Shego woke with a gigantic headache and a loud ringing still in her ears.
It felt warm compared to the cold she had been exposed to earlier, trying to take advantage of the cover of darkness when everything backfired.
She had no idea how she had ended up lying on what felt like a surprisingly comfortable surface of some sort of bed.
Voices flooded her hearing though they were cracked and difficult to make out on account of the strong pain mostly from her head but also her chest.
The world seemed to spin round and round as the former heroine tried to keep her eyes open without success.
Then darkness once again as her strength failed her and she drifted back into the bliss of oblivion.
The next time Shego slipped into consciousness, she stayed awake long enough to see what she thought were a group of what she could only assume were doctors or scientists of some sort from the outfits and masks they had on. But who really knew. She still couldn't quite make out what they were saying though and her vision faded once again far too quickly to really register much.
It was only on the third attempt that finally with great force of will that the dark haired woman managed to finally restrain herself from slipping off the slippery scope of staying awake. Every bit of her remaining strength was needed to keep her heavy eyelids from snapping shut once more as they had already done twice when she tried this.
From where she now lay unable to move much on account of the general feeling of weakness and fatigue still present in her, Shego could see that the bed she was lying on was a hospital bed and that she had been hooked up with a multitude of tubes to some sort of very large machine whose complexity would drive even "mad genius" Drew Lipsky to awe. The pillows, duvet as well as much of the decor of the room down to the walls and ceiling was pure white. The colour of purity and innocence, Shego sarcastically thought.
The memories of the last night began to come back all too clearly as Shego slowly began to realise from a nearby window that it was already light outside and thus must already be morning. She had slipped and hit her head on hard stone. And that must have been why she was here linked up to all these machines.
Her head still hurt and it took all her strength to prevent herself from drifting away back into the oblivion she had grown to detest.
Even despite the blurriness still present in her vision, she could see that there were several beds like hers in the room and each one was filled with another patient, all of them probably still deep in sleep from whatever horrible accidents had befallen them.
It was as she heard quick and desperate footsteps and she saw what she could only assume to be a doctor rush into the room through a nearby doorway that the dizziness became too much and everything went pitch black once again much to Shego's chagrin.
How long would she have to be here unable to do the villainous things a villain was supposed to be doing, she shuddered to think.
And so this went on and on. Darkness followed by a brief moment of alertness and blurry sight before darkness returned.
Occasionally Shego would hear the doctors who were usually by her bedside say something she couldn't properly discern. Her mind was clouded and confounded for Shego to really think much but the one thing she did wryly remark silently to herself was that her sworn enemy Kim was probably having the time of her life with her out of the picture and trapped on this bed badly injured with more tubes than she could count linked up to her.
Though this time it didn't seem like she would fall back to sleep, since even when she closed her eyes once more she felt far too tense and alert to drift off. This was just great since now she was stuck having to kill time in this dump of a place with nothing to do but stare at other injured patients and the various machines around this room.
With nothing else to do, she tried hitting the button conveniently placed by her bed. Shego was hungry now and she figured if she was really going to spend the next however many tedious weeks stuck here she might as well be comfortable about it.
The first few attempts were met only with silence and futility. The third attempt went very differently to what she had expected.
Instead of her request for attention being attended to, a pair of eyes merely peered in through a small gap in the door leading to this room.
Shego waited for whoever that was to notice her, but instead after a few brief seconds the pair of eyes vanished once more.
A pair of footsteps thudded gently across the room outside. Then voices came.
"I was beginning to think she wouldn't make it." a voice sounded, more relieved and happy than menacing even if Shego couldn't see who it was.
"That's good." another different sounding voice replied, equally as pleased. "Get Ann. She'll be happy to hear that."
Footsteps once more, only this time they seemed to get fainter and fainter with each step.
Shego continued to stare anxiously at the doorway trembling slightly until the sound had died away. This Ann was certainly very interested in her, though Shego shuddered to think what that meant. She had never liked the hospital much, even in her hero days back in team Go with her brothers.
The boring long wait in the waiting room being forced to read through magazines so mind numbing she'd rather be doing anything else, the notion of having to undress just so the doctor or surgeon or whatever could see where her injuries were causing her pain. None of those brought back pleasant memories, and that was saying a lot considering Shego hated just about all of her past recollections before she found Doctor Drakken.
If this Ann thought they were going to start up a nice conversation with Shego, they were dead wrong. Shego had made a mental note ever since she changed her ways not to talk to anyone except to browbeat them into doing exactly what she wanted or to mock them and make fun at their expense.
It was the way for evil people to talk, and Shego had very definitely made up her mind that from the day she left home to be as evil as she possibly could.
Both fortunately and unfortunately, the footsteps that Shego had grown a great distaste to hearing since she got here came back.
Shego screwed up her face as she drummed her fingers waiting for whatever monotonous and dull conversation not worth her attention to come.
It came as a shock to her therefore, when the door eventually opened to reveal a very attractive and young woman that even Shego could not help but stare at for a few seconds transfixed by the metaphysical beauty which seemed to hold the injured villain's eyes in place.
This had to be Ann was the only thing Shego could bring herself to think as her mind seemed to blow apart and her brain seemed to cease to function.
Shining blue eyes like crystals and a concerned yet very innocent expression regarded Shego, reminding her of a time when her parents were still alive and when she was still naive enough to believe that everything would be alright as long as her two biggest heroes read her a bedtime story and tucked her into bed after she had returned from preschool in tears after a long hard day of teasing.
A time when no one made fun of her for her oddly coloured green skin, and when her spoiled brothers kept to themselves and for the most part were at least tolerable.
When good and evil really didn't matter to the bubbly and mild tempered little girl who'd trade anything now to have the two responsible grown ups who she never had the chance to properly thank back in her life again.
Shego didn't even care that this woman's beautifully arranged hair was auburn red reminding her a little too much of her sworn life enemy Kim.
But then a lot of people shared the same hair colour and Shego could let that go for the sake of this beautiful woman who seemed far too attractive to be just another bland and uninteresting doctor. She was sure the villain community wouldn't mind slightly if she had just a little talk with this one single do-gooder.
"Are you Ann?" was the only thing Shego could think to say however, as the female doctor's unearthly charmed had brought the green skinned woman into a stupor of confusion and reminiscing. Reminiscing over the long gone parents she had lost far too soon, far too unfairly.
"Ann, or Dr Possible. Either is fine." was the polite and upbeat reply to Shego's bizarre question, spoken in a voice that seemed too good to be real.
But that did nothing to disguise the mention of the name Possible to the now incredibly depressed and torn up Shego who would gladly have given this liar a blast of plasma to the face were she not feeling so weak and dizzy at this moment.
She knew everything was too good to be true as she very nearly cried.
It didn't matter that this woman seemed so trustworthy and innocent, she was a Possible and a blood relative of her arch enemy.
"Go away" Shego hissed in a cold and icy rage. "Don't talk to me."
Boy this chapter sure took a while. But here is when I would like to share some of my personal thoughts as an author, as irrelevant and pointless to you as they may be. I feel a lot of characters in a lot of good shows are underused. Batgirl for instance is not used nearly enough in the Batman show. I feel that such characters actually have a lot more potential and power than they let on and are only written badly in the episodes they do appear in to make the main character look better in comparison so they don't end up upstaging the main character. This I find to be a great mistake and a great chance missed. While a lot of people want a show just about Shego as she goes from villain to villain doing evil things, I instead would like a show about Dr Ann and how she goes around helping her patients recover and helping her family out with their problems. Not just villain problems like the episode Mother's day ( I'm sure most of you haven't seen that episode) but life problems like say if Kim felt down about her schoolwork or relationships with Ron or her other friends. As we've seen from a lot of episodes, the rest of Kim's family have a lot more hidden talent that they don't let on and which could have easily kept the show going for at least a few more episodes. But that's just my opinion.