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"Shego! This plan is my most brilliant yet!"

"Uh huh." She listened as he prattled on about a machine to mass produce mind control shampoo or something while doing her nails. She kept thinking about Ron waiting at home for her. And how amazing it felt when he finally seemed to just relax and go with the flow. Despite being a young man he didn't get nearly and gropey as he expected while they were in bed. He was gentle and sweet.

"Shego are you listening?" Dr. Drakken was tapping his foot staring at her.

"Oh sure Dr. D. Sounds great. It's your best idea yet." She decided to sate his ego so she could go back to daydreaming.

"Yes Shego! Thank you. You finally acknowledge my brilliant mind. Now as I was saying..." Drakken went into detail on how the machine worked and what his plan was after it started working.

Shego took one look at his plan and saw all the holes in it but decided against trying to tell him about them. Not like he would listen anyway. He just saw her as the muscle, his sidekick, the brawn to his brain. After a sigh her mind slipped back to Ron. Maybe she could ask him if he felt the same way with Kimmie. Speaking of which, she heard an annoying little voice behind her.

"Drakken, this is literally your worst idea ever. I don't even know why I showed up." Kim said, rolling her eyes

Drakken made an overdramatic sad face "That's not true...right Shego?"

She decided for once to spare his feelings because of the puppy dog eyes "It was a great plan Dr. D, don't know what she's talking about."

After he perked up and regained his confidence he spoke again "Thank you Shego. Now, crush KIM POSSIBLE!"

"I really should not help his ego." She thought. Shego lunged at Kim and they did their usual dance but it didn't hold the usual excitement. Fighting was the only thing she loved almost as much as Ron yet she's stuck here, chasing this scurrying little rat.

"She seems off today." Kim thought to herself, she figured she would have a bit more trouble that usual without Ron as a distraction but it almost seemed too easy.

"What's wrong Shego? Trouble in paradise?" She then flipped over Shego and kicked both feet into her back, mainly to be annoying.

"Me? I'm better than ever. Where's your little sidekick? Seems like you're the one with trouble in paradise." She then tried an axe kick for fun but Kim parried it, a shame really.

"Ron isn't here. It doesn't matter. We both know I'm the main attraction anyway." She tried to enziguri Shego but was blocked, Shego threw her into a wall. Ow. Luckily she tucked her head.

"Main attraction Kimmie? Please. You wouldn't even win half the time without him."

"I seem to be doing just fine now. If anything it's easier without him here." She said as she dodged a punch that left a crater in the concrete wall where her head previously was.

Shego stood frozen. "Easier without him? She's the main attraction? Who does she think she is?" She really tried to remain calm, to not hurt Kim and possibly herself. For Ron. It just wasn't happening though.

Kim watched Shego's plasma grow up her arm, she never did this before….and she could see why.

Shego was wincing in pain but when she looked at Kim she snarled. She fired a plasma blast at Kim, throwing her rage with it. It left a person sized hole where she had just jumped from. She fired off a few more that began to damage the lab.

"Shego maybe you should calm down." Drakken fiddled with his fingers, then shrunk when Shego glared at him with an animalistic growl, arms flaring. He began to shrink away to a hovercraft "O-on second thought why don't you take a few days off. Paid leave of course." He then ran away.

"She's lost it." Kim thought. The damage to the lab had gotten ridiculous. Almost every machine was trashed. At this point she didn't even know if she needed to foil the evil scheme. She had seen Shego get irritated before, a lot of the time actually, she had never seen her this angry though.

"Shego you're going to bring the building down on both of us!" Kim tried reasoning with her but she just wasn't hearing it. She was gone. "I don't even think she'd care if she hurt herself at this point." Her only option was to try to reach the self destruct button and escape.

Kim flipped and vaulted over a series of giant plasma blasts, knowing if she screwed up once she would be seriously injured at the very least. She was close to the button, after she pressed it she could leave Shego to whatever weird tantrum she was throwing today. Dodging one final blast she pressed it with a sigh of relief. She had relaxed too soon though.

Shego hit the wall next to her, metal jutted from the wall and smacked her in the back of the head. The world went black. She saw Shego approaching her downed form as she closed her eyes.

Ron had finished cooking a few minutes ago and was just waiting for Sheila. Villainy wasn't exactly a nine to five job so he cooked dinner a little late. He was excited when he heard the front door open but was brought down when he looked upon her form. Rufus let out gasp before running up and petting her leg.

"Sheila….what happened?" Her hair was frazzled, her suit had burn marks, especially on her arms, and she looked drained, she was practically limping through the door. "Come here, sit down, now."

"Since when do you tell me what to do Ron?" She joked, but they both knew she needed to rest.

"What happened?" He didn't bother laughing or joking back.

"The usual. Kimmie showed up, base blew up." She sunk back into the couch and let out a deep breath

Ron balled his fists "Kim did this to you!? That's terrible! She never went this far before."

"That's...not exactly what happened."

"Huh? What did happen then?"

"You know how fights between us go. She runs, I chase, we talk smack. The usual." She drooped her head in shame and thought "This is going to be so embarrassing."

"Uh huh" He nodded while following along and rubbing her knee.

"Well, she said something about it being easier to fight me without you and that she was the main attraction." She noticed Ron had no reaction and after a few seconds said "That kind of talk doesn't surprise you at all?"

"Well, in context she has no way of knowing I'm with you. She was probably saying you were not a challenge, not insulting me."

"I'll take your word for it."

He stroked her hair a few times while maintaining his gaze "Sheila, that does not tell me how this happened."

"I may have lost control of my temper when she insulted you, and I may have nearly blown up the lab no self destruct needed."

"Wait," his eyes went doe like after his thought "you're saying you did this to yourself?"

"Yes. My powers at least on some level are linked to my emotions. If I get too angry and don't maintain control the plasma tends to become too much and begins to burn me, even though I'm resistant to it." She raised an arm for emphasis "As you can see the physical tradeoff for more destructive power isn't worth it."

Ron gingerly took her hand and arm and checked it over. He wasn't a doctor or anything but he had seen and been through his own fair share of burns. They looked to be second degree, a few patches were charred in a worse manner.

"We need to get you to a hospital. I'll call in a favor, I'll find someone. I'm not leaving you like this. I'll drag you out myself even if you don't want to go."

Shego cocked her head and smiled "Ron, I'll be fine. I'm not normal, remember?"

"I don't see what your normalcy or lack thereof has anything to do with this Sheila."

"I heal faster than a normal person. I'll be back to normal in a day or two."

"I'm not leaving your side until you're back to one hundred percent." His tone held no room for argument

Shego let out a breathy laugh "And I was the one who was supposed to be watching you."

He chuckled to himself at her side comment then paused "What happened to Kim? If you were that angry I'm doubting she got out unscathed."

Shego had the most awkward smile imaginable on her face "Well, she kind of got knocked out after she hit the self destruct button."

"You didn't…."

After rolling her eyes she went on "No, I didn't. Even though I wanted to. You have no idea how badly I wanted to. I dragged her to an area outside the blast radius."

"You left a teenage girl in god knows what country on the ground unconscious?" Ron was appalled

"I called her little nerd friend on her communicator, told him to call her a ride, then left."

Ron let out a sigh of relief

"What's wrong? Thought you made a mistake and were dating real evil?" She said

"No, just a woman scorned. I'm surprised you didn't hurt her worse honestly. I knew I made the right choice."

"Are you calling me soft Stoppable?" Sheila tried to be intimidating, she knew it failed when he kissed her nose.

"I'm calling you the woman I love. Now lets get these wrapped up." Ron lightly took her hands even though she winced, and lead her to the bathroom. He hated that she still felt the need to try to act tough around him. She was tough, but she was more than that. He put some alcohol on a pad and hoped she wasn't flinchy.

"I'm sorry Sheila."

"Just do it."

She hissed as he wiped all of her open wounds. Stupid, caring, gentle, sweet Stoppable. After he was done cleaning the wounds he began wrapping them. "How do you know how to do this anyway? This is one of the best wraps I've had."

Ron smiled "Kim's mom taught me. She's one of the world's best brain surgeons but she still had to get the basics down first like everyone else. When we started going on more dangerous missions than the local small time stuff she made us both learn basic to intermediate first aid."

"Guess you and her family are pretty close."

"Yea. I love them too, especially the tweebs. I almost feel like a part of their family at times. Then I go home and remember I have a family, they just don't care about me or what I want." Ron looked at the pain in her face "What's wrong, did I wrap it too tight?"

"All these burns and the most painful thing I've experienced tonight is hearing you talk about your life. "

He scratched his head "Oh uh, sorry. I forget sometimes that my life and living situation isn't really normal by most standards."

"Don't be sorry, I want to know whatever causes you to feel pain. You don't have to hide it like you do from everyone else. I believe someone told me that once." She said with a smirk

"Ready for bed?"

"Well, I want us to go to my room but I didn't want to sleep yet. Something has been bugging me since the ride home."

Ron put his fingers under his chin as if he was deep in thought "Weird, I like it."

Shego was nervous as they stepped down the hall. She had no idea why really. Logically she knows what's under there. Seeing it is completely different though. When they got to her room she took a seat and motioned for him to as well.

"So what is it Sheila?"

"So you got to see what I'm like when I'm injured today."

"Right?" He said confusedly

"Well, I want to see your scars." she continued when she saw him tense up "So you can buy me a ten thousand dollar necklace but you won't take off your shirt?"

He shook his head as if he was scolding himself "When you put it that way it is kind of silly, but trust me. If you love me as much as you say you do then you don't want to see them."

"I asked didn't I?" She placed a lightly wrapped hand on his leg "Look, I'm not going to be able to sleep well if I think you don't trust me enough to show your pain."

"That's a terrible card to pull Sheila, but fine."

"You're so easy." she teased.

Ron stood up and rolled his eyes, then turned around. He didn't want to see her face when she looked at him. He began pulling off his shirts.

She saw a nasty scar on the lower left side of his back. It didn't stop there though, oh how she wished it did. They were everywhere. She was about to ask how but the more she looked the worse it became. His body was like an abstract art of scars.

"Sheila?"

She shook her head back into reality "Yea…..yea I'm fine." She lightly traced over a few of the scars with her unwrapped fingers. She was glad she had the foresight to double layer the gloves now. "Turn around."

"Sheila…."

"Turn. Around."

He sighed and did as was requested of him. He had seen or felt most of them a million times, he never showed anyone else the scars though.

"Damn…." Sheila said it in a soft tone, not particularly speaking to Ron or herself. He had a giant scar that went diagonally from his right hip to his left shoulder.

"Yeah, I'm not as agile as Kim and I'm clumsy." He spoke but given her face he knew she wasn't really listening. She just kept tracing his scars over and over again. "Sheila."

She kissed his chest to let him know she was listening. On some level she was, on another she was in a minor state of shock. "How?"

"For which one?"

She just decided to pick at random "left shoulder to mid back."

"Didn't duck fast enough, got hit with some scrap as a base blew up behind me."

"Lower right back."

"I think a henchman hit me with an electric rod a bit too hard."

"Chest."

He looked towards the floor. "Sheila you don't want me to…."

She narrowed her eyes "Chest."

"I took a plasma blast for Kim. You probably didn't notice since you were running away. It looks worse than it is. Don't worry about it. No big."

Sheila traced her fingers on it for a few seconds then spoke "Why do you love me?"

"Why? I swear I told you on our first date."

"I hurt you. I've hurt you so many times. What in the hell is wrong with you. Why me? This probably isn't even the only scar from me." She huffed when she saw him turn away slightly. That confirmed it.

He straightened up and looked her in the eye. "Look, that's not the point. I don't care what you did to me in the past on the job. I only care what you do now."

Sheila turned away and began crying "You're so stupid."

Ron pulled her into a deep hug from behind and nuzzled his cheek into her hair. "I know. I'm stupid."

"You're an idiot."

"I know." He brushed her hair over her shoulder so he could kiss her cheek.

"But you're my idiot."

"I know."

I actually had the beginning of this chapter planned for a while but I wasn't sure how to end it. I came up with it on the spot. I hope it turned out well and that you enjoyed the fluff...and Shego's rage.

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