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Fallout Part 1 (Ron and Kim)

*A few mins after Ron takes the chip off of Bonnie*

"Is she going to be okay?" After Ron chooses to remove the chip off of Bonnie, she passes out from the supercharge effects of the moodulator. Ron had caught her and gently lays her body down smoothly, allowing Dr. Botel to observe her.

"Other than the major headache she is going to be dealing, we won't know until she wakes up to see what the effects are from removing the chip off her without turning the setting to normal." Dr. Botel answers honestly. He never had the chance to test what would happen because he sets the setting to normal before removing the chip.

Speaking of chips, he realizes there is another one missing. "I do recall having two chips, so do you two know where the other one could be?"

Ron scratches the back of his head not recalling where the other one would be. Kim, however, already has the answer. "The other one was stuck on our friend Tara. Our other friend Felix removed it off of her neck, way before all this stuff happens with Drakken." Ron flinches in shock of hearing this. If Tara was acting all lovely to Felix as Bonnie did to him, there is no telling how Felix must be feeling. He makes a mental note to check on him when he gets a chance.

"In that case, she should be okay. Thankfully, she didn't get super charge effects, so her condition shouldn't be as major as hers will be. I want to apologize that my invention caused you and your friend trouble young man." He tells Ron with sincerely seeing disappointment appear on his face from earlier when he explains what his invention does.

Even though he didn't know the man personally and didn't have to apologize, Ron is grateful for sympathy. "It's not your fault; right now I just want her to be alright." Ron turns his attention towards Bonnie. Dr. Botel nods his head and leaves the teens to return home.

Kim figures this would be the best time to try and comfort Ron the best she can. "She will be fine Ron, I'm sure of it." She places a hand on his shoulder.

Ron, who still is focused on Bonnie at the moment, responds in a low tone saying, "Maybe, but I don't know if you and I will be."

Hearing the way, he said that frighten Kim a bit. "What do you mean?"

Ron finally faces Kim to address some of the issues that have happened today. Honestly, he felt overwhelmed, but the conversation he needs to have with Kim should be dealt with as soon as possible. "Kim, we need to talk about what went down earlier today between us and what Bonnie was referring to during you twos fight for it sounded serious especially for you to hit as you did. That isn't like you no matter what Bonnie puts us through in the past."

Kim wasn't as confident as before about discussing with Ron, especially after what happen, but it's best that she does it now while Ron is in a talkative mood.

The two sit down on the bench right beside Bonnie with Ron being the first to speak. "I want to start by apologizing for blowing up on you at lunch in front of everyone. No matter how it started, I had no right to air my frustration concerning the lack of you spending time with me and the fact that I kept inside me for so long didn't help matters at all. I missed you, but I felt that because of my Mankey rants that by the time I tell you that you were spending more time with Josh than me that you would think its because of me being jealous, which is not the case. I'm happy you found someone who makes you happy; I don't want our friendship to be over because of it."

Ron takes a deep breath and continues. "I might not be mature in a lot of areas, but I'm aware that it wasn't mature how I handled the situation when it came down to it."

Kim couldn't believe her ears. Even with her not liking how Ron went off on her, part of her didn't expect him to say sorry for something that he didn't cause. "Ron, you shouldn't apologize for my actions. If it weren't for me not being there for you, you wouldn't have to hold all those emotions inside. Plus, I was the one who causes the scene and felt betrayed because you and Bonnie, all of a sudden, not only became cool, but a couple and I just let my beef with her get the best of me when I should have talked to you about it in private to get your point of view of things."

Ron shakes his head at her response. "Regardless, we both were in the wrong, so the fact that we both owned our part in it, makes it water under the bridge. Now I need to know, and please don't lie because I will find out and if I find out from someone else I won't trust you again, what was Bonnie referring to about when I saved you all at Camp won't mention the rest of that place."

At that moment, a wave of guilt and fear shows on Kim's face. Since Bonnie just had to go and bring up a moment from the past, now she has to confess about a choice she made that could hurt Ron when he finds out. She wants to try and make up something but seeing how serious Ron is he might go out of his way to get the truth his self, and as Felix told her, this would be a make or break of their longtime friendship.

No, she already had put Ron through enough as it is, so she is well to be honest if it meant still keeping Ron in her life. "After you stopped Gil from mutating us, a reporter had asked me what happen. Instead of telling him it was you who saved the day, I automatically took the credit for it. The girls confronted me about it, even Bonnie for a bit, but I told him that you wouldn't have cared about the glory. When the newspaper came out about the mission, it just talked about me saving the day without you in it. I don't know why I didn't just say you were the hero that day I guess I just..."

During her confession, Kim burst into tears having to admit that she did Ron wrong that day by not having people recognize his worth on the team.

"See me as the sidekick and nothing more." Ron finishes her sentence for her not happy about what he just heard.

"No. That's not it Ron." She quickly tries to make him not that think that way, but the damage has already been done.

"Please don't. It's always been like that. If you go back to that day, I suggested that the next mission I call the shots and you shot that idea quick without a second thought. True, it's not about the glory, but for once it would have been nice for people to see that I'm not just a sidekick, but a partner to you."

Ron Stoppable is indeed hurt about his friend's revelation. Not wanting to remember the horrible place, the one thing that he could say positive about it was when he saved Kim and the other cheerleaders from his old rival Gil. Ron didn't pay attention to the reactions from his victory since he was always laid back about stuff, but to hear that Kim just took the credit the one time he steps up gets wondering how Kim sees him outside of going on missions.

"You are my partner Ron, always been." She begins to reach for him, but Ron gets up not allowing her to touch him.

"Kim, you are just saying that now to try to make me feel better. Just be real, up to this point I have just been the distraction, the Buffon, and the guy no one remembers my name." Ron automatic says how he feels and takes a deep breath to get his thoughts together. This was too much for him at the moment from arguing with his best friend, from hearing Bonnie's feelings came out because of some darn advice and not willingly, to now understand that Kim certainly did not allow him the one-time fame he deserved.

With all those thoughts in his head, Ron closes his eyes and said the following to Kim, "I appreciate you finally being honest with me, and because of that, there's still a chance that our friendship can be saved."

Kim, wiping the tears from her eyes, was about to feel relieved that she and Ron will still be friends until he speaks again, "However, that will not happen that fast just because we had this talk tonight. I have a lot to think about with all this new information I learn, so I kindly would like for you to give me space until I figure out things."

Kim froze from hearing his request. She just started to understand that she hasn't spent valuable time with him yet this would mean more time Kim cannot use to make up for what she has done. "Ron I'm so sorry, I never thought this would hurt you like this." She stands up and pleads only for Ron, to her surprise, to hug her close. An action the two have not done in a while.

Ron, quietly, said, "I forgive you Kim, you don't have to worry about that since no one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but like I said I need some space."

Kim manages to smile a little and hug him back. "I understand and thank you. I will give you what you want and hope that we can still be friends once you figure things out."

After the hug, they notice Bonnie begin to stir a bit from her rest. "I need to take her home. Knowing my luck, she will hate my guts if she remembers her actions from today and doesn't want anything to do with. Who knows she will probably say I put the chip on her and force her to fall for me." Ron said with some bitterness of the idea that could happen while he gently lifts her and throw her arm over his head to guide her home.

"Ron?" Kim calls out to him.

Ron looks from over his shoulder wondering what she is about to say. "If what Dr. Botel told us about his device is true, then somewhere inside Bonnie does have feelings for you. Why she has them or will she still have them once she wakes up I can't answer that. However, I think you should face her about it, and if she does confess those feelings, you have my support as long as she doesn't try to use you that's when I will go against your request and deal with her."

She smiles after sharing her advice. Her plan going forward if Ron chooses to accept her back is to be a better friend/partner to him and will no longer allow him to feel the hurt that she had caused him. Kim still isn't sure how a relationship will work out between the two, but just like Ron supported her and Josh, she was going to do the same with him.

Ron expression didn't change from hearing what Kim had to say, yet he tells her, "Thank you, and I wouldn't expect anything less from you if that's the case." Ron then makes his way to Bonnie's place with Kim returning home looking forward to what's in store in Ron's life as he just took the first step into coming on his own.

TBC

Authors note: The fallout chapters are being broken up into three chapters, so I won't have everything happening at once. This chapter was to address the state of Ron and Kim's friendship going forward. The next chapter will feature Felix and Tara, despite them going into minor roles that are a situation I will still address. With the third being about Ron and Bonnie on where they go from after the date.

I want to say thank you to those who reviewed the last chapter; it made me feel good that you guys enjoyed where I thought it wasn't that even that good and to the new favorites, and followers. I release my other story feature Ron/Monique so feel free to check it out if you like.