Trio

Chapter 2
Good, Clean, But Fun?

Kim came down the stairs carrying the clothing Shego had been wearing, the bottom of her jumpsuit had been easy to get. Shego had tossed it to her without a second thought after Kim had found an extra long T-shirt that she used for sleeping in for Shego to wear. Kim had been a little flustered when she noticed that Shego didn't wear any panties under her jumpsuit. Kim had never given it any thought but she just assumed that Shego wore a bra and panties under her clothing. It was a bit scandalous to find out she went completely natural under the skintight costume.

Shego had no problem giving up her pants but the windbreaker jacket was another matter. True to Shego's word, she had taken it into the bathroom with her to keep Kim from getting her hands on it.

Kim trying the bathroom door after making certain that she heard the sounds of the shower from it, had found the door to be unlocked. Sneaking in she grabbed the jacket and after only spending a few seconds watching Shego's form through the frosted glass of the shower door, Kim raced out of the room with the jacket to destroy it with the rest of Shego's clothing.

"The only reason I'm destroying the jacket is because it was in contact with those creatures. Who knows what contaminates or germs it might have picked up from those things." Kim said trying to convince herself.

"That's the only reason and I am not jellin because I noticed how Ron looked at Shego when she wore it."

Half way down the stairs Kim found some envelopes in the jacket's pocket.

With a quick glance up the stairs to make sure Shego was still in the bathroom and ducking her head down and glancing into the living room to make sure Ron was still in the kitchen she sat down on the stairs and examined her find.

There were four envelopes in her hands.

A large envelope that had Kim's name in Ron's sloppy but highly recognizable handwriting on it but was empty.
One envelope addressed to Wade and Kim examining it could see that it appeared to be sealed.
One addressed to her and it also looked like it was sealed but Kim could detect some slight browning near the edge of the seal as if it had been exposed to heat and then resealed again.
And finally an envelope addressed to Shego but was open and looked like the paper inside had been hastily stuffed back into the envelope.

Pulling the paper out of the one that was open and addressed to Shego, Kim began to read.

Kim felt a flash of jealous anger when she read that Ron thought Shego was incredibly hot looking and that he had always felt some attraction to her.

She nearly dropped the letter when she read that Ron admitted that there never could be anything between him and Shego because he was totally and completely in love with his best friend, meaning Kim herself. Kim had almost managed to convince herself that the kiss back at Drakken's lair when Ron had sent the Cenobites back to wherever they came from had been in relief that they had survived.

"I mean sure he said he loved me but I had almost thought he meant as best friends not that he LOVED, loved me as in desired me."

Kim replaced the letter in Shego's envelope and sat there for a moment, her emotions a whirlwind. First there was jealousy because Ron had admitted to Shego how much he was attracted to her. That was almost immediately overwhelmed with sadness when she realized the letters had been left by Ron because at the time he was certain he was going to die soon and wanted to let everyone know how he felt. And lastly was a warm butterfly like feeling in her stomach when she remembered how Ron had said he was totally in love with his best friend, her.

Looking at the envelope with her name on it, Kim hesitated not a moment and ripped it open. It was wrong she knew it. Ron had only meant the letters to be opened after he died but damn it Shego had gotten to read hers and Kim was fairly certain the lightly green skinned woman had steamed open the other letters and had read them as well.

It was only fair that Kim got to read hers too.
Wasn't it?

Kim was a little annoyed that her letter wasn't as long as Shego's had been but as she read she realized why.
Ron just came right out and admitted that he loved her, always had loved her and would always love her.He loved her so much that he begged her to forget him after he was dead and find someone else so she wouldn't waste her life.

Kim felt tears in her eyes. Ron, her Ron had always been there for her. Had watched her throw herself at other guys and never said a word because he only wanted her to be happy and all that time he secretly loved her. It must have been hell for him.

Sensing someone behind her and realizing she hadn't heard the shower for a long time, Kim glanced behind her to see Shego dressed in the long sleeping T-shirt was standing on the stairs watching her.

"So now you know." Was all the young woman said.

"I know you steamed open these letters and read what Ron wanted to be read only after he died." Kim said beginning to get angry. "What were you so sure he wasn't going to make it back alive?"

Shego frowned. "No I was certain you would both make it back. I just wanted to know what he had written. Hello? At the time I was still a bad girl, remember?"

Shego stepped down to the stair Kim was sitting on and settled down beside her. Kim tried hard to ignore Shego's long legs that the sleeping T-shirt didn't cover and silently cursed herself. She had just learned that her best friend was not only in love with her, he had been in love with her a very long time and here she was noticing Shego's long legs. She had to admit it did make being annoyed at Ron for being attracted to Shego kind of hard to do. Hell even Kim herself was attracted to the woman.

"You better go shower now so we can join Ron. He'll start to wonder what is taking so long." Shego pointed out.

"Like I said earlier I am not leaving you alone with Ron." Kim replied.

"Oh for crying out loud Kimmie, I maybe an ex-villainess but I do have some honor. I have never stolen a woman's boyfriend before. I give you my word of honor that I will sit right here on this step till you finish your shower and come back, okay?"

Kim was considering it.

"Unless of course you want to shower with the door open and have me sit in the bathroom while you shower. You know that way I can keep an eye, er I mean you can keep an eye on me while you shower."

Kim flushed a deep crimson.

"I take it that is a no then?" Shego said with a grin.

"You stay right here on this stair and I will be back in a few moments." Kim stated as she rose to go back upstairs.

"Oh Kimie?" Shego called up to her as Kim made a few feet up the stairs.

"Yeah?" Kim said pausing and looking back.

"Remember what I said about I don't steal boyfriends?"

"Yeah?" Was said a little suspiciously.

"I want you to think about maybe a little sharing? Maybe some group involvement?" Shego said and then laughed as Kim blushed again.

Kim showered in record time and putting on an almost identical long T-Shirt she raced back to the stairs to find that Shego was as good as her word and was still sitting where Kim had left her. Kim was carrying the clothes she had been wearing earlier that evening and planned to destroy them along with Shego's and Ron's. It hurt a little thinking about destroying perfectly good Banana Club clothing but there was no telling what nasty things the clothing might have picked up from the freaks they had battled.

It bothered Kim a little that Shego was once again clutching Ron's jacket that Kim had left behind on the stairs but as Kim reached her, Shego handed the jacket over without a word.

Passing by the kitchen to reach the back door neither woman glanced over to where Ron was putting the finishing touches on their quick night/ extremely early morning meal.

Quickly stuffing the clothing into the barrel with Ron's, Kim doused them again with the bottle from the garage and then motioning Shego back they both stared at the barrel for a moment.

"If you would do the honors Shego." Kim finally said.

Shego glanced over at Kim in confusion before getting the idea and caused a plasma fireball to form in her hand. Giving it a casual toss, she threw the plasma ball into the barrel.

There was an ultra loud whoosh sound and a sudden glare that would have startled the neighborhood if Kim's house hadn't been somewhat on a hill and away from the rest of the houses. When the glare faded there was no longer a barrel to be seen but a glowing puddle of used to be metal barrel.

Shego blinked a few times and then looked over at Kim. "You guys store something like that in your garage all the time?"

Kim gave a shrug. "When your father works at a rocket launch site you get used to the occasional weird stuff he brings home."

As the two young women entered the house through the kitchen door Ron was just placing two plates on the table. He nearly dropped them when he got a good look at the women.
Both Kim and Shego had showered and dried quickly so the T-Shirts that barely reached mid thigh were clinging to their bodies from the excess moisture and since it was a very cool night their brief journey outside had caused their nipples to rise from the chill, making them very prominent.

Ron to hide the flush that came over his face turned quickly back to the sink as if he had forgotten something,

Shego and Kim nearly ravenous from hunger quickly sat down and dug into the food before them. Belgium waffles with mixed fruit and whipped cream topping.

Even though Shego was more interested in eating than playing around she still couldn't resist as she noticed that Kim had sat down directly across from her at the table. Lifting one of her legs she lightly brushed Kim's leg under the table.

Kim froze with a fork halfway to her mouth and stared wide eyed over at Shego like a deer caught in the headlights. Embolden by the fact that Kim hadn't yelled at her or even jerked her leg away; Shego began rubbing her leg up and down Kim's leg ever so slowly.

Ron deciding that he had finally regained some control over his hormones turned to join Kim and Shego at the table but accidentally knocked his fork off his plate as he turned and watched as it landed on the floor in front of him.

"Awww man." Ron thought to himself and sitting the plate on the cabinet, he reached down to pick up his fork. He just happened to glance over at the table and froze at the sight he was seeing.

"Shego and Kim are playing footsies! No way! I must be seeing things." Ron aware that at any moment Shego or Kim might look his way but still couldn't tear his eyes away. Shego was rubbing her leg very aggressively up and down Kim's legs to the point where her foot was almost disappearing up into the T-Shirt Kim was wearing and Kim wasn't pulling away or screaming at her. Indeed Kim and Shego were staring into each other's eyes. Ron could just imagine that if he hadn't been in the room they would have been on top of the table all over each other.

Ron quickly retrieved his fork and standing back up he once again turned towards the kitchen sink. His heart felt heavy in his chest and he almost fancied that he could hear it slowly breaking. The woman he loved, Kim Possible was into females and he had never known it. And the fact that the woman who was outrageously flirting with her at the table was the only other woman Ron had ever allowed to star in one of his fantasies crushed him even more. In the back of his mind he could hear Bonnie's voice laughing at him.
"What? Did you thing either one of them would ever want to have anything to do with a loser like you? They said it themselves; the only thing you are good for is cooking."

Ron wanted at that very moment nothing more than to run out the back door and keep running, anything to get him away from his pain.

A tiny voice in the back of his mind decided at that moment to make itself known.

"This might not be such a bad thing after all Ron. You know you are not up to Kim's level in fighting or anything else. What is our greatest fear? That you will fail someday to protect her on a mission and she gets hurt or killed.
If it can't be you in her life, isn't it a good thing it will be Shego? Kim's equal in almost everything. They are both so beautiful it almost hurts to look at them and with Shego watching Kim's back in missions there is no way she'll get hurt. They'll make the perfect team you could never be."

Ron thought furiously back at the voice.

"But I wanted to be the one in Kim's life. Be the one to love her and hold her! It's not fair!"

"But isn't what makes Kim happy the really important thing? If Kim is happy with Shego who are you to try and break them apart? And didn't you just think this night that Shego needed someone to love her and guide her back to being a hero?"

"Well yeah but I didn't mean for it to be Kim!"

"Kim will keep Shego on the right side of the law and together they can be happy. Face it; once again there is just no need for the Ron man. And speaking of, do try to be a man about this. Don't let them know you know but just slowly disentangle your life from Kim's. Slowly she'll forget about you. Why wouldn't she? She now has Shego. It's only a matter of time before she starts taking Shego on missions instead of you. What good were you really on the missions anyway? A distraction? Shego is the tough no holds bared backup that Kim needs and deserves. And a beautiful woman like Shego needs and deserves someone wonderful like Kim in her life. Bow out gracefully."

Ron unconsciously nodded in agreement with the voice in his head.

"Ron?" Kim called his name for the third time. Even Shego had stopped her 'playing' with Kim to look over at Ron.

"Um, yeah K.P.?" Ron finally pulled himself together enough to answer her without turning around.

"Are you going to come over to the table and eat with us or not?"

"Um, I, ah, ate while I was cooking." Ron lied. Taking his fingers he quickly brushed the five Belgium waffles off of the plate he was holding into the sink and stuffed them down the garbage disposal. Suddenly he didn't have any appetite to eat anyway.

Kim frowned. It was totally out of character for Ron to eat before Kim or Shego. Ron could scarf food down faster than anyone she knew but he had enough manners that he wouldn't eat before his friends. She was nearly certain that she had seen a full plate in Ron's hands before Shego started playing footsies under the table with her and she lost focus.

"Um, K.P.? Maybe I should just make my way home? I mean you and Shego are probably really tired and ready to sleep together and I'll just be in the way." Ron frowned, glad that his back was turned to them and they couldn't see his grimace. Why was he always so transparent and his tongue betraying him when he needed it the most.

"Ron are you out of your mind? It's 3 in the morning and me and Shego just burned the only clothes you have with you. You are wearing my dad's pajamas. You will stay here tonight. What's got into you? You've staid the night over here before."

"Maybe he is worried about the temptation. Your parents aren't here young lady. Who knows what mischief someone could get into with two gorgeous women in the house?" Shego said with a smirk.

"Damn I knew Shego could be mean but I never thought she could be so cruel as to rub in my face that she has what I always wanted. And that I will never have now. I guess she must not have read the letters I left with her. I really figured she would probably read them but I guess I owe her an apology. Surely no one after finding out I loved Kim with all my soul would be so cruel?"

Ron realized that once again Kim had called his name and he had waited too long before answering her back. "Sorry Kim, I guess I'm so tired I'm zoning and having trouble paying attention." He lamely replied.

"Even better reason why you should stay here tonight." Kim pointed out.

"Um, yeah, okay. You win. I'll sleep on the couch and Shego can take the guest room next to your room."

Now it was Shego's turn to frown. "Nonsense Ronnie, I'll sleep on the couch. You did a lot of fighting tonight; you must be exhausted and need your rest. I've slept in and on a lot worse things than a couch being Dr. D's assistant." She told Ron's back.

"Man I wish he would turn around. Those pajamas are so tight I bet me and Kimmie would get an eyeful." Shego thought, her mouth watering and not from the delicious food Ron had made either.

And Kim suddenly worried what Shego might try if she was near her room while Ron slept on the couch added her voice.
"Yeah Ron, you need to get some well deserved rest tonight. Shego will be fine on the couch. I'll make sure she has enough blankets and is comfortable."

Ron with a slump of shoulders as if in defeat finally nodded his head. "Okay I'll take the guest room. It goes against my chivalrous nature but I know when to not argue with two determined women." Ron managed to say with almost his normal joking manner.

"Come on buddy; let's turn in for the night." He said to Rufus finally turning to face the women.

Kim frowned as she noticed the black circles around Ron's eyes, his shiny eyes and the slump of his shoulders.
"He must really be beat to look so worn down." She thought to herself.

Rufus yawning mightily climbed up into Ron's hand and the two left the kitchen.

"Damn it. I tried to give Kim and Shego some privacy so they can act on their feelings but Kim seems to be oblivious to what I was trying to do and Shego seems like she just wants to torture me." Ron thought with tears dripping from his eyes as he practically ran up the stairs to the guest room.