Chapter nine: Revenge is a sweet dish
Kim stormed through the door and into her room. She began to riffle through the drawers throwing clothes and papers around the room, muttering angrily to herself as she searched the room. Shego leaned in the doorway watching Kim tear her room apart.
"So are you going to tell me who that woman was at the café or are you just going to destroy the room?" Shego asked ducking as a lamp sailed in her direction. Kim continued to turn the room upside down and soon sat down on the bed in a huff.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you not to spy?" She asked combing her fingers through her hair out of frustration.
"Well no my mom was the one who taught me to spy. So no…no she never taught me anything like that." Shego said with a shrug. Kim growled in anger.
"Well you should learn to stay out of other people's business. This is my problem and I'm going to fix it." Kim said standing up and making her way to the door. Shego stepped in stretched out in the doorway blocking Kim's path.
"Move." Kim demanded as she tried to push past Shego.
"Nope sorry Kimmie. Technically we're partners for now so if you have a problem then I have a problem. Now spill it."
"Just because we're partners doesn't mean I have to share my problems with you now get out of my way I need to find something." Kim tried in vain to push Shego from the doorway. Shego braced herself in the door frame.
"Kimmie you can tell me willingly or I can force it out of you but either way you're telling me what's going on." Shego took hold of Kim's arms keeping her in place. Kim struggled to free herself but found Shego's grip tightening.
"Damn it Shego! Let me go!"
"Not until you tell me who that woman is and what you're looking for."
Kim went limp in Shego's arms. She wasn't going to win this struggle against a woman with super human strength.
"If I agree to tell you will you let me go? Your high body temperature is making me sweat." Shego seemed to think about this for a moment before letting Kim drop to the floor.
"Her name is Eve. She's the one who got me to become a thief in the first place. You know how hard it is to be a hero. No money, no time and everyone expects you to save them." Kim began as she stood up and brushed herself off.
Kim continued. "I was just trying to take a break from saving the world. Eve showed up out of nowhere and told me all about it. She made the whole thing sound so great. I do what I want, when I want and I get paid for it. It was better than any hero work I'd ever done."
"Yeah that's great and all Kimmie but what is your issue with this Eve chick anyway?" Shego interrupted. She wanted a short answer not a life story.
"I'm getting to that…We teamed up and started doing small jobs. We didn't have the kind of money to do anything big, so we hit jewelry stores a couple of bank vaults. You know just to quietly get some money together. Well after about four years of that I was bored out of my skull."
"That is a huge waste of your talent." Shego added.
"Thank you. So I suggested we do something bigger, we had enough money between us to do it and no one could even find any evidence let alone even catch us. It wasn't too big, all we had to do was steal a micro chip. I could have retired on my share alone."
"So what happened?"
"We were doing fine until she tripped a sensor and had Scotland yard all over the place. She took the chip and left me there to get caught. Luckily I escaped but she took off with my share of the money and something very valuable to me."
"What did she take?"
Kim muttered something under her breath. Shego leaned in closer.
"What was that?"
Kim muttered under her breath again.
"What?"
"Pandaroo okay? She took Pandaroo."
Shego's face contorted as she leaned back, covering her mouth to hold back her laughter. Soon her laughter broke through her fingers and she crumpled to the floor laughing. Kim blushed deeply and angrily stormed out of the door way.
"Kimmie…Kimmie wait! I…I…I gotta know. What…what is so important about a stuffed animal?" Shego asked trying to regain control of herself as she followed Kim to the front door.
"It was the only connection I had to my old life. You may not want to have anything to do with your past but I still miss mine from time to time."
Shego stopped laughing and her face fell into a solemn frown. Kim retched open the door and left Shego alone with her thoughts.
888
Hours later Kim walked back in with a disheartened look about her. She made her way around the apartment looking into her room she had destroyed in order to find something anything she could use against Eve. She was too exhausted to clear off her bed, so she stood in the door way ready to sleep where she stood.
After a moment she made her way around the apartment, looking for a place to sleep for the night. She didn't notice she was headed toward Shego's room until she crossed the threshold. She stood at the foot of Shego's bed, staring down at Shego's sleeping form debating whether or not to test her luck and take that bit of open space on the bed.
She shook her head deciding she liked life more than a short comfortable sleep. Before she could turn and leave the room Shego quietly sat up. Kim stood like a deer in headlights; Shego was going to kill her where she stood for this.
"Well are you going to stand there or are you going to get in?" Shego asked after a short silence. Kim jumped slightly and quickly made her way to the empty space next to Shego. "I'm only doing this for you because I know you're too tired to clean up the room you destroyed." Shego added.
Kim wasn't about to argue that she could just as easily slept on the couch. She wasn't about to downgrade from a comfortable bed to a cold couch. She was in a near dream state when Shego's voice broke through and woke her up.
"If you want what was taken from you then you really are going to need my help. Most likely that girl has just as much on you as you do her. We'll get started tomorrow." Kim could not object to this, as much as she wanted to, her eyes felt too heavy and her mind was starting to cloud. She was asleep before her mouth even opened to decline Shego's offer.