Ron's Worst Nightmares
Life Is an Absurd Commedy Skit
By Pat Squared
Kim Possible did not know how to describe the emotions when Captain Reynard, United States Marine Corps, told her and her mother that Ron or Vasilii Boiarskii was wounded in the line of duty and badly hurt, but still alive.
It was as if God answered her prayers for a second chance until the captain told her that Ron was in a coma and not expected to wake up anytime in the near future. Ron was alive and yet would not be alive.
The captain had little in ways of particulars, just the printout of an email from some US Navy commander assigned to the US Naval Bureau of Personnel.
All that Kim knew was that Ron was in some German hospital living only because a machine did all his breathing for him. Therefore, instead of a gravestone or a photo, all that Kim would be able to show her daughter was the shell of her father being devoured by some clunky machine.
Her mom made some phone calls and used the physician network to get a better idea of what was happening to Ron. When her mom did not even bother to put some positive spin to her comments after the phone calls were concluded, Kim knew that Ron was hurt inreally bad way.
Kim hated God at the moment.
God set up the dominos and watched as Ronald Dean Stoppable and Kimberly Anne Stoppable participated in a perversewaltz of self-destruction. When one reached out the other would not be in position to save the other.
It was like two waltzers dancing in a ballroom. The band is playing and the onlookers was watching, yet each dancer danced alone. For far too long, Kim let her pride blind her to the fact that she choose to dance alone. Now that pride was gone, the other dancer was gone leaving Kim alone on the ballroom floor.
God taunted her by dangling her salvation before her and then ensuring that Ron would never be able to forgive Kim for all the things that she did to him.
Worse, because of the situation in France, there were no direct flights to continental Europe.
Her parents citing her condition and the fact that Ron would not even know that she was there forbade her to go.
Kim knew that logically her parents were right, but her need to atone, to confess her sins, and begs Ron's forgiveness was overwhelming. Her daughter needed a father and Kim would be damned if she let Ron slip away again.
Kim just went to her room, grabbed all her credit cards, her passport, threw some clothing and toiletries inside a carry-on bag. She simply called Monique and had Monique drive her to the airport.
To fly to Germany required that Kim max out her credit cards. She had to take a Southwestern Airways flight to Los Angeles, transfer to Philippines Airlines flight to Manila via San Francisco and Hawaii. She would have to spend a night in Manila, where the atmosphere was so thick with diesel soot that she ate auto exhaust every time she tried breathing.
From Manila, she took a flight to Dubai via Bangkok on United Arab Emerate Airlines. There she would spend another night before taking Lufthansa and landing in Berlin, Germany. Worse all the flights were on coach and she used up the supply of barf bagseverycursed flight.
Three days to accomplish what would have ordinarily an eight hour flight all because of unrest in France. God Damn French!
After surviving all that, she had to deal with driving a rental car on the infamous German autobahn.
While she was an expectant mother, Kim was not use to being looked at like she used to look at little old ladies in the fast lane. Even at one hundred fifty kilometers or ninety miles per hour, everyone including the nuns was racing by her in a blur. They were probably cursing at the stupid American bitch who threw her best friend away.
Kim Possible suffered all of this to only be turned away at the hospital.
SinceKim was not listed as an authorized dependant, the officer at the hospital told her that the military would not be able to admit her to see Ron. She should have known that the military frowns on unauthorized dependents living overseas.
That hurt the most. Not even the airsick was so bad.
Kim was carrying Ron's child and the hospital stafftold her that neither Kim nor her unborn child was not authorized as Ron's dependants and thus less than human in the eyes of the bureaucracy. Kim just sat on the steps outside the main entrance.
Kim had no place to go.
Her credit cards were maxed out, so that she could not rent a room. She did not have enough money to even think of buying the return ticket home. She had not done any missions in German or Eastern Europe so she had no favors to call in. She flew three-quarters of the way around the planet and ended up alone.
It was all she can do to not break down and brawl like a three-year-old in public. Kim stood up, walked towards her parked rental car, knowing that God was already giving her a taste of Hell. The bureaucrats ensured that this would be a situation worthy of an absurd British comedy. However, Kim Possible was not laughing at her role in this real life comedy skit.