A/N: Many thanks to Joe Stoppinghem, Spectre666, Zaratan, DuffKilliganFan, Kipcha, CajunBear73, and AtomicFire for their reviews of chapter 4. Also many thanks to those that added my story to your favorites and updates list.

I guess the moral of this chapter is don't get Anne mad and sometimes it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.

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Jim continued to eye his wife as she finished her second beer. He knew she was rapidly running out of energy and he knew what was coming next. She would get up from the chase lounge smile mischievously at him. Then she would wiggle her finger and give him a come hither look. He would follow her upstairs where they would engage in some very tender love making after which she would fall into a very contented sleep.

Anne fought her way off the chase lounge and struggled to keep her balance. She weaved a bit as she wriggled her finger at him, "Going my way big boy."

He smiled and nodded his head. He picked up the empty beer bottles and followed Anne's swaying hips into the house. He put the beer bottles into the trashcan as he continued to follow his red headed wife.

The door opened to the living room and soon they were going up the stairs when a very girlish giggle caught his attention. He stopped his pursuit and turned to see his daughter sitting in her boyfriends lap kissing him passionately as his hands worked their way up her shirt.

Kim broke off the kiss and slapped his hands, "Not yet."

"Awwwwwww" Ron whined rather dejectedly.

She gave him a playful kiss, "Well OK but you have to stop when I say."

Ron grinned happily, "OK"

Dr. James Possible's temper just launched into orbit and it was now time for him to put his rather large foot down on this action. As Ron's rather inquisitive hand began to work its way towards second base, all Jim could see was red. He turned and in his loudest daddy voice proclaimed, "TOO MUCH FUN RONALD!"

Kim screamed and Ron jumped to his feet spilling Kim onto the floor, "No wait Mr. Dr. P...It's not like you think." He said desperately. Realizing he wasn't getting the desired reaction he tried again, "It almost was."

"DADDY"

Jim began to stride purposely toward the blonde headed young man, "THAT WAS BLACK HOLE FUN RONALD!"

"It...it almost was...Aghhhhhhhhh, KIM HELP!" He screamed as James Possible was coming at him with pure malice in his eyes.

Ron sensing there would be no help coming ran for the door, "Bye KP, I'll call later."

"NOT IF I CATCH YOU FIRST!" Mr. Dr. P. called out as he chased him out the door.

Kim stood up and put her hands on top of her head. She spotted her mother giggling and leaning against the stair rail, "MOM...What am I going to do?"

Anne grinned and shook her head, "Oh no, no help from me on this one. You ruined my impromptu afternoon plans."

"Well...well good, I don't want any more siblings." She said defiantly as she put her hands on her hips.

Her mother smirked, "No worries there Kimmie right after the twins were born I had the tubes tied and your father snipped."

Kim quickly covered her ears, "Ewwwwww too much information."

Anne smirked and stood up, "You want my advice, put on a turtle neck to cover up those hickies and pull your bra back down." Then she giggled again as her daughter gasped and ran past her on her way upstairs to freshen up.

"Come on Mr. Dr. P. I didn't mean it please don't kill me." Ron cried as he looked out from the top of the tree house to escape a surprisingly quick Jim Possible.

James Possible mounted the aging wooden steps that had been nailed to the tree many years before. There was still fire in the father's eyes, "Stand still Ronald and it will all be over in a moment."

"AWWWWW...NO, NO, NO" Ron cried again as he tried to climb out of the window to remain a safe distance from the man. "Don't come any closer. If there's too much weight up here the place will fall to the ground."

Upon hearing this Rufus quickly jumped out of Ron's pocket to the safety of a strong branch, "YIPES"

"If the place falls then we'll crash and burn on re-entry together Ronald." Mr. Dr. P. said menacingly as he put his foot on the floor of the tree house.

Ron's eyes grew large as he knew what was going to happen next. He quickly examined his surroundings and jumped to a limb that was lower to the ground. The limb gave way helping to break his fall to the ground. He tumbled three times and quickly got up running towards his house.

James Possible blinked twice as he watched Ron running up the street. He then turned his attention to Rufus, "I didn't see that coming. Want a lift down from the tree?"

Rufus nodded his head and carefully climbed onto the man's shoulder. Jim carefully made his way out of the tree until he reached the ground. He picked Rufus off his shoulder. Rufus shuddered as the man eyed him, "Go find your owner." He said gruffly as he sat him on the ground.

He watched Rufus scamper off in search of Ron and chuckled, "That boy is going to have some fast talking to do to explain why he abandoned his pal."

Jim then turned his attention to the tree house, "I'm going to have to knock this thing down before someone gets hurt."

"First things first." He thought angrily as he tossed aside the momentary distraction as he made his way back inside the house.

Upon entering the house he slammed the door and mounted the steps with most foul and angry look on his face. His wife was waiting for him at the top of the stairs, "Just what do you think you're going to do?"

He looked up towards Kim's loft, "Have a word with our daughter."

"...and tell her what?" Anne asked.

"Forbid her to see that boy ever again." James said angrily.

"...and this will do what?" Anne asked once again.

"Well...She'll probably cry, ignore me, do what she wants but I'll feel better." He said in frustration.

"You have two choices as I see it. Follow me into the bedroom where we can take up where we left off. Or go finish up that beer cooling down in back yard."

Jim Possible put his hands on his hips and looked around as he thought it over. He licked his lips and shook his head, "I'm too upset for hanky panky. I'll be in the backyard." He said his voice suddenly sounding sad and defeated.

Once James entered the kitchen the trapdoor to the loft opened slowly, "Thanks mom."

Anne looked up at the green eyes peeking through the crack of the open door, "You owe me, big time."

Kim recognized an opportunity when it presented itself. She lowered the trapdoor and walked down the stairs as she followed her mother into the master bedroom. Anne noticed her following after her, "Honey, I don't want to talk right now. I have a headache and I'm really tired."

Anne laid down on the bed and put an arm over her eyes. Kim giggled, "You really aren't a drinker are you."

She lifted her head, "What makes you think I was drinking?"

"Oh those two empty beer bottles didn't empty themselves." Kim said with a self assured smugness.

Anne put her arm back over her eyes, "Very perceptive...Now can you perceive what I want you to do now?"

Kim sighed but was unwilling to give up on what she was after, "Mom, why don't you want to talk about what happened in college between you two and Drakken?"

"Because it brings back too many bad memories, now go pester your father. Or better yet apologize for putting a show on in the living room in front of the window for the entire neighborhood to see."

She gasped, "Oh my gosh...I didn't even think of that."

"Well now you have something new to think about." She said flatly.

Kim took a deep breath, "You think dad will talk to me about what had happened between you guys and Drakken."

Anne was becoming edgy. Kim's refusal to let go of something she clearly did not want to talk about. That mixed with the depressive effects of the alcohol were beginning to make her short tempered, "NO"

"But why not?"

"BECAUSE YOUR FATHER AND I BROKE UP. There are you happy now. Now do can you put your perceptive mind together and figure it out?" Anne spat bitterly.

Kim's mouth fell open as she processed what she had just heard, "What...uh...why...I mean...I always thought..."

"That we were perfect? That we didn't make mistakes? That we were never young? That we never did hurtful things to each other?" Anne said sadly.

"You guys always seemed perfect...I mean...as far as I could tell..." Kim stammered.

"That came over time and getting to know one another...Unfortunately when I was younger I was...a little hot tempered." Anne told her sadly as she looked at the ceiling.

Kim swallowed hard, "So Drakken is why you guys broke up?"

Anne Possible narrowed her eyes, "No it was worse than Drakken...It was..." A sneer crossed Anne's lips, "It was Dig Dug."

Kim began to laugh, "You guys broke up because of a lame video game."

Anne looked at her daughter, "Weren't you jealous of a certain boy who Ron was spending a lot of time with playing a lame video game?"

"That was different." Kim bristled.

"Oh really..."

"Well...yea..." Kim reaffirmed sounding not quite so confident now.

Anne frowned, "Your father could play that game for hours on a quarter. He was good. The only trouble was when he played he concentrated so much on the game he tuned everyone out. I...I wanted the attention..." She said sadly.

"Let me look at you Anne." Donna Deckinger said. Anne spun around for her roommate to see the whole outfit, "Those Calvin Klein's look great with those cowboy boots you are just going to knock him dead."

Annie grinned as she fiddled with her red blouse before putting a black Stetson on top of her head, "I know the Urban Cowboy look is kind of over, but Jim's from Montana and..."

"Girl if that don't take his mind off playing that game and playing with other things. I don't know what will?" She said giving Anne a knowing wink.

She blushed as she looked at herself in the mirror, "Well I don't know about all that...but I sure would like to spend an afternoon away from Shrum's."

Anne left her dorm and made her way off campus to Shrum's Ice Cream Parlor. She saw the old white store front had seen better days as it was beginning to look run down. She could hear the music coming from the old jukebox as it spun the old vinyl 45 R.P.M. records.

"Little ditty about Jack and Diane

Two American kids growin' up, in the heartland."

Anne grinned as she heard the song, "I love Johnny Cougar songs. Now to find Jim."

She was determined to lure Jim Possible from his daily routine of playing Dig Dug and start him on a new daily routine of paying more attention to her between classes. She saw the crowd around the Dig Dug machine and could clearly see Jim playing feverishly against another boy who also looked to be as skilled as he was.

Jim dropped a boulder on the last Pooka as he navigated his man safely away in the underground hell known as Dig Dug. He clapped his hands, "Got you that time Scott."

The other boy shook his head, "You wait, I'm almost even with you now."

Anne spotted Ramesh, "Hey Rammie, what's going on?"

Rammie's eyebrows shot up, "Wow, don't you look lovely today Anne."

She smiled, "Well I'm glad someone noticed." She said in a very loud voice so she could be heard over the video game.

Jim turned his head quickly, "Whoa, hey, you look great."

Anne smirked. it wasn't the type of greeting she was wanting. She turned her attention back to Ramesh, "So what's going on?"

Ramesh blinked, "Oh yes, sorry...Uh...Jim has high score on the game and Scott Arnold is the second highest scoring player. He mainly plays at nights and Jim plays during the day. There is much trash talking between the two so they are having a show down to see who is best."

She frowned, "Great...So how long will this take?"

"Well they've been going at it for over an hour now...So...I am unsure." He said as he tried to think of just how long it would take the two to finish.

Scott a wiry teenager with round wire framed glasses stepped back from the machine after the round was done, "Wow, she's hot."

Jim grinned, "Yep, yep, that's my woman." He told him as he blinked at Anne.

Anne was not in the mood now to be anybodies woman, "Jim, how long do you think this is going to take?"

"Oh man, I see who wears the boots in this relationship." Scott said with a grin.

A voice from out of nowhere spoke out, "You've got that right Anne speaks and Jim jumps."

Anne spun around to see who was speaking and found herself looking into the Cheshire cat grin of one Drew Lipsky. She narrowed her eyes at the man, "Well is there any harm in a girl wanting to spend time with her boyfriend?"

Drew frowned, "I don't know, I've never really had one of those."

"I'm not surprised." Anne said not trying to disguise the sarcasm.

The sarcasm was not lost on Drew, "Well if I ever did have a girlfriend she would learn to mind her place. I know not to let a woman push me around...unlike your boyfriend."

Jim lifted an eyebrow as he continued to play the game, "DRRRREWWWWWW"

Drew grinned, "Hey, it's not only me that's saying it Jim. Everyone knows that when Anne tells you to jump, you ask how high."

Anne crossed her arms, "I never tell him what to do because if I did tell him what to do he wouldn't be playing that stupid game."

Jim glanced over but said nothing.

The other spectators watching the battle between the town's two greatest Dig Dug players let out a collective, "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Drew smiled and leaned over towards Jim, "That's how it starts, they start asserting their control little by little and then pretty soon she'll be telling you what your major should be and then what classes you should take."

He looked at Drew, "Nobody tells me what to do."

"Got you good that time Possible." Scott chuckled as the round ended.

"Ack, I was distracted." Jim said defensively.

Drew stroked his chin, "Yes you are distracted, but you know there just comes a time in every man's life where he has to put his foot down and take charge."

Jim growled and turned to Anne, "I'll catch up with you later after I show this pretender how the game is played."

Anne blinked and tilted her head. She had just been blown off and she knew it, "Oh, oh...Well you think you'll catch up with me later. I DON'T THINK SO!" Then she turned and stormed out of the arcade.

Scott began playing the round and quietly said to Jim, "Uh oh, now you did it."

Jim nodded his head, "Yep, I'm in trouble. I shouldn't have listened to Lipsky. DREW..."

Ramesh looked around, "He's gone."

Drew Lipsky followed the very angry red head out the door of Shrum's and trailed her back to her dorm. He had a bit of trouble keeping up with her due to the fast pace she was walking at.

He needed to stay with her but not too close. Finally she reached her destination, "Ahhhhhh She lives in Donner Hall. Good now I know right where to find her."

Once she was inside the dorm Drew did a slow walk by and began to formulate his plan, "It's not a co-ed dorm so no boys are allowed in unescorted after 6:00 PM. Since I don't have any luck with girls. I'll have to find someone who does, and I know just the man for the job." He thought happily as he continued on past the dormitory.

Anne stormed into her room and shoved the books off her desk and onto the floor, "WHERE IS IT?" She screamed at her roommate.

Donna was speechless she had never seen Anne angry before, "Wha...where's what?" She asked meekly.

"MY FAVORITE PAT BENATAR TAPE WITH MY FAVORITE MEN ARE ALL SCUM SONG ON IT." She bellowed just before she found it.

She quickly popped the cassette tape into the large MCS boom box the two shared. She put in the tape and hit the fast forward, "NO, NO, It's on side two." She quickly turned the tape over and continued looking for the song.

"Uh, things didn't go well with Jim?" Donna asked still trying to decide how angry Anne was.

"He told me to get lost." She said bitterly, "Ah finally."

The music from the tape began to blare loudly as she found the right song. Anne balled up her fists and stomped around the room singing along with Pat on the song.

"You keep tellin' me don't hang around
While you play around with the clowns that you found
It ain't right

She paused for a moment before yelling, "HE'S TOO BUSY PLAYING DIG DUG."


Now and then I get tired of the sound of you putting me down
While you're playing the town every night
I'm getting hung up, yes I am, yes I am
And you don't give a damn

"TOLD ME TO TAKE A HIKE!" Anne kicked her biology textbook across the room.

"I DON'T CARE IF I EVER SEE THAT CREEP EVER AGAIN!" She screamed as she picked up a stuffed bear off of her bed and threw it against the wall.


No You Don't
Have to make up all the rules
No You Don't
No, No You Don't
No You Don't"

Kim sat on the edge of her bed with her mouth open, "Dad was such a jerk."

Anne laughed and shook her head, "It takes two for an argument honey."

"Well Dad was in the wrong." She said firmly.

"No I was." Anne said sadly.

"WHAT?"

Anne laughed softly, "I...I was really becoming possessive of your father. You see...I never really had a boyfriend before...not like your father. I just wanted to spend every waking second with him. We did spend almost all of our free time together. It was just during that two and half hours he had set aside to be with his friends that I wanted too."

Kim shook her head, "I don't understand?"

"Your father had been playing Dig Dug with his friends at the same time, same place, five days a week even before I met him. I was trying to take all his free time away for myself." She said sadly.

"Well...you guys did get back together. Right?" Kim asked innocently.

Anne looked up at her daughter and lifted an eyebrow. Kim blinked before realizing what she had said, "Oh yea...I mean...never mind."

"Go pester your father I want to take a nap."

Kim went out into the backyard to find her father busy at work on the old tree house. She gasped when she saw what he was doing, "NO DADDY, don't tear it down." She called out.

James Possible turned his attention to his daughter, "Not tearing it down, shoring it up."

"Oh"

He returned to hammering more nails into a fresh 2" x 4" piece of wood, "After I chased Ronald up here earlier I realized just how unsafe this was. So I was going to tear it down."

"Oh" Kim said again nervously.

"Then I began to think about all the memories the place held for me with you and your brothers...I...I just couldn't tear it down. So I decided to reinforce it." He proclaimed proudly.

"Yeaaaa"

He climbed down from the tree and glared at his daughter, "Now do you mind telling me just what you thought you were doing in the living room earlier today?"

Kim's shoulders slumped and she put her best sad face on, "I'm sorry daddy. We kind of got carried away a little..."

"A LITTLE...Well...Tell Ronald I won't kill him...just yet."

She recognized the tone and realized that she was almost off the hook, "Great I'll tell him when we go out to Bueno Nacho tonight."

James Possible shook his head, "No, no, no, I think this little episode calls for the word grounding for say...until your 30."

"30!"

Her father smiled, "Gee I guess I can get carried away too."

Kim rolled her eyes but knew enough not argue with her dad so soon after a major case of rules breaking. She decided instead to change subjects, "Mom told me about the time you guys broke up."

Jim stopped picking up his tools, "She did?"

"Yea, she blames herself but I think you were a big jerk."

Her father looked away from her. She could clearly see he was remembering the argument all too well. He took a deep breath, "I was a big jerk...If I walked away from the game...well...so many things never would have happened." He said sadly.

"Like what?"

"Like, if she didn't tell you, it's none of your business." He snapped.

Kim pulled in her head, "True enuff...So you knew she was mad at you then?"

Jim laughed, "Oh yea. I didn't last long on the game after your mother left so I quickly went to a flower store across from the campus and bought a rose to try and make up."

"Mom wasn't having any of it, huh?"

"No, no I remember knocking on the door and your mother glaring at me tearing the flower off the stem and throwing it back in my face before slamming the door." He rubbed his chin and grinned.

"You were in trouble."

"Oh yea, big time."

Kim grinned, "So you guys got back together pretty quick right?"

He shook his head, "Nope...It gets kind of complicated after that. You see your mother found a new boyfriend."

"WHAT"

"Oh yea, good looking woman like your mother doesn't stay without a boyfriend for long." Jim Possible said sadly.

"So you guys got back together right?"

Now it was James Possible's turn to look at his daughter in disbelief over her question.

"No...I mean...never mind."

James Possible stood back and admired his handy work, "That little house will be sturdy enough to stay up there for the next 20 years. When future generations of little Possible's come along it will be ready."

Kim smiled and nodded her head, "That means it will be a great place for me and Ron to make out in."

Jim turned on his daughter quickly, "That's not why I did it." He said gruffly.

She smiled sheepishly, "Sorry...Oh I hear mom calling for me." She said as she turned and ran for the house.

Jim began to give chase before coming to a halt. He shook his head in resignation, "Old man you have run enough today."

Kim made it back to the house and turned to see if he had given chase. She saw him slowly picking up his tools. A small wave of sadness washed over her. For the first time in her life she noticed how old her father was looking to her.

He was no longer the spry young man that would chase her around the playground at the park, no longer the eager young father who would read her bedtime stories. She was growing up and he and her mother were growing older.

The things that she and Ron were experiencing now were nothing new to these two they had both went through the same thing years before. She made a mental note to tone down the kissing with Ron while her father was around. She had learned it wasn't a prudent to upset her father.

Then she looked upstairs and frowned, "I think it's time mom come clean about a certain boyfriend."

She opened the bedroom door softly and knocked. Anne looked up and threw up her hands, "I'm not going to get a nap in today am I?"

Kim shut the door quietly behind her, "Dad said you had another boyfriend?"

Anne froze, "Did he tell you who?"

"No"

Anne said bitterly, "Good, I don't particularly want to remember the worst mistake of my whole life to everyone."

"It...it can't be that bad." Kim said sympathetically.

"Oh yes it can...oh yes it can"