To start this off, I'd like to thank TheLooneyBin for helping me write this. She knows how much I loved this idea and writing it out with her. I may be shouting her out in future fics if I ever get around to writing them.
Secondly, I'm not abandoning SFR, but I am mildly stuck with it. I have a chapter waiting, but yeah, the following chapter is causing me problems.
Shego was born in 681BC, into the time of Roman monarchs. She was cursed in 659, on the cusp of her twenty second birthday.
In 509BC she watched the fall of the Roman Monarch and the rise of the Roman Republic. She also had to learn new Latin, it wasn't that hard as despite her curse she mingled with humans.
She watched, disjointed from the world that seemed to move around her while she remained, still, stuck. One thing she was very aware of in her state was that humans were not meant to be immortal.
Currently, despite living millennia, right now, she was bored. It was a feeling she was used to feeling, something that had kept her company with the passing of time. She had kept up with the times and languages.
She was lounging by the pool in her private villa, her business's some of the most well known and trusted in the entire world.
She sighed as she soaked in the glorious sun. It had been hard in the first two or three centuries when she hadn't been able to go outside in the day, but with age came powers and she'd been very happy when the vampire hunter had exposed her to sunlight and she hadn't turned to dust.
She'd let him live, albeit as a vampire. He'd been fun for awhile and eventually they'd ended up as friends. That had been fun until his previous comrades had hunted them down to kill them both and only half succeeded.
She sighed as she scrolled through a news website on one of the devices she didn't really care for. Her villa had a massive library, but underneath it was an even bigger library full of handwritten books of her life. It would take a few lives to read them all, even if people could read some of the dead languages she'd written in.
She sighed and paused as she saw a shock of red hair, a victorious smirk and a caption that read "Teen hero saves the world." It wasn't a posed picture, but one that was snapped as she was partially turned from whatever she'd been doing before hand. All in all, it wasn't a bad picture.
Shego closed the device and stood up. Maybe it was time to visit her previous lovers.
It had been a few years since she'd gone down memory lane.
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Kim sighed heavily as she flopped down on her bed, Monkey Fist wasn't a tough adversary, but with Ron's phobia of monkeys and the hordes of monkeys that leapt to his defence every time, it just made the entire thing tedious.
She needed someone to challenge her, she felt stagnant, unchallenged and just simply, bored. Sure there were heart racing moments from time to time but even they were losing their thrill.
She sighed as she lay there. There was homework to do sitting on her desk, but she didn't feel like doing it at the moment. Her eyes closed as she just took a moment to breath.
Her moment was shattered as the Kimmunicator went off. She groaned loudly as she rolled over and picked up the device.
"Hey, Kim. Bad timing?" Wade's chubby visage came onto the screen as she pushed herself up with elbows.
"No, what's up?"
"Well, there's something up, Drakken is up to something. His lair is lit up like a Christmas tree."
"Do you have a ride for me? Please and thank you."
"You know I do." He smiled slightly and she smiled back. "It'll be there in five."
"You rock Wade." She clicked off the communication and groaned loudly. Drakken? That just meant waves of incompitent goons.
She got up and got ready to go jump into a jet she was vaguely familiar with and decided to try to catch a nap on the way there.
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Shego smirked as she walked the halls of the lair. It was shabby at best. She could see all the flaws in the sea of henchmen. Dr Drakken had practically jumped on her to help when she'd offered her services.
She'd had a contract written up already and the fool hadn't even bothered to read it before he'd signed.
Now all she had to do was wait for the goody goody to arrive. It didn't take as long as she expected.
Her ears picked up the sound of a new heartbeat awhile after her nose could smell the incoming woman. She was delectable, but her scent was marred by a smell she couldn't quite place.
Her face tightened to a scowl as the hero and her sidekick dropped down.
"Drakken- Whoa!" Ron yelled, about to challenge Drakken only for a green plasma burst to send him skittering away. Shego understood that scent now. "Who is she?" He yelped.
Kim had turned with the plasma burst but was nearly frozen. She knew the woman standing there with glowing green fists. She just couldn't remember where she'd seen her from.
"Shego!" Drakken barked and Shego's frown darkened further. Maybe it was a mistake signing up to him. "Get Kim Possible."
"Go Ron, stop Drakken. I can take her." Shego's brow rose at the confident girl but she began striding towards the red head.
She was well aware of her powers and had reigned a lot of them in. Now she was only using her plasma and superior senses.
They moved around each other, getting a feel for each other's movements. Shego attacked first, lunging forward to swipe at Kim while Kim sprang away from the attack but closed the distance for her own attack.
Shego could have dodged everything, could have struck her down seconds after walking towards her. She didn't though. The girl had potential and while she was so bored she was planning on playing with her for as long as she could.
The fight was cut short when lights and sirens started and she looked up confused.
"KP! The self destruct button has been pushed!" Ron seemed very pleased with himself while Shego turned a dumbfounded look on Drakken.
"Come Shego! We must escape!" Drakken had to yell to be heard over the blaring sirens while Shego just stared at him.
"Three minutes till self destruction." A cheery voice piped over the intercom and Shego grunted before she took off.
Kim and Ron were already escaping through the front while the villains went out the back.
Shego piloted their getaway. Her short tangle with the girl known as Kim Possible had been short lived.
"I'll have to brush up my painting skills." She muttered softly to herself.
"What was that?" Drakken's voice grated on her nerves and she shook her head, deciding not to kill him if it got her closer to the fierce human.
"Nothing." She leaned back in her chair, looking at the new technology and working it out quick enough. She'd had enough time to learn everything she wanted.
Hopefully, with this one, time would be on her side. She didn't believe it for a second.
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Kim frowned as she got home at a much later hour, having to divert to a natural disaster before she could head home. She ached and headed instantly for the shower.
After trying to run the water bill up as much as she possibly could, she fell onto bed and hoped that everything was quiet for the next twelve hours.
After a solid seven she started dreaming, or what could be described as dreaming, it felt too real to be a dream.
Smoke filled the air, making everything hazy. She was coughing and her leg hurt something fierce.
She got to see why when her vision cleared enough to see the burning beam pinning her to the floor.
"Claudia!" A voice was calling her name. A somewhat familiar voice. "CLAUDIA!"
"I am over here!" She yelled in response before she started coughing. Green fire broke through a door and Shego rushed in, she looked alarmed, smokey and incredibly beautiful to Claudia, this woman she trusted with her life had proven her trust was well place.
"Claudia." Shego moved towards her, hands flaming and hair singed.
"What are ye doing here? They will kill ye." She pressed her arm to her mouth as she coughed into her sleeve.
"Shhh, it is okay, Princess." She turned to the beam and used her strength to lift it. She pulled Claudia out from under it and into her arms. "My concern is you."
"Shealyn…" She snuggled closer to the green skinned vampire, not at all afraid of her.
The roof groaned and Shego cursed before she ran towards the window. She could smell Claudia in her arms, she was still alive and that eased her panicked flight. Reaching the window she leapt out of the burning castle, the invading army had torched everything.
Looking at the large drop she didn't hesitate and leapt out. She hung in the air for a moment, the sounds of the roof caving in behind them. Then she began to fall. Claudia held onto her tightly, pressed against her front as they dropped.
Shego grunted as she landed and took off running. She wore leather armour but it didn't impede her mad dash into the dark forest.
Arrows thudded around them as the enemy took notice of them and tried to shoot them. Shego continued to hold Claudia tightly to her chest, making sure no stray arrow hit her. Hooves thundered after them and it only spurred Shego to go faster.
They burst into the forest, the horses could only go so far in the inky blackness. Smoke clouds drowned out any light of the moon and the fire was soon left behind.
"Shealyn…" Claudia's grip was tight on Shego's arms and she soon came to a stop, she panted softly, even after all these centuries she hadn't lost the habit of breathing, a good thing as it helped her blend in with humans. "The sun…"
"I will be okay. It is ye I am concerned abo-"
"But it is ye I am concerned about!" Claudia cried as she looked at Shego's smoke smeared face. Shego looked taken aback but then she smiled softly as she looked at her.
"I am aware." She took her hand and pressed it to her lips. "But your safety is more important than mine."
"I do not care!"
"Shhh, it is okay, My Love. I am uninjured."
"But the hunters-?"
"Are not here." She spoke softly as she stroked her head, trying to calm the distressed redhead. "For now, I must get ye to safety."
Hey, Shealyn…" The voice was different from Claudia's and confused the dreaming redhead. Time seemed to have changed. "I'm sorry I can't stay." There was a whistle as mortars began to fall. The man was alone as he held his stomach. Gunshots pinged around above him and he shifted in the mud.
"I'm sorry I won't be able to cure your loneliness." He coughed, blood coming up and darkness was encroaching on his vision.
Kim shot up startled and looked around. She was back in her room and it was 3:17 in the morning. She blinked and tried to remember what she'd dreamed. She only remembered little flashes. A flash of dark hair, a wry smirk, glowing green eyes and gentle fingers. She shook her head in confusion, wondering where that dream came from. She felt it had great significance but she couldn't remember what.
She groaned as it was too early to be thinking about such things and flopped back down to sleep.
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Shego was sitting up, a book rested in her lap but there was no light in the room. Not that she needed it but she liked having a candle going if she could.
Her mind was on other things, the perky redhead for one and mild regret for going to Drakken with her contract. Sure she'd visited Dementor first but he had been all about the bottom line. If he wasn't trying to take over the world she would have offered him a job.
Her mind was also going over one of her many lovers. Claudia, a princess 691AD. She had lost the girl much too fast for her taste. The book in front of her was one of her journals. The human memory, she had found wasn't reliable, nor was it long lasting. It lasted one or two human lives, before. Now it was lucky to last one.
She sighed as she looked back to her journal sometimes she could recall parts by reading what had happened, but most of the time it was like reading memoirs of someone else, it might as well have been someone else. She had her decoding journals too, ways to read and speak forgotten languages. There were a few close calls with her nearly forgetting languages.
She gently stroked the book, her eyes closing as she sat there, she could almost recall Claudia's smell, she had smelled as sweet as she had been. She had become a great fighter, even if Shego had been only her bodyguard, she had loved every second she had spent around the fiery redhead.
"Hmm, I wonder how long I've had a thing for redheads." She spoke into the empty room, eyes refocusing on the wall opposite her. She sighed heavily and closed the heavy tomb gently before she hugged it to her chest.
I'm not sure when I'll get the next chapter out but I'm working on it already, although I'm not sure how long it will be. I'm focusing on around/over 2000 words per chapter.
