KP in Ron's Halloween

AN: Ron has another Halloween as per tradition with her, or does he? Ron has another Halloween that he's looking forward to after that last one where he had Roachie help him. However this time he had to promise up and down that he would NOT pull a trick like that again or he would not get any treats from her for a very, very long time! This is that Halloween, or is it?

Chapter G: Got my heart in your hands

The woman says, "So...um, what made you so sad? That is if you don't mind talking about it." She looks at Ron with eyes begging him to tell her and in her heart she truly wanted to do something to help this man before her.

Ron looks at the woman before him and thinks, "Those eyes... How can she not be Kim?" He softly sighs before he says, "I once knew a friend, my best friend really since childhood and then one day..." He begins to choke up as he recalls with such vivid recollection the way Kim looked before she was hit by the car. It takes him a minute or two to gather the strength, during which the woman stayed by and didn't push him as if she somehow knew that what he had to say would come out in its own time.

He takes a deep breath to stabilize himself and then continues as she watches the expression on his face, "She... she and I were going to meet up when she decided to pull a prank on me for what I did last year and... it scared me so much that I pushed...pushed her away and she... fell...f-fell right into the p-path of a..." He stops when the woman picks up his hand in hers and says with a tender tone in her voice and when Ron looks at her he is surprised to find tears going down her cheeks just as there were tears running down his own.

The woman says, "Please Ron...You don't have to go any further. I think I can guess what happened and I don't like to see you hurting like this." She pauses before she says, "You loved her didn't you?"

Ron nods a bit before he says, "Y-yes... so to be the c-cause of..." He is surprised when he suddenly feels her arms wrap around him tightly in a hug. He freezes up and first but then melts against her as he hears her say, "It is ok Ron, I know you didn't mean to do it."

The moment Ron hears those words it triggers something within him, something that he had longed to hear since the accident and suddenly he couldn't hold it back. Not when those very words in Kim's voice are exactly what he needed to hear. He starts to cry hard and uncontrollably with the arms around him holding him tightly even as she says soothing things to him. He lets it all go, crying like he'd never before in his life until he finally is all worn out and falls asleep, still in her arms with his cheek laying on her shoulder which had long since become soaked with tears.

The woman with the long red hair lets him rest there for another minute as she thinks, "This woman was so lucky to have such a guy love her so deeply. I can't help but feel sorry to the core for them. A love this deep was probably returned in kind. I wonder if... if I can find someone like him for me someday."

The woman slowly and gently lays him backwards onto the bed, taking care so as not to wake him as she knew he would be exhausted after letting it all out like that. She walks over to pull out a new dry top and manages to do so without waking him.

She turns to walk out of the room and just as she passes him on the way out she hears him talk in his sleep, "Rufus... Kim told me...it was ok...forgiven" She pauses as she thinks, "Her name was Kim?" She continues her walk out of the room as she thinks about what she had heard.

(Later)

Ron wakes up and the first thing he does is look around. He sees that the room is empty as he sits up before he thinks, "Great... she's gone. I bet she thinks I'm a loser. A loser who hurt his best friend!" He stops to blink as he realizes that he feels better now, better than he had felt in a long time actually.

Ron softly says, "I guess I should go and apologize to her for all the trouble I caused." He gets up out of the bed and walks to the door when he hears her talking in the voice that sounded so much like Kim's.

Almost immediately he knew something was wrong because the voice was doing something he hadn't heard very often, the voice in fear of something... No, not something... someone. He puts his hand on the door, as he can hear the voice of a guy now and it sounded very angry.

The man's voice sounded angry as he says in an almost shouting voice, "You have another man in here! You know that you're mine and mine alone forever! I will have you marry me and then you and all your land will become mine!"

Ron's hand against the door slowly curls into half of a fist at the guy's words and then he hears her say, "Please leave! I have no desire to marry you! I would rather stay alone until I die of old age than marry you!" He thinks, "Yeah! You tell him!"

The man obviously did not like what he heard and growls, "I've waited for so long to make you and your lands all mine! I've tried to be nice but then one of your servants ratted me out and..."

Ron is about to go through the door when he hears her say, "No... none of them told me about you. They knew what I did from the start, that you were an evil man trying to take advantage of me..." A pause that seemed to go on forever even though he felt he could see her face as if he was truly in the room. He could see etched upon her face the strength, the sadness and the loneliness... Yes, the loneliness would be why she put up with him for so long but he had to wonder, what changed for her to confront him now?

Ron snaps out it as he hears her resume talking and leans in to hear her say, "I simply have no desire to pretend that I don't. I thought that if I was patient, I could change you... save you from yourself but I have come to realize that relying on others for change won't work. I have to create my own path in life, not let others dictate mine."

Ron's jaw drops as he hears her say that, just as his Kim once told some reporter when asked a question about why she did what she did and not just let others who were trained for this kind of thing handle it. It was both eerie and heart touching to hear that.

The man could be heard growling in a frustrated way before shouts, "This is because of that guy isn't it? I'll show you what a real man can be like!" A cry from her could be heard as the man shouts, "I'm going to make you mine whether you like it or not!"

Ron slams the door with such intensity that it flies open and hits the wall, creating a large crack in the wall. He sees the woman who had been both so kind to him and looking so much like his true love being accosted roughly by some man. He shouts, "Get-your-hands-off-of-her!"

The man had been very surprised by Ron bursting through like than and his hands manage to become loose enough that she can escape. Once the man notices he looks darkly at her and snarls, "This is the guy whom you think is better than me? Is he the one? Tell me the truth Katherine Miriam Adabelle!"

Katherine narrows her eyes as she says with force, "You know I don't like to be called by my full name!"

The moment the man looked like he was going to strike her, Ron moves forward and grabs her to pull her out of danger before he says to Katherine, "Hurry, go get somewhere safe!"

Katherine says, "No Ron! He'll hurt you!"

The man looks at them standing there so close and for a moment it almost looked like there was an after image of the two of them, but in different clothes. The only thing this does is that it confuses and frustrates him even more before he shouts, "Hurt him? I am going to KILL him after which, there will be no one who will stop me from claiming what is rightfully mine!"

Ron spins Katherine behind him and he says, "Get behind me! I won't let him hurt you!" He sizes up the man who was muscular but not as big as some of the goons that he once had faced when he had been but a teen but at least there was one thing that he still had on his side. He was still a master of the mystical monkey power and calls upon that power to help him right then to help protect his friend.

The man decides to charge Ron so he could get through to her, figuring that his size would be an advantage against the smaller guy. However, he was shocked to see that not only did Ron not looked scared by his charge but rather calm.

Ron grabs the guy as he gets close enough and turns the guy's own mass and speed against him as he executes a throw that sends the man into the part of the wall that had already been cracked by his slamming the door into it.

Ron watches as the man slumps to the ground, apparently knocked out by that move. He then turns his back to him as he says to Katherine, "Are you ok? He didn't hurt you did he?"

Unknown to Ron at the time, the man had been merely dazed by the throw and it was Katherine who say him get up to see him move quickly in a threatening way towards Ron!

Katherine found herself speechless as the man slams into him from behind and doesn't stop until Ron is pinned against the wall. She brings her hands up to cover her mouth as she tries to cry out but then something starts to change within her.

Here she was, watching as the first guy to really stand up for her and even go out of his way to protect her from serious, bodily harm and all she was doing was watching! Neither one saw it, but her face started to change from the expression she normally wore when she was her normal, shy and somewhat scared woman into something else.

To say that she was surprised by her own change, she also knew that she couldn't just stand by and allow Ron to be hurt! For too long, she had held herself in check and allowed others to help her, to even control her. Until the moment she saw Ron, a guy she barely knew risking his life to help protect hers for nothing other than because it was the right thing to do! She knew that her life was about to be forever changed.

Katherine starts a few steps towards the guy who had obviously thought she would stay scared and pose no threat to him. She would prove him wrong! She yells as she jumps into the air and kicks him off of Ron!

Ron was very surprised and as he watched her so savagely attack the bigger guy, he got a very strange sense of Deja Vu as if he had already been through this before until he remembers just where he'd seen this exact scene before! He remembers how his friend Kim had attacked the bully who had started to pick on him because he had stood up for Kim when it was her turn at the ball.

Ron was surprised at how agile she was and the strength that she showed rivaled that of Kim's when she was going up a henchman. He does a footsweep to knock the guy off his feet just before a punch could hurt Katherine.

The man gets up and growls in frustration and anger as he couldn't understand how two such weak people were giving him such problems! He looks at the man who seemed to be the easier target and he thinks, "Get rid of the guy and her bravery will disappear! Then she will be mine for the taking!"

The man squares his shoulders and rushes at the guy, intending to slam him out the window with the hopeful intent on making him fall to his doom! He yells, "I'm going to make you pay for that!" as he runs at Ron.

Ron could see the attack coming a mile away and simply steps to the side, making him rush by with a surprised expression on the man's face.

Katherine slaps the man as manages to stop at the window, causing him to become off balanced. He rests his hand upon the window, which due to great age and exposure to the elements crumbles just enough to cause him to fall through halfway!

She grabs him by the pants, which stops him for a moment, leaving the man dangling through the window with Ron on the way.

The man could feel himself slipping forward as hard as she might try to hold on but what shocked him was an old woman just hovering in a weird ball of some kind and not doing a thing to help! He couldn't see her face clearly as it was under a hood with the only thing he could see were her lips. His eyes widen as she says, "Have a nice fall..."

The man screams for her to save him as he falls through the window just as Ron was about to grab his foot and leaving her still holding on tight to his pants which, now hung in her hands uselessly.

After a few moments there is absolute silence with Katherine and Ron in shock over what just had happened before them.

Katherine was the first to talk after a minute and says, "I tried... I tried... but he just slipped out." She holds up the pants to emphasize how she had tried.

Ron wraps his arms around her in a supportive way and says, "I know...and if he'd just hung on another minute I could have grabbed him and together we would have pulled him to safety." He sighs and wishes that Kim was there to say something since she was usually very good at this kind of thing whenever people were down.

Katherine looks at Ron and says, "I know... we both tried to save him, even if it was his own evil that lead to his downfall." She winces a little as she thinks about how that must have sounded to Ron, as it sounded a bit cold to even her own ears after she said it.

Ron nods and says, "I think Kim's dad, Mr. Possible would be telling us that he's in a better place now..."

Katherine thinks, "Huh? Possible? Could it be...?" She says, "Possible? You mean like in that motto you mentioned earlier?"

Ron looks distant as he thinks about the family and says, "Yes, in Middleton there was this family called the Possibles and that was their motto. They were amazing people and they always managed to prove that just about anything really was possible in that family. I believed in it right up until she was..." He stops as it was still so painful but the crying had made it easier to deal with and he felt that after all this time he could finally talk about it.

Katherine smiles a little as she listens to Ron and thinks, "I wonder if I could find such people like that in Middleton? Would he be there?" She looks at him, thinking about all that she had discovered about the guy who had passed out outside her door to her room. The ways he made her smile and laugh made her rediscover hope, happiness and even opened her heart to love. She had also discovered strength and courage within herself with a desire to make things better for herself.

Ron steps back and says, "We should go and recover the body, give him a proper funeral."

Katherine thinks, "He is so nice, sweet, funny, smart and noble... I wonder if his Kim knew he was a keeper?" She nods and says, "Yes, you're right Ron. Even evil people deserve that."

Katherine turns and says, "Please follow me Ron..." She is surprised and is glad that she was facing away from him when he says, "Sure thing, Kim." She noted that he didn't even seem aware of his blunder since he had not even tried to correct himself. She thinks, "Kim...I like that name... Kim Possible has a nice ring to it."

Katherine notices as Ron walks up to her side, not faster or slower as if they were equals and she looks at him from her side as she says, "Thank you Ron...for helping me back there when he attacked me."

Ron turns his head to look at her and smiles, "Hey, as my friend used to say, "No big" It was the right thing to do and I couldn't very well let him hurt my new friend, could I?"

Katherine looks away as she blushes for a few moments before she says, "I'm glad to be your friend, I think you are quite the noble man to rush to my aid."

Katherine smiles as she looks back to see Ron look a bit flattered and somewhat embarrassed by her compliment.

Together they reach the end of the corridor and their eyes still looking at each other. Katherine is about to grab the handle on the door when it opens by itself to reveal a woman in a hood and cape that reached down to her feet. The cape was wrapped around her hiding so much of her features but she was definitely female as her lips could be seen in the as well as the old but smaller hand that was now sticking out of the robes.

Ron's eyes go wide as he recognizes her from many Halloweens ago. It would be hard to forget someone who stabbed you in another castle and then left you to die in front of your best friend.

Ron steps back with his eyes still wide and shouts, "It's you! The old lady who stabbed me before!"

The cloaked woman smiles as she says, "Nice to see I'm remembered Ronald..." She points a somewhat wrinkly finger at him and says, "I'm here for you."

Katherine had no idea what was going on or who she was but the very fact that she caused such fear in Ron from a stabbing in the past told her that this was not a woman that she would like or treat kindly. She did not want to lose her new friend and just like with the man, she would fight to keep him safe.

The hood turns towards Katherine and says, "So it has begun..." The old hooded woman opens her hand and something green shoots from her hand causing the green, glowing goo to engulf her completely.

Ron cries out, "KP!" before he realizes his mistake and then says, "I mean Katherine! I'm coming!" He starts to move to her aid but it stopped by the old woman when she sends a blast between the two of them, causing the wall to explode.

Katherine struggles with all her might in an attempt to escape but the goo was so elastic that she couldn't make any headway. She shouts, "Run Ron! Forget about me! Save yourself!"

All Ron could do was see her lips move as the goo prevented sound from escaping even though Ron could guess what she was telling him.

The hooded woman grins as she says, "Time for you to go back to your home in America, Ronald."

Ron says, "Let her go!" before the hooded woman steps back as the scene behind her starts to change into blackness and powerful wind starts to course through the corridor while somehow leaving her untouched. He could feel himself slipping towards the door and turns to Katherine as he shouts, "I'll never forget you Katherine!"

The hooded woman had grown impatient with his resisting and two dark red hands of light and vapor reach out from behind her to grab at him by the shoulders to yank him off his feet and into the blackness. The hand comes back out quickly to grab the door and slam it close while at the same time the green goo vanishes around her like a bubble was popped, dropping her to the floor where she falls to her knees.

Katherine cries out, "RON! NOOO!!" She leaps to her feet and yanks the door hard to see nothing... it was totally empty. She runs forward, hoping that they hadn't gotten to far but no matter how fast she ran or how hard she looked, there was no sign of either the old woman or her new friend.

She had just grown to like the guy and then he vanished, apparently going back his home in Middleton. All she had were the memories to remember him by now and she owed him so much. He had brought her out of her shell and she had no doubt that if he'd stayed, she could have fallen for him.

Katherine returns to her bedroom and collapses onto her bed, crying hard into her pillow before the scent finally caught her attention. It was his scent, one that would linger in her mind for the rest of her life. She knew she couldn't let things simply be. She would go to America and try to find her friend.

AN: Well everyone I hope that you enjoyed this much longer chapter! What did you guys think of the name? A surprise? You'll learn the reason behind it in the final chapter! Can you stand the suspense? Any thoughts as to why she reacted to the Kim name? What did you all think of the nameless jerk? Given his role in the story I didn't think naming him was worth the effort, aside from the issue of coming up with a name that would match his personality but if any of you want to give it a go, then please do before chapter H goes up and I just might use it! I'll of course give credits to the one that comes up with a name at the top of the page. What did you all think of the hooded woman who just watched a guy plummet to his doom? And stole Ron away from her? Any thoughts about what Katherine would find in America? Anyone want to guess what really happened to Ron? As usual, all thoughts, ideas, suggestions, magical time pieces, wizard staffs, witches familiars and more will be welcomed.

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