Kim scowled as she sat back in the seat. She wasn’t happy with the situation at all. But when Shego had told her they were going to Middleton she had the same expression as she had when it was bath time. Or when she told Kim no seconds on dessert. Or when the woman refused to watch a sappy chick flick.
Kim knew she wasn’t going to win.
She sighed and pouted. She didn’t want to go back to Middleton. She didn’t even really want to leave the apartment. But Kim’s clothes where packed and in a duffel bag that matched Shego’s overnight bag.
And they went on their way.
It was a decent drive, and Shego felt her heart sink deeper and deeper with each passing mile until she thought it was going to be crushed under the weight of her depression.
It wasn’t though as they entered Middleton.
Kim looked at Shego and sighed. The woman had really done it. She had taken Kim back.
“Shego…?”
“Yes Pumpkin?” Shego’s voice was ragged. She had cried herself sore as she carefully packed all of Kim’s things into the duffel bag that now sat in the backseat.
“Can…Can we go to the mall? I’m hungry?”
Inside Shego felt a small bit of joy. It meant she could spend more time with her pet. “Sure Princess.”
They quietly sat nibbling on their food. Neither of them were really hungry, but anything was better than splitting up right away.
“Kim Possible!” The voice was angry and caused Shego look up. Kim winced and looked up with fear in her eyes. She knew that voice too well to ignore it.
“Hi Monique…”
“Don’t you dare ‘Hi Monique’ me! You’ve been missing a month, and then you show up and don’t even tell me?” The black girl hugged Kim tightly. “You have people worried sick about you…”
Shego looked away, trying not to cry, the statement a reminder of why they were there.
A slight jingle was the only sound heard as Monique let go of the red head. “What the hell is THAT?”
It took Kim a moment to figure out what her best friend was referring to. She’d been wearing the collar for so long it was second nature, and she didn’t even think about it. “Oh, the collar?”
“No, your third eye! Yes, the collar.” Monique was annoyed about Kim’s casual nature about the object.
“It’s mine.”
“I guessed that. Why do you have it, much less why are you wearing it?”
“Because I’m loved.” Kim’s words were firm, and caused Shego to look up. The dark haired woman was surprised by the answer, and more so by the firmness in it.
Monique raised her hands defensively, “Alright girl, yeesh. No biting my head off.” As if a bell went off in her mind Monique noticed she had been ignoring Shego.
“Umm…Kim…who’s the lady with the hair?”
Shego considered that the second most shocking thing she had ever heard. She was used to comments about her skin, but having someone mention her hair was strange.
“She’s my mistress.” Kim smiled, proud to have said it.
“YOUR WHAT?” The words had come out of Monique’s mouth before she could stop them, and louder than she had wanted. Several people in the food court were looking over and staring now.
They quickly looked away as Kim gave them death glares.
Shego was hiding her head in her arms on the table, trying to decide if she should be laughing, or blushing from the embarrassment.
Monique glared at the shacking mass of Shego, “How can she be your pet?”
Shego looked up, forcing back her embarrassment after several deep breaths and a nervous giggle, “Because she forced me into accepting…she has a VERY dangerous thing going there with the pout.”
Monique looked at Kim with wide eyes and nodded solemnly, “Amen to that…” She slid into the extra chair at the table with disbelief.
“Kim…why in the hell would you want to be a pet?”
Kim poked a french fry around, trying to decide how to answer the question the best. She couldn’t find a way and sighed before answering. “Because I wanted love. It seemed like a good idea. Besides, it worked…I got someone who cares about me out of it.”
“Kim…you could have ended up being a sex object!”
Shego blushed at the idea of being considered as a person who would use someone as a sexual object.
Kim shook her head. “One, I kick ass. Two, I trust Shego. She was the one who trusted me enough to feed me.”
Monique looked at Shego, “You had to feed her didn’t you?”
Shego looked at the girl with a grim face, “You prefer I let her starve? Besides, she'd been watching me for three days before that.”
Monique shook her head, “You’re both nuts. You two deserve each other I guess. It’s only fitting I suppose.”
This time both Kim and Shego blushed.
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Kim refused to go home straight off from the mall. Shego sighed and gave in. She was torn in half. Half of her wanted to just sweep Kim off to some remote island somewhere and live there until she was old, haggard and died. The other half wanted to take the red head back to where she belonged.
Shego followed the directions gave dutifully. She didn’t mind driving around the small town. It was peaceful, and looked like a pretty nice place to live. They finally stopped in front of a small two story house just outside of the downtown.
Kim looked at Shego and sighed, “The reason I left lives here…”
Shego blinked. She was shocked to say the least. It was hard to think something that could cause her pet to retire lived in the same town.
She paused…no not her pet…not anymore…She didn’t have that privilege anymore.
They slowly climbed out of the car and walked up the gravel path to the house. Kim was shaking as she pushed the door bell.
A tired looking blonde answered. Sleep disappeared from his eyes as he realized who was there. “KP! Oh my god….I…I didn’t think I was going to see you again…”
“You weren’t.” Kim frowned. She didn’t want to be there, but she owed Shego at least an explanation of some kind. “Shego made me come back to Middleton.”
Ron looked at the woman behind Kim, “You’re Shego?”
The dark haired woman nodded.
“Love the green skin thin, very cool. Kinda sci-fi-ish though.”
“Ron, focus.”
Ron snapped back to reality, “Look…Kim I’m sorry…I was a jerk, and I was wrong for blowing saving the world for a date. Monique would have understood if I put our date on hold…Besides she keeps yelling at me whenever I tell her I miss having you around.”
Shego raised an eyebrow, but didn’t say anything. Kim was really on her own now, as the woman was out of her league in the small town. She didn’t know anything about the place, and really was just there to make sure the red head made it home.
“Ron, forget it okay? I’m not upset anymore…not about that anyways….” Kim trailed off, hoping Shego would catch the hint and just take her back to what she considered her new home.
Shego caught it differently and guilt ripped into her.
“Umm…Kim…a collar?”
“Mine. Shego gave it to me after I kind of….demanded to be her pet.”
Ron winced, “Moodulator flash backs Kim…let’s just drop this now…Good to have you back though.”
He backed away slowly and closed the door, but only after giving Shego a look of pity.
“Moodulator?” Shego was curious now.
“Long story…let’s just say I acted a lot stronger on emotion that I normally do…”
They were walking back to the car now.
“So how did you act?”
“Well…if it was set to affection…I might end up doing something…like this.” Kim hugged the taller woman, kissed her, standing on her toes to make their lips meet.
Shego blushed, getting drawn into the kiss. She pressed back, with her own passion matching Kim’s. It wasn’t just affection anymore. It was lust, it was love, it was broken by the jingling of Kim’s collar.
They stood there staring at each other in an awkward silence before slowly parting and climbing back into the car.
Author’s Notes: Alright, so parent meeting is pushed back a bit, and we get the meeting of the friends! The kissing scene is probably my redemption from myself over making Shego cry before. Namely because I felt so rotten about it, I wanted to cry.
Next chapter: Meeting the Parents? Possibly, or a kinky sex scene, even though I don’t write lemons (seriously…which do you think it is?)!