Chapter 16

Back in her room, Shego laid her little kitten down upon her bed, where she promptly yawned, stretching in a feline sort of way. Shego smiled down at her, and then yawned herself. It had been a rather busy day for her, and it seemed that it was finally catching up with her. She was interrupted from her reminisicing when she felt a hand on her shoulder, looking around to see Kim's smiling face.

"Hey, I just wanted to wish you a good night, Steph. Pleasant dreams," Kim said, taking the startled Shego into her arms a moment, giving her a gentle hug.

Shego stiffened a second, but then relaxed in Kim's embrace, feeling strange at having someone actually hug her…willingly, that is. That wasn't too hard to understand though…after all, no one realy had since she had been nine. "Yeah, thanks," she replied when Kim let her go, giving an embarrassed little smile. "Night." She watched Kim wave, turn, and head out the door.

Didn't I say you could consider her a friend? that voice piped up in her head.

Hey! I thought you said you would stay quiet for the rest of the day, Shego accused, frowning.

I have, the voice responded. It's not my fault you haven't paid attention to the time. It´s past midnight, Stephanie dear. Now, weren't you getting ready for bed?

Shego grumbled a bit, but did as she was told, while all the while that voice continued to talk.

You know, you've really made me proud of you today, dear, it remarked.

Huh? What do you mean? Shego asked.

Well, first of all, you named your kitten after Kim. That was a very considerate thing to do, the voice patiently explained.

Shego groaned aloud. Are you ever going to let me forget that? Shego asked.

No, not really, her voice said, allowing Shego to almost feel the big smile it would of worn had it been human. And believe you me, I'm inside your head, and I can see all that backlog of nastiness you've been carrying around all these years. Can't tell you how pleased I am to see that its finally beginning to disappear. Just like Kim said it would, you know.

Shego growled, pulling on her nightgown before heading out to her room again. She stretched once, then laid down, moving the kitten Kim over in the process. So what are you thinking? Shego asked, her eyelids drooping.

Sighing, the voice replied, Stay like this all week, girl, and you'll see that you'll begin to feel sorry for all the nasty things you've done to Kim. Oh, and despite what you might think, kiddo, I won't be surprised in the least when you start seeing both her and Ron as friends.

Shego frowned as she tried to picture herself, Kim and Ron doing something together after her rehabilitation. She tried to imagine both her and Kim, chatting as they walked along the street, bags full of clothes from Club Banana in their arms, while their friend, Ron, munched contentedly on his favorite snack, nachos. Shego shivered at that, and with that scary and most disturbing thought running through her head, eventually fell asleep.

As she began to dream, Shego was confused. Her dream began with herself opening her eyes to a haze of grey darkness. That haze was pierced a moment later by a globe of dim but bright whiteness, just a few meters before her. She instinctively headed toward that argent glow, which appeared to be emanting from around the corner of a wall she hadn't noticed before this moment. At first she was hestitant to go any further…but, her curiosity soon overruled her trepidation, and she peeked around the corner.

There, in what appeared to be a large room, a huge, black clad, human-shaped apparition stood looking out of the far wall, which---for all intents and purposes, at least---appeared to be a set of twin windows. Shego frowned at this sight, not sure how she felt. That black figure was repellent and compelling…all at the same time, somehow. As she contemplated that, she caught a white flicker out from the corner of her eye. Turning toward that flickering light, she saw yet another figure---one that was very familiar…because it reminded her scarily enough of herself. The tiny figure---much smaller than the black giant across from her---was clad in a blindingly bright white robe that were nearly painful to look upon. The white-robed figure of herself appeared to be chained to the wall, her slender wrist secured in cruel-looking shackles of some sort. The white clad Shego turned toward the black-robed figure and spoke, "You might as well give it up. You aren't going to win, you know."

Shego gasped. She knew that voice! It was the voice of her conscience.

"Oh, I don't think so. I'm pretty certain that I shall win this contest…rather handily," the figure in black replied in Shego's own voice, although it was cold and dispassionate sounding.

"Oh terrific," Shego grumbled to herself, "another me." She then thought the situation presented her over in her mind. She looked up, then out the windows before her, and gasped as she discovered that what she was actually looking at was, in reality, the view as seen from behind or through some person's eyes. That was it finally dawned on her just where she was: this must be my own mind, she surmised, clearly surprised. Now, she told herself, just how freaky does that sound? She looked at the black-garbed figure of herself. Hmm, Shego mused to herself, that one must be all the evil within me.

Her introspection was interrupted a moment later when she heard a voice. Shego looked over and saw that the voices were from her brothers, who appeared outside of the 'windows' before her. They were calling her, asking her if she was ready. She watched as her dark-robed self talk to her mind, working hard to make her hate her brothers, their determination, their dedication. Her conscience, her white-robed self, tried vainly to dissuade Shego from that line of thinking, but somehow, she just couldn't seem to talk loudly enough to be heard over the black-clad figure.

Suddenly, Shego noticed, the figures she had seen through the eye windows disappeared…only to coalesce into a new memory. Shego watched a progression of memories, one after another…and was stunned to see that each memory she saw, and the decisions she made, allowed the black-robed, evil Shego persona to grow, while the white clad persona, her conscience, became more and more quiet, shrinking smaller until she had stopped talking at all. Shego's shoulders sagged, feeling beaten.

But, then Shego saw a different sort of memory…the memory of her first session of rehabilitation. She watched through her own eyes to see Kim instruct her to put on the necklace. And, as she did so, they all heard that tell-tale click. Shego then heard something odd, frowning, and turned toward the sound. Small ghostly electric blue figures (all of which looked strangely like Kim) suddenly appeared, blurring everything, while making everything seem to turn upside down.

The determined figures split up, half turning to attack the evil Shego persona, while the other half freed her conscience from her shackles. Then both halves of the attacking figures reunited and coerced the evil Shego against the wall, securing her in chains that had once held her white-garbed conscience. As the manacles clicked into place, things began to change remarkably. The memories that now appeared through the windows were memories Shego thought must be from her own future.

And history, in a inverse fashion, repeated itself. The evil Shego persona tried desperately to get through to Shego's mind, but just couldn't manage it. Now, it was her conscience's turn to influence her.

Her dream ended with a future memory that Shego hoped would really, truly, come to be. That memory had her standing upon a stage, singing herself hoarse before finishing her final song before the public, who all applauded and screamed her praises. Then, much to her own surprise, she heard her own voice say, "Before I finish this evening, I want to say something." Shego waited for the crowd's ovation to quiet, then continued. "Thanks to each and every one of you who listen to my songs! You guys are the greatest! You don´t know how much this means to me…I love you guys!" Again, she had to wait for the fan's applause to quiet "Look, you guys don't know it…but I wouldn't be where I am right now, if it hadn't been for one special person, a very special friend of mine." She turned and beckoned for someone to come out on to stage with her. That person, the one who appeared, smiling, walking quickly beside her, made a most surprised Shego gasp. A 21-year-old Kim Possible made her way over, waving shyly to the crowd, then turning to smile at Shego. Shego heard herself continue. "This is my friend, Kim," she heard her future self say. "It hadn't been for her, we wouldn't all be here this very night. If she hadn't been there for me, when I needed her most, I probably would be rotting in jail right now."

Her conscience smiled then, and glowed brighter than ever before, looking her straight in the eyes. "I am proud of you, kiddo," the white-robed one said, first aloud in her dream, then her voiced seemed to fade until it sounded inside her head.

Shego gasped just then, and sat up sharply in her bed, wide awake. She groaned and looked over at the clock. "Aw, great. Five o'clock in the morning," she groaned, holding her head. She groaned again, and laid herself back down. She looked over as her kitten, Kim, jumped up on her bed, then climbed onto her, curling up on her stomach.

I think that you could look upon that as an out of body experience, dear, the voice informed her with a mental smirk.

"You mean all of that happened? Really happened?" Shego asked, incredulously.

Well, as for the future memories, who knows? The future is always uncertain, my love. But, as for the past, oh yes…that all happened…just the way you saw it.

Shego found herself feeling quite guilty for some reason.

See? the voice told her. You are starting to turn into the good girl I've always known you to be…just like Kim.

Shego didn't know if she liked that particular thought very much. But, one thing was for certain: if Kimmie could help her turn into a singer, she´d do everything in her power to help Kimmie in return.

After all, fair is fair, right?

AN: All rigth thanks for all the reweivs people just let them comming. The story is far from done yet. Hey anybody got any good pictures whit Shego and/or Kim from So The Drama or A sitch in time please send it to me on petrogalonline.no. Especially if you got any piccies from where Shego´s hair is short