Ronshine Chapter 6, a kim possible fanfic

Chapter 6

Ok, usual disclaimer: Disney owns Kim Possible and all related characters. Any original characters seen here are figments of my imagination.

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Ron and Rufus arrived in Lowerton just as the little town was waking up. People could be seen opening up their businesses and greeting each other in passing. Ron waved to the owner of the general store on his way to the tavern. When he arrived, Amy was outside sweeping the steps.

"Hi, Amy." Ron said.

"Hi! You're back!" Amy chirped when she saw who was greeting her.

"Yeah. I was wondering, are my brothers here?"

"Oh, they left yesterday morning."

"Really?" Ron sighed, disappointed. He was hurt that his brothers were not there. He had only been missing a little over a day, and they did not stick around to look for him. Granted, he was safe, but they did not know that, and had he not had help from a magical bag of flowers, he would be on his way to a penal colony. "Did they say where they were going?"

"You know, they said that you might stop by; they wanted me to tell you that they went home."

Ron figured that they went home, but he thought he would ask, just to be on the safe side. "Thanks. Do you think I could get some food to take with me? I haven't eaten since the day before yesterday and I'm starving."

"Sure thing, sweet-ums. I just made a fresh batch of muffins and hard-boiled eggs.

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Kim walked out of Sarah's room in search of a cup of water for the older woman. She was sent to stay at the Stoppable's after Jake and Will returned home without Ron. Her mother and Nana tried to talk Sarah into staying with them for a few more days, but she insisted that she belonged in her own house and that Jake and Will could take care of her. Ann did not like that idea and she did not think that her friend would be properly cared for by her two older children, so she sent Kim to stay with her until Ron returned.

Sarah and the Possible's were unaware of the fact that Ron had found Jake and Will at all. They did not want to tell their mother that Ron had found them in prison, or that they had been robbed and Ron was missing. They told everyone that they had been in Go City for a few months and returned because they could not make enough money to send home. When Sarah asked if they had seen Ron, they hesitated, but they denied seeing him. Kim was suspicious of their answer, because she thought that they would have passed each other on the road. There was only one road to Go City from Middleton and if they left when they said they did, they should have seen him. Kim was also suspicious of their injuries. She did not believe their story about getting into a fight with each other. Well, she believed that they would get into a physical fight over something stupid, but she did not think that they would hurt each other that much. She knew them, and when it came to pain, those two were weak.

Kim looked out the window at Will and Jake chopping wood before she took Sarah her water. Unlike Ron, she was not going to let them sit around and let her do all the work that needed to be done around the house. She made it a point to ask them to do things when Sarah was listening so they could not refuse. She was going to suggest that tactic to Ron when he came back. When she thought about her boyfriend, she sighed and hoped that he came back soon. She missed him and she was sure that Will and Jake were not telling the truth about him. The only reason that she was not looking for him now, was that she had promised him that she would take care of his mother. She was going to give it a day, maybe two, and if he had not returned by then, she was going to go find him herself.

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"I wish she would go home." Jake said of Kim, as he chopped another log.

"Yeah, she's bossy. I don't know how Ron puts up with her." Will agreed with his brother.

"I know that I'll never date a woman like that. I want a woman that's more like-Ron?"

"What… you want a woman like Ron?" Will asked confused.

"No, you dumb ass, look he's coming up the lane."

"Oh, shit! What're we going to do? He's going to tell mom everything!" Will said slightly panicked when he caught sight of his brother.

"Relax. Look, we'll just tell him that we didn't want to stress Mom out, so we didn't tell her that we saw him."

"Yeah, he'd buy that."

Ron frowned when he pulled up to the house and saw his bothers. He was still hurt that they ran off and left him, and then went home without looking for him. They had no idea what could have happened to him and they did nothing to prevent it. He stepped down from the cart and looked at his older brothers. He wanted to tell them how hurt he was, but he did not think that they would care.

"Ron, hey we need to talk to you before you see Mom." Will said, before Ron entered the house.

"What?" Ron said confused.

"Yeah, look we didn't want to tell Mom that you were missing, so we told her that we never saw you and that we came home on our own. So when you see her, don't tell her that you saw us." Jake added.

"Are you two serious?" Ron could not believe what he was hearing. "The first thing that you have to say to me is that you want me to lie to Mom!" His hurt was slowly turning to anger, and with every word, he got louder and louder until he was shouting. "Not 'how are you,' or 'are you ok,' or 'it's great to see that you're safe,' but 'we want you to cover for us and lie to Mom!'" The blond teen clinched his fists as his anger escalated, and he had half a mind to knock some sense and common courtesy into his brothers, but he resisted. He was better than that.

"Well, you're here, so you must be fine. We just wanted to s-" Will said, agitated but Ron cut him off before he could finish.

"You have no idea what I went through! I was almost sent to a penal colony! I managed to get away, but imagine how hurt I was when I found out that you didn't bother to look for me!"

"Well we figured you were fine, and we didn't want to tell Mom that you were missing! We knew it would upset her!" Jake spat back.

Ron had to admit to himself that he believed them when they said that they did not want to upset their mother, but he still did not think that it was right of them to leave without searching for him. "Fine," he sighed, "but you still should have tried to help me. I'm your brother for crying out loud!" Jake and Will did not have anything to say to that, so they just stood there. "I'm NOT going to lie to Mom for you."

Before either Jake or Will could say anything in response, Kim opened the door to see why they were yelling. When she saw Ron, she ran to him. "Ron!" She squealed in excitement, pulled him into a tight embrace, and gave him one of her knee buckling kisses. She did not care that his brothers were watching; she was just glad he was home. When she broke the kiss, she rested her head in the crook of his neck and nuzzled his neck with her nose. "I'm so glad you're home!"

"I missed you too KP!" Ron cooed and leaned down and gave her another kiss; it was not as fervent as the one that she gave him, but it still made the butterflies in her stomach flutter.

"Come on Ron; let's go see your mother. She'll be happy to see you."

"Sure thing, KP." He said and took her hand in his. He then turned to his brothers and his delightful expression and tone turned to one that told them that he was not playing around and that they had better do what he said. "Come on you two, get inside." He pointed to the door with his free hand. "It's time to come clean." Jake and Will sighed, hung their heads in defeat, and walked into the house ahead of the couple.

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"How could you two do this?" Sarah asked her two eldest sons when Ron finished telling her the story of what happened after he left home. "First you're put in a prison for stealing, then you run off and leave your brother when he needed you the most, and to top it all off, you had the nerve to look me in the eye and lie to me about it!"

"Mom-" Jake tried to explain, but his mother cut him off.

"None of your excuses!" Sarah yelled, she was hurt and angry with her sons, and she was in no mood to listen to anymore of their lies. "I know that your father and I taught you better than this…You never take what is not yours, always tell the truth and family is one of the most important things in life!Don't you remember us telling you that? I'm so upset that you two completely ignored those lessons for your own selfishness!"

"Mom, we didn't want to upset you." Will said as he looked at her from the foot of the bed. He and Jake stood next to each other with guilty expressions on their faces.

"So, you thought lying to me would help! Had you told me the truth in the first place, it would've hurt a lot less than what I'm feeling now! I almost lost you two because of your own selfishness and I almost lost Ron because you two didn't take the time to help him!" Sarah cried out with a mix of emotions. She was sitting up in her bed, tears running down her cheeks, and the ache in her chest was getting worse. She placed a hand over her heart in an attempt to stop the pain.

Seeing his mother like this was almost too much for Ron. He knew that she would be upset over the situation, but she needed to know the truth. He tried to comfort her by hugging and rocking her, "Shhh, Mom, don't cry. Look we're all safe."

Kim was sitting on the other side of the bed next to Sarah and she too was emotional over the situation. She was so mad at Jake and Will, not because they were thieves and liars, but because they did absolutely nothing to help their brother and 'Her Ron!' It took every ounce of her patience and self-control not to yell and hit them. Just the thought of Ron being sent to a penal colony against his will angered her. This proved to her that they had no compassion or love for him. If it were up to her and if she knew that Mrs. Stoppable would not have been so sadden by it, she would have left them in that dungeon where they belonged.

Kim's thoughts were interrupted when Ron broke the embrace with his mother. He gave her a loving smile and wiped the tears away from her eyes. Kim thought that she might need a drink so she gave her the cup of water that was on the nightstand. After she finished with her water, Sarah handed it back to Kim, closed her eyes, and took two deep breaths to calm her emotions. When she opened her eyes, she looked at her older children with a look that made them nervous. The look depicted many emotions: sadness, anger, hurt, disappointment, and resignation; it was that last emotion that concerned them.

Before she said anything, she gave a tired sigh and nodded her head as if she was agreeing with the voice in head. "I'm not happy about what I just heard, and because of it, a lot of things have been put into perspective. For the past few years, I have lived in denial, thinking that what I saw in you two was just youthful abandon; I thought, that if I gave it sometime, you two would grow up, get your priorities in order, and see what is important in life, but I was wrong. You haven't changed, and as far as I can tell, you've only gotten worse." She paused for a moment and then said something that earned a gasp from everyone that was listening. "Until you two are honest, thoughtful of others, and you learn to treat your family with the respect that they deserve, and have always shown to you, there is no room for you in this house."

"WHAT?" Jake and Will cried at the same time. "Mom, we're sorry, please, don't kick us out!" Will added at the end.

"It's too late to simply SAY 'you're sorry.' It's an empty admission coming from you two." Sarah said in a sad, but no nonsense tone. "Now is the time to SHOW us how sorry you are. There comes a time in life when every child must leave home and find their place in this world, and for you two that time has come.

"So you want us to leave, just like that?" Jake asked in disbelief.

"Yes, and it's tearing me up on the inside, because I love you dearly, but I can't let you two continue to act this way, and live in this house." Sarah then turned to Ron and asked, "Ronnie, you said that the giant that you helped gave you some money, is there enough to give some to your brothers? I don't want to send them out on their own with nothing."

Ron smiled knowingly at the question. See, he had told his mother that Big Mike had given him some money and a horse and cart, but what he did not tell her, was that the cart was filled to the brim with money. He wanted to see the look on her face when she saw it. "Yeah, there's enough…he gave me a few handfuls." Ron giggled at his joke, knowing that it would go over his mother's head until he explained it to her.

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Ron and Kim sat cuddled together by the fire, enjoying each other's company, while Sarah had a few moments alone with Jake and Will. They were surprised by his mother's decision, but they agreed with it. "You know, it's going to be weird around here without them." Ron mused.

"I guess, but it'll be weird in a good way." Kim responded as she sunk even more into his hold, wishing that they could cuddle everyday. "Ron, when are you going talk to my dad?"

"I was going to do it later tonight when I took you home. Is that soon enough for you?" Ron teased.

"No!" Kim said with a slight pout. "I need a daily dose of Ronshine in my life. I want to get married as soon as possible so I can be with you everyday, instead of once or twice a week!"

"I know what you mean." Ron chuckled lightheartedly. He thought about them getting married and his heart melted, but it also made him think about his recent ordeal and his mood turned somber. "KP…when I thought I was going to be sent to that penal colony, I thought my life was over. This whole thing has made me realize that I can't live without you, and just the thought of never seeing you again hurt so much. I want you the be the first person I see when I wake up in the morning and last person I see when I go to bed at night, because I know, that no matter what happens, my day will start and end perfectly."

"Oh Ron, that's so sweet!" Kim cooed, as she turned around and gave him a soft, gentle kiss.

"I mean it, KP. I love you more than anything." Ron said when he broke the kiss. "I was willing to give those robbers everything I had if they would let me go. I had to come back to you."

"I'm glad you came back too, I can't imagine my life with you in it, but what I don't understand, is why they wouldn't let you go. I mean, a couple handfuls of money aren't worth kidnapping and shipping someone off to a penal colony."

"I guess it depends on the person, and in this case, the size of the handfuls." Ron said in a knowing tone.

Kim cranked an eyebrow to that comment, "Pardon? Care to explain what you mean by that?"

Ron gave her a goofy grin and helped her up. He led her to the cart and paused before he lifted the cover. "Ok, well you see, when I said a few handfuls, I didn't mean hands my size." He lifted the cover and watched as Kim's face turned from curious, to shocked, and back to curious. "Big Mike is about 25 feet tall, so hands his size would fill this cart."

"Oh. My. God." Kim whispered as she eyed the contents of the cart. "That…is a lot of money."

"I know."

"Just think of all the good that can come of this."

"Yeah, I have some ideas, but I figured that we should sit down and talk with our parents about what we should do with our money."

"Our money?"

"Of course, KP. We're getting married, so what's mine is yours."

Kim was in awe from that comment and just stared at her boyfriend in surprise, "Ron Stoppable, sometimes you are too much."

Ron just grinned and said, "I am, what I is!"

Next time: The End

A/N: Ok, one more chapter left! Thanks for reading and please leave a review.