Ron, Monique and Wade all looked up when they heard the phone clatter against the wall.
"Kim?" Ron asked, she was staring at it like it was a snake.
"Kim," Wade said becoming worried. Kim looked up at them, her eyes wide.
"My... my..." she started and jumped when the phone started ringing again. Kim stared at the phone, not moving to pick it up. Ron stared at her and walked down the hall and picked up the phone.
"Hello?" he said. He turned to Kim and held out the phone. "It's your grandma," he said quietly. Kim moved towards him slowly, her hand outstretched and shaking.
"Hello?" she said into the phone, trying to keep her voice from shaking.
"Kim, are you all right?" her grandma asked.
"I'm ok grandma," she said looking at Ron.
"Ok, well I'm just calling to check up on you, who was that who answered your phone?"
"That was my friend Ron."
"Ok, well you have fun and I'll call next week," her grandma said.
"Grandma..." she said.
"Yes dear?" her grandma asked and Kim hesitated.
"Talk to you next week then."
"Ok dear, I love you."
"Love you too," Kim said and hung up the phone.
"Kim?" Ron asked again and Kim looked up at him with frightened eyes.
"It sounded like my dad," she whispered and Ron stared at her in shock.
"But that's not possible right?" he asked and Kim shrugged.
"I saw them die," she said. "They were in that building, I saw it explode, there is no way they could have gotten out in time," she started mumbling to herself.
"Kim!" Ron said, grabbing her shoulders and Kim stared at him, startled.
"What if they're alive, I didn't know Ron, what if they were hurt and I just left them there," she said, breathing hard.
"Kim, stop!" he said, pulling her into a hug but she pulled away
"No, I have to find out," she said, grabbing the phone and hitting the on button but just sat there. "I wouldn't even know where to start," she said quietly and turned off the phone. Ron looked up at the other two and they nodded and headed for the door.
"Kim, here let's sit down," he said steering her the couch and pushed her down and sat next to her, grabbing a drink and opening it and handing it to her.
"I was gone on a mission, Monkey Fist had stolen something, I don't remember what anymore and when I got home, the house was a wreck and no one was there."
"Kim," Ron said, trying to interupt but Kim ignored him and went on.
"There was a note from Drakken, he said that he had them and unless I stole some big destruction ray for him, he would kill them. I don't know why I believed him, but I did, I'd never stolen anything in my life and now I had stolen something that could kill millions and handed it over to a madman. His sidekick, Shego was there to pick it up and she told me where I could find them. When I reached the warehouse I was ten feet from it when it exploded, I woke up in the hospital a week later, they had found four bodies in the rubble, never identified. We had a funeral and that was that, I moved on, that was two years ago," she finished quietly. Ron put his arm around her shoulders and she leaned against him as the tears started to fall.
"They never identified the bodies, is it possible?" he asked. Kim sniffled and sat up, wiping at her eyes.
"I don't know..." she said. "I don't want to start hoping and be let down again. I searched for them, hoping they were wrong, not being able to identify them, I searched and never found anything. What if they're out there Ron?" she asked, looking him in the eye.
"Then we'll find them," he said hugging her again and she sighed. "Come on, let's get you to bed," he said standing and pulling her to her feet and down the hallway. He waited for her to get dressed in the bathroom and pulled the covers back and she crawled in. He pulled the covers back and turned to go but she grabbed his hand.
"Are you leaving?" she asked.
"No, I was going to sleep on the couch."
"Will you stay here tonight, I just don't want to feel alone," she said in response to his questioning look. Ron looked at the bed and then the door and sighed and climbed into the bed next to her.
"Do you know how many people died because I gave Drakken that weapon?"
"Shh," Ron said queitly and wrapped his arm around her as the tears started falling again.
A/N: Pretty angsty, but theres an explenation :). Hope that works for you, if not let me know, I'll go into it more, and nothing happened between the two, it's just sappiness :).