Chapter 5- Head over Heels
Chapter 5- Head over Heels
Kim and Ron ended up seeing another movie that Kim had expressed interest in, but that Shego had not even a glimmer of caring. It was "Jennie" a story about a girl who accidentally got pregnant. While not normally in Ron's preferred style, he seemed to have enjoyed the film, and actually found it more than a little funny in places. It was also touching. But Kim found her mind wandering to other places.
She was so worried over what her father had said, and had been turning over the words in her mind all day. Shego really did not like being in large groups of people, being crowded, and especially having people in her face. That was exactly what was going to happen, probably starting tomorrow. Wade had not gotten back to her readily, apparently having run into trouble. She wanted to know now just how Murky had gotten his information. She had not been necessarily secretive, but she had also not flaunted her relationship status to the entire world. She simply could not understand why people would be interested in her relationships. She was just not that interesting, in her mind. But then again, she did save the world, which was bound to thrust her into the public spotlight eventually. If only it could have been just her, and not Shego. Shego was incredibly impatient most of the time, and so having reporters in her face all the time could result in someone getting hurt, and it was unlikely that someone would be Shego.
After the film, it was decided that they would go back to Kim's house to hang out for a while and wait for Shego's call. It took a while to get from the theater to Kim's house, and about halfway there, her Kimmunicator chirped at her. A look at the screen told her it was Shego.
"Hey Shego." She said, smiling at the video screen, on her end, Shego smiled back.
"Princess, I have good news and bad news." Shego said, practically grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"Bad first obviously."
"Doy." Shego replied, "The bad news is that I can't stop by tonight like I was planning. So no anniversary hangout." Kim pouted a little and Shego continued, "But that's because I got the job, and I start tonight."
"You got the job?" Kim asked excitedly, "Shego, that's spankin'!" Then her face got screwed up as she considered what her father had mentioned the night before. "Now what is it?"
"Can't tell ya that Princess." Shego said, looking apologetic. She hated keeping such information from Kim, but she was trying to avoid the disapproving look for at least another day. "But I think I'll be able to spill tomorrow, if everything goes well."
Kim looked crestfallen, but she managed to smile for Shego's benefit. "Well, it's too bad we can't be together," She said, "but good luck tonight, break a leg."
Shego's grin widened, "Sure." She said, and Kim thought she saw a brief flicker of sadistic glee. "I might be able to manage that for you." And then she winked at her before bidding her good-night.
Kim rolled her eyes and put the device back in her pocket as they pulled into Kim's driveway. Mrs. Possible greeted them at the door. "Hello Ron. How've you been?"
"Same old Mrs. Dr. P." Ron replied, shrugging, "Save the world, eat a naco, life is good. S'pecially since I'm hanging with the best friend I've known since Pre-K."
"Glad to hear it." She said, and gestured them both upstairs. Ron was the only boy that was allowed in Kim's room, and she often considered extending the rule to bar Shego from heading in the same direction, but could not bring herself to do it.
Both teens lounged in Kim's room, Ron on the floor staring at the ceiling, and Kim on her bed. They spent some time in silence, and then Kim asked a question that had been bothering her for the whole of the day, though it had sat on the proverbial back-burner until just then.
"Ron, what can you give to someone on your six month anniversary if you have no money to buy anything?"
"Um, love and affection?" Ron said, and Rufus chose that point to pipe up, "Sex!"
"Rufus!" Ron said, and batted his head softly. The hairless rodent blushed but did not leave. Instead, he grinned stupidly. "Don't listen to a word the little guy says." He cautioned, but Kim still looked concerned, "Why do you ask?"
"Because Shego got me the ring, but I don't have anything for her."
"Well, six months is important, and I would suggest cooking for her, but that's just as likely to land the both of you in the hospital." Ron said thoughtfully, and then as a joke added, "There's always sex!" At that moment he checked the time, and realized it was time for wrestling to be on. Good match, Hego and Mego against Pain King and Steel Toe. He left the room after that, letting Kim know he'd be just downstairs, making himself at home.
That left Kim with her thoughts. She mulled over exactly what had occurred over the past few days. Shego was always so good to her, but sometimes she did give off that air of general impatience, like there was something she had not gotten yet. Kim had no idea until then just what that something could be. She looked at the ring and realized that Shego had to have been saving for a while to get that for her. And here Kim was hopelessly devoid of a gift. Even with all the favors in the world she would not be able to get something here before she saw Shego next.
And then there was what her father had said. Was Shego really being honest with her when she had said she expected nothing more than for Kim to do what made her happy? Was she honest about the job being classified? What kind of trust was she missing? She sighed and rolled onto her stomach before walking over to her desk. She had work that should be started; Shego would have to wait, at least for a moment.
"Oh life is good." Shego said the moment she hung up her own video phone (a new toy courtesy of Nerdlinger). In just ten minutes, she would be live in front of thousands (millions would be a closer estimate, but she chose to be conservative) of people while she kicked her brothers' butts. Yes. This was a reward for all the karma they had piled on. Now she just had to face the devil herself.
Carmen Gomez was a fierce woman. That much was clear, and she was very protective of her 'baby'. It did not matter that Shego was nearing the twenty mark with alarming speed, nor did it matter that she was several inches taller than her. No, Shego would always be her little girl.
"Shannon Jessica Marie Gomez!" The woman cried, and Shego found herself backing away almost involuntarily, "I thought we had discussed this choice in career."
"You yelled, I yelled back mother. There was little actual discussion." Shego reminded, and felt the urge to call security. But she did not want anyone to wind up dead. Thank God the cameras weren't rolling just yet. "Now please remove yourself from my sight before I gouge out my own eyes."
She received a sharp pull on her ear for that, as well as a finger pointed directly in her face. "And you kiss your girlfriend with this mouth? This mouth that insults your mother?" The question was obviously rhetorical, and Shego fought to not say anything further, and lost.
"No. I kiss my girlfriend with the mouth that tells you to kiss my ass and remind you that I'm not under your control anymore." Carmen hated wrestling more than Kim did, and rarely came to matches, but even so, she was supportive, in her own way. She was here tonight to wish her daughter good fortune (if only by telling her she belonged in the kitchen, leaning on every word her chosen mate said).
"No. A fact I regret." Carmen said, and pulled back enough to get a good look at her. "Though spandex does suit you better than those God-awful ripped clothes you normally wear. You look female tonight."
"Thanks ma." Shego muttered and faced the cameras, fixing her already flawless hair. "Now get out of camera shot. Tweedle's Dee and Dumb are on their way." Indeed, both Hego and Mego were coming out of their dressing rooms with their standard masks and uniforms on. Both uniforms were in the same broken pattern that hers had, but in different colors. Hego had gone with blue, and Mego for royal purple (mostly because he thought himself king of the universe. Everyone just thought he was gay). Both Wego brothers opted for red. Shego had always liked green anyway, the color suited her. Carmen stepped back, but her look told Shego that she would be back after the match to butt heads some more. Which just gave Shego ever more incentive to leave afterwards. She cleared her head and readied her best angry face for what was to come. The camera trained on her, she took a deep breath and summoned within her a force to be reckoned with, launching herself at Hego and Mego while planted security guards fought to hold her back. Two chops and a kick later, both were "unconscious" and Shego flipped over their prone forms.
"Shego?" Hego and Mego said in unison, their words sounded a little contrived, but effective for the dim crowd they were performing for. "What are you doing here?"
"You think I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy that little hick town you left me when we were little?" She asked them, the story (which was added to the official bios of Team Go to make it fit) was that Shego was the abandoned little sister of the team, bent on revenge for leaving her behind as a child. Of course none of that was true, about as true as Uundertaker and Kane being brothers.
Finally, there came a large influx of security, and Shego was "forced" to leave. She left through a pair of doors that led one to the center ring, but stayed on the sidelines. She was effectively out of sight, and as Hego and Mego "mused" over what this meant for them, the cameras stopped rolling on them and the show went to commercial. Both brothers came up to her afterwards and patted her on the back.
"Nice work Shego." Hego said, crossing his arms over his chest and smiling at her smugly, "Just like I taught you."
"You mean I taught her." Mego butted in, glaring at his elder brother. "You were too busy looking in the mirror.
Shego snorted derisively. "Actually, Lynn taught me." She said, "Neither of you know more about acting than a four year old, and less about anything else." Low blow, but they were both fairly useless. Adrena Lynn was a reformed foe of Kim's and had gone into wrestling to prove that she was still an athlete, even if she was still working from a script. Both brothers gaped at her, "Now I believe you two have a match to throw." She said, and pointed to the ring. They were back, and the triumphant music of Team Go started to play. Every character had a theme song. Team Go had a decidedly "Fearless Ferret" superhero theme going on. Pain King had a royal blare of trumpets, and Steel Toe a hip-hop song she could not understand the lyrics to. Shego, well, Shego had a rolling kettle drum followed by some very angry Ukrainian singers. It evoked an old television show that she had been fond of (She also had been informed by her mother that Kim had enjoyed that show as well, and had cried during the finale, where the main character died.). That would come later. As of now, all four characters were squaring off in the center of the ring for the referee to begin the match. First he told Mego to get out of the ring. He complied with a toss of his over-styled head, and Steel Toe joined him outside the ropes.
Hego and Pain King were almost equal in size, and actually had very similar styles. One just happened to fight for "good" and the other "evil." They both relied on their size for advantage, though, like all good wrestlers, they had their signatures.
Hego had a finisher called, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way." Basically this move was two elbow drops in a row followed by a pin. In case of an extremely stubborn opponent (and for the sake of the audience), he had another move dubbed "Flying Trapeze" whereby Hego first executed a DDT and then leapt off the ropes into a devastating belly-flop-esque maneuver. Tonight however (Shego had seen the teams go over choreography earlier that week), the belly flop was to result in Hego missing and falling victim to Steel Toe's "Foot Stomp" finish. Indeed, Shego could see Hego head to the ropes to tag Mego in. The slighter man managed to avoid Pain King's moves long enough to tire the man out and Mego to swing him into the ropes for a flying kick to the man's chest. The much larger man fell to the ground and writhed for a moment. Shego knew from experience that that move did not hurt quite that badly, but the sell was the important part, and Pain King did that well. Unfortunately (and according to script) Pain King was close enough to ropes to tag in Steel Toe, and in response Hego was called in again. This was going to be a long match.
Some time later Shego was riding her Harley through the streets of Middleton. The match had gone off without a hitch. She had managed to crash the ceremony afterwards with a decidedly brutal tirade about the "talent" her brothers claimed to have after they were thoroughly stomped into the dust by Pain King and Steel Toe. The fans seemed to like her angle, the more fluid grace of martial arts as opposed to the gross movement of most of the other participants. She'd gotten out of there as fast as possible so that she could perhaps see Kim. It was not yet ten at night, so she would probably be allowed entrance, if only for a short time.
To her surprise, Ron answered the door, noting that she was back in her civilian clothing. "She's upstairs." He said curtly.
"Why are you down here then?" She replied, with same amount of disdain in her voice. She was a firm believer in the golden rule, and Ron currently wanted to be treated rudely.
"Because I like watching Wrestling on Saturday nights." He said, and Shego froze in place.
"Does she know?" Shego gritted out.
"No." Ron said, and Rufus looked out of the young man's pocket sleepily, saw Shego, and then returned immediately to his previous hideaway. "But you should tell her, now." He said, and cleared the way for her to go upstairs. He was not nearly the same oaf she was used to seeing currently. Apparently he was a different person when he was pissed at her.
"That's buff- Ron." Shego said, and started to take the steps two at a time, but still managed to keep quiet enough to not wake anyone who may have been sleeping. She snuck into the room and put her fingers over Kim's eyes.
"Guess who Princess." She said softly into Kim's ear, and the girl shivered.
"Shego." Kim said, and turned around, kissing the older girl tenderly. Shego responded in kind, lowering her arms so that they were wrapped around the red-head's back. Now, normally, this was as physical as Kim got, and Shego refused to push her, but tonight was apparently different. Tonight Kim broke the kiss and looked into her eyes for a moment before sliding her hands down Shego's back to cup her bottom. The brunette raised an eyebrow at her but said nothing. Instead, she restarted the kiss with vigor, letting Kim lead the way to the bed, where Shego ended up on her back, with a panting Kim straddling her hips. "Happy Anniversary." Kim said with a wicked grin, and nibbled softly on Shego's earlobe.
She had decided that maybe, despite Ron's joke, he had been right. It had been six months, and the most the pair had done was Shego playing with her breasts last month. It was not fair that Shego do all the work and get no reward, or so Kim had convinced herself. She was suddenly feeling immense pressure to go further, to give Shego what she must have wanted. That had to be the reason for all the impatience, right? So she dug in her heels and started to kiss along Shego's neck down to her collarbone.
As much as Shego wanted to continue, she could not let it happen here or now. "Princess, your parents are home." She reminded, "Not to mention your brothers. I don't feel like being the latest star on XPorn thanks to them." That got Kim's attention, and she sat up, her face flushed and looking embarrassed.
"I just… you got me that ring, and you've been so busy lately with the new job and-."
"So what?" Shego asked, suddenly concerned, "You thought that sex was what I wanted?" She suddenly felt angry, very angry, and flipped both of them so that Kim was the one on her back, while Shego took that moment to get up from the bed, looking down at her at once pissed and horrified, "I really thought you knew that I wasn't like that." She said, starting to pace, "Kim, if I made you uncomfortable, you should have told me!" She said loudly, much more loudly than she'd intended. Kim sat on her bed, staring at her folded hands. There was something not right here. Not right at all.
"Kim, what's wrong?"
"Shego, do you trust me?" Kim asked quietly, still not looking at her.
"Of course I do." Shego said, and sat on the bed beside her, wrapping one hand around her shoulders.
"Then why can't you tell me what the job is?" Kim held her breath for a moment, dreading the answer that she may receive. It took Shego a long time to contemplate her answer.
"You wouldn't like it." She concluded.
"So it's not classified."
Uh oh. Shego thought. She was in big touble, no matter which way she answered. She decided it was time to come clean. "Not technically." She muttered, and Kim turned to look at her with a glare that could only be equaled by her mother on the warpath.
"So you lied to me." She spat and now it was here turn to rocket to her feet. "You lied to me!" She said, a little louder. Almost as if on queue, there was a clap of thunder as it started to pour rain. "Shego, I've told you how I feel about lying." Kim was angrier than she had ever seen her, and Shego could not think to do anything but let her go at it.
"Kim-"
"No." Kim cut her off, "You lied to me, I don't care if I won't like it. Shego, I've got the media after me, I've got you lying to me, my father telling me to break up with you. And you can just sit there and say 'Kim' like I'm just supposed to drop this because you say so."
Ok, so this was more serious than Shego had thought. Kim just kept going though, "Shego, are you aware that basically everyone I've ever fallen for has lied to me? And just when I thought you were different, you go and do it too. How the hell am I supposed to take that?"
Honestly, Shego had no answer other than to look incredibly sheepish, a sensation she disliked greatly. "Maybe I should just go…" Shego said, feeling incredibly self-conscious. She needed to think, to get everything clear in her mind so that she could at least defend herself, though it was her fault.
"Yeah. Maybe you should." Kim said quietly, and sat back on her bed as Shego got up and walked to the door. Before she passed through the portal, she decided that it was time to finally come clean.
"Wrestling." She said, and Kim blinked.
"Great. Get out." Kim said, with more force than that first time she had said it. Shego descended the stairs, and for the first time, Kim noticed that it was downpouring. She suddenly was struck by a pang of guilt. But she knew that there was no way in hell she wanted Shego to stay there for the night. So instead she went to the door and called after her, softly. "Drive safe."
"Yeah right." Shego muttered, and stormed out the door, passing a stunned Ron on the way. She got on the bike and turned the key, the engine roared to life and she backed the beast out of the driveway before cranking the throttle open and going at full bore out of the street. She needed the speed to clear her head. It always worked before. But something was different. She'd rode in the rain before, but she was having trouble seeing. Then it hit her, she'd left her helmet in the Possible's house by the door as she'd come in. Even as she had the thought to go back, she saw the glare of headlights coming at her, and she was going too fast to stop or get out of the way.
There was a screech, a crash, a crunch, and then oblivion. And all only four blocks from her apartment.
Author's Note: I'm sorry for this chapter being so late. I've been SWAMPED (still am, but I took a break). Hope you guys liked it. I know the change in conversation towards the end was a bit awkward, but then again, how can that argument not be awkward? Hm? Whatever. In any case, Read, Review, tell what to do better. And if anyone caught that REALLY veiled reference that is Shego's Wrestling Theme, lemme know. As always, thanks for the continued support from everyone that has reviewed, read, subscribed, and otherwise enjoyed my writing. It means a LOT to me.
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