What the Other Doesn't Know

Time for a Girl to Girl Chat

"Hey, Shego, can we talk?" Kim asked tentatively as she knocked on the steel door that Shego was locked up behind.

"About what?" came Shego's muffled reply.

"About why you're avoiding me."

"I'm not avoiding you."

"Yes, you are."

"No, I'm not."

"Yes."

"No."

"Ye-look," Kim stopped herself before this yes and no back and forth could go any further. "I know you are, you know you are, even Drakken knows you are and you know that if he knows then it's something big that must be bothering you. So let's just cut to the chase. I'm sure you have evil things to be doing that I need to be thwarting so I'd like us to be able to go back to normal. I want us to talk this through, whatever this is."

There was silence on the other end. Kim wondered what Shego was doing there. Was she going to ignore her? Or had she vacated the room through a window or something? Maybe Kim could get Wade to find her this window so she could sneak her way in.

At last Shego spoke. "Do you mean that?"

"What?" Kim cocked her head, not sure she was getting at what Shego meant.

"Do you mean what you said about us going back to normal? Because this whole thing that's been going on this past week is not...it's so out of the norm for you."

Kim furrowed her brows. "I've been doing something weird? But what?"

There was a heavy sigh and Shego's voice got clearer almost as if she was sitting with her back to the door now. Kim mimicked the position without even realizing it, just so she could hear the other better. "You honestly don't know, Pumpkin?"

Kim shook her head even though Shego wouldn't be able to see it. "I don't. Does this have something to do with me making you pass out all those times? I didn't mean to. I just wanted to prevent you from suffocating." Kim tried to wrack her head for any recent offenses she had dealt the green skinned villainess but she could come up with nothing out of their ordinary cache of fighting and flinging taunts and witty one liners are each other.

"So you honestly thought it was mouth to mouth and nothing else?" Shego was kind of exasperated at Kim's innocence at the same time she was enamored with it. The girl was just too cute! Would she be upset that she was kissing Shego? Aw, crap. She would. She'd be very upset if she found out, because the two of them were arch enemies and the hero couldn't do something like this. The villain could kiss the hero as a means of getting under her skin, of messing with her mind, but the hero never did this. If Kim found out what she had been doing this whole time unknowingly then it could lead to issues. It was one thing when it came to verbal blunders- those were fine and easy to fix- but this was in the realm of intimate physical contact. Shego hated to image the devastated facial expression Kim would make when her mistake was pointed out to her. She would hate herself for locking lips with a villain, Shego just knew this would be the case, even though Shego herself wished this wasn't the case, but what did it matter how she felt? Shego vowed she wouldn't say anything about the truth of the matter, if only to protect Kim.

"Yes..." Kim trailed off, not sure she was understanding what Shego was getting at.

"Okay...as long as you don't do it ever again, then I'll be fine."

"Was I doing it wrong?"

"Yes. Yes you were," Shego affirmed.

"But what was wrong with it?" Kim wanted to know so that she could fix it. If her skills weren't adequate enough it could lead to people becoming hurt next time they needed her help.

"Let's...just say you don't use tongue in mouth to mouth. At all."

"Oh, okay. I didn't know that. Thank you for telling me," Kim filed that information away for later. No wonder Shego had been upset at this. Kim had been shoving her tongue into the other's mouth when she shouldn't have. That would make anyone uncomfortable no matter the level of their villainy.

"Right..." an awkward silence trailed after this, in which neither girl knew what to say to one another. Kim decided she needed to break this silence. She still felt like something very important had been left unsaid but she didn't know what.

"So...are we back to normal now? I promise not to do mouth to mouth on you."

Kim felt the doors behind her shoulder blades move and she got up as Shego opened up the door. She was still a bit embarrassed to face the younger girl but now that the threat of mouth to mouth had passed, she felt she could get over it, especially if Kim was also willing to put this whole ordeal aside. Her hand was held out and Kim took it, shaking it and smiling at her as Shego confirmed the exchange. "Deal."

It felt good for them to be back on the same terms.

"Now, I heard that you were supposed to fight me," Kim stated, sliding her feet into position with eager anticipation, hint of an excited smile on her lips.

"You're damn right I am," Shego smiled, also sliding into position.

Drakken came back a couple minutes later, a bandage on his face. He was greeted by the sight of two fighting girls. "Ah, that's better! You go get her Shego!" He ducked as a cabinet went flying over his head. "Hey, wait a minute! I didn't need you fighting her now! The lab will get destroyed. Shego stop this right now!"

But the green skinned villainess couldn't hear him. She was too busy trying to hide her smile as she ducked and weaved from Kim's fists. It felt good that the two had come to an understanding about Kim's unfortunate misunderstanding of what mouth to mouth entailed. Now, Shego could enjoy fighting Kim without having to worry about that happening to her again.


Omake: What Went Unspoken

Wade let out a heavy sigh. "I can't believe this. Neither of them talked about what really mattered." He had been listening in on Kim's conversation through the kimmunicator. Even though it had been 'turned off', he still could activate the sound systems and hear what was being said. And from what he had heard, he was only left feeling disappointed.

"So what's our next move?" Monique asked from the screen on his computer. "It pains me to see the two of them being so obtuse. And I thought Ron was bad." She shook her head at this. "As Kim's best friend I can't let her go on in life like this."

"I know," Wade nodded his head thoughtfully, his young mind whirling rapidly. "I thought this would have been a good moment for them to realize something, at least address the fact that Kim had been unknowingly kissing Shego the whole time, but they skirted around the issue. Probably because Shego was embarrassed by it or something. That's why we need to intervene. We need to push them forwards so that they can finally be forced to face the facts."

"Even if the realization might break Kim at first, she's strong. And she'll get through it. And once she knows, things will be a whole lot less confusing for her." Monique had seen the gleeful look on Kim's face each time she talked about the green skinned villainess and the latest scheme she had been on. The way her tone would be admiring. The way her eyes would glow. And then the way her face would slowly somber down as she became aware of what she had been doing, her words trailing off. Then she would fall into contemplative silence as she tried to figure out what the heck was going on; why she was so excited to be talking about Shego like that. Such instances were becoming more and more common and Kim was getting worried even though she tried to cover it up and keep it a secret from Monique and even from herself.

"Time to initiate plan Kigo," Wade announced with decisiveness and then clicked open up the file on his computer labeled as such.