Hey guys. I'm really sorry for taking so long to update. I've been busy with packing and getting ready to start classes soon. They start on Thursday! It's really late compared to other schools but it's because we're on the quarter system instead of semester. Ooo, and I've also been playing Combat Arms. If you're a fan of fps like Counter-Strike, you should give it a try, and message me so we can play together. :)
Dodododo. About the chapter, this is a flashback scene so it involves them being cute kids. The end. Haha.
I added quite a bit of this chapter while editing the file on this site, so I'm sorry for any typos or anything like that. If something seems like it's missing text, it probably is because I forgot to go back to it. haha. I'm sorry. Please deal. :)
Chapter 4 - Cookies and Promises
December 24th, 12 years ago.
Kim Possible and Savannah Go were in the Possible household, hiding away in a closet while munching on chocolate chip cookies. Well, in Shego's case, more like scarfing down.
"That was so easy, Princess." Cookie crumbs were flying everywhere as Shego spoke and grinned triumphantly. "Give me something harder to do next time." Shego brushed her hands on her pants before looking over at the redhead and saw that she had a full cookie in one hand and a half eaten cookie in the other. She then grinned evilly as she noticed that Kim was in thought, not really paying attention to Shego.
Kim was broken out of her concentration when she heard a scuffing sound coming across the closet from her partner in crime. Kim drew her hands just in time as Shego pounced on her. But because of the age difference, Shego was relatively taller than Kim and was able to take a bite out her partially eaten cookie. Kim looked on in horror and quickly stuffed the rest of the smaller cookie in her mouth.
"Hey, no fair. These are mine! You already ate yours." Shego crawled off of the smaller girl and swallowed her bite of stolen cookie.
"Too bad. I got them for us so it only makes sense that I get some of your cookies, too."
"Hmph." Kim held her remaining cookie closer to her with both hands and turned her face away from Shego with a slight scowl on it.
"Okay, okay. I won't steal any more of your cookie." One of Kim's eyes peeked open and looked at Shego.
"You promise?" Shego giggled at Kim's antics and nodded her head. "Shego! Do you promise?" Shego halted her giggles and gave an exasperated sigh.
"Yea. I promise. I promise!" Kim squealed with joy and threw her arms around the other girl. Shego didn't like to make a lot of promises, but when she did, she always kept them.
Kim slid off of Shego into a sitting position to continue eating her cookie. Shego stretched and then walked over to the closet door, opening it slowly.
"What are you doing?" Kim tilted her head in curiosity as she studied the other girl.
"Shh." Shego stuck her head out of the door and looked to her left and right. Ann was in the kitchen, happily humming a tune while basting a turkey and James was nowhere in sight. The raven-haired girl glanced back at Kim and saw that she was finished with her cookie and waved her over. Kim stuck her head out the door so that Shego's chin was resting atop of Kim's head. Kim looked up and followed Shego's line of vision; she was looking at the Christmas tree sitting in the living room.
"My turn?" Kim hoped Shego wasn't planning to make her do something hard. Kim cringed when she heard Shego's response.
"Mmhm." Both girls stuck their heads back into the closet and Shego closed the door behind them.
"So what's the sitch?" Shego rolled her eyes at Kim's phrase. She always made it seem like they were on a secret mission each time she had a dare for her.
"I dare you to climb the Christmas tree…" Kim brightened up greatly, 'That shouldn't be too hard. Climbing is fun!' Shego smirked when she saw Kim's happy expression. "I dare you to climb the tree and replace the star with your Cuddle Buddy." Kim gasped in horror.
"Not Pandaroo!"
"Are you chicken?"
"No! I- It's just Pandaroo. What did he ever do to you?"
"Nothing. Are you gonna do it or not?" Shego put her hands on her hips and gave Kim a questioning look.
"Yea, yea." Shego opened the door for Kim who pouted the whole way upstairs to her room before coming back down with her beloved Pandaroo.
Kim gave Shego a dejected look before walking over to the Christmas tree. Kim looked up at the 10 foot tree and was kind of scared. She's climbed a lot taller trees before, but this one had a bunch of stuff on it. She didn't want to get in trouble with her parents for ruining the tree. 'There has to be a different way up this..' The five year old looked around at her surroundings and smiled.
Shego saw Kim smile and instantly frowned. 'What is she planning?' She watched as the redhead put Pandaroo on the couch before climbing on to it herself. Kim stepped onto the arm rest before grabbing Pandaroo and making it to on the top of the sofa. Kim steadied herself with Pandaroo clutched tightly to her side and her body tensed slightly, as if getting ready to pounce.
'I can do this. I'm not a chicken. Stupid Shego. Hmph.' Kim glanced at the closet door and smirked at Shego before jumping off of the couch and hanging on to the Christmas tree. It wavered slightly but Kim was too excited to notice. 'I made it! Only a little more and then I can reach the star.' Kim slowly and carefully made her way up the tree with Pandaroo tucked under her arm. She stretched out her hand reaching for the star. 'So close…'
At that moment, Ann decided she needed to check on the two girls. 'They're awfully quiet…That means they can be up to no good.' Ann smiled despite her thought, the girls were just too adorable.
"Kim? Shego? Girls?" Kim and Shego froze when she heard her Ann's voice. They both let out a breath they didn't know they were holding when Ann walked upstairs. 'Oh no! Gotta hurry.'
Kim grabbed the star off the top and quickly tossed it on to the couch. She then took Pandaroo out with her free hand and placed it where the star was. 'I did it! Yay!' Before Kim could turn around and stick her tongue out at Shego, the front door burst open scaring her.
"Girls! I'm homeeee!" James walked happily through the door and noticed Kim hanging on to the tree. "KIM! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Hearing her father's voice surprised her and she let go of the tree as if it were on fire.
"Ahhh!!"
"Kimmie!" Shego bolted out of the closet running past Ann, who was coming back downstairs, and under Kim as she fell off of the tree. "I've got you!" Kim landed roughly into/onto Shego's arms and they both ended up on their behinds. The redhead began crying when she noticed she had a cut on her arm and Ann and James rushed towards their daughter, Ann beat him to it and picked Kim up off of Shego. The other girl had a bruise as well but was more concerned about her partner.
"I didn't mean for that to happen." James' expression softened and he picked up the girl into his arms.
"I know, Sav. Just make sure you guys are more careful with your dares next time, okay?" Shego blushed in embarrassment and nodded. The pair stayed in place and watched the redheads together. Ann placed Kim onto the table and dashed off to the bathroom. Kim sniffled as her mom came back with first aid kit in hand.
"Sweetie, this'll only hurt for a second, okay?" Kim nodded and braced herself for the burning feeling. Shego buried her face into James' shoulder when she heard Kim yelp in pain from the hydrogen peroxide being applied to her cut.
Once Kim had a bandage on her arm that was sealed with a kiss, Ann helped Kim off of the table. Kim glanced up at the evil tree and her eyes widened in horror.
"P-P-Panda-roo!" She pointed to where the star and her Cuddle Buddy once sat and now was completely empty. When Kim had hit the tree on her way down, she had knocked Pandaroo off of his seat. Kim scanned the base of the tree and as her eyes landed at the fireplace. Laying on its side was Pandaroo, engulfed in flames. His cotton exterior was blackening and shrinking by the second while his eyes were smoking. The girl burst into tears as she watched her favorite stuffed animal exist no longer.
Shego saw what made Kim cry and started crying herself. 'It's all my fault! If I didn't dare her to do it in the first place, this never would've happened.'
"Come on, Savannah, let's go call your parents while Kimmie's mom puts her to bed." Shego nodded as she watched Ann carry a sniffling Kim upstairs.
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When Annabelle Go came to pick up her only daughter from her friend's house, she did not expect to see her so depressed looking. She could understand if her daughter was sad, Savannah usually was when she had to leave her friend, but not depressed. She also did not expect to see her daughter being carried in the arms of another adult.
"What happened?" Ann transfered Shego into Annabelle's arms who then put her on the floor.
"There was sort of an accident today." The girl lowered her head in shame and tried to make herself appear smaller.
"Savannah, go say goodbye to Kim and then we'll go home." Shego froze in place and Annabelle gave Shego a very stern look. "You don't want to be rude, do you?" The girl shook her head and mumbled incoherently before trudging up the stairs to Kim's room.
"Did Savannah do something bad?"
"No. It's just that one of their dares got out of hand and one of Kim's stuffed animals ended up in flames."
"She should know better than that. She always forgets that Kim is a lot younger than she is and can't do the same things."
"I don't think James helps with the problem though. He's always telling Kim that anything is possible for a Possible." The two women laughed and exchanged small talk as they waited for the girl to come back down.
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Shego peeked her head into Kim's room before walking completely inside. The redhead was sprawled out in the middle of bed while clutching a pillow to her chest where Pandaroo usually slept. Shego quietly made her way to the bed not wanting to wake up the girl even though she was going to anyway in a few moments. Shego watched her for a few moments, noticing that her eyes were swollen from all the crying and sighed. She hesitantly shook the redhead.
"Kimmie...I'm leaving now." Kim groaned as she was being awoken. She opened her eyes slowly and saw that Shego was looking down on her.
"Shego?"
"Yea, I'm going home now..." Kim got up into a sitting position and looked at Shego standing to the side of her bed looking at her hands.
"Oh. Okay." The two friends looked awkwardly at each other. Shego scuffed her shoe on the carpet before glancing up at her companion.
"Kimmie?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm really sorry." Kim hugged the pillow tighter to her and nodded into the pillow. "I promise to make it up to you, okay?" Kim brightened at the offer of a promise.
"Okay!" Shego smiled because Kim was no longer sad, she made her happy! She then heard her mom's voice from downstairs.
"SAVANNAH!"
"I have to go now. I'll see you when we go back to school." Kim nodded and then got up to hug the other girl.
"Merry early Christmas!"
"You too!" Shego detached herself from the hug and gave a quick wave before heading out the door. Shego came down the stairs a lot happier than she went up and Annabelle noticed. She gave her daughter a look and Shego giggled in return.
"Can we go to the toy store after this?" Annabelle grimaced thinking about shopping on Christmas Eve, especially at this time, but knowing why Shego wanted to go, made it a little more bearable. And she couldn't really deny her little monster anything.
"Yea, but only for an hour!" Shego jumped for joy as Annabelle and Ann said their goodbyes. "Thanks for having her over. I know she can be a handful sometimes."
"She's an angel. And she's always welcome here." Ann ruffled Shego's hair before getting down on her knees to give the young girl a hug. "Have a safe trip and have fun!"
"Thank you and Merry Christmas!" Shego waved to Mrs. Possible before taking hold of her mother's hand and walking out the door.
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The next morning, Kim dashed down her stairs and to the living room. Sitting under the Christmas tree was present that stuck out from all of the others. It was a neatly wrapped box in green wrapping paper and a black ribbon. She practically jumped onto the present and and turned to her parents.
"Can I open it yet?" Her parents smiled at her and nodded. Kim let out a squeal as she ripped through the paper. Tearing off the lid of the box, she pulled out a stuffed pig and a card.
Kimmie, I know it's not Pandaroo, but Mr. Gordo is just as special, and he needs a nice home. Take good care of him and I hope you like it. Merry Christmas.
Kim hugged the pig closer to her and giggled. 'Mr. Gordo. What a silly name.' She gave the pig one more look over and played with his ears. 'Thank you, Shego. I love him. I'll keep him safe forever.'
And she did.
I know that the Mr. Gordo plushes weren't even out in the 90s but they're just so cute. And cuddly. I thought they were an appropriate replacement for Pandaroo.
No, I did not make a mistake. I didn't forget to put up chapter 3. I'm putting up chapter 4 before chapter 3 because I finished it before the other chapter. I'm gonna try to get chapter 3 up in the next day or so. I sort of have half of it down. I know what I want to do, I just don't know how to write it out.
Also, thank you guys so much again for reading and reviewing. Having other people reading and appreciating it is just a wonderful feeling and it makes writing that much better. I hope you guys liked this chapter. The whole dare thing, I got it from a French movie I watched a while ago. The American name for it is Children's Games I think. French movies are trippy, but they're pretty awesome. The daring each other thing will make a reappearance in future chapters.