This idea has been rolling around my head for a while. I hope you all enjoy it as i write it. Your responses are appreciated.

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Small Surprises, Big Consequences

Chapter 2: Request

In all of Kim's sixteen years of life, she had never in her wildest dreams expected to bear witness what she was right at that moment. All of a sudden all those nagging suspicions and strange feeling were beginning to make all too much sense to the redhead. Agni looked and acted almost exactly like Shego! No wonder she couldn't place the similarities; as far as the redhead was concerned, it was impossible. Shego a mother? Never! The thought that her rival had a family was strange enough when Kim first met her brothers. This however was in it's own playing field altogether. In the genius redhead's mind things simply were not adding up.

Agni had said she was twelve years old, the same as the Tweebs and Kim had believed her. But that couldn't be right, could it? How old was Shego if it were true? In all of Kim's past searches in the dark haired thief's life she was never even able to get her real name let alone her age. Everything about the super-powered woman was shrouded in mystery. As near as Wade could tell during his searches, she must have stolen or deleted almost all government files on herself with meticulous detail. All that Kim had managed to find out about the older woman were things during her missions such as that she had four siblings, used to be a superhero, and came from Go city. And now to add to that vast field of information, Kim was hearing straight from the little sable-haired girl beside her that Shego was her mother!

Women like Shego don't have children!

Kim was cut from her inner reverie when she felt Agni push past her and run up to Shego throwing her arms around the stunned pale older woman's waist. Shego for her part was still looking down at the girl in shock, having forgotten that Kim was even in the hallway with them. A deep part of Kim's brain kept trying to tell her that now would be a good time to save the people of Nevada but the rest of her brain was deaf to it's suggestions. All she was concerned with was why Agni came to her for help in the first place.

Shego seemed to regain her bearings while looking down at the young girl currently hugging her arms around her. Her expression seemed troubled, but soon became resolute as if she had come to a decision. Bringing her right arm up she rolled her black glove baring her wrist and revealing a small watch-communicator. She pressed the call button and Drakken's scratchy voice came through clearly.

"Shego? What is it? Did you stop Kim Possible?" there was a pause. "My new sub-zero base is going to self destruct isn't it?" To Kim ears Drakken sounded somewhat forlorn.

"Uh, Doc… listen, something's come up and I gotta take off." Shego said in a somewhat distracted voice.

"What? But Shego, you're on the clock! Were in the middle of a big operation!"

Shego growled into the communicator eliciting a squeak of fear from the man. "Okay, listen up Dr. D! I'm taking a personal day, got it? So shut up and if you want to make a big thing out of this then cancel my contract!" Her tone brooked absolutely no argument.

"But Shego I-"

Shego hissed and cut the communication before turning her attention back down to the small person wrapped around her midsection. After a moment of thought the thief looked down at Agni and placed her hand cautiously on the girl's shoulder as though she wasn't sure if she were allowed to touch the girl. It was the first time Kim saw the green woman look so vulnerable. The redhead was beginning to feel self-conscious at seeing all of this, like a voyeur. However, Shego didn't seem to mind, or even notice Kim's presence. Her attention was clearly on more important things.

The green woman's voice cracked when she went to finally say something to the emerald-eyed girl, so she stopped and cleared her throat first.

"H-hey kid. You uh… what are you doing here?" Shego managed to ask and then winced. It clearly didn't come out the way she intended. Seeing Shego look so tongue tied and nervous was vexing the redhead who was so used to her proud and arrogant declarations. Agni just looked up at the woman she identified as her mother and smiled brightly.

"I wanted to see you. So I went and did it. Simple right?" The young girl acted like she didn't notice the heavy atmosphere in the room. Shego furrowed her brow at the response.

"You really shouldn't have just shown up like this. You're grandparents are going to think I kidnapped you, y'know?"

Agni mood suddenly soured and she averted her gaze. "Screw em."

Now Kim decided that it was well past her time to leave the hallway. She and Kim had a very professional relationship that was very quickly becoming deeply personal. She doubted that Shego or Agni would appreciate her presence and Kim was beginning to feel damn uncomfortable. However, when she began to slink around the two for her escape Shego's hand struck out of nowhere and grabbed Kim by her shirt's collar. Kim looked up quickly and grabbed the pale woman by the wrist to try to get her to let go but the black-haired thief's grip was like steel and her gaze bore deep into the younger woman.

"Tell me, Princess… Why oh why were you carting around my daughter on one of your missions? Don't you have that blonde idiot to keep you company?" While Kim struggled to release herself she was surprised when Agni spoke up suddenly on her behalf.

"I didn't give her much choice I guess. I sort of forced her to help me." The young girl said casually. In Kim's opinion it was more that the girl was stating a fact than that she was coming to the redhead's aid.

"You forced Kim Possible to help you?" Shego asked craning one of her eyebrows.

"Yeah, cool huh? You proud of me?" She asked while smiling. Apparently to Agni, her manipulating Kim into marching to the child's tune was something worthy of her mother's praise. Kim couldn't believe her ears when Shego reached forward and rubbed the younger girls head.

"Sure I am. It's hard enough for me to deal with her." Shego smiled but it was a forced expression. After a few seconds past she let go of Kim's shirt and kneeled down so that she was eye level with Agni.

"Lets go get something to eat. It's getting late and I bet you haven't had dinner."

Agni grinned and grabbed her mother by the hand. "Yeah, lets go!"

As the two started walking back the way Kim originally came Shego stopped and without turning around spoke out to the redhead.

"Well, you coming?" Shego asked. Her voice was an unreadable neutral. Kim's eyes widened.

"I'm invited too?" She asked, finding the concept hard to believe. They were archenemies the last time she checked. Hell, just two minutes ago the older woman hadn't hesitated before slammed Kim into a wall.

"Of course, I'm not through with you yet."

"I only did what I always do! It was that little brat that decided to tag along! Besides, I have to save this state, remember? From you?"

"Drakken didn't want you or anyone else to know this but this floating tin can has about three hours left of fuel. You've already won, so c'mon."

"Aww, why does she have to come? I finally found you so we don't need her anymore." Agni whined. Apparently as far as the she was concerned, Kim had already fulfilled any use that she might pose to the young girl. Shego looked like she was about to chastise Agni but visibly checked herself almost as though she didn't think she had a right to discipline her. Instead she just said, "She's coming so deal."

"Damn!"

Kim didn't move. If Shego wanted her to come along she would need a far better reason than that. She told Shego as much.

"Just… do me this favor, kay? You already owe me for dragging Agni into this potentially dangerous situation."

Kim opened her mouth to speak but realized that any excuse she could come up with would sound hollow. She had allowed a child to talk her into taking her along into a large floating fortress that was filled with hair-trigger goons that probably would have felt the same about beating down on a little girl as on the teen hero. Kim was the adult (or at least young adult) so it was her responsibility in the end that Agni went with her at all.

Kim sighed defeated and moved up alongside Shego. "Fine, you win." She groaned when she saw Agni glare at the teen accusingly and if that wasn't enough, she stuck her tongue out at Kim. As far as the cheerleader was concerned, some days it was simply not worth getting out of bed.

(One hour later)

Kim found herself sitting across from Shego and Agni in a small town restaurant they had spotted from the air. Shego had taken Drakken's hover-pod after leaving the sub-zero machine and as far as Kim could tell, they seemed to be heading back in the direction of Middleton. The entire trip had felt unbelievably strained with none of the three occupants willing to break the silence. Kim felt that she had little that she even could say considering how the whole situation she had been pulled in the middle of had left her in the dark. Shego was in her own head thinking god-knows-what and occasionally looking over at the small girl next to her as if to remind herself that Agni was there too.

In contrast to the other two, Agni seemed completely untroubled and content as she sat holding tightly onto Shego's hand and listening to her MP3 player to fill in the awful silence. It had been a welcome change in scenery when they spotted the all-night breakfast place on the way. Kim hadn't realized it at the time but she had not eaten since breakfast. Agni showed up right before lunch the teen would have had lunch.

Once they were seated Agni wasted no time ordering her self a large pile of waffles smothered in just about everything on the table. Kim was about to order something similarly along those lines and take full advantage of the situation, but then Shego looked up sharply at her and said, "You know I'm not paying for you, right?" Considering that Agni's order was out of Kim's current budget she was forced to simply settle on a small plate of scrambled eggs. Shego for her part just sipped a cup of black coffee that Kim was sure was still too hot to drink without scalding her.

I sometimes wish I had green fire powers too…

They ate (or in Shego's case drank) in silence for over ten painful minutes with no one willing to say anything. Kim was getting sick-to-death of the unbearable quiet that she had been wrapped in for over two hours. The cheerleader was used to a lively dinner table with her family talking about their day or eating out with Ron and Rufus at the Bueno Nacho. She wasn't sure how much more of the situation she could take.

You know Kim; you are the resident hero. If anyone's going to save any one it's going to be you, even if it's just you saving yourself from going crazy.

Kim cleared her throat and got the grudging attention of the other two at the booth. She was about to ask, "So, how long has Shego been your Mother," but she quickly stopped herself from saying anything quite that certifiable. Instead she went for an easier approach.

"So, um… how long has it been since you've seen each other?" As far as Kim could tell it had to have been at least a year or Shego wouldn't have acted so surprised. The teen shrank back when she noticed that Shego's gaze was currently trying to eat her soul. Agni on the other hand was busy doing math in her head. After a second the girl swallowed her current bite and looked over at Shego and Kim.

"Eight years, right?"

Now Kim was very glad she wasn't drinking anything or else she would have spat it all over the green woman and signed her death certificate. Eight years! Kim couldn't even fathom keeping out of contact with her family for that long. No wonder Shego seemed so out of sorts when she saw Agni.

Shego leaned forward at the table and rubbed her temples to stave off what was clearly a mother of a headache. "Yeah, eight sounds about right."

Agni grinned proudly, "I remembered because it was your eighteenth birthday, even if I was just four at the time. I've got a pretty good memory, huh?"

Such simple math was processed almost automatically in Kim's head. She had her answer to how old Shego was before she even realized. Wait a second… If Shego is twenty-six and Agni is twelve… Kim's eye nearly bugged out of her head, then Shego was only fourteen when Agni was born!

Shego silenced the words about to exit Kim's mouth with a dangerous look, before adding. "Yeah, pretty good alright…"

If there was one thing Shego did not want right then, it was to bring up that night in front of her archrival. The older woman looked over at Agni and pulled a wet nap from her pocket handing it to the small girl.

"Go to the bathroom and wipe that crap off your face, I'm sick of seeing it." Kim wasn't sure as to what Shego was referring to, but obediently Agni did just that leaving Kim alone with Shego for what seemed like the first time since the girl first showed up on Kim's doorstep. Shego turned to Kim and her expression was stern.

"First you show up out of nowhere with my brothers and now you show up with Agni. What is with you and this unhealthy obsession you have with my family?"

Kim wasn't about to take such an accusation without challenge so she snapped back. "Y'know, maybe if you didn't estrange the lot of them they wouldn't keep coming to me to find you!"

"The situation between my brothers and me and the situation between Agni and me are so totally not the same thing!" She hollered. "Besides, it's none of your business anyway, so butt out!"

"You made it my business when you dragged me in here!"

Shego ceased her argument and looked down at her hands. "Yeah, about that… I need-" She cut her self off as she saw Agni walk back to the table. At first Kim was about to enquire as to what Shego was about to say but the quickly did a double take when she saw that Agni's skin had changed color. Instead of being a pasty off-white, now her skin was a creamy light shade of green. For a moment Kim was at a loss but she soon put two and two together.

So that's what she meant by "wipe that crap off your face". Agni was wearing makeup! Wow, I wonder if she inherited any of Shego's other "traits".

Agni quickly took her seat next to Kim and without giving the redhead a second glance began to resume eating. Shego had used the time the girl was gone to quickly figure out some topic of conversation to have with the young girl.

"Your birthday was about three months ago… Did you receive my package?"

I guess they at least keep in contact, Kim figured.

Agni looked up and nodded, happy that the woman had started making some kind of attempt at conversation. "Yeah, it was great thanks!" She reached up and pulled down the neck of her sweater revealing a massive gold necklace encrusted with emeralds and ornately carved obsidian engravings. Kim recognized it immediately considering that very necklace had disappeared from the British Royal Museum over six months ago. It was a priceless royal family heirloom from the 16th century!

For her part Shego just smiled. "I'm glad you like it, a girl your age needs to start worrying about accessories." Kim leaned forward and as quietly as she could so as not to alert the other diners, she hissed at Shego, "You gave your daughter stolen goods!" Shego just raised an eyebrow at Kim.

"Are you that shocked by the notion?" Quickly, before Kim had a chance to say anything else on the matter she turned back to Agni. "So… How's school?"

The young pale girl glared at her waffles. "Hate it, the teachers and students are complete idiots."

Shego snickered. "Yeah, you'll find that most people are."

Kim decided not to be left in the dust and chimed in. "What school do you go to?"

Agni cast her a glare and in a barely audible mumble she said, "Go Academy School for Gifted Women. So in other words I get my education in Hell itself." Shego clicked her tongue disapprovingly when she heard the name.

Kim's eyes widened. She knew all about that school. It was this rich all-girls academy that was equipped to teach kindergarten through high school for the best and brightest women in the country! They had even scouted Kim when she was younger, but the redhead had turned them down so she could stay in Middleton with her family. She found it hard to believe that the girl in front of her could go to a facility where you were not only required to wear a uniform and sit up straight all the time, but dealing with some of the most challenging curriculum in the nation. The child in front of her was dressed like a hobo and slouched over her food with her elbows on the table.

Kim realized she was staring when the young girl looked up glaring and said, "I told you before to stop looking at me, and that it's creepy!" Kim sighed and averted her gaze.

Shego leaned back in her seat, "While we're on the subject, on this little trip of yours, how many days of school did you miss?"

Agni gulped and looked up at Shego with an expression Kim recognized from the Tweebs whenever their mother was about to scold them. "Well, I've been gone for four days counting today." She then mumbled something inaudible under her breath.

"What was that?" Shego asked sharply.

Agni rolled her eyes and spoke up. "But in total I've missed about twenty days throughout the whole semester." Shego's eye twitched.

Oh yeah. Kim thought. Big family resemblance.

"Well then, that's twenty day's that I paid for your school to drag its ass." She smirked and Agni calmed down some. "I guess I'll just have to take back from them whatever that's worth."

Agni snickered and looked up at Shego. "Don't worry about it. It's not like I'm going to go there anymore." This caught both women's immediate attention.

What does she mean by that? Kim thought. Apparently Shego had the same idea and vocalized the question.

Agni swallowed down another bite of chewed waffle and looked her mother in the eye. "What I mean that I'm going to live with you from now on so it doesn't matter." She paused before adding impishly, " But if you want to we can still raid the place." Kim could practically feel all of Shego's muscles stiffen up at hearing the young girl's naive statement. It apparently didn't escape Agni's notice either and the thief's daughter frowned.

"That's okay, right? I mean… there's no way I'm ever going back to that crappy city or that even crappier school. I want to stay with you." There was an openly pleading look in her eyes that Shego was having trouble dealing with.

"We-we'll talk about it when we get back to my apartment." Shego managed to say in a somewhat distant tone of voice. Regardless the words seemed to pacify the younger girl and she finished the final bite of her meal. Shego and Kim, having ordered much smaller portions than the girl had finished a good deal earlier and simply was waiting for Agni to catch up. All three then stood up to leave the restaurant since Shego had already paid up front, but the pale-green woman placed a hand on Agni's shoulder halting her.

"Listen Agni; wait here for a minute. I gotta go have a word with Kim alone." Her voice was stern and while that normally would have gotten an immediate response from Agni, this time she decided to contest her instructions.

"Why? Why is she even still here? We should just drop her off now and go back to your place!" Shego would have none of that though and she narrowed her eyes at the girl causing Agni to wince and take a step back.

"Just be a good girl for me, got it?"

Agni nodded and grudgingly crossed her arms. "Whatever…" The young girl didn't understand why her Mother had insisted that Kim come along with them. As far as she knew, they hated each other although anyone who looked in on their last meal would have probably thought otherwise. She secretly hoped that her mother was calling the redhead outside so she could beat her up like usual and leave her here in the middle of nowhere. As far as she was concerned, any enemy of Shego was any enemy to her.

What Agni envisioned couldn't have been further from the truth as Shego led Kim outside the restaurant. Kim had a feeling that she was finally going to be told why she had been brought along by her archrival in the first place. They weren't exactly friends after all. Once they were out front, Shego leaned against the establishment's wall and crossed her arms, while Kim stood in front of her waiting.

"Okay, Shego, Spill it."

The green woman sighed and seemed to be internally debating how to word what she wanted to say. After a moment, she seemed to find her voice.

"Okay, listen. I know I'm in no position to ask anything from you, 'specially after the Li'l Diablo thing…" Kim nodded, agreeing with the sentiment. That hadn't been a good night for either of the two women. "But I really need your help me with this. Like, more then anything I could ever ask of you. I'll beg on my knees if I have to."

Now Kim was on her guard. Shego beg? That simply wasn't possible. Of course, just four hours ago, Shego having a daughter was even more impossible so this was really just par for the course. She realized Shego was waiting for a response so she spoke up.

"Go on, I'm listening."

Shego took a deep breath to steel her self and looked at Kim pleadingly. "Please don't tell anyone about Agni." Kim took a step back.

"What? Why?"

The older woman shook her head. "I have devoted a good majority of my time to see to it that there is as little connecting her to me as there possibly can be. When I tell you nobody outside of my family knows that Agni is my daughter I mean nobody. Even her birth certificate was altered." She looked up at Kim. "And now you know and that puts me in a very delicate position. You don't have any reason to do me any favors or keep any secrets for me so-"

"I wont tell anyone." Kim stated cutting the woman off. Shego looked up at her in surprise.

"You wont? Why? You've got no reason to help me." Shego said narrowing her eyes and clearly not buying it. She had expected that she might have to bribe or bargain with the young Possible but it seemed like the girl was offering to help her out with no strings attached.

"You remember that one time during Halloween that I was grounded by my parents and you knew to back off because it was a private family affair?" Kim asked remembering that awful night.

Shego nodded after some thought. "Yeah, what about it?"

"This is just like that. I have no business screwing with your family, especially if it might get an… "Innocent" girl like Agni in trouble." Kim had to bite her tongue to keep from saying what label she would have preferred to use to describe little Agni. Had it not been so dark Kim would have seen Shego's cheeks flush a darker green then usual. The older woman broke eye contact and stared down at her boots.

"Uh… Thanks."

Kim could tell from the strain in Shego's voice that it was just as difficult for the thief to express gratitude as it was for her daughter to apologies. The redhead found that to be strangely endearing. One thing was nagging at her however.

"You're not going to let her live with you are you?" Considering Shego's stance on people knowing about Agni she doubted it. Kim couldn't see Shego being a very stable adult to live with either considering that the green woman enjoyed her status as an international fugitive. In response Shego looked up at Kim sharply.

"Of course I'm not! I'm not an idiot. I'll let her stay the night and then first thing tomorrow I'm driving her back to her Grandparent's place." She suppressed a shudder at the thought. "I can't believe you even asked that. Who do you think I am?"

Kim held up both hands defensively. "Calm down. I just needed to make sure, okay? So not the drama!" Shego sighed and rubbed her temples for the second time that night.

"Okay, get in the pod. I'll go get Agni and then drop you off back at your home."

Kim nodded and went to do as she was asked. She hoped that her parents weren't going to be to mad about her coming in so late since she was mentally to exhausted to deal with that. Above all else she was reprocessing everything that Shego told her that night. The hero was honestly having trouble understanding why the older woman was so adamant about keeping the young girl at arms length with her world. She figured that it had something to do with Shego's career (if you could call it that), but there had to be more to it. The thief never had trouble balancing her fugitive status and her social life before so that meant that there had to be some other factor involved. Kim didn't want to enquire since as she said earlier; it wasn't her business, and she knew Shego would say the same, but it irked her nonetheless.

(One hour later, outside the Possible residence)

The ride home had been in similar silence as it was before the pit stop however this time Agni had turned on the radio and over the news the three heard how the giant ice dome over Nevada was currently evaporating away and that the fugitive, a one Dr. Drew Lipsky was currently in military custody. Agni laughed out loud at that, while Kim and Shego remained silent as they arrived at Kim's house. Every now and then Kim got the feeling that Agni was glaring at her from the backseat but she learned to ignore it after awhile.

When they finally arrived at Kim's house the redhead hopped out of the hover-pod with light grace and before she could turn to say "good bye" or "thanks for the ride" (she was a very polite young woman even in the presence of enemies) Shego turned the pod around and sped off, presumably to her home. As the pod disappeared into the distance, Kim could have sworn that she saw Agni sticking her tongue out at her again. The redhead merely sighed and made her way inside with every intention of ignoring the gesture. She honestly hoped that by morning she would forget all events that had occurred that day so that she could move on with her normal (by her definition) life.

She had no idea how impossible that would turn out to be. Even for a Possible.

Chapter 2: End