Chapter 43 – Best Comedy and Best Romance.
After "There You'll Be" ended its final notes, the house light brightened again and Sharper came back to the stage with Sarah.
"So...that has been 10 awards in the books, and we still have 19 more to give out!" he blurted out. "I can bet Sarah is excited about as much as the audience!"
"Oooh, yes, Sharper!" Sarah replied in a fast pace, "There were those that were expected to win and those that completely took us by surprise! I mean, who could've saw Hotrod winning best Kim and Ron!"
To the audience, she whispered, "I did a couple of art collabs with him...shameless plug...please check out his and my page!"
The audience erupted with laughter. Sharper even chuckled a bit as well.
"That really tickles my funny bone, Sarah!" Sharper replied, trying to let the laughter die down from inside his throat.
Once he composed himself, he continued, "Speaking of funny bones, I think that'll serve as a nice segue into the next Fannie award, this time for Best Comedy. And to present this award, I give y'all the two best experts in laughter: Mr. Ron Stoppable and Dr. Drew T. Lipsky! Give a hand for this pair of wonderful, and hilarious, gentlemen!"
The audience gave a warm round of applause as both Ron and Dr. Lipsky came on the stage.
Dr. Lipsky looked at Ron's outfit and remarked, "I knew you got that from a forest somewhere. Did you get your belt made from a tree branch!"
The audience reacted with light laughter.
"FYI, Dr. L, I got this from CB Men's! Where they have an eye for the fashion guy!" Ron countered, bringing up CB Men's slogan.
"Just make sure that you don't add an ugly Christmas sweater to it, Stoppable. Even Snowman Hank would weep at that!" Dr. Lipsky replied, along with the crowd laughter, before the two of them turned back to the audience.
"Comedy is often used in Kim's show, be it through either me losing my pants, or him not remembering my name when he used to be a bad guy!" Ron said. "Or when he had that book of teen slang to try to create an army of zombified young people!"
Drew added with a slight chuckle, "Heh...yes...yes...but that was a different lifetime!" To the crowd, he proclaimed, "Anywho, these five nominees will be sure to make you, the audience, cry from sheer laughter."
Drew: No Bueno Nacho by GenerationPossible2027
Meanwhile, Caesar was trying to get that paycheck to pay for MJ's cleaning. Then DNAmy came in with his 5 younger brothers. "Aww, look at you and your little uniform, you look so cute." complimented the gushy mushy mother. "Mom, don't embarrass me, I'm working. I hope you can order enough to help me pay for MJ's carwash." Mac looked at the others minus Louie, "MJ told you guys not to have food in his car." Amy understood the situation, "I guess we can have 5 li'l niños meals," Mac interrupted, "No, just 3, George and I want salads." Caesar gave an annoyed look just like his boss, Ned.
Ron opened his eyes and found himself in the car with Kim driving. "Hey, Puffy-face, nice to see you survived." she said humorously. Ron's face was swollen and with a cloth wrapped vertically around his head. "I can't feel my face!" he whined. He touched his chin but there was no feeling there. "It's like you could poke my face with a needle and I wouldn't feel it."
"The pain killers can do that. We'll let you sleep off the rest of the drugs so that you can have ice cream later, how does that sound?" Kim offered. Speaking of drugs, they were still affecting Ron making him drowsy, "Yeah, sleep is good, must . . have . ." he leaned his chair back and drifted away while Kim drove into the driveway. "Ron, we're home. Ron?" Ron was passed out and drooling from his swollen lips. Kim was staring out the windshield, "This is gonna take a while."
Later that evening, Ron was still drowsy and had an empty ice cream bowl next to him on the coffee table. Kim took the bowl and took it to the kitchen. Linda saw her swollen-faced dad lying on the couch, "Dad looks so puffed up." Ben was with her giggling, "I feel sorry for him. We all like Bueno Nacho but your old man is on a crunch-free diet. Which reminds me, Caesar works there now. And hopefully, nobody gets to tease your dad with nacos." he said smirking.
The next couple of days were miserable. 2 days after the surgery and Kim to rescue some hikers in the Yellowstone. The kids were in school and Ron was stuck at home with Dawn. He took her with him to stroll around town and saw Bueno Nacho, he can't help it, he decided to walk in. He smelled the tacos and nachos, "Oh, how I missed this place." Given he was away from the joint for 3 days. He walked up to the counter and saw Ned, "Hi, where is Caesar? Did you fire him? Was it because of a No Clone policy?"
"For your information, he's in school."
"Oh, yeah. So, do you have anything soft?"
"Softer than a chimuritto?"
"Well, you see, I had my wisdom teeth removed and-"
"Well, I don't know what to tell you, except you can have some cheese sauce."
Ron: You Saw Nothing by arandomshipper
Back at the lair, Shego, Drakken, and a crowd of henchmen walked through the long corridor to the deeper parts of the underground building.
"Hurry, Shego, Hurry! Your next task is of critical importance!" Drakken fussed. "That pickle jar is going down now." He muttered under his breath.
"Yeah, yeah, don't get your panties in a bunch, I'm coming," Shego said absently. Then something registered in her brain. "Excuse me, did you just say pickle jar?"
"Uhhh,"
"You know what, I don't even want to know. Just tell me what I'm doing when we get there."
"Yes, perfect. That's what I like about you, Shego. No nonsense, just taking care of business!" Drakken gushed.
"Sure, sure," She replied, her mind wandering again. Drakken continued talking, but she tuned him out, lost in thought. He and the henchmen soon outpaced her in their enthusiasm to reach their goal. She came out of her musings to find herself alone in the corridor, the door to the lair's gym nearby.
Overcome by a sudden urge, she quickly entered the gym and, with furtive glances, confirmed that none of the henchmen were making use of it, unsurprisingly. She took a deep, calming breath and dropped into a martial arts stance, both hands by her right hip.
"Kame-"
"Hey, Shego, I was just wondering if-" Bob the henchman wandered into the room looking at his clipboard. Before he even had a chance to look up, he found himself a foot off the ground, his back pressed against the wall, a hand around his throat, and most distressingly, another hand, glowing with green plasma, pointing with stiffened fingers right at his eyeballs.
"You saw nothing."
Drew: You Rub Me The Wrong Way by KiY
"Not so fast," came Wade's voice. The door to his office opened, and Wade came out with a second Darrin Stephens. "That Darrin Stephens is innocent. The crimes were committed by his evil twin."
"Evil twin?" asked the second patrolman in surprise.
"Comic books are full of them," Ron insisted. "And TV shows."
"Especially soap operas," agreed Bonnie.
"Darrin York Stephens and Darrin Sargent Stephens," Wade explained
"York and Sargent?" demanded a skeptical Hobble.
The second Stephens shrugged 'his' shoulders. "Mom was a Gary Cooper fan," 'he' explained.
"I'm an only child!" the first Stephens insisted.
"Mom didn't want you to know," the second told him. "She loved me best."
"Maybe there was a transporter accident on the USS Valiant," Ron suggested.
Kim sighed, "Ron, Captain Constellation was just a television show."
Bonnie spoke up, "What about a clone?"
"There are no clones," insisted Wade.
"Are you sure," Kim asked. "I've heard of sheep, and mice, and–"
"Well, yes there are clones of some animals," Wade admitted. "But there are no clones of human beings."
"Plastic surgery," grunted Hobble, "but it doesn't make no difference. We got the fingerprints of the streaker – and those don't lie."
"Even with an evil twin?" Ron asked.
"Even identical twins do not have identical fingerprints," the second patrolman assured them. "We'll take these two to the station and–"
"And if they have identical fingerprints?"
"I told you, that's impossible."
Ron spoke up, "Care to make, uh, a small bet?"
"Sure, I–"
"Shut up," Hobble warned his partner. "And never bet against anyone at It's Possible." He addressed those in the room. "Tony is right, no two people have the same fingerprints. We'll know as soon as... Time travel!"
"Uh, it'll take time travel to tell which one is the streaker?" asked Ron.
"No. No, see if one is the Darrin Stephens from today, and the other is the Darrin Stephens from tomorrow, then–"
"Take a deep breath," Tony warned in a soothing voice. "This place is getting to you. We'll take the suspects downtown and everything will be fine."
"And if the fingerprints are identical?" Wade demanded.
"We can't arrest either one, obviously."
"Will you bring them back here?" asked Kim.
"Sure," Tony scoffed, "if the fingerprints are identical."
"You can drive me back," the first Stephens sniffed. "That one will ride a broom back."
The second Stephens sighed, "And that attitude is why Mom liked me best."
Ron: Emotion Sickness Remix by NeoTyson
"Boo-ya! Thanks Wade you rock!" Ron said excitedly that things are going to plan for him.
"You already know." Suddenly it clicks to Ron to ask him about the strange device he picked up instead of Bonnie's phone.
"Oh yeah, speaking of yesterday I..." Before he could get his question out, he hears the doorbell ring throwing his attention off.
"Huh, that's odd Kim would usually wait for me to meet at her house and lately she's been walking to school with Josh." Ron figures it would be Kim due to the fact that she's the only person he walks to school with.
Wade thought the same, but figures this must be a good sign. "Maybe she realizes that you two haven't spent time together lately and wants to make it up to you."
"Will see, I will hit you up later. Ron out." Ron hangs up the phone and rushes to the door only to see someone he would never thought to appear at his doorsteps.
"Bo..Bonnie?" Standing in front of him was indeed Bonnie Rockwaller, who is wearing her blue dress, and seems to have a flirty expression on her face.
"Hi Ron." She greets him in a seductive tone that catches Ron off guard. So many questions were flooding in Ron's head like "why is she at my house" and "what's with that look on her face." Until he mentally slaps his self-knowing why she was here.
"Oh, right you are here about the phone. Listen, I just talk to Wade and he said he should be able to locate it soon." Ron quickly tells her, hoping that will keep her from being upset like yesterday.
She simply smiles at him and takes a step closer to him. "That's great and all but the phone is not the reason I am here."
Now Ron was really confused and nervous as he takes a step back. "Really? So why are you here?" He asks while scratching the back of his head.
Bonnie giggles, an action that Ron can't remember the last time she did that, before poking his chest. "I'm here for a cute blonde man named Ron Stoppable."
Ron couldn't believe his ears and eyes as he was half tempted to look around to see if she if she is referring to someone else. The stuck up brunette cheerleader had just called him cute and a man instead of loser. "ME!?" He blurts out, pointing to his self.
Bonnie laughs at his reaction and gets closer to wrapping her arms around his neck, making his heart beat fast. He wouldn't admit this, but despite Bonnie always being mean, he had always found her hot, especially in this case how close she is right now. "Duh and I was wondering would you walk with me to school?" She requests. At that moment, Ron burst out laughing and gently pushes Bonnie off him.
Drew: And finally, Kimtimidation by Whitem
In one swift motion Kim reached out, grabbed Drakken by the hair, and slammed his forehead onto the table. She then took hold of one of his wrists with one hand and then grabbed his pinky finger with the other.
"How fond are you of this finger?"
"Please! Please… don't…! I… don't like pain!" Once again Kim smirked as she noticed a red bump forming on his forehead.
"Then tell me who… took… him."
"It was the green wench!" The sweating blue man finally blurted out.
"She's not a wench, she's your wife!" Kim shot back with a raised voice.
"And she probably doesn't even want to be that anymore!" Dr. Director said from the back of the room as she leaned against the wall with her arms crossed.
Kim put some pressure on the abnormally small digit. "Tell… me… everything." Again, the three words were a demand rather than a question.
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you…" Dr. Drakken let out a small whimper as Kim let his hand go, of which he immediately started to rub the knuckle that had been strained.
A blank look came across his blue face and Dr. Drakken spoke without any emotion. "Shego found out you and the buffoon…" An icy look stopped him. "Excuse me, Stoppable, were moving from your parents house in Middleton. She saw the opportunity to make the snatch and grab when no one was looking, and then we would ask for a rather large ransom at a later time. She then took him to…" Suddenly Drew Lipsky stopped talking.
"Keep going Drakken, or do I need to threaten another finger?"
"If I tell you, what will you do for me? A little quid pro quo, as it were." A corner of his mouth ticked up.
Kim looked back at Dr. Director, who stepped up next to her. "We can't offer you anything like immunity, but how about this… we don't throw you back in jail after we're done here."
Ron then said, opening the envelope, "The Golden Rufus for Best Comedy goes to ... whitem, for his story Kimtimidation!"
While reclining back in his seat, a slightly overweight (but trying to lose some poundage) middle-aged man had just taken a rather large mouthful of his Jack and Coke when the winner was announced, and he promptly spit it all out on... the empty chair that was in front of him. But the reaction did cause a few heads to turn in the direction of the winner... whitem.
'Cough' 'Hack' 'Snort' "Sorry..." the man said as he stood up while wiping the offending liquid from his face. He walked up onto the stage while still coughing a bit as a result of his drink trying to go down his windpipe.
whitem stepped up to the podium/microphone and cleared his throat one last time before beginning.
"Sorry everyone." He covered his mouth again as he finally cleared everything out. "As you can tell, I wasn't expecting this. So, anyway, let me get on with it then since I know a little about how these things are supposed to go.
"Thank you everyone for voting and picking me as the winner for Best Comedy. I know my jokes as an MC for the fannies pretty much fell flat most of the time..."
Someone yelled from the crowd, "You mean ALL the time!" This garnered just enough laughter to slightly irritate the author.
"Anyways, as I was saying, even though those jokes fell flat, I'm glad y'all thought Kimtimidation was funny enough to win Best Comedy, especially going up against all the other authors in the category. Thank-you again, I really appreciate it."
With that said, whitem received his Golden Rufus and proceeded off the stage and back to his seat.
Sharper then went to the podium and said, "And thank you Whitem for that wonderful speech. Moving on to the award for Best Romance. Presenting this award is led by RufusPrime54, Kim and Ron.
Kim, Ron, and RufusPrime all came up on the stage.. RufusPrime was the one that had the finalists and the Golden Rufus in his hand
"Romance can really touch the heart of a reader through all types of conditions..."
"...through action!" Rufusprime joined in.
"Ugh, you two are so sappy!" Bonnie shouted from her royal box.
"Oh pipe down, Bon-Bon!" Kim yelled back to her.
Kim continued before she was rudely interrupted,"Through happiness or sadness, through good times and bad. Regardless if its heterosexual, homosexual, or lesbian, romance has a way of wowing readers of all types."
"And these six nominees have tugged at the heartstrings the most!" Ron said.
"Rufus, the envelope please!"
Rufus gave him the envelope as Ron read aloud the finalists.
A Kiss in the Rain by TemporarySanity91
"Awww I'm sorry, Ronnie," she pouted, widening her eyes.
Ron gulped. "W-what—why do you keep pouting at me? It's not fair."
"Who said I play fair?" she smirked.
"You're mean," he mumbled, reaching for her.
She simply pouted again. He took it back with another gulp.
Her Kimmunicator sounded off. "Hey Wade."
"Reager talked. He said someone gave him money to get into Ron's PC, plant some... less than appropriate files there, and then expose him."
"Who would do that?"
"I can guess," Ron growled.
"Reager is going to spend the night in lock-up. He's more than a little bit pissed at his friend... he won't say who though, unless he gets cut some sort of deal."
"Tell GJ no deal. I know who it was," Kim said, going into her closet and pulling out her mission gear again.
"Hold it, KP. Where are you going?"
"To teach my ex a lesson Possible style," she growled.
"I don't think so, KP."
"Ron—"
"No buts, and no pouting. Tell GJ where he's at. He'll learn a bigger lesson if GJ kicks him around than if you do. Besides, your therapists haven't cleared you, and they're still pissed at you."
She smirked. "True, true. I like the way you think. I've still got to find him though."
"Come lay with me. Put that shit away, tell me more about that demon jackal dude, and let Global Justice do their job. They'll bend him over and your self-important friend Will can shove his ego up Eric's rear-end, and all that will be left of the poor guy will be all the diseases he's picked up over the past couple years."
Kim's eyes widened before she burst into laughter.
Ron smiled. He loved her laugh. He chuckled with her as she made her way back to bed, still in a helpless fit of laughter. Wrapping his arms around her, he pulled her close. "I love you," he said into her ear.
"I love you too," she giggled.
Gift of the Mad Dogs by MrDrP
"Kim, I … you can't be my sidekick!" Ron protested.
"And why not?" she said a little more heatedly than she intended, her arms folded across her chest. "I can do anything, remember? Even support the guy with mystical monkey power who can do things I will literally never be able to do, even if I know sixteen kinds of Kung Fu. You've had my back, Ron," she said, taking his hands in hers. "But now you've stepped up. Let me have yours."
Ron sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Sorry, KP, but no can do."
She was shocked. She wondered if he thought she wasn't good enough or, even worse, he had lined up someone else.
He reached into his pocket and removed a small wrapped box. "Merry Christmas," he said.
She looked at him quizzically, then removed the paper and opened the gift box, which contained what appeared to be an amulet. The object, fashioned from green jade, was stunning – but it was broken into two pieces. Kim was expecting Ron to whine or grouse about the damage the item had clearly experienced since he'd wrapped the present but instead he seemed—serene. "It's beautiful, Ron, but, um …"
"Damaged? Yeah."
"Care to sitch me?"
"You are now the proud owner of the only known Amulet of the Monkey Monks of Morakami. Legend, or at least Sensei, says that it is able to soak up mystical monkey power like a sponge and hold it, contain it. But if the doodad breaks, pfffft."
"Pfffft?"
"Pffft, so long, buh bye, no more mystical monkey power."
"You mean …"
"Yep, I'm back to being plain old Ron Stoppable. No additives or artificial flavors. Not that that's bad, but as you can see, I'm now the one who should be doing the sidekicking, not you."
Kim looked at Ron intently. "You gave up your monkey powers why?"
"Because they got in the way of us," Ron said now hanging his head in shame. "And being the monkey master was great, but not if it meant I was such a jerk gooning on his own supposed awesomeness that I could no longer be your guy."
"You did that for me?" Kim said in wonder.
Ron looked at Kim, then shrugged. "It's not as big a deal as this," he said, looking again at the paper form she had created. Not surprisingly, given it was the handiwork of Kim Possible, it looked quite official, designed and produced to a standard that would have pleased and impressed a professional.
"Ron, I filled out a stinkin' piece of paper! " Kim said with a roll of the eyes. "You gave up your monkey powers."
"No, KP," he said with a seriousness that caught her attention. "All I did was give up what amounted to a magical expansion pack. You, on the other hand, have offered to give up some of your Essential Kimness for me. That's well, it's … wow."
Kim considered what Ron said. Overwhelmed by emotion, she lost control and she began sobbing. Ron, who was also struggling with powerful feelings and was himself sniffling, gathered her into his arms. "I'm sorry if I said the wrong thing, KP. This is why I took so long to get back to you. I knew I would mess things up."
"I love you so much," she said through her tears.
Emotion Sickness Remix by NeoTyson
Bonnie laughs at his reaction and gets closer to wrapping her arms around his neck, making his heart beat fast. He wouldn't admit this, but despite Bonnie always being mean, he had always found her hot, especially in this case how close she is right now. "Duh and I was wondering would you walk with me to school?" She requests. At that moment, Ron burst out laughing and gently pushes Bonnie off him.
"Hahahahaha very funny Bonnie you almost had me on that one. I made not be the brightest color in the coloring box, but I know full well that the real Bonnie wouldn't dare show her face at school with me walking beside her." After getting his self, together he sees a hurt expression on her face.
"I can understand if you think this is some joke, but it's really not. I feel horrible about how I treated you yesterday and I want to make it up to." Bonnie expresses to Ron, tilting her head down adding to her act.
Ron didn't know what to do at this point, he wants to believe that Bonnie is not setting him up and actually wants to have quality time with him, but again this is Bonnie. Knowing her, she probably came up with a plan to get back at him for losing her phone to begin with and probably do some dirty trick to embarrass him in front of the school to make him think he ever had a chance to talk to someone high on the food chain like her.
"So just so we clear, you are not setting me up and you really want me to walk you to school today, in spite of what everyone will think when they see us together?"
"Yes, I promise. I could care less about how they feel if it means I can spend time with you Ron. You don't have to worry about me trying to trick you or anything, let me prove that please?" Bonnie pleads to him.
Ron was going to decline her offer, not wanting to risk the chance for a trap until she grabs his face and kisses him softly. An alarm goes off in Ron's head that something is seriously wrong with Bonnie from how she is acting between yesterday and at this very moment, but Ron shuts it off and gives in to the kiss wrapping his arm her waist and kisses her back.
After the kiss ended, Ron was lost in a daze from how great that kiss. Bonnie giggles at his expression and sweetly asks him, "So are you ready to walk me to school Ron-Ron?"
"Yesss." He replies, still zone out from the fact that Bonnie had kissed him and he liked it... A lot.
"Yay!" She cheers before grabbing his arm and making their way to school. On their way to Middleton high, Ron slowly comes back to his senses as he processes what just happen. "So much for things going back to normal, but yet when was I about going the normal route. Felix will not believe this, especially not Kim. Not like she would notice. I still can't believe Bonnie out of all people kiss me, my first kiss. I have no clue why she did that, yeah, I made had wished that she would be nicer to me, but I didn't expect that wish to happen let alone her coming on to me. The main question is she serious about her and I? Than again, what does that kiss make us now? I better let things play out before getting my hopes up even more. Beside you can't blame me for wanting some more of them Bon-bon kisses."
Wedding Day by OttisSpofford
Ron's father placed the linen wrapped champagne flute at his son's feet, and Ron stomped on it with gusto.
"Mazeltov!" came the shout, and the cheers and catcalls rose up again. His father leaned in close to be heard over the cacophony.
"Ron, that's the last time you'll put your foot down in your relationship."
The organist launched into the recessional and they shrugged through the mob towards the exit. Monique, serving as Maid of Honor, gave Kim a playful elbow in the side as they began to walk out.
"Now you go get busy, girl," she said.
They were showered with rice as they strode out, and at the end of the aisle Kim stopped, faced the chapel, held her bouquet in the air, then turned again and tossed it behind her. It sailed directly towards Monique, and she quickly got out of the way.
"I don't think so," she muttered.
Again it was necessary to clear a path through the guests, who cheered them on all the way to the elevators. They finally pushed through the throng and the elevator doors closed, shutting out the noise. Ron pressed the button for the 14th floor.
"Ron, our suite's on seven."
"No, that's just where you think our suite's at. The Stoppable-san had had one more trick up his sleeve before he went the way of the dinosaur." Ron sniffed and wiped away an imaginary tear. "Ah, the Stoppable-san. We'll miss ye."
"Yeah, well, the Stoppable-san would never get this."
Kim pressed him hard into the wall of the elevator, wrapped one leg around his waist and kissed him like she had never kissed him before. There was something in it, a passion, a need that had long been locked away, struggling to be free and had now been set loose.
New Beginning by The Night Hunter
"Yeah I know," she gasped when she saw enormous alien mother ship. "Ok I take it back… that's scary… we need to figure a way in?"
"Easy! Look for a garbage hatch." Ron said casually.
"Oh yeah, I'm sure that they have a garb–!" Shego paused when she saw the hangar opening with large bags leaving the ship."Er…?"
"And the first boo-yah in space… a BOO-YAH!" Ron cheered, pissing Shego off.
"Hang on," she grumbled. Ron instantly leaped and wrapped his arms around her. "Not to me... that we will do after this whole shit blows over."
"I so hate this suit now." Ron mumbled going back to his seat while Shego avoided the trash bags. She spun the ship and did sharp turns avoiding collision. "Shego! The hangar doors are closing!"
"I know," she snapped and accelerated, narrowly flying inside the larger ship. The whole room was filled with more trash bags and she landed the ship on unoccupied flooring.
The duo left the ship and looked around.
"Ok scanners show that it's ok for us to breathe." She pulled of her helmet and immediately circled her nose. "Oh god! This f****** stinks!"
"What did you expected from garbage?" Ron replied activating his wings. Shego followed suit. But before they moved to the exit, Ron flew closer and suddenly slammed his lips against hers surprising her. Her first reaction was to push him but then she relaxed and wrapped her arms around him. After a minute Ron broke the kiss.
"Shego whatever happ–!" He was interrupted when she put her finger on his lips.
"Don't say the whatever happens to me shit. You will say that on earth," she narrowed her eyes daring him to say anything.
"Then let me say that… I love you Sheila," he took her hand and leaned into it, pressing it to his cheek.
"I hate these sappy moments," she rolled her eyes, but a slight blush betrayed her. "But I love you too Ronnie, so don't you dare to die," she grabbed the hem of his suit and shook him roughly. "Is that clear?"
"Yes ma'am," he mock saluted and moved towards the doors.
They flew out of the garbage and gasped not expecting this sight so soon.
And lastly, Worth It by The Ambigious Fool.
She slid her hand on mine again, "Just hear me out."
"I just need this one win. It wasn't a trick, I-I swear, never, not when it comes to this," she motioned to the water and sky. "I really enjoyed tonight… with you." She swallowed again like she was choking back tears, but she stayed composed. "I promise to make it worth it. An-and besides, you'll be breaking out in like a day; make it a day. Just this once? I just didn't want to fight, I didn't want to force you to go to-" A beat. "I-I really enjoyed tonight. Shego…"
"How exactly… are you going to make it 'worth it'?" I calmed a bit more, but it didn't alleviate the tension completely.
"Three umm stay-out-of-jail cards, plus whatever you need, and um, a surprise." She nervously chuckled when she spoke of a surprise. "And those stay-out-of-jail cards, maybe… maybe we can do… something else…" She twirled her fingers around her hair like she was nervous or worried, "...like tonight." She immediately realized what she said, "I-I-I mean without the handcuffs!" Another nervous chuckle, "So..?"
I finally had a quip, "Maybe we can do something with those handcuffs Pumpkin."
She blushed, finally, "Sheegooo…"
"You're right, I'll be out tomorrow. Sooner, if it weren't for your little proposal." This made her smile a little, which gave me a little more confidence she wasn't just fucking me over. "But if you're lying-"
She leaned forward quickly, "I'm not! I promise!"
"Fine."
"Thank you Shego!" She hugged me, I was stunned. She hugged me tightly and I wanted to return the gesture but only one arm was capable of wrapping around that slender waist. I could have kissed her, I could have passionately taken her right then and there.
"Rufus, can you pull out the winner?" RufusPrime asked the naked mole rat. "And the Golden Rufus goes to..."
"Sure!" Rufus squeaked as he pulled out the paper from the envelope. "MrDrP!" was all the mole rat squeaked.
"You heard him first, come on down MrDrP! Gift of the Mad Dogs has won Best Romance!" Ron exclaimed.
MrDrP jumped from his seat and walked onto the stage, the applause deafening for him.
He accepted the Golden Rufus statuette from Kim and walked to the podium
"I'm really honored to win Best Romance for this story. Frankly, this could have been a multi-chapter saga. I honestly believe that Kim and Ron are meant to be together, but I acknowledge that there might be some bumps in the road ahead of them as they head to their story book ending.
As readers of this story will know, I was inspired by a far more talented author, the immortal O. Henry. His Gift of the Magi served as the inspiration for this tale. If any of my stories inspires anybody to write their own tale of Kim and Ron, I will be truly honored.
Thanks for the award. This story was written from the heart, and I'm glad it was enjoyed by the fans. "
And with that speech, MrDrP had secured his second Golden Rufus of the evening. RufusPrime, Kim and Ron exited the stage.
Sharper checked his watch and said from the podium, "Looks like we're heading to another commercial break! When we return, we'll present the awards for Best Friendship and Best Action and Adventure. After that, there will be the 20-minute intermission. But before we do, let's see if The King of Rock and Roll can belt out some tunes!"
As he said this, "Love Me Tender" by Elvis Presley began to play thru the speakers and the lights dimmed for the next segment of the ceremony.