Chapter 7 The day after
Kim woke to find she was alone in Shego's bed but before she could get up to investigate she heard foot steps moving down the hall towards her.
Shego came in, her arms laden with a large tray filled with food, the smell filling Kim's nose and making her stomach growl. Which in Kim's usual shy fashion caused her to blush before smiling and half hiding her face with her blanket.
Shego only smiled and sighed. "Breakfast." Shego told the childish redhead.
"You didn't have to bring it to me, I could have come out to the kitchen." Kim replied, sitting up so Shego could set the tray in front of her.
"Yes I did." Shego admitted with a slight frown on her face, causing Kim to wonder what was wrong. Shego could see the question forming on Kim's lips, but didn't want answer it just now. "Eat first. Questions later." She told the redhead, sitting next to her on the bed and the tray. Rather then wait for Kim's response she started digging into the food herself.
The few minutes it took for the two of them to enjoy the simple breakfast Shego had made them was spent in relative silence. Kim was happy, but Shego was anything but, agonizing over having to tell Kim what she accidentally did last night, something she was not looking forward to. Worried at how Kim would take it. But come what may, she would tell her, and be there for her though it, if she would let her.
Kim set her fork down. Shego's time was almost up, she took another bite before standing and setting the tray aside. Sitting back down, she wrapped one arm around Kim tightly.
"I'm sorry Kim." Was all Shego said at first. Which only confused Kim.
"Why?" Was all she could think to ask, but she looked at Shego over her shoulder with the need for understanding in her eyes.
"Because today we find out how much the world really loves you." Shego told Kim somberly.
"What are you talking about?" Kim asked starting to get a little freaked out at the way Shego was talking.
"How much of last night do you remember?" Shego asked, instead of answering.
"Most of it, up until we ran out. After that I seem to remember a back message and a hot tub. But it's kinda fuzzy." She admitted honestly.
"I thought as much. You didn't see the people chasing us with cameras." Shego remarked.
"No. Where there?" Kim asked truly confused as to where this was going.
"Yes there were. Video cameras, still cameras, digitals, cell phones. Anything they had that they could get an image." Shego explained.
"Why where they chasing you like that? I mean, you've been out of the spot light for years." Kim wondered, still not understanding.
"They weren't chasing me Kim." Shego replied, hoping she wouldn't have to explain any further.
"They weren't?" Kim asked. Shego just shook her head. "Then who were they after?"
Shego answered in a single word. "Us."
"Why would they be after us?" Kim asked again, still not getting it.
Shego just sighed. "I'm sorry Kim, I'm going to have to come out and say it. Just don't hate me for it." She told the redhead, truly saddened at what she accidentally did to her princess. "Last nights concert, the one I wanted to perform for you, was to show you how I felt about you. Only I shouldn't have done it."
Kim still didn't understand. "What are you talking about Shego, I loved it. It was the most romantic thing anyone had ever done for me." Kim looked into Shego's eyes, still trying to understand why Shego kept saying she was sorry.
"Yeah, but I also did something I hadn't meant to do, or would do to anyone without asking first." Shego's voice was getting rough. It was obvious she was having trouble controlling her emotions.
"What's the matter Shego? You didn't do anything wrong." Kim was starting to get really worried about Shego.
"I outed you to the world." Shego said in a forced whisper as her head slumped, her hair masking her pain covered face. Kim could only sit there, finally understanding why Shego was sorry. It was something that had never crossed her mind. "Now the whole world wants to know the truth about Kim Possible." Shego continued, her voice reveling even more of the pain she felt.
"Oh." Was all Kim could say, her face still blank, the shock still not having set in. Shego sat there in silence, waiting for Kim to react. The minutes stretched on before Kim finally gave a real response. "So, what exactly does this mean?" She asked slowly.
It was not the reaction Shego was expecting. "It means that you're going to have to tell the world where you stand."
"What do you mean?" Kim asked, a little worried.
"Well, being that you are Kim Possible, the world is going to want to know if your seeing a woman. There going to want to know if your still safe to be a role model for there little girls, more then a few people are going to call you down for your choice. I'm sorry I did something so stupid and make you have to go through this.
Kim slapped Shego, leaving a dark imprint of her hand on the woman's pale cheek. "What do you mean safe? Of course I'm still safe! I'm not preaching that little girls should grow up to like girls, or hate boys!" Kim was fuming at the implied accusation. That was the reaction Shego had been expecting earlier, Kim got up and started heading for the door.
"Kim wait." Shego said jumping up to fallow her and try and stop her from walking out.
Kim turned and slapped her again, leaving another welt over the first. "I would never do anything that I was ashamed of, or thought other people should be ashamed of." Kim turned to leave again, Shego grabbed her from behind, holding the angry young woman tight, refusing to release the justifiably upset redhead.
"I know, I'm sorry. But that's what everyone's going to want to know." Shego admitted quietly, still holding the struggling redhead.
Kim fumed for a few minutes before managing to get control her emotions, and slumped into Shego's arms.
"So what now?" Kim asked dejectedly.
"That's up to you. I had Wade do his best to confuse the media, but that's only going to last so long. I also asked him arrange a press conference for later today."
"What?" Kim asked surprised at what Shego just told her.
"They don't know what the conference is for, or who called it." She quickly clarified, "So you don't have to go if it's not what you want to do. But I think it would be in your best interest to put out a statement before anyone can confirm what people think they saw last night." Shego explained, doing her best to keep her voice steady, despite the torrent of emotions that where swirling through her.
"So, tell them myself, or they speculate and blow it out of proportion." Kim deadpanned.
"I'm sorry Kim. There's nothing I can do to fix this, though I would if I could. What I can do is be there with you every step of the way."
"OK." Kim responded, slumping more on Shego, almost all her weight on the tall green woman now, the older woman gently lowering them both to the floor.
"We still have time to work on the details. The meeting isn't until later this afternoon, and I asked Wade to bring your parents for it." Shego told her.
"Thank you." Kim replied, thankful that Shego had the foresight to make sure her parents where going to be there to support her.
Shego picked Kim up and carried her over to her bed, and sat down pulling Kim onto her lap as she did so. They sat there for the better part of an hour, neither saying anything. They just sat there together enjoying there last few moments of piece before having to face the world.
All told the two women had been up for about two hours before finally getting ready to face the ominous day ahead of them.
Shego had calls to make and Kim had to prepare herself to face the world.
Shego put in a call to Wade made with Kim's borrowed kimmunicator.
"Hey...Shego?" Wade greeted after a moments hesitation before he realized who had called him.
"Yeah nerdlinger, you get everything set up like I asked?" Shego asked more calmly then most people would have given her credit for.
"Yes. I got Kim's family into seclusion before the media frenzy hit. I've also managed to keep everyone thinking that it's a tabloid gimmick. But even I won't be able to hold out much longer." He said with his fingers still flying over various keyboards. "There were just to many camera's there and to many of them are trying to be the first with confirmed footage. So what ever you're planning to do, you better do it soon." The genius said still working furiously.
"The press conference?" Shego asked looking over at Kim, who nodding resolutely. Knowing that it was the best option, even if she didn't like it.
"Its set. The networks don't know what's going on. But if at least one of them doesn't suspect what's up by now, I would be surprised." Wade told them both.
"Time and place?" Shego asked, doing her best to be patient.
"Conference room 302, they'll start arriving about one. I told them to be ready for a statement and possible questions at two." He replied, barely looking away from his other screens.
"Wait, room 302? You mean in my building, are you NUTS!" Shego yelled into the kimmunicator.
"Please relax, I'm not a rookie. There are no ties to you and your property that anyone in the media are going to find, it took my an hour to figure out that it was yours. If it took me an hour, it would take anyone else weeks to figure it out, if at all." He said matter-a-factly. "We hold the meeting in your building, once it's over we stage your 'escape'." He said making air quotes with one hand before quickly resuming his frantic work. "We send off your driver with some of my holograms in the back, so he can run them all over town. In the mean time, you two are sitting in your apartment with Kim's parents, discussing what ever you like." He finished, mentally patting himself on the back.
"OK nerdlinger, you seem to have thought this through. But the best laid plans of mice and men..." Shego said dryly.
"Yeah yeah, the best laid plans of war are only good until the first shot is fired, but at the moment we have every advantage. The networks were told in no uncertain terms that they could ask question seeking facts only. No assumptions, demoralizing, or baiting, strictly fact finding. Assuming their even aloud to ask any." Wade assured her.
"Whats to keep the reporters in line?" Shego asked with an edge to her voice.
"Simple. If the reporters don't fallow instructions, there a/v gear will go dead, and I'll crash there networks servers." Wade replied shrugging his shoulders as if it were nothing.
"That's a good bluff nerdlinger." Shego said sounding slightly impressed at the boys ideas.
With that, Wade turned and looked right at Shego, giving her his full attention for the first time in the conversation, his voice the most serious it had ever been, "Who's bluffing, I already have all there's systems hacked. All I have to do is pick a station and it goes down. It won't be any permanent damage but it will tick off the network executives and who ever the reporter was to cause it won't ever work again." Wade told Shego this with out blinking, or showing any emotion.
This actually impressed Shego. "Wow, I didn't think you had it in you Wade." She made sure to use his real name to show her new found respect for the often underestimated teenage, genius. "Remind me to put you on retainer."
"You couldn't afford me." Wade said with a smile before signing off.
Shego stood there slightly dumbfounded at Wade's brazenness. But she had to admit he impressed had her and she would never underestimate him or his abilities again.
The next several hours leading up to the conference where complete chaos for Kim. She couldn't find anything she felt comfortable wearing despite Shego's large wardrobe. Of course that was a minor problem considering she had no clue what she was going to say to the media, to say she was nervous was an understatement. It must have been the 4th or 5th time of Kim freaking out and saying she couldn't do this before her parents arrived. Mr. Dr. Possible really had no clue what to say, so he said nothing, he just stood behind his knowing wife, trusting her to do what she did best.
"Kim, Calm down." Mrs. Dr. Possible told her daughter as she walked into the bed room. "You can do this, you owe it to the little girls that look up to you. The world owes you more then a few debts, letting you live your life they way you want, is the least they can do."
"Is it really going to be that easy?" Kim asked hopefully, from her place on the bed with Shego.
"I hope so Kim, but I doubt it." Anne sighed in response. "The world is a complicated place. Full of double standards and bad politics." Anne said sitting down at the foot of Shego's bed. "All you can do is go out there, be yourself, tell your story, and hope they listen."
Kim took a long deep breath. "That's what I was afraid you'd say."
"I'm sorry Kim. You know me and your father are behind you in what ever you decide. But this is something that only you can do. You and Shego." Anne added looking over at the green skinned former thief.
It was a rare occasion that Shego blushed, something thus far only Kim had seen and lived to tell about. But being under the intense gaze of Kim's mother in these circumstances and realizing that Anne was giving Shego her blessing, provided that she stood with Kim in the face of the world press seemed oddly appropriate, even to her.
Shego looked at Kim, who was dressed in a simple gray skirt suit, with a light blue blouse. Shego wearing a similar one with slacks, but in black, with a white shirt. "Are you ready?" She asked, doing her best to be supportive and confident, while not trying to pressure Kim into anything.
Kim took several long deep breaths to steady her nerves. "As ready as I'm going to be." She admitted resolutely.
Shego just took Kim's hand in her own and gave it gentle squeeze, which Kim gladly returned.
The conference room was filled with turmoil, reporters trying to get there notes together, a/v guys trying to setup the various cameras and mics. Producers running around trying to make sure there up-links were good with there various studios. They were woefully unprepared for what was about to greet them.
First was the image of the large fairly well belt young black man that filled all there equipment monitors, and the various TV screens in the room. "Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes your host's will come out to give a statement and to take questions, please remember to follow the guidelines discussed. Keep your questions simple and without bias. If anyone violates these terms, I will shut you and your station down."
There was a general murmur of assent from the gathered news crews.
"Good. I suggest you get yourselves ready, your host's will be out shortly." Wade's image vanished, with his image now gone the crowd exploded again. The appearance of Wade Load could only mean one thing as far as the news crews were concerned. The rumors were true and Kim Possible and Shego were about to make a statement.
All the producers scrambled with there cell phones, trying to be the first one to tell their own studio the news. But all their efforts were in vein, each of them found out the hard way that they were going to have to wait to get there message out when they were all greeted with the same message.
"You were told that you couldn't release information until after the press conference, any further violation of the rules of engagement will result in your station going off line. Have a nice day." Wade's voice came across clearly to everyone in the room.
With a grumble the crews began to settle into there seats in front of the table.
Five minutes later the double doors behind the desk opened revealing Kim, Shego, and the parents Possible, causing the room to ignite yet again. Questions being asked on top of one another, the noise near deafening.
Kim tried to get everyone to calm down, but her voice simply couldn't carry through the din. Shego however, didn't have that problem.
"Shut up and sit, down." Shego bellowed, accentuating her point with a small plasma blast that burst over the center of the table. All eyes quickly turned to Shego. Even those of Kim, who looked at Shego with more then a little concern in her eyes. Concern that Shego might do something stupid if the reporters didn't start to settle down.
"Um if everyone could please calm down and have a seat we can begin." Kim said putting herself between Shego and the reporters.
After all the reporters had arranged themselves, Kim, Shego, and Kim's parents did the same. The tension in the room could have been cut with a knife, it wasn't until Shego took Kim's hand in her own under the table that the redhead felt enough confidence to speak.
"There is a rumor going around that last night I was seen in a club with Shego, and while at the club I may have kissed her. I'm here to set the record straight. So to speak." Kim added, which got a few laughs out of the assembled reporters. "The truth is, I was there and I did kiss Shego." Pulling her hand, which was still holding Shego's, above the table for all to see. After making that simple statement the reporters went wild again as the a/v guys did there best to keep the two women in the sweet spot of there equipment.
Once again Kim did her best to try and calm them, but again she met with no luck. Another ball of green plasma popped over the head of the crowd, instantly silencing everyone in the room. "I'm not going to ask again, sit down, and shut the hell up. Q and a will come later." Shego told everyone in a growl.
Everyone sat back down and quietly turned there attention back to listening to what the woman in front of them had to say.
"I've started a relationship with someone, unexpected, one that I don't know where it will lead." She looked at Shego, as if to say she was sorry. Only to find Shego looking back with understanding and acceptance in her eyes. "But I know I'll give it as much of a chance as anyone else would." She continued after returning her attention to the reporters, "While I've never asked for anything from the world for the work I do, I would like everyone to let me have my private life, without judging me for the choices I might make in it. If everyone will try and let me do that, I'll try and keep my private life just that." Kim took a deep breath, doing her best to prepare herself for the Pandora's box she was open to open. "If everyone can conduct themselves more calmly then seen so far, I'll start taking questions."
All the reporters hands went up at once, each wanting to be the first to get a question in. Kim gestured for a woman in the front row to begin.
"Miss Possible, Rachel Rein NBC channel 2, what is your stance on gay and lesbian relationships?"
"If your asking if I'm going to become a spokes person on one side of the issue or the other, the answer is no. I have no problem with gay or lesbian relationships, as should be obvious by my current relationship. But I'm not planning to endorse any of the organizations that work for gay rights at this time. Next question." Kim said, gesturing to a well built man in the middle of the group.
"Miss Possible, Clark Kent; daily planet, what are your current goals?"
"That's simple, first finish school. Then, one day, start a family, like everyone else." She answered, squeezing Shego's hand as she did.
"Miss Possible, you realize that you have long been a role model for girls, telling them to not let anyone's preconceptions stop them from being what they want to be. How will your life choice effect that message?" Mr. Kent continued, obviously trying to make sure Kim understood what she said here today would greatly effect the way the world looked at her.
"Hopefully it wont, I still think that anyone can be what they want to be if they're willing to work hard enough for it. For the record, I want all the little girls that do look up to me to know that just because I made a choice that not everyone agrees with, doesn't mean that they should. I want them to make the choice's that are right for them, choices that only they have the right to make for themselves" She told him.
"What would you say to someone that told you that just having made the choice would effect the way girls thought of you." Mr Kent pushed quickly trying to keep control of the press conference.
"That they don't give there daughters enough credit. If someone had told me five years ago, or even five months ago, that this would be were I would end up, I would have laughed and said it was ferociously unlikely, but would still have admitted to you that there was no way I could know where life would take me. Lets give someone else a chance shall we?" Kim asked Mr. Kent, realizing that he was purposely trying to spin her in the best light, but she knew she had to give the nay-Sayers a chance too to be fair. She gestured to a blond in the back row.
"Miss Possible, Summer Gale, Fox news channel 7, how long have you been seeing the infamous thief known as Shego?"
This caused Shego to growl, but Kim squeezed her hand to forestall her. "Not that it's any of your business, but about a month and if you had done your homework my girlfriend had been pardoned after helping stop an alien invasion. I'm not going to hide anything, but I'm going to ask you again for you to respect my privacy." Kim said trying to ignore any further questions from the woman.
"Miss POSSIBLE, Miss Possible." Summer yelled over the other reporters, "You say you hope to have a family, how do you expect to have kids being in an amoral relationship?" She asked, well outside of the rules that Wade had set up.
Kim knowing what was about to happened spoke to Wade before he did anything. "Wade, hold on a sec. Just kill her mic." Which caused Summer to fume. "First let me fill the rest of you in on a few facts you might not know. Me and Miss Gale have met. A few years ago I stopped an army of radioactive zombie snowmen from taking over Middleton, which was caused by the water she sucked up in a weather machine from lake Wannaweep to create the blizzard of the century just so she could have a major exclusive and relaunch her career, much as she's probably trying to do again now,. So you'll have to understand if her questions are a little, biased. But I'll answer her question before Wade kills her stations feed and with it, what was left of her career.
"First, while I do care about Shego I think she'll understand when I say I don't know that the two of us will get that far." She looked at Shego again, this time she did see the pain she was expecting to. Kim squeezed her hand to let her know that she was just being honest, which Shego squeezed back. While Shego would admit to herself that she did not like the idea of not being with Kim, she had to face facts that Kim and her might not work out. She just had to have hope that it would.
"But If we ever do get that far, I've always been a supporter for adoption. No matter what your personal relationship might be." She continued, returning her gaze to the fuming Gale.
"Now to the 'question' about bring up a child in an amoral relationship." The disdain in her voice at the comment obvious. "That is not a question that anyone has a right to ask anyone else. What one person might think is amoral, another might think is status quo. More to the point, who gets to decide what is amoral? Summer hear thinks it's amoral for two women in a committed relationship to make the conscious decision to adopt a child, or possibly go through some form in-vitro fertilization to have children, I say it's not. Think about the parents that are drug addicts and pedophiles that still have there unplanned children and don't give them the love that they deserve, often abusing them and destroying there lives before they even have a chance to begin them. Some of which end up in the foster care and adoption systems to be unable to find loving people that want to take care of them because other people are trying to tell them that there unfit to be parents because they live there lives differently then everyone else!" Summer's comment had really hit a nerve in Kim, which quickly became obvious to everyone in the room, making even Shego look at her with a little more respect.
"Wade, I think you can ruin Summers career now." Shego said in surprisingly calm voice, after which all of her crews equipment went dead, except her cell phone which was now ringing. "You might want to answer that Miss Gale. I think it might be important." Shego said sardonically, which caused everyone else in the room to laugh. "Oh and keep in mind the agreement you made with Mr. Load, your still not aloud to share any information until everyone else here has a chance to do the same. Now moving on." Shego motioned for another reporter to ask a question.
"Miss Go. Steven Johnson , ABC channel 13..."
"Ba ba bup, I'm going to stop you right there." Shego interrupted before the man even had a chance to ask a question. "I'm here to support Kim, nothing more. I'm not making a statement, or taking questions. I've made a major effort to keep my private life, just that. So ask Kim a question or we'll move on, and it's Shego."
"Miss Possible, what would you tell people that say that being with Shego, a former criminal and a woman that had tried to hurt you and take over the world several times, would through doubt into all of your actions as a hero?" Steven asked.
"Id say they obviously haven't being paying attention. I've always let my actions speak for me. I go anywhere I'm needed when ever I'm needed. If anyone thinks that my being with a reformed criminal would change that, they are sadly mistaken."
"What about those that might say that Shego is with you to try and turn you to the side of evil?" He continued.
"I think I will answer a question." Shego announced, having changed her mind. "While that might have been something I would have tried years ago, with no small amount of pleasure I might add." Which caused Kim to roll her eyes. "As a thief and evil side kick looking at several life sentences, I was given a chance to walk away and I took it. I haven't looked back since. I just want to live my life in private and have some fun along the way." She told the reporters.
"One more question before we go, you Miss in the front." Kim said gesturing to a small.
"Yes, Miss Possible. Vicky Vale, Gotham Gazette. Do you plan to work together in your hero work?"
Kim looked at Shego quickly before she answered, "It's not something we've discussed. But I would say for the time being, despite her help with the Lawardian invasion and the one or two other times she helped me in the past, no. I'm aware that Shego left her former team under less then ideal circumstances and it's something she hasn't yet confided in me, though I'm sure she did so for a good reason. But until she's ready to talk with me about it, then I would definitely not want her to feel obligated to work with me in what I do.
"Before we go, there's a few more thing I would like to say. You'll notice that my parents are sitting behind us, they support me in my choice like I would hope anyone's parents would. They did not push me one way or another on anything as a child, they let me make my own choices and taught me that I had to live with the consequences of my actions, what ever the outcome. I ask the world to do the same for there own children. I don't see myself becoming a politician or an advocate for the gay and lesbian cause though that may change in the future. Like I admitted earlier, I have no way of knowing where life will lead me, though I'm sure I'll remain a public figure for some time to come as I don't yet plan to retire anytime soon. For the first time in my life I would like to ask the world for a boon for my help, please just leave me my private life, it's all I want and will ever ask.
"With that, I'll say good by." Kim said standing up with Shego and her parents.
"Mr. Kent, a word." Shego said as they filled out the same door they came in.
"What about my deadline Shego?" He asked, as he fallowed.
"There's still about 15 minutes before everyone will be aloud to send out there stories. You have time to listen to my offer." Shego said walking into a side room where they could have some privacy, as Kim and her parents continued upstairs.
"Which is?" Mr. Kent asked, putting away his note pad, as Shego shut the door behind them.
"Simple, I want you to be Kim's PR agent and before you say no." Shego said to forestall the objection she knew he was thinking. "This will be on top of your contract with the Daily Planet. Really it would be little more then the Planet getting all future exclusives about us. Because you and I both know it's not going to end today."
"If I were to consider your offer, you must understand that I'll ask questions on both sides of the issue?" He asked.
"I"m aware of that, that's why I want you. Even back in there, you were asking honest straight forward questions without bias. In my book, the mark of a real reporter, so what do you say?" Shego asked seriously.
"I'll have to clear it with Mr. White, So I'll have to get back to you." Clark told her.
"Oh for crying out loud, always the boy scout Mr. Kent? Give me a second." Shego told him while pulling out her cell phone, dialing a number. "Perry? Hi it's Shego. Sorry to bother you at work, I know you have a dead line.[pause] Yes, yes I'm doing fine. [pause] No, sorry no new new's with me, I'm staying off the radar. But speaking of which are you aware your star reporter is here in Middleton for a press conference, I believe your holding the afternoon edition for his report. [pause] Yes he did a wonderful job, It may very well be your story of the year. [pause] No, that's not why I called. I called because I offered your Mr. Kent all future exclusives in regards to the story he just covered, and I think he's considering saying no. [pause] OK I'll tell him. Thank you Perry, tell the Missus I loved the opera tickets she sent me for Christmas." Shego said before she hung up her phone.
"You know Mr. White?" Clark asked.
"Yep, I know more then a few big wigs in the world, Perry just happens to be one of the ones that I like. Anyway, he says that if you refuse my offer your fired. After you publish this story under his label of course." Shego told him with a smirk.
"Well when you put it that way, Id be happy to take your generous offer." Clark said with a genuine smile.
"Here's my assistant's number." Shego said handing him a card out of her pocket. "He'll trade all the necessary information with you that you'll need."
"Thank you Shego, I look forward to working with you in the future. Now if you don't mind I need to work on this before I send it to print." Clark said heading for the door.
It was only a few minutes later that Kim and her parents made it up to Shego's apartment. Shego herself joining them shortly after to watch the fun as the less scrupulous reporters tried to fallow Shego's limo as it left the building. Some of the reporters even managed to tail the limo for a quite a few miles before John lost the last one and returned to the garage.
Shego and the Possibles had a good laugh at watching the chase on her large couch thanks to Wade, before moving onto more serious matters.
"That went about as well as good be expected." Kim admitted. "Even with Gale showing up." She added.
"Yeah, I don't know why Wade let that bitch in. Or how she got in with a Fox affiliate." Shego said to know one in particular.
Kim was just about to chastise the green woman when she realized something. "You called him Wade."
"Yeah, what of it?" Shego replied as nonchalantly as possible.
"You like him now, don't you?" Kim asked with a huge smile on her face.
"Yeah, what ever." Shego responded in her usual offhanded way.
"Getting back on topic." Mrs. Dr. Possible said trying to get the girls to get back to the situation at hand.
"What? Right." Kim said after thinking about what they should be talking and thinking about. "Yeah it was about as good as I could have hoped."
The remainder of the afternoon was spent by Shego and the Possibles going over the days events and trying to predict the out come of the press conference. But the real outcome wouldn't be known for a few days, until the news had a chance to saturate the world.
The next week was an eye opener for Kim. In general the news had been taken well, but there was enough nay-Sayers, and bad press to put a serious damper on Kim's mood, particularly after a week of near seclusion to allow the news to spread.
It had been quickly decided that it would be a good idea to stay out of the public's eye for a while. Kim was done with classes for the time being, and Wade had put out a message on her site saying 'While Kim does so very reluctantly, she apologies for having to take time off.' but nothing else. It was agonizing Kim who was keeping tabs on the world through Wade and the world news, glad to see that so far her absence hadn't caused any major effects so far.