What the Other Doesn't Know

Cover Up What you Won't Let Show

After Shego kissed Kim at the mall on that faithful Christmas Day, Kim was worried. What if Shego did it again on their next mission? And what if Kim liked it, again?

She couldn't take that risk so in order to avoid that, Kim had to make sure her lips were unattainable. So covered up her face with a scarf. That way her lips would be safe.

Shego naturally was confused by this sudden addition to Kim's outfit.

"What's up with the scarf? Got some hickey's to hide?" she'd teased, a smirk on her lips. Shego had remained mainly unaffected by the kisses. As long as she thought about them as having been a means to cause the hero distress, then she could sleep easily at night.

"N-No!" Kim blustered, self consciously adjusting her scarf higher to now hide her blush. "I just got cold."

"In the middle of the tropics?" Shego commented dryly, indicating with a wide sweep of her hand the rain-forest they were currently in for one of Drakken's schemes.

"Yes!" Kim stubbornly said, as a drop of sweat rolled down her forehead.

"Cause you're sweating right now-"

"It's a cold sweat."

"But-"

"I'm just COLD!"

"Okay, fine then," Shego relented at Kim's shout. No issue in poking the tiger anymore.

"Good. Now are we going to fight or what?"

And so they engaged in combat, or at least they tried to. Shego was doing fine, in full form and raring to go. It'd been a while since Drakken had asked her to fulfill a mission. Ever since he got beat up by that army of Santa's over the holiday's he refused to leave the house until the last traces of snow had melted away. And even then he hatched a plan somewhere warm, like this forest in South America.

Kim, on the other hand, was failing to dodge the upper cuts and punches.

"Not on your game today, Princess?" Shego asked as she tripped up Kim who flopped down hard onto the mossy floor.

"Why are you wearing shorts?" Kim grunted out, almost in a whine. Shego was wearing shorts and her long legs were on display. And this was causing serious problems for Kim who had seemingly developed a sudden obsession for Shego's legs. She couldn't look away from them in order to focus on Shego's flying fists.

Shego was confused by this. "Because we're in a jungle...and it's hot?" Shouldn't this be obvious to the teen?

Kim let out a frustrated growl. It looked like she had to protect herself from yet another one of Shego's evil tricks.

Kim came prepared the next time the two of them met. She wore sunglasses so she wouldn't see Shego's legs as clearly. But sunglasses were not the best of choices when fighting indoors in a dark evil lair.

"Ouff!" Kim grunted out in pain as she yet again tripped over a cable lying around on the floor and smacked her elbow hard. It was going to be yet another bruise to her collection; none of them actually coming from Shego. Shego sighed and waited patiently for the teen to get up so they could resume this one sided fight. Shego didn't even have to wipe the floor with Kim's butt; the floor was doing it for Shego, and it was all because the teen insisted on wearing sunglasses in the dark.

"Kim, why don't you just take them off? It'll help you fight me better."

"No." The teen insisted behind her red plaid scarf, which she was still wearing!

"Are you covering up a bruised eye or something?"

"No!"

"Then why-"

"Because they look cool!" Kim blubbered up that poor excuse and then tried to high kick Shego in the face to stop her from asking questions, only to miss completely because she couldn't see. "Where'd you go?" She began to kick and flail wildly to try and find the villainess who was nowhere in Kim's vicinity. Shego watched the ridiculous display for a couple of minutes before she shook her head with a heavy sigh.

"Kim-" she approached the teen from behind, wrapping a hand around the teen's waist just as Kim had yet again begun to trip and stumble over a fallen object on the floor. Kim froze up as the villainess straightened her up, sliding her hand off. "You really ought to be more careful. And I'm heading out. It's no fun fighting an enemy that's beating themselves up." And with that Shego was gone, leaving Kim alone in the dark, with the ghost of her warm touch on Kim's waist.

Kim blushed furiously. Another one of Shego's tricks! She had to protect herself from this as well.

"Okay, this is getting ridiculous," Shego did not look amused as she saw Kim slowly lumber into the evil lair in order to stop Shego and Drakken's plans. "Why, are you wearing a hazmat suit?" It was orange with bright green stripes, and that infuriating scarf and glasses combo were wrapped around her head.

This was just like Shego's dreams except the opposite, because in those Kim had gradually worn less and less clothing and here she was wearing more and more.

Kim's voice was a bit muffled from the mask as she responded. "Uh, this is just in case I come across any bio hazardous materials in the lairs and labs of bad guys. Wade wants me to stay protected."

"You do realize we're children show characters. None of us villains have any actual stuff like that. We don't even use guns in our fights, just lasers! Or weird alien powers."

"You never know-"

"Kim, seriously, what is going on? You're acting all weird." Shego took a couple of steps towards Kim who took a couple back.

"I'm not being weird! Just careful of my health!"

"You've done more death defying stunts than anyone else I know, and now you pick the time to be concerned over your health? You're a teenage hero, for Pete's Sake, you're supposed to like dangerous things!" Shego took a couple more forwards, and Kim further increased the distance between the two of them. Shego's eyes narrowed. Something fishy was going on, for sure. She just didn't know what.

"It's never too late to take better care of oneself," Kim shot back.

"Kim, take off that stupid suit!" Shego lunged at Kim now and the red headed teen let out a squeak of shock before turning on her heel and bolting. Normally she would have been faster, but the hazmat suit weighed her down and she was tackled roughly to the floor by Shego. "Take it off!"

"No!"

"I said, take that stupid suit off!" The two of them were a mess of swinging limbs and twisting and squirming, until Shego finally managed to rip the mask off, pinning Kim's hands down by the wrist as she stared down at the girl, breathing a bit harshly from their tussle. Kim was also breathing heavily and the two of them stared at each other before Shego finally spoke. "I don't see anything wrong with you. You're healthy and fine. So stop being weird all of a sudden."

"It's your fault I'm this way!" Kim blurted out in accusation. Shego's body heat on top of hers was doing weird things to her mind right now, and she couldn't stop looking at her lips.

"My fault?" Shego reared back as if she had been slapped in the face.

"Y-you kissed me. Or you don't already remember." Kim was blushing fiercely, recalling how soft Shego's lips had been. So gentle and caring in how they kissed Kim.

"I remember that, heh, you were so surprised," Shego chuckled to herself at the memories, "but what does that have anything to do with-?" Shego quieted down, thinking. But a look of understanding did not cross her face. "Nope. I got nothing here. Help me out Princess."

Kim merely looked away.

"Fine. Be stubborn about this." A sly grin made it's way onto Shego's mouth as she got an idea on how to open Kim up. "Oh Kimmie~" she sang.

"What?" Kim turned an irritated face to Shego, who took this opportunity to make her moves. She leaned in and brushed her lips against Kim's. Immediately she could feel Kim stiffen underneath her, a small gasp leaving her mouth. Was Shego going to kiss her? Kim's heart beat hard in anticipation. But the villainess removed her lips without so much as doing anything else. Something like hope in Kim's chest died at the lack of contact.

"I think I found a new way to bother you Kimmie," Shego said with far too much glee.

Argh! This had been the one thing that Kim had been hoping to avoid. She needed to free herself and now or else who knows if Shego would kiss her again. And she didn't want that to happen, she didn't, she didn't, she didn't! No matter how much her mind and body were telling her otherwise.

So she wrapped her legs around Shego's midriff and using every last ounce of strength in her body, she flipped them over, before bolting up and running away, discarding her hazmat suit hastily along the way.

Shego lay stunned on the floor for a moment, as Kim's recent move had left her breathless from how hard she had been slammed. Well...things certainly got interesting. Shego had a new weapon against Kim, one she wouldn't hesitate to deploy. When Kim had kissed her those times by accident, it had been different, because Kim was the hero and because Shego frankly had not been prepared for Kim's lips on hers, hadn't even considered such a situation of occurring. Once it had, it was like the gates had opened, like a new future was made possible. And now that Shego had gotten used to the taste of Kim's lips, she quite liked them and she was going to use her position as a villain to taste them more and more often.

Cackling evilly she got up.

A/N: So we're almost there with Shego catching onto her real feelings for Kim. Kim's still got a way to go.