In the two days since they had moved lairs Drakken and Scud had played bingo sixty-eight times. Drakken hadn’t won a single game. Lucy remained in her room, sulking over Amy. Scud continuously claimed to be the ‘God of bingo’, while Drakken moaned and even cried once about losing every single game. Shego was quickly approaching the end of her patience. Kim wasn’t eating, drinking or even speaking.
As Shego was on her way to the top floor of one of the many houses Lucy owned, their temporary lair, she bumped in to Drakken. The blue skinned man was unusually cheerful. “I’ve done it Shego!” He grinned triumphantly.
“Did?” Shego sighed, in no mood for a game of twenty questions.
”I have invented a machine that will predict exactly what numbers will appear! I’ll finally beat the bingo god and then I will take his title!”
Shego rolled her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose to try and keep the migraine, which was sure to follow their conversation, at bay. “Dr. D. First bingo is a game of chance. Probability. Luck. You can’t predict what order the balls will come out in. Second, there is no God of bingo.” Drakken huffed and wandered off to find Scud for a fresh game of bingo.
“It’s not his fault Kim’s not in to you.” Shego glared at the diamond thief leaning casually against a near by door.
“At least I’ve still got Kim, I didn’t just let her walk out!” She growled, her mood foul from two days of Kim ignoring her and refusing to speak to her. Lucy laughed, a mischievous glint in her eye.
“Sometimes you’ve got to let something go before it realises it doesn’t want to leave.” She walked off without further explanation, leaving the furious villain on her own.
She stormed in to the room she had locked Kim in and glared at the teen hero. She sat on the windowsill slumped against the bars that prevented her from just smashing the window and escaping. She looked up at Shego and then returned her gaze to the view outside, which consisted of fields and trees as far as the eye could see.
“What the hell is wrong with you?” Shego growled. “Why aren’t you trying to attack me? Or dig a tunnel out of here with a spoon?” The young heroine looked at her with a hollow gaze.
“We’re on the second floor. A tunnel wouldn’t work.”
Shego slumped to the ground in defeat and laid her head against the door. “What’s happened to you Kim?”
“Amy.” Kim sighed. “She’s twenty one years old.” Shego wasn’t following.
“She’s twenty one and she can’t do anything. She wants to go to art school but the DEBS, the government and everyone else says no. She loves Lucy Diamond but even when Lucy tried being good they all said no. She can’t do anything but what she’s told to-”
“And you’re worried that when you graduate and get recruited by Global Justice you’re gonna’ end up the same way?” Kim nodded, still keeping her eyes glued to the window. “Deja-vu.” Shego muttered bitterly.
“When I was one of the good guys with my brother we always had to do the right thing. Had to act a certain way and be a certain way. If I didn’t then I’d have Hego and everyone else on my back.” Shego grew silent for a few moments until Kim looked over at her, affirming she wanted to hear more.
“You can’t always do the right thing or what everyone else wants you to do. Sometimes you’ve got to do the wrong thing…because it’s the right thing.”
Kim laughed, grabbing Shego’s attention. It started as quiet mirth and soon exploded in to full blown laughter. “I’m getting advice on what’s right and wrong from a sociopath.”
“I’m not a sociopath. Just because I like being bad, doesn’t mean I don’t feel guilty or afraid…or that I don’t care about people.” Shego snapped.
“Name one person.” Kim broke the awkward silence that had settled over the room. “One person, other than yourself, that you actually care about.”
“I cared about my parents.” Shego rose to her feet and advanced on Kim. “I cared about my brothers until they stopped caring about me. I cared about saving this stupid world until it turned it’s back on me for wanting to actually live my life.” She grabbed Kim by her T-shirt and pulled her to her feet.
“One person I don’t care about though. Is YOU!” She pushed the teenager away roughly and slammed the door shut on her way out. She found Lucy standing in front of her, a knowing smile on her face.
“You remind me of Amy you know that?” Shego wasn’t in the mood. She tried to shove past her only to be pushed back.
“You’re both great liars. You can’t lie to other people but you do a damn good job of lying to yourselves.”