Drakken was up and about the next day. He had kept himself awake with at least four cups of instant coffee. He was in his personal bathroom brushing furiously at his teeth when he heard the door open. He turned around.
"Er… Hello Dr. D." Shego said sheepishly.
Drakken stared at Shego in awe and then noticed toothpaste was dribbling down his lips. He turned around and quickly washed out his mouth with some water. He turned back to her. His face was somewhat pink.
"Shego," he said surprised, "I hadn't um, expected you so early."
Shego calmly glanced at her cell phone. "It's about one thirty in the afternoon."
Drakken was surprised that Shego looked so stable. She was talking as if nothing had happened yesterday. "Oh, okay. Well um, I actually don't have any schemes right now…" He trailed off.
Shego was flabbergasted. "You? No schemes?"
Drakken flushed even more. "No… do you want to just do something else?"
Shego shrugged. "Like what?"
"Lets go out," Drakken suggested. "My treat."
Shego couldn't turn down anything free so she smiled and nodded. "Okay."
Drakken then told her that he was going to change before he went anywhere. He was still wearing his blue fuzzy bathrobe and his hair was dripping wet. Shego sighed and then decided she would change too. She climbed the stairs into the room and changed into a pair of jeans and a yellow tube top. She ran a comb through her hair and slipped into a pair of plastic flip flops. She hurried down stairs where she saw Drakken wearing a black jacket and some brown dress pants. He tried to smile at her but struggled. Her stomach looked flat and tight against the skin hugging top. It was hard to believe in a few months it would be big and round.
Shego slipped her hands into her pockets. "So where are we going?"
Drakken grinned, "La Boheme Restaurant and then tonight's show. I think it's an opera."
Shego gasped. "La Boheme are you kidding? How can you afford that? I do your taxes!"
"My secret hoard." Drakken replied.
Shego shifted her feet uncomfortably. "I don't really feel like doing anything like that. Can we just get some pizza and maybe rent something from Blockbuster?"
He paused and said softly, "Yeah that would be great."
Truthfully he had offered the dinner to her to help her relax. He figured getting a break for a day would keep her stress level low. He liked her idea a lot better though. He would've never said it out loud but her suggestion had to be the cutest, most irresistible thing she had ever said.
"So…. Are you ready?" Shego asked when she had returned with her handbag.
"Yeah," Drakken said, "let's go!"
Drakken led Shego out of the secret lair to a taxi that was already waiting outside. Shego blinked and stared at him and only smiled. Drakken smiled and held the door open for her like a gentleman. Shego chuckled to herself. He could be so funny sometimes.
"Dr. D?"
"Yeah?"
"You get to pick the movie tonight."
"Yay!" He squealed gleefully.
