Kim Possible The Day That Changed Shego
Chapter 2 In The Coma
It's the first week after the incident, and Shego was still in a coma. Through out the week Shego went under two surgeries for her broken arm and leg. They went in to add braces to the broken areas. To make them stronger as they healed. Shockingly her ability to heal faster, wasn't fast enough for her bones. That's why they had to do surgeries. Her bones in her arm would start to separate causing the bones to misalign. The drs. weren't taking any chances. They wanted to do the same to her leg as her arm. Reinforce it with plates and screws.
Her scars were healing quicker than her bones. The bruises were all but gone now. Her eyes, well, they just looked like the pale woman was just sleeping. Kim would sit with her in the evenings after school. Talked to her about her day in school. What was happening at home. Stuff mundane like that. She would remind her of some of their fights and who came out on top in those fights.
Kim would hold her hand gently. She knew that it wouldn't wake her. She would wonder sometimes if Shego could hear anything she said. If only she knew what was going on in her mind. What she was dreaming about. Was she really reliving that day over and over again. She wondered if that could actually happen so fast after it happened. Did she relive the red head telling her she hated her.
All she could do was wait for the thief to awaken, so she could ask these questions. And more. But some of those were kind of personal. And best left for a more private place to talk. But would she talk to me. I mean after all, I am the one who caused this. It was her anger that got away from her. She didn't think that the raven hairs villain would even let her talk. I mean, I wouldn't want to talk to someone who put me in a coma.
Kim mother stops by everyday, and brings dinner for the two to eat and catch up from the day. The red head dr. would ask her how Shego was doing. And everyday she tells her the same thing. No change except that the pale woman's bruises were almost completely heal. In another day or too the cuts would probably be gone too. Her leg and arm would take longer.
"Well Kimmie Cub, graduation is in another couple weeks. Are you ready for adulthood?" Mrs. Possible asked her daughter, who was spending all her free time here, with the woman who has tried to kill on several occasions.
"Yeah, I think so. I mean I've already got the hat and gown. I've got my last speech ready as student body president. Yeah, I think I'm all set. And you know why I'm here every night. My conscious won't rest till I know, that she forgives me. I almost killed her, I want to be here for her when she wakes up. I need to know mom." Kim told her mother, tears streaming down, sobbing.
Dr. Anne held her daughter as she cried into her shoulder. She tried to reassure her by patting her on the back. "I didn't mean anything by that sweety, your father is worried that if she doesn't forgive you, she'll just try to kill you again. But I think there is another reason you want to be here? But we'll get to that subject on a later date, if you want?"
Kim shuffled, and tried to dry her eyes. "No mom, your right, there is another reason. I think I might like girls more than boys. I notice one day in the gym at shower time, that I was staring at Bonnie a little too much. I thought, " for a mean bitch, she has a rocking body." Totally inappropriately. I felt weird for a second before I turned away. Bonnie was starting to turn around again, to rinse her front off. I about died when I seen her butt. I was so cute. Then it hit me, I was staring too hard, I had to turn away before I got caught by her. I knew then, I might be gay mom."
Dr. Anne just smiled at her daughter. "Oh it doesn't matter dear, you father and I just want you to be happy. We discussed this years back. We talked about all our kids. We talked about everything including sexuality, who you'd like. Boys or girls, it doesn't matter. Just be happy." She reassured her, letting her know, they didn't care as long as she was happy.
"So, you guys, don't mind if any of us are gay? Wow. How come you guys are do understanding about this? I figured you'd be so angry." She asked her mother, who had told Kim about her wilder days. She liked to experiment when she was younger.
"Well dear, your father and I had our, "experimental" days, when we were younger."
"OK! Tmi mom." Kim started turning red at the even thought of her parents naked. "I don't want to hear this." She was so embarrassed at the thought of her parents naked.
"All I'm saying is, I had sex with both men and women. But, then your father perplexed to me, and we decided to put our wild side away, and be a happily married with a family. And then, with in a year of marriage, you came alone. Do we miss the way we were before marriage, yes, sometimes. But we have no regrets about our decision to have a family." The older Possible woman told her eighteen year old baby girl.
"So basically, whatever side I chose, your still happy for me. I get it. I love you mom, and dad too." Kim hugged her mother happily.
Mean while, inside Shego's head was a recurring fight she couldn't get out of. The results were the same. She ends up hurt and unconscious. But, every now and then some of what happened changes. Just little subtle things that aren't very noticeable. Others were major changes she couldn't help but notice. They didn't happen every time, but enough that some of the hurt went away.
Sometimes she heard Kim's voice saying she's sorry about what she did to her. And if she could wake up, she would tell her that's it's alright, that she forgives her. But her responses, she guessed Kim couldn't hear her. She was yelling as loud as she could. But the distant voice couldn't hear her. She was too far away.
At one point, when Kim was kicking her off the cliff, instead of hearing the part that she hates her, she instead said I love you. And then she kicks her off the cliff. Another time, it was Kim you said she hated me, but her side kick kicked her off. And with that, the day would start over again. Like in the movie Groundhogs day.
But sometimes a different dream would come into focus. It was the days when she was Miss Go. The temp high school substitute teach that Kim was really close to. She was evil, but good, And hanging out with Kim was the best days she had in forever.
Kim had saved her from her bothers who were turned evil. Kim was the nicest person she ever spent time with. She could see them dating if things were different between them. And I almost v told Kim my secret, till tsudutively drop the attitudinator and turning her evil again.
Even still, she had the pictures from that day. She had two copies. The one she burned when Drakken came to her with operation gherkin. What a week little man, she thought. How did he feed himself with out her there? Pathetic.
But the other set of pictures she kept in her footlocker inside an old book she loved to read. She hasn't even seen them in so long. But the memories of those days always mad her smile. It was such a great week, she could see herself in a relationship someday. But then, she may not float that way.
And then her dream returns to the tower and the hurt, and the pain, of falling. Breaking bones that she screamed cause it hurt so bad. The bruises and the cuts, the smell of her blood pooling under her. And then back to the beginning of the dream. She could scream out again only to have to relive the day again. From the beginning. Ahhh if there was only a way to get out of this loop.
But this time, she heard Kim's voice again. Talking to her about how she felt about her. How sorry she was for doing this to her. And she didn't deserve what she did to her. She sounded so sad and regrettable her action were on that day. As she looked at the Kim in her dream, and she walked up to Shego, she was talking like the distant Kim. The red head dream form, seductively walked to Shego and put her hand on the pale woman, and leaned against her as she talked.
She reach up to the red head, put her hands on her cheeks to pull her into a passionate kiss. Then she suddenly felt the boot in her stomach. She was being kicked off the cliff again, flying backwards into the tower. She opened her eyes to see Kim in her side kick position, the same scowl on her face. The sudden shock of the hit, the electricity surging through out her body. The collapse of the tower, the breaking of bones, the cute and bruises and the sudden landing on the ground, knocking her out.
And then it started again. Her anxiety was starting to get to her. She couldn't wake up from this nightmare. She felt like she was going crazy. She knew she needed to wake up. But she didn't know how.
After Mrs. Possible left for the evening, Kim worked on her home work. When she finished, she went to sit next to Shego. Grabbed the remote, and turned on the t.v. She looked over to Shego, watched her chest rise and fall, making sure she was still alive. "Well, what should we watch tonight?" She asked the unconscious woman. Hoping she would say something this time. "But, like yesterday, I'll pick since you can't make up your mind. Lets see, we watched Court Cam yesterday. How about Worlds Bummest tonight. I could use a good laugh.
She sat watching the t.v., she thought of something. With brain waves like the drs. keep showing us, maybe she's having an anxiety attack? Maybe the dreams, or, her nightmare of that day repeating in her head. Such as to cause her to get anxious, and very upset, and confusion of why she repeats the same dream.
She calls her mom, to ask that very thing. Maybe she just needs some kind words of understanding to bring her back to the realm of the living? She had caught her mother as she just returned home. She had to tell her daughter to slow down. Kim was taking so fast, cause of her excitement of her idea, her mom couldn't understand her.
" Slow Dow sweetheart, I can't understand you. Take a deep breath, and slowly let it out. Good, now, from the beginning, tell me what you thought of." She listened to her daughter with the occasional hmm hmm's and ahha's. "Ok, lets talk about tomorrow over breakfast. Ok sweety, I'll see you then." And she hung up her phone.
Kim sat next to Shego that night watching t.v. laughing. She looked over to her roommate, sleeping so not peacefully. She looked peaceful, but Kim knew inside, in her mind, she was anything but peaceful. She knew she was very troubled inside. Her body has almost fully healed. It was her mind that wasn't. It was going a thousand time faster than it should be.
The hero, turned off the t.v. and began to Shego in a soothing voice. That was her idea on trying to get Shego to wake up from her coma. To sooth that struggling mind of hers, to slow itself down, to function normally. To hopefully get this sleeping beauty, to get her pretty green eyes to open.
"Shego, I want to apologize for what happened to you. It was all my fault. I didn't want you to think, that I wanted this to happen to you. Cause, I didn't. I just was angry about what you and Drakken did to me. The phony Eric, my so called boyfriend that wasn't even human. That was a new low for the both of you. I mean, that really hurt, it hurt bad, and I then I got angry. I was Doo made, that i, i, I just snapped I guess. But I never expected that I could do something like this to another human being." She sob and sniffles to the comatose Shego.
"Please, please forgive me. I truly am sorry. Maybe we could be friends this time." She said rubbing Shego's hand. Sobbing, with tears in her eyes, talking to Shego, praying she could hear her. "Any way, look, I have a confession to make to you." She said as she whipped her eyes and sniffed, trying to clear her nose. "I like you. I mean, I really like you. The way you fight with me, the bantering while fighting. You got some zingers on me, but I always got to you too. I think that's what balanced us. I mean I would almost call us equals."
"Anyway," Kim started the next part of her talk with Shego. "I, I been thinking, maybe we fight each other as often as we do, that, maybe, maybe there is something more to us than just being enemies. Maybe we have feeling for each other. Maybe we actually love each other. You know, like love at first sight." She said in a cliche.
"Look I know we haven't been on the best of terms lately, but we liked each other once. Granted, it was only for a week, but, we got really close that week. You were such a happy woman. You always had a really cute smile when you saw me. Then you wanted to tell me something you couldn't before. But, thanks to Ron, you couldn't. I always wanted to know what it was. Maybe you could tell me, when you wake up, I mean. I know you'll open your eyes when your ready. I'm not rushing you. I sure no one can, but please stop dreaming and come back to me. I've been lonely without you.
Shego started hearing bits and pieces of what Kim was say too her. All while the nightmare paused, and the other dream kicked in again. It was more soothing than the other, more violent one. Kim's voice kind of echo in her back ground. But at the same time, the storm of that night was raging on in the one dream. This one was more calming, but her anxiety levels, were still high. But coming down.
The bits and pieces of what Kim was saying were not making any sense. Something about her love of fighting. "Fighting who, me? Was it me she was talking about?" She though, her anxiety rose up again. She wanted to understand. "Sorry? For what? Cliff, whose Cliff? And what does her have to do with it? Come on Kim speak more clearly!" She yelled. Trying to get the voice to repeat itself, like everything else here.
Then each time the dream restarted again. Only this time, the words were getting clearer. "She loved fighting? Well so do i. Maybe? Maybe what? That between, love? Pictures? Carnival? Come on Kim? I can't understand. Argh this is getting me more frustrated!" She growled in the dream.
Then the kick again. Ten times in a row, she had the violent dream, but only one of the good one. She want more of the good one. But she wasn't able too, due to her rising anxiety. "Why can't I wake up? I'm so over this, this bs. How could anybody supposed to live like this? I can't take it anymore." She thought, as the dream started over for the fifth time this round.
Kick, slam, pain, crashing. On and on it went. Each time she heard Kim's voice clearer and clearer, but still not enough to understand her. Her anxiety as high as it could go without killing her. "Argh this is so annoying, why won't it stop? Why does it keep starting over? It never changes. Well not much anyway."
Kim continued to talk to Shego for at least two hours, when she decided to say goodnight to Shego. She leaned in and kissed her forehead. She want into the bath room to put her night close on, brush her teeth and floss. Then walked to her bed slid in and laid on her back, thinking that her plan had to work to free Shego from her mind trap.
She rolled over to face Shego, she was remembering the day they met, or at least fought for the first time. Then about the second, and so on. She remember how she helped Shego save her bothers powers. The time she was Miss Go. That was the best week until it wasn't. But in that week, she got to know a different side if Shego. A softer side, a caring side. A side she wanted to see again. Maybe explore it more deeply. See if they felt the same way about each other. But that would only happen, if Shego would just wake up. And then, she fell asleep. Too tired to think anymore.