Anne Possible watched as Shego tenderly lifted Kim up and laid her down on another couch. She gently stroked the side of her daughter's face and murmured something before coming back over to again sit across from her.
“Before we go on, I would like to know one thing…where did you get this incredible hideaway?”
Anne smiled. “It's actually Kim's although she doesn't know it yet. While she might not expect payment for helping people around the world, some of them have come to us separately with little gifts like these. We were waiting for her twenty first birthday to spring them on her. We figured she would be out of the hero business by then.”
Shego smiled. “I think you better tell her sooner than later. She tends to get a mite bit angry when someone keeps too many secrets.”
Anne grinned back. “Kim never did answer my question, did she?”
Shego's grin faded fast. “I promised her I wouldn't interfere when it came time for her to tell her parents.”
Anne's grin faded just as fast. “I suppose you could fill me in on some of those little details about her last mission that she wasn't “allowed” to talk about?”
Shego grimaced. Definitely have to warn the world not to mess with Mrs. Dr. Possible.
“I take it then you now trust me?”
Anne leaned forward. “Implicitly when it comes to the subject of my daughter, on other subjects…not so much.”
“Kim thought you would be rather…upset at this point”
Anne began by chuckling but was soon at full belly laugh. It was Shego's turn to put on a WTF face.
The elder woman smiled evilly. “Where do you think Kimmie got it?”
Shego's mouth opened in a silent ‘O’ of mounting understanding. She started laughing so hard she began to cry. Wiping away the tears and gaining control of her vocal chords “Now I think you think you're ready to hear this, but let me warn you…Kim is not going to understand if you freak out over what actually happened to her.”
The sudden serious tone caused Dr. Possible to lean forward.
For the first time, Shego slumped in her chair. “The very first time I had the chance to be there for Kim and I screwed up so badly that we nearly lost her forever…”
I watched the jet streak in to the valley on a course that would take it right over the lair. Kim was never this early unless Dr. D was working on something again without telling me. I leaned over and hit the alarm override watching on one of our external cameras as two forms separated from the plane and the parachutes opened.
I'd been itching for another go at Kim for about a month. But the blue dufus wanted to lay low, steal technology from his older lairs. Keep Kim Possible from getting a bead on his new lair.
It was driving me to distraction. I couldn't sleep without her in my dreams. I couldn't sit still for more than five minutes without thinking about her.
As I walked into his latest fiasco in progress, I watched her progress through disabling several security systems then entering the ventilation system on my security monitor. Should be about five more minutes.
Drakken got to the point where he began to monologue about his latest creation when I couldn't stand it any more and stood up.
Drakken, as usual, was totally surprised his impenetrable lair had been penetrated, much less found. He seemed awfully cooperative, though, when I suggested he leave Kimmie to me.
Just looking at her standing on the table, crouched low in a fighting stance I hadn't seen yet, her head cocked just so that the lights made her green eyes flash. I was going to light up and just go after her all out, but she pushed one of my buttons when she said that this was going to be our last fight.
The somersault caught me by complete surprise. I didn't think there was enough room between her and the ceiling for her to pull it off. Damn cheerleading element in her fighting style again. It only made her more desirable. Something clicked in the back of my head when I pulled myself from the wreckage of that console. I was going to take her down and take her today. Right here, right now, on the floor of the control room if I had to.
She must have seen something in my face because the next thing I know she's looking like a frightened rabbit. The front kick was obvious and I reacted at full speed. When she slipped by me, I lashed out in frustration.
My heart broke seeing her lying defeated and broken at my feet with a gash in her forehead.
you have it bad for Kimmie, don't you?
yes. i'd do anything for her, then and now, she's mine and I take care of what's mine. i should show you my kim-protection-trophy collection some time, it would be entertaining to have another opinion on it
remind me to never piss you off
I made sure she was still alive and picked her up and started for the hangar exit, it being closest. I didn't run, didn't want anyone to know I was carrying Kim. I was feeding energy into her when Drakken yelled from the saucer, I lost my temper. I was going to incinerate him and probably take the top off the mountain too. Drakken must've seen it in my face because he pissed himself as he jammed the saucer through the roof.
I felt one of the systems let go and only had time to throw up quick shield before everything went black. When I came to, Kim was gone and her little blue gadget was sitting next to me, blinking. I pushed the blinking button and listened to Kim's voice tell me she had attempted to dig out.
I found where she had been going and began removing the debris…following her. I reached a point where her tunnel stopped and panicked. But then I removed enough rubble to see the meeting tunnel. I followed it outside the lair and found…nothing but an empty campsite.
I saw where someone had been dragged to a vehicle of some sort. I found some of her hair by the tire tracks. The tracks were a day old. I went back into the ruined lair to see if there were any vehicles left intact and any supplies I could gather. By the time I got on her trail, it was two days old.
Kim had come to right about the time she felt Shego's hand brush her face in an intimate gesture of caring. Shego had leaned over and asked her to just rest until she felt good enough to rejoin the conversation.
It came as no small shock to learn that her mother had (has?) interest in women. But the bigger shock was the hideaway. She had to quickly control a bubble of outrage over what her mother admitted, but she stayed still and listened as Shego told her side of the story. When she looked like she was winding down, she sat up, stretched, and wobbled over to again sit in front of Shego's chair, this time sitting between her legs and crossing them over her chest, resting her head on one of her inner thighs.
Anne watched her daughter carefully this time, now almost fully aware of what was really going on. She didn't miss the way the two had almost fully relaxed, once her own past had been revealed.
She still couldn't quite figure out how her Kim, the one she thought she knew, had become this Kim…softer somehow out of bounds of just being in a relationship.
She watched as Shego reached down and gently massaged the nape of Kim's neck, causing her to tense, then sigh and relax further into the woman's leg embrace. She looked up at Shego, raising her eyebrow expectantly.
Shego was certainly happy that Mrs. Dr. Possible was currently on their side. She shuddered thinking how Kim had been able to deal with it her entire life. She nudged Kim with one of her knees.
Kim nuzzled Shego's thigh one more time before turning to face her mother.
“Mom, you have to promise me that you will not get mad or even with a few people before I start…” she trailed off at the frown she got in response.
“Young lady, you'll be lucky to expect anything after we discuss how you erased our memories…but who knew what was actually happening. I won't do anything now, but I can't vouch for your father on this one. He's been iffy about things ever since Hephaestus was literally sucked out of his brain you know.”
Kim closed her eyes. “Monique. Um…” she hesitated before continuing “…Bonnie andtheTweebs” she finished in a rush and tried to meld into the chair.
Kim's mother hadn't twitched with the first one, but Bonnie made her perk up. When Kim finished off with her SONS, however, she turned a shade of purple that Kim had only seen twice in her life (making a solemn promise to Nanna to never ever ever get Mom that angry again).
When Kim moaned in fear, Shego gently tugged her up into her lap, letting her bury herself in between her breasts and hold her tightly. She idly traced serpentine patterns up and down Kim's spine, trying to calm her down as she watched Dr. Possible explode in a stream of cursing she hadn't heard since the incident that caused her to quit Team Go made Hego this angry. Shego couldn't deal with this situation as she had with her brother, however. Kim would never forgive her. So she sat back and let the good doctor pace, wave her arms, and gradually wind down to the point where Kim wasn't shivering any more.
Anne couldn't believe the gall of her very own, about to be throttled offspring. She stood up and started making plans on how she was going to exact revenge starting with flaying them alive if she could catch them. The world whited out. When she could see straight again, she was deeply hurt to see Kimmie trying to hide behind Shego in the chair…even with the older woman trying to calm her down.
“Oh for the love of …” and she plopped back down on her spot and looked over at Shego…who, for the first time, was looking at her with what she took as respect. That more than anything else mollified her to the point where taking the next steps wasn't going to be as hard as she feared.
“Shego, Kimmie, I'm sorry. But knowing that the twins KNEW…that you trusted them…it's a bit much…”
Kim sniffled. She hated when she sniffled. It made her nose red and her face blotchy.
“It wasn't trust…it was blackmail. Little annoyances had evidence they threatened to take to you if I didn't cooperate and leave them alone. Bonnie was…well Bonnie. That's a story I so don't want to go into right now. And Monique…well, you know Monique. She had it figured twenty minutes after Shego called her in. I needed another woman's opinion, and I didn't think you were going to be…um…cooperative if you found out I was…sl…sl…sl…” Kim couldn't finish so Shego picked up right where Kim started stuttering.
“Sleeping with her supervillian arch nemesis.”
“I get it already. Hold on a minute.” Anne reached into a hidden pocket in the front of her jacket and pulled out a Kimmunicator and pressed the activation button.
Shego's body stiffened. Her flight reflex kicked in and she had to get out. But she couldn't do much with Kim still wrapped around her like a warm blanket.
“Wade”
Wade winced when he saw Dr. Mrs. Possible appear on his vidscreen. She wasn't smiling. He saw the picture jump and re-settle on Shego and Kim entwined on a very tasteful recliner. Then the picture resettled on the Dr. Wade openly started to sweat and fidget.
“Yes Ma'am?” he squeaked, the capital letters implicit in his tone.
“Call off the posse? Tell GJ to stand down. If they balk, tell them case Zulu. Betty will know what it means. Got that?”
“ZULU? Loud and Clear. Wade out” and the screen blanked again.
Shego looked from Kim to Dr. Possible then back to Kim again.
“And here I thought we were the two most dangerous people in the world.”
Anne smiled again. “You have absolutely no idea.”