Disclaimer: This story is based upon characters created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle for Disney. Since this story is set years later, all the characters under twenty-five years of age, and just a few others, are mine.
Director Possible immediately gave Agent Ming paid leave time from Global Justice. Flo's revelation never left the lab. Kim and Wade never mentioned it again. Even though such information deserved to be in Flo's personnel file, no changes were made. Not yet.
Flo decided she wanted to go home for a while. Maybe a visit to her own childhood would make her feel better.
Mom and Dad greeted her at the airport with a huge hug. The ride home was quiet. Flo took everything up to her fluffy pink room immediately and plopped herself onto her frilly old bed. For as long as she could remember, pink was her color. Not her favorite color, just her color. Even before her glowing power emerged, her room and many of her clothes had been pink. She took a good long nap.
It wasn't until Flo's favorite meal, meat loaf with candied yams, that her parents really asked anything.
"Sooo, " her dad said as he took another helping of yams, "what do we owe this wonderfully sudden visit to?"
Flo picked at her meat, "I needed some time to sort things out."
"May we ask what you're sorting? Asked mom.
Flo sighed, "We found my birth folks."
"You don't sound happy about that," said mom, as she moved her blonde bangs out of her eyes.
"Did they turn out to be space aliens, after all?" asked Dad with a face of mock shock.
Flo managed a smile, "No, Dad."
"Then what's the problem?" asked Dad.
"They're international criminals," she said weakly. "I was trying to apprehend them a few days ago when she told me."
"So this is on the word of a criminal that says she is your birth mother," said Mom.
"The DNA matched, Mom" Flo took a bite of meat loaf.
"Do they glow too?" Dad might have been trying to make light of the problem.
"She does." Flo nodded. "It's green and she uses it as a weapon."
"It must have been quite a shock," Mom said slowly, "Learning it that way."
"That's the truth," Flo put particular emphasis on the first word.
"You know we're here for you, Florie," said Mom.
"Thanks, guys," Flo spoke with a little more strength. "I think that's why I'm here."
After dinner, they played a new board game her parents had purchased. Learning how to play did take Flo's mind off her job and her parentage.
Flo managed to win one of several games that night before she went to bed.
She took off her clothes and slipped into a loose gown. She lied on her bed a moment before she glowed pink and floated up to the rafters above her bed. She reached up onto a rafter almost without thinking and pulled down a green stuffed rabbit she had hidden there years before. "Hi, Cuddlekins." She smiled and hugged the toy close as she floated back down onto the bed. She was asleep just before she touched the bed.
Flo enjoyed the time with her folks; it seemed much like being a teen again. But she tried not to slip into the same irresponsible routine she had been in years ago. She was twenty-one now, a true adult, with truly adult problems.
"Do you know much about the rest of their family?" Mom asked when Flo expressed concern again about her birth parents. "They can't all be evil. Can they?"
"Well," Flo thought out loud. "He's got a cousin who's worse than he is. But she..." Flo tried to remember what Shego had said in the mine. "She said I had some uncles." Flo sat up straight. "Honest uncles."
"Maybe you should look them up," said Mom.
Flo hugged her mother, "Thanks, Mom. I think I will."
Flo went sat at her parents' computer a short time later. She entered the encrypted address for G.J. and keyed in on the lab. Dr. Load was on the screen in a moment, accepting a cookie from a naked mole rat.
"Hi, Flo!" he called when he saw the connection open. "What do you know?"
Flo smiled. "I want to know more."
"What about?" Wade asked.
"Does Shego have any brothers?"
"Team Go, you mean."
"Team Go?" Flo raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, It's a family of superheroes." Wade said. "They've been kind of off and on over the years in Go City." He finished his cookie, "Shego was a member before she went bad."
"Do they all glow?" Flo said sarcastically.
"That's right."
"I was joking."
"Well, they do." protested Wade. "Just go there and see for yourself. You can't miss Go Tower."
"Go Tower?"
"It's their headquarters."
That's Chapter 4. I may expand on her folks, someday. Revising this chap.
It's mostly fluff to let Flo get over all that sudden angst.
Special thanks to those who have placed me -as as Author!- on their alert! I'm honored and humbled.
