side, there was no need to. Why go out of your way to make that bully's or ex's life a living hell when they're going to get hit by a bus when they hit 30? Well, Ron scratched that idea from his mind, but with a girl like Kim next to him, he didn't care about anyone else anymore. She was the most important person, and she was the one that mattered to him. No one else.

"Kim? Am I really lucky to have someone like you in my life?" he asked.

"You know, Ron, I was wondering the same thing."

They decided to end it at that. They continued to hold hands. Maybe they were lucky. Everything was finally over.

Outside, the bushes moved as a handless figure jumped away from the hospital.