A month passed and Drakken finally finished a new doomsday device. He'd been having a hard time without Shego, but he was proud that even he could manage to get his hands on things he needed. It was tough, and something he didn't plan to do forever, but it was something. If nothing else, it was proof that he was not completely incompetent.

And, just like always, the redheaded hero was on time, swooping in with her blonde side-kick.

"Give it up Drakken!"

"Kim Possible! And… the boy whose name eludes me…"

"Oh come on! Not again! It's Ron, Ron Stoppable."

"Whatever," the blue man dismissed with a hand wave. Then he turned to his henchmen and yelled, "ATTACK!"

Even with the lasers outfitted around the lair, and the henchman coming at them, it didn't take long for Kim to be take them down. First went the lasers, then down fall the henchmen. Ron of course was going after Drakken in his usual manner, arms flailing and magic mystical monkey power still nowhere to be seen.

Kim looked around. Something was off. And then it hit her, well, technically it didn't hit her. "Where's Shego?"

Nobody heard her, so she asked again, louder, "Where's Shego?" Her eyes swept the place carefully. She was worried the green skinned woman was hiding nearby and waiting for the perfect chance to strike.

Drakken and Ron both paused in their Rock-Paper-Scissors contest to look at her. Drakken finally piped up and said, "She took vacation."

"Oh," was all Kim replied with. That was good enough for her. With that, she proceeded in destroying the doomsday device and letting the lair explode. In the chaos Drakken escaped into his hovercraft.

As Kim and Ron watched him fly away, Kim muttered softly, "Damn it."

Ron raised an eyebrow but didn't ask. Kim wasn't one to cuss, especially after defeating Drakken, even if they hadn't managed to catch them. But it couldn't be anything else, or so he thought.

Two months passed, and they'd foiled Drakken's plans again. This time he was thrown in prison, but still, no Shego.

Before Drakken was taken away by the police, Kim asked, "Where'd Shego go? I mean, usually if she has vacation it isn't THIS long. You're terrible without her."

He whimpered, "I don't know. She just got mad at me and stormed off." He curled up into a ball and started sucking his thumb.

The two heroes and their naked mole rat just watched as he cradled back and forth. They had no clue what to make of it.

As they headed home, Kim suddenly asked, "Why do you think Shego took such a long vacation?"

Ron shrugged, "Hey, if I had to work with Drakken for all those years, once in a while I'd need it too. I mean seriously Kim; he curled up on the floor and was practically CRYING. Shego was probably losing her mind around him!"

"I guess. I just never thought she'd disappear. It feels weird without her there."

"Don't worry about it KP. This just makes our jobs easier!" he said with a bright grin.

Kim returned it half-heartedly and she had to wonder. Why did she feel like she was missing something important whenever her foe wasn't there?

She sighed and decided to forget it. It'd be troublesome to think about the green woman, especially after her foe had said that she'd been flirting with her the whole time. Was their trying to kill each other, or at least seriously injure the other, really considered flirting? Sure the pet names and slight sexual innuendos were flirtatious, but she doubted that fighting could be considered such… could it?

Kim mentally scolded herself. She'd decided to stop thinking about it, yet there she was, continuing to question it.

"Hey Kim, wouldn't it be nice if Shego just stopped being evil? If she were to stay on vacation forever that'd be such a burden off our shoulders. I mean, without her, that makes everything easier. Drakken can't even get out of prison on his own," Ron said with a slightly dreamy look in his eyes. As long as there was one less enemy to fight, he would be content.

"I… I dunno. I guess," she mumbled. It didn't seem nice at all, but she wasn't going to say that to Ron, she didn't even know why she felt that way. Then she decided to change the subject, "So… I here you recently started dating Yori. How's that going?"

He blushed a little and said, "It's going well." He scratched his head lightly in embarrassment. He hadn't wanted to bring it up with Kim because she was still single. For some reason he felt that it wasn't right for him to be moving on and dating someone else before she did.

She smiled lightly and gave him a pat on the back, "I'm happy for you Ron. Really. You don't have to skirt around it you know." She laughed lightly, letting him know that she wasn't mad. They were best friends. They could tell each other everything, thought to herself she did admit that some things just might take a bit longer than others.

When they landed, the two pulled off their parachutes and said their goodbyes. It was pretty late and both wanted some sleep.

Kim took a shower and then plopped down on her bed. She was exhausted, but not physically. No matter how much she'd told herself not to think of Shego, her mind had drifted back to her foe. She rubbed her temples as she stared up at her dark ceiling.

"Was your day really that stressful? I thought defeating Dr. D would be easy with me gone," said a familiar voice.

The hero's head whipped towards her closet where the woman who'd been on her mind was standing.

"Miss me Princess?" Shego asked with a smirk.