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You know I do not own Kim Possible. This is another plot chapter and hopefully it ties up a few loose ends. If you manage to suffer through it there is some ‘oh yeah’ in the next chapter waiting for you. Hey, don’t skip ahead. The story’s almost over anyway!
Chapter 20: Done Deal
Kim Possible awoke in her darkened bedroom. She wasn’t sure what time it was or how she had gotten home but she knew it was late. She sat up in bed wincing at the massive headache she realized she had. Someone else stirred in the room beside her bed.
Softly almost in a whisper a husky familiar voice asked, “How ya feelin’?”
“Aside from the splitting headache, I’m fine,” the redhead replied massaging her temples. “What happened after I passed out?”
“Well you’re here in your jammies in bed so obviously we won,” Shego responded curtly getting up and quietly walking into the restroom to get the teenage hero some aspirin and water.
“Are you mad at me?” she asked, not certain why Shego seemed oddly like… well, Shego.
The pale green women came back into the room with two pills and a small glass of water. Kim took the aspirin and gulped down the whole glass in one breath. “Ya want some more water?” the villain asked icily. Kim nodded and Shego returned to the restroom to refill her glass.
“Is something wrong?” Kim insisted growing increasingly uncomfortable with lack of speech coming from her usually talkative nemesis. Shego emerged from the bathroom and shook her head. She sighed and handed the young hero the refilled glass of water. Kim took a drink all the while looking up at her hoping for some response.
Shego sat down on the bed beside her. “I need to know where we stand, Kimmie. You and I, we…” Shego paused and then took several folded papers out of her leg pouch. She unfolded them and Kim instantly knew they were the papers she had typed in ISS. Her heart stopped.
“Shego I was confused when I wrote those pages. I was trying to work out my feelings,” she explained.
“I can see that,” Shego growled dryly, “I’ve got a few questions for ya because tonight I might’ve made a decision that’ll change both of our lives forever. I need to know I made the right choice while there’s still…” she paused looking up at the bedroom windows then continued, “…a window of opportunity for me to change my mind.”
She handed the papers to Kim and looked into her eyes. The girl opened her mouth to speak but Shego held her finger out to her lips. “I need to ask you a few questions and I need the complete truth from you. No lies, no pride, no telling me whatcha think I wanna hear. Got it?” She removed her finger from Kim’s lips.
The teen let out a long audible sigh and nodded her compliance.
“Did you try to kill me when you kicked me into the radio tower last year?” the pale green villain asked almost as if she was interrogating the redhead.
“Shego, I…” Kim began but the villain interrupted her.
“Look Pumpkin, I’m still a wanted criminal. Global Justice Agents are waiting for me outside. I don’t have much time and I need to know the answers to the questions I’m asking. I don’t want explanations unless I ask for them, just the facts. For now, at least, a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ will do.” she told her sternly but the look in her eyes was that of actual concern or…
Fear? Kim thought, looking into Shego’s intense green eyes. The super powered woman looked scared. She took the older woman’s hand. “Shego, what did you do?” she asked dreading what she might hear.
“Nothing Kimmie, and for now, I’m askin’ the questions.” Kim nodded and Shego returned to her interrogation, “Now, did you try…”
“Yes.” Kim admitted firmly cutting her off. “I wanna explain, I was angry and I…”
Shego didn’t let her finish. “Did you really want me to kill Drakken tonight?” she interrogated.
The hero looked down. She really didn’t want this to be a yes or no question. Then her mind jumped to the reality of what was said.
“SHEGO YOU DIDN’T!” the young hero shrieked and Shego immediately silenced the girl by cupping her hand over her mouth and looking towards the hole in the bedroom floor leading downstairs.
“Shhh! I don’t want them to know you’re awake yet!” she whispered, “Just answer the stinkin’ question.”
Kim nodded. She had, for a split second, thought it would be easier to kill Dr. Drakken than to have to come out to her family and friends that she was in love with her archenemy. However, she didn’t want Shego to be a murderer any more than she wanted to be one herself had she succeeded in killing the villainess last year. “Yes,” she confirmed finally, “did you?”
“No Princess, I’m no murderer. Dr. D is still fine and dandy.” With that the woman laughed slightly. “I’m not even the one that stopped him. Your dad was the hero today.”
“My dad?” Kim questioned surprised by the admission.
Shego nodded. “Um-hum, I guess the apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree.” she added. “Okay next question. What did the mindpod show you?”
“Okay, um you were little and still… tan, you were really tan.” Kim remarked thinking back to the image she had seen of the girl she knew was little Sheridan Go.
“No tan Pumpkin, I get that from my mother’s side of the family,” Shego explained.
“Oh,” Kim said, “Well you were in a playground and you kissed…”
“Nicole Fast,” Shego remembered sighing and closing her eyes, “My first girl crush. She broke my heart.”
“I know,” Kim added, “I felt it.” She leaned in and gave the pale green woman a kiss on the cheek. “Then you were at some club and all these girls were all over you.”
Shego giggled and crinkled her nose. “I love Paris!” she drawled licking her lips.
Kim raised an eyebrow and then shook her head. “Okay moving on, then I saw you with Dr. Director and…” she hesitated. The young woman felt uncomfortable even thinking about what she had seen and felt. “You two were in a bedroom.” Kim stopped and looked at her.
Shego stood up from the bed suddenly, putting some distance between herself and the teen. “We were…” she paused and put her hands behind her neck. “Were we um… doing it?” the fallen hero asked running both hands through her hair nervously.
Doing it? Holy shit! Kim thought. “No, No!” she replied looking somewhat shocked. “You and Dr. Director…” her voice trailed off her mind reeling from the revelation. They were lovers? How did I not know? How did anyone NOT know? “You were fighting and you took out her freaking eye!” she spat with a hint of anger in her voice. She suddenly felt very sick remembering the blood spewing from the woman’s empty socket. “I think an explanation is needed.”
“Bet, Dr. Director and I were… we dated, no; we had an affair for two and a half years. She was my first serious relationship.” Shego looked at Kim trying to read her mind.
“She’s gay too?” Kim questioned almost amazed. Shego shook her head.
“No, she, we, it was a slow…” the villain floundered as she tried to find the best way to explain her relationship with the head of Global Justice but she couldn’t rightly put it into words. “She was my teacher of sorts, and well, I was attracted to her power and charm and I thought she was…” she paused again realizing now what Betty had meant all those times she tried to explain to her that they could never be. “I loved her, Kimmie. I’d have done anything for her. And she loved me but we wanted two different things from each other and from life. What you saw was the breakup.” Shego took a ragged breath. “I didn’t mean to… you know, at least not like that. My glow is fed, in part, by my emotions and I was really upset among other things. I’m sorry you had to see that,” she offered looking apologetically into the girl’s green eyes.
“I felt it too,” Kim trembled looking down and remembering the anguish Shego had felt when she lashed out at the director. There were a few moments of silence before the redhead finally looked back up and spoke again. “Why? Why did you break up?”
“Bet’s straight, the relationship was pretty one sided… at first.” Pausing, the former heroine turned around and walked towards the window then continued, “She and I became involved over time. I was already startin’ to have some problems with my brothers and I was thinkin’ ‘bout quittin’ Team Go. I was in college and trying to balance work and school. She could tell I was strugglin’ and just sort of took me under her wing. I started goin’ on GJ special ops missions with her. Eventually, one thing led to another. She knew I was… that way and she finally gave in to me.” Shego laughed slightly and turned her head just enough so that Kim could see her profile. “I have a way of gettin’ what I want.”
So do I, Kim thought then queried back to her, “So then what happened?”
“Things were fine for a while. Then everything went to hell. People were startin’ to get a clue and some of the other GJ agents were… um, less than happy that Bet’s little dyke was now bein’ put in charge of level five covert operations. They threatened to out her which back then would’ve gotten her fired… even from her own organization. I told her we could be our own team and that she didn’t need GJ but Bet was married to that fuckin’ job. It was, IS her life. She chose the job over me. I didn’t take it well as you saw. It wasn’t long after that my mother got sick and died. I had been so busy wrapped up in my relationship with Bet I didn’t even notice her getting weaker and weaker. Her death was hard on me. We were close. Then my father just lost it without her and… well, I became very depressed too. My old shoplifting habit returned. I started stealin’ a little here and there just to feel something other than pain. The rush was so intoxicating. I started to think about stealin’ bigger stuff. I reasoned that because I was a hero, no one ever suspect me. I never rationalized it as bein’ a villain. I just saw it as a way of takin’ what I wanted since I couldn’t get what I wanted in my ‘normal’ life. Bet however, figured out what was goin’ on. She had been spying on me since our breakup.” Shego paused and snorted. “GJ has a way of doin’ that to you. That was the final straw; I got my degree, left my brothers and eventually became a mercenary. Then I met you.” She turned and faced Kim. “The rest, as they say, is history.”
“I never knew. I’m sorry about your mother.” Kim replied. That could’ve easily been me. That could still be me!
“Thanks,” she sighed returning to the side of the bed. Kim stood up and hugged her. Shego stood there rigid just feeling the girl close to her. Then she gently yet forcefully pushed her away. “What else did you see?” she asked apprehensively.
“I saw us together at the club. I felt what you felt. I felt what we both felt. I saw how you saw me,” Kim breathed closing her eyes, “Shego, I know the papers I wrote make it seem like I’m confused, but…”
The thief silenced her again. “I… I understand. S-so… how do you feel now?” the green villainess faltered and took a ragged breath then spoke softly but firmly, “Do you love me?”
“Yes,” Kim confessed smiling, “I so do!” This one doesn’t need an explanation, she thought.
“Why?” Shego asked.
Okay maybe it does. Kim thought again, her smile fading then returning. “It’s so many things, you… you… Shego, you’re incredible.” The young hero looked at her and the former villain looked down to avoid eye contact. Kim reached her hand out and slowly lifted Shego’s face up so that their eyes met. “Shego you’re beautiful, I’ve been physically attracted to you for at least two years now, maybe longer. I made a conscious effort to suppress those feelings because they started turning into more than just a physical thing. I’ll admit it, I hated you. I think I still hate you on some level, I mean you’re a real bitch!”
Shego laughed and put her hands onto Kim’s hand that was now caressing her cheek.
“But when you were Miss Go and you could only be good, I realized two things…” Kim paused holding her hand out to count.
Shego bit her own finger to avoid laughing too hard. “Come on Possible not the Miss Go thing again. I’m not that good and I never was. The attitudinator completely reversed my wiring.”
“No, it didn’t, remember!” Kim chimed. She was now smiling broadly. The teen hero put her hands on her hips and stood as tall as she could in her classic ‘I can do anything’ pose. “See, I had Wade put in a call to Jack Hench about the technology of the reverse polarizer. It suppresses one side of your personality to allow only the other, polarizing you to the opposite. Good to evil, happy to sad, love to hate. It doesn’t make good people evil or evil people good. It just cuts off one to allow only the other. How good or evil you really are determines how you will act under its influence. It also only works on the conscious level apparently,” Kim paused smiling slyly and she arched an eyebrow at the wide eyed woman who was clearly speechless in front of her.
“Electronique’s enhancements though, worked on both the conscious and subconscious to suppress even your basic character traits. So it affected not just what you know to be good or evil but anything you thought of as being good or evil such as…” she leaned towards the villain and whispered loudly, “Liking Steven Barkin, good. Loving me, evil.”
Shego wordlessly gaped at the girl.
“Oh don’t look so shocked. You had to know.”
Pale green woman was floored; she sat down on the bed suddenly. “I... I… Wow!” She turned to face Kimmie who was smiling down at her boldly. “I always thought my... with you… so evil!” she stammered.
“Yeah so as I was saying, two things; one, you were, are, and always will be just as good as you are evil, and two, as much as I liked you being Miss Go, I love you even more as Shego!” Kim grabbed the dazed woman and leaned her back onto the bed. Holding her tightly, she kissed Shego’s neck and took a deep long breath then continued her explanation. “When I went to return your things, I was trying to see if there was anything there. I had hoped that you felt something for me and I was so disappointed that when you were good you showed no interest in me other than friends.” Kim pouted and traced her hand down Shego’s neck. She unhooked the collar of her jumpsuit and slowly unzipped the suit just enough to see a hint of Shego’s pale green breasts. “That’s why I wanted to know if there was something, anything between us because when we fought I just kept getting the feeling I wasn’t alone in my…” she paused. Her hand gently caressed the pale green skin she had exposed.
Shego let out a little moan and asked the girl in a near whisper, “So you flirted with me to see if, as myself, I’d take the bait?”
“Something like that,” Kim replied resting her head on the thief’s chest. “I just didn’t know it was going to get, you know, so huge so fast. I hate to say this but I was more interested in getting laid than falling in love.” Kim smiled softly as she heard Shego’s heart beat faster. She continued to play her hands over her.
“Me too, at first,” the ex-hero replied softly, jerking slightly at the feel of Kim’s roaming hands. “Kimmie, I think I’ve got a few more questions if ya don’t mind.”
“Sure,” Kim purred looking up at the woman. Shego turned her head towards entrance in the floor. She had heard a small noise below. The thief sensed a certain someone was listening to their conversation.
Shego pulled up her zipper slightly and continued to speak this time in almost full voice. “First though, there’s something I wanna tell you and it’s gonna sound a little cheesy. It was what I wanted to tell you before the buffoon… I mean Stoppable, changed me back.” She took a deep breath. “I really respect you.” A huge smile spread across Kim Possible’s face. “I have since we first started fighting each other. I mean, everyone in this business is in it for a reason. Drakken wanted to prove he was better than this college buddies. The Seniors for the thrill of it. Hego does it for the glory, Mego for the fame. Me for the power and when I switched sides for the freedom. But you… ya just do it. Ya don’t take money, ya don’t seek out the media, and ya still go to the same school and have the same friends. You do it because it’s what’s right.”
“Shego, you know I’m no saint. The missions started out as an accidental hobby for me but I keep going on them because I’m good at it, just like I’m good at cheerleading. And I do love it. It makes me feel good to help people.”
“So you’re gonna become a professional hero? I mean, what is it ya wanna do?” Shego asked.
“Well, I was accepted to the University of Paris, political science, and I’m thinking about maybe joining Global Justice or getting into politics... eventually,” Kim paused seeing the deep frown on Shego’s face, “But right now, I just wanna see a little of the world without having to save it every five minutes. Maybe take a break from missions and have a little freedom. I’ve been balancing a full plate for my entire high school life. I’d like to be able to have a little time off to just be… free.”
“Free,” Shego laughed, “Yeah, freedom’s great. I’m gonna miss it.” Her expression changed and she looked as if she was going to cry.
“Shego, what’s going on?” Kim asked suddenly feeling that there was something huge the woman wasn’t telling her.
“I lo… I really like you,” Shego began as her eyes started to well up, “and I want to be with you Princess, but…”
“But what? So then be with me,” Kim insisted starting to feel her own tears forming, “It’s obvious we wanna be together.”
“I know which is why I cut a deal with Global Justice in order to avoid serious prison time. It’s gonna be a big sacrifice on my part… for both of us. And I needed to know if we wanted the same thing before I signed my life away,” she finished looking at the young hero with uncertainty.
“You’d allow them to imprison you… for me?” Kim questioned. Shego nodded. “I… you can’t, I can’t let you do that, I don’t wanna be without you!” the young hero cried becoming irrational, “Can’t we just, I don’t know, run away?”
The thief laughed, “Kimmie, you just said ya wanna go to college and still be a hero, ya think ya can do that on the lam with the most wanted woman in the world?”
“What’s gonna happen to you? To us?” Kim whimpered as a tear rolled down her cheek.
Shego wiped the tear away and took the girl’s hands squeezing them tightly. They were freezing. The fallen hero ignited her plasma and began to slowly warm the teen’s cold hands.
“Thank you,” Kim sniffled as another tear fell.
“Kimmie, I’ll be taken in for six months of incarceration and training.”
“Six months?!?” That’s it? Kim was in a state of disbelief. She was relieved that for villain’s many crimes Shego was going to get a slap on the wrist. “That’s nothing, I mean everyone should pay for their crimes but you’re only gonna get six months! People go to jail for unpaid parking tickets longer than that!”
“Yeah, um-hum, you DIDN’T LET ME FINISH PRINCESS!” Shego growled as her glow became a little warmer and she shot the crime fighter a dirty look. “IF that goes well, if I don’t break out, freak out or go stir crazy I’ll be released to bring ‘to justice’ the top ten most wanted villains. Plus I have to pay twenty million dollars in fines and fifteen years of probation.” she explained gently massaging the girl’s hands and arms with her green Go Team glow.
“The top ten most wanted villains? It’s suicide! If you try to take them all down you’ll be the most hated villain in the world and besides… you, you can’t do that alone!”
Shego started smiling. “No, I can’t but with you…” She leaned over and gave the redhead a little kiss. “I can do anything!” Kim’s eyes went wide. “Yep Kimmie, I’m afraid you’re stuck with me. If you’re willin’ to join Global Justice that is, so you can be my parole agent.”
“Hell yeah!” Kim exclaimed biting her lower lip and grinning, “Where do I sign?”
“I just need to call Bet to let her know you’re awake and agree to the deal. They’ll be here within an hour to get me and debrief you. Are ya sure ya want this? I mean, this doesn’t mean I’m reformed. I’m doin’ this so I can be with you… to see what we could be. I’ve no desire to be a hero again. I would much rather spend my days teaching naughty girls at some French boarding school and stealing from the Louvre at night. I’d get to come home and see you half naked splayed out on the floor studying for your English Lit final…” Shego moved one of her glowing hand’s to Kim’s lips and played over them. “…and try to pull you out of your books long enough to steal a little kiss from those luscious pink lips.”
“I’m not so sure about the thievery and naughty school girls but who says we can’t have that too,” the cheerleader purred smiling seductively. “Shego, I manage to save the world, have a boyfriend… and a girlfriend,” she added winking at the woman, “cheer at all the football games and graduate in the top of my class. I think we can have it all. At least I’d like for us to try.”
KPKPKPKP
On the steps just outside of Kim Possible’s bedroom stood Anne Possible. She hadn’t heard the entire hushed conversation but she had heard enough to know that her little girl had agreed to the deal she had vehemently argued for just a few hours earlier. Luckily for Sheridan Go, Dr. Director and the female Dr. Possible were on her side. They had managed to bargain with several countries in order to get Shego’s charges reduced to fines and the hero’s equivalent of community service; helping bring dangerous criminals to justice. Shego was wanted in eleven countries and fortunately, GJ had jurisdiction in all of them. Anne Possible spoke in place of her daughter to assure each head of state that the great Kim Possible would be personally overseeing the probation and rehabilitation of the super powered villain.
Most countries were just relieved that Shego was no longer a threat and that Global Justice had found a way to punish the woman that couldn’t be held in any regular prison. Anne was just thankful that her daughter had finally come to terms with her feelings and she didn’t want Kim to lose the person she loved. She smiled to herself and vocally knocked for entrance.
“Come in,” Shego’s voice called from above.
Mrs. Dr. Possible came into the bedroom. Shego continued to gently massage the teen with her slightly warm glow. The second Kim saw her mother she pushed herself off of Shego nearly falling off of the bed in her efforts. She stared at her mother nervously.
“Oh good you’re up Kimmie,” Mrs. Dr. Possible observed smiling at the pair. Shego’s glow faded and she stood up off of the bed allowing the older Possible to sit beside her daughter.
“Oh um, yeah Mom I have a really bad headache,” her daughter stammered nervously rubbing her head.
“I’m sure you do after that little stunt of Drew’s!” her mom glowered bitterly, “The nerve of him trying to split you girls up!”
“What?” Kim shrieked totally confused. Shego just smiled at her.
“Oh are you still feeling a little fuzzy? I’ll do a cat scan on you tomorrow just to make sure everything’s okay up there,” Mrs. Dr. Possible stated kissing Kim’s forehead.
“I guess I need to contact Bet and let her know you’re up,” Shego said to Kim but looked at Dr. Possible as she spoke.
“I think we can wait until after she’s rested some more. Maybe take a shower,” her mother suggested getting off the bed and looking at Shego. “Quietly this time, none of our neighbors have cats,” she added winking at Shego who Kim could swear she saw blush. Dr. Possible turned and left the room. She paused at the entrance and smiled raising an eyebrow at her daughter. Then she shook her head and laughed as she descended her stairs.
Kim’s jaw dropped. “What the hell was that?”
Shego laughed and shook her head. “I think she’s buyin’ us a little time Kimmie,” the green vixen commented walking into the bathroom to start the shower.
“Oh. Wait… oh shit!” The realization of what her mother had said and done clicking in her head. “She knew about us? I knew she suspected something. But… but she’s known about us since, since… Noooo way!” Kim held her hands to her mouth and started to hyperventilate.
“Your mother’s very perceptive and… she actually likes me! She helped Bet get my deal cut with the various countries,” Shego drawled slowly removing her suit and standing there naked in the bathroom doorway. “Your dad on the other hand…”
“Deep space?” Kim asked stripping off her clothes walking up to her lover stopping about a foot in front of her.
“He asked if my comet powers allowed me to breathe in airless environments,” the former villain chuckled.
KPKPKPKP
Betty Director sat dozing in the small lobby of Middleton’s branch office for Global Justice. She hadn’t even realized she had fallen asleep until she heard someone clearing their throat. She opened her eye to see her top agent Will Du standing over her. “What is it Agent Du?” she asked yawning.
“Kim Possible is awake. Our agents want to know if they should take Shego into custody before she tries to leave with the girl.”
“Will, I’ve already explained this to you; Shego’s not going to flee,” the director replied closing her eye and returning to her sleeping position.
“Director you’ve just told eleven countries that Shego is in custody and that Kim Possible is working with Global Justice. None of which is true. Then you had us remove our surveillance from Kimberly’s room to give them some private time. You’ve no idea what they’re planning,” the young man appealed to his superior, “There is procedure that must be followed!”
Betty Director sighed and rubbed her forehead. Luz is right, you are a tight ass. “If you were going to prison and wouldn’t get to see the woman you loved for half a year and you had only a few hours of freedom left what would you be doing?” Betty insinuated not bothering to open her eye.
“Oh,” the young man blushed. “I see… Director you certainly know better than I do,” he conceded collapsing on the seat beside her.
“Agent Du, sometimes you’re just too serious,” she pointed out to him, “You need to get out more, maybe if you found your Shego, you wouldn’t be so… such a tight ass.”
Will Du smiled softly and then agreed, “You know doctor, you’re right. I do have two hundred hours of vacation time saved up. Maybe I will try to find my Shego.”
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