The 1st Annual Fannie Awards Chapter 6: Best Kigo Story, a kim possible fanfic

"Love and hate can be so closely entwined, that it is impossible to tell the difference sometimes. Fires are stoked, passions flamed, and that is the basis for this next category. The Kim/Shego dynamic makes for an interesting story, and I don't think those writers that enjoy it would have it any other way!"

Matt just grinned broadly. "While I generally prefer the Kim and Ron smuff, a little Kigo smuff can be good on occasion too. And bearing that in mind, let's welcome our guests to present the Best Kigo Story Award, Dr. Drakken and Shego!"

Drakken and Shego walk across the stage from opposite sides. Drakken is waving and smiling, obviously enjoying the attention in his black tux. Shego on the other hand just looks upset, the strapless black dress with the slit up the right side fluttering almost angrily along with her mood. As they meet at the podium in the middle, it looks like she's doing everything she can to resist hitting him.

"Isn't this a lovely night to present awards Shego?"

"Please, these geeks have no idea what I can do. They either have Princess beat me or turn me good. I just want to get this over with."

Drakken quickly covers the microphone, poorly, and lowers his voice to a whisper. "Shego, be good. They're reducing our sentence a few months for taking part in this. I, for one, would like to get out of prison sometime before the next century."

Shego just glares at him, but doesn't respond. Slowly, he removes his hand.

"All right, so I'm giving out this award… which one is it again?" Shego listens as Drakken leans over, whispering in her ear, and her eyes go wide. "OH HELL NO! I'm presenting the best Kigo Award? You have got to be kidding me! Where the hell is Kimmie, I have a few choice words for her!"

"Shego, watch your language, there might be children watching."

"Oh please, like they haven't heard it all before." She glares angrily, but Drakken just smiles lightly, his hands clasped as if pleading. "Fine, whatever. Let's get this out of the way so me and Kimmie can have a little talk about the awards she assigns me to present."

"Well, I don't think it was Kim Possible who assigned it, I think it was the producers and hosts, that… Jason and Matt."

"Fine, then I will have words with them! The nominees for Best Kigo Story are…"

An Unacceptable Sitch, by Allaine…

"I'm not going to do this any more, Shego," Kim replied quietly. The acoustics made it easy for Shego to hear her.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Shego asked, frowning. "You can't just let me get away."

"I can if it puts an end to this," Kim said.

Shego glared at her. "You've lost it, Possible."

"If you're stealing that diamond because you want me to come after you," Kim told her, "then I'm not going to play that game. Not after everything we've been through."

"Look, get it through your head, Kim," Shego retorted. "I'm evil, and I'm stealing this so I can sell it for lots of money. Then I can relax somewhere in the tropics and get my good laugh on all the people who have to slave away every day just to stay alive, while I live in luxury for breaking the law."

"At least the wage slaves aren't alone," Kim said.

Shego took a few steps forward and shook a fist at her. "Shut up, Kim, before I shut your mouth for you."

"Who goes with you to Waikiki or Bermuda or wherever it is you go, Shego?" Kim asked. "Family? Friends? Anyone? Are you so determined to live your life alone that you push away anybody who gets close to you?"

"Hey, I invited you into my life!" Shego said angrily. "You were the one who decided it was a little too close for comfort!"

"Well, that's a plus," Kim said. "For a minute there I was thinking you'd forgotten everything that happened to us."

Shego folded her arms and glared. "It happened. So what?"

"So there are still issues between us," Kim reminded her. "And we took those issues, and we put them in locked boxes and buried them in the ground, because we were trying to save our alliance. Now the Acceptables are gone, and I want to dig them up, no matter what the consequences. Because I don't want to fight with you, Shego. I want us to be what I thought for a few days maybe we could be."

"What?"

"Friends."

Kim Possible : Mind, Body, and Soul, by Hobnob-rev…

"Why'd you save me?" She implored Shego, desperation in her voice. "It had to be a trick, or…or there had to be another reason! You've always hated me! Did you do it to drive me mad? Why can't I hate you back? It's not fair!"

Shego gripped Kim round the waist and shoulder and, with a grunt, rolled her onto her back. As she lay on top of the young red head, she felt something inside her ache. Kim deserved to know the truth about her, them... It would probably be the last time they would ever meet, unless…

Shego bit her lip and then nodded. "Fine! There is another reason for why I saved you at Duotronics. It's the same reason I began fighting you all those years ago, the same reason I felt dirty when that drone shocked you, the same reason I went to you for help when Fang appeared!" Shego paused and let out a sigh. "For the same reason Drakken thinks I betrayed him, thanks to Kara."

"What are you talking about?" Kim hissed, angry that she couldn't budge Shego off her body. The black haired, green skinned woman held her tightly, almost as though her life depended on it. "Tell me! Why'd you save my life?"

Shego gripped Kim gently, watched her struggle underneath her. Those dark green eyes of hers flashing with anger, confusion, pain and fear. Sighing with understanding, Shego suddenly found she wanted to wash it all away. Wash away the pain. I love you Kimmie… that's all you have to say to her.You don't know how, or when it happened, but you do… and it's changing things.

Kim glared at Shego as the green woman stared at her, just stared. "Shego?"

"You really want to know why I saved your life, Kim?" Shego asked quietly, missing the shock on Kim's face as she used her real name. Kim Possible… I love you. Say it Shego… you coward! "You want to know why my life has been destroyed by Kara Fang and her manipulations?"

"Shego… I…" Kim managed, only for the thief to lean so close to her that she could feel Shego's warm breath on her cheek. "What… what are you doing?"

"You want to know?" Shego whispered, eyes glowing as she breathed in the spicy, citrus scent of Kim's hair. She ran her lips along Kim's jaw… seeking. So… beautiful, even when she's angry. No, especially when she's angry.

"Last chance to say no… Kimmie."

"I…Yes… I want to kn-" Kim managed, only for Shego to, lean down and slide her lips onto the young woman's in a smooth, silky kiss.

Shego felt her mind quiver as her lips touched Kim's. They were so soft, full and tender, that she lost herself in their texture. She tastes so sweet… Oh, Kim… This is why I had to save you, why I could never hurt you now… not now I know you as well as you know me!"

Walking the Line, by StarvingLunatic…

What the hell? How dare somebody just dump their crap here, Shego grumbled and she went to kick the box just because it seemed like a great way to vent her frustration.

The emerald-eyed female gave the box a good, swift kick and was going to do it again, but the box made a noise. She craned an onyx eyebrow because, as far as she knew, boxes were not supposed to yelp. She thought someone might have abandoned a dog or cat in the box, so she opened it to inspect what was going on. The contents caused her to leap back in pure shock, which was amazing because she felt like she had seen it all and it was hard to surprise her. There was a dead body in the box.

Okay, it turned out the Shego jumped to the wrong conclusion; the body in the box was far from dead. The redhead was eating way too much to be dead.

"God… all these people sound like rejected Abba wannabes…"

"Shego… please! Let's just announce the winner!" Drakken fumbles with a gold envelope, while Shego stares in hatred at the small gold statue sitting next to it. The motif is a very familiar redhead curled naked around an even more familiar dark haired woman. "Well, well… the winner is Hobnobrev!"

A figure stumbles up to the podium, coughing on a rapidly vanishing mint. "ME? You… I mean… me?"

Shego stares at Hobnob. "This mountain sized moron again?"

"That would be the winner, Shego, you really can't…"

"Oh?" Black lips curve into a cruel and calculating smile. "I see… maybe I should give him my personal thanks now…"

"No!" Drakken grabs her hand before she can move. "Shego, control yourself!"

Hobnobrev shuffles and coughs. "Well, ah… what can I say? Um, I began to write mind body and soul primarily due to the wonderful fictions by Allaine. I'd already seen the cartoon, watched Shego and Kim joust with each other, and had made a comment on another board about how 'friendly' they seemed."

"Friendly? I kicked Kimmie off a helicopter once! How is that being friendly?"

"Um, anyway. I decided to write mind body and soul as a tribute to the series 'An Unacceptable Sitch' that Allaine was writing. What prompted it was Allaine's use of the mind control chip. He used it briefly to add some wonderful angst to his storyline. I decided to go further."

"You did? What's IN your fiction you little geek? It's me right? I'm the one mind controlled again?"

hobnobrev shuffles away from Shego who glares and twitches, only to stiffen as Kim pokes her head back out from back stage.

"I know that MBS has Shego already interested in Kim, physically, but that was my take on the cues that we see, or for the Canon readers are speculated, to be in the cartoon. Anyway, by making, um, Shego the one in danger from Kara Fang, a true psychotic from her past-"

"Who?" Shego sniffs. "I wouldn't be seen dead hanging out with someone called Fang… and WHAT cues? Kimmie and I fight… a lot. Where's the romance? I mean, okay so we scrabble around a lot and touch each other and that one time I ended up with my leg pressed against her… and my hand… I'm gonna stop now."

Hobnobrev blinks. "Um, anyway. It gave me the catalyst for their relationship going further, and eventually blossoming into love in the face of such a cruel and evil woman."

"Me?"

"No, Shego… I think he means this Fang lady."

"Oh."

"To my fans of this fiction, I can only say thank you for sticking with me, for enjoying the story as much as you have, and for posting such interesting- and at times helpful- reviews. MBS itself is coming to an end soon."

"Thank god. The LAST thing I need is Kimmie reading that and then trying to grope me!"

"Shego! I'd never do that!"

"Oh sure princess…. Sure…"

"Um, can I continue?" hobnobrev glares at Shego who stares back in astonishment "I mean, I did WIN this you know! This award! For making you two getting together seem fun and plausible, if any of my fans have something to say about it! I'd like to tell them thanks and how humble it makes me to know they loved it! Is it too much to ask you to rein in the 'bitch of the universe' temper tantrum?"

"Oh god." Kim puts her hand over her eyes. "He is SO dead and doesn't realise it."

"You're actually getting pissy? With a green woman who can control plasma?"

"Um, I… oh. Bollocks…"

"Damn right. Dr D, I've had enough of this. EAT FLAMING PAIN, GEEK BOY!"

"ARRRGHHH!"

Jason runs quickly to intercept on stage. Hobnobrev is running for the side of the stage as fast as his legs can carry him, the statue clutched tightly in his hands. "Stop this! Stop it! You're just supposed to congratulate him!"

"I am, just not the way you wanted!"

Jason sticks his hands out. "You're not harming the writers! It's in the contract you signed!"

Grinning, Shego leans into Jason's face and her eyes flash. "I didn't sign dick, Z Boy. This Hob dude is going down for making me… me… Kimmies lover!"

Hobnob-rev is ducking behind Jason now. "I only picked up on the signs… the names, the picture in her locker… everything! I just thought Kim was jelling over telling you how she feels…."

Kim rose to her feet, her expression indignant. "I… DO NOT… JELL! Especially over her!"

"I'm with Kimmie on this, we hate each other… no matter how CUTE she can be when she's pissed off and-" Shego blinks as Jason and Hobnobrev smile "Oh… OH! You've got me DOING it now! Right, THAT'S IT!"

Jason turns to Hobnob as Shego's hands explode into green flame. "I think you better make what you say short and sweet, and then run like crazy!"

"On a quick and serious note. Thanks to everyone who likes MBS, and my potential plot. Allaine dude, thanks for making AUS become the catalyst for me deciding to add my own two cents to the KIGO universe. "

"Why does KIGO work? Because, no matter what, humans like to see a Villain and a Hero fall in love, and watch the power of redemption."

"Thank you all for liking Mind, body and soul. I remain, as always, your humble weaver of the story."

Hobnob-rev runs quickly for the exit, and Jason breathes a sigh of relief. "Well, looks like Hobnob is off to a great start to these awa… uh… Shego, is there something more we can help you with?"

The dark haired beauty just smiled. "I was hoping I could talk to you guys for just a moment, in the back?"

Matt just nods, his tongue hanging out slightly as he takes in the sight of Shego. Jason however appears a greatly concerned, especially when she grabs their arms and starts dragging them to the back. "Umm… sure, let's do that. Right after I introduce Nickleback, with Someday!"

How the hell did we wind up like this?
Why weren't we able, to see the signs that we missed
And try turn the tables

I wish you'd unclench your fists, and unpack your suitcase
Lately there's been too much of this
But don't think it's too late

Nothing's wrong, just as long as
You know that someday I will

Well I'd hope that since we're here anyway
That we could end up saying
Things we've always needed to say
So we could end up staying
Now the story's played out like this
Just like a paperback novel
Let's rewrite an ending that fits
Instead of a Hollywood horror

Nothing's wrong, just as long as
You know that someday I will

Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it all right but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it all right but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)

Solo

How the hell did we wind up like this?
Why weren't we able, to see the signs that we missed
And try to turn the tables
Now the story's played out like this
Just like a paperback novel
Let's rewrite an ending that fits
Instead of a Hollywood horror

Nothing's wrong, just as long as
You know that someday I will