Payton: Finally! After all this time we can get in an update! Dang it! Curse computer viruses and the people who create them! CURSE THEM ALL! My computer had to get a total reformation because of those stupid things! I HAAAATE THEM! Erased all my files, it did! Including a new story I was just about to post! Dang it! Dang it Dang it! I supposed it's okay though…I rewrote this chapter better than before. I guess I'll have to be patient…

Mrs. Dolotta: By the way, we didn't quite get to alone time in this chapter…(crowd groans) Yes, I know, I know, but PAYTON decided to split it into two otherwise it would be too long. It's coming! Hopefully, the update won't take this long. (shoots a look at Payton)

Payton: Okay, Okay.

Chapter 6 "Back-talk & Biscuits, Part 1"

"No it's not!"

"Yes it is!"

"No it's not!"

"Yes it is!"

"Drakken, the square root of 81 is not 8. It's 9!"

"No it's not! I'm the genius! I would know!"

"Well you're obviously not a genius in math! It's NINE!"

"Eight!"

"NINE!"

"EIGHT!"

"Why' you two always fighting?" Cody asked curiously.

"Cody," Drakken said sternly. "We do not always fight."

"HA!" Shego sassed. "Yes we do."

"No we don't."

"YES we do!"

"NO WE DON"T!"

"YES WE DO!"

"Is' you two married?" Cody asked with a big smile on his face.

"WHAT!" Drakken and Shego yelled in unison.

"OF COURSE NOT!" Shego snapped. "Where on this sorry planet did you get an idea like that!"

"Well, my daddy sez when two peoples fight a lot it means dey really like each'oder."

"Oh please, that's not true." Shego said indifferently.

"Well, actually in some cases it's true." Drakken said just as nonchalantly.

"No it's not."

"Yes it is."

"NO IT"S NOT!"

"YES IT IS!"

Cody cracked up laughing.

"What's so funny, small fry!" Shego snapped.

"You are!" Cody giggled. "You two fight about silly stuff!"

Drakken and Shego didn't reply. They glared at Cody for a moment then turned and glared at each other.

"Ummm…guys?" Cody said uncertainly.

There was still no reply as the two adults continued to glare angrily at each other.

"Okay…" Cody quietly climbed off of the sofa from in between them and went over to the recliner. He continued watching The Felt Friends on TV.

Noticing Cody's absence, Drakken spoke up. "You see that?" He spoke softly out of range of Cody's ears. "You practically scared the poor thing away! Why are you always so disagreeable?"

"Drakken, I'm not always disagreeable…" Shego said rather dully, a lot less harsh than Drakken had expected. It kind of took him by surprise.

"W-w-well," He said a little less harsh himself. "You're still…I mean you're always…" He couldn't find the right words to say. Something, he realized just wasn't quite right with Shego. She had been acting differently ever since his mother had left the house. And the unreadable expression she had on her face now was chillingly unfamiliar to him. He dropped the subject. "Shego…" He asked very cautiously not knowing how she might react. "Is there anything…wrong?"

Shego's eyes widened and she was silent for a moment. "I'm hungry," she said finally.

"What? But Shego, I—"

"I SAID, I'm hungry," She hissed, sounding more like her normal self. "Isn't there something to eat around here?"

Drakken realized that whatever it was that may, or may not be bothering her, she didn't want to talk about. It disappointed him a little, but he didn't try to pry any answers out of her. He'd found long ago that if Shego doesn't want to talk about it, it's not going to happen. He'd found that out the hard way. The painful hard way.

"Okay, well mother doesn't have anything cooked and she detests frozen dinner trays…Oh, but we do have those pineapple upside-down biscuits!"

Shego raised an eyebrow. "Biscuits? You mean the same biscuits that got burnt to a crisp in the oven?" she retorted.

"They did not get burnt to a crisp, thank you very much! One of them fell off onto the bottom of the oven which caused the burning smell…but the rest are perfectly edible. I even had one myself."

"If you say so…" she said rolling her eyes as they stood up.

"Wait, we should see if Cody wants any." Drakken walked over to the recliner. "Hey Shego, look at this!" he said in a half-whisper.

Shego walked over to his side to behold a sleeping Cody, sprawled comfortably (or one would think) across the recliner, his head on the decorative pillows.

"Awww, they're so innocent and…uh, non-venomous when there asleep, aren't they Doc?" Her voice was surprisingly warm, Drakken noticed. She was actually being sarcastic without being hurtful (someone alert the president!). He even found her comment rather funny.

"Yes, I suppose t-they are…" He said in awe at her sudden warm disposition. "Uh, who are you and what have you done with Shego?" He teased.

She pretended to ignore his remark. "Well since they're asleep, why don't you bring the biscuits in here and we can watch TV?"

"Okay…" He agreed, though he was still a little confused why she was being so nice.

TBC

Holy Moly! What a handful! Get it? Hands? For typing? Handful! Ha ha! Yeah I know what you're thinking: I deserve an award…for 'worst pun in history ever told by a teenager'.---------Payton & Mrs. Dolotta