Kim was more than annoyed.

This was too long, she had already been here for hours; she was fine, they told her so; why didn't they just release her?

And then she knew.

"Doctor Director"

"Kim, I came as fast as I could"

"Thanks, but why are you here? I didn't think it was your jurisdiction"

"You are correct; I'm just making sure you're safe and I wanted to ask you once again if you wanted to be protected"

"I didn't change my mind. Once again, thank you for coming"

The woman with an eye patch sighed, ready to leave, but she was stopped when she had barely turned around.

"But it's not like you need my agreement to do that anymore. Or so it seems"

She faced the young woman, getter closer than necessary.

"Sometimes I just do what needs to be done"

"Even making me believe for all these years that I had killed Shego when you knew was alive"

Betty's face tensed for a second.

"So you saw her when she pulled you off the street. What do you want me to say? You're not really linked to the GJ anymore"

She frowned when she saw that Miss Possible wasn't really listening to her.

She was pale and seemed lost in her thoughts.

The director realized that she had said too much; she didn't use to overestimate the redhead; things had changed.

"Shego is protecting me?"

She said it out loud more to herself than to anyone else

Things made sense; the smell, what happened to Ron, she knew her cat couldn't have done that. About the cat, Shego had tried to burn her?!

"Kim!"

She jumped a little and focused her eyes on the older woman.

"Why didn't she contact me?"

"Contact you?! She didn't want that job, she is convinced you hate her ever since you tried to kill her. I wonder why"

She didn't mean to sound so harsh but she was pissed; it was even worse because it was at herself. How could she have let it slip?

It is a basic thing; make sure you know everything before opening your mouth.

She felt bad when she saw the greens eyes in front of her tear up just before Kim turned her head the other way.

"I'm sorry, you didn't deserve it. But you know it's true; from what I know about her, it takes her a lot of time to trust someone, even just a little bit, and when you had you last fight she was wounded, badly. We didn't even knew she could get burned, we figured that with her powers, it was impossible, but there was some kind bad reaction with the electricity and it took her a good month be able to walk on her own again"

Kim was going to puke, she knew she was, but if the director saw it she didn't show it.

"She didn't want you to know she was fine"

"She hates me"

Tears were going down her cheeks.

"No, I think she is more scared than anything"

"Can I…Can I see her?"

She whipped her tears and tried to pull herself together.

"She was told to go back to her place right now"

"Where?"

"Kim, you know I can't tell you that. At least not right now"

The redhead started to think, Shego had to be close to be able to be there in an instant if she was in danger, but somewhere she could watch her too.

"She is in the building in front of mine?!"

"No"

Then how could she…

"You put video cameras in my home!"

She made a mental note, she'd have to speak to Wade, if he checked he had to have discovered that.

Then she blushed when she thought about the day before.

"You put them everywhere?"

Seeing the blood rush to the other's face she thought about something entirely different than what was going on in Kim's head.

"No, not in the shower, or the toilet"

It had been taken down once Shego nicely told her what she thought about two men watching this kind of images, a little bit more and she'd have convinced her to take down the one in the bathroom, they had put it in a particular position, so they couldn't see anything under the redhead's shoulders.

They were working on a blurring program, something automatic for the private parts.

Kim could feel she was as red as a tomato, Shego had most likely seen her…wait.

"She can't watch me twenty four seven"

"She is not alone; I have agents taking the night shifts"

Oh. My. GOD!

Great now she was even more scared to face her old nemesis, but even if she had never been this scared there was nothing that could stop her from seeing the green woman again.

Shego waited, and waited; it's not something she was fond of but she wanted news, so as soon as she saw her step out she cornered the director.

"So how is she?"

"Shego?! Where have you been ?!"

"Where do you think?"

"I don't know, we have people looking for you since your bracelet stopped emitting"

"Betty, stop it! I'm here, I didn't disappear from this face of the world, I just went under the radar, I didn't want to be stopped by one of your goons. Now, how is she?"

"She is…okay. Mostly"

Wrong thing to say, she could see on Shego's face that she was going to blow up any second now id she didn't explain herself.

"She is healthy; she is just freaked out, now that she knows you are here"

Doctor Director lowered her voice when she said the last part, and looked away for a moment.

"You told her!"

"It slipped! I thought she saw you and that was why you ran!"

"She didn't!"

"I know that now! And I wouldn't have made that mistake if you hadn't disappeared like that!"

"And I told you it wasn't a mission for me!"

Once they stopped for a second they realized they were still in front of the hospital and that if before she was discreet, Shego was now the center of attention.

She turned to a man who was standing too close, obviously trying to listen to them.

"What you've never seen a woman get into a fight because she was jealous her friend had two eyes and didn't have an eye patch!"

It was a good thing her boy found them like that. The director was ready to lose it.

"Shego! GJ have been looking for you everywhere! You could be in trouble!"

"Mikey! Thank God! How is Kimmie?"

"She is perfectly fine; she is just going to be sore for a few days. She is being discharged as we speak"

"Thank you!"

She just stepped forward and hugged him; to say the director was surprise would be an understatement; after a second she cleared her throat.

Immediately they jumped apart, Mikeal's eyes grew wide.

"Doctor Director!"

"Agent Storms"

"I was making sure the teams were on place, the building is secure when I heard voices in that corner"

"You didn't tell me you were getting this close to your assignment"

"I wasn't! I'm not! Shego tell her!"

He turned, and turned; she was gone. He then looked at his boss, who seemed pissed.

"It's okay, I'm pretty sure I know where she is. At the apartment"

"I don't want to know how you'd know that. Just go, find her, because if you don't you'll have to go back to a desk job"

He was right; he felt as if he had ran all the way to the flat, but he felt such a relief when he barged in and saw her on the couch, eyes not really focused on anything, she was petting Kim Possible's cat.

The feline looked up when he got in but the green woman seemed lost in her thoughts, maybe she was just lost.

"Shego?"

She looked at him, and it was like the lights went on in her head.

"I was worried you might have left"

He sat down next to her and started to move his hand to pet the cat too but stopped when he saw the way this beast looked at him; he just stayed by the thief' side.

"What do you mean?"

"I was going to, but I found the fur ball sleeping in my closet, on my catsuit"

"And she made you think about Kim"

"Kinda"

"I thought about who she had become, and I thought…I wondered…what would happen if I was to leave again?"

"I knew it!"

Of course agent Storms kept this thought inside; instead with a calm exterior he more or less asked.

"So…you do care about her?"

"I…guess"

Seeing the face of the man facing her she felt the need to precise.

"But not the way you'd like me to"

He sighed, was she still really in denial?

"In what way do you care about her?"

"I…don't know. I just don't want her to be destroyed. She was a goody two shoes, still is but at least she was a decent fighter; now it seems she just give up when someone stand up to her"

"Well from what I've heard she is still a fighter in court"

"Really?"

Maybe she sounded too hopeful, she didn't care that much, so she spoke again.

"Good for her, maybe she's not completely lost"

"Then everything is good; you can go"

Mikael hoped that maybe this could work.

"I…you wouldn't let me go. You know…I'm a wanted criminal"

"You have plasma powers; if you want to go now there is nothing I could really do to stop you, and we wouldn't be able to track you down without the ankle bracelet, so go"

"I…can't"

"Why? Nothing is stopping you…but yourself"

He was careful, he watched her closely to be sure that she wouldn't try to hit him, or worse; he held his breath while waiting for her reaction.

She frowned, any other day she couldn't let him have the last word but she needed to think.

She was interrupted by the cat, mini Shego meowed, telling her she'd better start to pet her again, or so it was what the green woman understood. She complied.

Mikey got up slowly, staring at her.

"I'm going to let you ponder that for a while, I have a phone call to make"

Kim Possible was escorted to her apartment by someone she knew, agent Du; she had accepted this hoping to get some information out of him.

But every time she spoke to him she was left with the need to groan; he didn't change one bit, he was still so full of himself.

Finally she arrived to her place and didn't waste any time getting in.

"So thank you for escorting me back here. I'm sure that with Shego and all you must have your plate full"

"Once again Miss Possible, I'm not allowed to tell you anything"

"Fine"

She went in and closed her door, and leaned against it in a sight.

Gosh, she regretted coming back with him, he was useless; he wouldn't tell her a thing and she couldn't tell him to…

Her eyes grew wide. She opened her door again; she could ask him to give Shego a message!

But he was already gone, the corridor was empty.

She could have sworn it had only been a few seconds since she'd closed her door.

She was more tired than she thought.

She was finally home so there was something she needed to do asap.

As fast as she could she grabbed her laptop; it's always when you are in a rush that these things are slow. At least there was no update needed.

It rang once; she went to sit on her couch.

It rang a second time; she was wriggling her hands together.

It…didn't ring a third time; Wade appeared.

"Kim what's up?"

It was strange, he didn't look at her; he seemed captivated by something on or close to his keyboard.

"Wade!"

He looked up suddenly; didn't expect her to scream, and the next second he was blushing.

Okay, this was weird; she'd have to speak to him about it, later.

"Wade, you told me nothing was out of the ordinary at my place. You had to know that GJ was recording my every move! Why did you lie to me?! "

"I…Kim…I'm sorry; But you were in danger and for some reason you refused to be helped. When I discovered it we came to an agreement. And from what I heard not so long ago that was the right decision"

She turned her head a second, looked out the window, wondering where was Shego, both of them.

"When you went behind my back to work with GJ, did you know that they had Shego all these years?"

Now she looked hurt; Wade preferred her pissed, it didn't make him feel so bad. So for his own survival for now, he decided to deny it.

"Of course not!"

She knew him too well; it was so phony!

"You knew! How could you! You went with them even when…"

"I'm stopping you right here! Before you say it, I never betrayed you. I did what I thought was best and if I had to do it, I'd probably do it again"

She opened her mouth but he cut her off before she could form a word.

"I'm not working with or for GJ; when I found the video cameras I followed their signals and dialed in. That's when I…Shego was there, on my screen!"

"You knew since then!"

She was wounded that he didn't tell her, but strangely, it hurt less knowing that he was working with Shego and not with GJ.

"Kim I'm really sorry. I wanted to tell you…but, we came to an agreement. The moment I was sure you'd be safe I'd have told you she was…"

"next door" He stopped himself right before he said it.

"Protecting me"

Kim finished his sentence, or so she thought, then she asked him what she needed to know.

"Do you know where she is?"

He made a face and Kim thanked whoever she could in her mind for this, he couldn't keep a secret from her. Well not lie directly to her face.

"Where is she?!"

"Kim. She can protect …"

"Wade. I'm going to go through my flat, every single inch. I'll find these video cameras and I'll take them down, one way or another. So if you want Shego to protect me, tell yourself that she'll have to it the old way. Close to me"

Her tone changed at the end of her sentence; she didn't speak as loud as she did for the rest of her outburst.

"Give me five minutes"

"Wade no!"

Too late, he had cut their connection.

If she didn't have to keep it for him to contact her again she could have thrown her computer, the window was just right here.