Man, this one took ages to write properly, and I'm still not totally happy with it. Right, Kim Possible and all related characters are the property of the Disney corporation, not my own, the story and any original characters are mine however. Feel free to use any of my original plotlines or characters in your own stories, but please contact me about it first, just so I can check out the story really.
This is supposed to be less like another act to the 'episode' but more like a two part vignette to just clear up some details and lay out some groundwork for the next few episodes. I'm still trying to feel my way through the best way to set this whole thing out, so it's a little up in the air.
Chapter Six
They got called back before they could track Camille. She had been tagged as low priority, and a team from the Fashion Police had been sent after her instead. With Kim's house still destroyed, and her family staying at the Stoppable's, Kim and Ron decided to stay the night at the GJ headquarters, so the house didn't get too crowded.
It was late at night when they found themselves alone in the mess hall, eating for the first time in what felt like forever. Ron was eating anyway; Kim was playing with her food and wondering how she could talk to her BF about the new weirdness between them. Just as she was about to broach the subject though, he slumped down, and she had to catch him to stop him face-planting into his food.
"What's wrong Ron? Is it Drakken's formula? Should I get a doctor?"
He shook his head, "Just feeling a little tired KP, nothing a good night's sleep can't fix."
She frowned and looked to Rufus, who was prodding Ron's cheek and looking concerned. Her BF didn't normally get this tired, "What's the weirdness Ron, tell me."
"I kinda overdid it with the whole monkey mojo thing today."
"Why didn't you say something?"
"Trying to make your job easier," He sat up properly.
"Huh?"
"I got's the mad skills now, you don't have to get into danger."
"Okay, you need to quit with the protective thing, you've been doing it ever since we started dating."
"But I can help you properly now!"
"You don't need to!" She huffed, "Look, Ron, it's great that you have these powers now, but I'm not incompetent. We can do both together, not you going off alone while I stay at home and cook."
"Wah! KP, so not what I meant!"
"I don't want to be sitting on the sidelines while you do all the work Ron."
"You're not! I just didn't want you to go through any more today!"
She swelled up, but then breathed out, "Okay Ron, just don't do stuff like this again, okay?"
"Okay."
"Come on, we've got bunks over at the medical centre."
***
Shego sat next to Doctor Drakken's bed, holding his hand and watching him with a worried expression on her face. She didn't look round when Dr Director came in, but her shoulders noticeably tightened.
"How's he doing?"
"Now he's got all the plant out of his system, he'll be fine. It's gonna take a few days though."
"Do you think we could talk?"
"What do we have to talk about?"
"I haven't had a chance to thank you for your actions in defeating the Lorwardians."
"Well don't, okay? We don't need that kind of publicity."
"Of course, I'm sorry," Dr Director couldn't hold back a smile. "It's nice to see you're doing so well."
"Yeah, I'm the picture of health."
"Do you have to be like this?"
"You have some other way you want me to be?" Shego spun the chair round, letting go of Drakken's hand and crossing her legs.
"You might not be a confused and scared fourteen year old anymore, but I do wish you'd trust me a little bit."
"You gave up that right when you let my brothers and father start picking and choosing our missions. You left me to them."
"I didn't have a choice."
"You told me people always have choices. What was it that made you do it?"
"I thought you were old enough, I was getting promoted, I thought we could both move on with our lives."
"And how'd that work out?"
"I ended up in charge of Global Justice, and you turned evil after two years."
"So we both got the wrong end of the stick."
"I'm perfectly happy."
"So am I, just not how either of us thought we'd be happy." Shego turned back to Drakken. "Look, what do you want?"
"Nothing much. Don't bother Kim and Ron or you'll be sorry, try and stay away from the world conquering variety of evil, and maybe get back in contact with some old friends."
"Say what?"
"We have the nicest guy on the payroll, works out of Barnett College, doing research into the effects of space radiation on human beings."
Shego spun back around, not even close to nonchalant, "I was told not to contact him, do you really think it would be okay now?"
"You haven't exactly set much stock by the rules in recent years." Betty reminded her wryly.
"God, what would I even say?"
"You could start with hello, see where it goes." Betty was smiling again; it was really like having the fourteen year old back, the hope in her eyes nearly palpable. "And for what it's worth, I always thought you should have been allowed to speak to him."
This time she didn't receive a snippy answer, although the shutters did come down on Shego's expression again. "Thank you for telling me."
"I'll leave the number on the side."
"How's princess and doofus?"
"If you mean Kim and Ron, both are asleep, and more than a little tired after their exertions the last few days, but both are going to be absolutely fine, with a few more days bed rest." Betty stopped at the door, "Why so concerned?"
"I'd hate to think someone else defeated Kimmie instead of me, that's my job."
She didn't have to say anything else, Betty got the real emotions from her voice. Shego might have been a master at fooling other people, but she had never been able to fool Doctor Director.
"I'll check in on you later."
AN:- We have here a callback to my story 'Even Evil Has Standards.' Most of the things I write I assume to be in the same continuity, unless expressly stated otherwise, and as a general rule I stick pretty close to original show continuity as well.
Some other things I would like to mention while I've got your attention:
Chapter Two: A reference to Ron's ongoing microchip bonanza; a reminder that there was damage done after the Lorwardian invasion; a Buffy the Vampire Slayer shout out; Kim's College is Indiana Jones' old teaching post; the entire conversation about Ron holding Kim back. They never got to have this conversation in the show, and I wanted them to have it, because it felt like something Ron would feel he needed to say; Ron says he is going to learn an instrument. My holiday short 'A Stoppable Christmas Ballad' is set about five months after this piece, and ties in with this statement
Chapter Four: Less reference packed; James and Betty knowing each other, this is going to be explored further in my work in progress Hot Shot; Shego's accelerated healing is something I've seen touched upon in other fanfics, and it just seemed to be the best explanation for how she survives some of the things she goes through; Shego and Doctor Director knowing each other, this is mentioned very very briefly in 'Even Evil Has Standards, and I'll probably expore it again sometime; Doctor Dick, this is a very crude pun on Doctor Cox from Scrubs, if you need it explained further, you're too young to understand; Kim's 'purging' this was influenced, oddly enough, by a scene from the Love Hina manga, though the scene that caused the influence bears no resemblance to this one.
Chapter Five: Duff Killigan is indeed humming his own bagpipe theme, I was leaning on the fourth wall a little, and his accent was just funny to overdo, I'll scale it back when he reappears; Dementor, again, very fun to overdo the accent and the lacking of the INDOOR VOICE! 'Vat in ze heavens is zis?' is also an obscure reference to the videogame Sudeki; Del means deliver, another Buffy shout out
Chapter Six: I liked the fashion police, I'll probably use them again; Kim and Ron's behaviour. They're growing up, and Kim has never been very good at knowing Ron can outdo her, equally, ROn has always been a little too eager to stop Kim from doing the things she loves to do, IMHO. I'll explore this more as the series progresses. Shego's backstory. I'm still not clear on how I'm going to handle this, but just coming to like villainy and her brothers being collosal idiots never struck me as an adequate reason for a real life conversion, so I'm adding some other stuff in; also, we have here one last reference to 'EEHS' and this one will be brought up again, as you can tell by the way I might as well have written "FORESHADOWING" around that conversation in red neon.
By the way, If you hated this overly long Author's Note, let me know and I'll stop doing them. Please Read and Review as always, I thrive on them.
