Shego was already regretting taking Kim shopping. It wasn’t the spending of money, or the fact that the girl refused to let go of her arm.
It was the dirty looks the red head shot every single individual that stared at them. The girl would actually twist and crane her neck to give everyone their own individual dirty look.
Though Shego had to admire the effort, it did get annoying after a while.
“Pumpkin, for the twelfth time, knock it off. Or else you sleep on the couch.”
Kim responded to this by looking up at Shego with watery eyes.
Shego chose to look elsewhere. She had learned at least one thing during her time with Kim. Never make eye contact when she’s begging.
The girl gave up and continued her game of dirty looks.
She stopped as they passed a small department store. Shego raised an eyebrow when she saw the reaction. The red head had some good tastes.
“So you like Banana Republic? And I was worried you’d be wanting to shop somewhere like Smarty Mart.”
Kim made a face at the idea.
“Hold your horses on complaining, we still need to go there later. After all we need towels.”
A defeated look was what she got out of that.
“Alright Kimmie, let’s get you some new clothes.” Shego wished she was faking the enthusiasm, but she found herself wanting to buy her pet things.
It took an hour just to agree on clothes. Shego wanted Kim to dress fairly prudish, mostly to discourage strange people from lusting after her. Betty Director included. But Kim wanted midriffs and low cut necks. They settled on a small supply of long sleeved shirts with v necks and midriffs ranging from pink to dark blue, even an emerald green and black one made it into the stack. Pants weren’t such a problem as Kim bee-lined to the cargo pants.
Shego couldn’t get the girl to pick anything else, and gave in after convincing her pet to agree to a dark green dress.
They walked out with enough clothing, and even some pajamas to go off of on a weekly basis, to Shego’s relief, without eating up all the cash she had on hand.
Smarty Mart was a much shorter trip, as Kim was practically dragging Shego into, through then, out of the store. It was easy to tell she didn’t want to be there.
They didn’t make it out though. A group of men caught had pulled weapons from various hiding places and had the store under their control. Shego wanted to usher Kim out anyways, after all they couldn’t stop her, but the red head was missing.
But then one of the gun toting men was too.
Shego swore she saw some red hair before another one was pulled down with a gurgle.
That left three men. Three very scared men. And one pissed off Shego.
Her hands where burning with their trademark green plasma, but it didn’t matter. The men didn’t have a chance as it was. Kim had dropped from the ceiling onto them, using her body weight to knock two of them out, followed by a mule kick to the third man's jaw.
Shego watched as Kim proudly skipped back to her owner, and scooped up the dropped bags.
“You have some explaining to do young lady.”
Shego scratched her hair and stared at the girl across from her. They had decided on stopping at a small ice cream parlor to talk, and Kim was acting like nothing had happened.
Shego shook her head. What she had seen was truly professional work. An unarmed girl had taken out five gunmen in under five minutes, without a shot being fired. “Alright you, fess up. Who are you really?”
Kim looked up from her sundae, “I’m Kim, your pet.”
“Alright, explain how my pet just did that?”
“Did what?” Kim looked puzzled.
“Took out five gunmen by your self!”
Kim ate another bite of the sundae, trying to look cute at the same time, “Because I can do anything?”
“Can you fly?” At this point Shego wouldn’t have been surprised if the girl told her ‘yes’.
“No….”
Shego was relieved, “Then you can’t do ANYTHING, but you can do a lot. Like explain to me how you where able to do that?”
“I can’t do that either.” Kim looked down at the sundae.
“Why not?” Shego’s voice softened.
Kim sniffled, but she didn’t look up or say anything.
“Damn it Pumpkin. I’m just trying to understand you. You just appear one day, then worm your way into my life shortly afterwards, then you do THAT, but you can’t explain any of it to me?”
Kim nodded weakly, “Exactly.”
“Then what can you tell me?”
Kim snickered a little, “You have a cute butt.”
Shego blushed, “You little sneak! You were awake!”
Kim giggled, wiping her nose.
Shego shook her head. She definitely couldn’t underestimate her pet anymore.
Kim pouted, and even got half dragged by hanging onto Shego’s leg, but the woman was still going out, Kim wanting her to or not.
Shego was wearing the “drunk” dress as Kim now called it, and promised that she wouldn’t leave Kim there by herself.
As it turned out Betty was the one staying with Kim.
The two sat on opposite sides of the room, Kim refusing to talk to the woman, and the woman trying to talk to Kim. It was mostly failing.
“So…Possible…why here? Why Shego?”
Kim turned and glared at the woman, “I’m not that girl…not anymore.”
Betty waved a hand casually, “From what I hear you still are…you took out five armed men today by yourself.”
Kim sighed, “Old habits die hard….”
“So why Shego?”
“She’s nice to me…actually cares about me…you?”
“Friend since high school, and still refuses to sleep with me.”
Kim turned red at the thought of Betty and Shego in the same bed.
“Oh relax. The only way I’ve ever gotten into her pants involved me wearing them.” The woman seemed proud of this, and that put Kim off further. “So you like Shego? Like how?”
Kim blushed, “She’s a very good mistress….”
“So you two are…?”
Kim’s jaw dropped at the thought. Sure Shego was attractive…but her…and Shego…in bed…? The thought was too much.
“I take that as a no,” Betty’s voice showed off her disappointment. “I’m guessing the towel idea didn’t work then either.”
“So that was you!”
Shego was standing behind Betty. Kim looked at her mistress sheepishly. Neither woman had heard the third come in.
Shego looked down at Betty, “You go home. Some jerk slashed my tires so I’m not going out tonight.” She paused and looked at Kim, “And…you….I don’t know…”
Betty mouthed a “good luck” to Kim before ducking out.
“Damn it Princess…why can’t you just be honest with me? I mean you’re honest with Betty….” Shego was sounding distressed as she sunk into the chair Betty had emptied.
Kim looked away, “Because….she knows me.”
Shego looked up at Kim, “Knows you…how?”
Kim clamed up, and curled up on the couch.
Shego got up and sat down next to Kim, “Pumpkin…you should know I’m not going to kick you out. I would have done it already if I had the heart too. Besides the beds warmer at night now. I just need to know the truth. I need to know what happened…what made you come here. I just need to understand you better. Okay?”
Kim nodded weakly.
Silence floated around the room for some time before anything was said.
It was Kim who broke the silence with a soft sob as she clung to Shego. Shego just wrapped an arm around the girl and held her close.
Author’s notes: More to come!
Next Chapter: Kim finally tells Shego! What will happen next?