“Shego!” Drakken called as he wandered through his newest evil lair looking for the green skinned woman. “Shego! I have a job for you.”
“No.” Shego appeared from out of nowhere, startling the eccentric doctor.
“But- but-but I pay your wages Shego! You have to obey me it’s in your contract!” As Shego’s hand lit up with green fire like plasma Drakken’s face fell.
“I need you Shego.” He whined in a child like voice. “You’re the only one who can steal what I need. I’ll give you a pay rise?” He tried to bribe her but her features remained set in the same grumpy fashion they had been for the last few days after the job where Drakken had been knocked out by the buffoon.
“Fine.” She huffed when it seemed he was close to blubbering. If we get caught by Kim you’ll have to triple my salary just to stop me incinerating you though.
When they arrived at a warehouse on the edge of Middleton Shego saw it as just another job. A nearly unguarded warehouse with some nano-chip or laser, Shego had not paid attention as Drakken had rambled on about his latest plan, waiting inside to be stolen.
When they were inside Shego waited for Kim to arrive as the small blue man busied himself with loading whatever he had come for on to the back of the pick up truck they had brought. Sure enough when Drakken had reached the last crate of whatever Kim and her goofy side kick Stoppable turned up.
“Give it up Drakken! You won’t get away! ” There she goes again with the damn hero stuff.Shego sighed as she readied herself for a fight. Drakken smirked as he took out a remote detonator with a large red button in the centre, the kind that would come with a warning of ‘do not touch’ but it was so appealing and dangerously wrong that you had to. Kind of like how Shego found Possible. Irresistible.
”Not today Kim Possible. Today you die!” He pushed the button with one of his gloved fingers and Shego frowned as a ticking sound filled the almost empty warehouse. Oh boy. Drakken had scurried over to the pickup truck and was about to call for Shego when the explosive went off. Right in the middle o Kim and Shego. Kim dived behind one of the few crates left for protection, but unfortunately Shego had been dazed by thoughts of what Kim would say about the chat they had had a few day earlier, and by Kim herself, to react quick enough to the blast. When the warehouse started to rumble and shudder Drakken put his foot to the accelerator and sped out of the warehouse. Ron, with Rufus in his pocket, ran for his life to the safety of the world outside of the crumbling warehouse, but Kim couldn’t leave.
She looked around frantically for her arch nemesis and found her unconscious by one of the crates. A small part of her wanted to just run for her life as parts of the ceiling began falling, but the hero within her wouldn’t let her leave Shego. She didn’t leave you.
Hoisting the older woman on to her shoulder as a firemen would she ran as fast as the extra weight would allow her legs to and made it out of a nearby fire door and clear of the warehouse just in time before the entire building gave way and collapsed to the ground in a puff of smoke.
“KP!” Ron called out frantically as he ran towards her. “Oh man, I thought you were still in there- why is Shego on your shoulder?”
“The blast knocked her out. I couldn’t just leave her. I did owe her my life.” Kim explained as she and Ron walked toward the main road where a cab driver, who Kim had saved from a group of vandalising teenagers, was waiting to drive them back home.
“Did.” Ron emphasised the word. “You’re even now. You can leave her and we can go before she wakes up.” Kim bit her lower lip, a nervous habit, and stared up at Ron with wide green eyes.
“I can’t just leave her here Ron.”
Ron Stoppable sighed at his best friend’s good nature. She was even willing to save her archenemy. “You’re parents are so not gonna be happy about this.”
“Not if they don’t know about it.” Kim replied as she lay Shego down on the back seat of the cab with her head resting in Kim’s lap. Ron shook his head.
“What is it about Shego that brings out the worst in Kim?” He muttered to himself as he got in to the front of the cab.
When Shego opened her eyes she found herself in Kim’s room, lying in Kim’s bed, with Kim’s sheets over her and Kim lying beside her. There was a mild throbbing in her head, but nothing an aspirin and a good night’s sleep wouldn’t cure.
She remembered the explosion and Dr. Drakken running away as she passed out. I’ll kill the little snivelling coward for leaving me!Shego understood why Kim had saved her, as the building had started to break up before she lot consciousness, but she didn’t understand why she wasn’t lying in a police cell, but in Kim’s comfy bed?
The teen hero stirred and sat up to look at Shego who was frowning. “Hey.” Kim smiled rather timidly as she pressed a damp cloth to Shego’s forehead. The confused woman slapped her hand away and Kim scowled. “I’m trying to help you!”
“Why?” Shego hadn’t meant for the word to come out sounding as venomous as it had, and seeing the hurt in Kim’s eyes almost hurt more than her headache.
“I owed you my life.” Kim replied flatly. “Now we’re even.”
“We were even when you got me out of that warehouse. You didn’t have to bring me here, in to your home, and play nursemaid. So why did you?” Kim looked away as Shego’s gaze bore in to her.
“I-“
“It’s not such an easy question to answer is it huh pumpkin?” Shego sat up, flexing her muscles, watched by a nervous Kim. “Maybe you wanted to play doctors and nurses?”
“Shut up Shego!” Kim growled as her already flushed complexion grew redder. That really got her riled up!Shego smirked as she moved forward and slipped a hand around Kim’s waist. The cheerleader almost jumped a foot in the air and scrambled away from her, while still remaining on the bed.
”Shego!”
“What?” She grinned coyly. “I was looking for a pulse. You’ve had your fun as nurse, now I get to play doctor.”
If Kim’s flush went any deeper red she’d look like she was on fire. However, Shego didn’t let her question drop by the sight of the teen hero’s cute blush. “So Kimmie, why’d you bring me here? If you wanted me in your bed all you had to do was ask-“ Shego quietened at Kim’s deathly stare. A knock at the door and Kim nervously running over to it told Shego that Kim had not informed her parents that the green villain was currently lying in her bed.
”Kimmie. Are you ok? We heard voices.” Her mother’s voice came through the door.
“I’m fine mom, it was just the TV.” Kim placed a finger to her lips to single for Shego to be quiet and Shego smirked. This could be…interesting.
“Alright, night hun.”
“Night mom.”
Shego’s grin widened as Kim sighed and returned to perch hesitantly on the edge of her bed. “So Kimmie didn’t tell her parents about our little sleepover?” Kim’s eyes darkened as she faced the evil woman.
“It’s not a sleepover. You’re awake, now get out of my house.”
“Make me! But you might want to consider that I could easily tell your parents about this. Harbouring a fugitive in your bed!” Shego smirked as Kim’s jaw dropped. How was she supposed to get Shego to leave without her parents finding out?
“What do you want Shego?” Kim already knew the answer.
“Why?”
“I had to make sure you were ok after the blast. I couldn’t just leave you.” Kim almost screamed out as Shego’s hands grabbed her waist and pulled her on to Shego’s lap.
“Aw, I didn’t think you cared princess.” Shego purred in her ear, sending shivers down Kim’s spine.
“I don’t.” Her response was low and almost a growl but Shego heard it nonetheless. Flipping their positions she held Kim pinned down beneath her.
“Know what I think Kimmie?” Shego whispered.
“No and I don’t care!” Kim hissed, trying to be quiet so not to alert her parents.
“I think you do care. I think you have a soft spot for me Kimmie.”
“I think you’re insane.”
“I think you wanted this.” Shego’s breath was hot against the soft flesh of Kim’s neck and she had to use all of her willpower not to try and wriggle free, something Shego seemed to enjoy her doing. “Now. Why. Did. You. Bring. Me. Here?”
“I- I wanted to know.” Kim stuttered as she stared up at Shego. “Why you saved my life.”
“I told you, it’d be pretty boring if the best opponent I had was that buffoon of yours-“
“You said I made you feel-“ This little outing is over. Shego stood up, leaving a dazed and still confused Kim lying on her back on her bed. She stood up suddenly as Shego went towards the window and blocked her path with her body. Not a bad distraction.Shego’s outward attitude towards Kim’s obstruction was far different from her thoughts.
“Move!” Her hand became ablaze, but Kim was undeterred and refused to budge even as Shego stood within reach of touching the teen hero. “Kimmie-“
“What do I make you feel?” Kim’s expression was hardened as she stared at the older woman who returned her own equally intent gaze, neither one wanting to be the one who backed down first. After a few minutes had passed and their standoff had not been resolved a wicked idea crept into Shego’s mind. She wants to know? Fine.
She roughly pushed Kim up against the nearest wall, holding her wrists above her head with one hand while the other clamped around her neck. Her lips hovering inches away from the younger girl’s. “You want to know how you make me feel Possible? You repulse me. Your whole goody two shoes act, that’s isn’t even an act makes me sick! The only reason I saved your life was to get one up on you and to make sure I could keep taunting you. Whenyou die it’ll be my hands when I how I want it to happen!” She let go of Kim’s wrists and sneered at the teen hero as she stood stunned at the change in Shego’s demeanour from playful banter to death threats in the space of a few minutes, was very Shego like, but it was different this time. They weren’t on a mission; they didn’t have to want each other dead, but Shego still did.
Before she could feel guilty for the look of hurt creeping on to Kim’s face she went to the window and Shego vanished through it in to the night. She sat on a nearby roof and watched as Kim rubbed her reddened neck and sighed. Sorry pumpkin. It’s better that you hate me for this than hate me for how you make me feel.Getting to her feet she decided to return to Drakken and make the evil scientist pay for leaving her behind.
TBC.