I don't own these characters, Disney does. Wait, as usual, Trin and Tatsu are mine. A couple of Possibles are mine too, Jen and Liz. Then there's Rocky, mine too. I have all the sucky Possible characters.
8: Monster moves
"Baby, are you getting up?" Trin asked a little while after she woke up. She checked her watch and assumed that breakfast was probably being served.
Tatsu's answer was to turn over onto her stomach, which let her beloved know she was sleeping in. Trin did not say anything and decided to just let her lover sleep. She leaned over and kissed the exposed tan shoulder blade of Tatsu and then she got out of bed. She had on a long t-shirt, finding it too cold in the middle of night to sleep nude. She went to go take a shower after grabbing the necessary supplies and then she got dressed in her usual semiformal wear. She set off for her morning meal.
The blonde met Kim in the hall. The redhead headed toward the shower now, holding her shower supplies. Kim's hair went in every direction that physics would allow. Trin arched an eyebrow; she knew Kim's hair did not fair well through the night, but it never looked as it did now.
"Rough night?" Trin commented with an arched eyebrow.
"You're one to talk," Kim countered with a scoff.
"I merely needed to be relaxed for the troubled waters ahead," the farsighted female remarked.
"Good luck," the younger sister said.
"Sorry, but I have very little and refuse to use it here," Trin replied in a bit of an amused tone.
"How can you take this so lightly?" the hero asked curiously. She did not understand how her big sister could treat being out-ed so trivially there, but when she was out-ed in front of their parents, she had practically broken down.
"They hate me already, Mini-me. This is only a drop in a large bucket. It is not so unnerving. It's definitely not like coming out to Mom and Dad. So, this is nothing," the blonde answered.
"So, why didn't you just come out in the first place?" Kim inquired.
"You know I don't want to make trouble for our parents. Mom already puts up with enough around here. I didn't want to add to it and Dad should be able to enjoy being with his big brother instead of putting up with my troubles."
Kim nodded, figuring that was the case. "You know, none of us, parents included, 'put up' with stuff from you, Trin. You're here. We accept you because we love you."
Trin smiled a bit. "How is it you can know me so well, yet still ask me why it was so hard to come out to our parents?"
Kim chuckled. "Because you're my super big sister and it's hard to imagine you being afraid of anything, especially something silly like our parents disowning you."
"All right. You should go take your shower. You don't want to miss the fireworks."
"I do. I really do. And don't worry about Mom and Dad. We both know they can take care of themselves."
Trin chuckled and shooed her sister away. The blond Possible went to make herself comfortable at the breakfast table and she looked around for clues as to who knew she was a lesbian. The rest of the household was already at the table, excluding Kim, Shego, and Tatsu. She quickly gathered everyone who did not know she was homosexual yesterday, knew it today from the way they eyed her, like something smelled bad. Joss worked quickly. Perhaps it would make for an interesting morning, Trin considered.
"Trin, where's Kimmie, Shego, and Tatsu?" Anne inquired.
"Kim should be along shortly. I do believe that it's too early in the morning for the other two," Trin replied while picking up a grapefruit from the fruit basket in the middle of the table. It was just about the only thing she was willing to eat at the table because she doubted it had been fried in some kind of animal fat.
"They do seem more like night owls than early birds," James commented about Tatsu and Shego.
Trin decided it would be best for her to not respond to his remark. Her baby was sleeping late for a specific reason. She would have slept in too, but she just was not used to doing such a thing. She was willing to bet that the same could be said of Shego and Kim was probably only awake because she was accustomed to get up by a certain hour. But, Trin would rather not think about why Shego slept in because Shego was her little sister's girlfriend and she would prefer not to think about their relationship in such terms. She was sure her father would agree, so she did not explain.
Trin tried her best to not think about Kim's relationship with Shego. She was rather protective of Kim and had a bit of trouble realizing that Kim was growing up; she supposed that she got it from their father. She was learning to let go at least while she doubted her father would ever realize that they had grown up.
The blonde began to slowly eat her grapefruit while waiting for one of her aunts or her grandmother to say something to her. As the table began to clear, she noticed they still watched her carefully, as if she was some kind of criminal and was about to make off with the good silver. Her parents and Slim went about their business, as did Larry. It seemed that the geek was not let it on the news of the morning or he wisely would not comment on it. Trin suspected it was the latter. She waited for what she knew was coming, but if they did not bite before the time she finished her breakfast, she planned to go get some work done on her computer. She had things to do, after all.
"So, girl," Nana said, speaking to Trin like she was lower than a worm's stomach.
"Ma'am?" Trin replied with some intrigue in her voice. She remained focused on eating her grapefruit, though.
"You were behaving repulsively on the floor in plain view?" the old woman inquired with distain.
"And if I was?" Trin countered. Sometimes, she wished they could just take the bait and come at her physically to make for some real entertainment, but they never did and she doubted that would change.
"You're a filthy pervert!" Jen declared with a stern glare, like that would teach Trin. The blonde could care less than nothing about the outburst, but she guessed Jen was particularly upset because it was her daughter that discovered them on the floor.
"Am I now?" Trin asked dully.
"It's bad enough that you do whatever it is you do with that boy that you're always with, but now with a girl, too. You're just a tramp. Could you be any more promiscuous and disgusting?" Liz inquired.
"I'm sure if I put my mind to it, I could," the blonde answered. Of course, she had no interest in such. She could not help wondering why everyone assumed she and Shin were doing anything aside from getting on everyone's nerves, as well as each others. They could not sleep with each other before they knew for certain they were gay, so they definitely would get no pleasure out of touching each other now, unless they were hitting each other.
"You're just a monster. A depraved, vicious, whorish little monster," Rocky stated.
"Really? This is the card we're going to play? I'm depraved and a monster because I enjoy the female form?" Trin inquired. Surely there were other things she did that made her a monster, but sleeping with Tatsu could not possibly be on the list realistically. "I suppose you're depraved for the same reason."
Rocky growled. "Don't you dare try to compare my natural relationship with my wife to whatever it is you have."
"Oh, please, Mr. Holier-than-thou, like you don't get off on hot girl-on-girl action. I would be willing to sell you a tape of me and Tatsu, but I'd rather not star in your wet dreams," Trin remarked with a smirk.
The group was stunned by her words. They're so easy to shock, she thought. They pretended to be so virtuous that she could say almost anything and they would need a moment to recover. She considered amusing herself and getting into what Shin referred to as "gay banter." It was a sort of game that he came up with and the idea was simply to make people uncomfortable by spouting almost pure nonsense that implied doing homosexual things to the person being addressed. He seemed to get a big kick out of it, so she suspected she would too considering whom her audience was. She would see if they would give her the chance to indulge herself in that game.
"Girl, we won't stand for such behavior," Nana proclaimed, pointing an authoritative finger at the blonde.
"You don't have to. There are plenty of empty seats," Trin commented.
The group did not find the remark funny and they continued to berate the college student. They made it seem as if Joss found her on the floor, stark naked, with more than just Tatsu. It was only a kiss for crying out loud.
Trin remained calm through out it all, even though she had been called a whore more times than she liked in less than ten minutes. She noted she got them riled up to the point where at least Jen looked like she wanted to throw down, but she held back. The blonde suspected the fact that she could easily kill Jen with one hand was what held the auburn-haired woman back.
Trin's attention was drawn from them when Tatsu wandered out, looking like she had been lost in the desert for years. It was clear that she just woke up and she stumbled over to her lover. She flopped down onto Trin's lap and rested her head on Trin's shoulder; those around were shell shocked into silence.
"Yes, baby?" Trin asked. She wondered why Tatsu was up already, but she did not bother to inquire.
"Shower," Tatsu requested. She had gotten up because she grabbed for a body in the bed that was not there. It irked her that her beloved was not there to the point where she got up to seek Trin out.
"I've already had one," Trin answered.
"Another," the mechanic ordered in a low voice. She wanted to take a shower with the blonde.
"No thank you," Trin replied. She thought they needed to exhibit some form of self-control. She did not want to do something her uncle Slim might consider disrespectful to his house.
"Spoilsport," Tatsu muttered.
Trin only smiled a bit as her girlfriend climbed off of her lap. The farsighted woman then did something that was more likely to be done by her lover, but she wanted to upset her family. So, she playfully hit Tatsu on the butt as she walked off back to their room. The blonde turned back to her family with a cheeky expression in her blue eyes. They all but exploded from the display.
"There are children present! Restrain yourself!" Liz hollered the order.
"Is this the example you want to set for you sister? You want to be a degenerate in front of her?" Jen demanded.
"This is all your mother's fault!" Nana declared. All three women were red in the face from their outrage.
Trin craned a curious sun-colored eyebrow. How in the world was her being a lesbian her mother's fault? Now, she was used to Nana blaming her mother whenever she did something "odd" or "bad," but she did not see how her sexual orientation could be blamed on her mother because it was not like her mother encouraged her to go out and date women. She was going to have to get her grandmother to explain that statement because she needed to hear the so-called logic that went into coming to that conclusion. How was her grandmother going to possibly pin her lesbianism on her mother?
"How, pray tell, is it my mother's fault exactly?" Trin inquired. Before she could get an answer, her uncle Slim interrupted them.
"What's all the hoopla in here?" Slim inquired because he could hear the yelling out in the living room, where he whipped the "Squirt" at chess yet again. Really, his little brother could not even fake being a chess player.
"That girl is queer," Jen informed her husband while pointing at the blonde.
"Queer?" Slim echoed and then he looked at Trin. "Well, I got to admit she is a bit peculiar, but I wouldn't go so far as to say she's queer," he remarked, obviously going with the dictionary definition of the word queer.
"That girl with her is her…" Liz shuddered as if what she was going to say next pained her. "…her girlfriend."
"No kidding," Slim commented as if it was news to him, but not very shocking news. He glanced down at Trin for a second and then spoke in a low tone. "So, that's the gal that's got Shin feeling like a third wheel, eh?" he asked with a taunting smile.
The blonde was not surprised her uncle knew about her relationship with Tatsu. She figured her parents told him shortly after they found out, which was just what happened. Slim handled the news at the time with a bit of a shock, but since his little brother and favorite sister-in-law were all right with it, he eventually calmed down. They had expressed some apprehension about Trin dating a high school dropout who handled illegal street racers to make a living, but then again, they felt better about Tatsu than they did about Shego. They had informed him, too, Kim was dating Shego, who he recalled, but the thing got his attention was that his little brother kept going on about her being "circus folk."
Slim was amused that his brother's main problem with Shego was that he assumed she was some kind of circus performer, even though he was very aware that she was once a dangerous thief and former arch foe to Kim. Anne assured Slim that it seemed that Kim influenced Shego and not the other way around, which was why they were accepting of the relationship. Slim wondered what the chances were of Anne having two homosexual daughters; it seemed uncanny. Although, he knew the rest of the family would not think too highly of the situation when they found out.
"She was carrying on inappropriately in front of Joss," Jen reported with a huff, hoping to get her husband was infuriated as the rest of them.
"Really, Shorty?" Slim asked Trin, studying her closely. He did not think it was like her to do something like that in front of anyone. She was a pretty private person and she usually carried herself well when other people were around.
"I was unaware that she was there and it was little more than a simple kiss. And don't call me 'Shorty,' anymore. I keep asking you and you just keep going," Trin replied to be annoying. Sometimes, she objected to the nickname just to let him think it bothered her because he liked to think he got on her nerves. Truthfully, she was bit flattered her uncle gave her a nickname. After all, other than her, only his little brother had a sobriquet bestowed upon him from Slim.
"Hey, I can't help it if you're Shorty. You should be a bit more conscientious with young 'uns roaming around here," Slim scolded the blonde.
"I suppose," Trin conceded. Yes, it was a small kiss, but she should have been more conscious of her surroundings.
"Don't talk to her like it's a small matter," Liz reprimanded her brother, who she believed was not taking things as seriously as he should, which everyone there would agree with, aside from Trin anyway.
Slim thought it was a small matter. All right, Joss saw Trin kissing Tatsu, but it was not like the kid's eyes melted or her head exploded from the sight. He doubted witnessing such a thing had scarred his auburn-haired little cowgirl. He guessed he would change his mind if her long-standing interest in Ron Stoppable shifted to a certain high school dropout mechanic. But, until that time, he would just worry about her fascination with a guy that could not seem to keep his pants up.
"All right, all right. This is serious. Joss, I understand that you might be confused," Slim said, turning to address his daughter.
"I ain't confused. She's queer, just like her boyfriend," Joss replied, missing the contradiction of her statement by saying both Trin and Shin were queer, but then linking them as a couple.
"No, no one is queer like Shin," Trin remarked, going with the dictionary definition of queer on that one.
"I'll bet," Slim concurred. That boy Shin was a piece of work and a half. He bet that kid's parents never had a dull moment while raising him up and, boy, was he right on that one.
Now, Slim did not have much of a problem with Shin. He could tell for the most part that the half-Japanese young man was a good natured and fun-loving person, but he just took things too far. They had been told that Shin got his behavior from his father, who just liked having a good time and typically took things overboard. It was not that they were bad people or even looking to offend anyone. They just tried to get the most out of life. Slim just wished Shin could rein it in because then he would have no problem with the boy coming back to the ranch.
"Well, the kid doesn't seem to be scarred for life. A bit confused maybe," Slim said.
"I just said I ain't confused, Daddy," Joss insisted.
"Okay, well, you said Trin was queer and then you said she had a boyfriend."
Joss frowned. "You can be queer and normal, Dad. It's called bisexual," she said matter-of-factly. Trin almost laughed.
Slim threw up his hands in defeat. "I guess that's the end of this," he proclaimed, even thought he was aware that would not be the end of that. After all, nothing was that easy when it came to Trin and their family, especially if it gave them a chance to harp on Anne, too. It was going to be a long day if their family had anything to say about it.
The sideshow was interrupted by the surprisingly loud shout of "what the hell" coming from Tatsu of all people. Trin had no idea that her lover could be so loud. Shego was the first one of the scene since she was close by and she repeated the "what the hell" inquiry just as loud. Well, they had the rest of the house's attention and everyone had to see what was wrong.
"What the hell is that thing?" Shego inquired. She had asked the question that everyone was thinking; she was good at handling that.
They all stared at a two-foot creature that appeared to be some kind of ape. It was covered in dark brown hair and it sat by the side of the bed with a bag that looked like it belonged to Trin. The whole household just gaped at the creature, unsure of what to do.
"Is that a gorilla?" Jim wondered aloud.
"That's a bigfoot," Trin realized as she eyed the beast. She had to take her "extra-eyes" off and rub her eyes to make sure she saw what she thought she saw. It definitely was not any ape that she had ever seen before.
"Bigfoot doesn't exist," Kim argued.
"I know that as well as you, but that is no other ape that I have ever seen," the blonde replied.
"And you're an ape expert," Jen remarked sarcastically.
"Well, I do live with Shin," Trin joked dryly.
Tatsu did not ask any questions or say anything. She approached the creature while everyone else looked at her as if she was nuts. She had always had a weird relationship with animals, dating back to when she was a very little kid. She did not really fear animals, but she never had any real love for them either. She did not care if the animal was wild or not, they tended to like her or at least tolerate her.
The creature looked up at Tatsu when she was close and she offered her hand. There was suddenly a loud roar that was almost earsplitting. It sounded like something out of a dinosaur film. Everyone was stunned or scared by the noise. The creature looked exceptionally afraid, gasping and dark eyes going wide. The small apelike animal leaped into Tatsu's arms and hid in her shoulder. Tatsu grunted as she caught the thing.
"What the hell was that?" Shego inquired, looking around suspiciously.
"I'll go see," Kim volunteered. Frightening noises, she could handle those, but a probable real bigfoot crossed the line.
"I'll go, too," Shego said for the same reason. Plus, she could not let her lover inspect a weird noise alone. The couple ran off to see who or what made that noise.
"Um, what should I do with this?" Tatsu asked her girlfriend. She referred to the little creature in her arms that clutched her bicep for dear life and trembled as if it was deathly afraid of something.
"Hell if I know," Trin replied and then she noticed that the creature was bleeding, but she could not tell from where because of all of the hair. It seemed like today was going to be more interesting than the fact that she had been out-ed in front of her family. Who saw that one coming?
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Next time: a bunch of uninvited guests stop by the ranch to help ruin the day even more than finding a bigfoot does.