Ron was beyond worried. Drakken had been essentially useless, and Kim was still missing.
A week. He had been looking for a week and still no Kim.
“I guess she really doesn’t want to be found…eh Rufus?”
The naked mole rat nodded. Kim had always been the kind of person who could disappear if she was trapped in an empty room.
And unless he became omnipotent, there was no way to find her.
Even the tracker Wade had installed wasn’t working. She had literally dropped off the planet.
“Where are you Kim…?”
Kim winced as she woke up. She had been sore before, but she was beyond that point now.
The training had involved attacking various logs that had been set up.
The catch was she had to do it with her fists glowing, and while avoiding blasts from Shego. If she got to slow or didn’t attack the targets she had more blasts thrown at her than she could dodge at once.
She had more bruises on her than she had been expecting when she took a shower the night before. Most of them were already gone, but her muscles still screamed in pain as she got out of the bed.
Shego was already up and in the kitchen as Kim staggered in. The two had gotten into an argument about how hard Shego was pushing Kim, and blood had been drawn. Not to mention they had literally taken out a few of the trees in the small part of the forest that sat behind Shego’s house. The woman didn’t look any worse for the wear and was happily darting around the kitchen as she made pancakes.
“Shego…”
“Don’t worry about it Kimmie. There isn’t anything to apologize about. You were right…I was too hard yesterday.”
Kim’s jaw dropped. She hadn’t expected the woman to apologize to her, but was going to apologize to Shego. “What…?”
“Princess, you were right. Your abilities are strong…but they haven’t been in use as long as mine…you don’t heal as fast, your glow isn’t as strong…your reflexes are still normal for you…I’m expecting you to be some kind of super woman and you’re not ready for that kind of a push yet.”
Kim felt numb…Shego though she was a super woman…?
“Umm….Kimmie….?” Shego waved a hand in front of the dazed girls face, relieved when the girl blinked. “You alright?”
Kim nodded with a tint of a blush on her cheeks, “Yeah…I’m good…”
Shego sat a small stack of pancakes down in front of the red head, “Good because breakfast is served.”
Shego leaned on the counter across from Kim eating a similar stack, “I think we should take it easy today. I’m guessing on how you walked in here you cane barely move.”
Kim nodded, the fork in her mouth.
“How’s a movie sound then?”
“With popcorn?”
“Only if you make it. I made breakfast after all.”
Kim nodded again, “Sounds fair to me.”
After breakfast they did the dishes. Shego padded off to pick a movie when they were done as Kim made popcorn.
Kim carried a large bowl into the living room and set it down next to Shego. She plopped down on her stomach next to the woman as the movie started, thankful for the thick carpet beneath her.
To the teen’s surprise it the movie was actually fairly good. The bits of slasher gore had her clutching Shego in fear.
Shego didn’t seem to mind and wrapped and arm around the girl.
The credits rolled, and they noticed that they were snuggled together, and the two awkwardly scooted away from one another. Training was one thing, cuddling was another.
Kim looked at Shego, “Another movie…?”
Shego shrugged with a smile, “Why not. We still got most of the popcorn to eat after all.”
The two settled down next to each other, refusing to admit to themselves that they were snuggling as the next movie played.
Dr. Drakken scratched his head. Without Shego around he couldn’t continue his nefarious plans, so he had put the henchmen on a vacation. That left him alone to muse over what to do with his assistant missing.
“Maybe that boy Von can help?”
Kim hadn’t meant to but she had fallen asleep in Shego’s protective embrace.
Despite the cuteness factor, Shego wished she could free her numb arm from under the red head.
She could worry about the limb later. It felt nice to be close to someone who didn’t think she was a freak. Who accepted her as she was, and had actually looked for her. And who needed her help.
It was silly. It was selfish. But it made so much sense regardless.
Ron sighed and stared at the ceiling. Without Kim around his life felt so empty. His thing was to follow her around and save the world, but with no Kim…there just wasn’t a point.
He looked at the mole rat on his chest, “Rufus…has our life always been Kim-centered?”
The rodent looked thoughtful then nodded.
“I thought so.” He sighed and stared up at the ceiling again. There just had to be something he could do with Kim missing…
Kim woke with a groan. Sleeping had been nice, but waking up was a pain.
“Oh…you’re up.”
It was Shego who was close. Too close. Kim pushed off of the other woman’s body and rolled a few feet across the floor. She was on her feet before she was thinking.
“Whoa….hold up Pumpkin! You fell asleep on my arm…I didn’t want to wake you up…” Shego look a little embarrassed as she worked her arm to get the feeling back.
“What kind of person just lays there and watches someone sleep?” Kim’s fists were glowing, but she didn’t notice it yet.
“The kind of person who is trying to be as nice as she can to someone who needs it!” Shego was on her feet now, her fists a blaze. They were scared of themselves. Of what they had done. And of each other for letting the other do it.
Neither was sure who moved first, but a glowing fist shot out and it was blocked but a forearm. They broke down into the familiar. The dance of fists and feet. Of anger and pain.
It was simple this way. Better even. Safer than the unknown that they could end up facing.
A bolt of plasma shot off from Kim’s fist and narrowly missed Shego’s head.
“Did…I just…?”
Shego nodded.
“That was so cool….”
The fear and anger melted as they stood there. The green glow was gone now in the wake of what had just happened.
Author’s Notes: And we end chapter four…makes you wonder where this is going and how long it’s going to take to get there, eh? Don’t worry this fic is promising to be longer than some of mine. :P
Regardless, four chapters written in one day is a bit much for the moment. I could actually just slack for a day or two at this rate…if I actually had something to do outside of write.