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A Kim and Ron Fanfic.

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Previously

Tara finally said, "Please Kim. It's your wedding day. You shouldn't be thinking about me. I don't want to do anything to spoil it for you guys. Just let me go home. I don't think I can do this."

"Tara, you're my friend. You're Ron's friend too. Don't think we don't know and appreciate that you stood up for us back in high school when some people were talking trash about us behind our backs. If I can't help a friend, no matter what day it is for me, then what kind of a person would I be? I want to help, but you need to let me."

After she let her words soak in a little, Kim asked. "Did Josh put those bruises on your cheek?"

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Tara slowly closed her eyes and held them shut as the tears started flowing from them and running down her face again. "It was my fault."

"Shego." Kim called knowing that she could do what Kim wanted done quicker, better, and easier than anyone else in the room.

"Yeah Princess." came the soft reply sounding like she was standing right besides her whispering in her ear, which she was.

God, Kim hated it when she did stuff like that.

"Shego, we need some privacy for a few minutes. Think you can arrange that?"

"I'm on it."

Turning and taking a few steps away from the two, Shego raised her right arm and created a very small, short and harmless plasma fireworks display over her head, smiling as she announced, "Ladies. It seems that the bride suddenly remembered the old adage about a man with big hands and big feet and is having a little panic attack over it." After a few giggles and some strange looks from Ann, Joss and Monique, Shego continued saying, "So if you don't mind, well, even if you do mind, let s give her a few minutes of privacy and step out of the room to give her a chance to come to "grips" with what she might have in store for herself tonight."

As the others started out of the room amidst some snickers and chuckles, Kim muttered to Tara, "I hate her some times." just before they heard Shego say, "No ya don't."

Ann, Joss and Monique knew that something wasn't right. Something was wrong, but they did as Shego asked and left the room. They trusted her. Why? Because Kim and Ron both trusted her and that was good enough for them.

Kim had her full attention on Tara and when she heard the door close, she stared to say to her, "Now Tara, why do you think it was your..." when Shego pulled up a chair and sat down in it backwards next to Kim with her attention turned to Tara.

"Shego. What part of "we need some privacy" didn't you understand?"

"Look Cupcake, no offense but I have a little more experience in this type of situation than you do."

Kim looked at her with a perplexed expression and said. "You do?"

"Yeah. Personal history, long story and not the right time." Turing back to Tara, Shego gently said, "Tara, You remember me from high school don't you? Miss Go."

"I remember you. You were one of my favorite teachers. I was sorry when you left."

"Thank you Tara. Now why don't you start at the beginning and tell us what happened, because believe me, no one deserves that unless they gave back as good as they got." she finished as she indicated Tara's cheek.

Looking to Kim and after seeing her nod her agreement, Tara started.

"Kim was right about Josh, back in high school. He was all Mr. Cool and handsome. He was laid back, easygoing and very talented. When we first started dating, I thought Kim was wrong about him, but the more we dated the more I found out that she was right. He wanted us to do things that I wasn't really comfortable with. When I told him I wasn't ready for that, he backed off and I thought everything would be okay. He only backed off for a while till he started up again. That was when I broke up with him."

Kim said. "I'm sorry Tara. I should have told everybody what he was really like when I broke up with him. Instead I just told them we drifted apart. I was trying to be fair to him thinking it was only me he had tried that with."

"No Kim. You did tell me and I was glad you did. When I broke up with him, I thought that that was the end of it, but then we met up again in college and I thought he'd changed. He was a lot more attentive to me and not so concerned about himself. By the time I figured out that he was still the same self centered, egotistical creep and that he just learned to be more patient, it was too late. I thought I was in love with him. It wasn't much later that I found out that I was pregnant."

Thankfully Tara had been looking at her own hands or she would have seen the surprised look on Kim's face. She wasn't too surprised about Tara being sexually active with Josh. A lot of her friends in college did that. Kim just knew that Tara and Josh had been married for a couple of years now and they had no children. That left only a few options to explain why they had none now if she was pregnant in college. Thinking that Tara could have used one of those options is what surprised Kim.

Kim reached out and touched Tara's hand and gently said, "Okay. What happened after you found out you were pregnant?"

"I told Josh."

When she didn't continue Shego asked softly, "And how did he take it?"

Taking a deep and unsteady breath, Tara said, "Not well. After he calmed down, we started talking about it going through our options. He hinted that I could get an abortion, but after he saw that there was no way I was going to go along with that he suggested putting the baby up for adoption." Tara then looked at the other two women and with tears forming again said, "I couldn't do that. Carry a child inside me and then give it away. Anyway, after all that, he asked me to marry him."

"When I told my parents they were supportive of us. I think maybe they were a little disappointed in me, but they still loved me. My dad offered to try and get Josh a job where he worked, but Josh turned him down flat saying he could make more money with his artwork than he could by being a common worker, which is what my father was at the time. Josh never went back to my parent s house after that night. I think they were just as happy about it as he was."

Shego then asked a question that Kim really wished she hadn't. She had met his parents before.

"What did his parents say when they found out?"

Tara started tearing up even more before she answered. "His mother went and poured herself a drink. His father looked at me and then back at him and said, "You got the stupid little (here she pause) knocked up, you deal with it." I never felt so ashamed in all my live."

After pulling herself together again, she continued. "The wedding was, well, you were at the wedding Kim. You know what it felt like. Three months later, he came home after meeting with some of his friends and he started blamed me, saying it was my fault. Birth control was supposed to have been my responsibility and I was just trying to trap him. The next thing I knew I was waking up in the ER at the hospital. I had had a miscarriage. I don't remember what happened. Josh said I turned to storm out of the room and I tripped on a foot stool and fell against the arm of a chair. It hit me right where the baby was."

Tara paused and neither Kim nor Shego said anything to try to push her on it.

"Josh's artwork was just alright when we started dating again in college, but it didn't get any better. It got so bad that his professors started warning him that he could lose his scholarships. That was when he told them what he thought of them and started his art studio full time. Problem was no one ever bought any of it. The only time he ever made any money from it was off the insurance he had on that statue that you broke last month at the Middleton Museum of Fine Art. That and the museum's insurance added up to a lot."

"Wait." said Kim. "Josh said he could fix that."

"No. He made more money from it being damaged than if he fixed it and maybe sold it. That was what got me this, but it wasn't the first time." She said as she indicated her bruised cheek. "I had already been to the lawyer, an old family friend, and he drew up the papers. All I needed was Josh's signature, but I kept thinking and hoping that we could salvage the marriage. After the art show closed and he hadn't sold anything, I said something about it was a good thing that you damaged that one statue or we would have lost money after he accidentally got a differemt policy on his stuff. That's when he lost his temper in a sudden rage and he backhanded me. He told me to never say that again to him or anybody. He's been staying at his studio ever since. That was the night I decided to have the papers served on him."

Shego looked at Kim, who seemed to be lost in thought. She then turned back to Tara and asked. "How did he react to that?"

"He came back to the house and started ranting at me about how everything was my fault. I hadn't been supportive enough for him; I was always thinking about my job teaching and worrying more about my students instead of him. Finally he said with a funny look on his face that he'd sign the papers, if I gave him thirty thousand dollars."

Tara had been calming down till she declared, "I don't have that kind of money and neither do my parents!"

Kim came back with, "I don't understand why he'd demand the money. He must know that he'd lose if it went to court so he wouldn't gain anyth..."

"Because he has pictures of me." Tara blurted out. "Pictures he can post on the Internet or give to the school board. Pictures that could cost me my job and my teacher's license in this state because of a "Decency Clause" in it."

This surprised both Kim and Shego. Of all the people that they would never have expected that from, Tara would have been at the top of the list and it would have been a short list.

"Nothing lewd or vulgar." Tara continued. "Just nudes. He said he needed a model for some nude studies he was working on. We couldn't afford to hire a model and he needed them to be in some specific poses so he talked me into posing for him. He swore to me that he would destroy them when he was done with the study."

"He lied. He showed me one when he told me how much money he wanted. He told me I could keep it because he had more copies of it and others. Some he'd taken of me in my sleep. Some when we were..." At this point, Tara couldn't continue.

Both Kim and Shego only had one question left to ask. "Tara." asked Kim in a restrained voice. "Is Josh coming to the wedding today?"

"No." replied Tara not really hearing the iron will in Kim's voice. "He said he had to go out of state to arrange another showing and he wouldn't be back till Friday. Why?"

It was when she looked back at the two listeners that she saw what was on their minds. "No! You can't do anything to him."

"I wouldn't bet on that Tara." said Shego sounding more like the Shego of old than the woman that had just been giving her full support to a person in need.

"No, you don't understand! It would only benefit him if you did anything to him. Either of you, or Ron."

"What do you mean?" asked Kim.

"If you go after him it would only look like a jealous old girl friend going after him, especially a newly wedded old girl friend that just happens to be Kim Possible. Shego would be seen as doing it on your behalf. If Ron did anything to him it would be a jealous newly wedded husband going after your old boy friend who is a poor struggling artist after you confessed something on your wedding night. His stuff would sell whether it was good or not. You'd just be giving him the kind or notoriety that would make him rich and popular and it would drag you all down to his level." she said. "He was talking to himself one night before the art show closed about how he could turn things around. He didn't know I was listening."

Kim thought as the final pieces of a puzzle quickly fell into place. She didn't like the picture it portrayed, but she had nothing to say about that. She did have something to say about this. A way to help her friend.

"Okay, Shego." Kim said as she turned to her. "Go get Ron. We'll see if Wade can track down Josh and then..."

"No." said Tara.

"Tara, we're trying to help and I think..."

"Kim. I know you are trying to help and I appreciate it, but "no." Not today." said Tara as she started to pull herself together as her resolve set in. "No matter how much I want to blame Josh for things, I was there too. I allowed this mess to happen to myself and I should have seen it coming, but I will not allow you to spoil one of the happiest days of your life, your wedding day over me."

"But Tara."

"No." Tara replied even louder than before. "I may have screwed up a part of my life that I badly regret, but how much would I regret it if I screwed up this part of your lives as well? Two of my oldest and best friends."

Now Tara took Kim's hands and held them as she said, "Kim, you have got to promise that you will forget about me and my problems with Josh for the rest of today and tomorrow at least, since he won't be back till Friday anyway. If you won't do that, well, I got myself into this, I'll find a way to get myself out of it. By myself."

Kim knew she wanted to help her friend. She knew she could help her, she even had an idea on how to do it, but...looking to Shego for some support, Shego shrugged and said with a hint of regret herself, "She's right Cupcake. Unless you want to make both you, Ron and Tara here miserable over this in the long run, let it rest till Friday. You two don't leave for your honeymoon in Japan till Saturday and Joshie boy will be back to give us a chance to deal with him Friday."

Kim looked back at Tara and instead of seeing her as the battered and frail friend she saw when they first started talking, she saw a piece of steel that wasn't going to take it anymore, not from Josh or anyone else. So instead of trying to talk her out of it, Kim said, "Alright. I promise, so long as you agree to stop by tomorrow night for dinner. You can tell Ron what you just told us first hand. Shego, think you could make it over for a skull session?"

Tara agreed with relief as Shego said "Sure. Drew wants a night alone to work on some new cockamamy project anyway, so long as you don't mind me bringing little Ronnie Ann along."

"Oh I'd love to see your baby!" chirped in a now excited Tara, sounding more like the Tara of old.

"Good! I'll even let you hold her for an hour or five." As she stood up, she handed Kim a container of makeup and said, "Here Kim. Help her put this on. It'll hide the worst bruises in the world and not run or rub off either." Then to Tara she said, "Just make sure you take it off tonight when you get home, or else it'll harden like a rock. Believe me, I know. I've got to let the other ladies back in now before they start thinking Kimmie and I decided to run off and elope."

Kim snorted at that suggestion but stopped Shego long enough to ask, "When did you pick this makeup up? It's not your color and you came over and sat down long before you knew she'd need it."

Shego just smiled and slowly said, "I'm just that good."

Just as Kim finished helping Tara get her makeup back in place, Shego open the door and stated waving the others back in saying, "Sorry it took us so long girls, but Tara and I finally got her convinced that that old adage was started by some guys that had big hands and feet. They thought it would be an easy way to get a date." Then she laughed as she added, "Stoppable was probably one of them."

Kim bent low so only Tara would hear her almost growl, "I hate her sometimes."

"No ya don't." came Shego's reply.

Seeing that Tara was good to go on, in more ways than just her makeup, Kim walked back over to her place where Monique, Ann and Joss were waiting to help her get dressed in her gown and veil. To them Kim said in a whisper before anyone could ask, "Just something that needed to be taken care of. Please don't ask about it till the weekend."

Ann looked at her daughter and said with a knowing smile, "Kim, I know what your life has been like up to this point so none of this really surprises me. I should have been expecting anything today."

"Shhh." said Kim as she finished shucking the clothes she wore into the building so she could start putting on her gown. "Anything" is a lot of things and I really don't want any nine foot tall aliens walking in on this wedding. I don't know if the chairs at the reception hall can hold their weight."

After getting her gown on and everything zipped, hooked and buttoned up, two more people came into the room. Betty Barkin, Steve Barkin's wife and Yori's step mother, and Lonnie Stoppable, Ron's mother, who had something in her hand that looked like small pieces of lace. Both of the women looked at Kim and smiled as the each remembered this moment as it happened in their own lives. Kim looked back and smiled at the two women and felt a bond form with them because of this instant in time. Lonnie then indicated to Kim to come with them as Betty looked for Yori and they headed towards her.

When they got to her, Betty said, "Yori, I just wanted you to know that Lord Fiske and Dr Hall have arrived and been seated and I just wanted to double check with you to make sure that you wanted to go through with this knowing they were here."

Yori smiled and nodded her head saying. "Yes, I do. Dr Hall wrote to me personally and asked my permission about it being invited before she asked it of Kim-san and Ron-san. While I had the Possible family's help along with Kim-san and the Stoppable family's support along with Ron-san, plus that of my father and yourself as well as Master Sensei's, all Lord Fiske had available to him was the support of Dr Hall and his man servant Bates. No one else in his country would believe that he had been possessed by a part of the spirit of the Yono. He was as much a victim of the atrocities committed by the Yono as I. Although the healing done by the combined powers of Mystical Monkey Power removed the memories of those acts from his mind, he is still haunted by the dreams and nightmares of them. The Yono's evil can still claim a small margin of victory, even though it has been sealed away for all time, so long as it can hurt the living. I believe that it is time to rid the world of anything left of its presence. It would be our honor to help Lord Fiske." (The Monkey's Tail Books II and III)

"Yori Barkin." said Betty. "Every day you seem to find a new way to make me feel more pride in you as a person as well as my step daughter."

"Arigatou okaasama."

Betty's face broke out in tears as she reached out and pulled Yori into a hug as both women started to cry.

Lonnie looked to Kim for an explanation.

Having taken Japanese in college thinking she would need it, a tearful Kim said, "Instead of saying "Thank you step mother," Yori just said "Thank you mother."

As Lonnie's eyes started to water she quickly said. "I'd best do something useful and pass these out."

Looking into her hands Kim saw several pieces of lace that almost looked like doilies.

"What are they Lonnie?"

"They're called chapel hats. The same way that all the men have to wear a yarmulke at a Jewish wedding, all married women have to wear a head covering too. Since your brides maids aren't wearing hats as a part of their ensemble, the married ones need to wear one of these."

"Oh. I didn't know. I never wore one when I came to Temple with Ron."

Lonnie smiled back and said, "You never had to. You weren't married then, but you will be after today."

Lonnie started passing them out to all the women that she knew were married starting with Ann, then Shego as she went down the line. When she came to Tara, Tara started to reach for one and then withdrew her hand. Lonnie explained to her what they were and what they represented. Tara whispered into Lonnie's ear for almost a minute and when she was done, Lonnie took her hand and patted it. With a gentle smile on her face, she then whispered back, "I think God would understand. Let me know if you ever need anything."

Lonnie then walked away from the young woman who wasn't wearing a chapel hat.

Hanna came back in followed by the rabbi's wife, who wanted to see if Kim was almost ready. Ron was getting ready to enter to veil the bride.

"Just one more minute." replied Ann as she did some finally touches and double checked some things.

Turning Kim so she was facing away from the door, Anne said, "Count down Kim. Something old?"

"Check." replied Kim thinking of her shoes and all they meant to her.

"Something new?"

Feeling the necklace that Ron had given her when she was in the hospital less than a month ago, a rustic Star of David with a cross in the center made of silver, she said "Check."

"Something borrowed?"

Looking at the veil, which was the one that her Nana had worn on her wedding day, Kim said, "Check."

Now Ann smiled as she already knew the answer to the next question. "Something blue?"

"Check." replied Kim. She was wearing a pair of light blue lace panties and matching bra.

"And the last one?" asked Ann.

"Last one? What last one?" asked Kim.

Ann reached behind Kim's ear and as if my magic produced a silver coin, an English sixpence.

"Raise your gown a little bit dear." Ann asked. She then bent down and tucked the coin in Kim's right shoe.

After standing back up, she said, "The last part of the old rhyme is "A Sixpence in your Shoe." The same one I had in my right shoe when I married your father."

As she re-straightened Kim's gown, Ann asked, "Are you ready?"

There was so much that Kim wanted to say to Ann at that moment, thanking her for everything that she and James had done for her from allowing her to go out in the world to help other people, letting her find her own place in the world with Ron, always know being there for both of them and just being there when she needed them. All those thoughts passed through her mind, but when her mother looked her in the eyes, Kim saw that she wouldn't have to say them. Somehow, in that eye contact, she knew that they just shared them.

Ann gave her one quick hug and said, "I'll go tell them that my baby daughter is waiting for her soul mate to come in, so they can start their lives together."

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