Hana walked into the Middleton Daily and looked around. The offices seemed to be in disarray with papers all over the place and reporters running around shouting at each other.

A stern voice stopped Hana's exploration of the office. "Stoppable."

Hana turned to look at the speaker and saw Bonnie Rockwaller beckoning her into her office. The younger girl took a free chair and coolly greeted Middleton Daily's second-in-command. "Hi, Bonnie."

"Visiting?"

"Looking for Shego, actually... I couldn't find her in the graphics design office... Some rude dude started yelling at me."

"That must've been Will. Shego's here, going over something with Kim."

Hana nodded.

"Everything going well?"

The younger woman nodded again.

"Good." Bonnie glanced at the bookshelf behind Hana.

Noticing that Bonnie was staring at something that wasn't her face, Hana followed Bonnie's line of vision and saw that she was looking at a picture of Kim and Ron, with Bonnie fuming at something in the background. It was taken in high school, when Hana was just a small kid.

"Didn't take you for a sentimental type, Bonnie."

Bonnie smiled. "It comes with age. I'll probably be an old sap by the time I hit forty."

Hana chuckled and suddenly spoke in a serious tone. "Thanks for looking after Kim... I couldn't do much with being abroad, so..."

Bonnie blushed. "Well, she's the boss, got to make sure she's fit to run the company," the brunette replied coolly.

Hana smirked. "Don't be embarrassed, nothing wrong with helping friends out."

Bonnie nodded. "So you'll be in town until the New Year?"

"Yeah, I leave at the end of the first week of January, so I still have time to catch up with people and terrorise the city with my charm."

Bonnie smiled. "Don't get yourself into trouble, ok?"

Hana nodded as she got up to leave. "I'll try not to... Really wanted to punch that Will dude earlier though."

"He's like that to everyone, just ignore him."

"All right. Nice catching up with ya, Bonnie." Hana waved at the brunette before disappearing down the hall to Kim's office.

Bonnie got up and walked over to the bookshelf. Taking the photo into her hands, she shook her head and smiled. It was a strange sort of picture; she was only in the background fuming about that bake sale when Kim and Ron had their picture taken. Kim had given her the picture as a memento of their high school days shortly after Ron died. While Bonnie had never got along with them in high school, they did just fine when they all started working at the paper. The angry and bitchy Bonnie was still there, but a bit more tolerable with Ron's goofiness and Kim's heart of gold. Bonnie only really began to soften up when Kim had her 'period of darkness', as the tabloids put it, and shortly after the picture was given to her. It was one of those moments where she wished she got on their good side in the past as it was the only picture they really had together as a group of three.


Kim's door was ajar and Hana peeked inside. Shego and Kim were talking about something and the two women were using hand gestures of sorts to hash out whatever details they were discussing.

Noticing someone at her door, Kim looked up and smiled. "Hana! What a surprise!" Shego turned around and winked at the young woman.

"I was actually looking for Shego..." She looked from Kim to Shego. "Some guy at your office wouldn't tell me where you were, and I don't have your cell number."

Shego grinned. "Will being an ass? He was pretty flabbergasted when I left since he got caught eavesdropping... Anyway, come over here and I'll enter my number in your phone."

"Ok, cool." Hana handed over her cell phone to Shego and looked up to see Kim watching both of them with an amused expression on her face.

"You know, Hana," said Shego as she punched in her number, "you could've just asked Kim?"

The thought hadn't crossed the young girl's mind and she laughed embarrassedly. "Hadn't thought about that... Besides, Kim's busy with work, from what Bonnie told me."

Kim laughed. "Hana, you can bug me any time, you know that." She ruffled her sister's hair. "Don't worry about it. Family always comes first, then work."

Hana nodded as Shego gave her back her cell phone. "So whatcha guys up to? Bonnie said you were going over stuff with Shego?"

"They want me to freelance for the paper, so we're hashing out the details."

"More of an on-call or emergency thing," Kim added.

"Cool."

"So, what's up? Why were you looking for me?" asked Shego.

Hana's cheeks coloured. "Was wondering if you wanted to get coffee..." She turned to her redheaded sister. "You too, Kim."

Kim smiled. It was nice to see that Hana and Shego were getting along, but she got the feeling that Hana wanted to speak to Shego in private about something. After the evening where she patched things up with Hana, things were a bit back to normal - Hana wasn't as inquisitive, and Kim had not gone over to Shego's much. Instead, the older woman had come over for dinner on random days, and slept over for some. Whether or not this was progress, Kim had a feeling that Hana still felt somewhat awkward about the whole situation. She looked at the clock and shook her head. "It's ok, I have some more paperwork to do, so you and Shego can go for coffee. Is that ok?" She turned to look at Shego for an answer.

"I think we've sorted out what the freelance position requires, so we're good. Does Bonnie need to go over anything with me before I leave?"

Kim shook her head. "We agreed on these conditions before you stopped by and we haven't made any changes to them during my discussion with you, so I think we're ok. I'll let Betty know about what we discussed."

"Ok, great," said Shego as she got up to leave. "C'mon, squirt, let's go get that coffee."

Hana grinned. "Sure thing, Sheegz. I'll see you later, Kim!"

Kim nodded and watched the two leave. Picking up the stack of papers on her desk, she grabbed her coat and headed out the door.


Author's Notes: Baw, Shego calls Hana 'squirt'...

Chapter title is from "Memory (feat. DAISHI DANCE)" by Nakashima Mika.