Chapter 24: Welcome home!

"Are you sure you have to leave?" Ariel asked Shego as she strung her bow. "You could have anything you want here, why would you want to leave?"

"If you haven't noticed Kimmie and I don't belong here. This was a lot of fun but I came here for one thing. Now that I have her back we've got to get back to work." Shego said examining an arrow. "I'd ask you to come with but I don't think you'd like the life of a thief."

"See there you go again, why would you want the life of a thief when you are treated like a god? You're waited on hand and foot."

"That's what the spa is for."

"You can have anything you desire."

"I take anything I want."

"You have an entire army under your charge."

"I don't like traveling in groups."

"You truly are a stubborn woman."

Shego only smiled at her in response. She looked down at the arrow in her hand. "How about one final wager?"

Ariel raised a brow. "I'm listening."

"If I hit the target then I get to leave. If you hit it then I'll stay." Ariel aimed at the target across the field. Shego laughed and showed her a coin. "This is the target."

Shego flipped the coin high into the air. Ariel shot her arrow and Shego hurled a plasma blast, the coin exploded. As bits of gold rained down Ariel turned and glared at her. Shego shrugged in indifference. "One thing you need to learn about life. It's full of loop holes."

"Wise words from a thief." Ariel teased.

"Just think of our wagers as a good life lesson. Never make a bet that you can't work in your favor."

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"You ready to go?" Shego asked Kim as they listened to Ariel's address to the nation.

"Can't we just stay a little longer? She's so young; she's going to need our help." Kim debated.

Shego laughed and crossed her arms. "She's going to do fine, besides we've got a lot to do at home. We still have to give your old partner what's coming to her and there's quite a few things that aren't nailed down just waiting to decorate our houses. Now get ready…I have no idea where we are going to land."

Shego took Kim by the arm and closed her eyes, before they had time to brace themselves they were gone. Shego felt her stomach turn at the sensation of falling; she opened her eyes in time to see her mother's kitchen ceiling as she fell out of thin air and smashed unto the table. It snapped under her weight and toppled down with her.

"Okay, I'm never ever going to get used to that." Shego groaned. Kim appeared above her and fell unto her. "Nope never going to get used to this." Shego moaned. Gina ran into the kitchen and stared down at the women lying amongst the broken pieces of her table.

"Elyse I thought I told you to fix the table. And what are you wearing?" Gina turned her attention to Kim as she helped Shego out of the wreckage. "Oh Kim, it's so nice to see you made it back okay."

Shego collapsed in a chair and stared at her mother. "I've been gone for a year, I've been through a war for god's sake and this is the welcome I get?" Shego complained.

Gina rolled her eyes and looked at her watch. "By my time you've been gone for fifteen minutes. You want a welcome? Welcome back, now stop complaining and fix the table like I asked you before you went gallivanting around the past with Kim."

Shego huffed and pointed to the table. "I fixed the table before I left. I stood right here and fixed this flimsy ass table that can't take more than twenty pounds." As she spoke the table began to slowly piece itself back together, within seconds the table was fixed. Kim stared in awe while Gina sighed.

"Next time you break something, you're fixing it by hand. I don't want you depending on that ring all the time." Gina said. "Now both of you should go change, you look like you stepped out of a bad Xena episode."