OK all you wonderful readers out there, I've finally gotten an update finished for this story. Although… wait, I can't give spoilers here.
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Sympathy for the Devil
Previously on "Sympathy for the Devil"…
Again Ron approached the first Tara, and placed his lips on hers. However the reaction of the blonde this time, was different. This time Tara wrapped both of her arms, and a leg around Ron while deepening the kiss. It was as if she was trying to literally meld into his body. After almost a full five seconds of kissing, they finally broke apart, and Ron noticed that Kim was now starting to doubt his plan, as her arms were crossed, and it looked like the red head was ready to chew nails.
"Please Kim…" Ron said almost pleadingly. "I know this is gonna work. Like I said… Trust me." His smile caused Kim to relax a little, but she still seemed a little upset over what her boyfriend was doing.
Ron then walked in front of the other Tara, and placed kiss on her as well. Again, the reaction was different than before. This time, Tara brought both of her hands up to Ron's face and cupped his cheeks. The kiss returned was almost gentle, yet filled with the promise of pleasure and desire.
After pulling out of the second kiss, Ron then walked up to Kim and said, "I know which is the real Tara."
And now the continuation…
Continuing to look at her boyfriend with a decidedly unfriendly mask of emotion, Kim Possible still had her arms crossed in front of her. She had not expected Ron to kiss those two Taras again, and the reaction she had seen of each blonde girl had definitely brought out her own 'green-eyed-monster'.
Now Ron, being like most adolescent males, didn't at first pick up on what his girlfriend was emanating, but it only took him a few extra seconds to actually realize the potentially grave situation he might be in… And being between the Devil him/her self and a highly jealous girlfriend was not a situation he wanted to be in.
"This was the only way Kim." Ron said with an almost pleading sound to his voice. "There really wasn't any other test I could think of off-hand in such a short notice. And like I said before, I'm pretty sure I know which Tara is the real one."
His girlfriend didn't say a word, and just rose an eyebrow as if she was saying "Well? Then tell me."
Turning back around, Ron pointed at the first Tara he had just kissed. "She is definitely NOT the Tara we know. If there is one thing I know about her, Tara wouldn't throw herself at me like that.
"Now as for the second one, The reason I know she is the real Tara, is that not only was the kiss much more subdued, I actually felt her shake a little as I kissed her. Now whether that's because of her fear of the Devil, or of you and your jellin', I'm not sure."
Kim scoffed. "Like I was jellin'…"
"Remember when you caught Bonnie kissing me in JP Bearymore's?" Ron reminded her, causing the red head to drop her arms at her sides in defeat.
"So now that I've figured everything out, we should be able to go home." He then turned back towards the two Tara's. "Right?"
"You poor misguided fool." Devil/Tara said as she stepped over the body of one of their friends, and at the same time small horns appeared to rise from her skull and through the blonde hair. Her eyes had now also become tinged with red. "You think you can negate the pact that was made between your so-called sweet and innocent little Tara here and me?"
Both Kim and Ron's eyes went wide at this statement by the Devil, and Ron was the first to respond. "T… Tara? Is this… true? Did you actually make a deal with the Devil?" All the blonde-headed cheerleader could do was drop her head down to her chest and nod almost imperceptibly.
The initial shock had somewhat worn off, but Ron was still stunned at this turn of events. There was one question burning in his mind, and he just had to ask. "What were you supposed to get out of this deal?"
Tara's quiet response was barely audible, but it rocked Ron back on his heels. "You."
Devil/Tara decided to step forward and speak up at this time, as she was standing off to one side with an almost lecherous grin on her face. "I've been working with this little angel," A slender finger with red fingernail polish lightly brushed a strand of hair from Tara's face, "For quite some time now. That first time I approached you in Bueno Nacho, and then our… encounter… at Bonnie Rockwaller's house? I was just trying to get inside your heads. It was sort of a… pre-emptive strike."
"And if I remember correctly from reading about you in my childhood, when a deal is made with the Devil, the Devil gets something in return. So what were you supposed to get?" Ron asked with surprising strength in his voice.
"Me?" Devil/Tara batted her eyes trying to look innocent at first, but then suddenly narrowed her eyes as she then explained to Ron what the other half of the deal involved. "I would get the one person who the entire world recognizes… Someone who everyone everywhere adores. You see, once I have control of this person, the world, your reality… basically everything that you are aware of… would actually be within my grasp." An almost sickly sweet sounding giggle escaped from the evil one's lips. "So do you know who that might be, Ronald… Dean… Stoppable?"
Swallowing hard, Ron was about to give an answer when Kim answered for him. "Me."
"What?" Tara exclaimed with genuine shock. "You didn't tell me that was the deal! All you said was that… that…"
Devil/Tara continued the young girl's thoughts. "Once you have Ronald Stoppable in your arms, I will have what has thwarted almost every attempt I've made to get a foot-hold on the human world once again."
"But… but…" Tara started to say, and tears started to flow from her baby-blue eyes as she looked at her red headed friend. "I'm sorry Kim… I… I didn't know that's what the deal was. I swear! I didn't want to get you involved this way."
Ron broke into the conversation with his 'serious look' covering his features. "So… the only way out of this deal is to prevent just one party from receiving they're part of the agreement. Correct?"
"Of course." Was Devil/Tara's immediate answer, and then immediately regretted her answer, as now at Ron's side was a blade of unparalleled workmanship. The sword flashed a bright blue, and then appeared as a dagger about ten inches in length.
Ron then took the point of the blade and placed it just below his sternum. "Then I'll just remove half of the deal from the equation." He looked over at Kim and mouthed the words 'I Love You' to her. He then grabbed the handle of the knife by both hands, and moved the point about 2 inches from the surface of his skin. Just as he started the strike that would have surely ended his life, Kim shot forward and grabbed onto the knife as well.
"Kim! What are you?" Was all Ron got out of his mouth as his girlfriend wrenched the blade to one side, preventing it from taking Ron's life.
With a grunt as she struggled with her boyfriend, Kim said, "There's… another… way."
After struggling with the knife for only a few seconds, suddenly both teens stood up straight with their eyes wide. One pair of eyes was wet with pain of the physical kind, and the others were wet from witnessing the loss of someone they loved.
Kim stumbled back away from Ron, and looked down at her now blood-drenched shirt. She looked back up at his deep brown eyes with her bright green orbs and mouthed the same words that he had done to her a mere few seconds ago. 'I Love You'.
Devil/Tara and Ron's voices reverberated in the room as both of them screamed out the same word. "NOOOOOOOOO!"
To be concluded… (I swear, it will be done in one more chapter)
Once again, sorry for this chapter being on the short side…
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