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Kim Possible: Vamped

By LJ58

20

"So, do you know?" Dana asked later as she and Kim flew back ahead of Betty and her team. "Or were you bluffing her," the young blonde asked.

"Well, I couldn't tell her that I already knew about their hidden sanctuary," Kim said after dropping Betty at her jet with the waiting strike team and flew off with just Dana in the Roth. "You know how Betty is, she'd be wanting to go investigate or something stupid."

"I see that. Guess we're both on the fence here. So to speak."

"We're what we want to be, Dana. I learned that one a long time ago before I ever started saving anyone," Kim told her.

"So, uh, can I really call you mom," Dana asked, sounding teasing and yet serious.

"I guess I am. Now. Who knew," Kim smiled. "And I'd be delighted, Danaras," she told her with a warm smile.

"Great, but let's stick to Dana for now."

"And I still like Kim. Kind of uppity, though, aren't they," she told the young blonde with a grin.

"Are you sure Will Du isn't one of them?"

Kim burst into laughter at that as they flew on back to GJ, Betty's jet and her team right behind her, and then she grinned and asked, "Want to really freak Du out?"

"Yeah?"

"Let's start practicing again. Only let's practice being exactly what we are. What we're apparently meant to be. Think we can totally tweak him," Kim asked.

"I guarantee it," the fanged young woman grinned.

Dana grinned and impulsively hugged her.

"I am very glad you found me, mom."

"So am I, Dana," Kim smiled. "So am I. In fact, I should introduce you to my family, too. Think we'll tweak them if I claim you're my daughter?"

"I can't wait," Dana giggled. "Oh, and I guess Amy would be your daughter-in-law? You know, when she is ready."

"Well, I expect her to be soon enough," Kim grinned knowingly at her. "After all, she still visits, and hasn't run screaming from you."

"I know. She's great," Dana murmured. "So, what about you? Figured out how to reach out to your….complicated friend yet?"

"To be honest, I'm not sure if I should try," Kim admitted, looking more somber now.

"Hey, I was worried, too. When I first woke up, I thought Amy would never accept me. That she would be afraid, or just…hate what I had become. Only she didn't. Even when I told her the truth, she still stayed, and she still loves me. Maybe…if your friend really is your friend, you should give her the chance to decide for herself."

Kim sighed, and they flew on in silence before finally saying, "I might just do that. If I can ever get us from under Betty's fist. For now, we have to stay, and that's going to make reconnecting with anyone…tricky."

"Ah, c'mon, mom," Dana smiled. "You have to be thinking of some way to get out us of that dump."

"Well," Kim smiled. "Let's just say I sent a special copy of our local paper to a certain someone who is the type to not only be curious but come hunting the truth herself."

"Really?"

"Really. And if she shows up, I'm hoping I can use her to play a little game I have in mind. For now, I can't say anything, though. Not until I see how things work out."

"I'm sure it'll work out. After all, anything is possible," Dana teased.

"Oh, you are asking for it," Kim snorted but said it with a wide smile.

Dana only giggled at her.

~KP~

"What the hell," Shego sputtered as she saw the paper on top of the packet sent from Kim. Only that paper that drew the curse was one with Kim's vampiric photo trumpeting the Undead Possible.

"What is it now, Shee-gahhhhhh," he howled batting at the paper shoved in his face as Drew Lipski recoiled from the image. An image they had yet to see since they had little local news on the remote island where she and Drew had set up his latest lab at the demand of virtually every government on the planet.

"What is that? What is that," he demanded, cringing from the photo Shego still held up.

"Apparently Princess got nailed by someone other than you this time," Shego told him as she returned to reading the article that claimed Kim had been attacked while on a covert mission in which she was playing dead to undermine a certain madman's efforts. There were few details, but the story seemed to indicate Kim had been remade into an apparent vampire, superficially, but was still the same hero and champion as ever.

The article had a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor, but the obvious image confirmed that Kim really was less than normal just then.

"Do you think she's going to….b-b-b-bite people," Drew asked uneasily.

Shego rolled her eyes at him.

"What do I know," she complained. "I think I do need to go check this one out, though. Something seems strange about it."

"Strange? She's a creature of the night! A monster! A…."

"She's Kim Possible," Shego said, rolling her eyes again. "Later, Drew. I'll call if I need you."

"Uh, you don't think you'll need me, do you," he asked timidly as Shego headed for the door. "I mean, I need time to get the usual defenses to fight…."

Oy," was all Shego groaned as she left him to his own devices as she headed for the airstrip where her jet waited. She just hadn't had any place to go of late. Until now.

~KP~

"Hey, Princess," Shego drawled in a distinctive voice as Kim woke, belatedly focusing to stare up at her unlikely visitor.

"Thought I heard someone," she mused. "Wasn't expecting you yet," Kim said as she sat up, the sheet slipping to reveal she was wearing only panties and stretched before reaching for a shirt.

"Lose your modesty along with….everything else," Shego asked, eyeing the pale blonde still sleeping in the other bed.

"I've been changing a lot lately," Kim teased. "In case you hadn't heard."

"So I've heard. First I hear you're dead. Then you're back as a bad vamp fangirl. I saw the paper you sent. Only now you look pretty normal to me, but your friend there," she nodded at Dana, snoring lightly with the tips of her fangs exposed.

"She's my daughter," Kim told her.

"Say what," Shego sputtered.

"Long story. Wanna go get a coffee," she asked, now pulling on slacks before stepping into shoes without socks.

"Still the same Kimmie," Shego shook her head at her appearance.

"I keep saying that. Hopefully, someone will start listening," Kim muttered.

"I don't know. Word is, you've all but terrified more than half the community. I hear you retired Gemini but the details are so classified even the government doesn't know the details."

"Oh, I tore off his head. And his arms and legs," she shrugged. "He pretty much bled out after that."

"Yeaaah," Shego stared at her. "So, uh, those changes….?"

"Yeah. Ran across a for-real Elder vamp who decided to make me his bride because, big shock, I was apparently his bride in a past life. Had a real hard time swaying him to change his mind," she said as she left the room she still shared with Dana by choice rather than a necessity now.

"Something tells me you managed," Shego remarked dryly.

"Well, Ron and I dusted him in the end. Literally. Turned out I was the much-removed descendant of the old guy's bride with her incarnated spirit on top of that, so when I turned, I really, ah, stepped up," Kim told her. "So, that's the short story anyway."

"And the long story?"

"Is really long," Kim grinned. "Sure you want to hear it. It's really kind of boring."

"Somehow, I doubt that," Shego said, following the little redhead into the GJ cafeteria.

"Say, does Betty know you're here," Kim thought to ask as they went to get coffee.

"C'mon, you know me…."

"So you snuck in? Sweet. You can help me tweak Du again," Kim grinned with mischief sparkling in her green eyes.

"Again?"

"Well, I kind of promised to stop breaking his ribs," she sighed as if disappointed.

Shego just stared at her.

"Okay," she murmured. "And why are you even living at GJ now? What are you, under house arrest?"

"Kind of like that. See, I gave my word and until Betty releases me, I can't leave. Yet."

Something tells me she's probably regretting that one about now, isn't she?"

"Well, we've had a few issues. Like when I learned how to reach my full manifestation as a potential elder."

"You…are an elder," Shego asked in astonishment as if knowing what she meant.

"You know what I mean?"

"I've met a few of them over the years," Shego admitted. "Did you…?"

"Met six of them. Had to turn down their suspicious offer for sanctuary. I didn't think I would like the plans they had for me and my daughter."

"Daughter. Seriously?"

"Yep. Dana? She's my daughter. Blood and spirit daughter if not flesh," she shrugged. "But she's a great kid. You'd love her, too. Can't believe her birth mom just tossed her out. That is so ferociously wrong."

"You know what," Shego asked as she filled her cup after Kim, and headed for the table Kim indicated. "How about you start at the beginning, because you are rambling like a loon here just now, and I can make any sense of you."

"So not. Anyway, it started with a mission that seemed pretty ordinary…."

"Oy," Shego rolled her eyes. "Don't they all?"

"Hey, you want to hear this, or not."

"Go on."

Kim finally wrapped up her story over two hours later as Shego just sat staring at her. Even as she tried to conjure a response by then, someone came in and stood behind them.

"Morning, mom," Dana smiled as she came into the cafeteria to get breakfast as she paused to kiss Kim's cheek. "Who's your friend?"

"This is Shego. We're old friends from way back."

"Not that far back," Shego muttered.

"Oh, wow. That's right, I do know you. At least, I know you from mom's stories. You look younger than I'd thought, though," she smiled.

Shego rolled her eyes as the girl sauntered past on her way to the growing line of agents that didn't say one word about Shego sitting in the cafeteria with Kim.

"So," Kim asked her as she watched Dana filling a tray.

"Wow. Just wow," Shego said.

Then Shego scowled when Dana came back, sat down, and the first thing she asked was, "Did you already drink your blood ration?"

"First thing. I think Wade must be adding extra flavor lately. Or it just tastes better."

"Knowing him, he's still trying to improve it," Kim nodded.

"Blood," Shego grimaced.

"Well, actually, Wade developed a blood substitute for us. It sure beats robbing blood banks," Kim allowed.

"Or hunting gang bangers," Dana winked.

"You actually…."

"Well, as I said, I was living under the radar for a while," Kim told her.

"You need a keeper, woman," Shego huffed.

"I'm an adult," Kim sputtered. "I even have a daughter."

"You still…."

"Shego," a voice grumbled. "What are you doing here? You don't have clearance…."

"Willie," Dana cut in, shaking a finger at the lean young man standing next to their table. "You really want to piss off mom first thing this morning," she asked.

Kim was glaring in a way Shego had not seen before, and even she noted those green eyes were now flecked with crimson, and there something cold and hard there that even she had never seen before now.

"Jet," Kim snapped at him.

To Shego's surprised, Will Du all but fled.

"Guess his ribs aren't healed completely yet. Or he might have stayed to complain longer," Dana remarked.

"Yeah," Kim grinned. "He sure is easy to spook lately, though."

"C'mon, mom, you can get scary when you let your other side out," Dana smiled.

"I don't scare you," Kim huffed.

"Yeah, but I know you're still a softie," Dana smirked.

"Oh, you are in for it now," Kim said. "Wait till we go sparring again," she shook her finger back at the girl now trying to eat everything at once.

"Oh, I have to finish those reports for Dr. D first," Dana said and jumped up to take her tray. "See you about one?"

"Sure, sweetie. Take care of yourself."

"You, too, mom. Nice to meet you, Miss Go," she beamed.

"Miss Go," Shego echoed as the girl left in a rush.

"I might have shared a few stories with her while we were locked down in quarantine at the start. It was boring, and she was curious."

"Oy," Shego groaned again.

"Hey, she's cool. As I said, Dana is really great."

"Well, it does sound like you saved her from a lot," Shego admitted.

"You know me. I'd have helped anyone."

"You know, though, maybe you were drawn to her without realizing it. I mean, the whole thing on that ship, and then you just happen run into her in the city? It was like you guys were fated," Shego pointed out.

"Maybe. I'm just glad I could save her. It was close more than a few times."

"So you said. No wonder she sees you as…."

"What are you doing in my headquarters," Betty demanded curtly as she walked up behind them just then.

"I invited her," Kim shot out before Shego could say a word. "We have an idea of sorts, and we needed to talk it out in person before we presented it to you."

"What…idea," Dr. Director demanded fiercely.

"That's what we were fleshing out," Shego told her, taking Kim's lead, and guessing the devious little loon was up to something, but not yet knowing what.

"Well, since Dana and I are kind of close now, and we are both doing so much better," she grinned, "I was thinking we could help show ourselves as more normal to the world-at-large by living openly again. I mean, nothing screams public danger like living in confinement, am I right," she asked Shego.

Shego grinned, guessing where Kim was going now after those few careless comments earlier. "That would do it," she allowed.

"So, if you could manage it, I was thinking we find a house, live normally until you called us for duty and let people out there see we're not monsters like Hardhead is still babbling on about," Kim grinned. "What do you think?"

"I think that would be extraordinarily dangerous…."

"And of course Shego and Ron would be close. Ron lives near where I hope to reclaim my house if it's still on the market. Oh, and Shego could stay with us long enough to confirm we're not going to do anything….unnatural," she smiled at both of them.

"I…. Wait, what," Shego frowned at Kim.

"C'mon, it's gonna be great. And I think it would also go a long way to showing the Elders you are serious about a compromise," Kim suggested slyly to Betty.

"You don't need to mention…."

"Ah, Shego knows about Elders, and all that silliness. Right, Shego," she beamed at the comet-powered woman.

"You do," Dr. Director frowned at her as if unable to believe it.

"Oy," Shego grinned. "Trust me, it's a long story, Bets. Stupid story, too. Just say we've met, and have a mutual truce," the woman told the head of GJ.

"I see. I'd like to hear that story sometime. Meanwhile, Kimberly, have you figured out just where their enclave is as yet?"

"Nope," Kim smiled blandly at the senior agent. "I'm still just slowly getting a trickle from the mental download, but not anything about…you know, that kind of stuff. Mostly daily living matters. Did you know they kept people back then not because they liked slaves, but just because blood spoiled if it wasn't fresh? No one liked spoiled blood," Kim told Betty, who actually paled as Kim added, "Apparently it tastes like…."
"Enough. We'll discuss this living arrangement later. After we assess your last mission. Until then….keep an eye on Shego," Betty demanded, and walked off to fill a coffee mug, and left in a rush.

"I can't believe you got rid of her like that. Or that you played her like that?"

"Funny thing about Betty. She's got a softer side than you would guess," Kim said. "Even if she did use to fantasize about doing just what I did to Sheldon," Kim grinned.

"But you said…. Oh, so Bets does have a dark side?"

"And yet that freak was the only one that she really hated. Otherwise, she's surprisingly fluffy," Kim grinned.

"Yeah, you're still a loon," Shego rolled her eyes.

"C'mon, wouldn't you like to stay with us a while to help us break out of this dump? Dana needs fresh air, and now that she can take sunshine again, she would seriously like to tan again."

"Wait, she can? And you really….?"

"No big. I could take the sun from the start. Like I said, I fully expected to combust that first morning and found out I was somehow immune right from the start."

"You know, it's a good thing you really weren't a monster. You'd have been hard to stop," Shego realized.

"I know. But I'm still Kim Possible and anything…."

"I get it. I get it. I got it the first hundred times. So, what about Ann?"

"Well, as I said, the fam knows now. Belatedly. Dad is kind of freaked, but mom is just glad I lived."

"I'll bet. So….Ronald?"

"Oh, he hooked up with Yori lately since we broke up a while back. Remember, I called you after that happened."

"Still, Yori?"

"Oh, she's a ninja girl that has been chasing him for years. She's kind of cute and has some serious skills. Fortunately, she's pretty nice, too."

"Not even going to ask," Shego muttered, shaking her head as she just focused on her coffee now. "You'd just better be glad we're friends now because you still can annoy me more than anyone else alive."

"Even Drew," Kim teased.

Shego just glared at her now as Kim broke into laughter.

To Be Continued….