This story has gotten more attention than any of my other works.
I have decided to add a bonus chapter.
This also marks my first actual collaboration. Thank you MrDrP.
Ron realized he'd never been more nervous in his life as he walked up the path to the door. He took a deep breath and pressed the bell. Moments later, the door opened.
"Ron?"
"Hi, KP. Got a few minutes?"
"Sure, c'mon in. What's up?"
Ron followed Kim into the family room.
He took another deep breath. "About that dimension switch I told you about?"
"Yeah?"
"I didn't tell you everything …"
Ron lay awake, staring at the ceiling, Zita sleeping by his side.
As promised, he hadn't told Kim about their counterparts' marriage. She'd been suitably weirded out by the Ron's experience, but was delighted to know that even in another universe they were still best friends who fought crime together. Somehow, he'd managed to avoid talking about their relationship status.
Now he wish he had. He looked over at Zita. Boy, was she sexy. She was funny and fun and mellow.
But she wasn't Kim.
One fact kept coming back to haunt him: in another universe, he and Kim had stayed together as a couple and continued to fight crime. It was possible to have it all.
And he wanted it. Why else did he continue to run around the world chasing bad guys with Kim? Because he wanted to be with her. In every way possible.
Talk about a mess.
Kim was in shock.
"I don't know what to say, Ron. I, I'm speechless."
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me, KP. I debated whether I should even say anything to you. I've already tanked my marriage and I knew I might well be deep-sixing our friendship. But I can't live a lie."
"Ron, I care about you. A lot. And I'm not going to lie and say I haven't wished things had turned out differently for us. But I don't want to be a homewrecker."
"You're not KP. We are. What we became somewhere else. That's the way it's supposed to be. Or at least I'd like it to be."
Kim stared at Ron. She was supposed to be on a plane back to Boston shortly. "So, what are you going to do?"
"Move back home, commute to Upperton for the rest of the semester," he said.
"So, it's really over?"
"Zita wasn't happy when I told her I was in love with you. She said I had to make a choice. I did."
"Ron …"
"Hey, it's cool. And she's right to be tweaked. I just told her being friends with you was more important than being married to her. I'd never really thought of it before, but, it's the truth."
"Did you kiss her?"
"Who?"
"Me."
"No."
"Why?"
"Loyalty."
"Did you want to?"
"Yeah."
"Do you still want to?"
"Yeah, I do, Kim."
Kim leaned over and brought her lips to Ron's. After a few moments she broke the kiss. "I missed that."
"So did I," he said with a grin.
"I can't date you while your married, Ron."
"I guessed that, KP."
"But I'll wait."
"Really?"
"Really. It's no big. Not for the right guy."
"Back 'atcha, KP."
"I wonder what it's like being married to you?"
"Heaven on earth, I'm sure."
Kim snorted. "Big heady, are we?"
"Hey, what can I say? I am what I is!"
And that day Ron Stoppable had become what he was always meant to be: Kim Possible's future husband.
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Zita sat up in bed, the nightmare still pressing on her mind. She felt better at seeing that Ron was still there next to her.
She shook him lightly, "Ron?"
Ron stirred without actually waking, "Yeah."
"Ron, do you love me?"
"Hmm?" Ron lifted his head from the pillow. He opened one eye and looked at her sleepily, "'Course I love you." He then took her hand, kissed it and put his head back down, "Go sleep."
Zita lay down and held her husband as close as she could. Realizing that somewhere, somewhen, someone just like her had just lost someone just like him.
She felt so lucky to not be that woman ... yet.
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Kim opened her eyes wide. The dream startled her so.
She rolled over put an arm around her sleeping husband. She pressed against him and kissed one of his big, sexy ears lightly. She was happy to know that they had always been together and would always be together, despite what had happened at the convention. She was happy to realize that she just might be one of those lucky people to have the kind of love you read about in fairy tales.
Deep inside, she wished that other couple well.
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The 'dream' is MrDrP's. I did edit it only a little.
As both girls realized after having it, even a dream can be real somewhere.
One of the nice things about Fanfic is that you can switch things around if you want.
I also remember an episode of the TV show, The Storyteller. It had a sad ending. Before the credits came up, the narrator mentioned that the protagonist of the story liked to tell the story to his grandchildren. But whenever he told it, it had a happy ending.
May all your endings be happy.