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The original creators were Mark McCorkle and Robert Schooley.
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This is a Kim and Ron Fanfic.
I'd like to thank Imyoshi, temporaryinsanity91, CajunBear73, ajw1970, WithTwoYouGetEggRoll, Sentinel103, Beckman, MrAndersIversen, and HeroFluffy for taking the time to leave a review of the last chapter. They really do matter. I got a few ideas from them that I have gone ahead and used in the story. Maybe not in this chapter but elsewhere.
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Previously
"With that said, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to propose a toast, to the happy couple, my daughter and legally now my son. May they both live long and very happy lives together and give Ann and myself many grandchildren that we can spoil rotten."
After drinking the toast and before he could move the glass more than a foot away from his lips, he found Kim wrapping her arms around him and softly crying into his shoulder as she whispered, "Thank you Daddy and I love you too."
"It was my pleasure Kim. All of it."
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After giving his daughter a brief kiss on the top of her head, James looked up and saw Ron standing right behind her. The expression on his face was unreadable, because it kept shifting from one to the other. Happy, proud, confused, astonished, and so on. Finally he was able to ask, "Maybe I should have had Wade make up one of those little boxes for you. Just who are you and what have you done with the real Mr. Dr. P.?" Smiling, he then reached out his hand for James to shake.
Not being happy with that, James pulled Ron into a group hug with his daughter.
When he could finally speak again, James said, "I was just trying to get you to give me a break on the catering cost. That's all. The cost of all this food and champagne is expensive."
Ron looked at him with a hurt look on his face as he said, "James, family is family, but business is business. A lot of people put a lot of work into making this the best meal they could. Besides, I now have a wife to take care of now and you wouldn't want to deprive her of anything, would you?"
It was then that Kim raised her head to look at her father and gave him a fully charged, puppy dog pout.
Women fainted and grown men cried as they were caught in just a small part of its wake. Fortunately for him, James had built up a slight immunity over the years. If he hadn't, she would have owned everything that she'd ever asked him for and never started taking on babysitting jobs to earn money to buy those very things. Those babysitting jobs eventually led to her creating her own web site which later turned into Team Possible.
"All right, all right, I give up." he said holding his arms up in surrender. "I'll pay the full price. You two can team up to do more than just fight the bad guys I see." relented her father with more than a few chuckles. It was her wedding day after all.
With a big smile on his face, Ron said, "I was just kidding Mr. Dr. P. Of course we'll cut you a break. Tell you what, just pay what you think Kim's wedding day is worth to you and we'll call it even."
"Never mind Ronald. I do want to retire at some point in my life and there's no way I could ever earn that much in one lifetime. She's priceless. Your price is well below that."
Ron just smiled knowing that no one could withstand the full force of Kim's PDP for very long, even her own father. He just hoped that he would eventually develop some immunity to it also. Just enough to be able to think clearly.
The other toasts were wonderful, but they didn't hold a candle next to the one that James gave.
The dances were next and the first one belonged to Kim and Ron alone. Once again, Ron was able to let his essential Ron-ness sleep as he danced a nice slow dance with Kim. It may have been meant as a show for everybody else, but to Ron, he and Kim were the only ones in the world. He didn't even pay attention to what song the band was playing. All of his senses were busy paying attention to Kim.
After their dance ended, the other guest moved to the dance floor as he danced with Ann while Kim danced with her father, then he danced with his mother Lonnie and Kim with Donald. Everyone in the wedding party got to dance with one of them.
At the start of one of the dances though, Ron found himself without a partner. Glancing around, he saw Kim was dancing with Felix off in a corner so his wheel chair didn't bother anyone else , so instead of sitting down and making himself a target for someone else, Ron move back over to the family's table. He still had one Possible family member left he wanted to make sure he danced with.
Moving over to the patriarch of the Possible clan, he said, "Nana, I think I've accidentally left someone very important off my dance schedule. May I have this dance?"
"Oh Ronald, thank you for the offer and I'd really love to, but you know my hips aren't exactly what they used to be. I can barely stand up for more than four minutes anymore without them threatening me to give out. You've made an old woman happy, but go and dance with your wife again. She's why you're really here."
"Sorry Nana, but you're not getting out of it that easily." Ron said as he closed his eyes and started rubbing his hands together.
"What are you doing Ronald?" she asked as she watched him closely.
"Something I should have thought of earlier." he told her. When he was finished, he held his hands out which now looked like they had a blueish glow to them and said, "Wax on, wax off."
Using her scooter to help her up, Nana stood up and leaned into Ron's arms. As he placed his hands on her hips, he said, "Now please don't think I'm trying to get fresh with you Nana."
"Ronald, the last person that tried to get fresh with me was Mr. Jorgensen at the retirement home, and that was over a loaf of bread that he just baked. Oh my!" She exclaimed as she suddenly felt a slight tingling in her hips as the pain went away.
Looking to Ron for an explanation, he said with a sad smile, "I'm sorry, but they will only stay this way tonight. I can't do any better than that and it won't last much past midnight."
Standing on her own now, she tried moving her hips around, expecting the pain that she had learned to live with for so long, to return at any moment and finding that it didn't.
Looking back at him she asked, "How?"
"As Master Sensei would say, there's more to being a Monkey Master than just knowing how to fight. Now." he held out his hand, "May I have this dance?"
"Well, if this ends around midnight, like you say Ronald, then I had best be like Cinderella and have a ball."
Giving him her hand, he led them out to the dance floor where they, (guess what,) proceeded to dance.
One by one, the Possible family saw that the woman they knew as their "Nana," or "mom." the woman they were all afraid would soon not be able to walk at all, was dancing like she was in her forties again, and she looked as happy as if it were her own wedding reception.
Sensing that something out of the ordinary was happening, the band eased into repeating the music they were playing to lengthen the dance and as the other couples sensed it too, they left the dance floor till only Nana and her partner were left dancing.
Ron asked, "Nana, would you tell me something please? What's your real first name? All I ever heard Kim call you was "Nana."
Smiling at him even more, she said, "It's been a long time since I used or heard it, but my first name is Dorothy."
"Dorothy?"
"I wasn't always a Possible, Ronald. My late husband, Jim, use to call me Dottie or Dot." As she laughed to herself she said, "He use to call me Dot Possible because he couldn't believe that I agreed to marry him." It was Dot Possible." He always said it with a fake German accent."
"Dorothy." Ron said the name again to himself. Then to Nana he said, "Dottie, if Kim and I are blessed with a baby girl at some point in time, would you mind if we named her Dorothy? I could call her Dot, Dot Stoppable."
Not sure whether she should smile or cry, she did both as she hugged Ron. "That would make me so proud."
A few minutes later, Ron felt a polite tap on his shoulder. It was James, "Mind if I have a chance to dance with my mother, son?"
Ron moved aside and as he headed to the sideline saw that Slim was waiting to go next after he gave James a chance that may not happen again.
Kim met him as he stepped off the dance floor. "What did you do Ron?"
"Remember last month when I was able to transfer some of my MMP onto your battle suit's blades, just before we fought all of those Kim-bots?"
"Yeah. That was the main reason I did so well against them. But what does that have to do with my Nana?"
"I did about the same thing with her hips. I used it to pad the sockets where her femurs fit into her pelvis and allow her to move without the pain." Taking a deep breath, he said, "It's not permanent though Kim. I can't heal it because it's just her age catching up to her. I figure it will only last tonight."
Looking at the smile on her grandmother's face, Kim asked, "Does she know?"
"Yeah. She said something about her being Cinderella and she was going to have a ball tonight."
Patting him on his arm, she said, "Then you did just like you always do Ron. You made someone very happy. She'll remember this night for the rest of her life."
As they headed back to the table Ron said, "Speaking of people being happy, is Tara alright? I'm a little worried about her but I didn't want to ask her about it directly."
The smile briefly disappeared from Kim face before she asked, "Why's that?"
"Well, she's here by herself for starters. I haven't seen Mankey-boy anywhere and during the wedding and the picture taking, she wasn't wearing a chapel hat either. Kind of sending out a signal there."
Stopping Ron for a moment, she said, "Tara made me promise not to say anything about it, she didn't want to do anything to spoil the wedding, but yeah, there is a problem. In exchange for me not saying anything about it tonight though, she promised to come over for dinner tomorrow night and we would all sit down and talk."
"All? You, me, her and ..." he was expecting Kim to say Josh, but the answer she gave could only mean one thing to Ron.
Hesitantly Kim said, "Shego." but she quickly added, "And Veronica Ann."
Ron's face looked as if a cloud had just blotted out all the good he was feeling as a hard fixed look settled in. Kim's folks, Tara's folks, Tara and Josh, Rabbi Katz or another clergy person would have meant they were going to talk, but Shego without Drew being there meant they were going to plan something, an action or reaction.
"Ron." said Kim as she gave him a small slap on the arm. "Get it out of your head. Like I said, we are going to talk to Tara about it tomorrow after dinner. Not any time sooner or you will make me break a promise I made to her."
After he thought about it and after glancing at her a couple of time, she saw the cloud pass by. "Okay KP. You've got this one while Wade's got the other. Sort of leaves me out of things a little."
"No. We'll have this thing tomorrow. Just put it out of your mind till then. We've got other things to think about today and tonight. Or have you forgotten about tonight?" she added with a little bit of devil to her voice."
A smile slowly started to form on his face. One of those smiles that the more you think about something, the more you have to smile.
"That's right tiger. You just keep thinking about that." she said as she played with his lapels. "The other things we'll take care of later, but for now, just keep thinking about that."
They sat down and finished watching her grandmother dance with her sons, while they drank some more of the champagne. It was just about time in the schedule to switch over to the non-alcoholic variety. They both wanted everybody to have a good time and go home with pleasant memories. They didn't want anyone to go home and get a DUI or have an accident along the way.
As they were finishing, Monique came over and whispered something to Kim. After a brief exchange of whispered words, Kim told Ron she had to go and help Monique with something important and that she'd be back in a few.
After Nana finished dancing her Slim, the band leader said they were going to take a short break, but Ron noticed that none of them left the stage.
Just as Slim sat down after seating Nana, the lights went out but before anyone could say or so anything, a loud and ominous voice came out of the PA system saying, "Stay where you are!" Then a spotlight came on in the center of the dance floor showing someone wearing a cape with their back to Ron. The figure turned around and with a flourish of the cape, said, "For I have done the impossible, the unthinkable. I have kidnapped the bride on her wedding day."
"I wish I'd thought of that." said Drew Lipsky under his breath, just before Shego backhanded his upper arm.
"Ow!"
It was Wade.
It was Wade wearing the cape, a top hat and sporting a fake handlebar mustache. No, I mean it was a really fake mustache. The kind of mustache that kids would make by cutting it out of cardboard and color with a crayon. Two notches cut in the top of it fit up his nose and pinched the colomella (10 point question on a Mr. Barkin surprise heath test question which Ron barely got a passing grade on.) to hold it in place.
"Alright Wade," said Ron with a puzzled, yet comical look on his face. "What's going on?"
Still in his villainous voice, Wade pronounced, "I am not this "Wade" person you are referring to. I am EDAW!"
"Edaw?" repeated Ron.
"EDAW! E for evil, D for dastardly, A for awful and W for wicked! I am EDAW! And I have kidnapped your bride and I'm holding her for ransom. Bwuhuhuhaha!"
Señor Senior Sr. said to himself, "That's an evil laugh. I only wish Junior would have done as well."
"Hooo Kayy, E dawg. Time to lighten up on the champagne mixed with slurpies." chuckled Ron.
"It's EDAW!" Wade loudly announced. "And if you don't pay my ransom demands, I will keep your bride and have my way with her!"
"Like hell you will!" came Monique's angry voice from somewhere out of Ron's sight.
"Okay, okay." said Wade quickly in his normal voice trying not to anger his live-in girl friend. Reverting back to his bad guy voice, "Then I will keep her as my maid to clean up around my lair."
"Like hell you will!" came Kim's voice from the same area that Monique's came from.
"Alright!" came Wade's exasperated reply. "Then I'll use her as a cook for my minions."
All the people at the family table remembered Kim's first attempts at the culinary science had the same response. "Like hell you will! Not if you want them to live."
"Hey!" came Kim's hurt reply. "I can hear you guys you know. I've gotten better."
"Alright "Edaw," what's the ransom?" asked Ron figuring that he'd best get on with the joke before Wade dug himself a hole that he'd never get out of. "Do I need to bring you a shrubbery?"
"No! The ransom is...
a song."
"A song? Wade, I'm sorry, Edaw, you know I can't carry a tune in a bucket,"
"Actually, you can, or have." Wade said as he pointed to one of the big screen TV that hung in the reception hall. (They were used when they hosted Super Bowl parties and the like.) The TV showed a white screen and the silhouette of a naked mole rat walked into view, stood there and slowly and deliberately put on a pair of very stylish sunglasses.
"Aw come on Wade. That was years ago. I was trying to eek out a report for Barkin and I was desperate at the time!" Ron said as he felt something twitch on his left cheek. (No. His other left cheek.)
"Are you going to let Kim down and not rescue her?" smiled Edaw.
Ron heard Shego mutter, "Told you he wouldn't do it."
Someone else said, "That was a long time ago."
"He wouldn't do something goofy like that now. He grew out of it."
Standing up and with a blank look on his face, Ron walked around the table and headed towards Wade. The room grew silent as he reached inside his jacket pocket and got something out that he put there when he parked the car. When he got up to Wade, he put his hand out, asking for something. Wade then placed the cordless microphone in it before Ron walked back to talk to the band.
When he was done, he shooed Wade off the dance floor and then put on his sunglasses. Mentally, he reached into his back pocket and took out something that had been sleeping there for a while.
It was time to let his essential Ron-ness out to play.
Yo', listen up, have a howler from Ron.
'Naked Mole Rap' is the name of the song. (Word!)
Here's a story in all it's glory.
Ain't hidin' nothin', don't know what the truth is how Ron met Rufus.
Never heard a cat bark,
Never heard a puppy purr,
My dad's allergic to every kind of fur.
So I surfed for hairless pets on the internet,
Saw a jpeg of a pink thing...
Gonna need sunscreen!
What is that? That freaky thing?
(Yes, that's right, it's the naked mole rat.)
Come on y'all, let the girlies sing!
(Listen to the naked mole rap!)
Uh huh! What is that? That freaky thing?
(Yes, that's right, it's the naked mole rat.)
Hey, wait, I can't hear the girls sing!
(Listen to the naked mole rap!)
I heard'a Smartie Mart was havin' a sale on a hairless pink rodent with a long skinny tail.
(That's me!)
It seemed to be this good be a solution,
The perfect pet for my dad's sensitive constitution!
So the manager came to open the cage,
He said, "You know this pet's hairless?"
I said, "I couldn't care less!"
Handed him to me, said, "Be careful don't drop it, and do you want this cage?"
"No, i'll keep him in my pocket!"
(Yay-hay!)
What is that? That freaky thing?
(Yes, that's right, it's the naked mole rat.)
Come on y'all, let the girls sing!
(Listen to the naked mole rap!)
(Oh yeah!)
What is that? That freaky thing?
(Yes, that's right, it's the naked mole rat.)
Gonna buy me some bling-bling!
(Listen to the naked mole rap!)
(...Ooh, super freaky!)
Guitar baby! Uh! What are we missin' here?
(Rufus, the naked mole rat!)
Can I get a boo-yah?
(Boo-yah!) The guest replied.
Oh, can I get a boo-yah?
(Boo-yah!) The guest answered.
Look at the camera, say, "Cheese!"
(Cheese!) was the response.
Smile for the camera say, "Cheese!"
Can I get a boo-yah?
(Boo-yah!) The guest yelled.
Oh, can I get a boo-yah?
(Boo-yah!) The guest yelled.
Look at the camera, say, "Cheese!"
(Cheese!)
I'd smile for the camera say, "Cheese!"
We've heard of Bueno Nacho, chimerito and a naco.
Always grande size it. Why not? I'm buyin'!
Rufus in my pocket, you can't stop it, can't top it,
Don't drop it, you might just pop it!
Rufus and Ron Stoppable with our best friend now wife: Kim Possible.
We're not afraid of any Edaw attack.
I say "Yo, KP, we'll get you back!"
What is that? That freaky thing?
(Yes, that's right, it's the naked mole rat.)
Come on y'all, let the girlies sing!
(Listen to the naked mole rap!)
What is that? Super freaky thing!
(Yes, that's right, it's the naked mole rat.)
Come on y'all, let those girlies sing!
(Listen to the naked mole rap!)
Yeah! This ain't no, no freak-o!
Yeah that's right, it's the naked mole rap!
This ain't no, no disco!
Come on y'all, it's the naked mole rap!
This ain't no, no chico/Shego!
Yeah, that's right, it's the naked mole rap!
This ain't no, no wrong-o!
Come on y'all it's the naked mole rap.
Listen to the naked mole rat!
(Muah! buh-bye, buh-bye, buh-bye, buh-bye...)
Kim rushed up to hug him just as he finished and before he was greeted with a standing "O" from everybody else. "You were great Ron! Sorry to do that to you though. Apparently Wade had been talking to one of your Great Aunts about some of the things they did at wedding receptions back in the old country. That's who he got the idea for this from. But you are still my hero and you rescued me. Again."
Smiling, Ron looked at her and said, almost breathless, "Yeah, I'll have to talk to Wade to see who exactly he talked to. Not all of my great aunts are all that great. But it was fun. But hero? Yeah right."
As they walked back to the table, Kim was bothered by something. Something that Ron said. He didn't say it like he didn't believe that she meant it when she said it, it was more like...something else.
She was still thinking about it after they sat back down. Finally, taking his hand she asked with a very serious look on her face, "Ron, did I ever tell you you're my hero?"
Surprised at the question and even more surprised at the intensity in her voice, he wasn't really sure what to answer.
When he didn't answer, Kim asked. "Were you paying any attention to the song we danced to, our first dance as man and wife?"
Ron had a "deer in the headlights," kind of look on his face as he stammered out. "Ah, no. Not really. You see I..."
"Ron how could you?" She sounded hurt and annoyed at the same time. All the people at the table suddenly felt the tension level suddenly go up to almost "their first argument," level.
"Do you have any idea how many songs we went through trying to find the one song that matched how I truly feel about you? All the time we all spent trying to find the perfect one? And you're sitting there telling me you weren't even paying any attention to it?"
The collective thought among the family was "Uh-oh. Here it comes"
"Kim. I had my head in the clouds, I was dancing on air, and I had the most beautiful angel from heaven in my arms. I'm sorry, (pause) but I wasn't paying attention to the heavenly choir."
Her expression quickly went from frustration to pure love as she grabbing him and pulled him into a near bone crushing hug and kiss.
With a look of shock turned to admiration, James said to Donald, Ron's father, "Oh he's good. He's really good."
"Yeah." said Donald with more of a look of amazement on his face. "I just wonder where he got it from."
Lonnie gave him a light slap on his arm and softly laughed at him while trying to keep her eyes from watering too much.
When the kiss was over, Kim looked at Ron and said, "Come on. We are going to have to fix that."
Not really knowing what she was up to, Ron followed her as she half pulled, half dragged him back up to the band's stage where she talked to the band members. They handed her the mic and then started getting ready to play something again while they waited for her. Grabbing a vacant chair, she moved it to the center of the dance floor and asked Ron to sit down in it.
Wade had been talking to Betty and Shego and was about ready to leave on his mission when Kim started talking.
"Folks. It seems that my husband... Gee that sounds great. Let me say it again. My husband. Anyway, my husband was paying more attention to me than he was to the music when we were dancing. That's a good thing, but I want him to hear the lyrics to the song because they tell him how I really feel about him."
The area lights went down and the spotlight grew brighter as the music started and Kim sang to Ron. There may have been a room full of people, but as far as Kim was concerned, it was only her, singing to him, in the room.
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
It must have been cold there in my shadow,
to never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way.
You always walked a step behind.
So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it.
I would be nothing without you.
Did you ever know that you're my hero?
You're everything I wish I could be.
I could fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
Did I ever tell you you're my hero?
You're everything, everything I wish I could be.
Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
Oh, the wind beneath my wings.
You, you, you, you are the wind beneath my wings.
Fly, fly, fly away. You let me fly so high.
Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.
Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.
Fly, fly, fly high against the sky,
so high I almost touch the sky.
Thank you, thank you,
thank God for you, the wind beneath my wings.
As Wade left, he waved to them, but he doubted seriously if they saw him. They were still standing in the center of the dance floor hugging each other tightly.
The rest of the night's festivities went by, more of a blur than before. Nana wanted to introduce them to someone she met and struck up a strong friendship with immediately. It was none other than Señor Senior Sr., or Sy as Nana was calling him. It seems that they had a lot in common.
After they went to a small table to talk alone, Kim suddenly looked at Ron and said, "We have to nip that relationship in the bud right away."
"Why?"
"Because, if they get serious and get married that would mean that Bonnie would be my half-step aunt in law. I can't have that." she said with a serious face.
Ron asked, "So it would be okay if they just shacked up together, without getting married?"
"Yes. Unless they don't use protection and she gets pregnant. Then they would have to get married." she said with that same serious face, just before she broke out into giggles and Ron then joined her.
They noticed that Yori, besides dancing a couple of dances with Lord Fiske, who seemed to have relaxed a little at the party, was spending a lot of time with Kim's cousin Larry. Well, he did know a lot about Ti-Shing-Pec-Whar and its history and he and Ron did share a lot of traits about some things. Most important of all though, Yori and Larry seemed to enjoy each other's company. She seemed relaxed around him. Something she hadn't been with many men since her ordeal with the Yono.
Tara spent some time talking to Ned, from Ron's restaurant and formerly from the Bueno Nacho in town. Once again, she seemed comfortable with him.
As the evening was coming to an end they found that Wade had one last wedding present for them. He'd arranged for the last song of the evening to be an old one that they had danced to before, a long time ago.
"Could It Be"
I know we've been friends forever
But now I think I'm feeling something totally new
And after all this time I opened up my eyes
Now I see you were always with me
Could it be you & I
Never imagined
Could it be suddenly I'm fallin' for you
Could it be you were right here beside me and I never knew
Could it be that it's true
It's you and it's you
It's kinda funny you were always near
But who would ever thought we'd end up here
And everytime I need you, you've been there for me
Now it's clear I've been waiting for you
'Cause today is the start of the rest of our lives
I can see it in your eyes
And it's real, and it's true
It's just me and you.
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Next Chapter; The First Night
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