“No, Shego isn’t a murder!” shouted Kim at the television.
“Kim this has to be a mistake, don’t get worked up” said Ann trying to calm her daughter down. The Kimunicator only beeped once before Kim picked it up, “Kim have you heard what Shego’s done?” asked Wade.
“She didn’t do it Wade. Look she’s gone off on some personal thing so I want you to find someone to me.” said Kim.
“Sure Kim, but can I ask, why?”
“I think I know who Shego’s gone to find and I need to get to Shego before anyone spots her.” stated Kim.
Wade nodded and poised his hands over the keyboard, “Who do you want me to find?”
“An Angelica Moss, please and thank you.”
After a minute of furious typing Wade looked up from the screen, “Go City had her records hidden for some reason, but she is in a rehabilitation clinic for severe burns.”
“Thanks Wade, um one more favour to ask, could you get me a ride there?” asked Kim.
“Your ride will be there in the morning to take you over to Go city. See ya Kim.”
The Kimunicator blinked off but before Kim could contact anyone else Ann took it from her hands, “It’s late Kim, go and get some sleep before tomorrow.”
The emotional stress off the day made Kim fall quickly into a deep, dreamless sleep.
-Shego-
Shego was glad that Go city’s employment schemes never bothered to look up any information on people, thinking that only honest people would want jobs; if they had bothered, they would have noticed that Shelia Go Partington effectively disappeared at the age of 12. However, getting the forms still took her the best part of a day. With her newly filled out forms she drudged up to the main desk of the clinic, “Hello I’m Shelia Partington, I’m here about the open position as a nurse here.” She said in a sweet voice.
The gum chewing orderly looked up from his desk, surprised that anyone would want a job here, “Er, when can you start, we need someone who can start straight away.”
Shego smiled, “Well aren’t you lucky, I can start right now and I have my forms with me” She handed the orderly her forms.
He just stuffed them unceremoniously into a drawer, then stood up and motioned for Shego to follow him. The orderly pointed at various doors down the long hall, “Dining hall, staff room, nurse’s quarters, janitor’s closet, medical cupboard. Ah here we are the photocopying room, we can make your badge here then you can go see Dr. Kurt and get your patient load.”
It took the orderly a good fifteen minutes before he got the badge right and he then sent Shego further down the hall to Dr. Kurt’s office.
Shego knocked on the door and heard a muffled, “Come in”. When Shego stepped in the doctor motioned for her to sit down, “What can I do for you this evening?” he asked in a deep, smooth voice.
“I got told to come to you for my patient load.” Said Shego
Dr. Kurt nodded and opened a drawer in his big mahogany desk and pulled out a file. “You will be taking over the duties of a nurse who, sadly, had to retire. Most of your patients are the ones who are nearly ready for discharge, I recommend you read these files tonight and meet them in the morning. Did Matt show you where the nurses’ quarters are?”
Shego nodded, “Yes, I’ll see you in the morning, Dr. Kurt.” Shego made her way to her bed for the evening thinking, ‘I wonder if I got her for a patient.”
Shego woke up early the next morning to the smell of breakfast being made. “Ugh!” she groaned as she stretched out the knots in her back caused by the lumpy bed. She quickly got her make-up and uniform on and made her way to the kitchen, where the other nurse were having their breakfast.
All the nurses froze in their morning routines when Shego stepped into the room, all was quiet until one of the nurses snapped out of her daze and stepped forward a smile lighting her youthful face, “I’m Joan, and you must be the new girl. Come in and have a coffee. We’ll fill you in on everything you need to know about the place and some of the patients.” Shego nodded dumbly and allowed herself to be led to the table; it wasn’t until a cup of hot coffee was placed in front of her that she spoke up.
“Thanks, I’m Shelia. With the patients, do they all welcome the help?” Shego asked.
Again it was Joan who spoke to her, “Well some can be difficult at times but their all nice people, although there is one that old nurse Margot looked after that could be quite difficult but you can’t blame her really.” Joan whispered the last part to Shego.
“Why? What happened to her?” questioned Shego.
Joan smiled, she liked to gossip but all of the other nurses where bored of her stories, “Well, she got burnt, badly, by the girl, what was her name? Ah! Shego the girl was called. Anyway Angelica was burnt by someone who had sworn to help people. Now Angelica doesn’t trust anyone who wants to help, anyway the girl, Shego, went to jail but she broke out after a year and has been trying to take over the world. Personally I think that Angelica’s scared that Shego’s going to come back for her, so she is cautious to anyone new here.”
Shego smiled, “I’m sure she’ll get used to me quickly.” She looked at the clock on the wall, “I better go and introduce myself to my patients, thanks for the coffee.” Shego hurried out of the room. If she’d stayed a moment longer she’d have heard the news about herself.
Shego walked back to the nurse’s quarters, and picked up her files then made her way to Dr. Kurt’s office. Again when she walked in he motioned for her to sit down. “What can I do for you Nurse?” he asked in his smooth tones.
“Well, since I’m new here I thought they may have been an order that the patients are done in or do the nurse’s just decide for themselves?” Asked Shego, after all she had to make some effort to fit in with the place.
“Most of the nurses go from their youngest to their oldest patients as I understand it, quite often they feel they have to spend longer on the youngsters. I would recommend you do that.” Answered Dr. Kurt
“Seems fair, why should I throw everyone out of loop? Thank you doctor.” Shego walked out of the room frowning a bit, ‘So I help a couple of people before I see her, I guess it will make it harder for people to realise that I’m really Shego.’ She thought.
Her first patient was a young girl of 8 who had been burned in a house fire, whose parents had died in the house fire, according to the file that Shego had read. The eight year old girl was looking at a picture when Shego came into the room, “Who are you? Where’s Margot?” asked the little girl.
“I’m Shelia, Margot had to retire. What are you looking at, Sara?” questioned Shego.
“Shelia’s a pretty name; this is a picture of my mom and dad. I tell them what I’m going to do.” Sara told Shego
“Sara is a pretty name too, so what are you going to do today?” asked Shego as she started to make the bed.
Sara thought for a bit preparing every detail like every child does, “I’m going to have jam on toast for breakfast, then go out to the garden and play with Tommy, and after lunch, will you read with me?”
“I’ll read with you after lunch Sara, are you on a book at the moment?”
Sara shook her head, “There are lots of books in the sitting room though.”
Shego smiled, “I’ll see you after lunch for the big read, okay?” she said and then she walked out of Sara’s room.
Shego’s next patient was a boy, 15 years old who had been in a car crash with his older brother, luckily both survived but the younger was hurt more than the other. He was un-talkative and closed off, unlike Sara and didn’t seem to care about the change in staff. Shego made his bed after introducing herself then left has he did not seem to want or need anything at the time.
Shego knocked on the next door along and heard a quiet “Ok” before she let herself in. Shego’s gaze fell onto the girl who was sitting on a stool in front of a mirror brushing what little hair she had. Shego forced herself not to stare and introduced herself, “Good morning Angelica, I’m Shelia and I’m the new nurse here, so hopefully we’ll be friends, hmm?” Angelica was silent and Shego began to make the bed, glad that she had a reason to face away from Angelica; shock flooded her features as she thought about Angelica. Gone was the long, thick hair that looked like gold and the once soft features were now marred with terrible scarring, ‘All my fault’ thought Shego as her hands shook.
Shego suddenly growled but she did not notice Angelica turn at the sound as she thought, ‘No it was their fault, I didn’t force their hand, I didn’t deserve to go to prison.’
Then Angelica’s voice broke her thoughts, “You just growled, w-why?”
Shego turned her emerald gaze from the wall to Angelica, “I was just thinking about how things don’t turn out the way you think they will.”
Angelica looked at herself in the mirror, “I didn’t think anything like this would happen to me. I mean, we bullied her but she was hero she shouldn’t hurt people. I used to be pretty and now look at me. It’s all her fault!”
“Well maybe you shouldn’t mess with people.” Said Shego quietly.
Angelica turned on her stool and looked at Shego, “She broke out of jail! She try’s to take over the world! She’s the one messing with people now!”
Shego’s gaze smouldered as she glared at Angelica, “I couldn’t waste away in jail for 40 years! I didn’t mean to do it!” Shego’s voice was as loud as it could be without the fear of being heard.
Angelica shank away from Shego, “Y-You! Why did you come here?” Angelica’s voice was high-pitched from panic but she hadn’t screamed for help yet.
“I need to know why! I did nothing to you and now you blame me for everything because I didn’t take the beating like a good little hero?” Shego walked closer to Angelica, who backed into a corner and curled up sniffling.
“Don’t hurt me! I’m sorry! We did it because you were different but you wouldn’t do anything to us because you were meant to be a hero.”
“You did it just because you wanted to bully someone who wouldn’t fight back. You…” Shego stopped mid-sentence and took deep breathes to try and calm herself. Shego couched so she was eye-level with Angelica, “I’m sorry for what I did but when people accused me of attempted murder, I got really mad. It was an accident, I didn’t mean to hurt you people so badly and they wanted to lock me away for 40 years, I wanted to get back at the world but I can’t keep being driven by hate not when I want move on. I want to be me. The comet made me the people’s puppet but before I can do anything I have to say this to you and hopefully you’ll pass this on to John Road and his friends. I forgive you, but it won’t reverse what happened so you’ll have to live with the scars. But then, you’re not in high school anymore so you won’t get teased for it. I hope you find someone that will help you because that’s the only way I was able to do this. I found someone who likes me for me, the sarcastic, cynical me. And she’s strong enough to show me who I am as well.” Shego stood and walked to the door where she turned around again, “Don’t worry about seeing me again so stop looking over your shoulder and get on with your life.”
Shego made her way to the kitchen preparing a speech on her head as to why she was quit in less than 24 hours of getting the job. All the nurses were watching the news on the small television in the kitchen.
“Shego is still at large this morning as the police found nothing concerning the criminal’s whereabouts at the crime scene. You are again told not to approach her as she is dangerous. It is still unclear as to what her motives would have been to kill her employer and many psychologists believe she has suffered a mental breakdown.”
Shego stood in shock and then just turned and walked out the clinic, forgetting to tell them that she was quitting, and as she walked down the road she thought, ‘who has done this to me?’
-Kim-
As Kim’s ride landed in Go city she thanked the pilot, “No problem Kim, after how you helped us out in the Amazon.”
“It was no big, anyone could have been able to climb the trees and navigate by the stars.” Replied Kim in her usual way. Although her friendly smile soon left her face when she exited the helicopter. A small frown of concern appeared on her features, she had to find Shego before anyone else.
-Chapter 3- Reunited
Kim quickly travelled to the clinic; she walked up to the desk where a pimple-faced orderly was reading a magazine, “I’m looking for Angelica Moss, which room foes she stay in, this is an emergency.”
The orderly looked up from a magazine, “yeah, sure, She’s room 13. Down that hall.” Said the orderly pointing to the right.
“Thank you!” called Kim who was already on her way. Kim knocked on the door but got no answer so she opened the door slowly. “Angelica?”
There was a small sob from the corner, “Go Away!”
Kim stepped in the room and shut the door, “Angelica I’m looking for Shego” Angelica flinched at the name, “She came to visit you am I right?”
Angelica nodded, “S-She said that she forgave us for what we did. But look at what she did, how can we live like this!”
Kim looked Angelica in the eye, “There are lots of people who don’t judge on looks, unlike you apparently. You bullied Shego over what something she had no choice over. But we can’t get into an argument over whose fault it was, did Shego say anything to you about where she was going?”
Angelica shook her head.
“Damn it.” said Kim bluntly and she walked out of the clinic without a backward glance.
-Shego-
Shego sat in her place. This place was where she had come to get away from everyone, which was a lot in her Team Go days. Shego was surprised that it still hadn’t been built on like everywhere even remotely peaceful had been in Go city. Shego’s quiet place was a cliff that overlooked the bay where Go tower resided. From it she could here the gentle lapping of the waves and the children playing on the beach. She sat within a clearing which was hidden from prying eyes by a few trees and bushes whose leaves rustled in the wind.
Shego was crying, no Shelia was crying. ‘Shego’ didn’t cry or care for anything because that showed weakness. Shego could not think of anyone who would be desperate enough to bring her down as to frame her for murder.
“I’m sorry Dr.D” whispered Shego to the wind. Shego thought about all the times they’d shared and then the DNAmy incident stuck in her head. That was after Shego had starting thinking about Drakken like he was an annoying brother so she’d revelled in the chance to tease him about a girl. Another tear fell from her eye, ‘I’m so weak now!’ she thought.
-Kim-
Kim had wandered all over Go city looking for any sign of Shego so now she had come to the last place Shego would be, the bay where Go tower was. Kim was trying to find a good place to be able to look from when she’d spotted the cliff, the perfect vantage point.
When Kim got to the cliff she spotted a figure sitting in a clearing surrounded by trees. As she got nearer and the figure became clearer she started running. The figure heard Kim approaching and turned around, Kim stopped dead, ‘Not Shego’ she thought even though everything in her was screaming that it was, this woman couldn’t be Shego. She had normal skin tones, blue eyes, glasses and she wore a frumpy nurse’s uniform. But when Kim looked closer at the woman’s face she could she streaks under the woman’s eyes which had revealed very pale, slightly green skin which was hidden everywhere else with the very convincing make-up. Kim took quick steps towards Shego and enveloped the slightly older woman in a tight hug breathing in the smell of her shampoo, the faint smell of exotic fruits.
“Kimmie” whispered Shego returning the hug. They let go of each other and Kim spoke, “I know you didn’t do it but how can we prove that it wasn’t you, they have all sorts of evidence.” Kim began to tear up, the emotional stress of the past day still weighing heavily on her and affecting her.
Shego smirked, she’d been serious for far too long in her mind, “By finding out who really did it! Doy, I mean aren’t you meant to be clever!”
“Shego!” reprimanded Kim with a light slap on the arm, “nice disguise by the way, threw me off for a moment there but shouldn’t you have changed your hair as well?” asked Kim.
Shego looked shocked, “How could I cut my hair Princess! Do you realise how long it took me to grow?”
Kim laughed at Shego’s face and gave her a kiss on the cheek, “I missed you Shego.”
“Good, you should have” replied Shego but then she sighed at the face Kim was making, “I missed you too, Princess.”
AN: i was nice and gave you an ending that wasn't a cliffy, remember to review with your thoughts. Charys xXx