Kim woke up and winced. Gotta remember to eat more before I turn up the stress.
She rolled over and listened to Shego tell her mother about Theo. She’s really going fast. Better rescue her before she realizes what Mom’s pushing her into.
Kim waited for Shego to wind down before wobbling over to her. Make a shooing motion for Shego to move over, she wedged her way back under Shego’s arm and resumed snuggling into her shoulder, letting out a contented murmur. Shego ran the back of her fingers down Kim’s jawline and smiled.
Anne had been listening to Shego and had been surprised when Kim wandered back over on her own. She had more than accepted the situation a couple of hours ago and wasn’t even worried about what Shego might do. Or Kim…at least short of something involving Nana’s legacy. But she knew it wasn’t going to be enough for Betty and GJ.
“Kim, you know I’ll always love you no matter what…and you need to know that I support your decisions so far…and that I’m going to miss you when you go…but you’re going to have to give me something to give to GJ or they’ll never let you have a moment’s peace. You and Shego together is probably making most of the government piddle themselves wherever they’re hiding.”
Kim craned her neck and whispered to Shego. “She’s going to take it better coming from me than you. Why don’t you go get some more drinks and I’ll bring her up to IT.”
Shego pushed herself into Kim’s hair. “Okay, but are you sure she isn’t going to freak out?”
“She’s going to have a hard enough time with the assassination attempt after this morning. I don’t think she’s going to go off now.” Kim turned her head and left a peck on Shego’s lips. “Love you.”
Turning back to face her mother, Kim began.
You ever wake up in a strange place and wonder if you had just been dreaming but can’t shake the feeling that whatever it was that was sooo bad when you were asleep, it was so not going to be the first thing on your mind? Like…you’re in DisneyWorld and the characters are chasing the kids and not the other way around?
Theo finished cutting the cast off and smiled as she washed and rinsed the hand.
Shego always did get awfully vague when she talked about Kim. If this were any indication (looking at her) even when she’s playing unconscious, I think I need to start begging earlier.
Carter had been overjoyed to cut her hair…even if he did cry when she told him only one picture.
She took one last look at the limp girl. Sighing, she went over to a console and switched it on.
“Good, no one’s going to interrupt.” came out in a whisper. She sat down in a chair well away from Kim.
“I know you’re awake. You can stop pretending now. You should’ve figured out that I’m the last person who’s going to do anything to you.”
Kim sat up and looked at Theo…raising an eyebrow.
“Now Kim, why would you go and start a new relationship with THAT look, hmmm? Shego said you were feisty, but I think she’s missing something…you like to be funny.”
Kim rolled her eyes and took in the lab, eyes stopping on the console. She looked back at Theo, her mouth opened in a near-perfect ‘O’ of surprise.
“Now you’re wondering why I have a GJ M.U.F.F running in my lab. Guess you’ll have to keep wondering until you figure it out for yourself, then.”
Kim’s eyes opaqued as if she were deep in thought. Dr. Kay sighed and started digging in one of her desk drawers. As soon as her head passed the desktop, Kim slid silently off the table and sidled over to the lab door. As she passed her hand over the sensor, she heard two clicks. One was from the door. The other…
She twisted around and looked back at the doctor…who was holding what Kim assumed to be a stunner. Looking daggers at Theo, Kim returned to the table and hopped back on.
Theo put the stunner down and steepled her fingers. “Look, I need to know if you have any other injuries beside your hand and hair. I fixed them both right before you came to and I really don’t need a pissed Shego on my case right now. What happened to your voice?”
Kim scooted and dangled her legs over the edge. “N…Nothing.” came out in a whisper.
“Good. Run the scanner you see there on the tray over your throat and toss it over here to me.”
Kim did it. “W…Why are you being….nice…to me? Won’t D…D…Drakken be upset?” Another whisper.
Theo was laughing. “Kim…ohmygod Kim…you think I work for Drakken? Nope. I work for Shego plain and simple. Some sort of arrangement she has with the dufus. Why nice? Shego asked me to fix you up so you would be ready when she gets back. In fact, everything I could see has been healed and taken care of.”
Kim went blank for a few seconds. “W…w…Wait.” She looked down at herself and gasped.
Two beautiful gold nipple studs (matching rubies) and a stunning gold belly ornament (oriental dragon holding a rather large yin/yang symbol made of half emerald, half ruby) stared back at her. The Shi-Go marking on her pube wasn’t raw, the characters stood up from her skin and shining out redly against her paleness. She looked up at the doctor again, shock registering on her features.
“Why?” she hissed.
“Why indeed. I think it would be obvious. But then again, you haven’t yet figured out the other thing yet. Let me ask you. What would make you give unimaginably expensive personal jewelry to another person…hmmmm? I think I should be jealous.”
Kim turned a shade of red slightly darker than her hair and sputtered. Theo waved off the inevitable comment.
“Kim, you need to figure this out in the next ten minutes. Then I’m going to have to put you back under and pretend you never woke up.”
That stopped Kim cold. Theo could hear the gears finally turning in the girl’s head.
“What is your name?”
Theo smiled. “Dr. Theodosia Kay. Doctor, Surgeon, micro-biologist…plus a few other things.”
“Wait…didn’t you used to work for…” her brow furrowed and her eyes got huge again “…GJ…oh…my…god….you can get me out of here. When’s the rescue team coming?” Hope flared in the teen’s face only to fade when Theo shook her head.
“Sorry honey. No dice. Why do you think Drakken’s plots come to your attention just in time? I’ve been undercover for years and will go on after you leave. Oh, I’ll make a report to GJ. Just don’t expect the cavalry. If you had come in totally mindless or mind controlled…might be a different story. GJ wouldn’t let that one go. Hell, I didn’t even know you were coming here after you went missing and ended up there. GJ assigned Drakken too low a probability of involvement, Shego was MIA…so all I can do is report and see what happens.”
She winced inwardly at the look Kim now wore…the one she put on her face after she heard that GJ not only knew she had been missing, but where she had been missing. Something else must’ve clicked because right about then she got a goofy look on her face.
“Shego likes me?” Kim squeaked…turning a shade of red three or four times deeper than she had before. “Likes me likes me? Bbbbut I’m a girl…ohmygod…Shego’s…ohmygodohmygodohmygod…” Kim was turning redder and redder and redder…not breathing until she gave a final squeak, eyes rolled up into her head, and she passed out on the table.
Theo snorted and walked over to Kim, picking her up and tapping lightly on her face.
Kim’s awareness flared and her eyes snapped open. She opened her mouth but no sound emerged.
Theo backed off and stood with her hands on her hips. “Something wrong?”
Kim looked down at herself, then at Theo, then at herself, and started giggling.
Now it was Theo’s turn to be confused. Kim looked over at her and pointed.
“How long… snicker …you and Shego… guffaw …” tears were beginning to gather at the corner’s of Kim’s eyes.
Theo sat down on the floor with a thump and huffed. “Six, no seven years. Why do you think I volunteered for this gig and got accepted?”
Kim lost it, folding her hands over her belly and laughing for all she was worth. It took almost ten minutes before she could breathe right again.
“I don’t know whether to be flattered or freaked. Just how long has Shego been, um, planning?”
It was Theo’s turn to laugh. “Since the tick thing. She just wouldn’t shut up for weeks after she got back from that one. You’re going to have to get your head around this…I’ve got to put you back under. She’ll be back in under an hour.”
Kim squatted down in front of Theo, heedless of her semi-naked condition. “We’ll have to compare notes over tea some time.” Kim leaned over and rubbed her cheek against the older woman’s. She hopped back on the table and laid down in an undignified heap.
“Hit me doc.”
Theo took five minutes to find the right hypoderm and shoot its contents into Kim’s arm. As her eyelids fluttered, Theo sat down again in her chair and put her head in her hands.
I hope I stop blushing before Shego gets back. I can’t wait to see what happens. Shego is never going to see it coming.
Dr. Kay walked over to the console and pulled out a small communicator.
“Base this is green ghost. Code alpha break kappa break pi break. Declare case sigma. Need instructions.”