KP - All Grown Up?

AN: I got this idea after hearing Drakken say "My Teenage Foe" once too many times on the music cd. I wondered what he would say if they weren't teens? This is that story, with a twist.

Chapter 7: Black Hole Troubles

(Kim's House)

Ron moans softly as he wakes up with Rufus sitting on the table facing him. He is still half-out of it as he says, "Ohhh... Rufus, I had the craziest dream... I dreamed that Kim and I were married..." He brings his hand up to rub his head and it happens to be the one with the gold wedding ring on it. He continues to say, "And she was... I mean I was going to be a father..."

At that very moment, Ron opens his eyes more to see the wedding ring on his finger and that's when his eyes go wide with his brain going fully awake in shock. He jumps from the seat with his eyes as wide as they can be as he yells, "Rufus! I have a ring! That means... I'm married to Kim!"

Kim and her mother were sitting on the sofa in the living room still talking when they hear some noise coming from the kitchen that sounds a lot like yelling in Ron's voice. Kim's mother says, "I guess he's awake now Kim, you really should tell him you're pregnant too."

Kim sighs with her head tilted just a little, causing her hair to drape over her eyes for a moment before she nods, "I know you're right Mom... I just hope that he doesn't pass out again or freak out about it."

Kim's mother says, "Honey, if I know Ron, he will freak out at first but then he'll be by your side like always and support you in every way. That's just the kind of good friend he is." She pats her daughter's shoulder before she stands and says, "Come, lets go before he hurts himself."

Kim nods to her mother and so they both get up to walk towards the kitchen. They get about as far as the stairs when Ron comes bursting out of the door and he looks a bit on the freaked side. He doesn't see Kim or her mother right away as his eyes look left and right but once he looks forward and spots Kim, he runs up to her and stops before her, gaping down at her big belly.

Ron shouts almost in a panic, "So it wasn't a dream! You're really pregnant! We're married!" He continues to look up and down at Kim who tries to cup her fingers together in front of her as if she wasn't pregnant but they come to rest upon her belly, which only draws more attention to it.

Kim says, "Um... yeah... I guess so..." She looks at Ron into the eyes with her bright green eyes to meet his brown ones with her red hair framing her sad face and she says with a hint of asking in her voice, "Ron... I'd really appreciate if you don't freak out about this too much, this is kinda hard on me too."

Something about the way she said that or perhaps in the tone of her voice seems to work as Ron snaps out of his freaked out state and he meets her look with an serious look before he says, "You're right KP, and from here on out you're both my number one priority!"

Kim raises an eyebrow even though she knew that what Ron was saying was quite grown up, for him. She wondered for a moment what her mother had to do with anything. She says, "What do you mean Ron? Why would my mother be number one priority too?"

Ron shakes his head side to side before he says, "Uh-uh, not her KP... You and the BABY!" He says the last word a little louder than he meant to but it has the effect of drawing Kim back to her predicament and she blushes as she says, "Oh... I see. Thanks Ron."

Just then coming from upstairs is Mr. Possible and he says, "What's with all the shouting? I could hear the noise from upstairs. I could have sworn I heard the word baby a moment ago..." He freezes at the stairs as he sees the bulge on Kim until she says softly, "Um, Hi Daddy..."

Mr. Possible just stands there slack-jawed for a few moments before his face starts to change into one of anger as he sees Ron standing next to her and puts two and two together. He storms down the rest of the stairs very loudly, which makes Kim back up a step as she covers her belly in a protective way.

Kim is surprised when Ron stands in front of Kim like a shield and standing tall as he can so as to make his presence more visible than Kim's, looking as if he wasn't the least bit afraid. She looks up at Ron's strength and willingness to stand before her angry father when she knew he was probably worried about the 'black hole' thing that her father had threatened when they went out on their first date. Still, she was grateful that he was there for her as her instincts to preserve the life in her belly were kicking in quite a bit at that moment.

Neither one of the two kids was more surprised than Mr. Possible when he was stopped by his own wife at the foot of the stairs as she blocked his path with her hands resting on her hips defiantly. He says to his wife, "Out of the way, I've got a few words to say to them! Especially Ronald!"

Mrs. Possible puts her hands on his chest and looks at him with a determined look in her eyes as she says, "Honey, you will NOT talk to them out of anger and right now you are too angry to think straight!"

Mr. Possible says in an angry voice, "But my Kimmie-cup is pregnant and it could only be that Ronald's fault!" He points at Ron in an accusing way but Ron doesn't shrink from the accusation at all and stays right where he is to keep protecting Kim.

No one saw what came next, but Mrs. Possible says in a very cold, angry voice that even Kim had seldom heard but when her mother used it she knew not to cross her, "Honey, I love you very much but for your own sake I think you had better shut up or I promise you I will slap you so hard that it'll make your head spin!" The voice gave her chills as she knew her mother meant serious business and apparently even in his enraged state, he knew not to cross his wife at that moment as she could be pretty scary when she wanted to be.

Mr. Possible's shoulders slumps down in defeat as he says in a defeated voice, "Fine... I'll go calm down." He looks at Ron and says, "Later, we're going to have a man to man talk." He is surprised when Ron says without fear, "Looking forward to it Mr. Dr. P." He looks at Ron for a long second, wondering what has come over the normally childish, scary-cat person he knew and then he sees the reason. It was the way Kim was standing behind him. He figures out that the way he was storming down the stairs, he must have looked pretty scary and that Ron was doing the whole 'protect Kim' thing. After this, all the anger and fight just washes out of him and he goes to sit down by the couch.

Mrs. Possible turns to Kim and Ron before she says, "Come on you two, lets go upstairs. I think we've all had enough excitement for one day." She waits until Ron starts moving who is followed by Kim and she catches the sad look from Kim's face at her father before she heads upstairs with her shoulders a bit down.

Mrs. Possible frowns as she knows that her husband's thoughtless words in the heat of anger was already hurting Kim. She was going to have to set her husband straight and see what she could do to fix things.

Mrs. Possible follows them up and when they get to the hallway she says, "Kim, lets go to your room. I want you to lay down." She sees Kim nod before she says, "Sure mother." She watches as Ron opens the door for Kim, which makes her smile for just a moment as she thinks, "Ron will take excellent care of Kim, I hope she realizes how lucky she is." Her thoughts are spoiled by the expression on Kim's face as she walks through the door and remembers that she has to do something.

Once everyone is in the room, Kim lays down onto the bed with Ron helping by pulling back the sheets and tucking her in carefully. Kim's mother sits down at the foot of the bed and uses a tender tone of voice as she says, "Kim honey, you know your father didn't really mean what he said. He was just angry because he didn't know what to do about his little girl being pregnant."

Kim turns onto her side and says, "Maybe, but I dunno... he seemed pretty upset at me and Ron..." She didn't know what to do or why her feelings felt so out of whack. She felt a tear starting to leak from her eye until she feels a hand touch her shoulder and when she turns her head to look at the source, which is Ron she feels a little guilty because she got Ron involved in this whole mess.

Ron says, "Don't worry Kim, your father will calm down and everything will be ok. Trust me KP, I've always got your back don't I?" He gives her a warm smile to comfort her which makes her feel better for some reason and she says, "Thanks Ron, really."

Kim's mother stands up and says, "You've been through a lot Kim, so get some rest while we take care of your father, ok?" She waits until Kim nods and then leaves even as Ron leaves Rufus behind to watch over Kim like before.

Ron and Kim's mother walk down the hallway but just as they get to the top of the stairs she grabs at his arm for a second and turns to him to say, "Ronald, I just want to say thank you. It took a lot of courage for you to stand up to my husband as angry as he was. I also saw how you took the defensive position for Kim when he was storming down the steps." She pauses as she looks at Ron's face and sees him fall back into the Ron she normally knew as he looked embarrassed and a little at a loss for words. She then says, "I wasn't about to let you stand up to James by yourself though, not when I could do something and I certainly didn't like the way Kim looked at that moment."

Ron nods and meets her eyes before he says, "I know, I didn't like how she looked either. I would do anything for KP which also includes standing up even to her father if it meant protecting her and the baby."

Mrs. Possible smiles as she pats his shoulder as she says, "I know Ron, I know..." After a moment of silence, Mrs. Possible says, "Come on, let's go face James and don't worry. I'll be there right beside you to back you up just like you were for Kim."

Ron gives her a worried look as he thinks about how Kim's father had one threatened to send him to a black hole if he'd ever done anything to Kim and he couldn't imagine anything worse to Kim's father than seeing Kim pregnant and... with the situation as it was, he could imagine Kim calling this a 12.9 on the weirdness scale. Still, after everything they'd been through, he couldn't imagine he'd ever leave her side.

Even after he nods to Kim's mother and they resume walking, he couldn't but help wonder about the future. He knew about the rings now and about Kim being pregnant, so did that mean at some point their new boyfriend/girlfriend status would develop into something more? To where he would become her husband? The thought of being married to was a little scary to him but on the other side of the coin the thought also pleased him a lot as loved Kim a lot already and he knew that they had been together since Pre-K, so why not spend the rest of their lives together? Ron couldn't imagine a more better life than that of being with Kim forever. He was forced to put aside all such thoughts as he came to a stop in front of Kim's father who had thankfully looked like he had cooled off some since the stairs incident.

Mr. Possible still didn't look entirely happy but when he saw his wife standing beside Ron, he knew he had to keep his head or she'd give him something to worry about. He had taken the time to cool off though and taken the time to think about things. He knew that it was impossible to have gotten as quickly pregnant looking as he'd seen her from the first time he'd seen Kim so he figured that it must have something to do with whatever Drew, Drakken to Kim and Ron zapped them with. Still, he figured that the child was Ron's as he couldn't imagine Kim giving herself to anyone else and because of that he wanted Kim and Ron to marry, as it'd be the only proper thing to do.

Mr. Possible says, "It is ok Ron, I have calmed down some. So I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to know what's going on and what we're going to do about this."

Mrs. Possible puts her hand on Ron's shoulder and says to her husband, "Listen, as far as we all know. Kim is with a child, probably in her late term at this point so she could give birth at almost any point now. So I would really appreciate it if you'd go upstairs and tell your daughter that you didn't mean what you said about Ron when you found out that she was pregnant."

Mr. Possible says, "Well, they are still going to have to do the right thing and marry. I wouldn't want anything less than the father of the child to be married to my Kimmie-cup" He sounds determined to at least win on some ground.

Mrs. Possible turns her head to look at Ron and she says, "Show him the ring Ron."

Ron nods meekly before he raises his hand, the one with the gold wedding ring on his finger and in the light of the living room, there was no mistaking it for anything else but a wedding ring. He watches as Mr. Possible shows shock upon his face, then as he looks at Ron, then the ring again as if trying to comprehend what he was seeing before he finally looks at his wife. He wondered what Kim's father must be thinking at that moment and what would he do next? What would he say next?

Mr. Possible says, "W-when did this happen? Did you know about this?" to his wife as he looks at her after having seen the ring on Ron's finger.

Mrs. Possible says, "As far as I know, the ring appeared as part of their new clothes and gear after they were changed by Drakken's device."

Ron is surprised by this and says, "They were? How come I didn't know until just recently?" to Mrs. Possible.

This surprises Mr. Possible and he says, "Ron didn't know either? Who knew? When? I want details!"

Mrs. Possible sighs as she says, "I think Kim was the first one to notice anything like the rings. She was also the first to know about the pregnancy I think since it IS her body after all." She gives the two men a look as if not to challenge her on that last part and they don't challenge but it is obvious that they both have a lot of questions. She says to Ron, "Do you remember when Kim passed the first time?"

Ron nods, "Yeah, I remember. It had me really worried about her as she normally doesn't pass out."

Mrs. Possible says, "Well, I think she passed out from the shock of seeing the wedding ring on her finger and she probably say yours way before you ever saw yours. I bet you never even noticed it because on your adult body, you'd grown so used to it. Also your mind must have adapted to the new older, more grown up body automatically or you and Kim would have been rejecting your own bodies."

This last part made the two guys panicked as they thought about how Kim's life was in danger, it never even occurred to Ron that he could have rejected his own body. Ron was worried about Kim first as it didn't matter to him, Kim came first in his eyes and always would.

Mrs. Possible can tell what they must be thinking and says, "It looks like that never happened, so don't worry. I think that temporal effect that Wade mentioned earlier had a delayed effect upon their bodies. Think about it. Clothes and other non-living things are easy to change and its effects would be immediate but living things such as bodies and babies would take a longer time."

Both Mr. Possible and Ron thought about it and Mr. Possible was able to grasp the concept first since he was a father and thus knew about such things more readily than Ron who was still in high school. But still, Ron had never been a father or through lamaz classes as Mr. Possible had been, at least as far as anyone knew for no one knew for certain about the future where Kim and Ron as far as they were concerned.

Mr. Possible says, "So, Kim could be about to give birth to a child any day now?" His mind was still reeling in the thought that his little girl, who was now in an adult body and pregnant. It was a difficult concept for him to grasp over such a short time.

Mrs. Possible nods as she says, "Yes and until we get her to the hospital and have that belly scanned, I don't even know the gender or how many she may have in there."

Ron's eyes go wide as he says, "H-h-how many?" The thought of Kim having more than one kid on the way was a shocker to him. But he hadn't even thought about Kim having more than one child after learning she was pregnant but then he remembered that Kim's mother had twins, so why not Kim? He thought he'd heard somewhere that the ability to have twins would in the family.

Mrs. Possible nods as she says, "Yes Ron, she could very will be carrying more than one child given the size of her belly but we can't know for that for sure right now."

Ron suddenly feels a little faint at the thought of taking care of twins when he remembered how much of a handful Jim and Tim were and so he then sits down on the couch beside Mr. Possible who was glad he was sitting already as he was thinking about the possibility of his little girl who he had to correct in his mind, as she was certainly not a little girl anymore.

Something occurs to Mr. Possible and he says, "When did you find out about the ring and Kim's pregnancy?" to his wife.

Mrs. Possible says, "I found out about the ring when they both came back from the mission and I saw Ron's ring on his finger while Kim was trying to hide her hands until Wade called. That's when I saw her ring as well." She moves to sit down on a recliner beside the two and says then, "I found out about Kim's pregnancy when Ron was running downstairs to get a bowl for Kim to throw up in and I pulled back the blanket. She didn't want anyone to know so I respected her wishes."

Mr. Possible says, "Still, you should have told me. I am your husband after all and we don't usually keep secrets from each other."

Mrs. Possible says, "Honey, if I'd told you from the beginning, what would you have done?" She doesn't even wait for an answer before she says, "I know you very well and I think you would have jumped the gun and reacted exactly the way you did on the stairs. That wouldn't have done anyone any good would it?"

Mr. Possible thinks about what she said and looks down at the floor in thought before he looks up and says, "You're right. I would have but I certainly hope that you would have told me at some point."

Mrs. Possible nods and says, "I would have left that up to Kim mostly, but yes I would have told you eventually."

Mr. Possible looks a bit relieved in that and then he turns to Ron who looks back as he says, "Ronald, I want to apologize for earlier. I had no reason to react the way I did other than a lame excuse that I was simply reacting as a father. I hope that you can forgive me... I hope that Kim can forgive me for scaring her." He looks down for a moment when he says that last bit before looking back up at Ron.

Ron reaches out and puts his hand on Mr. Possible's shoulder, which surprises him before Ron says, "There's nothing to forgive. You were just thinking about Kim and wanted to do what was best for her. Trust me, I know because that's exactly what I was trying to do when I stood in front of her."

Mrs. Possible thinks Ron has certainly become more mature and then a thought hits her, "Could his maturity also be a continuing effect of the ray that they were hit with? Or could it be something else?" She wondered as she thought about all that has happened ever since the kids came home.

Mr. Possible says, "Thank you Ronald, and I'll be sure to go up right away to square things right with Kimberly."

Ron says, "I'm sure she'd like that Mr. Dr. P." before he removes his hand from Mr. Possible's shoulder.

Mr. Possible stands up and says, "I'm going to go right now and talk to her and let her know I still love her and that I still think good of you. In fact, I think I'll tell her that I couldn't think of a better man for her to marry... er, have married. You know what I mean."

Ron nods before he says, "Yes, I think I do. Although... I have to admit this is a bit weird for me. One day I'm just dating Kim and the next I find I'm married to her and she's with child."

Mr. Possible says, "Yes, I know how that feels. It is just as strange to know that my little girl who is dating her best friend from Pre-K and the next it seems they're married with children. So we're on the same page Ronald, or should I call you Ron now that it seems you're part of the family?"

Ron smiles as he says, "That... that'd be fine with me." He wonders if he should ask him if he can call him "Dad" while he's at it but then he decides not to press his luck. He watches as Mr. Possible stands up and says to him, "You're going to be a fine man when you grow up Ron. I can tell and I know that you'll always take good care of Kim as you always have."

Ron smiles at the compliment while Mrs. Possible smiles at the nice way things have ended because she'd been worried that her husband and Ron would not have been able to work things through but then she realized that she didn't need to worry. Ron had always been practically like a family member ever since they were kids, so it was only natural that he was one.

Mr. Possible walks away and goes up the stairs to talk to Kim and he'd just entered her room when the doorbell went off.

Mrs. Possible gets up and goes to the door while Ron takes a deep breath as he didn't realize that he'd been almost holding his breath during a few of those moments.

Once Mrs. Possible opens the door she sees a man standing that she didn't know with a very somber expression on his face as well as an equally somber looking woman in matching suits. She guessed that they were government people with they way they looked but she couldn't figure out what they'd be doing at her house.

The man says, "Hello, are you Mrs. Possible?"

Mrs. Possible nods as she says, "Yes, I'm Mrs. Dr. Possible, what can I do for you two?"

The man says, "We are here to take in an unidentified female redhead and blond male and send them to be under the care of Sheila Gonez."

AN: Well everyone, I hope you all liked this latest chapter. What do you think? Do you all think Mrs. Possible is onto something or not? Did any of you find Mr. Possible reaction ok or too much? What do you all think about how poor Kim is taking all of this? What about the mysterious people who have showed up? Any thoughts? Who ever could be Shelia Gonez? Will Kim have 1 or more babies? Will she even have to? Read my next chapter to find out! And remember, reviews equal more quicker chapter updates:)