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Caged Up - Friendly Connection

Must've blacked out, I'm laying down on something, it's soft, not the floor, I think it's a bed. Head's throbbing, body feels disconnected. The hell just happened? Something's moving over me, it's a blur, can't see straight. Feel something on my forehead, it's cold, stings. I hiss in a breath and something brushes my hair back. Lynn, only she'd do that. Only other person in my life who ever brushed back my hair when I was hurt was... no, can't get lost in my thoughts. Forget the past, what's going on now? Things start going into focus, I smell rubbing alcohol and disinfectants. I'm in the infirmary. "What... what happened?"

Lynn puts down whatever she was holding, I can hear it clatter on something metallic, probably a tray. "You lost your balance and took a pretty nasty tumble down the stairs. You're bruised all over and you gashed your head pretty good. I just cleaned it, I'm going to stick a bandage over it, see it that helps. You feeling ok?"

I just feel down the stairs, of course I don't feel fucking ok. "It all started happening when I cut him. I think I was actually overwhelmed with guilt... but I don't understand why."

Usually, Lynn and common sense don't go together very well. Tonight, they did. "Or maybe mixing caffeine with headache medicine fucked up your insides and made you sick."

Well, that makes a hell of a lot more sense than guilt. "Do you... still have the aspirin bottle? Let me look at it." She hands it over and I look at the label. Fat lot of good that does me, this thing looks like someone made it in their basement. The label has no company name, no quality control number, and the badly printed date on the label must mean this stuff was made over ten years ago. Thanks Lynn, you got me medicine that's just as good as poison. Oh well, not her fault, must be this prison's way of getting back at me. "Fuck... I think if I took this stuff without the coffee I'd be fucked up enough... I can't imagine what it's going to do to my insides."

She takes the bottle from my hand and chucks it into the trash can. "So you told them to get Possible."

"Overheard us, did ya?"

"I was five steps behind you, kinda hard to miss. What were you planning on doing when she did get here anyway?"

I chuckle. "I figured getting princess out of bed past her curfew would buy Electronique enough time to make her plan. Now that I think about it, I think she's about 18 now... fuck Lynn, I'm drugged, maybe I wasn't thinking straight. Hell... I don't think I've been thinking straight all night..."

Lynn just hands me a cup of water. "Regrets?"

I smile a little and take a sip. It's cool, comforting, helps distract me from how shitty I feels. "Not really... just a little disappointed in myself, that's all. Why are you still hanging around me anyway? Being laid out on a bed isn't very exciting."

I expected her to smirk, I expected her to grin, she looked worried, concerned. "Now... it wasn't the type of excitement I wanted... but seeing you take that tumble made my heart race faster than it ever did... I really shook me up inside. Shego... fuck, I know you think I'm crazy already but I was scared I was going to lose you. You're my only friend in the world, even if never does go beyond that, I didn't want to lose you. I think this is the closest I've ever been... hell, I think I what I feel is it. Shego, I love you... doesn't make any sense... but I love you."

I just lay there for a moment. "You're right... it doesn't make sense... but neither does anything else tonight. Look... try to keep that under your hat tonight... let's just concentrate on getting out here." She looks away for a second. I guess I hurt her feelings but it's best she heard the truth. I don't love her, I think of her as a friend but... shit, maybe I'm just too fucked up to love anyone but myself. Hell, I can't think of a single person I ever loved... except... no, fuck it, don't hide inside your head Shego! Don't dig up the past... you'll only regret it. "...Lynn... I'm sorry... I didn't mean..."

Her voice is cracked, she's crying. "Fuck you... you meant it... you meant it. I know I'm stupid for doing it, I'm stupid for actually falling for you and even dumber for telling you. But I guess I was just asking for you to hurt me like this, wasn't I? I was just asking to be hurt for thinking I can find love in a prison with the first person I've ever met in my life that didn't treat me like shit because I was underneath them or pretend they were my friend just because they think they could get something from me, like money or connections. Yeah, that's it, I'm a real fucking retard for even trying at all!"

Great, she's being a drama queen now. But I do feel bad for doing this to her. I try to pull myself out of bed, bad move, my head starts spinning the second my feet touch the floor. I lose balance and have to lean against the bed for support. Fucking bargain meds. When I turn my attention back to Lynn, she's looking at me with bloodshot eyes and tears down her face. I feel horrible, in more ways than one. I thought she was looking at me just so I'd have to look her in the eye, to see how much I hurt her but it was obvious she was only concerned about me at that moment. Fuck... I don't deserve someone being nice to me... not tonight... not after the shit I've done. "Lynn... we have to get out of here... I need you to help me get out of here... I can't do it without you..."

"What about the other prisoners? What about Electronique?"

Simple answer to that, honest too. "Fuck the other prisoners. Electronique... she might've made a good partner... but then I remembered how much of a total bitch she is... I'd rather escape with just you."

"You can't be serious. How do we escape without every inmate trying to kill us for leaving them to rot? Hell, how do we escape at all?"

I blink, try to concentrate, damn my head is throbbing. "Sewers... find a way into the sewers... or a maintenance shaft or... something. Got to be a way out from there..."

I can't get myself straighten out on my own but I feel her hands, she's lifting my upright, bracing me against her shoulder. "I think I know where to look for something like that. But what keeps you from kicking me to the curb once we get out of here?"

What I say next, I don't know, maybe it's my body breaking down. Hell, maybe she's breaking me down. "Because once we get out of here, I'm going to forget my sexual preference for one night and pay you back for your kindness."

She laughs and hooks my arm around the back of her neck. "Yeah right, like I'm going to buy that."

"Don't believe me?"

"Not really, no."

"Then kiss me."

Wait, what did I just say? "What did you just say?"

Oh hell, what do I have to lose. "Kiss me. Better do it now... I think I might boot up lunch soon the way I'm feeling." She mulls it over for about half a second and then she slowly presses her lips to mine. I should feel cheap for doing this but it doesn't feel half bad, I'll have to worry about that later. I can feel her pressing her luck by trying to slip me the tongue. Oh, what the hell, I open up and let her explore. I can feel her moan echo in my mouth while her tongue wrestles around with mine. Can't remember the last time I frenched a guy, defiantly the first time I frenched a girl. After a while, she pulls back, I can see a thin chain of spit from my lips to hers. "So... what do you say?"

She cracks a smirk, now that looks like the Lynn I know. "Mmm freeeaky."

Fuck, I laugh a little from that. "Was wondering when you were going to say that line of yours."

She laughs and I laugh but then I coughed a little. She propped me up and held me tight. "Don't worry Shego, we'll get out of here. All we need to do is avoid the other prisoners, ditch Electronique before she realizes it, and not get arrested by the armies of cops waiting for us on the outside. Piece of cake."

She's so warm... her body... while mine feels like a sludge pit in winter. I close my eyes but something sends an even deeper chill down my spine. That voice... her voice. "Well, well, it would seem you two have become very close, yes? Not to mention... quite treasonous." I open my eyes at look to the door but I already knew who it was. Electronique and she's building up a nasty looking charge in her hands. "Now, perhaps you will give me a good reason not to kill you both where you stand!"