What the Other Doesn't Know
Interrogation
"Ugh, if only the lab hadn't blown up then I would have totally been able to hit Shego!" Kim groused as she and Ron headed back to Kim's house. Both were back in their normal clothes, having finished their mission. Shego had been pulled out of her argumentation with Kim due to the sudden blasts and tremors rocking the evil lair and had back flipped off the pole and landed to the ground softly before rushing over, knocking Ron and Rufus aside, and grabbing Drakken to make their escape. "And then she wouldn't have escaped!"
Ron was a bit taken aback by Kim's choler at having her fight interrupted. But if she hadn't had it done, thanks to the combined efforts of Drakken and Ron in purposefully sabotaging the lab, then she and Shego would still be doing that weird compliment insult thing they had going on. Which reminded Ron-he wanted to know just what exactly had been going on.
"Sooooo, Kim, what was up with you and Shego anyways?" Ron tried to act casually as he said this.
"What do you mean what was up with me and Shego?" Kim narrowed her eyes at Ron, making him feel like he had done something wrong by asking that question.
"Well...both of you guys were..." Ron pressed his fingers together, trying to find the right phrasing.
"Nice! Both nice!" Rufus helped out Ron, peeking out from the blonde haired boy's pocket.
"Nice? You think we were being nice to each other today?" Kim looked confused for a second before anger rode over her features again. "But we're enemies. There is no way we're nice to each other! She's so annoying, with the way she calls me cute nicknames that I secretly love, with the way she pushes me to do better, and makes me happy when I fight her-"
"Uh, KP," Ron started.
"No, she's not just annoying, she's super annoying! Because she's so pretty and so talented. She knows all these different fighting styles and still she kinda respects me when we fight!" Kim was on a rant, speaking fast, lost to her own world, forgetting her friends were even there.
"Kim!" Rufus again came to the aid of his friend, by jumping up Kim's arm and running up to her shoulder so he could tug on her ear lobe.
"What is it Rufus?" Kim asked, finally stopping and petting the rodent on it's head.
"Kim, you're doing it again." Ron said.
"Doing what again?" Ron and Kim stopped walking, facing each other.
"This weird...complimentary talk!" Ron spread out his hands in an effort to emphasize his words. "When the two of you were fighting today, you were both calling each other cute, and beautiful, and nice, and it was all really weird! Just like you're doing now when you're talking about her!"
Kim let out an amused laugh. "Ron, what are you talking about? I do no such thing. You're probably just misinterpreting things cause girls talk differently when their talking to girls then when they talk to boys. I hate her, remember?" Kim bopped Ron on the nose with her finger and then strode off, giggling to herself about Ron's silly little ideas. Rufus, who was still on Kim's shoulder, exchanged a look back with Ron, shrugging his shoulder's helplessly.
"It's probably nothing," Ron said to reassure himself. Just a weird mood Kim was in. And if Kim insisted it wasn't anything important than it wasn't. And with that he pushed this incident out of his mind.
Omake: Interrogation, Part Two
"Shego...can I talk to you about something?" Drakken asked uncertainly, his voice timorous as he looked into the room where Shego was spread out on a couch, reading a magazine.
"Yea, what's up doc?" Shego asked, in a surprisingly good mood. Despite the fight with Kim being cut short, she had had a good insult flinging session with the girl. Ha, that'll teach the girl to call me cute next time! I got her good, Shego preened internally as she recalled Kim's flustered face at being hurtfully called pretty and awesome.
"I was just wondering...do you and Kim Possible, always fight like that?"
This pulled Shego's gaze to Drakken. Was there a problem? "Is there an issue with how I fight my Kimmie?"
My Kimmie? Drakken thought. What a weird phrasing in regards to one's arch nemesis. But Drakken let it slide. "Not an issue...just some questions about your conduct."
Shego arched a brow, her good mood slowly slipping away at Drakken's word choice. "Is this about how I didn't beat Kim? Cause I totally could if I wanted to, I just didn't have enough time with the lab blowing up and stuff."
"No, it's not that." Drakken shook his hands.
"Good. Or else I would have blasted you for that comment. We all know how hard it is to fight Kimmie, when you and her buffoon are running around the place, disrupting my concentration!" Shego raised her voice at this, making the evil genius cower.
"I'm not complaining about that. I swear!"
Shego snorted and flipped a page in her magazine, before turning back to it. Waiting a couple seconds for Shego's anger to shimmer down, Drakken tried again. "It's about...how you two talk to each other."
"Are you insulting my villain talk now? I make sure to adhere to the standards in the book of villainy as decided on by HenchCo. I make fun of her, I make gloating speeches, I curse, although I'm not allowed to cross my max limit of twenty curses per day, as directed by the new Clean Clause, due to certain heroes being below 18 years of age and-"
"No, no, you do a fine job with the insults. Most of the time. See, this time, you didn't do that," Drakken interrupted his sidekick, not having the patience to wait.
"What do you mean I didn't do it this time?" Shego sat up on the couch, her tone of voice carrying a warning with it.
"You were calling her cute, and adorable, the whole fight," Drakken pointed out, wilting a little under her heated gaze.
"So? It was making her uncomfortable and flustered. Just how I wanted her to be! Because that way she couldn't concentrate on destroying your new inventions." Shego was sure that was her reason for saying all those things to Kim and not because she actually thought the girl was cute and her skills admirable. Psh, totally not the case.
"Ooooo!" Drakken cried out in sudden relization. "That's brilliant Shego! Then continue doing that!"
"Yea, yea," Shego waved him off, her anger gone and laying back down on her couch. "Now leave. I'm trying to read here."
And Drakken did, cackling all about how evil Shego was, using nice words to get under the skin of the hero.
