Ron was pouting. His plan had been ruined by his own carelessness. His plan.
He stopped and thought about it. His plan. His plan that had resulted in the capture of Kim Possible. The capture of his best friend for his own gain. He regarded himself with contempt.
He should have been happy that Kim had found someone. But he had acted no better than any other garden variety villain.
“Ron, lighten up already. You get any darker looking and the lights are going to go out.”
He looked up to see Anne sitting on the foot of the bed he was laying in, “Hey Dr. P. Sorry about the insanity thing and all…”
“Ron…It’s okay. As funny as it seems, even I, being a happily married woman and mother of three, have had my heart broken. It’s all in how you cope in it. You coped badly. But I hadn’t coped much better myself.”
Ron scoffed, “Like you could do something wrong…everybody who is a Possible is frikkin’ perfect.”
“Ron?”
“Yes Dr. P?”
She slapped him. Ron’s jaw was slack from the shock of being slapped.
“Shut-up. You have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Ron rubbed his cheek carefully, “Really then? What am I talking about?”
“Losing someone you love…with no hope to get them back.” Her voice was choked out by the grief that was welling up.
“Oh….Who’d you lose Dr. P?”
She smiled weakly, tears on her cheeks, “It’s crazy really to even say it. Let’s just say they were very important to me for that short time that they were with me…and they’re still important to me today.”
Ron nodded and looked down at his blanket covered feet, “So how’d you recover from it?”
Anne sighed weakly, “I didn’t at first. I started to become reclusive. I still went to the same bar I met her at every night for a year, hoping to find her again. But slowly…I gave up hope of meeting her again.”
“Wait….your love was a woman?”
Anne looked away, “No…not a woman….THE woman.”
Ron smirked, “So it runs in the family….?”
Anne turned, “How…wait…what?”
“Falling in love with women…it runs in the family….”
Anne let out a breath of relief. She had gotten worried that the boy had discovered the secret that she held onto.
“What did you think I meant?”
Anne waved a hand around flippantly, “Oh…you know…”
Ron’s brain made a mental connection, the kind of mental connection that usually resulted in him getting yelled at for absurd theories. “It was Shego’s mother wasn’t it?”
Anne stopped her face pale. The blonde next to her had just blurted it out, like it was nothing. “…Yes…back when we were in college.”
Ron shook his head. It was amazing to think of the woman in front of him falling in love with another woman, much less the mother of a woman like Shego.
“Ron…Please don’t tell Kim…”
He nodded weakly. It didn’t matter if he did anyways. He barely understood how it was possible, which meant Kim would refuse it to be possible.
“How- How’d you get over her…?”
Anne sighed, “I met James at that bar. He had asked me why I looked like a sad little princess. And…things just grew from there. He brought me back around…my grades improved again, and now…well everything is just history.”
Ron nodded weakly. He wasn’t sure how he was going to carry on…but Dr. Possible had done it, and came out with a happy life. Other people did it all the time…he could do it too.
Shego was getting the shampoo to wash Kim’s hair when it happened. The redhead had been restless as it was, and sitting in the tub for long periods of time just didn’t seem as fun unless she could have Shego in there with her.
So she pulled her in, clothes and all.
Shego let out a loud shriek as she was pulled violently off balance into the water with the redhead. “Kimmie, damn it-!”
Kim smiled and grabbed the other woman and kissed her. After all you can’t argue with someone else’s tongue in your mouth.
Shego complied with her own tongue, struggling to gain some sort of footing in the impromptu fight of wills she found herself in. Hers was weakening as she found how much she had wanted, no, how much she had needed this.
The shampoo was lost in the water, but the bottle of liquid wasn’t important anymore. There was a twisting, and somehow Shego found herself under Kim. She wasn’t sure how it happened, but it felt right, especially considering how much taller she was.
She wrapped her arms around the redhead and pulled her close, content to have her close.
“Shego….you’re a little overdressed to be in the tub.”
“You’re fault Pumpkin. If I had a warning I could have been naked.”
Kim snickered, “True…hardly fair that you get to see me naked though.”
Shego gently nuzzled the girl, “I’ll make it up to you later.”
“Uhh…Shego…what was this bit about De Pants Fu that you were talking about earlier?”
“Err…”
It was one thing to see an upset red head dripping in a towel, but it was another to see a fully clothed, and soaking wet female who was following behind her come out of the bathroom.
“Mother, I want to make one thing –very- clear.”
Anne looked at her daughter, “Kim…what are you talking about?”
“I’m talking about the fact that I am the only one allowed to strip this woman,” she paused and grabbed Shego as if she was a teddy bear and held her close, “for any reason.”
Anne looked at Shego who looked back apologetically, mouthing “It just slipped out” as secretively as she could.
Anne looked back at Kim and nodded, “Makes perfect sense to me. Though just tell me one thing…why is Shego soaking wet?”
Kim stopped and blushed, her mind scrambling for an answer.
Shego answered for her, “Pumpkin got carried away and decided that it’d be fun to share a bath, but failed to tell me before inviting me in.”
Ron immediately covered his ears, “I’m not hearing this, Shego is not talking about taking a bath with Kim…”
Shego smirked and walked over to Ron, who swallowed hard as her nose was touching his, before his hands were peeled off of his ears, “Ron, I know it’s not a pleasant idea, but you just need to accept both Kim and I are very…driven people. Thoughts and actions are going to come up, so if I decide to say I’m going to shag Princess like a mink, you just need to handle it, okay?”
Ron nodded weakly. Anne on the other hand was cracking up. She knew it wasn’t really that funny, but to hear it come so cleanly, and so clearly out of Shego’s mouth had made an interesting point out of it.
“Mom, that is not funny!” Kim was embarrassed at Shego’s frankness, despite the notion of shagging like minks having its promises. She didn’t get to complain for long though, because as if to prove her point Shego scooped up the flustered teen and carried her back into the bathroom.
“Come on Pumpkin, we still need to wash you’re hair.”
Ron was quickly joining the woman who had collapsed on the bed in a state of gasping for air between giggles. The look of shock on Kim’s face had been the ultimate mood breaker. It was a perfect example of how out of control things were for a girl who could do anything. It seemed she could do anything but manage her love life correctly.
“Dr. P, aren’t you worried about them…you know…?”
Anne shook her head, “Not really…The very night I met Shego’s mother we ended up sharing my bed, and it wasn’t exactly a sleep over. Besides…it’s not like Shego’s going to get Kim pregnant.”
Author’s Notes: That’s it, the end. A little odd to end it this way, but I felt like it. XP If Chapter Thirteen left you a little lost, go read Tender Souls, it helps explain things from Sharon’s POV, and makes it a little sweeter I hope.