Rysha: I only keep you around because you’re a source of entertainment.
Rin: snorts Don’t I know it.
Rysha: That’s right! My number one minion, whose only purpose in like is to make sure The Demon Goddess is never bored.
Rin: All shall bow before the Demon Goddess Rysha. All shall praise her perfection.
Rysha: EXACTLY! Throws her head back and cackles manically
Rin: …
Kim willed tears to fall. Her entire world was crumbling around her, her heart broken. Pain washed through her body, waves upon waves of emotion crashed over her with no outlet. Her body had cried itself out and no more tears would come. She simply hurt inside, throbbed excruciatingly. She sat silently as Wade's car drove itself home.
By the time the car pulled into Kim's driveway, she felt numb and hollow inside. The world felt as if it was one big blur. Kim walked through the door and into her home. She didn't get as far as the kitchen before her mother noticed something was wrong.
“Kimmie, what's the matter?” she asked quietly.
“She's gone,” Kim whispered, barely loud enough for her mother to pick up.
“Who is, sweetie?” Stroking her daughter's hair, Mrs. Possible looked into Kim's green sorrowful eyes.
Kim whispered something so soft that her mother could hear her.
“Who?” she had to ask again, leaning closer.
“…Shego.”
Mrs. Possible steered Kim to a chair next to the kitchen table and made her sit down. Hearing the utter despair in her daughter's voice told her that this was serious and would probably take a while. She got up and made the two of them some tea. Glancing at Kim from the corner of her eye, her mother could see that Kim stared at her folded hands in her lap, as if afraid to look upon anything else. With the tea finally done, Mrs. Possible handed Kim a warm mug which she clung to like it was her last link to life.
“Now, tell me what happened to Shego,” she said calmly sipping at her tea.
“She's gone. She left…me,” Kim murmured, barely audible.
“Where did she go?” inquired Kim's mother, unperturbed.
Kim raised her gaze to look at her mom. “I don't know. Does it matter?”
“Well, what do you mean 'does it matter' ? Aren't you going after her?”
“I…no,” Kim spoke finally, going back to staring at her hands.
“Why on earth not?”
“Because it was her decision. I-I didn't want her to stay if she wasn't happy.” The cold emotion shining from Kim's deadened eyes chilled her mother. She tried to shake it off and decided on getting more tea.
“Well, she certainly seemed happy. The both of you practically glowed whenever you were together. And seeing as how you might as well have been attached at the hip…” Mrs. Possible stated as she got up to get her beverage. “You two really seemed to have a bond.”
Kim smiled sadly. “I love her.”
A loud crash was heard as Mrs. Possible's glass slipped from her nerveless fingers to shatter on the hard kitchen floor. She turned slowly, staring wide-eyed at her daughter. When…? Where…? HOW…? All of Kim's mother's thought processes came screeching to a halt. WHEN THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN! Mrs. Possible prided herself on being a good mother, so HOW did she fail to see this? Usually she wasn't that bad at predicting her daughter, but this… this was unexpected to say in the least. After all her boy talk? After all the times her eyes sparkled when talking about that Josh boy? She falls for… Shego?
Dr. Possible thought back to when she had cornered Shego a couple days ago before she went to pick up Kimmie. Come to think of it… she had been awfully jumpy around Kim's mother, well ever since her and Kim had become friends.
She opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. Mrs. P. let out a slow breath that she hadn't realized she'd been holding. She went back to sit next to Kim, taking her hands in her own.
“Kim…” her mother started. “Why didn't you tell me?”
“B-Because it was Shego. And she's well, a girl and a villain and SHEGO…” Kim's voice cracked. “But it doesn't matter, does it? She's gone…”
Mrs. Possible swallowed the lump in her throat and continued, ignoring her feelings on the matter for the moment. What mattered now was her daughter.
“Why did she leave so abruptly?” Kim's mother asked her.
“I don't know. I had this…this feeling that there was something wrong, but when I confronted her about it…” Kim looked up sadly, her red hair obscuring her vision. “She said it was nothing. That everything was fine. But when I woke up, she was gone.”
Her mother's mind froze. When she woke up? Did that mean… oh GOD… (1) Mrs. Possible shut her eyes trying to calm down. Now was NOT the time to lose it…
“Then how do you know that she left you? How do you know that something didn't happen to her? Shego doesn't strike me as the type to just get up and leave if something gets too hard. Despite the pretense she puts up, she's a good girl.”
Kim thought of what Shego would say if she were here to hear that and couldn't help the small, bitter chuckle that escaped her lips. Needless to say, Mrs. Possible didn't like the sound of that chuckle.
“Kimmie, how do you know that Shego ran off?”
Kim raised her head to look in her mother's eyes. A look of uncertainty flashed in her green eyes.
“I-I don't,” she said finally.
“Exactly.” Her mother smiled. “From what I could tell, that woman would protect you until her last dying breath.”
Kim looked at her mother sharply. “If she didn't leave me then…” A horrified expression came over her face. “Then I gave up on her when she needed me most.” Jumping to her feet, Kim knocked over the chair she'd been sitting on. “I-I've got to go…” She paused long enough to hug her mother and murmur a thank you, then she ran out the door, communicator in hand.
Mrs. Possible's head sank into her hands as she let out a long, shuddering sigh.
“What's all the noise for? I could have sworn I just heard Kimmie-cub's voice…” Mr. Possible walked in reading a newspaper and sat down next to his wife.
“Kimmie… our little Kim… she…” she started.
Mr. P looked up from his paper and blinked at her. “Is Kim all right? She isn't hurt or anything?”
“No…no. She just admitted to having feelings for Shego…” Mrs. Possible gulped. Her husband sat unfazed.
“Well, she has been hanging around with her a lot lately.” He shrugged and went back to his newspaper.
“No, romantic feelings.”
“Yeah, I know what you said.”
“And… it doesn't bother you?”
“So long as it's not a boy…”
Mrs. Possible stared at her husband.
The continuous noise of the helicopter blades were slowly making Ron drift off to sleep. Let's face it, he was warm, comfortable, Rufus was tucked safely in his pocket and Felix was next to him. Life was good. He nearly jumped out of his skin when the pilot yelled over his shoulder, alerting them that they'd be landing soon.
Felix grinned at Ron's jumpiness. Noticing this, Ron blew him a nice raspberry, crossed his arms petulantly and looked out the opening next to him. Felix's grin grew and he chuckled. For this, Ron pointedly ignored him.
Wade had updated them on all the new information on Dementor. Apparently his new lair was in… Puerto Rico? Both boys had nearly face falled when they heard this. Out of all the places for a secret, evil lair, the mad man had chosen Puerto Rico! Guess it's turning into a whole new breed of evil, Ron thought as he shook his head sadly.
Without understanding how to use his new form and him unable to change his shape, Norkie was a prime target for Dementor. However, he must have known exactly what was needed to capture the hapless A.I… Regardless, the boys knew where Norkie was, hopped a ride and… so far, so good.
The helicopter landed without much of a fuss and Felix nearly kissed the ground thankfully. Ron chuckled, he used to be like that…however, ever since he had to sit next to the tweebs, who, of course, opened a valve sending the plane into a nose dive… (2) normal flights just don't have the same effect anymore.
Ron pulled out the communicator and Wade appeared.
“There's a signal coming from a spot about twenty feet to your left,” Wade informed them, not even letting Ron ask. Looking around and finding nothing, Ron raised an eyebrow dubiously.
“There's nothing here,” he stated.
Wade shrugged. “So it's underground then.”
Ron stared at him.
“What?”
“Why wouldn't you let me ask what the sitch is first?”
“Huh?”
“You always wait for Kim to say it, then go off on your explanation,” Ron pointed out.
Wade blinked and stared at the blond boy incredulously. Ron didn't wait for an answer, he barreled right through.
“No respect! Nobody respects the Ronster!” Ron's voice got higher and higher until the communicator was snatched right out of his hands. Looking up, he saw Felix's smirking face. He held the communicator up as high as he could. Ron growled and leaped for the device, but failed. He glared at the laughing Felix before him.
“You know, I think I liked you more in the wheelchair…” Ron grumbled.
Felix stuck his tongue out at him. (3)
“Guys! Can we focus here?” Wade's voice piped up from the communicator. They turned their attention back to the young genius. “There should be a catch around you somewhere. Let's face it, he's got to have an entrance to his lair.” Felix looked around them incredulously. There was only land rocks and a few palm trees scattered around them.
“There's nothing here!” he shrieked, spreading his arms wide to show the lack of landmarks.
Wade shrugged. “Don't look at me. For all I know, it could be a rock.”
Ron looked about and noticed a large rock lying near his feet. He grinned and jumped with both feet together up and down on it. When he realized it was nothing but a normal, ordinary rock, he grew annoyed. He viciously dug his heels into the rock.
“You're supposed to be the trigger! I'm always the one to find it, though it's usually by accident…” Ron glared at the offending landmark. It was then that a soft, hissing sound reached his ears. The moment he heard it, his brown eyes nearly popped out of his head.
“Wa-ahhhhhh! SNAKE!” he screamed frantically and jumped through the air, attaching himself to a palm tree a few feet from the noise. Rufus poked his head out of Ron's pocket to see what the commotion was about. Upon seeing the small serpent, he screeched in fear and dove back inside the safety of the pocket. Ron was currently trying his best to scramble up the branchless tree and failing badly. Instead of helping the blond boy, Felix was laughing so hard that he clutched at his sides with tears running down his face. (4)
Ron panicked when he felt the palm tree move. At first he thought he was falling but then he noticed that it was the tree moving, not him…so he froze until his nose nearly touched the ground.
Chuckling, Felix put a foot on Ron's hip and shoved him off the tree. Ron flopped over on his back, bewildered.
“Well you were right about something…you did find out how to get us into Dementor's lair!” the brown haired boy laughed, wiping tears from his eyes.
A hatch had opened upward from the ground revealing a flight of stairs leading downwards. Felix trotted down the stairs without waiting for Ron to pick himself up.
Ron grumbled and blew a nice raspberry in the direction Felix had gone. When he turned his head around he saw the snake slithering its way steadily towards him, its tongue flicking out to taste the air.
“AHHHH!” Felix, save me! I don't want to die a virgin!” he screamed, jumped to his feet and ran down the stairs.
Further along, Felix shook his head and rubbed the back of his neck, yelling over his shoulder to Ron.
“But you aren't a virgin anymore, you dumbass!”
1. Rin : Yup, Kimmie was havin' hot lesbian love! Grins
Rysha: Yeah… but if you ever admitted that to your mom she wouldn’t act like that! You’d be dead!
Rin: True…
2. Rin: In case you haven't seen it, it's in the Twin Factor episode… good ep., one of my favorites. Though I'll never forget Shego in that pink apron shudders I will admit that Kim & Shego made the perfect fighting duo… can't imagine why ;)…
3. Rin: I can't tell you how many times I've done that… glowers at Rysha And it usually is for chocolate of some sort…
4. Rin: THAT is NOT cool! smacks Rysha I got that from when her sister tried to claw at me… and NO, Rysha didn't HELP. SHE LAUGHED HER ASS OFF AND LET ME DEFEND MYSELF AND MY VIRTUE! How cruel! sniff Pity of any form is accepted…
Rysha: BUT OMG! Starts laughing again at the memories IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST HISORICAL, FUNNIEST MOMENTS OF MY HIGH SCHOOL LIFE!