Trio
Chapter 3
Perchance to Dream…
Shego tossed and turned on the surprisingly comfy couch. Nightmares plagued her one after the other. Each nightmare had a recurring theme. She was on a mission with Kim and Ron and something would go wrong. Each time she would either lose Ron or Kim and be left with the other grieving partner or in some cases she would lose both of them at the same time and be left alone.
The nightmare at the moment was eerily like what had happened in real life yesterday but this time instead of Shego strapped to the table in Drakken's lair surrounded by grinning silent killers and about to be cut open it was Kim. No matter how hard Shego fought she couldn't get to the table. Just as the silent metal grinning guys were about to carve Kim open, Ron leapt up on the table to rescue her. Except instead of what had really happened with Shego and Ron rescuing her, Ron was hit from behind by a jagged hook on a chain and as Shego watch other chains came from all directions and ripped Ron apart right before her dreaming eyes. As the blood and guts cascaded down on top of the tied down Kim, the Gentlemen totally ignoring the blood shower reached into Kim's chest and ripped her still beating heart out.
Shego woke with a silent scream and breathing as if she had just run a marathon. She was covered in sweat and the T-Shirt Kimmie had given her to sleep in was drenched. With a muttered curse Shego rose from the couch and looked at a clock in the living room. It was about 5 a.m. Far too early to be up considering she had only gone to sleep at a little after 3. Heading up the stairs Shego planned to get a wet washcloth from the bathroom and try to calm her racing heart down.
Reaching the landing she glanced towards Kim room and wondered how she was sleeping. Starting to open the bathroom door she glanced the other way down the corridor and was stunned to see Kim sleeping on a pallet of blankets in front of another door.
"What the heck is she doing sleeping in the hallway? In front of a door… Oh I don't believe this. That must be the guest room she is sleeping in front of. What? She thought she needed to protect Ron from me? Or is she sleeping there to make sure that Ron doesn't sneak out to visit me on the couch? In either case this is ridiculous."
Shego marched over intending to wake Kim up and point out just how stupid she was acting. She had already promised her she wouldn't try to steal Ron out from under her and sleeping in a drafty hallway was just plain silly.
Kim was tossing and turning. As Shego reached her side she sat bolt upright with a scream. Breathing heavily just as Shego had been earlier Kim finally came to her senses and saw Shego standing over her.
"Going somewhere Shego?" Kim asked in a challenge.
"No I wasn't." Shego replied slightly annoyed. "I came up here to use the bathroom and saw you sleeping in front of this door. I was going to wake you to ask what you thought you were doing when you suddenly woke up and screamed."
Kim wasn't too sure if she believed Shego or not but still replied sheepishly. "I had a nightmare. Several if you are counting. One was in my bedroom about Ron being killed while I slept. I couldn't shake it off so I decided to sleep in front of his door to just assure myself that he was safe. The last nightmare was one of our old missions against you and Drakken. The one where Drakken was going to use a laser to drill down into the earth's center to use lava to flood everywhere?"
Shego nodded her head to show she remembered it.
"Well in the dream Ron falls toward the rising lava and I couldn't move to try and save him. I just stood still watching as he fell. You suddenly passed me swinging on a rope to save him and just as you catch him the rope breaks. I watch as you both fell into the lava and burn to death. I couldn't do anything but watch you both die horribly, that was when I woke up just now." Kim tells her with tears in her eyes.
Shego sits down beside her on the blankets. "It's okay. It was just a dream. Ron didn't get hurt on that mission and frankly I'm touched that in the dream you cared about me being killed."
"It's not funny Shego. It was so real. I could smell the smell of burning flesh and I could feel the heat of the lava." Kim said shuddering.
"We had a scare tonight princess." Shego said with no malice or mockery in her voice. "It is no wonder we are having nightmares. I am surprised that Ron isn't suffering from them too."
Just on the other side of the guest room door Ron was doing exactly that, suffering from nightmares. Tossing and turning he had gotten so tangled up the pajama shirt that at one point without even waking up he had struggled out of it and tossed it across the room from him.
His dreams weren't of death but to him they were even more horrifying.
Ron looking around found himself in a beautiful field of flowers. Everywhere he looked was bright and cheerful colored flowers. A few feet in front of him was Shego and Kim but not wearing their normal 'mission' clothing but instead dressed in light and revealing summer dresses. They turned to smile at him and began to walk off hand in hand together.
Ron ran to catch up to them but no matter how fast he tried to run he could never quite catch up. They always managed to stay a few feet in front of him. Just close enough he could almost touch them but always just out of reach.
Suddenly they stopped and Shego turning to look deeply into Kim's eyes reached up and started to slide the straps of her dress down.
Ron tried even harder to reach their side but never got any closer.
Shego with more tenderness than Ron would have ever credited the woman with slowly lowered Kim to the flowers and began kissing her.
Ron stopped running in shock and turning around he looked elsewhere than at Kim and Shego making out and suddenly he wasn't in a field of flowers any more.
He was in a dark gloomy space and no matter where he looked he no longer saw Kim or Shego.
He was alone.
And in the dream and in his heart he knew from that point on he was always going to be alone.
"No. Kim. Shego. Don't want to be alone. Don't want to be lonely any more. Don't leave me!" Ron began muttering in his sleep but his voice gaining in volume as he started crying out.
Outside the door Shego and Kim looked up as they could hear Ron's voice calling out. Both young women shot to their feet at almost the same time. It was Kim's hand that found the doorknob first and turned it letting them into the guest room Ron was sleeping in.
The guest room had a single Queen-size bed in the middle of the room and a dresser over to one side. Glancing in that direction Shego noticed Rufus the mole rat was on top of the dresser with what looked like a handkerchief draped over him as a blanket and was snoring.
Ron was in the middle of the bed on his back moaning and crying in his sleep. Shego went to the left side of the bed while Kim took the right.
"Ron. Wake up Ron. You aren't alone. Me and Kimmie are right here with you." Shego leaning over said gently to the sleeping man. Getting no reaction she reached out to place a hand on his bare chest to try and wake him from his nightmare.
"Come on Ron wake up."
She then looked over to a worried Kim. "Is he always this hard to wake up?"
Kim raised an eyebrow in Shego's direction as if to say, 'how would I know?' But then she nodded her head. "On missions when Ron falls asleep he wakes almost instantly at a touch but when he allows himself to relax and let down his guard he's nearly impossible to wake up."
Shego put one leg on the bed to steady herself and leaned over to whisper into Ron's ear. "Come on Ronnie, you are not alone. I'm right here."
The words had no more time than to barely leave her mouth when Ron's right arm shot out and grasping Shego around the waist pulled her down fully into the bed with him. A very surprised Shego suddenly found her head resting on Ron's chest with Ron's arm locked around her waist with a grip of iron.
"SHEGO!" Kim hissed at her. "Get out of that bed right this instant!"
"Calm down princess. This isn't exactly my idea… Well, okay it was one of my thoughts earlier but I'm totally innocent in this case, Ron did it all himself." Shego tried to raise herself out of Ron's embrace and found that the grip Ron had around her waist while not hurting her left no room for her to move or get away."
Kim seeing that Shego was at least making an effort to pull away from Ron and not succeeding she leaned over to speak in to Ron's ear.
"Ron? You need to let Shego go."
"Don't wanna be alone any more." Ron mumbled in his sleep.
Kim leaned over even farther and placed her hand on his chest. "You aren't alone Ron. I'm here."
"Um Princess? I wouldn't do that if I were…" Shego started to say but before she could finish Ron's left arm shot around Kim's waist and pulled her onto the bed with them.
"Well isn't this cozy?" Shego said struggling to keep from laughing at the red embarrassed face of Kim that was staring at her across Ron's surprisingly broad chest.
"This isn't funny Shego! What if Ron wakes up?" Kim whispered back.
"Then we can move from cozy to down right ecstasy." Shego replied with a grin.
Kim didn't bother to reply but tried to raise herself out of Ron's grasp. This caused the dreaming Ron to cry out. "No Kim don't leave me. I love you!"
Kim's eyes widen in shock and unresisting she allowed herself to be pulled back by the sleeping Ron till she was almost on top him. Ron's crying and twitching stopping immediately as his sleeping mind now realized he had what he wanted in his arms. In the dream world the gloom dispelled and the dreaming Ron found himself welcomed into the arms of Shego and Kim in the field of flowers.
"What do we do?" Kim asked. Not hearing an answer she glanced over and saw that Shego had her head once again resting on Ron's right shoulder and had her eyes closed. "What are you doing?"
Shego quietly answered without opening her eyes. "I'm enjoying being held by a man and being dead tired I'm seriously thinking of relaxing and just going to sleep like this."
"We can't. It…would….be…taking…advantage…" Kim said as her eyes started to close on their own. She was just so tired and it was just too damn comfortable. Ron's heartbeat was almost directly under her ear lulling her into a deep sleep.
For the rest of their sleep none of the three had any more nightmares.
Shego felt a twitch in her right hand. Being a villainess, Shego was used to waking instantly when her sleeping body noticed a change. Also she knew not to wake up throwing plasma but to play at being unconscious while her mind analyzed the situation. Opening one eye she could see that it was now daytime as bright sunlight was flooding in from the window behind the bed she was in. Looking down the length of Ron's body she could see that sometime during the night the blanket that covered his lower half had slipped off leaving only the pajama bottoms covering him and also sometime in the night Kim had reached across with her left hand and had entwined it with Shego's right lying on Ron's chest.
That alone brought a smile to Shego's face.
But what was even more interesting was that Kim's hand was slowly trailing up and down Ron's chest. Since Shego's fingers were interlaced with Kim's, Shego's hand was being pulled along on the ride as well.
"Well, well, well Kimmie. Aren't we the bold one when you are asleep?" Shego thought resisting the urge to chuckle.
Shego's eyebrow rose as Kim guiding both their hands started to drift southward towards Ron's pajama bottoms.
"Wonder how far she'll go?" Shego thought as her grin growing larger.
Kim started to slowly, almost reluctantly to wake up. She had the best sleep she could ever remember. She was so comfortable and warm clutching her Pandaroo. Running her fingers down the Pandaroo's tight well toned chest and abs…
Kim frowned. Since when had her Pandaroo start working out?
Opening her eyes she found herself staring across Ron's chest at Shego who was smiling like the cat that had ate the canary.
"Good morning Princess." Shego said in a sugary voice.
Kim started to answer her when she glanced down to see where her left had was at. The fingers of her left hand were almost under the edge of Ron's pajamas and Kim could now see and feel that her fingers were interlaced with Shego's right hand. Kim started to pull her hand back but suddenly found that Shego had tightened her grasp and wasn't letting her pull free.
"Shego! What were you doing?" Kim asked starting to blush again.
"Oh no. I wasn't the captain of this pleasure cruise. You were the one feeling up your best friend. My hand was just along for the ride."
Kim's face already blushing turned even brighter red. "Well even if that is true, why won't you let go of my hand now?"
"Don't you want to take inventory now that you are awake and able to enjoy it fully?" Shego asked.
Kim frowning started to yell at Shego but stopped as Shego began to pull Kim's hand back up and down Ron's abs and chest. Each time it neared the top of Ron's pajama bottoms, Shego would allow their fingers to dip even farther under the material.
"Please Shego." Kim said her voice cracking a little.
"Please what?" Shego said with a smile but lost it when she looked over and saw Kim giving her a frightened desperate look.
"If Ron wakes up now, he'll be embarrassed to say the least. It might take weeks before he can look us in the eyes or we might just scare him off forever. I don't want to lose him."
Shego sighed and released Kim's hand and then moved hers back up to rest lightly on Ron's chest. Kim quickly pulled her hand away from Ron's body as if it had burned her.
And just in time as Ron's eyes began to twitch open and he yawned. Turning his head he faced Kim just as he fully opened his eyes and got them to focus.
"Kim!" He said in almost a squeak. The look of confusion and terror would have been comical if the situation was different.
"Oh my God! I must have sleep walked into Kim's bedroom and got into bed with her. She must hate me!" Ron thought in panic. Feeling something lying on his right arm he turned his head to see what it was and to keep from having to look Kim in the eyes at the moment.
He found himself staring into a smiling Shego's face.
"Morning sunshine." Shego said.
Ron's eyes widened even farther than he thought ever possible.
"Oh my God!" He thought again. "Not only did I sleepwalk into Kim's room but Shego was in bed with her and I must have crawled between them! I'm surprised Shego hasn't killed me yet for interrupting them when they were probably... Okay bad mental place! I can't think about that right now! I just need to beg for forgiveness and crawl away somewhere to die."
Ron quickly turned his head to stare up at the ceiling, not trusting his vocal cords to work at the moment.
"Wait a minute. I may never have been in Kim's bed before but I've been in her bedroom many times and she doesn't have this color of paint in her room. This is the paint of the guest room?"
"Did I go into Kim's room or did you two come into the guest room?" Ron finally said out loud.
"Were you thinking of sneaking into Kim's room last night?" Shego asked playfully.
"Shego stop it. No Ron you didn't come into my room last night. Me and Shego heard you groaning and moaning from nightmares and we came to wake you up from them." Kim quickly tried to explain.
"And as soon as we got near the bed you grabbed us and dragged us into bed with you." Shego finished.
Ron started to breathe a sigh of relief but then stopped. "There's no way Shego could have heard me downstairs sleeping on the sofa."
Ron's eyes started to fill with tears at the realization of what that had to mean.
"Her and Kim were in Kim's room and my nightmares must have disturbed them. Not quite as bad as walking in on them and pushing between them but damn it still hurts to think of them together."
"I'm sorry I disturbed you two last night." Ron managed to get out. "If you'll let me up I'll go make us some…" Ron craned his neck to look at the window above the bed. "Some late breakfast or early lunch, whichever it is." He said stiffly.
"I'll get you some of my dad's old clothing." Kim said getting up and rushing through the door, her face still red from embarrassment at almost being caught by her best friend caressing and feeling him up while he slept.
"What? Aww come on. Ron looks good in those pajamas. What say we let him continue to wear them for a while?" Shego said getting up and following Kim out of the room.
Ron got up and quietly shut the door behind them. Looking over he spotted Rufus just starting to wake up on the dresser.
"Rufus do you know what happened last night?" He asked.
The little naked mole rat shook its head sleepily at Ron.
After a stammering Kim brought back some of her father's old clothing, a complete suit no less, right even down to a black tie, Ron dressed quickly. Mr. Possible's suit was a touch tight in spots, noticeably across the shoulders and embarrassingly, the crotch but Ron figured beggars couldn't be choosers. And now at least he had some decent clothing. As soon as he made lunch for Kim and Shego he could quietly sneak out of the house and probably out of their lives without them noticing.
Ron adjusted his tie looking into the mirror on the dresser but he wasn't really seeing himself.
He kept remembering the all too brief feeling of having both women in his arms when he woke up and with a feeling like his heart was lead, how he would never feel that again.