Disclaimer: I do not own names, actions, behaviors, characters, places, or anything for that matter that has to do with the Disney Channel© series Kim Possible©. This story is my creation so please do not steal and please do not sue. I claim no ownership of the game Scrabble©.

Author's Note: This story is hard to write because I'm trying to write in an articulate manner so there is a lot of describing and long vocabulary words. Read, review, ENJOY!

Rainy Day Love

by Lil' Slugger24

Chapter Four

Scrabble. Just a playful board game. That wasn't what Shego had read in one of her magazines. The article was called "Secret Confessions." In it, Scrabble was mentioned as one of the top secret obtainers. Sometimes when playing the game, a person will spell out their feelings. If Shego put a few 'lovey-dovey' words down and Drakken responded with characteristics describing her, a conclusion could be made on whether or not he liked Shego.

The game was simple enough to set up. Shego had played it when she was a young girl and had memorized the rules, inside and out.

"You sure you know what you're doing?" Shego asked the doctor. She didn't want to have to stop every five seconds to explain another aspect of the game.

"Yes, yes, Shego." the man waved at her. "I'm a scientist, what's a game to my intellect."

Shego desperately wanted to answer with something sarcastic but was afraid that his answers might change when conscience of how cruel Shego really was.

"If you say so." Shego forced, holding her tongue.

The playing mat was laid before them. Shego placed seven random letters on each of their racks and looked her short alphabet over. Drakken did the same with a slight glaze in his eye. He quickly formed words in his mind using multiple letters on his playing rack. Shego should have begun to strategize some words of her own, but she focused too much on the doctor's eyes.

"Well, Shego?" Drakken asked, breaking the woman's stare. "Aren't you going to take your turn?"

The woman in green stared down and shook herself awake. It was time to concentrate, otherwise this plan could fail. She picked up a few letters from her game rack and placed them from the center of the board horizontally to the right. The sequence was able to create the word 'rush.' This was, of course, not a word used to describe herself, however, it was all she had to work with at the time.

"That's eight points, Dr. D." Shego announced tallying her score on her card. "I draw however many letters I just used, and now it's your turn." The green woman smiled as she observed her new letters. Already having a 'g' and an 'r' in her hand, she drew one 'n' and an 'e.' One more 'e' and she could spell a word that describes her perfectly.

The doctor scratched his temple as he thought for a moment about the word just placed on the board. He studied his own letters and sighed deeply as he picked up three letters and attached them to the word Shego had just created. He spelled the word 'hope' and grinned at his cohort.

"Taste that, Shego!" the doctor taunted proudly. He then picked up his score card and prepared to mark his points. "Uh… How many points is that?"

Shego rolled her eyes and forced herself to keep from making a sarcastic comment. She only bit her bottom lip and pointed to each of the letters as she noted their score. She smiled when she looked to the doctor and gave the point total. "You've got twelve points, Drakken. Not bad for a first move."

The blue doctor stuck his tongue out at his partner. "You're going down." he said playfully. He drew three new letters and waited patiently for Shego to make her next move.

The girl in green knew exactly what she wanted to do as she placed the letters 'G' and 'R' before the 'E' in Drakken's 'HOPE.' She finished her move by putting 'E' and 'N' to finish her word. She grinned that the man across from her as she tallied her points.

"That's nine points plus eight. Looks like I'm in the lead again." the woman in green taunted. She marked her score on her game card and waited anxiously for her opponents next move. She would have to concentrate to see what the doctor would put down now that she had a word about herself.

The blue man watched as Shego drew her new letters and then observed his own. For some reason, he couldn't come up with anything he wanted to place on the board. Most of the letters on his rack couldn't form words. He took another look at Shego's last word and grinned.

"Alright, if that's how you want to play it!" he said triumphantly as he threw a random assortment of letters on the playing board. "Let's see you top that!"

Shego merely stared at the newest word. "Uh, Dr. D? That's not a real word."

The letters assembled read 'QOLAP.' The 'P' was from his word 'HOPE.' The doctor seemed to anger as he looked his word over again and then stared at Shego's recent word..

"Oh, yeah? Well, what in the world is a 'NEERG?'" he countered inspiring himself. He looked at Shego victoriously as she slapped her forehead. "Not so cocky now, are we?"

Shego looked to the blue doctor casually and fought to keep from saying something nasty. She smirked a little and said, "You know, you're looking at the word upside-down…"

Drakken's eyes widened and he stared at the word again. "'Green?'" he questioned before ranting to himself. He took his recently placed letters from the board and placed them back on to his rack. He again looked over his letters and found something of use to him, a new word.

The blue doctor branched the letters 'L' and 'O' to the 'S' in Shego's first word and completed it with a nice 'T.' He realized after making his move that he could have made the word 'PLOT' a little too late as he had already began to draw his new letters. The word 'PLOT' is worth more points than the word 'LOST.'

Nonetheless, the blue man earned six points on his turn and was now at eighteen for a total. He was back in first place and found the need to taunt Shego about it. She took the taunting and the game continued as Shego thought about the word the doctor had placed.

There was disappointment in he actions as she stared at the doctor's previous word. 'LOST' really had nothing to do with love or anything Shego was looking for from the doctor. She was somewhat relieved the doctor didn't care for her that way, but she still wanted someone to adore her.

The green girl wanted to give the man one last chance to prove if he cared for her. She branched the word 'LOVE' from Drakken's 'L' in 'LOST.' She watched the blue man's move intently, wondering if he would make any word describing her or anything. She was hoping he would, but also didn't want him to.

Shego added the nine points she had just acquired to her total and regained first place with a total of twenty-six points. The doctor grumbled but accepted the fact as he chose his next letters carefully and planned where to place them. He put the letter 'I' before the 'N' in Shego's 'GREEN.' He tallied his new points and frowned when he saw that he still wasn't in the lead. He only had twenty while Shego still had twenty-six. He drew his new letters and then gave the control over to the green girl.

'IN,' she thought about the word, 'That has nothing to do with me…' She swallowed hard and decided she would finish the game normally and then take her leave back to her room. Surprisingly, she was more disappointed than she thought she would be. She took her next turn and didn't smile once, even when she got twenty points in one move.

A few more turns took place and the game was about to end. Shego was somewhat disappointed in the doctor's feelings for her. She stared at the words over and over again, trying to find some hint of if the doctor truly did care for her. The blue man had placed two new words on the field a few turns ago and these were all that the girl in green paid attention to. She went over them in her head multiple times but found nothing to aid her in her quest.

The blue doctor drew his new letters and again gave Shego her turn. "This game is awfully fun, Shego… You should cheer up a little… You're beating me to death here."

Shego smiled to the doctor as he spoke these words of sympathy. It was amazing how he could cheer her up so well but didn't care for her the way she had hoped. She looked back to the board and the letters on her rack. She picked up a few common letters when she realized something.

She looked at the four words the doctor had played in sequence just a few turns before. 'LOST,' 'IN,' 'YOUR,' 'EYES.' There was a message in this sequence, an old pick-up line. Ordinarily, this could be shrugged off as a coincidence, but how could the doctor have done this on accident? He even skipped the opportunity to gain more points by putting these smaller words down.

"Lost in your eyes…" Shego trailed off in a whisper.

The doctor looked up from his gaze and stared to her. "What? Did you say something, Shego?"

The girl in green took a deep breath and looked to the doctor. Her eyes widened and she blushed slightly. She shook her head and then spoke sweetly and quietly. "No, I, uh… I suddenly don't feel so good… I think I'm going to go lay down for a while…"

The doctor nodded acceptingly and took a final look at his score card. "Just as well, I don't think I can come back with a score this low…"

Shego smiled slightly and her breathing increased unexpectedly. She couldn't look the doctor straight in the eye, she felt as shy as a school girl with a crush. This feeling haunted her and she just wanted to get away from the doctor. She kept repeating the same thought in her head, 'I can't be in love…'

The blue man looked at the woman. She didn't look well at all. She was paler than usual, and she was breathing in short, quick breaths. He stood and looked down at her. He lifted the Scrabble box and spoke to his partner in crime.

"Shego? Are you alright?" he asked with concern. The woman could only shake her head, her hair rippled softly with her movements. "Listen, I'll take you back to your room and then I'll put this away. You need to rest…"

The green woman went with the doctor and he led her carefully to her bed. She lay down, never looking at the man who was somewhat concerned for her. She didn't even say thank you as he left to the door. He paused and turned back to watch Shego lie in pain. He spoke reassurance to her.

"It's probably just a short flu bug or something…" he stated. "Call if you need anything, Shego…"

The blue man left to clean up the playing area. He would fix Shego up a bowl of soup and give her a carbonated soda. He truly did care for her as a friend, after all, she was the only thing close to a friend he had ever had. Without her, what would be the point of being evil?

Shego tossed and turned on her bed, she hated herself for doing this. The last time she had fallen in love, she didn't have her powers. The boy she was with was the world to her. They talked on the phone for hours at a time, they would often hold hands everywhere they went together, and he was the first man that Shego had wanted to kiss.

However, once she got her powers, everything changed. Her eyes went from a magnificent blue to emerald green, her hair changed to black from brunette, and her skin gained a pale-green pigment. She felt like a freak and hoped to find comfort from her boyfriend. Unfortunately, once he saw her, he ran off laughing and screaming that he was dating a vegetable.

That day had changed her. From then on, she no longer trusted or got interested in men. She had never experienced her first kiss, she only experienced a lost love. That feeling had been kept inside her for years and eventually caused her to become evil. Now that new feelings of love were making their way to her hormones, she was reliving that horrid day all over again. She didn't want to love because she was afraid of the consequences.

The green girl eventually passed out and slept for the longest time. Drakken entered and set the meal he had prepared for her next to her bed and then brushed her hair out of her face. He smiled at her and then left for the night, allowing his sidekick to get some sleep.