A/N: Time for another chapter of the young Possible's. Many thanks to DuffKillinganFan, Kipcha, Yankee Bard, Zaratan, CajunBear73, Whitem, Pinkymint, and MoonEasterBunny for your reviews.
It's very late and I worked really hard on this particular chapter. It's hard to shift gears from writing a comedy based story such as No Touchie, No Feelie or the forthcoming Ronnie Diamond sequel to writing a drama based story so I hope I switched into the right gears. Hope you enjoy it.
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Bubba
Outside Go city in the rural area known as Gumbo stands Twillenger County's most haunted house, the Dorsey Mansion. The Dorsey family settled into the area sometime just after the Civil War in the late 1860's.
Darnell Dorsey was a failed farmer from Kentucky who came to Colorado hoping for a better life as a cattle rancher. He failed at this too, but not before building a small farm house for he and his wife and six children.
He heard tell of a large gold strike in Nevada and left his family in Colorado in order to stake a claim. In the mining towns of western Nevada he made his fortune and returned to the farm and his family a millionaire.
With his new found wealth he tore down the small farm house to build a regal new mansion. The Dorsey Mansion was built in the early 1870's. Dorsey used his massive gold mining fortune to build a thirty-three room Victorian showplace.
The radiator system was installed in 1880. One year after radiant heat was patented. The grand staircase was removed to accommodate an open-air lift that ran the gamut of the house. The decorative iron gates in the basement just past the entrance are all that remain of the elevator.
In 1882 the house was completely renovated. To the left of the main entrance is the former office, where Darnell Dorsey committed suicide. Soon afterwards Estelle Dorsey despondent over the loss of her husband decapitated their youngest son Oswald before taking her own life by slitting her wrists in Darnell's office.
After the tragedy the house slid from one descendent child to the next before being sold off the Go City Court House steps in 1964 to the Mortinson family who were only interested in the land for cattle grazing and not the house.
The once proud mansion with its tall columns and ornate woodwork had fallen into disrepair. Now people drive by the house every day on Rt. 302 without ever noticing the old mansion. Locals stay away due to the strange occurrences and the rumor of the ghost of Estelle Dorsey who still walks the halls. She has gone down in local folklore as 'The Blue Lady.'
Now nearly 100 years after the tragic events of the Dorsey family a new tenement has moved into the basement of the property in order to conduct fiendish new experiments in robotics that he envisions will one day help him to conquer the world.
Drew Lipsky stumbled across the property one day as he searched for a suitable hiding spot for his laboratory. The old elevator was no longer functioning but he quickly restored power to the old house or at least to the elevator and the cellar since he would need it for his experiments.
Now on the eve of his greatest achievement he had to scramble to cover his work up as his cousin Eddie and his mother were only minutes away. He only invited Eddie and not his mother. Drew Lipsky was not in a very good mood, "I told Eddy to come alone. He's got some explaining to do." He thought angrily as he finished straightening up the main floor of the house.
"Ohhhhhhhhh Drewbieeeeeeee come outside and give your mother a kiss."
The voice sent shivers down his spine, "Mother…not yet…"
"I'll be right there Mother."
Drew ran outside to face a short, squat, matronly woman with flaming red hair piled into a bee hive hairdo, "There's my Drewbie the college boy." She said proudly as she gave Drew a big hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Ummm my…mother what a surprise…" He said to her weekly.
"Is this your frat house that you've been living in? I need to tinkle. I told Eddie about 30 miles back and he hands me a beer bottle and tells me squeeze my legs tight together. Now is that any way to treat a lady?" The woman asked as she began to mount the rickety stairs.
"Uh, Mother, no…The house is being refurbished…There's a gas station about 3 miles back towards Go city." He turned to Ed and sneered, "I'm sure Eddie would be happy to run you up there."
Ed was still checking his reflection in the mirror of his 1973 Harley Super Glide and finding his blonde mullet in perfect shape turned his attention to Drew, "Dude the old woman was seriously harshing my road time getting here."
"Eddie, that is no way to talk about your aunt." Mrs. Lipsky said indignantly.
Ed looked like he was going to start do some arguing of his own but Drew interrupted him, "Eddie run mother down to the gas station and when you two get back we can talk…business."
"Oh it's so cute listening to you two boys talking so grown up." Mrs. Lipsky said as she wondered up the stairs and into the house.
"Dude you seriously owe me for this." Ed Lipsky said menacingly.
Drew leaned over and whispered in his ear, "I told you to come alone."
"The old woman got on in Jersey and wouldn't get off." Ed whispered back angrily.
"That's my mother you're talking about..." He stopped himself before he could get into an argument with his cousin. He needed him and he needed his skill with the ladies to help his plan come together. "Look, take mother to a hotel and get back here pronto."
Ed nodded his head, "You got it Drew."
"Ohhhhhh Drewbie do you know this fireplace mantle is real Italian marble?"
Drew cringed when he heard his mother's voice, "No mother, I really hadn't had a chance to look around much."
Out of the corner of Ed's eye he saw something flash blue flash past a doorway, "Dude what's that?"
"What's what?" Drew said mystified.
"Nothin' just thought I saw something." Ed said as he examined the door way more carefully.
"Well you could see it was Italian marble if the boys in your frat would do more cleaning."
"I'll remind them to do that right away mother." He turned his attention back to Ed, "Take her to the Travel Lodge and then get back here."
They walked back up the stairs and into the living room where his mother was looking at an old dust covered mirror, "Is that lady in the blue dress your housekeeper? She does a terrible job."
"Ummm...No? There's no one else here today other than us Mother."
Ed scratched his chin and thought about telling him that he seen something blue out of the corner of his eye but thought better of it. He shrugged, "Let's go into town and find you some place to pee."
Mrs. Lipsky shook her head, "You know you could try being a little more tactful Eddie."
Drew listened to his mother and Ed argue with each other on their way out the door. He rubbed his chin and narrowed his eyes, "There was something in the local library about a woman in blue." He shook his head to clear the unwanted thought from it, "Useless superstitious mumbo jumbo." He thought as he activated the old elevator to take him back down into the basement.
Drew continued to eye the plans of his new robotic women. He smiled happily as he scanned the plans. Everything was coming together brilliantly now that his cousin Eddie had arrived from New Jersey. Suddenly movement from over in the far corner caught his eye, "Hello? Ed?"
There was no answer so he went to investigate and found the corner empty, "Been down here too long. My eyes are starting to play tricks with me." He said out loud. He knew no one else was in the house but just hearing his own voice made him feel better.
He looked up as he heard the loud throaty roar of the Harley Davidson motorcycle pull up to the house out front. He walked over to the fancy iron work elevator and closed the cage door and pressed the button for the first floor.
The antique apparatus clunked and made loud grinding noises as it hoisted Drew to the first floor. Ed stood leaning against the door frame of the entrance waiting for him, "So what's the plan cousin?"
"Well to put it simply Ed. I need you to pickup a girl for me?" Drew said happily as he entered the room from the elevator.
Ed held up a hand, "Yo dude, score your own chick."
"Ed you will get the girl when I'm done with her...I just need her for measurements."
"Seriously?" Ed asked still not quite understanding what Drew wanted a girl for.
Drew nodded his head, "Seriously"
Ed held up his hands once again, "Now wait a minute, she's not the size of a cow is she? I mean she has to fit on the back of my bike."
Drew grinned, "She is the most perfectly proportioned female I have ever seen. She is to be the one I model my BeBe Bots mark 2 after."
"Uh...Dude what are BeBe Bots?"
"A little invention of mine that will help me take over the world and help me play out my wildest fantasies in a guilt free environment...Come let me show you." He said as he motioned for Ed to follow him into the elevator.
Ed watched him close the cage up, "Uh...Dude is this thing safe?"
Drew stopped for a moment, "I don't know? I never tried it with two people before." He said as he threw the switch.
The elevator jerked and then started to descend normally. Drew grinned, "It's safe."
Once in the basement Drew walked to a corner where a sheet was draped over something to hide it from prying eyes. Drew turned to face his cousin, "Eddie, I give you the future." He proclaimed proudly as he pulled the sheet off of the Bebe Bot.
Ed began laughing, "Dude, you can't be serious. That has to be the ugliest thing I have ever seen."
Drew growled, "It's not finished yet, besides there is just this one and three other prototypes for my roommates back at school."
The laughter had yet to cease from Ed. Finally with great effort the big man stood upright, "Cousin, if this is your idea of a new invention...a mechanical sex doll...You are seriously out of your mind."
"Grrrrrrrrr, Ed, these are going to be killing machines..." Drew stopped and turned and stroked the bucket headed cheek of one of his prototypes, "That can also provide a man with whatever kind of pleasure he should desire."
Ed screwed up his face, "Yea well, I'll stick to flesh and blood girls if you don't mind."
Drew frowned, "Let's head back to the University and I'll show you the girl I need. Her name is Anne Destructible, and from all the information I can gather about her she seems to have a certain fondness for misunderstood bad boys."
Ed grinned and grabbed his crotch, "Seriously cousin once she sees what's in these jeans there won't be no misunderstanding."
The weekend was over and Kim had yet to convince her mother to tell her about who the other boyfriend was before she made back up with dad. She had never seen her mother so stubborn before. She could tell the memories were unpleasant but she felt she had to find out to learn more about Drakken.
"Kim...I think it would be best if I went home and didn't come inside." A very nervous Ron Stoppable said as he eyed her house.
Kim sighed, "Ron if you would just apologize to daddy..."
"Apologize, apologize, the man chased me up a tree, a very tall tree." Ron said in exasperation.
"Ron...Daddy can be a bit...temperamental at times..."
"Yea like when coming into a room and finding my hand up your shirt temperamental." Ron reminded her.
Kim giggled and kissed him gently on the lips, "Fine suit yourself. I'll call you later."
"Promise?"
She nodded her head, "Promise"
Ron smiled and then frowned. "Now I have to go apologize to Rufus again. I swear I thought he was in my pants when I jumped out of that tree."
Kim smiled again and waved goodbye to her BFBF as he walked up the hill to his house. Now Kim turned and walked in the front door of her house, "Kim was that Ronald I saw you talking to outside."
She groaned, "Yes daddy"
The long silence was uncomfortable before it was broken by her father, "I see"
Now Kim was nervous, "Uh is mom around?"
"She's not home from work yet...Should be anytime now." He said as he continued to look through his newspaper while sitting in his easy chair.
The sound of a car broke the uncomfortable stillness of the house, "Mom's home." Kim said happily as she now had an excuse to escape her father's questions about Ron.
Kim ran outside, "Hi mom..."
"Uggggggh...Tough day at work honey, could you get my brief case?" Anne Possible said as she opened the back door to her car and took out her dry-cleaning.
"Sure mom" Kim said happily.
Her mother looked up, "Your father still giving you the third degree about Ron?"
She shook her head, "Not so much today."
"I talked to him last night. I don't think he's really mad at Ron anymore but...Your father does have a stubborn streak about him." She said as she motioned for her daughter to follow her into the house thru the garage. The alternate route into the house would hopefully avoid any more questions from Mr. Dr. Possible.
Once inside Mrs. Dr. Possible lay her dry-cleaning over a chair and pointed for Kim to put her brief case over in the corner of the kitchen. She took a deep breath and looked around the kitchen, "I'm going to make some coffee."
Anne began to make coffee as Kim looked on, "Mom...please tell me about the boyfriend you had before you got back together with dad?"
Anne's mood darkened, "Honey...no...it brings back too many painful memories."
She licked her lips nervously, "It...it wasn't Drew Lipsky was it?"
"GOD NO! Kimmie just drop the subject, OK." Her mother said wearily.
"I thought you didn't believe in keeping secrets from us."
Anne grinned, "Oh that's good, but I never said any such thing. Your father and I have plenty of secrets and most of them are none of your business."
Kim put her hands on her hips, "Ohhhhhhh really?"
Mrs. Dr. Possible chuckled, "Kimmie every family has secrets. Mistakes they made, things they regret...This one is no different."
Kim was getting ready to reply when her mother breezed past her and made her way into the living room, "Hi Jim, taking it easy on Kimmie today?" She asked as she leaned over and kissed him.
Jim grinned, "Haven't been too tough on her. How was your day?"
Kim breathed a sigh of relief as she listened to her parents describe the various highlights of their day to each other. She leaned up against the stairs and listened. This was always something she enjoyed doing but because of school and all of her after school activities she had missed out on for quite sometime.
"...So anyway I think they're going to look pretty seriously at my Samson project." Her dad finished up.
"Jim...if they approve Samson do you think I could retire?" Anne asked.
Kim straightened up, "Retire?"
Jim sat up as well, "Work getting that bad for you?"
Anne sat on the couch and nodded, "Those stupid administrators and the budget cuts...They want to lay off nurses, they've layed off most of the C.N.A's so what nurses we have are doing their work. I'm on my feet almost constantly and it's really wearing me down."
"So who's actually caring for patients now?"
She shook her head, "It's a mixed bag but I've got three times the work load that I had three years ago...I try to keep up but...I had chest pains today and it scared me."
Jim stood up and walked over and sat down next to his wife, "You see anyone about it?"
"I think its stress." Anne said quietly.
Kim walked into the living room, "Mom?"
"It's alright honey. I'm fine...Can you see if the coffee is done please?" Anne said as Jim wrapped his arms around her.
"Sure mom." Kim could feel tears welling up in her eyes. She knew her mother had been short with her recently but just thought it was because of all of the questions she'd been asking. She never imagined it was stress or something worse.
She made her a cup of coffee and walked back into the living room in time to see her father kiss her tenderly on the forehead, "If it's that bad, use up your vacation and quit...I don't want to risk losing you to a stupid job."
Anne laughed, "I'm not going anywhere..." She took the coffee from Kim, "...I'm just saying...I'm tired."
Jim frowned, "You're more than tired..."
"...I wonder if I really could retire?" Anne said in a far away voice.
"Tomorrow you are calling in sick and we're going to see Walter Stoppable." Jim said firmly.
"Ron's dad why?" Kim said nervously.
Anne chuckled, "His Company handles our investments for us...Outside of our 401k's."
"Don't worry Kimmie, I'm not going to squeal on Ron...However the next time I see him I do plan on making him do some squealing." Jim said menacingly.
"Daddy!"
Anne laughed, "You will do no such thing...However a day off and some financial planning I don't think would be too bad of an idea." She said wearily.
Jim stood up, "Well that's settled then...I'll go get the twins and get some carryout for dinner. Kimmie you stay here and see to your mother."
"OK dad"
Jim Possible rounded up the twins and herded them towards the door, "We'll be back in a few..." He said as he closed the front door.
"Awwwwwww man, I don't see..." Jim began.
"...why we have to go." Tim finished.
"Because your mother isn't feeling well that's why."
Anne smiled, "Your father worries too much."
Kim frowned, "No, not if you're having chest pains."
"It's no big..."
"Wrong, very big."
Anne smiled, "It's just me getting older. You'd be surprised there are days I get out of bed and I still think I'm eighteen. Then I turn and look at your father and I wonder just who that old man is."
They both laughed at Anne's joke, "Then I'll stroke his gray hair...He gets that from worrying too much you know."
"Chest pains mom, not good." Kim reminded her.
Anne didn't hear her, "Today is the first day I actually felt my age. I sat down in that chair and began gasping for breath...my chest was tight...Don't tell your father this he worries too much." Anne said again.
Kim wiped a tear from her eye, "No...I won't..." She said now suddenly fearful of a major upheaval in her family. The loss of her mother was unthinkable. It was too horrific for her to even try and contemplate.
"So you want to know all about that other boyfriend huh?" Anne said as she took another sip of coffee.
"It's not important right mom." Kim said sadly.
"Ed Lipsky"
"WHAT?" Kim gasped.
"His name was Ed Lipsky...Worst mistake I ever made." Anne said sadly.
"But...Motor Ed...Ewwww...He could have been my father?" Kim said trying to come to grips with her mother's revelation.
Anne chuckled, "Oh honey there was no chance in hell of me ever giving birth to anything for that man."
"Well...How?" Kim said obviously still in shock.
"Well good old Drew Lipsky had put a call into his cousin before your father and I had our fight...I don't now quite how but somehow he figured out that I had a soft spot for the bad boys."
Kim giggled and pulled in her head, "I always wondered where that came from."
Anne smirked and then continued her story, "The day after the big fight, I was coming out of Donner Hall and there he was." Anne grinned at the memory, "Sitting on that Harley, blonde mullet blowing in the wind and he was just rippling with muscles...God he was gorgeous."
Kim made a face, "Ewwwww...He's just a fat old man now."
"Well back then he was ripped..."
"Hey Red, you are the best lookin' gal I've seen come out of this dorm all morning." Ed said trying hard not to leer at Anne.
Anne dressed in a short black skirt with a white top looked around, "Me?"
"Yea, you see any other hot lookin' redheads around?"
She walked closer to the big man, "So...I haven't seen you on campus before?"
Ed laughed, "No seriously, you haven't...I'm kind of on the run from the Police in New Jersey so I thought I'd come out here and visit my cousin."
Anne's eyes lit up, "Running from the police? That sounds very exciting, having to always be on the move, having to look over your shoulder all the time, not knowing who to trust."
"Ummm...Yea..." Ed said as he nervously looked around.
"Hey Anne"
Anne turned and saw Jim Possible running up the sidewalk towards her, "Oh no it's my ex-boyfriend."
"Get on back Red and I'll take care of this punk." Ed said as he sized Jim up.
Anne jumped on the back of the motorcycle as Jim drew near. Ed grabbed the unsuspecting boy by the shirt, "Seriously dude you need to learn to leave my new woman alone." He said as he shoved Jim backwards and fired up the Harley and drove away.
Jim flew about 10 ft. before slidding to a stop. He scrambled to his feet and stood up just in time to see a smiling Anne Destruction waving to him from the back of the motorcycle.
He stood there dumbfounded as a few students walking by made fun of him, "Hey science nerd, Goodfellow Hall is on the other side of campus." Jim looked down and nodded, "Hey science nerd learn to pick up your own kind." Goodfellow Hall was where all of the girls majoring in science were housed. The dorm was notorious for having some of the ugliest women on campus.
Jim bent over and picked up his slide rule and pocket protector. Then he gathered up his books and made his way to his morning class. The image of Anne riding off with that man forever seared into his memory.
"Your kidding, you just jumped onto the back of that motorcycle and rode off?" Kim was clearly upset with her mother, "You're the one that told us not to take rides from strangers?"
"I learned from experience." Anne said evenly.
"So what happened then?"
"He took me to a run down donut shop and did his best to act charming."
"So, what's your name babe?"
Anne looked up from her coffee, "Uh...Anne, Anne Destructible."
"My name is Ed..." Then Ed stopped talking and furrowed his brow, "Ed Smith."
She grinned and lifted an eyebrow, "An alias?"
"Uh...Yea, you could say that."
"I never met a man with an alias before." Anne said excitedly.
"Well now you have...So what's a hot babe like you majoring in?" Ed asked not really concerned with an answer. He was just trying to set her at ease for when he would take her to his cousin Drew tomorrow.
"Oh I want to become a brain surgeon, or maybe a real good general practitioner with a small practice in a rural town somewhere in the Midwest or maybe an anesthesiologist, or..."
"You talk a lot don't you?"
Anne swallowed hard, "Why...yes...I...I guess I do."
Ed nodded, "I don't like chicks that talk a lot."
"Oh"
"So what kind of music do you listen too?" Ed asked just before he took a big bite from his bear claw.
Anne decided that her new wave music wouldn't impress her new friend very much so she decided to name off the hardest heaviest bands she could think of, "Uh...I like AC/DC, Van Halen..."
"Whaaaaaaaaahaaaaaa yoeewwwwwwww baaaaaaababbbbooooooo" Ed screamed as he played an air guitar, "Eddie Van Halen is so cool...Runnin' with the Devil..." Ed sang out happily.
Emboldened by Ed's approval of the bands she was naming off Anne pushed onward, "I like...ummmm...Black Sabbath..."
"...Ozzie Rules!"
"Uh...Led Zepplin..."
"Whoa hang on Zepplin sold out and went Disco, I only like their older stuff." Ed clarified.
"Uh...yea, yea, uh, that's what I meant...The older stuff." Anne said nervously.
Ed leaned in closer to Anne, "Seriously though you want to know who the coolest band in the world is?"
"Wh...who?" Anne stuttered nervously.
"Motorhead, man, Lemmy ain't never gonna sell out to Disco." Ed jumped up onto the table and began to bob his head up and down furiously, "The Ace Of Spades, The Ace Of Spades..." The air guitar came out once again, "Badwwwannn wannnnnn wannnnnnnn Ace of Spades."
She looked around her and blushed as the few customers that were in the shop just shook their heads. Finally Ed retook his seat and Anne smiled at him nervously, "That sounds like...a great song."
Ed nodded, "The best, so tell me Red what does it take for a guy like me to get between those thighs of yours?"
Anne's jaw fell open, "Uh...uh...I have to get back now...uh...I have a class and stuff."
"Ewwwwwwwww He actually said that too you?" Kim interrupted the story.
"Oh...Ed wasn't big on tact." She said sadly.
"I ever see Ed again. I am so kicking his ass." Kim said angrily. "So that's when you ran off...right?"
Anne shook her head, "I wish I did. Anyway Ed finally drove me back to the campus..."
"So I'll be seeing you tomorrow Red?" Ed asked trying hard to sound innocent.
"Oh...maybe...I don't know." Anne said as she looked around trying to find a familiar face.
Ed grabbed her by the arms and pulled him to her. He shoved his lips against hers and began to kiss her savagely. Anne's eyes grew large as she tried to pull away. This wasn't like kissing Jim, there was no ounce of sensitivity involved in the kiss. It was an almost mechanical, a contrived kiss.
Anne suddenly felt herself outside her body looking down as Ed's tongue invaded her mouth. Who was this monster kissing that redheaded girl? A wave of regret passed through her mind. Why, oh why had she behaved so stupidly towards Jim Possible.
The kiss lasted for what seemed like an eternity to Anne before Ed broke it off, "Hey babe, bet you never been kissed like that before?"
She stumbled back away from him, "No...no...not like that."
"Seriously...I'm crazy about you Red...Meeting a girl like you could...I don't know...make me seriously consider going straight." Ed said as he tried his best to sound sincere.
"Ewwwwwwww, you let him kiss you...ewwwwwwwww, sick and wrong, wrong sick...ewwwww..." Kim stopped abruptly as she realized her mother was crying.
"It...it wasn't like I had a lot of choice...I can...I can still smell his breath...I...I..." Anne broke down in tears.
"Mom, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to make you upset." Kim said trying hard to keep the fear from her voice.
Anne wiped her eyes, "It's alright honey...It's been a long day...Go, go set the table up for dinner. Your father will be back any moment."
"Mom, why did you decide to tell me?" She asked softly.
"The Catholics say confession is good for the soul...Maybe...maybe I just need to tell the story...Just in case it's not stress." Anne said sadly.
Kim shivered and hugged her mom tightly. She tried her best not to think about the possibility of her mother not being around. Her dad was a good man but it was her mom that held the family together and she didn't know what would happen to any of them if something should happen to her.