Disclaimer: I do not own Kim Possible or any of the show's characters (unfortunately). This fic is written solely to entertain; I do not earn anything (except reviews).

AN: This story ignores the events of StD, but includes all the episodes of the series.

Once more, my thanks to everyone who left a review! And special thanks for the suggestions and ideas I got! I also have to apologize for yet another delay; I hope you can still remember what the story was about. ;) This chapter proved to be quite a challenge to write, and I guess you'll easily see why. Reviews are, of course, still very welcome!

Enjoy!

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Tuesday morning came, and it was sunny and bright, thereby posing quite a contrast to three young women feeling pretty exhausted even after a night's sleep. Tara had had a hard time falling asleep because she was worried about Ron; Bonnie had stayed awake quite some time to make sure Ron didn't have another nightmare about her; and Kim just felt tired despite the sleep she managed to get. While Bonnie could catch up on her missing sleep, though, Tara and Kim had to face another day at school.

Kim had barely entered Middleton High, when Monique approached her. "Girl! Is it true that Bonnie and Ron are in hospital?"

"Good morning to you, too, Monique," Kim replied sarcastically. While normally, Monique's ability to know almost every rumour could be quite helpful or at least interesting, today it only served to annoy Kim.

Monique noticed that, and she had the grace to blush slightly. "Sorry, Kim; I just couldn't believe it when I heard."

Kim sighed. "Yeah, it was quite some night. Ron got into trouble with a couple of guys, but he'll be fine. I can't tell you anything about Bonnie, though." She was literally saved by the bell then, before Monique could ask any further questions.

After the first period, Tara came to Kim's locker. "Hey Kim! Have you heard any news?"

The teen heroine shook her head. "Hi Tara! Nope, nothing yet, but I haven't talked to Wade yet." She opened her locker only to find Team Possible's tech genius already waiting.

"Hey Kim, good news! The police found Lonnie! She was tied up at the place of one of the guys, but otherwise unharmed. They've taken her to the hospital for a check-up, just to be sure."

Both Kim and Tara breathed a sigh of relief at that, and the redhead smiled. "Bonnie will be glad to hear that."

Wade grinned. "I bet! I guess she'll see her soon, and… oh." He started typing furiously after a sound had come from his system.

"What's the sitch, Wade?" Kim asked automatically. When he blanched and seemed to grow very nervous while still typing, Kim knew something bad had to be up. "Wade?"

"I've just got a hit on the site, Kim… A break-in… at the hospital…"

Kim felt like her stomach was free-falling. "Don't tell me…"

"Yes," he nodded. "It's Drakken and Shego."

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Kim arrived at the hospital in record time, only to find it surrounded by the police. Somehow, Drakken had managed to install a huge projection screen above the entrance, which at the moment showed none other than the evil scientist himself. "And if you don't stay out, I'll have to hurt patients! So take a clue; we'll be gone soon anyway!" With that, the projection ended.

Officer Hobble approached Kim. "Miss Possible! Thank goodness you're here!"

She just nodded. "Don't worry, Officer Hobble; I'll get them. Just make sure that no one enters the building!"

The policeman merely nodded, and Kim rushed on. She had a pretty good idea where to find the two villains. Fortunately, she remembered the room Ron was in and hurried round the building. Firing her grappling hook once she'd reached her destination, she quickly rose up and entered Ron's room through the window, jumping in and rolling over the ground. She rose in a defensive stance, ready for about anything, but there were only Ron and Bonnie. Ron was still sleeping, and Bonnie looked at her, shocked.

"Bonnie," Kim whispered. "Have Drakken or Shego been here?"

The brunette slowly shook her head. "No."

Kim scowled. Where else…? Then she hit her forehead in realization. "Ok. Bonnie, you stay here and make sure Ron's alright; I'll go after blue and green."

Bonnie nodded, and Kim left the room quietly.

The teen heroine could make an educated guess where Drakken and Shego could be if they were not in Ron's room. Unfortunately, she didn't know in which room the two wannabe rapists were, so she sneaked through the corridors, trying to find her arch-foes.

Said arch-foes were currently standing in Marv's and Pete's room. The two guys had managed to scramble from their beds despite their injuries and were currently on their knees in front of Shego, while Dr. Drakken stood at the door.

"Please! Please don't hurt us! We'll pay any price! You name it, you get it, please!" Marv begged in desperation.

"You think you can buy your way out of this?" Shego snarled in a tone that sounded more like an animal than a human being.

"Please!" Pete chimed in a choked voice. "Stoppable got it all wrong! We didn't want to rape that girl!"

"Is that so?" Shego replied with a cruel grin. "Dr. D, if you please?"

The blue-skinned megalomaniac aimed a ray-gun at the two guys and fired, before they could say anything. Marv and Pete looked at each other.

"What was that?" Marv asked timidly.

Dr. Drakken showed his toothiest smile. "That, my dear boy, was my truth ray. So you didn't want to rape that girl?"

"Nnnn… yes!" Pete exclaimed, then clapped his hands over his mouth in shock and panic.

Shego's hands lit up.

"But… but why do you mind?" Marv cried. "You work for him, too! He's a criminal as well!" He pointed a shaky finger at Dr. Drakken.

Shego's face contorted into a grimace of rage. "Oh no… You did not just compare Dr. D to the likes of you!" she bellowed. "He's an evil mastermind who wants to take over the world! He's villainous gold while you… you're lower than the lowest scum!"

"Shego…?" Drakken's voice came softly in a moved tone from behind her.

She turned with a heavy sigh, her rage momentarily extinguished. "Yeah, Dr. D, I just said what you thought I said, and if you ever mention that I said it, I'll have to fry you," she replied to his unspoken question in a monotone voice. "Are we clear?"

The evil scientist merely nodded with a smile that showed how touched he was.

Shego turned back to the two guys cowering in front of her. "As for you…" Her hands lit up again, but before she could say or do anything else, the door flew open and Kim Possible jumped in.

"Give up, Shego!"

"Kim Possible!" Drakken exclaimed. "What are you doing here? My threat was supposed to keep you outside!"

Shego grinded her teeth, while Kim just raised an eye-brow. "Did you honestly think I'd let you alone in the same building as Ron?"

The blue-skinned madman scratched his chin confusedly. "Who?"

"Her sidekick!" Shego snarled in response, then turned to Kim. "Alright, princess, here's the deal: You let me deal with that scum, and then we'll leave without a fight," she said, pointing at the two scared and whimpering guys at her feet.

Kim sighed. "You know I can't let you do that, Shego."

The green-skinned beauty growled in frustration. "Oh, come on! They're the ones who hospitalized your sidekick! Who almost raped your classmate! What do you care if I rip some unneeded parts off?"

"I care because I'm one of the good guys," Kim calmly replied. "It's tempting, but it's against the law and my ethics. Trust me, they'll be brought to justice, but I can't let you torture them."

There was a tension-filled pause. Kim and Shego stared at each other, while Drakken looked back and forth between them.

Finally, Drakken cleared his throat. "Well then, here's another deal: You let us go without a fight, or Shego will have to hurt them."

Shego laughed mirthlessly. "Scratch hurt, Dr. D!" she said without breaking eye-contact with Kim. "I'll rip their heads off," she continued in a low and menacing voice.

Kim gulped. Shego seemed serious about it, which wasn't all that surprising. She thought about risking it anyway for a moment, but then her mother's voice echoed in her mind; she knew she couldn't live with herself if someone died because of a risk she'd taken, even if it was someone like either of those two. She relaxed her stance a bit. "Alright, Shego. Take Drakken and leave now."

Shego turned to the two guys one last time. "You guys are luckier than anyone has any right to be." Then she looked at her red-headed foe. "And you are softer than you should be."

"Maybe I am," Kim replied. "But I can't change who I am."

Shego looked at her with something that could almost be called respect. "Well, same here, pumpkin."

"Come, Shego!" Drakken called. "We'll see you another time, Kim Possible!" With that, he left the room.

The green-skinned villainess followed him, but stopped at the door, turning to Kim one last time. "You tell Stoppable I wanna see him up and about when you come to foil Dr. D's plans again."

"I will," Kim replied, clearly surprised.

Shego nodded. "Then till next time, princess!" With that, she left.

Only a few minutes later, the hospital started to turn back to normal. The police freed the personnel who had been locked up in storage rooms and started taking everyone's statements.

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When Kim had made her statement, she returned to Ron's and Bonnie's room before heading back to school.

"Is everything alright?" Bonnie asked worriedly.

Kim nodded. "Yeah, Drakken and Shego are gone. Has Ron woken up?"

Bonnie seemed reassured and relaxed visibly. "He was awake for a few minutes tonight but hasn't woken up since."

"Really? How was he? What did he say?" Kim asked anxiously.

"Well, he was pretty tired. He could remember everything, which I guess is a good sign. Then he fell asleep again."

"Right," Kim replied. "Yeah, that has to be good." She sighed and gently ran her hand through his hair. "I just wish he'd wake up soon."

Bonnie's eyes narrowed suspiciously at this. "Yeah, Tara will be very happy, too."

Kim flinched ever so slightly, but it was all the confirmation Bonnie needed.

"Yes, they still have a date to go on," Kim said.

"They do," Bonnie agreed. "I just hope nothing else will come between them now," she added suggestively.

Kim looked at her curiously. "What else could come between them?"

"Oh, I don't know… best friend falling for him perhaps?"

"Are you saying you're falling for Ron?" Kim asked, dumbfounded.

"What?" Bonnie's eyes widened. "No! Of course not!"

"That's good to know," came a weak male voice from the bed. "Cause I don't think I'd survive even the first argument."

"Ron!" Kim and Bonnie exclaimed at the same time.

The redhead carefully hugged her best friend. "Hey, how are you?"

He blinked a few times to become fully awake before answering. "I've been better, but I'm gonna be okay. How're you?"

Kim smiled. "Better now. Listen, I gotta head back to school, but I'll be back later and I'll bring Tara along. How does that sound?"

Ron grinned mischievously. "Add Rufus and a naco to that, and I'll be the happiest patient in Middleton."

She rolled her eyes theatrically. "Alright, alright, I'll see what I can do, Mr. Greedy. See you later, Ron! Later, Bonnie!"

"Later, KP!" Ron replied.

"Bye, K," Bonnie answered.

On her way back to school, Bonnie's words echoed in Kim's mind. Was the brunette suggesting what Kim thought she was suggesting? Whatever gave Bonnie the idea that she was falling for Ron? 'Well, am I?' She almost tripped when she realized that she didn't know.

In the hospital, Bonnie was doing some thinking, too. She was sure that Kim felt more for Ron than she'd let on, although she deemed it possible that Kim hadn't realized that herself yet. That left her with the question how Ron felt.

"Hey Bonnie," Ron interrupted her musings. "You ok?"

"Yeah, just thinking."

"About what?"

"Tara."

"Oh." He got a little nervous. "I just hope she's not angry with me."

Bonnie's eyes narrowed suspiciously. "Why should she be?"

"Well, I missed our date! And the first rule of dating is that you never ever, under no circumstances, stand your date up, no matter what!"

Bonnie almost had to laugh, relaxing considerably. "Ron? You do realize that you were kidnapped? That counts as excuse!"

He lit up at that. "Really?" He exhaled. "Wow, that's a relief."

In that moment, a nurse came in to do a check-up on Ron, and Bonnie turned away in her bed. She decided to keep an eye on Kim, just to make sure her best friend wouldn't get hurt. Before she could give the whole matter more thought, however, two policemen entered the room. "Miss Bonnie Rockwaller?"

She looked at them, confused. "Yeah, that's me?"

One of them took a seat beside her bed. "We need to ask you a few questions about Friday evening," he told her in a quiet voice.

Bonnie paled. "What? Why?"

The policeman adopted a very gentle and understanding expression. "We understand that you were victim of an attempt at violation, and we need your statement. We'll talk to Mr. Stoppable as well, as soon as his check-up is finished."

Bonnie's face lost the little amount of colour it had still held. "How…? How do you…?"

"Well," the man answered patiently and calmly, "the two young men that tried to commit that violation confessed everything when we took their statements about the attack of the two criminals known as Dr. Drakken and Shego this morning. They claimed to be under the influence of a truth ray, but we suspect it was just their guilty conscience catching up with them."

Bonnie would have laughed if she hadn't been so utterly shocked. Guilty conscience? As if! She remembered, though, that Kim and Ron had been under the influence of a truth ray once; that day, she had made front cover of a cheerleading magazine. Finally collecting her thoughts, she managed to give an answer. "I see. Could I give my statement with Ron Stoppable present?" she asked in a low and slightly shaky voice. "It's not easy for me to talk about it, you know?"

The officer nodded understandingly. "That will be no problem whatsoever, Miss Rockwaller."