Chapter 11
The next morning, Shego woke early with her lover and fiance in her arms, having slept wonderfully after making love to Kim for the first time. Kim was still asleep, which was just find with the raven haired woman as she contented herself with watching Kim slumber in the early hours of the morning. After unknown amount of time, she could feel the redhead begin to stir in her arms.
"Good morning" Shego greeted her in a loving tone before placing a kiss on her lips, which Kim quickly and early returned.
"Ga-morning," Came Kim's hoarse and groggy reply, as she slowly opened her eyes to find a look of utter contentment on her fiance's face. "Last nite was wonderful Charlene, thank you."
"Your welcome Princess." Shego replied, giving her another kiss. "Are you hungry?"
"Starving." Kim admitted, as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
"I'll go start breakfast, come out when your ready." Shego tole her, giving one last kiss, before untangling herself from her younger lover and sliding out of bed.
Kim laid there as Shego climbed out of bed with her back to the redhead, walking over to her dresser to grab her robe. Kim watched in rapture, seeing her lovers beautifully sculpted naked body for the first time. "Your beautiful." She told Shego as she slipped into terry cloth robe.
"I know" She admitted as she turned to the redhead, with a smile on her face. "And so are you." She added, leaning over to give Kim anther passionate kiss, her long black hair surrounding both of there faces. "Breakfast will be ready in a little while, take your time." She told her before heading out to the kitchen with an extra spring in her step.
Several minutes later Kim emerged from the bedroom wrapped in her robe walking up behind Shego in the kitchen, wrapping her arms around the taller woman's waist and kissing her on the neck through her forest of ebony hair. "Whats for breakfast?"
"French toast" Shego answered, enjoying the greater closeness they now shared.
"Sounds good" Kim agreed, kissing Shego's neck again before leaving her to finish breakfast as Kim took a seat at the counter to watch her lover cook. It only took Shego a few minutes to finish as it was almost ready by the time Kim had made it out to the kitchen. She sat down next to Kim, putting a plate in front of Kim and setting down her own. Warm syrup already sitting on the counter, which Kim quickly snatched up preparing to drench her toast in it.
"Easy with that stuff Pumpkin, that's the real deal and to much will drown out the subtle flavors." Shego told the over eager redhead.
"Oh, OK" Kim responded, lightly drizzling her plate with syrup before handing it to Shego who did like wise. "This is delicious." Kim complimented after taking a bite.
"Nothing but the best." Shego told her leaning over to kiss her, liking a little syrup of her lips in the process. "But no where near as good as you taste Pumpkin." The comment causing Kim to blush, remembering what Shego had done the night before.
"Mom asked if we wanted to have dinner at the house tonight with my Nanna." Kim mentioned between bites, earning a small groan from Shego. "Come on Shego, she hasn't met you yet, and she's only going to be in town for a few days."
"Actually we have met remember?" Shego told her, which only earned a puzzled look from the redhead. "Remember that trip you took to Florida to see her over spring break and that disaster of a plan Drakken had for using MP3 players to control all of you teenagers only to tune into the hearing aid's instead?" She reminder her.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." Kim admitted.
"Yeah well, I got that vibe that she's pretty traditional, add that to her hero record and the fact that I was helping Drakken take over the world at the time, I get the feeling I won't be getting her seal of approval anytime soon."
"Give her a chance Shego, Please?" Kim asked, looking at her fiance'.
Shego let out a deep sigh, "I'll give her a chance sweetheart, but only because it's important to you."
"Thank you Shego." Kim said, leaning over to kiss her girlfriend.
"I don't want to do this" Shego grumbled as they pulled in front of Kim's parents house later that evening.
"I know baby, but I appreciate you doing this for me, and it's only a few hours." Kim replied in a soothing voice, taking Shego's hand in her own, squeezing it to reassure her.
"Lets do this before I change my mind." Shego sighed as Kim let go over her hand, so they could get out of the car.
Grabbing the groceries out of the back seat, the couple made there way to the door. Kim letting them in and announcing there arrival. "Hi, we're home."
"We're in the kitchen Kimmy-cub." Her mom called.
"Hi Nanna" Kim greeted her grandma, as Shego set her bags down on the counter.
"Nanna, this is Shego my Fiance." She told her pulling Shego away from the counter. "Shego this is my Nanna"
"Hello dear, we've met before haven't we? You working with that blue fellow weren't you?" Nanna Possible inquired.
"Yes ma'am, past tense. It got old along time ago." Shego answered trying to be indirect while still being respectful.
"I guess that's good dear, he didn't seem to be the brightest bulb in the bunch."
"No, he wasn't. The only reason I worked for him was the money. He paid well and I got all the vacation time I wanted." Shego replied, moving back to the counter to unpack her supplies.
"So what do you do now dear?"
"Not a whole lot if I can help it." Shego replied as she started cooking.
"Alright dear." Shego couldn't help but notice the disapproval in the elder Possibles voice, but she chose not to comment, trying to make a good impression for Kim's sake, quickly busying herself with making dinner.
"Where did you go to college" Nanna Possible asked, continuing her questioning, as Shego busied herself in the kitchen.
"No where, I earned my degrees though an online program." Shego answered.
"I see." Came another condescending remark, irritating Shego but still said nothing. Though this time, Nanna Possible returned to what ever conversation she was having with Kim's parents before they arrived.
Kim seeing Shego's agitation, walked over and put her arm around around her to calm her down, though Shego could see the disproving look Nanna was giving out of the corner of her eye, again doing her best to ignore it while letting Kim try and comfort and calm her.
Shego thanked what ever higher power was out there that she was able to finish making dinner with out further interrogation from the elder Possible, but knew she wasn't out of the woods yet, as they still had to sit through dinner.
Shego had made roasted sea bass, wild rice with saffron, sweetened carrots, and biscuits, everyone commenting on how good it all looked as they sat down.
"This is delicious dear." Mrs. Dr. Possible commented, "I didn't know you could cook like this."
"Not quite as good as your brain loaf dear, but mighty tasty just the same." Mr, Dr. Possible agreed.
"Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Possible." Shego replied, the green woman noticing that Nanna hadn't commented like she had hoped. "Oh, I'll be right back. I forgot the wine in the fridge." Shego comment before going back into the kitchen to retrieve said bottle, poring everyone a class before returning to her seat next to Kim.
"Tell me dear, why did you stop being a super hero and turn to a life of crime." Nanna asked several minutes later, the table getting rather quiet.
Kim's hand gently gripped Shego's under the table, knowing that Shego wouldn't want to talk about, though the green woman had a feeling the olde woman was going to ask sooner or later.
"With all due respect Nanna Possible, that's something I would rather not discuss." Shego answered as respectfully as she could manage, earning herself another disproving look from the woman. The table remaining quiet and tense after such a personal question was asked.
"How many 'relationships' have you had?" Nanna asked after several tense minutes of silence, the word relationships, being obvious what she meant.
Shego just barely held back a growl, "A few."
"And does Kimberly know about them?" She continued.
"No, but only because it's one of the many things we haven't discussed yet." Came Shego's terse reply, as she squeezed Kim's hand in her own under the table.
"Nanna, your questions are getting a little personal." Mrs. Possible commented as politely as she could.
"I'm just asking dear, she doesn't have to answer is she doesn't want to." Nanna responded distantly.
"How do you like dinner Nanna" Mr. Possible asked his mother, trying to get polite conversation moving again.
"It's OK, but the fish seems a little over cooked." She responded, having barely touched her plate.
Kim could feel Shego's anger through her shaking hand.
"Nanna, I would really like it if you would give Shego a chance." Kim asked.
"I'm sorry dear, but I simply don't approve. She's a criminal that admits she doesn't have a job, or a good college education. She's had who knows how many improper relationships, and judging by her demeanor I highly doubt she would be a very good mother even if the two of you find away to have children together.
"That's the last straw, I'm out of here." Shego slammed her fist into the table, leaving her twisted and half melted fork embedded in the wood, before kicking her chair out from under her and storming out of the dinning room.
"Nanna, why do you have to be so judgmental?" Kim asked her Nanna in total disbelief of the way her grandmother had been treating her fiance throughout dinner.
"What do you mean dear? I've been trying to humor her all night." She told Kim, as if it should be obvious.
"Humor her? Do you have any idea how much trouble she went through for dinner tonight?" Kim asked incredulously.
"It was just dinner, how hard could that be?"
"Well aside from the fact she made the whole thing from scratch, you snubbed the wine she picked out to go with it." Kim pointed at her full glass, her voice quivering with anger, it was all she could do to not yell at her Nanna
"It's just wine dear. It was good, but I don't see what's so special about it." Nanna responded flippantly.
"IT WAS THE WINE YOU SERVED AT YOUR WEDDING!" Kim yelled after finally having had enough of her grandmothers lack of common respect. Nanna sat motionless with her mouth half open to tell her misbehaving granddaughter not to raise her voice at her elders, but was shocked at the realization of what Kim had just yelled dawned on her.
Finally getting the sort of reaction she was looking for from Nanna, Kim continued. "It took Wade five minutes to find out what wine you and Granddad had at your wedding, but it took Shego all afternoon to track some down. Which she was only able to do thanks to her connections in the wine industry. She even manged to get enough that we were thinking about having it our wedding." Kim told her Nanna while standing and heading for the kitchen door. "I'm going to go make sure she's not poring it all down the sink."
Kim disappeared through the kitchen door, while Nanna Possible sat staring at the half empty bottle of wine on the table. Shocked that she hadn't realized she had shared it with her beloved husband a lifetime ago.
"Charlene, I'm so sorry." Kim said softly, finding her fiance' up in her old bedroom, sitting on the end of her bed, Kim quickly sitting behind her and wrapping her arms around the furious woman. "Nanna is a hard headed woman with old world values."
"She's a bitch is what she is!" Shego growled.
"Please don't be like that, I know she was rude." Kim continued
"Rude? You call that RUDE?" Shego all but yelled as she stood up to face Kim. "What that bitch did was more then rude, she might as well have come right out and said it. She thinks I'm some worthless gold-digging slut!"
"Calm down Charlene, you don't need to yell at me." Kim told the other woman raising her own voice. "This isn't solving anything."
"I don't know what you expected out of that old bat, but it's obvious she doesn't think I'm good enough for you." Shego growled, her hands igniting in her anger as she paced the room.
"God damn it Charlene, calm down and talk to me." Kim yelled back, getting up off her bed behind Shego, to grab her shoulder and get the woman to face her.
Without realizing that Kim had gotten off her bed behind her, before Shego knew what was happening, Kim was on the ground and there was the smell of burnt cloth and flesh in the air, as Shego spun on her heal. Her plasma covered fist catching Kim's shoulder, burning her as she accidentally knocked her to the ground.
"Mom, that was completely uncalled for." James told his mother, his voice full of disapproval. "We all know Shego made some mistakes in her life, but she was given a second chance and she took it. Even your granddaughter was willing to give her a second chance."
"Please calm down James." Anne asked her husband, before turning to Nanna Possible, "Nanna, that woman loves Kim with all her heart. Something that she probably though was lost to her after she made a bad choice and started living her life on the run. But by some chance her and Kim found each other, and Kim showed her what it was like to be loved unconditionally for who she was despite all her many flaws and the mistakes she made for in her life."
"How is she going to provide for Kimberly, she admitted she has no job and no college education?" Nanna Possible asked, "And what about grandchildren?"
"She'll provide for Kim, just fine. Kim's already told me that Shego has more then a few legitimate investments, so Kim will never lack anything in their life together. She also as several degrees as I understand it, and if you would have actually been listening, she didn't say she didn't go to college. What she had said was she earned her degrees online, at least one of which is masters in childhood development." Anne paused, hearing the two women arguing upstairs. "So I'm confident she would make a fine mother when she and Kim decide they're ready for children. You also probably seriously hurt that woman by saying they would probably never have children. Judging by the way she reacted, she was probably told that it wouldn't be safe for her to try and have a baby herself due to her unusual powers."
"But she turned Kimberly gay!" Nanna possible judge unfairly.
James Possible turned three shades of red hearing such a prejudiced comment from his own mother.
"James, take a deep breath and think about what your going to say before you say something you'll regret." Anne told her husband even though she felt the same way.
James listened to his wife, taking a deep breath before addressing his mother. "Mom, we all love you. But we have all accepted Shego as part of Kim's life. It was her choice to make. And now there upstairs having a fight a day after they got engaged because you wouldn't give Shego an honest chance. The only reason she came here tonight was because Kim asked her to. Now you can't accept Kim's choice in life, then I'm afraid you won't welcome here. And I'm glad the twins weren't here to see this." James said, standing up and walking out of the room.
"Oh my god Kim." Shego gasped, realizing what she had accidentally done. Her hands winking out as she dropped to Kim's side. "Kim, Kimmmy?" Shego cried, not getting a response from her lover. Shego carefully picked Kim up and rushed back down stairs.
"Mrs. Possible, MRS. POSSIBLE!" Shego screamed as she, rushed down the stairs as quickly as she dared with an unconscious Kim in her arms.
Mrs. Possible jumped out of her seat and ran for the living room, after hearing Shego's frantic cries, instantly knowing something was very wrong by the sound of Shego's voice.
Shego made it to the living room just as Anne come out of the dinning room, her husband right behind her.
"Help her." Shego pleaded with a panic stricken voice and guilt ridden tears in her eyes.
"Oh my god Shego what happened?" Anne gasped, seeing Kim in Shego's arms. "James, go get my bag out of the den. Shego set her on the couch and tell me exactly what happened."
James wasted no time in doing what his wife asked, while Shego laid Kim on the couch as carefully as she could.
"It was an accident. I was angry, my plasma flared up. I didn't know she was behind me. Then she was on the ground, burned and not moving." Shego cried, doing her best to keep her self together.
James quickly returned handing Anne her bag. Hearing most of what was said, He gently took Shego by the shoulders and pulled her away from the side of the couch to let his wife work. Shego quickly began sobbing as she was pulled away, finally seeing the damage she had done, before burying her face in James shoulder while he wrapped his arms around her, doing his best to sooth her.
Anne began examining her injured daughter, quickly checking her pulse before opening her bag and pulling out a set of medical sheers to cut the remnants of Kim's blouse off. Not seeing heavy bleeding, she took out a large piece of sterile gauze out of her bag and pressed it over the burn. Taking out her pen light she opened Kim's eyes, shinning the light in here eyes, looking for signs of a concussion. Then ran her hand through Kim's hair.
Buy now, Nanna Possible had emerged from the dinning room to see what all commotion was about. Seeing Kim on the couch she immediately turned on accusing finger at Shego.
"You harlot, I knew there was a reason I didn't like you. The second she stand up to you, you try and beat her half to death." Nanna yelled from across the room.
Shego immediately faced off against the woman after hearing the woman's accusation. "It was an accident, you bitch. I would never intentionally hurt Kimmy." She growled through her sobs, her fists raging with plasma as she advanced on the elderly woman, who quickly dropped into fighting stance in response. James doing his best to hold Shego back.
Anne jumped up between the two of them yelling. "That's ENOUGH! Shego, calm down, and put your hands out now." Shego quickly dropped her hands, unable to stand her ground at Kim's angry and very intimidating mother. "Nanna, get the hell out of my house." Nanna Possible stood there shocked, ass Anne barked orders. "I said get the FUCK out of my house, or I'll let Shego show you the door." Everyone was stunned at what Anne just said, but Nanna did as she was told.
Anne turned back to Shego, her voice softening, "Shego honey, did Kim hit her head on anything?"
"I...I..don't think so." Shego sobbed, slumping back against James after Nanna Possible had finally left.
"Is there any chance you could have accidentally knocked her out with your powers directly?
"Yes..." She admired in a whisper, with her head down cast.
"Alright, she has a pretty bad burn but it's far from life threatening. There's also know obvious signs of a concussion but a cat scan is the only way to know for sure." Anne told them, kneeling back down to Kim to start an IV.
"Her kimmunicator." Shego told them, before running into the kitchen to crab it out of Kim's purse. Quickly returning and handing it to Mrs. Possible, taking the back of saline she was handed, as Anne quickly dialed Wades number.
"Hey...Mrs. Possible?" Wade asked with a confused look on his face.
"I need you to run a med scan on Kim Wade." She asked the boy genius.
"What happened?" Wade asked, more then a little worried.
"I'll explain later Wade, can you please run the scan."
"Yeah, yeah, of course. Hold the kimmunicator two to three feet above her." Wade told her, as he began furiously working his computer.
Anne quickly holding the device above her prone daughter as instructed, a blue light emitting from the hand held, making several passes of the injured woman, before disappearing.
"OK Mrs. Possible. A 3D image will appear in a second, just point to anywhere you want to take a closer look at and I'll zoom in."
"Alright Wade." Anne acknowledged, before examine the hologram that appeared in front of her. Almost immediately having Wade enlarge Kim's head, and having him roll the image thought the various layers of Kim's skull and brain tissues.
"Wade if Shego accidentally knocked Kim out using her powers, would be able to see it in this from this scan." Anne asked.
"Shego did this?" Wade asked in shock.
"Never-mind that, please answer the question Wade."
"Yeah it would." He said, looking over the data he collected. "I don't see residual energy in Kim's nervous system. What's going on?" Wade asked, looking back at Mrs. Possible.
Mrs. Possible let out a breath she hadn't realized she was holding in relief. "There was an accident, I'm not going to explain everything now, but judging by the results, Kim should be fine." Anne told the collective, "It looks like she has a mild concussion. She should wake up any time."
Shego dropped to her knees, still sobbing.
"Wade, someone will call you back later there's still more to do here. But I promise, she should be OK" Anne assured him.
"Alright Mrs. Possible, please don't hesitate to call me back if you need anything else." He told her.
"Don't worry Wade, I'll let you know if anything changes." Anne assured him again before hanging up. Anne knelled back down next to the couch, putting her arm around Shego. "Shego hunny, it's all right, it was an accident. Kim's going to be just fine." Anne tried to assure her.
"Look what I did to her." Shego cried.
"It's not your fault, she bumped her head and the burn will heal. As of right now, I don't even seen a need to take her to the hospital unless she doesn't wake up in the next hour our so." Anne told her. "Now I'm going to finish dressing the burn, then I want you to take her up to bed. Alright sweetheart?"
"Alright." Shego said in a harsh voice.
Anne took more bandages out of her bag, and with Shego's help quickly and deftly bandaged Kim's burned shoulder. Reaching back into her back Anne pulled out a bag of antibiotics and connected it to the IV in Kim's arm. Having done all that needed to be done for her daughter, Anne helped Shego take Kim to her room and laid her down in her bed.
"All right sweetheart, I want you to let me know when she wake up." She told Shego, hanging the IV and antibiotics from a nearby hook on the wall of Kim's room.
"Alright Mrs. Possible." Shego whispered, still sniffling from where she was sitting on the side of Kim's bed.
"Shego..." Anne started, reaching over to gently grab Shego's chin, turning her face to look at her own. "Don't beat yourself up and don't blame your self. It was an accident, Kim will be fine. And you can call me Anne or Mom. I know it was an accident, and so will she."
"Alright, Anne..."Shego responded quietly before Anne leaned down to kiss, both Kim and Shego on the forehead before going downstairs to take care of her shell shocked husband.
As she descended the stairs, Anne could here Shego sobbing again in anguish at what she had accidentally done to her Princess.. Anne stopped at the base of the stairs to Kim's room and looked back up the stairs regarding the distraught woman watching over Kim, sighing at the horrible course the night took despite Shego's earnest attempts to make a good first, or rather second, impression with Nanna Possible if only because Kim had asked her to.
Knowing that the only thing that was going to ease the woman's guilt would be Kim's forgiveness when she woke, Anne turned away and slowly returned to the living room to clean up the mess in front of the couch. She found her husband sitting in his favorite chair staring at the mess on and in front of the couch where his injured daughter had just lain in shock. Despite the many injuries Kim had sustained over the course of her hero carrier, seeing his little girl laid out on the couch, Anne could tell that seeing her like that had badly shaken her normally strong husband. Anne sat on the arm of James' chair, wrapping her arms around his shoulders to comfort him. After several minutes of silence, she followed her husbands unblinking gaze to see what was still troubling her husband. For the first time that evening she saw that aftermath as a mother, instead of an experienced doctor the was accustomed to the gruesome sight of mortality.
In front of the couch Ann's doctors bag still sat open, her stethoscope hanging over the side, scattered about the floor were the remnants of the various medical supplies she had used to patch up Kim's wound. But she knew it was the sight of Kim's shirt still on the cushion of the couch that was the cause of her husbands distress. It still laid where she had cut if off from Kim on the couch, the right side stained red with the drying blood of their young daughter.
"James," She addressed her husband softly, turning back to him and taking his chin in her hand to guide his gaze to meet her own, her other arm still wrapped around his slumped shoulders.. "I want you to go to bed, I'll be up after Kim comes around."
"Is, she going to be OK?" James asked in raspy, badly shaken voice.
"She'll be fine honey." She assured him, bending down to kiss him on the forehead.
"Do you believe her?" He asked.
"What are you talking about James?" Anne asked, not understanding what he was asking.
"I know Kim loves and trust's Shego, but the fact of the matter is Shego has injured Kim in the past, even tired to kill her more then once. Can we be sure this was an accident?" James asked, his voice sill shaky as he asked the question that had been running through his tormented mind since he saw the tattered blood stained remains of Kim's shirt.
Anne glanced back up the stairs for a moment before returning her attention to her husband, answering his question in a soft but confident voice. "Shego strikes me as strong willed woman, with a troubled and complicated past. Right now she's in Kim's room crying in guilt because of what she did. I have no doubt that it happened exactly as she said. It was an accident dear and one that Kim will easily bounce back from." She bent down and kissed him on the forehead a second time. "It's been a long night, and your still in shock. I want you to go to bed and get some rest, I'm going to clean up the mess and I'll be up in a little while."
"Alright dear." He responded before slowly getting to his feet, Anne releasing him as he did.
She watched as her husband slowly ascended the stairs in a zombie like manner, before moving from her seat on the arm of his chair to clean up the mess in the living room. Then moved on to the dinning room and kitchen. Putting the left overs from dinner in the fridge, and setting the dishes in the sink to be cleaned tomorrow.
Shego spent a agonizing forty five minutes kneeling next to Kim, her arms crossed on the edge of her bed with her face buried in them sobbing before Kim finally began to stir. As she did, Shego quickly wiped her eyes doing her best to hide her pain and the fact she had been crying from Kim.
Kim was slightly confused as she opened her eyes and trying to sit up, Shego quickly but carefully grabbed the redheads shoulders, gently laying her back down on her bed.
"Shego?" Kim asked in a daze, not understanding why her fiance' wouldn't let her sit up.
"Don't try and get up Kimmy. I'm going to go get your mom, she wants to examine you again." Shego answered doing her best to keep her voice steady.
"Shego, whats wrong, why have you been crying and what do you mean again?" Kim asked in a worried tone, having quickly noticed Shego's blood shot eyes and puffy cheeks, making it obvious the normally unshakable woman had been crying for some time, lastly noticing the small spots of dried blood on the woman's shirt.
"I'm so sorry Kim." Shego replied in s quivering whisper after turning her ahead away from Kim and letting go of Kim's shoulders. "let...let me g...go get yo...your mom." she stuttered as struggled to keep from breaking down again.
"It's all right Shego, I'm right here." Anne announced as she made her way up the stairs into Kim's room with her bag in hand and her stethoscope around her neck.
"Somebody want to tell me what's going on, why am In bed?" Kim asked again, getting more and more worried.
Anne sat on the left side of Kim's bed, Shego having been on the right. But as Anne looked over to Shego to see if she was going to explain, the green woman turned away from Kim's bed sitting on the floor, pulling her legs up in front of her and wrapped her arms around them. Laying her head on her knees, the other too women in the room could hear Shego trying to choke back more sobs.
"Mom what is going on?" Kim asked while trying to sit up again, this time Anne gently pushing her back down before beginning the explanation.
"There was an accident Kim and you were hurt." She explained while pulling the top of Kim's blanket aside to reveal the bandages on Kim's right shoulder. "What's the last thing you remember?" Anne asked her.
Kim stared at the bandages while doing her best to think through the fog that was clouding her memories. "Sitting down to dinner." She answered, not completely confident in her words.
Anne took out her pen light again to examine Kim's eyes as she started to explain, "After dinner Shego had stormed off, having had enough of Nanna's closed minded attitude. After you told Nanna how much Shego had done to try and make an impression, you ran after Shego and found her up here." Anne put her light away, satisfied with what she saw in Kim's eyes, then took Kim's wrist between her fingers to take her pulse. "The two of you got into an argument, at some point Shego's anger got the better of her, her hands covering themselves with her plasma in the process." Anne released Kim's wrist before pulling her stethoscope from around her neck to listen to Kim's chest. "Apparently she was pacing around the room and you walked up behind her." After listening to Kim's heart and lungs, she set her stethoscope on the bed, looking Kim to finish her explanation. "She didn't know you where behind her, she turned around with her hands up in front of her chest and accidentally hit you, knocking you to the floor. You have second and third degree burns on your shoulder, and were knocked unconscious when your head hit the floor."
After her mom finished her explanation, Kim immediately turned her head to look at Shego, but could only see the back of her fiance's head. "I don't remember any of that."
"It's OK Kim, it looks like you have a mild concussion so the memory loss isn't unexpected. It should return in a few days, unfortunately your shoulder is going to take quite a bit longer to heal. You shouldn't need any skin grafts, but I'm going to keep an eye on it for the next few days and if it's not healing well we'll decide what to do then. In the mean time, I want you to stay here at home so I can keep an eye on you and give you some antibiotics."
"Alright mom." Kim replied in a soft spoken voice, still looking at the back of her sobbing fiance's head.
"I'm going to hang another two liters of saline, and sore more antibiotics before I go to bed. How's your pain?"
"I'm starting to feel it." Kim admitted turning her attention back to her mom, now that the situation was sinking in and her shoulder was beginning to throb.
"I'll give you some morphine too then." Anne told her before starting to pull everything out of her bag. Talking the saline and antibiotics in hand, Anne stood up, quickly replacing the empty bags hanging on the wall. Before talking a syringe and ampule of morphine out of her bag to prepare a dose for Kim. "I want you to try and get some rest, the morphine should help. But you know how hard it is to cover the pain of a burn. Don't be afraid to ask for more if the pain gets to be too much." Anne told her as she injected the potent pain medication into the injection port of the IV connected to Kim's arm. "I want you to try and stay in bed until I check on you in the morning to change your bandage. If you need anything," her eyes glanced to the sobbing woman on the side of Kim's bed for a moment as she spoke, "have Shego come get me. I'm going to go to bed. Don't stay up to much longer." She said before leaning down to Kiss her daughter on the head. Then gathered up her bag, leaving the two women to what was going to be a difficult and long conversation.
The first several minutes where spent in a tense silence, broken only by Shego's occasional chocked sob. Kim laid there looking at the back of her lovers head, trying to figure out what to say.
"Charlene," Kim finally said to break the silence, the only reaction from her fiance' was a small movement of her head. "Charlene, are you alright?" Kim asked gently, trying to slowly begin the dialog.
"I hurt you." Came the soft, pained whisper for the older woman. "I got angry, and I hurt you."
"It was an accident Charlie." Kim told her.
"It doesn't change the fact I burned you." She replied, her voice still shaking.
"Charlie, accidents happen. This isn't the first time I've been hurt by you and I've always bounced back."
"Things are different now. Before we were rivals, enemies. I asked you to marry me last night, and tonight I gave you third degree burns and a concussion. What kind of fiance' does that make me?"
"I'm not going to talk to the back of your head all night, I want you to get up here and look at me." Kim told her.
"I can't..." Shego admitted, without moving from her seat on the floor.
"Why not?" Kim asked, surprised at Shego's response.
"Despite our past, you were the first person to give me a real second chance. The first person to trust me, to...to love me. And look how I re-payed you for it, your going to have huge scar marring your beautiful body."
"Charlie..." Kim sighed, "I know you didn't do it on purpose and it's not my first scar and probably won't be my last now I want you to get up here and talk to me."
Shego still made no attempt to do as she was asked.
"If you don't get up here, I'm going to come down there. You heard what my Mom said, she wants me to stay in bed, so which is it going to be?" Kim asked her stubborn fiance'
"...alright..." Shego conceded quietly, before slowly getting to her feet to sit on the edge of Kim's bed, but kept her head down. Pointed away from Kim's gaze.
"Help me sit up." Kim requested.
"But..." Shego started before Kim interrupted her.
"Mom asked me to stay in bed, she never said anything about not sitting up. She also said if I needed anything, to have you help me. Now help me sit up." Kim argued.
Shego slowly turned around towards Kim, still keeping her gaze down cast, gently sliding her hand under the redheads back while extending her other hand for Kim to grab onto so she could pull herself up and scoot back. Shego layered up several pillows behind Kim before carefully laying her back against them in a sitting position. Then returned to her previous position on the edge of Kim's bed, facing away from Kimmy.
"Charlene, I want you to look at me." Shego continue to sit there motionless without speaking. Kim leaned forward with a hiss of pain as she put her hand on the far side of Shego's chin to turn the pale woman's face her. Kim looked deep into Shego's watery eyes, letting go of the pale woman's cheek to carefully use her thumb to whip away Shego's tears. "Charlie, It was an accident. Accidents happen to everyone, I don't blame you. I know you love me and would never do anything to hurt me intentionally. I won't forgive you because there's nothing I need to forgive. You need to stop blaming yourself." Kim told her with nothing but love and understanding on her face. As Kim sat there looking deep into Shego's emerald orbs, she could see her lovers face soften under her loving gaze.
"I'm so sorry Kimmy." Shego told her, taking Kim's hands in her own.
"I know you are Shego. Now come here and kiss me." Kim told her with a smile on her face, earning her a small smile from the pale woman in front of her as Shego did what she was told, placing a tender kiss on the redheads lips.
"Some night hunh?" Shego commented, her voice finally lighting up.
"Yeah, what a disaster." Kim sighed as she slowly leaned back against her pillows with Shego's help, letting out another hiss as the flexing muscles under her burn moved.
"Are you alright, do you want another shot?" Shego asked with worried expression on her face.
"No, it's to soon. Besides, it's tolerable as long as I don't move to much." Kim answered.
"OK Want to hear what you missed while you were out?" Shego asked the read head.
"Do I want to know?" Kim asked knowing she probably didn't as she leaned her head back against the headboard of her bed.
"After I brought you down stairs and your mom started looking you over, Nanna Possible came into the living room and all but accused me off beating you. I was about ready to fry her when your mom jumped up between us yelling, and I quote 'Get the fuck out of my house, or I'll let Shego show you the door.'"
"Really?" Kim asked skeptically.
"Really." Shego confirmed.
"My mom's never kicked anyone out of the house before and I've never heard her swear in my life." Kim told her in amazement.
"Your mom can be damn scary when she wants to be, Nanna made a pretty quick bee line for the door." Shego said, allowing herself a small laugh.
"You have no idea." Kim said giggling a bit herself. "And I'm sorry you went through all that trouble to try and make a good impression with Nanna, just to have her treat you the way she did." Kim lamented.
"The only reason I tried was for you."
"I know, and I appreciate it." Kim said, while putting her hand on Shego's. "I hope she'll give you another chance someday. But until she comes around, I wont ask to do anything like that again."
"Thanks Kimmy, but I get the feeling she won't be welcome around her for a while." Shego commented.
"If mom got mad enough to yell at Nanna, swear, and kick her out of the house, your probably right." Kim admitted.
"It's getting late Pumpkin, you should get some rest." Shego told the redhead, having seen her yawn several times in the last few minutes.
"I suppose, not sure how well I'm going to sleep like this. But I'll try. Will you help me lay back down?" Kim asked her fiance', knowing it would hurt like hell if she tried to do it on her own.
"Sure Princess." Shego quickly agreed, standing up next to Kim, she repeated her earlier moments in reverse. Sliding her hand behind behind the redhead's back and once again giving her hand for additional support, this time helping her slowly scoot forward before removing a few of the extra pillows before she slowly lowered Kim onto her bed. "Good night Kimmy." Shego told her, leaning down to give Kim a passionate kiss before she stood and turned to leave.
"Where are you going?" Kim asked after Shego took a few steps towards the stairs.
"The spare room?" Shego responded in a confused question.
"I don't think so, get back here." Kim told her, flipping the covers up on her left. "And no arguments."
"Yes dear." Shego replied, sardonically, a small smile appearing on her lips.
"Good morning you two." Anne greeted the sleeping women the next morning as she made her way up the stairs to Kim's room with her doctors bag in hand, finding Shego carefully wrapped around Kim so she didn't accidentally bump the redheads burned shoulder.
"Ga-morning mom." Kim yawned.
"Good morning, Mrs..." Shego began as Anne raised an eyebrow. "...Anne" Shego finished, blushing. Both because she still wasn't used to calling Kim's mom by her first name, and because of the rather intimate position the two young women where in. Though Kim's mom just smiled at the two knowingly, if she was surprised to find the two like this she wasn't showing it.
Shego began to carefully extract herself from her redheaded lover, sitting up on the edge of the bed as Anne sat down on the opposite side of the bed setting her bag on the night stand next to Kim's bed opening it in the process.
"How are you feeling Kim?" Her mom asked her.
"Pretty good all things considered." Kim answered.
"Good. Shego will you help he sit up so we can change her bandage." Mrs. Possible asked while pulling fresh bandages out of her bag and setting them on the bed next to her.
"Of course Anne." Shego replied reaching over to help Kim into a sitting position like she did the night before, Kim winching a bit as her skinned stretched in the process.
"You OK Kim?" Shego asked easily spotting the wince on Kim's face, despite the girls attempted to hide it.
"Yeah, it just stretched a bit, and it's a bit itchy." Kim admitted, leaning her head back against her headboard.
"Well, this isn't going to be much fun, so lets start with the fluids so I can give you some morphine before we start." Anne informed them as she stood up to replace Kim's IV bags quickly, before sitting back down to prep a dose of the pain killer and injecting it into the IV port. "Shego, help Kim lean forward so I can unwrap her shoulder. Kim, I want you to put your right arm up on my shoulder." Anne instructed them while taking Kim's hand and slowly moving it up on her shoulder where she wanted it. Shego sitting on the bed next to Kim so she could slide her right arm around the redheads back as she took Kim's left hand in her own before she helped her lean far enough forward for Anne to work. Anne took a pair of medical scissors and carefully cut though the layers of gauze she had wrapped Kim in the night before with Shego's help, tossing them into the near by waste basket. "That was the easy part." Anne told them. "I'll be as careful as I can Kimmy, but this is probably going to hurt." She warned her daughter as she got ready to peal off the burn pad.
Kim took a few deep breaths and squeezed Shego's hand tightly, "Go a head." She told her mom, prepared as she could be for what ever pain may come.
Anne carefully peeled off large square of gauze from Kim's chest, not wanting to tear the wound back open, Kim hissing and grimacing in pain as the bandage was slowly removed. Anne tossed the bloody bandage into the waste basket with the wrappings before examining the wound in amazement.
"What's wrong?" Shego asked worriedly, seeing the almost shocked expression on the elder women's face.
"Nothings wrong." She assured the couple, "In fact, if I hadn't applied your bandage myself, I'd swear this burn was three of four days old."
"What?" "Really?" Kim and Shego both asked, while trying to get a god look at Kim's injured shoulder.
"This is amazing." Anne commented, closely examining the burn. "I don't know what to make of it." She admitted after thoroughly examining the wound."
"I might." Shego admitted, earning herself curious looks from both redheads. "Think about it Kim." Shego said while letting go of Kim's hand to ignite her hand momentarily before taking taking Kim's hand back in her own.
Shego's simple action quickly clicked in the Kim's head as she understood Shego's line of thinking. "Do you really think?" Kim asked Shego, though the evidence seemed to speak for it's self.
"Why not, look at everything else we've seen." Shego pointed out.
"You ladies want to clue me in?" Anne asked, looking back and fourth between the two women confusedly.
"It be simplest to just show her." Shego commented, nodding her head in agreement, as Shego released Kim's hand again.
Kim held up her hand in front of her for her mom to see as she ran though the exorcise Shego had taught her. Kim's red plasma caught Anne by surprise, almost jumping off the bed jostling Kim who hissed in pain, her power winking as her concentration broke. "That's a lot harder to do injured." Kim commented as the pain receded.
"You should try it with the flu." Shego commented dryly.
"When, how?" Anne asked, a thousand questions running though her mind.
"We still don't know." Kim commented.
"The first time it happened was the night of the concert." Shego added. "We didn't find out until a few weeks later as we were doing our best to ignore the outside world. We finally figured it out during a work out where she punched me and knocked me across the room."
"Since then, Shego's been trying to teach me how to use these powers safely, and we still haven't found the limits of what I can do. So far it looks like there almost the same as Shego's, only a bit more amp-ted up. So a sped up metabolism, and healing factor are well with in them realm of possibility." Kim continued where Shego left off.
"Well this is a development." Anne commented.
"Tell me about it." Shego sighed. "But looking at the evidence, I'd say she has a healing factor along with everything else. It even looks like it might be a little faster then mine. But it's still going to take a couple weeks to fully heal. Oh and a major plus is you shouldn't have much of a scar." Shego told the younger redhead.
"Spankin" Kim cheered, earning herself an eye roll from her fiance'.
"Well, I was going to keep you here for a least another day. But looking at how much you've healed overnight, There's no reason you can't go home if you want. But I would still take it easy so you don't tear it back open." Anne told them as she finally began to apply the new bandages. "And even though I'm sure you and Shego could mange, I want you to come over every few days to change bandages. I'd like to watch your progress."
"OK mom" Kim agreed as Anne finished wrapping her in the new bandages. Shego had a look of mild disdain on her face as Anne told Kim she wanted to 'watch her progress'. A look that Kim missed, sense she was looking at her mom but was noticed by Anne.
"I take it someone once said something like that to you?" Anne asked Shego in a gentle tone.
"Yeah..." Shego whispered, memories of a past best left forgotten passing through her mind.
"Don't worry Shego, what ever it was, I can promise you it won't be repeated here." Anne assured her, "But just like you two explained, you don't know exactly whats happening. I just want to make sure Kim will be OK I'll leave the rest of it to the two of you to figure out." Anne told her, while cleaning up her supplies.
"OK" Shego replied, still tormented by the memories from her past.
"I'm going to go downstairs and start breakfast. Come on down and eat when ever your ready." Ann told the girls she got up with her bag and headed for the stairs, stopping at the top step and turning back to the women sitting on Kim's bed. "Shego, what ever it was, Kim will help you work though it if you'll let her. James and I will be there for you too if you need us." She told the troubled woman before making her way down the stairs not without waiting for a response.
"You know you don't have to talk to me about it unless yo want to, right?" Kim asked, turning to look at her troubled fiance'.
"Yes..." Shego whispered, "but..."
"Only if and when your ready sweetheart." Kim reassured her love, laying her hand on Shego's thigh, squeezing it gently. "Will you help me get dressed?" Kim asked.
"Sure."
'Beep beep be beep'
'Beep beep be beep'
'Beep beep be beep'
Anne was slowly preparing breakfast, figuring it would take a few minutes to come down to breakfast when she heard Kim's kimmunicator ringing from somewhere in the living room. Thinking it could be important she began searching for the device, finding it under the coffee table she answered it knowing it would take Kim a while to make it downstairs and it would be easier to answer it and take it upstairs to her injured daughter.
Wade's face quickly filled the devices small screen as she expected, though it was more distraught then she was used to seeing him. "Whats going on?" He asked in a near panicked voice.
"Oh Wade honey, I'm so sorry." Anne apologized, "everything happened so fast last night that I forgot to have Kim call you. She's only just getting out of bed."
"She's alright?" He asked, "I looked over the scans, it looked pretty bad. But I'm a genius not a doctor." He admitted in an only slightly less worried tone."
"More or less." She admitted, "There was an accident, she has second and third degree burns on her right shoulder, and as a mild concision. But she'll be fine. She and Shego are upstairs, they'll be down in a little while."
Wade's worried stricken face relaxed notably, "What happened?" He asked again, still wanting to get the full picture of the nights events.
Anne debated about telling the boy for a few moments before answering, "Sorry honey, but I don't think it's my place to tell you. You'll have to ask Kim."
Wade sighed, thinking that might have been the answer he was going to get. "Doctor patient confidentiality." He commented.
"More like mother daughter." Anne replied with a sly smile, "But since I know you already know something about it, I will tell you about Kim's remarkable progress since."
Wade looked at her with a curious look look on his face. "Hun"?
"In less then twelve hours, her wound looks as if it's almost three days old." She explained.
"I see." He admitted, understanding what she was getting at. "I still don't know how the powers manifested, so far they seem to parallel Shego's. I had wondered if Kim would have similar accelerated healing abilities."
"Why didn't you mentioned that?" Anne inquired.
"If your talking about last night, like you said. Everything happened so fast that I wasn't thinking about it." Wade explained, "As for my theory, for it to be proven it would have to be tested. Which would mean injuring Kim in some way. Something I would never mention in front of Kim or Shego. Kim would probably want to try it, even if it was just a paper cut. But Shego would probably kill me for mentioning it, or torture me if Kim actually tried it." The genius told he with a look of dread on his face.
Anne laughed a little, "I see your dilemma. Well you can add this to your list."
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Shego and Kim came down a few minutes later, Kim wincing with almost every step despite the morphine and accelerated healing, after Shego had helped her dress in a light shirt and put on an arm brace to support the weight of her healing arm.
"I still think it would have been easier if I carried you." Shego continued to argue as they made their way to the kitchen.
"I can walk Shego, it's just a burn. Now quit being a mother hen, I'll be fine." Kim continued to protest since getting dressed at her girlfriends continued fretting.
"Kim, Wade's on the line for you." Anne called from the kitchen as the two hit the landing of the stairs.
"OK Mom." Kim responded as they stepped into the kitchen, reaching for her kimmunicator as her mother offered it to her.
"Hey Wade, what's the sitch?" Kim asked as she settled into a seat a the breakfast nook.
"That's what I want to know?" The young genius almost demanded, seeing her arm in a sling and Shego hanging IV bags off a plant hook beside her. A look of deep concern covering his face.
"Oh no big, there was a bit of an accident after dinner last night. I got burned and bumped my head, so not that drama." Kim tried to explain with as few details as possible, knowing that Shego was already feeling guilty enough about what happened and would only feel more shammed if anyone that didn't need to know the truth heard all of what happened.
Wade looked at Kim hard for a few seconds while considering his next question carefully. He could see Shego in the corner of his screen and could tell there was more to the situation then Kim seemed to want to tell, particularly since Mrs. Possible had asked him if it had looked like Shego's powers might have knocked her out. "I get the feeling there's more to it then that Kim, but I'll as long as you're alright I'll trust you. Now I'd like to run a comparative scan from last night if it's alright. I'd like to see what kind of healing factor you've got."
Kim could see the recognition in Wade's eyes, but like her friend said nothing of the underlying cause. She knew better then to think she could pull anything over the boy genius's eyes, but loved him all the more for the respect he showed by not questioning her explanation of the nights events. "Sure thing Wade." Kim responded as she positioned the kimmunicator at distance for Wade to run his scan, the device emitted it's familiar blue light as it scanned her upper torso and head, once again displaying a 3D image for Mrs. Possible to examine from her place across the table.
"The burn is knitting nicely and all the evidence of your concussion is gone." Mrs. Possible commented as she scrutinized the image. "Wade honey, at some point we need to talk about getting one of these for me, it would be a great help for me in the office."
"Will do Mrs Possible, I'll tailor one for you and have it shipped in no time. Just keep it under wraps for a while if you don't mind, I'm still working on the patents." Wade beamed at the request from a world renowned neural surgeon.
"No problem sweetie." Anne replied, before return to the stove to finish making breakfast and letting the other three talk. Respecting the agreement that she had made with Shego earlier.
"While I don't have anything to compare it to, your bodies natural healing ability has amp-ted up by a factor of at least ten compared to some of your old med scans." Wade told the two after analyzing his data.
"Sounds about right." Shego commented from just off screen. "I'm guessing you saw this coming nerdlinger?" Shego asked sedately from off screen.
"Yes, actually. Though I really didn't have a way to prove my theory until Kim got hurt, which is why I didn't mention it." He hastily added, knowing that if he didn't he could have a very angry Shego on his hands.
"I understand Wade." Kim replied, in case Shego still took what he said in the wrong light. "Any progress on where these powers came from?"
"From what I can tell, it's long term exposure." Wade began as Shego angrily grabbed the kimmunicator, angling it so her face filled the frame.
"And just what are you implying?" Shego demanded.
Unfazed, as if expecting such a reaction, Wade continued. "Not what your thinking Shego, at least not on it's own."
"Meaning what exactly?" Shego continued to fume, Kim's voice could be heard off screen trying to get her to calm down.
"Meaning that while years of fighting you and being exposed to your plasma energies could cause some of what we've been seeing manifest, there's no way it could account for the shear magnitude of Kim's new powers." He continued, knowing the simplest way to calm down the irate woman in front of him was to finish his explanation.
Shego gave a small huff as he finished his explanation as she allowed Kim to return the camera to her. "So what are you saying Wade?"
"What I'm saying is, somehow you've been exposed to sizable radiation source similar to that of the comet that gave Shego and her brothers their powers, and over a very long period of time."
"But what's the source?" Kim asked.
"I honestly don't know." Wade had to reply, obviously flustered at his lack of insight as to what had caused Kim's superhuman powers. "If I had more data to work from it would be a lot easier."
Kim looked over to Shego to see if the other woman had any input, seeing none forth coming she returned her attention to the young man on the screen. "Wade, I want you to do some digging." That short statement immediately got her fiance's attention, but as yet got know objection. "At some point Shego and her brothers were studied by what I'm guessing were some less then honorable people." This got a snort of derision from the green woman. "I want you to find all the data you can, copy it for your research and delete the originals. I want to know who they were too."
"All right Kim. Is that all right with you Shego? I get the feeling your less then thrilled with people digging into your past."
Shego slowly moved into view of the camera next to Kim before she responded. "Yes, find the data Wade." She responded softly.
"All right, I'll let you know what I come up with." He told them both, before signing off.
"Are you sure your OK with this Shego? I should have asked you first." Kim asked after putting her kimmunicator away.
"Yeah. It's something I've thought about doing for years but never trusted myself enough to do." She replied somberly.
"I think I understand." Kim assured her while squeezing her hand.
"I think you two have a lot to talk about." Mrs. Possible said while setting down two stacks of pancakes in front of them. "I've got to get to the office, so lock up whenever you leave. Shego, make sure to change Kim's bandages daily and Kim, I want to see you before the end of the week to check on you."
"Yes mom." "Yes Anne." They both replied as Mrs Possible made her way out of the kitchen.
"We really do still have a lot to talk about, don't we?" Shego asked as the front door to the Possible home clicked shut.
"Yeah we do, but that can wait. Lets eat breakfast while it's hot and then head home. Alright Charlie?" Kim suggested while picking up her fork.
"Sure." Came Shego's resolute reply as she too, picked up her fork.
A/N Hope you are enjoying the story so far. I have still more typed up, but it's either not done yet or out of sequence so stay tuned. And if this isn't your first time through I encourage you to go back and read again as all chapters have been update as of today. Mostly minor changes, spelling and such, but some chapters of been tweaked a little more then others. As always I love input, good or bad, it's the only way I'll get better. And if you have suggestions on open plot holes feel free to pm me and let me know so I can time them em.
Until next time, Happy reading
Mad Hatter.