Shego sat across from Drakken at a restaurant table. Although they were here to watch Kim be humiliated on her date, being here with him felt much like a date should be, and then her mind started racing. Earlier this week, Drakken said he would have put a mind control device on someone he had a huge crush on. Last year, he put a mind control device on her. In what way do these two events correlate? Did Drakken have a crush on her? Does he still? Argh! She was being silly. This wasn't a date. Drakken didn't like her like that. Shego's relationship with Drakken was quite simple: they were partners in crime. Nothing more. (She did live with him and spent nearly every waking moment with him. Hell, her own love life sat on the backburner for her work with Drakken, but thinking about that would make everything so unnecessarily complicated).

Shego shook her head out of her thoughts and finally noticed Drakken's impatience as he was staring at Kim and her date. "Give it time, Doc. Trust me, she'll get embarrassed."

Drakken sulked in his chair. "How do you know?"

She rolled her eyes. "Because I was a teenage girl once. And every first date is awkward and embarrassing no matter how old you are."

Drakken perked up slightly. "Okay, you got me there."

Shego's lips grew into a small smile. "Good. Now let's just sit back and enjoy the show."

He sipped his sweet tea and nodded his head. Shego turned her attention back to Kim but quickly turned back to steal a fry off of Drakken's plate. "Hey! You said you didn't want any!"

She shrugged. "I say a lot of things, Dr. D."

"Argh! Shego! Give that back!" Drakken reached over the table for the fry in her hand, but she quickly shoved it in her mouth. "Shego!"

She smirked at him. "Aw. Did being an only child make it hard for Drew Lipsky to share?"

He crossed his arms. "I can share! I just don't want to!" Shego laughed and took another fry, but Drakken grabbed her wrist playfully, attempting to hold in his own laugh. "Let go of my french fry."

Shego's smirk grew wider. "Or what?"

Drakken looked down at his hand gripping her wrist and grinned. "I will hurt you for this fry."

Shego couldn't hold back the loud burst of laughter that erupted out of her mouth. "Ooohhh, such a scary man," she said as she used her own strength to wiggle her wrist out of his grip and eat the fry.

He chuckled. "Oh, you are so going to pay for that one." He swiped her water and chugged it. Her mouth fell open, and he grinned at her. "Sorry. I was a little parched."

Shego crossed her arms but a smile was still spread across her lips. "You have a sweet tea right there, Doc."

Drakken shrugged. "I decided to take your lead and be healthy."

She rolled her eyes and pointed to his plate of fries. "Exhibit A."

"I deserve them! My birthday is next week!"

She giggled. "Oh, you were SOOO an only child. And by the way, you're turning 40, Doc. All the more reason to stop eating so much salt."

Drakken put a fry in his mouth. "You were eating them too," he said once he swallowed.

She shrugged. "I'm young and in perfect shape."

"And I am-" he started, but she cut him off.

"Old and crippled?"

"Nygh! Shego!"

She laughed and then turned her attention back to Kim. "Alright. It's time to speed up this helping of embarrassment." She smirked as she got up from the table and headed toward the teens.

…

After a few embarrassing moments (and an added hole in Kim's stomach), the kids moved their date to the movies, so Drakken and Shego followed. They were on the balcony level, watching Kim below them. "This movie is stupid," Shego grumbled as she took a handful of popcorn from her bowl and shoved it in her mouth.

"But the show in the 4th row down below is just glorious!" Drakken said as he pointed to Kim and her date.

Shego giggled. "The fact that you're using embarrassment ninjas is pretty embarrassing" she mumbled to herself as she leaned back into her chair. The bowl of popcorn was in between her legs, and as she went for a handful, so did Drakken, and his hand ended up right on top of hers. She raised an eyebrow at him. "I thought you didn't want any."

He smirked at her but left his hand on top of hers. "Oh, sorry, did growing up with 4 siblings not teach you the art of 'sharing is caring?'"

She shrugged. "I was the only girl. I used that to my advantage."

He laughed. "Now why doesn't that surprise me one bit?"

Shego let out a soft chuckle. "Move your hand before I move it for you."

His grin grew. "Give me some popcorn and then I'll get out of your personal bubble."

She grabbed a handful of popcorn with her free hand and threw it at him. 'There. I gave you some." She smirked but her face fell the second he threw popcorn back at her.

"It isn't nice, now is it?" he said as he laughed. Before she knew it, they were in a popcorn war. She grabbed another handful to throw at him, and he did the same. She gave up on throwing as she gripped the bucket tightly and poured the whole thing over his head. "Nygh! Shego!"

She had to cover her mouth to keep from erupting into loud laughter in the middle of the movie theater.

He crossed his arms. "Let's just watch the teens." He held his head away from her, pretending to be angry, but he was smiling.

They sat in silence for a moment until she fake yawned and moved her arm around his chair so that she could play with his hair. She twirled her fingers around and around his ponytail with a devilish grin on her face. "Stop that!" he whispered.

"Sorry. Am I bothering you?" She scooted closer to him and continued twirling her fingers around his hair.

"Yes! Now stop that."

She shrugged. "Make me."

"Argh, Shego!" He swatted her hand away, but she moved it back to his ponytail. He swatted her hand again, but she moved her hand back once again. She smirked at him. "That's it!" He gripped her wrist and moved their hands to the armrest on the chair. "No more of that," he whispered to her.

She smirked. She was much stronger than him, and he knew it. But rather than remove her wrist from his grip, she let her hand rest under his as she leaned over and used her free hand to pinch his cheek. "Oh, how cute. You think you can control me." She pouted her lips and played innocent. He groaned and sulked in his chair.

…..

After the movie, the teens went for a walk in the park. Drakken and Shego were hiding behind a bush, watching them. "This has been an interesting date," Shego said as Drakken held a pair of binoculars to his eyes.

Drakken groaned. "Interesting, sure, but not embarrassing enough. Why hasn't she vanished yet?"

Shego put her hand on Drakken's shoulder. "Let me see."

He removed the binoculars from his eyes, but instead of giving them to her, he put them behind his back. "No. You've been pestering me all night. You don't get to see the good stuff."

Shego put her hands on her hips. "Drakken, give them to me."

"Make me," he said, imitating Shego's voice.

She smirked as she ignited her hands. "Well if you insist."

His eyes grew wide for a second. "Argh! Fine!" Her smile grew as he handed over the binoculars, and she took pride in viewing Kimmie on her date. She was concentrating so hard on the teens that she didn't have time to react when Drakken yanked them from her face. "You've had enough time with them," he said as he put them back over his own eyes.

"Ngyh!" Shego tackled him to the ground, the binoculars following on the grass under them. She pinned him, her hands holding his wrists above his head as her legs were on each side of his torso. Drakken's noticeable change in body language made her stop. The last time they were in this position, they weren't messing around like they were now. She was angry. Out of control. The fear in his eyes made her tremble.

"I think I've made my point," she mumbled quietly, and she repositioned slightly so that she could get off of him easier. Before she could, he grinned at her and flipped them so that he was on top of her. His hands gripped her wrists, and his legs found their place by her sides. Her eyes grew wide. "Since when did you get so crafty?"

He laughed. "I've been watching you for almost two years."

She smirked. "I kind of like the 'take charge, Drakken.'"

He leaned down closer to her, their faces merely inches apart. "Oh, you do?"

She batted her eyelashes at him. "Hmm. Dominance looks good on you, Doc." She paused for a moment, letting him ponder her flirtatiousness before continuing. "But you need some more lessons."

He smirked as he leaned even closer, touching their foreheads. "And what kind of lessons would those be?"

"Lesson number one," she whispered, careful not to touch their lips, which were so close that she felt her heart flutter. "Always keep an eye out for an attack- especially from someone who could seriously hurt you." Before he could process her words, she moved her knee up, using it to knock him off of her. He fell to the ground beside her and grunted. She giggled. "And I'll take those," she said as she picked up the binoculars from off the ground. He groaned in defeat.

….

Drakken sat in his lab, sulking. "I can't believe she found a cure. She was so close to vanishing! We nearly had her, Shego!"

Shego sat in her chair next to him filing her nails. "At least it was fun to watch."

He chuckled. "Okay, yeah it was fun to watch, but she should have disappeared!"

"Oh, that reminds me." She took something out of her pocket and handed it over to him. It was a flashdrive.

Drakken raised an eyebrow. "What's this?"

She shrugged. "I had Hank follow Kimmie too. Nobody even noticed him, not even the princess." He wrinkled his face, clearly not following her logic. "He took pictures of the whole thing, Doc."

His eyes grew in surprise, and he began to laugh. "No way!"

She smiled as she took the flashdrive from him and plugged it into his laptop. The laptop loaded an array of photos, all of which painted Kim in an embarrassing light. As they clicked through the photos, Drakken and Shego couldn't contain their hysterical laughter. Suddenly, Shego scooted her chair closer to his and wrapped her arm around his shoulder. "Happy birthday, Dr. D."

He smiled at her. "This is the best gift." She removed her arm from around him, but she smiled. "But you're still going to karaoke with me."

She crossed her arms and groaned. Great.