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Maternal Instinct: Spotlight

Chapter 13: Kim- Rude Awakening

Kim's eyes snapped open and she let out a quiet shriek as she felt something cold press against the back of her leg. Normally such a sudden action would cause her to jump up, assume a fighting pose and get ready to fight off whoever attacked her. Unfortunately, this type of attack she was all-too-familiar with. Of course it wasn't really an attack, just that Shego had rolled over in her sleep and one of her feet was pressed against Kim's leg. The redhead never could understand how a woman who could generate plasma hot enough to melt steel with her hands could have such cold feet! It boggled the mind.

Not that Shego would ever actually admit to having cold feet. Somehow that was a flaw and she never liked to admit any of her flaws. Even when Kim very gently suggested she wear socks at night, it somehow became a big deal. Kim tuned most of it out but the thing she remembered the most was that Shego said she couldn't wear sock to sleep because she couldn't get comfortable in them.

Like this is really comfortable, Kim thought irritably. Seriously how could her feet be this cold?! She has to have some kind of circulation problem.

She tried to move her leg away from the other woman's but it seemed that Shego was determined to cause her some level of discomfort. No matter how far Kim moved her leg, the foot stayed perfectly glued to it. She finally let out an annoyed sigh and put her leg back in its original position and just tried to ignore the coldness.

This isn't working, she thought after a few minutes. Guess there's only one thing I can do.

"Shego," she whispered.

There was no response.

"Shego!" she tried a little more loudly.

Again there was no response.

"Shego!" she nearly screamed.

This time she did get a reaction, but not the on she wanted. Shego moaned a bit groggily as her arms reached out and wrapped themselves around Kim's waist. She then pulled herself closer so she was right against the redhead's back with her head tucked between her shoulder and chin and of course both her feet against Kim's legs. The now trapped woman grimaced as she clenched and unclenched her left hand.

So…cold! She thought desperately.

"Shego…please," she pleaded.

"Hmmm…Kimmie," Shego muttered sleepily.

Yes that's my name, now for the love of God woman MOVE! She cried out mentally.

She then took a few deep breaths to help calm herself so she could more clearly assess the sitch.

OK Kim, don't get too worked up here. You've been in worse sitchs than this. Besides eventually her feet will warm up or you'll be use to them so it's not all that bad. And it couldn't get any worse, right?

Her answer came in the form of a loud snore right in her ear. She shuddered a bit its volume and hoped it was just the one but that was quickly dashed when Shego began a steady rhythm of loud, obnoxious snoring.

"Of course," she sighed softly.

She laid still and stared into the darkness as the snoring continued and desperately hoped her hearing would survive the experience. When her eyes adjusted to dark room she saw the Kimmunicator on the night stand and look at it almost desperately.

Come on Wade, call in with a mission! Like right now! she demanded.

Much like Shego, the Kimmunicator apparently didn't want to listen to her.

Right cause every other night when I actually am asleep then everyone needs my help! She sighed again. Well I'm sure Shin will be crying here soon so that'll give me an excuse to move Shego.

She held her breath a bit as she waited to hear the familiar cry of her daughter. Unfortunately all she could here was her lover's constant snoring.

And of course this is the one time where she actually sleeps through the whole night! Lucky.

Her frustration building, Kim decided to take more drastic measures. She gently started to elbow Shego in the arm, which slowly rocked the older woman back and fourth. The hope was that the motion would eventually awake her up.

"Come on, get up," she encouraged as she poked more forcefully.

Again Shego's reaction was not at all what she wanted. The pale green woman hooked one leg over the redhead's which brought her right foot on top of Kim's foot. A shiver raced up the younger woman's spine at the new sensation.

Now it's cold in front and back! She screamed in her head. How can she be this cold?! This is inhuman! And why me?! What did I do to deserve this kind of torture?!

Her patience worn completely thin, Kim decided she'd just deal with the consequences of waking Shego. She reached down and pulled the woman's leg off hers, unhooked her arms, and then turned herself a bit so she could give her lover a hard shove with both hands. The bed bounced slightly as Shego's sleeping form rolled back over to her side of the bed. Kim sat there for a second and waited for the inventible verbal onslaught she was about to endure. She was surprised, though, that no such attack came. She looked over and saw that Shego had repositioned herself so that she faced away from Kim and stopped snoring. While she was relieved, the teen hero still couldn't help but shake her head

I swear that woman could sleep through a nuclear war, she thought with a bemused smirk.

Still with calmness finally returned to the bedroom, she laid down and couldn't wait to get back to dreamland. Unfortunately it seemed she missed her train. She tossed and turned and did everything she could to get back to sleep but nothing seemed to work. She growled and glanced over at the clock.

3:45 AM

Two hours, she lamented. Guess it's official, I won't be getting back to sleep tonight.

Shego let out a light snort next to her.

"Oh shut up," she muttered.

The End

Author's Notes: Alright so the back-story on this idea is that I've been a bit sick the last couple of days and as I was laying down in bed this idea popped into my head. Normally these ideas just kinda wander off but for whatever reason I really wanted to write this out. Might have been recovering from being sick or it might have been the fact that I haven't written an actual Kigo fic or scene in…a few months now. Wow.

Whatever it was I just wanted to get it out and post it up so I decided to make it a "Spotlight" chapter. It's a quick, fun, light fluff piece that I thought was funny and I hope you guys did as well. Now that that's out of the way I'll be getting back to "The Unknown Adventure of Ann Possible" then come back with a few more "Spotlight" chapters before moving onto "Sidekick, No More".

Hope to see you guys there.