A/N: Not much to say other than I'm sorry for taking so long with the update. So sit back, or hunch over, and enjoy the chapter!
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Anne Possible sipped her coffee slowly and sighed. It was her first day off in over three weeks. She was hoping that it would be uneventful, not because she didn't like working, but because she was literally exhausted.
Taking another sip of her coffee, she let herself lean back in her chair, closing her eyes slowly.
"Mom?"
Anne sat up in surprise, tipping her coffee onto herself. "Son of a –"
Kim stepped into the kitchen, a nervous look on her face, "Mom?"
Anne was patting the coffee out of her top with a handful of paper towels, hoping she didn't burn herself. "Just a second Kimmie…I-" Anne paused, a long silence filling the space that her voice left. "Kimmie…?" She looked up at her daughter, still holding the paper towels in one hand and the other hand holding her top away from her stomach.
"Mom….I….I want…." Tears were starting to well up in her eyes.
Neither woman remembered moving, but both held each other close, tears rolling down their cheeks as they held each other close.
"It's okay Kimmie….It's okay…"
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Shego was sitting down at the kitchen table, head resting in her arms, staring at a cup of coffee, a thin trickle of steam rising from the mug. She blew a puff of air at strand of hair that had shifted into her face, and sighed. She hadn't been able to sleep for three days, and the circles under her eyes made her look like she was auditioning for a low budget horror movie.
Isabel was humming to herself, making pancakes a few feet from where Shego was sitting. Despite her outward bubbly appearance, she was worried about her daughter. It wasn't that Shego was in love with a woman, but that she was pining over the woman. Shego had seemed to slip to the point that she wasn't sleeping, barely eating, and had seemed to lose interest in doing anything.
"Honey, are you going to drink that cup of coffee, or are you going to let it go cold and film over like the last two cups that you were staring at?"
Shego didn't say anything, and just snorted.
Isabel sighed as she slid a few pancakes onto a plate and set them down in front of Shego, then a few onto her plate which she sat across from Shego's, before sliding into the seat. "Alright, mope if you want to, but it's not going to get her to change her mind."
Shego didn't say anything for a moment, "I know…I'm not even sure why it hurts. I barely know her. Gah! I'm just a big idiot." She sat up and looked at the coffee again. "Maybe I'm just nuts. I just need to turn myself into a nut bit, wear a straightjacket, and live in a padded room."
Isabel calmly set down her fork, "Cassandra, if everyone in the world locked themselves away just because they were love-sick, Earth would be a quite and lonely place."
"I…I guess you're right…" Shego looked down at the breakfast in front of her, and gingerly picked up a fork, and started to eat.
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Kim sat on the couch next to her mother, trying to collect her thoughts. She had so much she wanted to say, but she couldn't figure out how to say it. She bit on her lip, staring at the floor, trying to get herself to say something.
Anne sat on the recliner next to the couch, feet pulled up next to her, staring at the floor, not sure what to say to her daughter. It'd been almost six years since they'd last seen each other, and she wasn't sure what to say. Slowly she started chewing her lip, her mind drifting back to the argument they'd had before Kim left.
"I don't care! I love her!" Kim's eyes seemed to flash with anger as she stood up, staring into her mother's eyes.
"It's unnatural! Women aren't meant to be together."
Kim stared at her mother, her mouth hanging open. She didn't say anything as her eyes started to tear up. She turned and started running, only slowing long enough to open the front door and slip out into the night
"Are you and…Are you and Bonnie still together?"
Kim sighed as she looked at her feet, "No…she dumped me…said I wasn't serious enough."
"Oh…" Anne tried to put her opinions aside, but it kept nudging at the back of her mind. "Why can't you be normal?"
"Normal?" Kim's head snapped upwards, her eyes locking with her mother's. "Normal? I didn't choose anything but to be myself. And for someone who went to college you seem to be forgetting history. It wasn't until the Middle Ages that homosexuality became taboo. The Catholic Church pushed its agenda, and everybody ate it up back then. Genocide called the Crusades, witch hunts, even the Spanish Inquisition or did you pay attention in history class?" Kim's glare was cold, and disapproving.
Anne looked away, stinging from her daughter's words.
Kim slid off the couch, "I came back, hoping that maybe we could set the past aside, maybe you'd even give me some advice. But all you want to do is rub my face in how I failed you. How I'm not the daughter you wanted. Well guess what Mom. I never chose to be attracted to women. Hell I even tried to date boys to make you happy." The teenager turned towards her mother, "But I'm not that little girl. I'm a grown woman now. You can learn to accept it, because if you can't when I leave I'm not coming back."
Kim walked off leaving her mother feeling both confused and rather ashamed.
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Betty stared at the ceiling, her body spread out on her bed. Something felt different. She wasn't sick, she just felt…different.
She heard the click of the front door, her thoughts scattered for a moment. It was probably Shego leaving.
A slight pain nipped at her chest as she thought about her pale roommate.
That's what was different. Betty frowned as she grabbed her eye patch before sliding out of bed. She slipped it back on, covering the pale grey orb that lay beneath. Slowly she padded out of her room, not surprised to see Isabel straightening up the kitchen. She seemed to spend most of her visit cleaning or straightening parts of the apartment. It was the older woman's way of coping with her daughter it seemed.
"Shego leave?"
Isabel put down the plate she was washing and turned slightly, looking at Betty. "She went out looking for that girl she's been fawning over."
"Oh…"
Isabel put the sponge down, sighing, "Something's wrong isn't it?"
"To be honest…I don't know…"
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Her breath pounded in her ears with each step, her heartbeat pounding in her ears. She couldn't explain why she was running; she didn't even know where to go. All she knew was that she had to find the Kim.
She had to make things right again.
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A/N: So Mirror Mirror is finally back on track again. Two chapters left!