The situation was pretty much the same in the kitchen.
Agent Storms was watching Ron and Shego argue; they were standing too close to each over for their safety.
Monique looked at Kim beside her who seemed to want to step up and stay here at the same time.
The young black woman rolled her eyes before whistling, and everything stopped in the room, except the cat. The fur ball had climbed on the table and meowed in her direction.
She had to take care of the humans first.
"Sit, Ron on that side, Shego, opposed to him"
That way they were as far as possible while sitting at that table, then she turned to the last man in the room and pointed the middle seat.
He shook his head, no.
"I'm good where I am"
"Then pull a chair against the wall. I don't want anyone running wild"
"I…what about…the both of you?"
He felt strangely intimated by that woman, he'd have to run a background check on her, asap.
"I won't run wild, I run this thing"
He opened his mouth but didn't feel like he could say anything to her while she was watching him like that. So he looked down, only to look up when he had his behind on a chair, against the wall, as she had told him to.
"Great"
Now that it was done, she walked up to the table and scratched the cat's head, and it purred.
Monique turned to the red head, ignoring the others in the room.
"So you still won't tell me what's the name of this cat?"
The green woman, who was glaring at the buffoon, had a mood change; a smirk replaced her grim face and she stopped glaring to look kind of playful. But her eyes didn't leave the boy in front of her as she spoke.
"Yes Kimmie, what's the name of you delightful cat?"
Once she was finished she leaned on the table and patted the black and white cat; it purred even harder.
Ron had to do the same, the beast couldn't be that bad.
The cat hissed at him and backed up towards the thief. Ron said the only thing that went through his mind.
"Well that cat is just a bad judge of character"
That got him a stare down from Monique and he avoided her gaze as much as he could.
The little smirk on the green woman's face turned into a full satisfied smile.
Kim watched Ron turned red, the more his color changed the more Shego seemed to have a blast. She didn't want another fight so she turned to the one she thought she had a real influence on.
"Shego"
It only made things worse when both the woman and the cat turned their heads in the red head's direction and Monique exclaimed.
"Oh my god! You named her after her! You've got it bad"
The last part she didn't say as loud, and only to her bff.
Ron was fuming in his seat; he hit the table with both hands.
"This is not funny! This is not a game! Shego cannot stay and live with Kim"
"Why not buffoon? She can do whatever she wants with her life"
"It's her life but the people who care about have to make her see, this is wrong!"
"It's not about her, it's about you! Otherwise you'd have done something when you saw she was miserable!"
"Hey! I'm not! I was not!"
They glanced at Kim but went back to their staring contest, their glaring contest.
"I gave her what she needed, time! To realize…!"
"To realize what?! That you were the one! Get real you were never the one, just a lousy substitute!"
That did it. He launched himself over the table and was stopped by Monique and Kim, then agent Storms. He trashed but gave up after a few minutes and let himself be pinned to the table. Of course it didn't help that Shego was looking at this scene, arms crossed and smirk in place. The cat had ran and hopped on a much safer counter.
Kim looked up at her new lover.
"Shego, bedroom now!"
"Is it really the moment?"
"Shego! He needs to calm down"
"I'm not leaving you here with him and with the other Damocles sword above your head"
"Shego!"
"He needed to hear it. If not to leave you live your life, just so he can move on"
There was a grunt on the table, the blond moved a little then managed to speak.
"Yeah right! You're doing this for me!"
"No, I'm doing this for me of course. But it doesn't mean that I'm not the only one who needs it"
Ron snorted again and started to push on the table.
"Let me up! I'm calm now"
The three people holding him down looked at each other, then at the thief who raised her hands.
As a common agreement the let him go slowly, until he was standing, glaring but he stayed still.
"I agree, we can talk, peacefully, only if she behaves"
He pointed at the green woman as he said "she".
"Yeah, right, like…"
Mikael stopped and took a step back as he got a glare from Monique who spoke after that.
"Okay, let's do that again. Everybody sit"
Shego hadn't gotten up so it wasn't a problem, she just crossed her legs; Ron sat down at the same place, just like the GJ agent. The two other women sat down too this time, between the glaring opponents.
"Good, now kids, I'm sure we talk and be civilized"
No one spoke they were just looking at her.
"Before we go further, the most important things today, Kim, are you and the wonder thief here in a relationship or just messing around?"
The red head felt the weight of their expecting stares on her.
"Well, you see, it's pretty new, but I'd rather think, that it's the start of something real"
Monique then look at the green woman, who didn't reply to the implicit question, she just nodded.
"Next public topic, Ron, why are you so pissed?"
He had his arms crossed, still glaring at Shego, when he replied.
"I don't even know how you can ask that. Kim is completely lost, someone tried to kill her and now, this green freak takes advantage of her like that, when she should be in jail for life, or dead"
"Hey! Kimmie was lost, someone tried to kill her, and that's why I'm here to protect her. If anything you are the one trying to take advantage of her, 'oh, you don't want me here but I'll say anyway and while we are at it let's share the bed Kim P'. That's disgusting!"
He was red all over again, ready to explode, and when he opened his mouth to reply she cut him off, raising her hand as she did so.
"You should know when you are as good as me they can't keep you in a cell, there is no jail for the wicked. And in front of an average buffoon, like you, I'm proud to be a freak"
She decided to end on a mature note and stick out her tongue, while Ron had now his mouth hanging open, he couldn't believe her attitude.
Monique knew she had to mediate it, as long as this lasted.
"We are getting a little off track again. Ron, Kim is a grown woman, this is her life, you don't have to happy about it, nor understand it, just to respect it, respect her"
"I can't! She can't! She can't be gay! She can't be with Shego"
Strangely it was Mikey who spoke.
"What's the problem? That she's gay or that she is with Shego?"
"I didn't say it right, she is not gay, she just likes Shego, and that's my problem"
"Ron, it's not just about Shego…"
"Of course it is!"
"Buffoon, when the princess speak, you shut up!"
The GJ agent added to what Shego said when he raised his hand and said "Aye!"
Kim started to fidget when she spoke about her past.
"Well, you see when I was really young, you know I was friends with Bonnie, but something happened between us, things got strange, then what you know happened between us"
"You hated each over!"
Shego put her hand above her mouth and acted as if she wanted to be discreet but really wasn't when she spoke to her pumpkin.
"Is he talking about me or the cheer bitch?"
"Wait wait wait! You and Bonnie! That's …"
"Hot?"
Shego seemed to be having fun when she tried to finish the black girl's sentence, but she wasn't thrown off.
"No comment, though I wonder how come I've never heard about it?"
"Mo, it's ended badly, I didn't even want to even think about that"
"Then, you got yourself a good distraction, that one here"
"It wasn't like that, she was the bad girl and I had to beat"
"So you deny thinking about anything else than a fight when you were leaving school to fight your thief saying something like, 'don't worry she is going down'?"
Kim blushed while Mikael and Shego were laughing, but Ron couldn't stand it anymore and got up, hitting the table with both hands.
"This is serious, how can you support this Monique?! And you Kim, what will your parents think?"
Monique was offended by that.
"I understand this is hard for you, but Kim is my bff, and she is happy that's all that matter to me, and if you really love her that's what should be important to you too!"
Ron opened her mouth and closed it a few times before he stormed out of the kitchen, and out of the apartment.
"Okay…well on that note, girl you should expect a call from your parents, wonder thief, you may be wicked but if you hurt her there is nowhere your green ass can hide. And you, what's your name, handsome?"
He blushed but still managed to give his name.
"Agent Mikael Storms, it's nice to meet you miss"
"Don't call me miss, it's Monique, or Mo, for now"
She was giving him a playful smile, he nodded, cleared his throat and got up.
"I have to…check on the guys next door…the windows…"
And he was gone, as fast as he could, while Shego was laughing out loud, Kim slapped her lightly on the arm.
"That's not nice"
"I'm not nice"
The red head rolled her eyes.
"Why don't you go check out the windows too?"
"I'm fine here"
Monique felt the need to translate.
"She wants you to step outside for a while"
"I know"
But she didn't move from her chair, the two other women gave her a meaningful glare, she sighed but got up and walked out.
"If you need me just shout, and if you get killed because you throw me out, it's not my responsibility"
Once she was gone, Monique cut right to it.
"Okay, I want details, now"
"Mo!"
"Not that kind of details! Although…"
"Mo there is really nothing to tell, it's new…"
"It's great!"
"Monique, I don't know how…once I'm safe, will she…"
"Kim, I haven't seen you this strong since high school, to me it's good; she is good for you, and when you'll be safe and sound, she will stay, she knows I'd have to kill her otherwise…but seriously, I think she cares, I'm pretty sure she already did when we were in high school…"
"Where did you get that idea?!"
"Come one, all the innuendo, the pet names, and the fact that you spend a lot of time rolling around with her, on the floor"
"So?"
"She has these…fire hands! If she wanted to, she could have killed you anytime, and from the times I tagged along on your missions, she always had that smile when she saw you"
"That's…I've never…why didn't you tell me!?"
"What was I supposed to say 'hey Kim, I think your nemesis got a thing for', we were in high school, it was some time ago"
Kim clenched her hands a few times, while staring at the door on the side.
"Kim, you're okay?"
"I…she would have liked me, spared me, and…I tried to kill her"
"Wow, no, Kim, it was an accident, you didn't mean for anything bad to happen to her I'm…"
"No…I… I wanted to hurt her like she hurt me, she betrayed…"
"Kim, you were officially enemies back then, you had no way…it was just messed up! But now it's in the past"
"I…I don't want to lose her ever again"
"Then never let her go, I'm sure you can do it"
"Anything is possible for a Possible"
"That's my girl!"
The red head gave her a small smile which grew wide.
"It seems you got your eyes set on a new boy toy"
"Did you see him? That man is smoking hot!"
Kim groaned at that.
"Okay, girl, what was that?"
"I don't …really like him"
"That much?"
"He has this…relationship, with Shego"
"Oh, and me saying he is hot doesn't help you with your green monster"
Kim groaned again, this time lowering her head until it was touching the table.
"That's not so bad, you're just jealous"
"I know, and this is horrible!"
Her voice was muffled since her face was still really close to the flat surface, which caused a laugh to come from her friend.
Kim raised her head, and was sitting straight again.
"Monique!"
"Come on! It's funny, I came here because Ron was so worried, found you in a compromising position with your green lady, had to arbitrate between you ex boy and your new girl, while meeting a sexy agent…"
"I get it, you had… an interesting day"
"And it's not over, now I'm gonna help you feel safer"
"How?"
"I'm going to make that Mikael mine, that way you'll have no reason to worry about your girl"
"You know she has a name?"
"Yes, but it's more fun this way"
And Kim groaned again.