The house was simply beautiful. It seemed to be a mix of the oriental, and western styles. Beautiful and practical. It oddly reminded Kim of Shego as they walked up the long hill to the house. There was no drive way, or path of any sort. And the lawn looked as if it hadn’t been cut in a while, but that didn’t matter to Kim.
What mattered to her was that at least for the time being that this was her new home.
“I present….Castle Shego…” Shego said it proudly as she opened the door. Inside was as nice to look at as the outside. It was decorated in an oriental style, and had a single spiral stair case leading upstairs next to the living room. “It’s not as nice as I can afford, but I love this place regardless.”
“Wow…” Kim was amazed at the pure beauty of the place. “It’s….beautiful.”
Shego blushed, “I’m glad it has some approval. I actually designed this place myself.”
Kim nodded weakly at the information and followed the woman inside. They made their way to the kitchen, where Shego dug through the fridge, “Good…nothing expired…I was worried something would go bad while I was gone.”
Kim blinked at the statement. The whole atmosphere between them was casual. She wasn’t entirely used to it. They had done it once before back during the incident that had led to Kim’s new found powers, but that was for a short time. This…this was for longer, and they didn’t even know how long longer was going to be.
Kim leaned against the island in the middle of the kitchen, “Shego…do you think…that if we weren’t on opposite sides…we would have been friends?”
Shego paused in her rummaging for a moment, “Probably…if you got over the whole me being green thing.”
“I…I don’t have a problem with your skin color. I…actually think it’s beautiful in an exotic sort of way.”
Shego shook her head, “If you feel like coming out of the closet Kimmie, fine. But I wouldn’t expect the feeling to be returned if I was you. My sense of love has been dead for a long time.”
Kim blushed, “I am not gay!”
Shego pulled her head out of the fridge, armed with a bag of salad, “Maybe not. But attraction has very little to do with sexual preference. If I remember biology class correctly it has to do with pheromones. You’ll actually find the very smell of a person attractive if the pheromones are right.”
“Well I’m still not interested in you…like that…”
Shego smirked, “But that means you’re interested in me though.”
“I didn’t say that.”
“Did too.”
“Did not.”
“Did not.”
“Did too, did too, did too, did toooooo…” Shego dragged the last part out as she said it.
“Did not!” Kim was as red as her hair, and quickly getting redder.
“Did too times infinity.” Shego grinned and leaned in close to the girl, “It’s alright, I’m hard to resist.”
Kim looked like she was going to pass out, and quickly averted the woman’s steady, and almost seductive, gaze.
“So what do you want on your salad?”
Kim made a face, “Salad?”
“Sorry Pumpkin…I’m a vegetarian. Don’t worry, I’m not a pure vegetarian. I just can’t handle beef or chicken. Sushi is good though.” Shego paused, “I think it’s the blood I have trouble with…Strange isn’t it?”
Kim didn’t say anything for a moment, “Can I help make the salad?”
“Depends…are you going to burn down my kitchen?”
“That only happened once! And I was baking a rum cake.”
Shego smirked, “Rumor has it was three-hundred proof when it went into the oven.”
Kim pouted defiantly, “Only a hundred. I didn’t know cake batter could even be lit on fire.”
Shego shook her head, “Alright. I’m going to trust you to grate some cheese, think you can do that safely?”
Kim nodded before something dawned on her, “How’d you know about the cake?”
“Easy Pumpkin, some people actually read that blog you keep. Good stuff in there.”
Kim raised an eyebrow, “One of those ‘Know Thy Enemy’ sort of things?”
Shego shook her head as she sliced up a mushroom, “Actually I found it by accident…and got hooked. I think it’s cool that you can actually write about your normal life. I noticed the severe lack references to your side job though.”
Kim shrugged as she grated, “I don’t think everyone needs to know what I do…Besides, I don’t like bragging.”
“No, but you do keep mentioning a dream that you have a lot…something about a lot of green…want to tell me something?”
Kim blushed, “It has nothing to do with you! You’re just hoping I have the hots for you so you can taunt me about it!”
Shego was making short work of a carrot now, “No….not really…I was hoping to understand why you get fixated on the color.”
Kim sighed and put down the cheese, “Need help cutting anything up?”
“Only the bell pepper if you promise to not cut your fingers off.”
“I promise.”
Shego handed a knife and pepper to Kim, “Here you are. We only need maybe half, so put the rest in a bag when your done.”
Kim nodded and started cutting.
“You know…sometimes I dream about a lot of red…” Shego said softly.
“Oh…?”
The woman nodded, “Then again, it probably has nothing to do with you…just like that green dream of yours has nothing to do with me…”
Kim nodded, “Probably.”
They didn’t say anything as they finished the salad. And even then it was silent through their meal.
They put training off for the day as they tried to work out living arrangements.
Despite the size of the house it only had one bedroom, and inside was a single king sized bed.
The bed was the only piece of western style furniture in the house. There was no couch, just a few pads to sit on.
“I can sleep on the floor…” Kim offered, hoping in a small way that the woman would argue the point.
“No…We’ll get a cot or something for you next time we go into town…”
“And carry it back here on foot?”
Shego shrugged, “We’ll work that out later. For the time being we’ll share the bed. Just no cover stealing. The bed is big enough for four people, so hopefully that won’t be a problem.”
Kim nodded slowly. Things were beyond weird anymore. She was sharing the same bed with someone she had fought against countless times before.
“Pumpkin…you feeling okay?”
Kim nodded, “Just trying to get used to not having to fight you…”
Shego smirked, “If you really want to, we can.”
“Until I lose control and level half the house.” Kim sunk onto the floor and pulled her knees to her chest.
“Damn it Kim…You can’t learn to use those things unless you try.”
“Riiiight. And I’ve had the ability to level building with a sneeze as long as you have.”
Shego knelt down beside Kim, “Pumpkin, I’ve been there though…And draining some of the excess juice off helps.”
Kim looked at the woman, “What would help would be if I wasn’t such a freak!” She held up a glowing hand as if to emphasize her point. Shego gently laced her fingers between Kim’s, her hand lighting up as well.
“We’re both freaks now…It’s hard to deal with at first, but you’ll get used to it. You got used to having Hego’s powers in one day…granted mine are a little more focus oriented than his, but it’s all the same.”
“No it isn’t! I couldn’t accidentally cause mass property damage with his powers…sure things got broken, but not like this!”
Shego shook her head, “Kimmie…please…just trust me on this, okay?”
“Why?”
“For the same reason you’ve trusted me before, and so far. Because you're sure I’ve got some good in me. Or at least you believe I can help. You came looking for me, not the other way around…You wouldn’t have done that otherwise.”
Kim pulled her hand away from Shego’s, her hand going out, “I…I was scared…for the first time in my life I was scared of what I was and what I could do on accident.”
“Doesn’t mean I can’t help.”
Kim nodded weakly, “Alright…I…I’ll stay…”
“Good.”
Author’s Notes: And so we’re three chapters in. I’ve actually written this and chapters one and two all in one day. I’m just evil like that. XD