Chapter 14: News Travels

Shego pinched the bridge of her nose to fight the headache that threatened to stay with her for the day. She couldn't stop herself from hearing the news of Kim being sighted all over Russia. She was supposed to keep a low profile, but every other day was filled with news of something else she had done to get herself in trouble.

A nervous guard rushed into the throne room, Shego abruptly sat up. "Any news?" She asked. The guard nodded. They were silent for a moment. "Well?" She spat.

The guard jumped. "Oh um…fight in a bar called Boar's Head tavern. In a town called Belloc. Um…" He paused for a moment. Shego stood up. "It seems there was a gun fight. The bar was burned down during the fight."

Shego closed the distance between them and picked the guard up by his collar. "You had better have some good news after that crap you just spewed at my feet."

"There were casualties." He continued. Shego shook him violently. "But a man, we believe to be the owner and a woman, were seen fleeing the scene." This earned him another shake.

"That is not good news." She screamed. "Do you at least have a trail on the two?" The man stared down at her, dizzy from her attack.

"We believe the woman is one connected to a sting of crimes committed." Shego scowled. "We lost track of them a few miles outside of the city." He finished nervously. Shego let out a low growl before tossing him aside.

"If you know what good for you, you'll get the hell out of here and find them!" The guard scrambled to his feet and raced out of the room. Shego paced angrily for a moment before screaming again.

"Someone get Wade's ass in here!" She paused a thought for a moment. "And where the hell is Monique?"

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"Wake up." A voice said softly. Bonnie pulled the blanket over her head and groaned.

"Five more minutes."

"I gave you an hour, now get up." Suddenly the blanket was ripped from her. Bonnie groaned again and blindly felt for her source of warmth. Finally she turned over and glared at her assailant. "I was warm." She complained. Monique stared down at her with a devilish grin.

"That's what jackets are for." Monique said placing a jacket on the bed. A slow smile crossed Bonnie's face. She rolled her eyes and climbed out of bed.

"Why wear a jacket when I have you to keep me warm?" She placed a kiss on the woman's cheek.

She looked around the small room, it didn't look like the same place she had fallen asleep in. "Where are we?" Bonnie asked.

"A cabin about three hundred miles outside of the city. Sorry it's so cold; I haven't been here in years." Monique explained. "I had to get rid of the boat to avoid anyone following us. It should be drifting somewhere off the coast by now." She handed Bonnie a mug of coffee. Bonnie stared at her for a moment.

"You're wondering why I pulled you out of the mission." Monique said as if reading her mind. Bonnie nodded. She had a lot of questions for the woman but that was the biggest weighing in on her mind. "I had to pull you out before Betty got to you. Had she got to you before I did you would have been a dead woman. And that really didn't sit well with me." Bonnie's eyes widened. She had no idea she was that close to death.

"How could she have found out? I thought I was under the radar." She was pretty sure of it. Shego seemed sure of it too, could they have been wrong. Had everyone underestimated the resistance?

"Betty knew exactly who you were from the start. Didn't you think it was a little strange that she took an interest in you? People defect to the resistance all the time, why would she suddenly want to see you if she didn't know you were valuable or just a spy? Either way she would have wanted to get the information from you."

Bonnie looked fidgeted at the thought. Something wasn't adding up. "How could she possibly know I was a spy?" At this Monique looked guilty.

"Because I told her." Bonnie went ridged the mug slipped from her hands and shattered on the floor. "Before you call me a traitor you need to know why I did it." Monique rested a hand on the woman's shoulder but was quickly brushed off. Bonnie suddenly felt sick, how long had Monique been feeding Betty information? Was she still a member of the resistance?

"I've been secretly working for the resistance ever since that night she caught me." Bonnie backed away from the woman. "I've been gathering information since then as well. Every now and then I've had to feed her information to keep her trust. She captured Ron before I had the chance to warn him." She gave Bonnie a pleading look. Bonnie scowled in return.

"You've been on their side this whole time. You just gave them Ron, he's been our friend since the beginning and you just gave him up like that. Then you throw me under the bus, as if the crap I went though for you wasn't enough. And you expect me to believe that you're doing all this to help us."

"If I didn't give her something on you, she wouldn't have trusted me enough to tell me where he is being held." Bonnie scoffed. "And if I didn't tell her where Ron was I wouldn't have found out she knows about what happened during Drakken's rise to power." Bonnie paled.

Monique took a step toward her. "I had no intention of letting her catch you and I tried to get Ron out of there before they took him. When I got there, I found out I was too late." Bonnie seemed to soften at this. "Now that I know where he is we can get him back. Hopefully before she can get any information out of him."

"What about Kim?" Bonnie added. "What does she know about Kim?"

Monique gave her a weak smile. "Nothing. Last I heard she was involved in a fight with a group of resistance members at a bar in Russia. She escaped after setting the place on fire. I'm sure by now she already knows where Ron is, if not she's well on her way to finding out."

Bonnie raised a brow. "Does Shego know what you've been doing?"

Monique pursed her lips for a moment and shrugged. "Most likely. She's not as out of the loop as everyone thinks."

(AN: So I'm getting pretty close to the end. Yes Bonnie and Monique are a couple in this. For those of who who kept asking if Bonnie and Ron had something going on, the answer is no. I like this pairing is much more surprising.)