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Post by levi2000a on Mar 28, 2016 21:50:54 GMT -5
The picture is an edited picture originally done by Hotrod2001 and is used with his permission.
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All characters and places in this story belong to the Disney Corporation, just like Lucasfilm, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel, Jim Henson Productions and ABC do. The original creators were Mark McCorkle and Robert Schooley. I receive nothing for the writing of this story. This story more of a PG rated story and is going to appear to be a doom and gloom till half way through the third chapter so please don't dismiss it prematurely. A brief background: It's a little over 6 years since graduation, Kim and Ron are engaged to be married and Ron's restaurant has opened and is a great success. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Kim was mad. Well, that's not quite right. Kim was furious. And the main problem, as Ron saw it, was that he had no idea why. They were returning from a local mission. A group of first timers had tried to break into the Middleton Museum of Fine Art. A totally low class group that had no idea what they were doing or how to do it. Why did they get the call? There was an exhibit of Josh Mankey's going on and that was what the group seemed to be going for. Kim took it personally. They went in, did their thing capturing the bad guys. One statue did get damaged but Josh said he could fix it, so it was no big. Ron didn't even know how it got damaged. The only thing out of the ordinary was that one of the low life's had a gun, which Ron was able to grab and toss it away before the bad guy could even get it all the way out of his pocket. But none of that helped the current sitch. Kim was furious. He'd noticed over the past two months that she seemed to get angry more easily than ever before. He'd asked her about it, wanting to help his wife to be, but she just sloughed it off saying it was just the pressure of getting things ready for the wedding and things would get better. Things only got worse. She barely talked to him when he was with her and ignored any phone calls he made when he tried to call her. When he ran over to her house for the mission tonight, he had to wait for her. Her mother said how sorry she was that he wasn't able to make it over for dinner last night. She had cooked his favorite. When Ron asked what she meant she said that Kim had told her that she had passed the invitation onto him, but he had something planned and couldn't make it. He stammered something about "Oh yeah, the dinner thing. No I couldn't make it last night." Kim had never said a thing to him about it. Was she lying to her own mother now to avoid him? He decided to try again, for the third time since they got in the car. "Kim, I think we need to…." She interrupted him by saying, "Just shut up, Ron. I'm driving and I don't need any of your lip right now. We'll talk after I get you home." When she finally pulled into his parent's driveway, she turned off the Sloth and was out of the car and headed up the front porch to the door before he had even gotten both feet on the ground. By the time he got in the house, Kim was standing in the middle of the living room with her arms crossed and green eyes blazing. Both of his parents were also there and little Hanna. They had been watching something on the Know it All channel. He no sooner shut the door that Kim turned on him. "What in the hell's wrong with you Stoppable? I thought I could count on you to do a simple thing like watch my back. I see that I was wrong about you! Again!" "What are you talking about Kim? It was almost a milk run except for.." "Except for the fact that one of those milk run boys had a gun and it was just pure luck that he dropped it or I'd be dead right now, no thanks to you!" Ron stared at her trying to figure out what mission she had been on, because it hadn't been the one he was on. "And then, you trip over your own feet and bust that statue, the statue we were supposed to be there to protect! Pardon me! The statue "I" was supposed to protect. They called KimPossible dot com, not Loser-R-Me dot I-need-A-Net." Kim added. Ron had no idea about what to say, he stood there with his mouth open. "Bonnie was so right all those years ago." Kim said to him in a low voice. "You are a loser. And I can't believe we ever had sex, even if it was pity sex. I had a fleeting moment of stupidity and thought it might make a man out of you." She stood there and shook her head. "A clear example of how wrong I was about you. Thank God it wasn't my first time. That would make me as big a loser as you are." Ron may have been in shock from what she had just said and didn't know what to say, but his father had had enough. Standing up, he looked at her and said, "Young lady, I don't know why you've decided to come into our house and berate my son like this." Kim looked at Don Stoppable and said, "Your son? Your son? Oh come on Mr. Stoppable. I expect Ron here to be dense as a brick, but I expected better from you." "What do you mean?" he asked as he was trying to keep his temper under control. "Isn't it obvious?" she returned. "Ron's tall and lanky, you're short and fat. Now he might take after his mother except both of you are smart people. You are an actuary and your wife is a banker. Both of you are really good with math and numbers. Ron has to take off both of his shoes and socks to count to seven. So, either you adopted him or your wife was whoring around on you. She got knocked up and told you it was yours." Barely able to contain his own rage at her, he managed to say. "Young lady, you have more than worn out your welcome in this house. I suggest you leave now before I call the police, if you're lucky. And don't even think about coming back here till you get your head on straight." Kim looked at them all one by one and said, "Fine." Just before closing the door on the way out, she stopped and said one more thing to Ron. "By the way, in case you're too stupid to realize it, the wedding is off; along with what you thought was our friendship, which was more pity than anything else, and your involvement with the missions. Turn your stuff into Wade, because I don't want to see or hear from you again. I shouldn't have any problem finding your replacement, in more areas than one. It's not like the bar was that high. " With that she closed the door and left. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Destroyed." Looking back on this moment, that is how Ron would describe himself. His whole life since Pre-K. Everything he thought about himself and ….... he couldn't even think her name right now. He turned and started to go up to his room. Hanna was crying while their mother tried to console her. His father stopped him and said, "Son. I'm sorry it had to be that way but…" Ron interrupted him saying, "No Dad. I'm sorry. I should have told her to leave long before she turned on you guys like she did. Mom! I'm sorry." "Ronald, it's not your fault. I don't know what's come over that girl, but that's not the Kimberly Ann Possible that we know." said his mother. "Yeah. Look I'm gonna go up and get my mission stuff," said Ron, "and take it over to Wade's. Then, I think I'm going to go for a drive to try and clear my mind. Try and sort this crap out." "Son, I can't even begin to describe how you must be feeling right now, but you're not going to do anything….?" "Stupid?" said Ron as he completed his father's question. "No. That really would make me a loser and I don't care what she said, I'm not that big a loser." "Son." said his father as put his hand on Ron's shoulder. "You are not a loser. Of any kind." Ron gave his father a half hearted smile and continued up to his room. Looking around, the only mission equipment he had was his Kimmunicator. At one point….."She"…. tried to get him to call it a Ronnunicator, but that just didn't sound right. He'd take all of the pictures of them and her down tomorrow. The one on the table beside his bed, he just laid face down. He found the belt she had given him years ago and anything else that she had given him and tossed it in a box. The last thing was the virtual photo album CD he'd gotten for Christmas one year. It was in his computer. He didn't know why. He had copied all the files to the HD a long time ago. He just liked to look at them every once in a while. Well, there's that much hard drive space he would gain back once he deleted them. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Beep Beep Bee Beep." Ron picked up his Kimmunicator and saw that it was Wade calling him. "Hey Wade. What's up?" "How ya doing Ron?" The sad tone of Wade's voice told Ron that he already knew what had happened. "How did you know Wade? Have you got my house wired too?" Ron wasn't really in the mood to know that the break up was common knowledge already. "No Ron. Kim's Kimmunicator's acting up and it won't turn off. It was on the whole time and I heard everything. I just can't believe the things she said. I mean, even if there was a grain of truth to any of it, and there's not, I can't believe she said it." "Wade, I'm sorry but you're not making much sense to me right now." "Ron, I already download the surveillance video from the Museum after you guys got there. You had that guy's gun away from him before the grip cleared his pocket. There is no way she was in any danger, and so far as the damage to the statue, she did that." "What?" "Watch." said Wade as he streamed a section of the video to Ron. It showed Kim taking on two of the bad guys as she ran to a wall, bounced of it and then bounced off the base of the statue to take out both guys at one time from the side. But she must have hit the base to hard because it fell over right after that. The really galling thing was the video showed her looking at the now broken statue right after it fell. She had to have known then that she was responsible for its damage. "Well, I guess she wanted to blame me so her rep would stay spotless." His voice sounded resentful and defeated. "Ron, you have to know that something's terribly wrong with her." "Yeah, I know Wade. But guess what?" his anger finally showing. "She doesn't want to talk to me. She hasn't for a couple of weeks now and tonight, she spelled it out. She doesn't want to see me, talk to me or hear me. If you heard everything then you heard her say that. I may not be the brightest crayon in the knife drawer but even I can understand that." Wade didn't say anything, which gave Ron a chance to calm down. There wasn't any reason to take it out on Wade. He was trying to be a friend. "Look Wade, I'm sorry, but right now I'm out of the picture, by her choice and demand. You've got a far better chance of helping her than I do. I'm going to drop this stuff off at your place tonight, then I'm going to go for a very long drive and try and clear my head. Maybe if you tell her I dropped it off, well maybe it'll shock her enough that she might listen." "Ron, at least keep the Kimmunicator, so I can talk to you if I need to." pleaded Wade. "No. That might be the very thing that could shock her out of it. I'll take my cell phone with me. You can contact me that way if you need to. I'll be over in a few minutes. I really need to go for that drive now. I feel like my head exploded two hours ago." Grabbing the box, his cell phone and car keys he went down stairs. The only good part of this whole thing was that Rufus was spending the night at the Vets. He had had an allergic reaction to some Naked Mole Rat heath food Ron had fed him. It would have broken the little guy's heart to have heard her rant like that. Like he was doing any better.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Both of his parents wanted to make sure he was okay and really wanted him to stay home tonight, but he really wanted to go for that drive. He told them he might not be back till tomorrow. Little Hanna came over and hugged him and told him that she loved him. She also told him that she didn't understand it but she thought Kim was broken, and that he needed to fix her. Ron told her that he didn't understand it any more than she did and he hoped they could find a way to fix this mess. He didn't feel very hopeful about it though. Outside he put the top down on his car. It wasn't much, just a 95 Geo, convertible. It got great gas mileage but couldn't go over 65 MPH for very long, but with the top down, you could go at 55 and it felt like you were doing 100. He loved the little car. "She" used to say she loved it too. Probably another lie till she could get someone with something better. After dropping the box off at Wade's, Ron turned his cell phone on and headed out of town, down Highway 350. Less chance of having an accident he reasoned to himself. No small dogs, cats or children running out in the middle of the street in front of him. It also gave him a chance to feel the wind and no town or city for 500 miles along that stretch of road to interrupt his thoughts. There was little traffic on that stretch during the night. After about two and a half hours of driving his mind wasn't any clearer than when he started. He was starting to get tired and was going to turn around when a light on his dashboard started blinking. It was the low fuel light. Normally in that type of car, it wouldn't have been a problem. His car would have made it back to town easily, but his had a glitch in it. The light didn't start blinking till he had maybe 5 miles of gas left. Not a problem when you're in the city, but out here, he was screwed. Pulling over, he decided to call his dad and see if he would bring him some gas to get home with. He didn't want to do that, but the way the night had gone, he felt his options were limited. Opening his cell, he thought he'd better tell his father where exactly he was. Using the GPS system, he called up a map with a little red dot indicating him and he then knew exactly where he was. He noticed that he wasn't very far from an old friend's place, but he didn't want to push that friendship right now. It was then that his cell phone let out two short beeps and one long one. "No, no, no!" he cried out as it shut itself down because the battery was dead. He had forgotten to recharge it. No chance to call home now, he had to use his last option. He thought he might have enough gas to make it there.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX He was mostly right. He pulled up to the base of a hill when the car sucked the last of the fumes from the tank and came to a stop. Tired, frustrated on top of everything else, he climbed the hill till came to the door, he knocked and waited. After a while, he knocked again and waited. Finally the door opened and there stood a woman, back lit from the light inside. She was wearing a nightgown, fuzzy pink slippers and a robe. They were all very much like something his mother would wear. "Hey." she said quietly. "Hey." he replied. After a bit she said, "What's up?" Mostly looking at his feet Ron finally said, "My uh, car ran out of gas and my cell phone died on me. I was wondering if I could use yours to call my dad." "Why don't you call Kimmie on your whatever it's called and have her come out and…" "Because we're not together now. We broke up! Okay?" his temper flared briefly before he continued with more calm than he really felt. "Look. I'm sorry. It's been a bad night. Could I just use your phone please and then I'll get out of your hair." The woman looked at him thoughtfully and then said, "Look. It's late and you don't really look to be in any shape to be driving back to the main road much less all the way to Middleton tonight. Come on in and spend the night. I've got room. I can give you a lift in to get some gas tomorrow after you've gotten some sleep." Weighing his options, well, there was really only the one right now, he said as he walked inside, "Thanks, I'm sorry to put you to this much trouble." "No trouble. No trouble." she responded and then said, "So, you feel like talking about it?" He just shook his head no. "Okay." she said quietly. "Maybe in the morning. You'd be surprised how some sleep can change a person's outlook." "Rip Van Wrinkle couldn't get enough sleep to change this one." He said trying to be sarcastic but it only came out as a sad humor. Still, she gave a slight smile as she showed him where the guest room was.
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Post by levi2000a on Mar 29, 2016 14:50:45 GMT -5
Chapter 2Kim drove straight home after leaving the Stoppable house. Even though she had vented her full fury at certain young boy and the other members of that family that lived there, she was still mad as hell. "Are they all that stupid and dense?" she asked herself. The Loser was one thing but his parents? She had thought better of them at least. And that stupid little Japanese brat had to start crying. She knew that everything she'd said was the truth. It had become clearer to her every day for the past two months. And to think she had actually slept with him. "Arggg" Well, he almost pulled her down to his level, but thank God she had gotten things corrected in time. No more errors. Her headache was starting to come back. Good thing she still had some aspirins left her mother gave her in her room. When she got into the house, the first thing she wanted to do was go to her room. She wanted to try and head off the headache that was building, but her parents caught her and called her into the living room. "How did the mission go Kimmie cub?" asked her father looking up from his newspaper. "Oh great if you count me almost getting kill by some asshole with a gun and one of the statues getting smashed I was supposed to be protecting." Both parents stopped what they were doing and went to their daughter to make sure she was indeed alright. Her father had only heard her response about almost getting killed. Her mother had listened to the whole statement and noticed Kim saying "I was supposed to protect." James spoke first, "What's this about a gun?" "Yeah, the guy was about as big a loser as Ron is and when he went to pull the gun from his pocket, it slipped out of his hand and he must have kicked it across the room." Kim answered. "Oh my." Said her mother and then asked, "Where was Ron when all of this was happening?" "Ron? He was busy tripping over his own feet, like usual and managed to knock the statue over and smash it. I'm half surprised he didn't knock it on me." Both James and Ann looked at each other with questioning looks on their faces. Ann said, "Kim, that doesn't sound like Ron. You've always said he had your back." Kim snorted a laugh and replied "Ron? Mom, he's more dangerous to me then the bad guys. If I hadn't felt so sorry for the longtime loser, I would have never, never taken him with me on any of the missions." Both Possible parents were shocked. They'd never heard their daughter talk about Ron like this. "Oh and daddy," she said addressing her father. "You were right about him. He's not good enough for me. I finally saw what he is really like. So I broke off the engagement and ended our joke of a friendship. I also told him to turn in his mission gear to Wade. I never want to see or hear from that little Yamaka wearing creep again." Her father cried out her name in total astonishment that she would ever say anything like that about anybody, much less Ronald. Her mother reacted differently. Slap! Came the sound as her hand contacted Kim's face. Never had she raised a hand to one of her children or any child, nor had she ever thought she would, till now. Ann's eyes were wide and blazed like they were on fire. "I will NOT allow any anti-semetism in this house! Do you understand me young lady? Not tonight or ever!" Kim turned and ran upstairs before she said something to her mother that they would both regret. Ann started to chase after her but James caught her and held her back. She started to fight him, thinking he was defending their daughter, but all he was trying to do was calm her down. When he had her calmed down enough to talk, he asked what just happened. Ann looked at her husband and told him of her uncle, Josh. He married her father's sister and he was Jewish. "The family had gone to visit them in the city. I was about 12 years old at the time. I had asked my parents if it was alright if I went with Uncle Josh to Temple the next Saturday. I was writing a report in school about the Jewish people and I want some more insight into it. They agreed and so did he. He was so proud of me going with him that we walked the half mile. He wanted to show off a little I guess. So we went to Temple and we were walking back to his house. I was asking him questions about Temple and being Jewish the whole time." "James, I don't know where they came from so quickly, but we were suddenly surrounded by a bunch of street punks that started making fun of him and me. They must have heard me asking him about being Jewish and thought since I was with him and he was Jewish, so was I. At first they simply teased us calling us those names. One was exactly what Kimmie just said. Then they started getting worse and they started grabbing at us. A couple of them grabbed me and started dragging me away from him, but Uncle Josh protected me like he would his own daughter. He fought them off and got to me. Then one of those little bastards hit him in the back of the head with a piece of metal pipe." James held her as she started to cry from the memories. "About that time the Police showed up and the punks took off running. They rushed Uncle Josh to the hospital but he died of cranial hemoraging." After the tears passed Ann said, "My Uncle Josh's death is the main reason I decided to become a brain surgeon. To try and make sure that I might be able to save one more person from losing her uncle that way. And I will not allow that same kind of poison to be spread in my house." He looked Ann in the eyes for a bit and then said, "Okay Ann. I agree with you. But we need to think like your Uncle Josh and not like those street punks." At first she was shocked by what he said. Thinking she was acting like that, but then she thought maybe she had. Slapping her daughter like that. Looking back at her husband she said, "James, I need to go up and talk with her. Yes, I said talk." She then kissed him on the cheek and said, "Thank you. For calming me down and helping me put some old ghosts in perspective." Before she could go though James held her hand and while staring at a spot on the floor, he said, "Ann, we've both noticed a change in Kim's personality over the last month or so, God I don't want to think this question let alone ask it but, could she be on drugs?" She looked at her very scared husband and said, "I searched her room two weeks ago James. Her car the next day and I didn't find any. Only some aspirin. She doesn't carry a purse so I don't know where else to check." He gave a half hearted chuckle as he said, "Always two steps ahead of me, aren't you Ann." "James. I am a doctor and I didn't want to worry you unless I did find something. Let me go talk to her now. We'll get this straighten out one way or the other." XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Knocking on Kim's door she got no response. She knocked again and called her name saying they needed to talk. Still no answer so she tried the door. It was unlocked. Opening it and calling Kim's name at the same time she found her daughter lying on her bed staring up at the beam that ran across the ceiling. Ann noticed that lights on Kim's computer were on but it just had a blank screen. "Kim, we need to talk about what just happened (pause) and other things." "What? That you slapped me? I've taken harder hits from Shego on her worst day." "But Shego's not your mother." "Funny. I'm having a hard time telling the difference right now." (pause) "Okay. Maybe I deserved that. Do you know why I did it?" "Yes mother. Because I'm not allowed to have an opinion about someone that I know more about than you ever will, now will you just leave me alone and mind your own good grief business?" Kim was yelling at the end. "You are my business." said Ann, and then she asked, "Kim, are you taking drugs?" "What?" Kim asked incredulously. "NO! Only aspirin. And even if I was, once again it's none of your business!" Ann stared at her daughter trying to figure out what to do. For some reason she believed her about not taking drugs. But what else could be causing this change in her? "Alright. First thing tomorrow your going down to the hospital and you are going to get a full examination. Blood tests, an MRI, CAT scan, and after I consult with a few other Doctors any other tests they think might help find any problems." said Ann. "Mom! I am not going to.." "And if you don't young lady, you are well past your 21st birthday, which means, you can pack your stuff and leave this house tomorrow. Anything left we'll move out to the front yard with a "For Free" sign on it." Ann knew she had to be firm on this. "You wouldn't.." started Kim. "Dare? Try me." finished Ann. If looks could kill, both of the Possible women would have been dead. After half a minute of the icy stares, Kim said, "Fine. I'll take your damn tests. Just leave me alone so I can get some sleep." As she got up and got a couple aspirin out of a small bottle on her desk and swallowed them. "Good." You can go to the hospital with me tomorrow morning at 7:00. I'll wake you at 6:00. Ann closed the door after leaving the room. As she went down stairs to talk to James about what was going to happen tomorrow, her Doctor's cell phone went off. Answering it she heard Wade's voice. It took her a minute for her to recognize who was calling her because he was going through another growth spurt and his voice was dropping again. She hadn't gotten use to it yet. "Wade? You really shouldn't be calling this number. It's for my patients, not social calls." "I know Doctor Possible and I'm really sorry, but this is important. I hate to be a snitch, but I just had to tell you that what Kim said happened tonight, didn't happen that way." replied the young genius. Wade proceeded to tell her how the mission went down, Ron's involvement with the gun and how Kim actually damaged the statue. He also told Ann what Kim said at the Stoppables. "Wade, how do you know all of this?" Ann asked as she entered the living room. He then explained the problem with the Kimmunicator and that he had already shutdown the video and audio feeds coming from it, for her privacy. The internal sensors would still be active but they wouldn't bother her. "Wade, it's called being a friend, not a snitch. I'll call you tomorrow after the tests and let you know if we find anything. How's Ron taking it?" "About as well as can be expected. He already turned in his stuff and said he wanted to go for a drive, to clear his mind. I made him promise me he wouldn't do anything stupid." "Good. I'll talk to you tomorrow and then we'll get in touch with Ron and let him know too." After hanging up, she told James what Wade had said and about the tests at hospital tomorrow. "I hope they do find something. It's the only thing I can think of to explain the way Kimmie-cub is acting." And after a pause, "Do you think we should call Donald and Lonnie Stoppable and let them know?" Glancing at the clock, she replied, "No, I don't think so. It's late and it would only make matters worse if we woke them up. Hopefully things will be calmer after a night's sleep." "Yeah, I guess you're right." he replied and then added. "Speaking of sleep, we'd best be heading that way too. It's been a hard night on everyone. Thank god the twins are teaching at that Science Camp for the rest of the week." As the two Dr. Possibles headed up to their room and then to bed, the 19 year old Dr Load finished shutting down some system and headed to his own bed. His live in girl, Monique, was away at a fashion show and wouldn't be back till day after tomorrow. Hopefully he would have some answers for her. He had his monitoring systems set to wake him if anything needed his attention. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX About two hours later, Wade was awakened by an alarm going off. Moving over to check his computers, he saw that it was an alarm on Kim's kimunicator. Checking the sensor in it, it was being exposed to an electromagnetic field. Checking the gauges, the Mili-gause readings were off the chart and the field seemed to be coming from her closet. Her super suit could emit that field, but not if it wasn't being worn. He reactivated the audio and visual feeds and the audio started picking up a high pitched tone coming from her computer. Wade hit the record icon and then checked the system that monitors her home computer. It was to make sure that her files were backed up and no one could hack into it, mostly her brothers. But according to that system, her computer was shutdown. Using the remote control, he slowly turned the video camera so it was pointing at the computer and he saw that it was powered on. The kimunicator's built in mobility system that he could use to move it around was down as well as the off button. "This isn't making any sense." he thought to himself. Then the lights came on in the room. He started to turn the camera to check on Kim, ready to turn it off if she was naked or doing something that he shouldn't be seeing. The unit must have been on the chair because he couldn't the top of her bed. At first, she was just sitting up in bed with a blank look on her face, but then she reached over the other side and brought something onto the bed and had it in her lap. She started doing something with it, hardly looking and after a couple of minutes she seemed done. She still had the same blank look. She then stood up on the bed and Wade could see what she had been working on. She had a length of rope and she had been tying a noose in one end of it. She was trying to throw the other end up over the beam in her ceiling. "crap!" he exclaimed as called up his dialer program and put his headset on as quickly as he could. Clicking on the last number he called, the sleepy voice of Dr Ann Possible answered. "Dr. Possible speaking." said Ann. "Get up to Kim's room fast! Break down the door if you have to. She's going to hang herself!" he yelled into the mic. Next thing he heard was Ann screamed at her husband and then he heard the phone hit the floor. Disconnecting, he then called 911 to get a Life Squad there as quickly as possible. He turned his eyes back to Kim. She had just finished tying the other end of the rope off and was putting it over her head. He then heard something hit hard against her door. The door held. He heard it again and the door flew open, he could see James Possible running towards his daughter just as she stepped off the end of the bed. Ann was right behind him. The rope went taught just before he grabbed her and lifted her up. The rope went slack again. Kim didn't fight. Her whole body had gone limp as soon as she stepped off the bed. Ann had jumped up on the bed and was getting the rope lose enough to get it off of Kim's head. Once she did that, she yelled. "Okay James. Lay her down on the bed and go get my bag. Hurry!" James ran to get her Dr.'s bag just as soon as he laid his daughter on her bed. Ann bent over Kim and started checking for a pulse and to make sure she was breathing. She moved Kim's head around to allow better air passage. James ran back into the room and opened her bag and set it with easy reach. "Is she alright? God, did we make it in time?" he cried to his wife as she pulled out her stethoscope and checked Kim. Ann leaned back and said, "She breathing and she's got a strong heart beat. A second later though.." She let that thought trail off. "She's catatonic though, Wade? Wade, can you hear me?" she said to the room. Wade, realizing that he's been holding his breath till that moment, spoke through the kimunicator. "Life Squad's on its way. It should be there in about 3 minutes." His new voice was cracking as he held back the tears. Ann followed the sound to the chair that the kimunicator was sitting on, picked it up and looked into the screen. Seeing Wade, she said in a choked voice, "Wade. Bless you." "Hey." he replied with his own choked voice and tears streaming down his face as he tried to force a smile. "It's what I do." After the Life Squad had arrived and finished getting Kim ready for transport, Ann asked him what she should do with the kimunicator. "Leave it on the bed." he replied. "Some things were happening in here before she woke up. I want to run some scans and try and find out what was going on. It might help." He then quickly added, "I tried to call Ron to have him meet you at the hospital, but my calls keep going to voicemail. He'd want to know. I'll keep trying if that's all right with you." Ann's face looked tired as she looked at Wade's image and said, "After what you did tonight, anything you want to do is fine with me. I'll call you as soon as we know anything." She sat the kimunicator on the bed and left. After a bit, Wade heard the Doctors leave to follow the squad to the hospital. "What in the hell is going on here?" he thought to himself. "Well I sure as hell going to find out." With that, he started bringing all his other systems online and started full scans of everything in the room. Scans that would find one of Rufus's hairs, if such a thing existed. While those were running, he dedicated one program to calling Ron's cell phone till he answered it and then sound an alert him when he did. He still had to identify that sound that he recorded coming from her computer, how was her computer even on when his monitors said it was off and figure out where the electromagnetic field had been coming from. 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Post by levi2000a on Mar 29, 2016 20:20:57 GMT -5
Chapter 3
The drive to the hospital had taken longer than Ann ever remembered. They had allowed one of them to ride with Kim. She told James to. There would be less chance of her trying to take over Kim's medical treatment and she knew she was in no condition to do that right now. By the time she parked her car and walked into the Emergency Room area, they had already taken Kim into an examination room. James was sitting on one of the chairs right across from the room. After checking with him to make sure that the trip went quietly, they sat and waited. It wasn't long before the Doctor came out to talk to them. "Charles, I'm glad it's you." said Ann. The Doctor looked up and saw who it was that addressed him as Charles. "Ann! I'm sorry. I guess I should have made the connection. Kim Possible, Doctor Ann Possible. It's not that common of a last name. Anyway folks, your daughter appears to be alright. Her heart rate, blood pressure and breathing are fine. She does have a small amount of bruising around her throat and neck, but no serious damage. I take it that you got her down almost immediately. "Yes, we got into her room just as she stepped off her bed. She was only hanging for maybe a second before I got to her." said James. The Dr. nodded his head. "Okay. Ann, you know how this is going to have happen. We'll admit her to the hospital. For tonight, she will be on a medical floor for observation just to make sure there are no complications. We will also have her on suicide observation which means that there will be a staff person with her all the time. Tomorrow though, she will be transferred over to the Psychiatric Wing. The attending Psychiatrist has been notified and will be in to see her tomorrow." "My main concern at the present is her catatonic state. She's totally unresponsive. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask some questions that you may not like or be comfortable with. The answers may well help with Kim's treatment and recovery." "Folks, does your daughter have a substance abuse problem or is she on any kinds of medications right now?" The Doctor asked them. As James started to puff up with indignation, Ann put her hand on his chest and answered, "Not that we are aware of. The only prescription she has is for the pill, but she's been on that for about nine years now and never had any kind of reaction to it before." James started to ask her about that since the only reason for a woman to be on the pill, as far as he was concerned, was to prevent pregnancy and why did Kim need that back when she was fourteen years old. Ann finished her statement by adding, "It was to help regulator her Periods and cut down on the cramping. The only other thing I know about is aspirin for headaches. She had been having them recently, but we thought it was the pressure of getting ready for her wedding. She was supposed to get married next month. Charles, I'll as be honest with you as I can be. She's been acting strangely for the past two months. She'd been becoming more and more aggressive and her temper has been getting shorter and shorter. I started searching her room two weeks ago and have been doing it almost daily. I haven't found a thing other than what I told you. Tonight while she was over at her fiancé's parent's house she blew up, saying a lot of things to him and them, canceling the wedding, breaking up with him and burning her bridges behind her. When she got home, she started saying some things that I will not allow in my house." She then finished telling him how the rest of the night went, including how she slapped her daughter and why. "Thank you. A lot of parents wouldn't have been as honest. We've already taken blood samples and I've already call in our best lab technicians to process it. When I told them who it was for, they said they should have the result in an hour. If I'd mentioned your name too, they might have made it half an hour." "The Psychiatrist may want to talk to you tomorrow but he will probably want to talk to her ex-fiance as well. He didn't come in with you?" "No. He doesn't even know yet. After Kim broke up with him, he told his folks he wanted to go for a drive, to try and clear his mind and he's not answering his cell phone. We're still trying." said Ann. "Well, I'm almost positive that Dr. Carter will want to talk to him as soon as he gets in," looking at his watch, "in a few hours." "Oh Charles. Not Geoffrey Carter." Ann declared. "Sorry Ann. She'll be admitted under his care. You can change Doctors tomorrow but it's his turn in the rotation so she'll have to be under his care, at least in the beginning." "What's wrong with Dr. Carter?" asked James, happy to finally have something to say. "James, he can be a pompous ass. He believes that if someone else hasn't already studied it and written several papers then is just not feasible. He's just afraid to think of anything new." "Be that as it may, you can change attending physicians tomorrow, but he will have to make the initial examination and recommendation. If at all possible," and he smiled at the play on words. "try and find the fiance and have him here too. I'll go and try to expedite getting her into a room. I'll come get you when they're ready to move her." The Possible parents lightly patted each other. I simple gesture to show they supported each other. After Ann sat down, James pulled out his cell phone and looking at the time said, "Well, I might as well get this over. They can only hate us so much. Calling at 3:00AM shouldn't add that much more to the pile." He walked a little bit away from his wife, in case things got heated. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX It had taken a while to get everyone calmed down enough to finally get some sleep. Both Hanna and Lonnie had been most upset. Hanna crying that Ron needed to fix it and Lonnie because of what Kim had implied. Don kept an old fashion telephone in the bedroom. He said the ringer was louder than one of those little cell phones so it only took two rings to wake him enough to answer it. "Hello? Stoppable residence." "Don. This is James Possible." Don sat up in bed quickly, turning the bed side light on and reaching for his glasses. This woke Lonnie fearing that dreaded phone call from the police when a mother's child was away from the home. "James Possible, you've got a hell of a lot of nerve calling this house after what your daughter…" "Don, Kim's in the hospital." James said interrupting Don. Don fell silent hearing this. Lonnie started to tell him to hang up on him. Don shushed her. "James is she alright? I mean, what happened?" "She came home and told us some of what happened at your house and then she called Ron a……and then Ann…..but then." James T. Possible was trying to control his sobs, reliving the events. Finally he just said, "Don, she tried to commit suicide." "Oh dear Lord." Don was almost speechless. "Ahh, is there anything we can do to help?" Taking a deep breath, James replied, "Yes. The Doctors would like to talk to Ronald, I guess to see if there was anything he may have noticed leading up to tonight. Maybe help with…helping her. I know he went for a drive but I was wondering if you have any idea where he might have gone." "No, not really. The only places I would think he would have gone would only," Don stopped himself before he said "reminded him of Kim." and quickly said instead, "Well, he wouldn't have gone there tonight." James didn't say anything. Don was really his only hope. "James, wait a minute. I know who can find Ronald. It may take us a while, but I'll have him there as soon as I can." "Thank Don." Said James as Don hung up the phone. James wanted to add, "You're a true friend." but he was too late. As Don was getting dressed, Lonnie wanted to know what had happened. Explaining quickly, he told her what he had been told. She asked him what he was going to do. "There is only one person that has always known where Ronald is at any time, even better than Kim. Hanna. I'm going to see if she can locate him." Lonnie thought for a few seconds and then got out of bed and started getting dressed herself. Don said, "Dear, it's late. You don't need to go with us. You can......" Lonnie interrupted him saying, "I'm not going with you. I'm going to the hospital to be with James and Ann. Ann may need support from another woman and mother." Always proud of his wife, he smiled and said "Okay dear." XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Knocking softly on her door, Don entered Hanna's room finding her sound asleep. Gently lifting her into his arms as she started waking up, he said, "Hanna, Daddy's sorry to wake you but he needs you to do something very important, okay?" She nodded her head trying to open her eyes at the same time. "Hanna, can you locate your brother? Can you point out where he is and take us there?" She nodded her head and with her right hand pointed to the North. "That's my baby girl." He told her as he smiled proudly. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX The lab technicians were true to their word. One hour after they got there, they had the preliminary reports were ready from their testing of the samples. They didn't like what they found so they called the admitting preliminary Doctor down to go over their findings. Lonnie Stoppable walked into the hospital about forty-five minutes after James's call. Finding the Possibles outside their daughter's door, she went to them and greeted James as she gave Ann a hug. She whispered in Ann's ear, "Sometimes men just don't understand a mother." Ann mouthed the words "Thank you." James started to say "It's good to see you Lonnie, but under the circumstances it's a little surpris....…" "Hush James." She said. "That was then. We can all speak of it later. This is now and this is where I should be." She asked them if she could get them anything, but all they really wanted was the company and support of their friend. They all then sat and waited for the lab results or for Kim to come out of her catatonic state. Half an hour later, the doctor came to talk to Kim's parents. Seeing a third person, he hesitated before going into details. Ann introduce him to Lonnie Stoppable, a dear friend that he could say anything in front of her that he could privately to them. Nodding, he said, "Okay folks, your daughter has a very high concentration of psychotropic drugs in her system along with a couple others that we haven't been able to identify." Psychotropic drugs Ann thought and said out loud, "LSD, Angel Dust or marijuana?" "No." replied the doctor. "None of those. The ones we isolated are Clinical drugs and their production and dispensing are very tightly regulated. I don't know how they may have gotten into her system but they are not something she or anyone else picked up off the street." "These drugs by themselves, could explain personality changed and temperament swings. The side effects aren't much better than the effects. From the concentrations we found and if she has been talking them for a while, her liver and kidneys functions may be compromised. We will have to have a full MRI and some other test to check that out." "Are you sure there were no drugs in her room, car or anywhere else? The lab techs said they can't identify the other drugs without having a pure sample to test, the actual drug." "No. There was nothing except for the aspirin… Wait. I opened the bottle and looked at them. They were all standard aspirin like we sell in the pharmacy, and the bottle was just like..Oh God. I didn't taste them to make sure." "James," Ann addressed her husband now. "Go home and up on Kim's desk is an aspirin bottle. Get it and bring it here. I never thought that they might be laced with something." Dr. Charles Davis said, "I'll tell the lab what to expect. They can be ready for it as soon as you get back." James took off at a run after giving his wife a quick kiss. Ann sat down and called Wade again to bring him up to date. "Thank you Mrs. Possible." said the blurry eyed teen. "I'm going to call Mr. Possible so I can meet him over at your house. I want to retrieve Kim's Super Suit so I can hook it up here and run some diagnostics on it, if that alright." "That'll be fine Wade, but please try and take a nap soon. You sound so tired." Wade gave her a quick smile and said he'd try when he had time. Ann sat down and Lonnie looked at her face. "Ann, I know you are a Surgeon, and a fine one from what I hear, but you're not God. You couldn't have known about the drugs. You suspected and looked for them, but you couldn't have done any more than you did." Ann looked at her friend and patted her hand thanking her. She was right. She had to avoid going down the road of "should have." and stay here where she could be of use. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX As Wade got ready to pick up Kim's suit, he double checked the programs that were running now. Ron still hadn't turned his cell phone back on, the program that was analyzing and decrypting the Tone that came from Kim's computer still had twenty minutes left and the program that he had just started would take at least that long to run. Several things had come to light. Someone had hacked into her computer and had managed to take full control of it when no one was watching. Whoever had done this had gone through the firewalls and shields that Wade had set up, wrote actually, and had been able to do it without setting off any alarms. They could activate the computer and used it to spy on her visually or audibly. All without letting Wade know about it. The only chance Wade had now was to try and backtrack all of the IP address and correlate the times when they were used. He knew he would have to go back about four months to get an accurate sampling in case they used a rotating IP address. Sooner or later it would start duplicating itself. Problem was Kim went to a lot of different addresses over that time, getting ready for the wedding and such. His program would work; it was just going to take some time. Whoever it was had really pissed Wade off. Not only by going after Ron through Kim and then after Kim herself, but they had done it by going through his computer skills. Kim and Ron needed the best to help them and Wade thought he was the best. This group or person proved that they were better than Wade. Part of this was his fault thought Wade as he left his room.
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He couldn't sleep. His body was resting but he couldn't sleep. Maybe it was because he was in a strange bed, but more likely because his mind wouldn't let him. It kept replaying the event of the evening, over and over again. After the umpteenth time Ron had come to two conclusions. Conclusion One. Everyone he had talked to after the break up thought he might do something stupid. He had hoped that he was beyond feeling bad if some called him stupid or thought he'd done something stupid, but it was still there. His father warned him not to do something stupid, his mother, even Wade warned him not to do something stupid. Conclusion Two. He'd done something stupid. Two stupid things really. He'd taken off and left his family without helping them. They had been hurt by her words too, but old Ronnie boy up and left them. He can help save the world, but when it came to his own family, he left them to fend for themselves. Second stupid thing he'd done, he'd believed everything that Kim said without question. He knew now that that wasn't Kim Possible, yet he believed every word she'd said. Something was majorly wrong and she needed him, and he just went for a long drive. He had to make it up to her or at least find out what the hell was happening, even if it meant sitting on her till she told him. Hearing noise outside the door, he assumed his benefactor was up. Time to get back to Middleton and start acting like the man he was instead of like the boy he used to be. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 17:39:58 GMT -5
AARRGHHH.. C'mon....... I need More !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by levi2000a on Mar 30, 2016 18:47:20 GMT -5
Chapter 4 "Shego!" the man yelled. "Shego, I need you." Moving slowly into the kitchen area of their newest lair, Shego look at the back of the man she had promised to love and honor. She had gotten the justice of the peace to drop the "obey," part out of the ceremony under threat of bodily harm and right now she was forming plans of how best to kill her husband. She was only wearing her slippers, full length flannel nightgown and her robe, which was open to fully reveal how far along in her pregnancy she was. About as far as you can go. She looked around trying to find something to hit him or stab him with to kill him, since she had just gotten out of bed without waking up first. Then she saw it. The perfect thing. Moving slowly over to it, she picked it up, examined it and then brought it up to her lips and then swallowed her first taste of morning coffee. Blurry vision and ideas started to form thoughts, thoughts started to form words and then her voice started to work so she could yell, "What? What do you want?" The man jumped and turned around, fear showing plainly on his face. Seeing her standing there, he turned back to the counter to resume working on whatever plot he had going on and said, "Ah good. Shego, I need you to bring me some butter." Looking around, she saw a stick of butter two feet from him on the counter. Moving over to it, she picked it up and moved it within a foot of him and said. "There you go Dr. D." "Ah. Thank you. Just what I need to finish this." He said as he hummed his favorite "Oh Boyz" tune. She then moved to sit/lean on a barstool chair near the coffee pot. It was going to be a long morning. "So, what are you working on Drew? You didn't even come to bed last night and why are you so chipper?" she demanded as he was tempting her sweet disposition. He wasn't too worried about her firing up her green plasma to fry him since her doctor told her not to use her abilities this far along in her pregnancy. He had concerns on how it would affect the baby. Turning around the former Dr. Drakken announced. "Waffles!" presenting her a plate full of them. "Your favorite, with peanut butter, grape jelly, syrup and whipped cream. Oh, and a dill pickle on the side." He smiled at her as he set the plate by her with a fork. Her face lit up as she said, "Oh thank you. You are so sweet." She gave him a quick kiss and tore into her breakfast like a hungry beast. "I had an idea about an improvement in the nursery last night, an extra monitor to prevent crib death. I may have been a failure at taking over the world, but nothing is going to harm our child if I can do anything about it." She smiled at him and thought about how things had changed since they decided to go straight. He was making money hand over fists with his stupid inventions, his plants were repopulating the rain forest and he was even a part time adviser to Global Justice. Who better to advise them about applications of new science for possible global conquest schemes than someone that use to try and do it. "Oh. What was that noise late last night all about?" he asked. "I didn't hear you call so I kept on working." "Oh my God!" I forgot all about him!" She then went on to tell her husband about the event of last night and the fact that Ron Stoppable was sleeping in their guest room. "They broke up?" ask Drew not really understanding. "Yeah they did, or at least she did." came Ron's voice as he was made his way into the kitchen, "Got any more coffee?" Drew pulled an extra cup from the dish drainer, filled it and gave it to Ron. Ron drank half of it in his first gulp even though it was still hot. He then finished it off and refilled it. He drank this one a little more slowly. Glancing over at Shego's waffles, he stared at them and then said, "That looks…................…….interesting." He then explained some of what happened and finished with the conclusion that something was wrong or something was going on that he didn't know about and he had to get back and try to make it right. "So. Can someone give me some gas or a ride into town or a phone so I can call my dad?" Just then a loud sound filled the place, the sound of a door being slammed open, followed by the sound of an alarm. The intruder alert to be specific. Then, what seemed to be a little Asian girl came running into the room. What was extraordinary about that was she was running on the ceiling and then down the wall and jumped into Ron's arms, hugging him hard enough that he had problems breathing. "I told daddy I could find you. Ron, you have to come home and go to the horspital. Kim's there. You have to go fix her." cried Hanna. "Wait. Hanna? What are you doing here? How are you here and what was that about Kim being in the hospital?" At that same time Donald Stoppable came into the kitchen trying to catch his breath. As soon as he had stopped the car, Hanna got out and was racing up the hillside and into the lair/home of the Lipsky's. "Did (pant) anyone (pant) see (pant) a little (pant) girl (pant) come in (pant) here?" "Dad?" asked Ron. "Come over here and sit down before you have a heart attack." he said while trying to stand up with Hanna in his lap still holding on to him. Drew filled a glass with water and set it down for the elder Stoppable while Shego stood up and helped to older man over to another barstool near Ron. Waiting till his father had a chance to catch his breath and drink some water, Ron asked, "What's going on Dad? Hanna says Kim's in the hospital?" "Yes Ron. According to James, she came home last night and had a big fight with her mother. Afterwards she went to bed and…" It was then that Don realized for the first time that there were two other people in the room with them and those two people were listening very closely to what he was saying. Looking at Drew and then Shego and then back to his son. Shego said. "Come on! What's happened to the Princess?" and Drew asked, "What's wrong with Kimberly?" both at the same time. Don was still looking at his son till Ron understood what his father was waiting for. "It's okay dad. They're friends of mine and Kim's." Don stood up, covering Hanna's ears with his hands, said in a voice just loud enough for the people to hear, "She tried to commit suicide by hanging herself." The glass of coco-moo that Drew was drinking fell from his hand and shattered on the floor. A fork full of waffles fell out of Shego's hand and bounced on the counter top. Ron's jaw hit the top of Hanna's head. After about ten seconds of total silence, Ron was the first to partially recover from the shock. He started shaking his head and said, "No dad. You've got it wrong. Someone got into her room, knocked her out and tried to make it look like she tried to do that." Don put his hand on his son's shoulder and said, "Son, Wade saw the whole thing. He has a recording of it. It was because of Wade that she's alive now. That is how it happened." Ron started shaking his head again as he thought, "It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. Nothing makes sense. Why doesn't it make any sense?" "Wade. I've got to call Wade. Wade will make it make sense. Give me your phone Dad." Drew, finally came out of shock and said, "Ronald. Over here." As he open a cabinet door and revealed a monitor hook-up. Pressing a button, Wade's face instantly appeared on the screen. He was busy typing on his keyboard. Without even looking up he said, "Drew, I really don't have time to look over any more nursery plans." "Wade, it's me. What the hell's going on?" pleaded Ron. Looking at his monitor, Wade said, "Ron! Thank God. Get your ass back here and get over to the hospital as fast as you can." "Wade. What happened?" "No time Ron. I've got a half hours worth of computer coding to write and only five minutes to do it in or Kim is going to die a very slow and meaningless death. He then added, "Call back in ten and I can fill you in. Just get back here." His image then disappeared. Ron looked at his dad and said, "Come on dad we've got to get there in a hurry." "Ronald, I drove as fast as the station wagon could go and it took us two hours to get here." Shego stood up, closing her robe said, "Come on Ron. I'll fly you down in our hovercraft. I can get us there in twenty minutes." "Shego?" said Drew. "Look." She answered. "One of us had to drain some gas out of one of those backup generators we never use now because we're one of the good guys now and drive his car down to the hospital while the other flies down in the hovercraft. His father has to drive his car back. Which one of us can fly him down there safely?" "Shego," said Drew in a very forceful voice of command and then dropped to a whimper "just please be careful. For you and the baby. I don't know what I'd do without you." She waddled over to him, kissing him on the mouth and said, "I'll be careful and I love you too." And then to Ron, "Come on sidekick." As they left the room, Hanna came running up behind saying, "I'm going with you." Before Ron could say anything, Shego yelled over her shoulder, "Well come on then. We've wasted too much time talking about it already." XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Wade's program analyzing the sound he'd recorded from Kim's computer finished and displayed the results. As he scanned them he muttered the word, "crap." The more he read the display, the more he said the same word. Quickly calling up the lab results from Kim's blood work and the estimated time the drugs would remain in her system, he started editing and re-writing the code. With any luck, he could countermand the code's original orders. It was only the last orders but it should save her life. Only problem was he had maybe fifteen minutes left. Everything started to fall into place he thought as he typed. Someone had first hacked into the suit command system, much the way Dr. Dementor had several years ago, but the only thing this person did was turn it into as electromagnetic field emitter, which when prople were exposed to it could cause nightmares, loss of sleep or poor sleep and headaches. What do you do for a headache? You take some aspirin. Aspirins that aren't aspirins but something else. Drugs to affect the mind and personality of whoever takes the drug, and he was willing to bet that the unknown drug were to make someone susceptible to an outside influence. And add the high pitch computer code or compressed data burst being broadcasted from her computer and what do you have? Brainwashing. Psy Corp style. Someone attacked Team Possible by brainwashing Kim into breaking up with Ron. That would have hurt him bad and if Kim had committed suicide as a result of it, it would have totally crushed him and eliminated Kim at the same time. Then I would have felt guilty because they went through my computer programming and my suit's systems to do it, turning my own tools and skills against me. I would have been crushed. They would have done what no one had ever been able to do before, eliminate all of Team Possible in one blow. Ron's call interrupted Wade for a minute but he was almost done. As soon as he finished hitting the save icon he was calling Dr Possible. "Wade. The Psychiatrist and his assistant are with Kim now so I don't have anything new to…" "Dr Possible, please. If you have ever trusted me before about something, trust me about this. You have to put your cell phone up to Kim's ear and hold it there for at least two minutes. You have to do this now or we may never get Kim back." Wade pleaded, almost crying to her. Ann went to the door and went into Kim's room with Lonnie following close behind her. James hadn't returned from dropping off the aspirin at the lab yet. The Doctors were trying to use external stimulus to see if there would be any reaction from her or verify her catatonic state. Dr. Carter was standing directly where Ann needed to be. Apologizing as she did it, she shoved the man to one side, held her phone to Kim's ear, leaned closer to the phone and said loudly, "It's in place Wade. Do whatever you're going to do." Next thing she heard was a high pitched tone coming from it. She could feel her phone vibrate from it. Dr. Carter recovered quickly and addressed Ann. "Doctor Possible, this is highly unorthodox. Even though you are next of kin, you are not her doctor and you have no right to be administering any kind of treatment at all! Now I demand you and your friend leave this room while we finish our examination." Lonnie had heard Ann use Wade's name and she knew all about him. Stepping between Ann and Dr. Carter, Lonnie Stoppable faced him and said. "Doctor, I suggest you simply shut the crap up until she is done with what she's doing. If not, I will have to put my fist in your face so hard that you'll be very glad you're in a hospital right now. Do I make myself perfectly clear?" The doctor, never having been talked to like that since grade school, simply nodded and backed away from them. Ann stood there in shock too, never having heard her friend Lonnie ever use such language before, but she still held the phone tightly to Kim's ear. When she felt the vibration stop, she waited another half minute and brought the phone back up to her ear. "Wade?" "Yeah. All done now Dr. Possible. We just have to wait to see if we were in time and if I did it right. Ann watched her daughter's face as it stared up at the ceiling, not really seeing anything. Dr. Carter gathered his courage up and asked her, "May we now finish our evaluation Doctor Possible?" Just as she was about to answer him, one of Kim's eyes twitched. Then the other one did too. Finally, they both closed. Her body seemed to relax and it looked like she had fallen into a normal sleep. "Wade, I think you did it. It looks like she just fell asleep." Dr. Carter, unwilling to believe her without double checking, doubled checked her and it did seem that she had fallen asleep. "No Dr Possible, I didn't. The only thing I was able to do was cancel the last commands she was given. "Kill yourself and if that fails, go into a total catatonic state and do not wake up." She probably just fell asleep from exhaustion. I don't know what she'll be like when she wakes up. Probably aggressive and hate everybody. But, it's the best I could do." "Well, it's a start. We have a chance now."
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Post by levi2000a on Mar 30, 2016 19:00:28 GMT -5
Chapter 5
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Ron waited till his watch finally ticked by the ten minutes past after talking to Wade. He didn't want to interrupt him if he was working on something to save Kim. Shego showed him where the com unit was in the hovercraft and she was taking everything very easy for them and her baby. No launching at mach 3 speeds. When they took off it was nice and easy. Once they were airborne though, she slowly increased speed until they were traveling as fast as the craft could travel. Fortunately, this one had a canopy on it so they weren't exposed to the wind. Shego and Hanna listened in as Ron fearfully activated the com unit to call Wade. When Wade looked at the screen and saw Ron's face, he smiled and said, "Its okay Ron. I'm finished and Kim's out of immediate danger." Only slightly relieved because Wade used the phrase "immediate danger," Ron asked, "Wade, can you fill me in on what in the hell is going on?" Wade looked at the worried and bloodshot eyes of his friend and said, "Ron, remember what Kim told you last year, when that rogue ninja attacked you and put you in the hospital and you wanted to go after him all by yourself?" "Yeah. She said that it was time we sent the bad guys a message, that if they wanted to attack one of Team Possible, meaning you, me or her, then they would have to deal with all of Team Possible. Why?" "I think that someone tried to deal with all of us in one stroke." Wade first explained the what and how of what happened, including the drugs that were in her system and the commands that were encoded in the sound coming from her computer. He then explained his theory about someone brainwashed Kim into breaking up with him, and then have her commit suicide. Either one would have been bad enough but both would have crushed Ron with guilt and loss. Kim would be dead and the knowledge that they had gone around Wade's security measures and used the super suit that Wade had designed to accomplish this would have Wade in the same situation as Ron with guilt and loss of both friends. "You said you guys think the drugs were in the aspirin she was taking?" "That's what we think. Dr Possible doesn't know where Kim got them from. She just assumed from the hospital pharmacy. They are in the lab now being analyzed. " "No. I remember them. About three months ago after Kim had a meeting at GJ HQ, she said she had a slight headache. I looked in the glove compartment of her car for that little first aid kit she carries for something she could take for it. There was a full bottle of aspirin in there with a note from her mom. "Just in case you need them. Take before bed. Love, Mom." "Someone else planted them there then and the note had to have been forged. That at least explains how Kim got them. The program is still running to try and track down who was getting into her computer. The data I got from the suit shows that they used the same method and some of the same protocols that Dementor used, back when you just made the high school football team. Using that as a base, they were able to hack their way in." "Wait a minute," interrupted Ron. "We destroyed all of that information about the suit when we captured Dementor. The only thing we couldn't destroy was the program he'd hardwired into his hover platform when he attacked us and that was confiscated by Global Justice." "I know." said Wade. "I'm trying to track down its location now to see if someone could have gotten access to it and downloaded that information to use against us." "Okay Wade. Let's get back to Kim. You said you were able to undo the brainwashing so she back to normal, right?" Wade shook his head as he said, "No Ron. I was only able to undo the last set of commands and that's because I had a recording of them. I have no idea what other commands they've already pumped into her over the last two or three months. She could still want to break up with you, or her personality might be bouncing between herself and her brainwashed self. I don't know." "I know this is shallow of me Ron, but I'm still pissed off thinking that someone out there is better with a computer than me." Wade said with a scowl on his face." Ron looked at him and then started to smile. "Ron! It's not funny!" he almost yelled at him. Ron just smile at Wade and said, "You're tired or else you'd see it, Wade. How many people are there in the world that is better than you with a computer?" "Not too damn many I can tell you that." Wade said in a huff, but then his expression softened as he started to catch on. "So you're saying that it's a short list and that should help me narrow my search parameters once I've collected all of my data?" "Anytime I can help Wadester." As Wade started to locate anyone with his level of computer expertise, he said, "Speaking of help, Kim's dad had to drive up to the science camp to pick up the twins. They heard about what happened and wanted to come down to help me track this bastard group down." "Why didn't they just drive their car back?" "They wouldn't say who, but someone at camp set off an EMP pulse this morning which fried all the onboard computers on all the cars in the area and all cell phones. They had to call him from an old payphone over at Lake Gotta Grin." "Okay Wade, we should be at the hospital in about ten minutes." "I'll let the Doctors know so they can talk to you first." "They can talk to me in Kim's room. That's where I need to be most." Ron said with a fierce determination. "Ron, you may not be allowed in her room. Strictly speaking, you're not family yet." "Do you really think they can stop me Wade?" Wade sighed and said, "I'll call Kim's mother and see if she can make some arrangements. We really don't need you tearing apart a hospital with your MMP just to get to her. There are other people in there too you know." Ron closed his eyes realizing that what Wade had implied was just about what he had planned to do if necessary. It was a hospital, not a villain's lair. "Thanks Wade," he said as he started to rub the back of his neck. "and…er….ah…sorry about that. Guess I'm just a little worried about Kim." Wade looked at him for a moment and then said, "Okay. Just wanted to make sure you remember who's wearing what color hat. And remember, there are a lot of other people worried about her besides us." XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Kim's mother was burning up with rage at Dr Carter, but she managed to stay calm, or at least silent. Lonnie Stoppable was only a few degrees short of boiling over herself. Afraid of what he had heard that Kim was capable of, he had ordered her hands to be restrained to her bed sides. "It was a common precaution when dealing with someone who was suicidal and had a substance abuse problem." he had told them and, "Since she is my patient, I have to think of her safety." Ann knew that this was just his way of getting back at her for having pushed him out of her way when Wade was helping. It was all she could do to get him to allow Ron into the room when he arrives. He totally ignored the results that had come back from her blood tests and after talking to Wade about what he had uncovered, he merely said, "Dr. Load has several doctorates in several different fields and is a very intelligent person. But, he is not a Psychiatrist nor is he licensed to practice in this hospital. He is only trying to save the reputation of your daughter and yourself by blaming her own problems on some fictional outside forces. I am trying to help your daughter face reality, accept her flaws and help her to recover." "Who the heck are you?" came a voice from the bed. "And where the hell am I? Some villain's lair?" "Kimmie?" Ann called as she started towards her daughter. Lonnie decided to hold back in case she would remind Kim of last night. "Mom? What am I doing here?" As Ann got closer, she saw Kim's face. She had a slightly confused look with just a hint of fear as she looked into the worried face of her mother. "Mom?' "Kimmie, how are you feeling?" "Okay. I think. My throat and neck hurt a little. Why are my hands in restraints? Am I in the hospital? "Yes Dear." her mother said as she brushed Kim's hair back from her face. "What do you remember about last night, honey?" "Well, Wade called and said there was a problem at the museum so I asked him to call______," and then Kim expression change in an instant to hard and angry, her voice icy. Ann jerked her hand away in shock. "that worthless loser of a Stoppable. Why did we ever let him into our house let alone tag along after me? I would have been better off with a pet rat. At least I could have flushed him down the toilet after he bit me." Dr Carter was recording his notes into a MP3 unit in his hand. "Patient is showing signs of a definite DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)." He stopped to address Kim directly. "Tell me Miss, did either of your parents hit you as a child?" Kim looked at him and said. "You can probably see the bruising on my cheek where she slapped me last night." Carter spoke again into his MP3 and said. "Possibly from repetitive physical abuse predating last night's attempt." "I told you that she has been brainwashed. Just look at the results from the blood work." Ann was almost screaming at the man as she spelled it out for him. She didn't hear her cell phone ringing. Dr Carter mostly was mostly trying to ignore her, but finally said, "Okay Dr. Possible. Let's try it your way." Dr. Carter said. He then addressed Kim again. "Miss Possible. We found several different types of drugs in the Aspirin you've been taking. Where did you get them?" Kim thought for only a second before she said, "That piece of slime Stoppable gave them to me. He must have been trying to drug me so he could rape!" "So your ex-boyfriend actually supplied you with the drugs!" When she confirmed that, he then looked at Ann with a triumphant smile and recorded," add sexual abuse from her boyfriend to the list also." He then pulled out his cell phone to call the police to have Ron arrested. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Just before Shego set the hovercraft down on the top floor of the connecting parking garage for the hospital, Wade called Ron back and gave him the room number Kim was in. He also said, "They got the result from testing those Aspirin and I was right. There's a strange combination of drugs that would be ideal for this type of mind conditioning. I pulled the result from the hospital computers. I'm checking now to see who would have that access to these drugs now. Oh and tell Mrs. Dr. P. not to let anyone give Kim any medication without double checking the dosage and type of drugs. When I hacked into their system I saw signs that someone else had hacked in too and not too long ago. I'd tell her myself but she isn't answering her cell phone." As Ron readied himself for the mad dash to Kim's, he looked at Hanna and quietly said, "Hanna, would you stay with Auntie Shego please?" "Why? I want to go and help Kim!" she replied. "Because Auntie Shego can't get around as fast as you or your brother." Shego said without even looking at them. "And she may need help finding it or even walking there. Isn't that right Ronnie?" From what she'd heard from Wade and Ron, it might not be a very pretty situation with Kim right now and she could well understand him not wanting his baby sister to see it. Besides, Shego's favorite breakfast, lovingly prepared by her husband, wasn't sitting that well in her stomach today. She would have to take her time getting there or some poor janitor was going to have a heck of a mess to clean up. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX As soon as he entered the hospital proper he had to get his bearings. "Down one floor and one hall over." he said after figuring out where he was. He was familiar with the complex having done volunteer work there during the summers with Kim. Most people only saw a light blue blur speed through the hallways without touching anybody or anything. He slowed down when he was close, not wanting to run right by it. Standing in the doorway, he saw Mrs. Dr. P. and his mother, Ann was arguing with another man Ron assumed to be a doctor. His mother was just closing her cell phone after having said goodbye. As soon as he entered the room, he went to his mother. "Mom, I am so sorry that I took off instead of staying with you guys last night. You needed me to be there and I abandoned you. I am so sorry." She pulled her son into a hug as she said, "Ronnie, you're here now when your family needs you, with your family that needs you the most right now. That's what's important." Turning to Ann he said with a firm conviction, "We're going to fix this and then we're going to catch the bastards that put us in this place. I don't know how for sure yet, but it is going to happen. I promise. The same way I promised you and your husband to watch out for Kim on all of those missions." Ann reached and brushed a lock of hair out his face. Her eyes showed the pride she had for her third son. He may not be her's by blood or by marriage yet, but he certainly was by the love and the affection she and the rest of the Possible family always had for him. Ron saw that in her eyes, just as he saw them harden and turn ice cold as she looked at a space behind him. Turning, he saw the man that they had been arguing with approach him. "You are this young woman's boyfriend?" he demanded without any introduction. "I'm her fiance if that's what you mean." trying to keep himself and his voice calm. "Then I'm afraid I'm going to have to call Security and have you removed from Miss Possible's room. The police want to talk to you about your supplying her with drugs, attempted rape and your sexual abuse of her."
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Post by levi2000a on Mar 30, 2016 19:18:08 GMT -5
Chapter 6
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Every person in their life will have moments where their brains are unable to process everything that it is absorbing and their thought process grinds to a halt. Call it a "mental pause," "brain freeze," "zoning out" or whatever. It's not normally that big of a deal, unless of course you're operating heavy equipment or getting ready to pull the ripcord on a low altitude jump. Most of these lapses of mental functions only last a few seconds at most before the brain "resets" itself. During his life, before he found his true focus, the love he shared with Kim, Ron had these lapses in mental activity, several times and had always relied on his reactions. After high school, his true focus, allowed him to excel in college classes and his learning while abroad in Japan, so his dependencies on his non-thinking reactions, or "Ron Factor," became less and less the norm. Global Justice was so close to being on to something when they studied "The Ron Factor," that it could have given them the chills. An individual's actions and reactions that had nothing to do with a current situation but would come back to influence a situation in the very near future. Genius! The only problem was that it was out of phase to the current time and place so it appeared to be simple "dumb luck," and not his developing MMP. Which is why he would never become a full member of Global Justice, but that's neither here nor there right now. Warriors are taught that in some cases it is best not to think about one's actions but to trust their training and own bodies to act and react. Ronald Adrian Stoppable was a very well trained warrior and when his mental process were overload for six seconds by the accusations from Dr Carter that were so far away from who and what Ron was, his body reacted. When his mind finished resetting its breaker, his closed fist was six inches away from Dr. Carter's nose. Blue Money Magic was flowing from it like flame from a match stick and Dr Carter was frozen from shock, his eyes almost as big as Ron's fist. Ron's first action was to douse the MMP, and then he thought, "This guy isn't wearing a black hat. He's wearing a dunce's hat." Next, he raised his index finger, pointing to the ceiling, smiled and said, "Hold that thought for a moment, would you please?" before he moved over to Kim's bedside, leaving Dr Carter nodding his head, his eyes looking like he was in a trance. "Hey KP. How ya doing?" "Ron Stoppable, you piece of crap LOSER! I thought I said I never want to see you again!" Ron was prepared for this. He knew that it was coming, but that didn't mean it wasn't going to hurt. Funny. Sort of like when doctors says, "This isn't going to hurt a bit." That's usually when it hurt a whole lot. "You did say that." He replied with a fixed smile on his face. "You also said you didn't what to speak to me or hear from me, but here I am. You're seeing me, you're speaking to me and I'm talking to you so you're hearing me. Since we've already done all three things, we might as well forget what you said before. If not, could you please come up with something more original than "loser?" That sounds like a broken record of Bonnie from high school and I know that you are more original than she ever was. Is that all they programmed you to do, sound like Bonnie Rockwaller?" "Maybe I was like Bonnie and you were just too stupid to notice it, following me around like a little lost puppy, hoping I might take you home with me. She was certainly right about one thing, you being a member of the lifetime losers club. Oh Wait! I said that to you back in our sophomore year and you didn't get it then and you still haven't gotten yet you (searching for a word,) Doofus!" "Yeah!" he painfully chuckled. "Doofus, there's a real grown-up word showing how you're so beyond acting like Bonnie." This type of conversation carried on for about another five minutes till Ron said, "Ya know. I'm having such a hard time swallowing any of this crap you're telling me, I gonna have to get a glass of water. Excuse me a minute." Standing up as she turned her head away from him, he went over to the mothers and said softly so Kim couldn't hear, "I don't know how much longer I can do this. I need to get Kim back in control, if only for a minute before I can help her." "What do you mean?" both whispered to him. "Back when Kim had to wear that neural compliance chip, she told me later that the worst thing about it was that she was prisoner in her own body. She couldn't do anything but watch herself do whatever she had been told to do. It was a living hell for her and that only lasted an hour or so. Now, here's the same thing, only she's been like this for at least a couple of months. I can ignore what's she's saying about me since I know it's not her, but I know that it's gotta be killing the real Kim to be forced to say it." he finished as he opened a bottle of water his mother had brought in but never opened. As he took a good long drink from it, Hanna came into the room leading Shego. Shego saw the look on Ron's face and then said to Hanna, "Hanna baby, why don't you go over to your mother. I don't think Aunt Kimmie's ready to talk to you yet." Hanna nodded and did as she was asked; Shego did the finger pointing, sign language thingie, asking if she could try talking to Kim. Ron nodded as he finished off the water and she went over to her bedside. "Hey Princess, How ya doing? Ready to go a couple rounds and get your butt kicked? As usual." she said in a soft voice. "Shego?" Kim asked turning her head towards the voice and then said, "Shego!" Kim's face was almost happy for a second and then it lost all expression and in a flat voice without any expression said, "Contingency Plan Nine, Zero, Zero Mark Nine is in effect. Contingency Plan Nine, Zero, Zero Mark Nine is in effect." She kept repeating it as Shego looked helplessly to Ron and indicated that she had no idea what Kim was saying. As Shego backed away from the bed, Ron moved in to take her place. As she moved over to where Ann, Lonnie and Hanna were, she looked for a moment at Dr Carter, who was still standing where he had been and still nodding his head slightly. "Kim?" said Ron as he lightly shook her shoulders trying to snap her out of it. "Kim!" She snapped out of it as she looked at him with a smile and a look on her face that scared him to the very center of his being. "You just don't get it do you?" her voice said. "Let me put it to you this way then. I had a full steak dinner with all the trimmings set before me, ready to eat, but somehow the plate got knocked on the floor. All she had left to eat then was a dry peanut butter sandwich. You're the sandwich. You were the 'rebound' boy. The only thing left." "You've lost her." she continued as his fixed smile started to disappear, his eyes started to water. "You're nothing now. Just a poor, dumb Pollock Jew boy whose only friend is a worthless, naked mole rat. Nice try loser." "And by the way, the naked mole rat is not cool. It's gross." Ron could barely see now as his eyes continued to water. Not for what she'd said. Hell, he started hearing some of that stuff from the D Hall bullies his freshman year in high school. Jew boy, dumb Pollock, loser, but never had he heard it from Kim. How bad was this thing could force her to say this crap? He refused to believe that he had lost her. But a small part of him now wondered if he was already too late. XXXXXXXXXXXXX Inside Kim's mind, a part of her started rejoicing. She'd hurt him. Finally. The tears in his eyes because of the pain she had inflicted on him. The tears of...................................concern? "I hurt him. Not for what I was calling him but ...for ...his ....concern? For me?" she started asking her selves. "Doesn't matter." came another voice. "He's hurt. He's wounded. He's bleeding. Now we can bleed him dry." "No." "No what? I've shown you the truth. How you really felt about him all these years. I've opened your eyes." "NO! All you've shown me are lies! You've covered my eyes with visions that aren't real. You confused me. You used me, but I know the real truth now and I won't let this continue." After a short pause, the other voice said, "So what? Do you think you can undo what we've done? What you've done? Do you really think he'll just forget everything you told him? Everything you've said about him? You called his mother a whore you stupid little witch! Think anybody would forgive you for that or what you said to your own mother?" Then it said, "So you won't let it continue will you? Try and stop us." Something in Kim's mind snapped.
XXXXXXXXXXXXX As Ron was trying to pull himself together, to start all over if he had to, because he was NOT going to lose her, he heard a voice call his name. "Ron?" It was a voice he had only heard a couple times in his life. It was Kim's voice, but she was scared. He looked at Kim's face and saw that she was trying not to cry, but she was failing. Her mouth started to work as she tried to say something, but it wasn't working. Finally she was able to say, " Ron?!" "Ron, help! KP in trouble!" As Ron's hands moved to hold and comfort her head, she gave way to the damned up tears and wracking sobs that had been held back by something other than herself as her shame and guilt over what she'd said to the people she cared about most, came pouring out. As her body started to go into convulsions from crying, his hands lit up and the blue glow started to envelop her head to try to calm her. No one noticed that another man's eyes started to blink. As soon as she was able, she started crying out in-between sobs, "God, let me die." "I didn't mean it." "Ron, I didn't mean any of it." "I love you." "My mind is so screwed up." "They raped my mind." "Please God, let me die." Quickly moving his head down so their faces were only six inches apart to make sure he had her attention, he said, "Kim, it wasn't you. We know it wasn't you. We know what happened; we just don't know who did this to you yet. There is nothing to forgive because you didn't do it." Seeing that it wasn't having the effect he wanted, he said, "Kim! God's not going to let you die. Not today. If He does, He's going to have to let both of us die, cause I'm not going to lose you. Not even to Him today." In that moment of terrible clarity, she calmed down and stared into his chocolate brown eyes that were filled with nothing but love and concern for her. "Kim," he said gently seeing that he now had her full attention. "I think I can fix this, but I need to know something. Do you trust me?" "What?" she asked not really understanding. "Do you trust me?" Looking at him, she tried to force a smile on her face and said, "I trust you with my life, Ron. Just like I always have." "Okay then," he said full of pride for her. "I just have to.." "ENOUGH!" yelled Dr Carter, having come out of his trance. "I'm calling Security NOW!" he said as he turned and stepped over to the Doctor's Wall phone that would connect him immediately to the main nurse's desk. Just as he started to raise the phone out of its cradle, a slim hand came down on his hard, forcing the phone back down. Turning, he followed the hand back to Dr. Possible. "Listen to me now." she said with a voice that demanded his attention. "Those two have saved each other's lives so many times now that they've both lost count, and I am NOT going to allow you to interfere with him when he says he can help her." Ron turned back to Kim. He knew their families had their backs. "Dr Possible, your interference could cost you your Residency here at the hospital." he said thinking to sway her mind. "Do you think I give a rat's ass about that when my daughter's well being is at stake?" "Very well." he said. "I'll just have to have Security remove everyone from this room. By force if necessary." Before he could even try to pick up the phone again, a trio of voices coming from behind Ann sang out in a very threatening tone, "Just try it." Turning to look behind her, Ann saw that Lonnie had already removed her glasses and was rolling up her sleeves. Lonnie's nine year old daughter had assumed the same fighting stance that Ron used whenever he spared with Kim. He usually won half of those sparing matches anymore, and Shego standing there, nine months pregnant, still wearing her fuzzy pink slippers, a syrup stained flannel nightgown and a terrycloth robe, had both of her hands lit up in bright green fire, all three waiting for Ann's signal. Ann turned back to Dr Carter and said, trying to keep her smile under control and not get to big, "Dr. I think that this might be a good time for you to check on your other patients right now. That is, if you have any." Dr Carter must have agreed because he turn and left the room at a dead run. Moving quickly she closed the door after he left. "Shego can you do anything to these hinges and door lock to make them not work?" "I'm on it. Shego replied as she used her plasma to melt each of the top two hinges into a non-moving pieces and doing the same to the door latch. She would have done the same to the bottom hinge but she really didn't feel like trying to bend over right now. She stepped back away from the door when she was done. "Lonnie, would you and Hanna help me move this chair to over in front of the door?" After they were done, Ann said, "Okay, maybe six minutes for Security to get up here. They will try and get in, finding they can't, they'll try to break it down, but it's a metal fireproof door so they won't be able to, so they would call the room and ask us to unlock the door. I might be able to stall them another five, but I wouldn't count on it. They would then call maintenance and they would have spend up to fifteen minutes to spread the metal jambs enough to pop Shego's welds and then force to door open. So we have maybe half an hour at best before they can get in here." Looking over at Kim and Ron, she hoped that would be enough time. Then they heard something that they didn't really want to hear. The sound of water splashing against the floor. Looking over at Shego, Ann saw a puddle of amnionic fluid on the floor between her legs. "Shego. Your water just broke, didn't it?" Shego looked back at her, smiled sheepishly and said, "Oopsie. Well, my Doctor didn't want me using my powers because he didn't know how it would affect the pregnancy. I guess this answers that question." Then she had her first contraction. It almost doubled her over in pain, and would have if both Lonnie and Ann hadn't rushed over to her to help support her. Thinking quickly, Ann asked Hanna to help Aunt Shego while she and Lonnie converted the one chair in the room designed to do this into a bed. They then had Shego lay down on it. Ann got a pair of latex gloves from the cabinet next to Kim's bed and put them on. "Shego, you and I are about to get a lot more intimate than either if us ever thought we'd get. Try to pull your feet up and spread your legs please." "Hanna, please get a towel from the bathroom there and get it damp. Then use it to wipe your Aunt's forehead with. Lonnie, would you be her coach and say all the things that our husbands forgot to say to us?" Lonnie smile at that memory. Donald was so flustered that he fainted after the second labor pain hit her. Ann reached up and as she was trying to determine how far Shego had dilated as Shego was saying, "I'm really sorry about this. It's not like I planned it this wayayay. Hey Doc. You want to use something other than a basket ball to do that with?" When she was done, Ann stood up and removed the glove. As she was dropping it the haz mat can she said, "Shego, you're already at seven centimeters. I had the twins when I reached eight. I think I'm going to have to call maintenance and have then come up here as soon as possible. I won't risk you or the baby. We need to get you down to a delivery room as soon as possible." As Ann turned to use the phone, a ball of green plasma whizzed by her and blew the phone off the wall. Turning back to Shego, she saw her shaking her head. "Ain't gonna happen that way Doc. Those two over there," she said as she indicated both Kim and Ron. "they both went to bat for Drew and me about six years ago at our hearings. It was because of them that we got our full pardons along with that stupid medal. If it hadn't been for them, Drew and I would probably still be the bad guys and never have gotten together let alone start a family." When Ann started to shake her head, Shego continued. "Look, they made sure that Drew and I got a chance to start over and have a life together. That's all I want to do. Give them a chance." Still shaking her head, Ann said, "You don't understand Shego. You're going to have to pay for that phone. Your insurance company won't cover it." Shego smirked and said, "We've got SomeStates Insurance. They covered our lairs back in the day. They'll cover that." Ann smile waned as she said, "Shego, if you reach eight centimeters before this is over, I still have my cell phone and I will make that call." "I'll try and think tiny thoughts then Doc." Ann smiled at her and then looked back at her daughter and Ron; both looking like they were on fire with blue flames that engulfed their entire bodies. Silently she said, "Please hurry, kids. Please hurry. XXXXXXXXXXXXX
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 20:12:30 GMT -5
This is Great. Shego's gonna be a mom.
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Post by levi2000a on Mar 30, 2016 20:48:23 GMT -5
Chapter 7
Previously Ron turned back to Kim. He knew their families had their backs.
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Her eyes were rapidly darting back and forth. She was scared and hurt. A deep hurt all the way to who she was. The sound of that loud mouth Doctor or whoever he was, scared her again and Ron needed her calmed down. "Kim, Kim!" he said. When she looked at him, her eyes kept darting, looking at his face but her focus kept moving. His forehead, chin, mouth, right ear and anywhere else. "Kim, what's your favorite BBC program?" "What?" she asked, clearly not understanding what or why he was asking such a question. "What's your favorite BBC program?" he asked again, trying to distract her from what was going on around them. "Ah, Torchwood." she finally answered looking him in the eyes this time if only for a few seconds. "Dang it." Ron thought to himself. He'd forgotten she thought the lead actor was a hottie. Quickly he asked, "Okay. What's your other favorite BBC program?" "Ah, the Doctor?" she said not so sure if that was the answer he wanted, but her eyes focused on his and this time they held. "Close enough." he thought and then asked her, "Remember the episode with Hitler, when the woman had to kiss the Doctor in order to save his life?" "Yeah." she said thinking back on it. It was her favorite episode. "Yeah. She had the lights all streaming out of her and they started going into him and just before she kissed him she said.." Ron gave her a silent 'shush' as he bent down to her and softly said, "Hello sweetie." just before he kissed her. If anyone had been watching them at the time, they would have seen streamers of blue light leaving him and entering her, till both of them glowed blue as they held the kiss. Kim felt warm. Not the "go turn the air conditioner on" warm, or the "what was in that drink," warm. This was the "snuggling next to your true love with his arm protectively around you to keep you save from everything while you dozed," kind of warm. This was pure Ron-shine she was feeling as he'd merged their minds. When she opened her eyes, she was alone in a brightly lit place with clouds all around her. She looked around to see where he was, because she could still feel his warmth throughout her body. When she couldn't find him she called out to him, "Ron? Ron, where are you?" "I'll be there in a minute KP." Came a disembodied voice and then she heard, "Ow. Hey! Oh my eyebrow!" It almost sounded like he was fighting something. "Ron are you alright?" She was starting to get worried for him. "Yeah! I'm "Hey I'm really gonna need those back." I'm fine." he said. And then he appeared right beside her, and he did look like he'd been fighting with someone or something. She ran to him and hugged him as he said, "It didn't work the way I wanted it to." with a frown on his face. "What do you mean Ron?" "I thought I could just come in and undo the last three month in your mind, but there's some sort of barrier that I can't get through." She was able to force a small smile at the news and decided to try her best to make amends while she could. "It's okay Ron. You did your best. But I need to talk to you while we have this time together, while I'm free of it." "No. Wait Kim you don't understand." "Please, let me say what I have to say before we talk about anything else. Please?" "But Kim,,," "I really want to apologize for all of the things that I've said and done that hurt you Ron. You're the best thing that ever happened to me and I have no idea where I would be if I didn't have you. I love you, and that's why I'm so ashamed of myself." "Kim, I already told you that everyone knows that you were brainwashed when you said all those things." "No Ron. I mean before that. When "it" was looking in my mind to find something to say to hurt you and the others, it forced me to remember a lot of things that I forgotten entirely, and some of them showed me how shallow and mean a person I really was to you." Ron had been trying to tell her something, but after that statement he was totally confused. "Kim, you weren't ...." "Remember the Spirit Dance, when you managed to talk me into asking Josh Mankey out? I accidently lock you in the janitor's closet and you missed the dance. We didn't get you out till the next day." "Kim that was an accident and you took me to Bueno Nacho for lunch when you got me out." She had started looking at the floor and not at him. He started to put his hand on her shoulder, but she pulled away from him before he could. "That was an accident, but Wade tried to call me halfway through the dance to tell me you were locked in. I didn't want to be bothered since I was having fun, so I turn the Kimmunicator off. I didn't turn it back on till next day. That's when Wade got a hold of me and we came to get you out." "Okay, you were having fun, Kim. I thought that was the whole purpose of going to the dance." Ron said as he felt more confused. "Not at the expense of my best friend not being able to have fun, not if I cared about him. And when I went to the Jr. Prom with Eric, the reason I went with him was because I thought I'd be embarrassed if I went with you. I was afraid that other people would laugh at me. Not at us. At me." Ron didn't know what to say to her. "Even when I lost my memory, my parents told me you were my best friend, but when you told me we were dating, I just laughed in your face. Some friend I was. I wouldn't even listen to you. And back when you thought you had to be a jock to date me, you told me you didn't think you were good enough. The real truth was I wasn't good enough to date you." "Ron, I love you with all my heart. I'm ashamed of the way I treated you in the past. I really think you deserve someone better than me, especially since it may take the shrinks forever to try and fix my screwed up mind. You should cut your losses and have a happy life." After she said the last sentence she broke down and started crying again. Ron would not be denied as he held her and comforted her. He just shook his head till she calmed down again. "Kim. I have two things to say to you. No, three thing to say. Well, actually three main things to say, then a bunch of little things to say after those things." She gave a light chuckle as a response. "Main thing number one; your timing sucks! You try and break up with me while I've got our spirits merged together to try to help you? "Ron, I'm not trying to break up with you. I just think you deserve better than me. And you already said that you couldn't fix me. You deserve a real life, not visiting me daily at the insane asylum." "We'll come back to that thought after I finish my other things. Main thing number two; do you really think I'm so stupid that I didn't know about all that stuff you just bared your soul to me about? "You knew?" she asked him sounding surprised. "Of course I knew, and I forgave you a long time ago." "But how did you know?" she asked. "Let's see here now. In the order you told me, Wade, Monique and your mother. Wade, when he told me that somehow your kimunicator got turned off that night and we both know that couldn't happen by accident. Monique took the longest since she didn't want to screw things up between us. Your mother told me right afterwards. Seems your dad may have left that part out of the learning program accidentally with great joy on his part. You see?" He continued. "My Mom and Dad told me about a movie they once went to see when they were kids. "Love is never having to say you're sorry," was the main quote from it. Bull! They told me then that love is having to say you're sorry every single day and every single day you forgive those you love, whether they say they're sorry or not. Why? Because you love them." Before she could say anything else he said, "Main thing number three; right now you emotions are like exposed raw nerves, overly sensitive. You're seeing everything like it was a major drama and it wasn't. You've seen the scars on my back from the injuries I got from going on missions. The ones I never told you about. I never complained about them. Maybe I complained everything else, but not about them. Yes, they hurt a little when I got them, but after they healed, I forgot about them and went on. And they never stopped me from going on missions with you." "These are the same thing. Those little hurts that you think you gave me healed a long time ago and I am not, underline the word not, going to stop loving you over things that I don't even remember now." "Main thing number four; Wait. I said there'd only be three and a lot of other things later. Okay. I was wrong. Four main things, and a lot of other things. Main thing number four; you really need to let me talk every once in a while without interruption. I said, "It didn't work the way I wanted it to." That does not mean that there isn't another way to do it. It means that I can't do it by myself and that I need your help, which is what I came here to ask you for." "So Ron, even though you know I did all those things to you and showed you how mean I can be, you still love me?" Ron smiled at her. He'd just told her that they could fix the problem with her mind, which was the most important thing in his world right now, and the first thing she asks about it whether or not he loves her. What he said to her was, "Yes Kim, I do love you. Then and now. In the future, we may disagree, we may fight and we may get really mad at each other, but there is no way I will ever stop loving you." She had her head against his chest as they embraced each other. She hugged him tighter and said, "Then I think we need to fix this sitch, because I really want to spend a lot of time showing you how much I love you too and maybe try and heal any of those wounds that I missed." "That could very well be the only good thing that comes out of all of this." he replied with a smile. "Let's do it then. We've got those and other things to do!" Then her world blinked. Well, it didn't blink actually. It kind of closed its eyes real fast and then took it's time about opening. Later Ron would say that it took a few seconds to create the proper environment so they could do what was necessary. Anyhoo, the first thing she notices was that her lower half was wet. All of it. As her eyes stared to open, it looked like she was in a giant bathtub. The top of its side was almost level with her eyes and was filled with water up to her belly button. (When was the last time she called her navel a belly button?) While wondering that question, she also noticed two other things. One, she had no hair down there. None. Not even any stubble. She only ever did a bikini trim back in high school for cheer leading. Two, she had no breasts. They were there, they just weren't developed yet. Yet? Looking around the still forming room, she could see her reflection in a mirror that was on the back of the bathroom door. There was a cute little redhead girl in ponytails that looked to be about seven years old and in the reflection she could see a blond head sitting in the other end of the tub. Turning to look at the blond head, there was Ron looking in the water at his lap. His head looked like it was mostly ears and he looked weird. Weird? Oh my God! It was Ron. The Pre-School version of him. In the bathtub with her. And they were both naked! She quickly covered herself, even though she really didn't have anything to hide at this point of her development, and then she wondered why she did that. They had taken/given each other's virginity to the other for crying out loud. They had seen each other naked lots of times. A slight blush came to her cheeks as she remembered that one time when.... "Ron." she said pulling herself away from that memory. "Oh, hey KP. Glad you could join me. Or am I actually joining you?" he pondered what the correct wording should be. "Ron, where are we?" "We're in your parent's bathtub in your parent's bathroom. Do you remember the first time I came over to your house for a play-day? Let's see, it would have been between Pre-K and first grade. We both went outside while your mom was taking care of the twins and I was going to show you how to make mud pies." She smiled as she remembered. They each had made one pie and had managed to cover themselves from top to bottom with mud. When her mother called and they answered, she came outside and found the two of them like that. Kim remembered her mother laughing so hard she'd actually started to cry, all the time trying to put on a strict face. Her mother had them strip off their muddy clothes, after taking several picture of them for the family album, and had both of them march upstairs and get in the bathtub while she put his clothes in the washer to get clean before his mother came by to pick him up. "I remember." hearing her voice sound like it did when she had said, "You're weird. But I like you." so long ago. "But why are we here? Er..ah.. now?" Ron's silly smile didn't change, but something in his eyes did. He suddenly looked more serious then she could remember. "I brought us back to this time in our lives when everything was simpler. No "food chain" issues from high school, no "does she like or love me" issues, no "is this true love" issues, no "I've just been mind raped," and no "does she still want to get married," issues." The last part was said more to himself than her. "Just friendship between two people that just found out the difference between us was that I had something between my legs that you didn't have, even if it was very, very small at that time." She then saw that he had a little sand-box bucket in his hand. "No this is a "I've been brain washed and now I'm going to get it out of me," time. But first, we need to wash the remaining mud off of you and I'm having a hard time doing it. I need your help KP." With that, he filled the small bucket and poured the water over her. She rubbed it but the remaining mud on her would not wash off." "Why won't it rinse off Ron?" "It's really your guilt KP. You need to understand that there was nothing you could have done to keep you from saying and doing what you did the other night. It was just like when you had that compliance chip on your head. The only difference was others could see the chip. We didn't see this. We listened to you, not knowing that it wasn't you. We were wrong and we are all sorry. We all forgive you for what you were made to say. Time for you to forgive yourself." "Ron, what I said to you parents was.." "Kim. Mom has been with your parents since she heard about what happened, offering to help them and you anyway she could. Dad grabbed Hanna and took off looking for me for hours so I could come and help you. I think they all forgive you." Ron said. Kim thought about what he said, the friendship she had built up with his parents as friends and not as his parents, how she felt about little Hanna, almost like she was her's and not Ron's little sister. She also thought about the long talks she had with her own mom and dad about everything, boys, motherhood, marriage, love and they had always talked about forgiveness being a vital part. As she thought, chunks of mud started falling off her and into the water. When she was done thinking, Ron smiled. She was almost clean. "Sorry," she said keeping the tears from her eyes. "I've always tried to take responsibility for my own actions, good or bad and its kind of hard to realize that I had no control over them." "It's okay Kim. And I am sorry, but the next part is the part that I wanted to spare you from. It could, well, hurt." "Whatever it takes, Ron. I don't want this thing to have control over me of any kind. Not for one second longer than it has to." "That's the KP I know and love. Now, I need you to hold out your arms." As she did, she saw things on them that looked like foot long leeches. Before she could ask what they were, Ron explained, "These things are the coding or commands that they gave you after those aspirins had taken effect. They basically tried to rewrite who you are. These are the lines they wrote. Wade can give you a better explanation later, but right now we need to remove these lines from you and let you get back to being you." With that, he grabbed one of the ends of one of the lines and started to pull. At first, it felt like a sticky piece of tape that was pulling the little hairs on her arm. When he got to the end of it, it felt more like the tape had grown into her skin, but he managed to pull it out. He then threw it up on the wall behind and over her there head. "Why did you throw it up there? Won't if fall down and reattach itself?" "No." he said as he started pulling the next piece off. "Its dead now. It doesn't have you to feed off of." After removing each piece, he threw it up on the wall where she couldn't see it and he never looked them it either. He just moved on to the next piece. The next piece felt more like it was pulling the little hairs out of her skin as he pulled it off. Each piece hurt more as they progressed, each one having been there longer and had tried to become a part of her. Tears from the pain started forming and she started biting down on her lower lip when he was about was about half way done, but whenever he started to slow down, stop, or suggest they take a break, she said "Keep going Ron. Don't stop. I want it out of me. Please." As he pulled them off, he talked to her to try and distract her from the pain. "You know, another reason why I thought this would be a good time period to do this? I wouldn't be distracted by looking at you naked, at least as a seven year old. Some of the other boys said since you were a girl you had kooties, but I didn't believe them. About you having Kooties part I mean. By you being naked, none of these things could hide from me. Also by being seven your body is smaller. Less places to hide." Whenever she cried out or whimpered, Ron would apologize but he did as she asked him to do and he never stopped. As he removed what he said was the last one, it felt like it was pulling flesh away with it as he pulled it away, the tip felt like it was wrapped around her heart. She thought she would pass out from the pain it caused. To Ron, her seven year old body looked like it was covered in welts, like someone had used a whip on her and her face had the look of pain like she felt like they had whipped her. She then started to shiver. Pulling her out of the tub, he grabbed one of the bath towels that had been waiting for them, wrapping it around her he dried her off and used it to build up body heat. Even though this was all happening in her mind, her "Mental Avatar," was reacting the way her real body would, she was going into shock. He held her till she started to respond. That was when she hugged him back. "Is it over?" she asked totally shaken. "Is it really over?" Ron checked her over. The welts had disappeared, but he thought she needed something else to calm her so he said, "Yeah. It's over KP." "Remind me again when your body started to develop." She gave him a playful slap and laughed. It was a laugh free of worry and fear and it was 100% Kim Possible. "Want to see?" he asked. "See what?" "Wade said at one time that all computer codes have a telltale signature or style and that by looking at the coding a person could tell you who wrote it. Well, if things worked right we should be able to see a drawing of whoever wrote all those codes that I just pulled off of you." With slight trepidation, she stepped over to the tub and pulled the shower curtain out of the way so they could both see the wall that Ron had been throwing the lines onto. There were two drawings there, both clear and precise. No mistake. Both Kim and Ron stood there shaking their heads, neither one willing to accept what and who they saw. "Ron?" "I know. It's just not ...... " He had started to say "possible," but he knew that would be like when you say, "it can't get any worse." It always does when you say that for some reason. "Something went wrong Ron. A mistake?" "No. If something had gone wrong, we would only see a mess of lines." "What are we going to do? If it had been someone else we could..." "First things first." Ron said. "I have to break this joining of our spirits. There's trouble in your room at the hospital. Then," and he paused a second or two, "I have at least one person I need to talk to, after I talk to Wade and let him know what we think we found." 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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 21:35:10 GMT -5
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Post by levi2000a on Mar 30, 2016 21:57:45 GMT -5
Chapter 8 Previously ;
Ann's smile waned as she said, "Shego, if you reach eight centimeters before this is over, I still have my cell phone and I will make that call."
"I'll try and think tiny thoughts then Doc."
Ann smiled at her and then looked back at her daughter and Ron; both looking like they were on fire with blue flames that engulfed their entire bodies.
Silently she said, "Please hurry, kids. Please hurry.
XXXXXXXXXXXXX Thirteen minutes later; Things were not going well. Seven minutes after Shego's first labor pain, her second one started and displayed an unforeseen problem. Shego's hands ignited and as the duration of the labor pain continued, her fire spread down past her wrists farther than it normally did. Fortunately, Lonnie had small knife/nail clippers in her purse and they were able to cut the sleeves off of Shego's terrycloth robe before they fully caught fire. The ends were singed and started to smoke before they were removed. They got lucky, that time. Ann checked Shego again finding that she was already past eight centimeters. As Ann got her cell phone out to call the hospital's maintenance staff, Shego pleaded, "No! Wait! I can control it. It just caught me by surprise. Really." "Shego, I'm sorry. I don't know why I let you talk me into waiting in the first place. I should have never put you or your baby's health in jeopardy. Even for my own daughter." Before she could open it to make that call, it rang. "Dr Possible." she answered. "Dr Possible, this is the hospital Security dispatch. We got a call from Dr. Carter concerning the patient in room 432. Would you.." "That's right Security." she said interrupting the dispatcher. "There's a problem with the door hardware and we can't get it open. Call maintenance and have them come up. They will probably have to pry the jamb apart to get it open. I have a woman going in labor and we need to get her down to a delivery room, stat. Her water has already broken." "I'll get maintenance on their way, Dr Possible." came the dispatcher's voice before she disconnected. As Ann closed her cell phone, Shego said, "Well, I hope your happ....." Looking at Shego, Ann saw the expression on her face. "Lonnie, time?" Lonnie looked at her watch and said "Five minutes since the last one, Ann." Shego then felt the pain that Ann had seen on her face. Her contractions were getting closer. Her hands lit up and Shego held them as far away from herself as she could. She tried to ignore her labor pain, and concentrate on turning down her plasma charged hands. It wasn't working. Hanna ran into the bathroom to get more damp towels to put over Shego to try to protect her body from the ignited plasma that was moving down her arms. Lonnie was trying to talk Shego through the pain, using the techniques she remembered from the Lamaze classes she helped teach at Temple. Ann was watching Shego. The first time, her green flames came down to just below her wrists. This time it was halfway down her forearms and still moving. Shego's forehead showed beads of sweat as she continued to try to ignore the pain and control her powers. Blisters started popping out on the tender part, insides of her elbow. '"Hanna, please hurry with those towels." Ann called at the bathroom, hoping the towels would protect the rest of Shego's arms. It was all she could think of. Then a man's hands appeared as if by magic. Grabbing Shego's wrists, her green flame flared for a moment and then disappeared entirely while the man's hands glowed a soft blue. The only thing the man said was, "Owww. Man that hurts." Shego looked up and saw the upside down face of Ron, wearing that silly smile of his that was more his than his own finger prints were. "Side Kick?" she asked. Ann saw the same thing right side up, with just a little hint of pain around his eyes. "Ron?' Anyone else and Ron would have corrected the "Side Kick," reference. Kim hadn't allowed anyone to refer to him that way since they graduated high school, but somehow, it sounded right coming from Shego. "Shego." he said. "Can't I leave you alone for more than a few minutes without you getting into some kind of trouble?" Realizing that the pain from her burns and from her labor were both gone, she asked, "What did you do?" Releasing her wrists and holding his hands out and open, he said, "Ahaaa, best way to explain it is you had kind of a feedback loop going on there. Your powers were complicating your labor and causing pain, the pain was activating your powers and so on, so I drained your powers for a while. They'll come back in six or eight hours." "So she'll be able to have a normal delivery?" Ann asked him before any other explanation could be asked for. "Mother Possible, nothing about Shego is normal, but yeah. It should go as normal as possible now." All three women plus Hanna, standing there with her arms full of damp towels, then asked at the same time, "What about Kim?" Ron pointed to her bed. There was Kim, holding her head up as far as she could, smiling at them. Her hands were still in the restraints but the fingers on her right hand wiggled, waving hello to everyone. "Who was going to kick whose butt Shego?" she then asked. Shego laughed and said. "I think who ever can get out of their bed first Princess." Ann, seeing how Ron was holding his hands asked, "Ron. What's wrong with you hands?" Pulling them away from her he said. "Nothing. I just need to do something first." At that moment, a muffled voice came from the other side of the door saying, "Dr, Possible? Maintenance is here and they are going to try and force the door open. It may take a few minutes though." "What's wrong with the door?" Ron asked trying to change the subject quickly." "Just some spot welding I did to the hinges and door lock to make sure you had some time with Kimmie and not have Dr. Ben Mental Casey butt in." said Shego with a sneer when she said "Dr." "Cool! Would you ask them to step away from the door for a minute please Mother Possible? he asked. After she asked them and they said they were clear, Ron walked over to it, his hands glowing a soft blue again, placed them flat against the door. A few seconds later, green sparks shot out from the places that Shego had welded tight. Ron then reached over and opened the door like nothing was wrong. "Had to discharge her power before I could touch anyone." he quickly explained, "Anybody got any hand cream?" he then asked after seeing that he had some blisters on his palms. Two of the OBYN staff came in with a gurney and started checking on Shego's condition and status as soon as Ron was out of the way. They were followed by three Security guards who were followed by Dr. Carter. The head of day shift Security was William Wilson, an older gentleman in his early fifties, and was dressed in a suit with a badge on his left breast pocket, rather than the regular Security uniform worn by the other two officers. His name was printed on the badge. Looking around in a quick glance as he entered the room, he didn't see the group of people that had threatened Dr. Carter's life as well as the well being of his patient. Looking closer he did see a young underage girl that probably shouldn't have been there, a young man that he recognized as Ron Stoppable from the summers Ron did volunteer work at this hospital and then later saving the world from the Lowardians, one green tinted pregnant woman getting ready to give birth and two women that appeared to be a little younger than himself. One he recognize as Dr Ann Possible. It was her that he walked up to and addressed. His threat assessment and evaluation took as long as it took him to take the two steps into the room and address Dr.Possible. "Dr. Possible," he asked in a very polite and confused voice. "I'm a little confused. Would you please explain to me what's going on here? I received a report that there was a group of people in here threatening a patient's safety and Dr Carter here, plus someone wanted by the police for questioning." "Ah, yes Sir." said Ron as he raised one hand that he had just finished rubbing the lotion on. "That would probably be me, Sir." William had actually thought about trying to fix his own daughter up with the boy at one time. He was intelligent, friendly, likeable and not too hard on the eyes. Everything that William would have liked in a son-in-law. The only thing that stopped him was the boy's loyalty to Dr Possible's daughter Kimberly. She was the main topic for the boy at anytime of the day. William figured he might as well try and move mountains instead of pulling young Ron away from Kim. "You don't need to ask them anything." came the voice of Dr Carter. "All you need to do, is do what I told you to do. Get all of these people out of this room, by force if necessary, and hold him," pointing to Ron. "for the police." William had never liked Dr. Carter. He thought the doctor was an asshole, jerk weed that loved to talk down to other people that he didn't feel were worthy of his time, making himself feel more important than he was. The only person that liked the Doctor was the Doctor himself, proving that he had poor taste in friends. Turning his back on Dr Carter, he again addressed Dr Possible and asked, "Doctor?" "Bill, the Doctor and I have a difference of opinion on taking care and insuring the well being of my daughter." Ann replied. Looking around and past Ann, William saw the patient, for the first time really since he didn't see the patient as a probable threat. There was Kim Possible, her hands in restraints fastened to the bedrails, smiling at him and wiggling the fingers on her right hand saying, "Hello Mr. Wilson." The first thought that went through William Wilson's mind, was an echo of Lonnie Stoppable comment earlier. "Putting his fist in Dr. Carter's face so hard that he would feel lucky that he was in a hospital right now." What he did was turn around to face Dr. Carter and say, "No one is going to do anything until I find out the truth about what is going on around here." Carter got right into William's face, started poking him in the chest with his finger and said, "Listen you damn "rent-a-cop," I'm her attending Doctor of record, and you will..." He was silenced by the sound of a baritone voice clearing its throat, coming from the doorway to the room. There stood a man of slightly below medium height with short salt and pepper hair, looking like he was in his mid fifties, wearing dark rim glasses. His name was Doctor Bert Stern, head of all resident doctors and chief administrator of the hospital. Moving into the room with his hands clasped in front of him he said in a monotone voice, "Thank you Dr Carter for your contribution to the Inter Departmental Relations Committee. I'm sure they will appreciate your gesture." Turning to William Wilson he said, "I'll handle things for now Bill and thank you for coming up here so quickly and helping keep a bad situation from getting worse. You and your people did a fine job, just like I always expect from your department." Moving so that he was now standing between Dr Carter and Dr Possible, he said, "Dr Possible, this really isn't your particular field or your area of expertise. Would you mind explaining, from your view point, what's going on and why I have to hear reports about problems in my own hospital?" Ann explained all that had happened concerning Kim since last evening as Dr Stern gave her his full attention. She included the Lab results from Kim's blood samples, lab results from the aspirin laced with drugs, a faxed copy of Dr Wade Load's analysis of the compressed data burst that came from Kim's computer while under the influence of those drugs, a faxed copy of the electromagnetic field that she had been exposed to and lastly she asked Dr Carter to replay the notes he had made during his examination and his final conclusions, totally dismissing the idea of an outside source being responsible for Kim's mental state. When it was Dr Carter's turn, Dr Stern gave him his full attention, as Dr Carter sited several references to well documented cases and conclusions along some of the same lines that this case had. But most only had one or two similarities and the other circumstances had no relevancy at all. In the end he pointed out that his finding were based on what his observations were and that Dr Possible was more inclined to trust in some light show with blue glowing hands that something one should expect from a voodoo witch doctor instead of treatment in a modern day hospital. When he was done, Dr Stern thought for about fifteen seconds before saying. "Dr Carter, are you aware that in this very room we have three of the four people that are accredited with saving this insignificant speck of dust floating in space that the human race calls home? Pretty extraordinary people, wouldn't you say? So if someone were to try and do them harm, they would have to go to some pretty extraordinary lengths and tactics to overcome them, similar to the tactics that Dr Possible given us proof of in her reports. Unless of course you wish to dispute any of them including those created by our own laboratories." "I think that this occasion calls for the dreaded second opinion."Dr. Stern went on to say. "I'll have another psychiatrist take a look at the evidence from both side and give their opinion. In the mean time, we will move the patient back under the care of the medical staff instead of the psychiatric staff and keep her under observation till we reach a conclusion." As Dr Carter was leaving the room, having been all but dismissed from the case, Dr Stern said, "Oh! One more thing Dr Carter. In reviewing you files I found that your yearly evaluation for this year is missing. I left a copy of it on your desk. Would you please fill it out so that we can compare how you believe you fit into the staffing needs of this hospital and where I believe you fit? It should only take you eight or ten hours to complete. Please have it on my desk by 7:00 AM tomorrow." After he had shuffled his way out of the room Dr Stern went over to check with his staff on Shego's condition. Her labor pains had backed off to about one every eight minutes and she was out of distress. Looking at her, he asked, "Didn't I see you and your husband at the Go City Temple last Saturday? I was up there for my grandson's Bar Mitzvah." "You probably did." she said. "My husband wants to start going again for the baby." "You can always come to the one here in Middleton too."he said as he saw they were now ready to move her. "Now these fine young men are going to move you downstairs after they move you on to the gurney. They will make you more comfortable and help get you ready for the big event. We'll take care of you and yours." In an uncommon moment, Shego said, "Thank you Dr. Stern." His reply was, "Please, call me Bert." Ann had moved over to talk with Kim while Dr. Stern talked with Shego. As soon as he was done, he opened his cell phone and called the police to try and cancel the call made by Dr Carter earlier. They thanked him and told him they had been talking their time since the report was against Ron Stoppable and made by Dr Carter. They had gotten a number of similar calls from Dr Carter before that ended up being nothing. When he was done, he turned to Lonnie Stoppable. She looked at him and said. "Well, that explains why we didn't see you at Temple last Saturday. A grandson's Bar Mitzvah is a big occasion. I hope he did you proud." "He did." Dr Stern replied. "And thank you Lonnie for that phone call. This could have gotten bad before we got her out of his hands and the answer is "no." It won't happen again. He was on probation but this ends it." Dr. Stern crouched down to look at Hanna on her own level and asked, "And when can I expect to see you at your Bat Mitzvah Hanna?" "I've still got three years to go Dr Bert." to which he gave her one of his seldom seen big smiles. He then stood up and after thanking Lonnie again moved over to talk with Kim and her mother. Ron was there too and said, "Thank you Dr. Bert." "Ronald. Dr Bert was fine when you were nine or ten years old. I think you've grown up enough to just call me Bert." Ron said he'd try to remember that as he made room for the Doctor to talk to the Possible women. "Well Kimberly, are you better now, no thanks to us here at the hospital?" he asked her. "I heard that Ron did some voodoo on you." "Oh, he did that a long time ago Doctor.. er ah Bert, but yeah. His voodoo did the trick. Now, can we please get me out of these restraints? My nose itches like crazy." she said. "Well, that's a problem." he said as he reached over and scratched her nose. "A Certified Psychiatrist did prescribe these and technically I need to find a certified one to release you from it." "I think I might be able to help you with that." said a female voice from the doorway. Looking up, they saw Dr. Betty Director/Barkin (Now married To Steve Barkin) Head of Global Justice enter the room with another man standing next to her. "Dr. Stern," she addressed him. "May I present Dr. Mindwell, a certified Psychiatrist, I believe his credentials are on still on file with this hospital." "Yes they are. Hello George. Still on sabbatical?" said Dr. Stern. "Another two years Bert. Then my hitch is up." Dr George Mindwell answered as the two men shook hands. "This shouldn't take too long. I am already familiar with the case and evidence." "I suppose if you told me what Global Justice is doing here so far as Miss Possible's case is concerned, you would have to kill me." said Dr. Stern as he shook hands with her. "Not at all." said Betty with a smile. "I'd have some else do it for me. Delegation of responsibility." "In that case, I'll leave you to your business. I do have a hospital to run. Doctors." he said bowing before he left the room. After he left Betty addressed Lonnie and Ann and said, "Mrs. Stoppable, Dr. Possible. You are already aware of most of the facts as are your spouses, concerning this case so any more information shouldn't matter. We do ask you to be discrete though in whom you share it with." She then held out a small package to Ron and said, "Mr. Stoppable. I was asked to delivery this to you." Ron took the package and opened it. Inside was his Kimmunicator. Activating it brought up Wade's image on the view screen. "Ron. How's Kim doing?" he asked. Moving it so it would catch her smiling face too, he said, "She doing fine Wade. I think we've got the problems licked." "Good as can be expected Wade." Kim added. "Except for an itchy nose." Wade had a puzzled look on his face at that comment but let it pass. He had some pretty good info to pass on to them. "Guys. I'll give you three guesses where I was able to trace those IP addresses to that hacked into Kim home computer as well as the original source for those special "aspirin," Kim had, and the first two guesses down count." "Well, let's see Wade." said Kim. "You've got Dr. Betty Barkin acting as your own special delivery girl so I think my guess would be." And then both Ron and Kim said together, "Global Justice!" "Got it on the first try." said Wade with a smile. "Betty." said Kim without any hint of a smile. "You've got some serious splaining to do." "Serious splaining!" added Ron. "Note." "Serious." "Face!" XXXXXXXXXXXX
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Post by levi2000a on Mar 30, 2016 22:31:24 GMT -5
Chapter 9 Author's note; Sorry if this chapter seems to bog down but some mundane things need to be dealt with.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX After glancing from Kim to Ron a couple of times, Betty said. "If you are expecting me to fall to my knees and beg your forgiveness for my actions, then you're both sadly mistaken." "I don't know how all of this is ties back to my organization, but I certainly intend to find out. We have already made all of our internet records so far as who sent what and when, minus content of course, to your Mr. Load." "Doctor Load." Wade corrected her, his voice coming from the kimunicator. "And since GJ had already sub contracted me to make improvements to their computer programming and the functions of your organization, I already have access to those records. My clearance certificates are on file. I have already started searching through the intra structure to find what terminal point the hacker used and their user code." A little flustered by the fact that he just showed her offer to be empty of anything that he didn't already have, Betty continued by saying, "Yes, Doctor Load. Thank you for pointing that out. IDs and their user codes will be supplied once you have narrowed down your search." Betty finished by saying. "I think that any further discussion should wait until either you find something further or Miss Possible has at least been released from her restraints. At that time, we can resume this conversation in a more appropriate location." "Meaning Global Justice headquarters?" asked Ron. "I don't think so." When Betty raised her eyebrow to question his statement, Ron continued by saying, "Right now GJ is a question mark so far as if they were involved, who was involved, how deep it goes and how many were involved and right now I really don't feel like Kim should walk into the lion's den before we check its teeth and claws." It didn't take the Director long to concede his point. "Very well. Do you have an alternate location in mind?" "As a matter of fact, I do, but I will need to talk to some people before then." he replied. "Very well. Please keep me informed then." she replied as she turned to leave. "Oh, Dr Director Barkin." Ron called stopping her and turning her around. "Do you or GJ know anything about a, "Contingency Plan Nine, Zero, Zero Mark Nine?" "No. It's not one of ours. We don't label them that way, but I will make some quite inquires to see if I can locate the source. And by the way, as a courtesy, I've sent some agents to pick up your father and Mr. Lipsky to have them transported here as soon as possible. They should both be here in less than fifteen minutes. A couple of agents will finish driving the vehicles here and park them next to the hovercraft. They will remain with them until you leave." she then turned and left but not before Ron could say "Thank you." "Kim, I'm going to go and talk to some folks. You're probably going to be tied up proving you're not crazy for a while." And he leaned in close for his next comment. "Of course I always thought you were a little crazy. Look who you have as a bfbf." She would have punched his shoulder if her hands were free so instead she said, "You mean my future husband? Yeah, but that's a good kind of crazy." He leaned over again and gave her a good kiss. As he was leaving, Kim's mother gave him a hug and thanked him again. Kim then asked Dr. Mindwell if she could have a few minutes with her mother and future mother-in-law. She want to apologize for what she' said when someone else was in control of her. Those didn't take too long. Love has a way to fill the gaps that hurt causes. Ron called Wade as soon as he left the room on his kimunicator. "Wade, I need to talk to some people here about something for a bit. Okay if I swing by your place to pick up that stuff I dropped off last night afterwards? I want to talk to you anyway." "Sure Ron. Monique's catching an early fight home after she heard Kim was in the hospital. She'll be getting in around five this afternoon, but I didn't tell her why she's in the hospital so don't be concerned about that. Anyway, what do you want to talk about?" "I'd rather talk to you face to face Wade. If someone can hack into a computer you set up, how hard would it be for them to monitor this call, or any cell phone call for that matter?" Ron answered. Wade thought for a moment and said, "Good point Ron. I do some checking on that. See you when you get here." "Ah, Wade. I hate to ask you, but are you sure they haven't gotten into your system?" The tired teen smiled and said. "Oh yeah. I'm sure. After I saw that they had gotten into Kim's, I put mine on a high alert status and ran a full scan. Any attempts to get into my system will now send a spike back to them, just like Team Impossible did to me. "Just asking Wade." Ron then said before he signed off. "Get some sleep before you pick Mo up. You almost look like I felt about an hour ago. And Mo wouldn't stop yelling at you till you got some sleep." Wade agreed to catch a quick nap and signed off. Taking the elevator down and after getting his bearings again, Ron went to delivery room area to check on Shego. Finding that she was already in a room, he went there and looked in. She was already in a birthing bed with a monitor across her stomach, her eyes closed. Knocking lightly on the doorway, she opened her eyes and softly said "Hey." "Hey." he replied. After about five seconds he said, "Didn't we have this conversation earlier?" She chuckled at that and said. "Sorry. My epidural just kicked in." "Are you okay Shego?" "Yeah. My pains are about every four minutes. They said they'd be back before the next one hit, so you still got a few. Everything okay up there?" "Yeah. GJ showed up after they took you out. Wade says they have something to do with this mess, but we can talk about that later. I just wanted to say, thank you for what you did up there." "No big as Kimmie would say." At that moment, a nurse walked in and glancing at Ron asked, "Are you the father?" His face started to turn red and Shego started chuckling at him at the idea. When the nurse flipped up Shego's gown for the Doctor to have access to catch the baby, his eyes started getting bigger and then his face totally turned the color of Kim's hair. Shego busted out laughing at seeing him so flustered. All the nurses and a doctor came into the room as she laughed right into her labor pain. It was hard to know if she was yelling after that because of the pain or his expression. The Doctor turned and addressed Ron, "Sir, if you're not the father, you really should leave now." Brought out of his trance, Ron stammered, "Yeah. I'll... just... leave... now.... sorry!" as he turned and tried to find his way out. Before he's gotten five feet, he ran into Drew Lipsky when they almost knocked each other down. Drew had already scrubbed and was dressed in a surgical gown. Before Drew could say anything, Ron pointed to the door and said, "She's in there!" Before he could get all the way out of the birthing area, he heard a slap and then a baby crying. Next thing he heard was, "Shego!"in a loud voice, and then in a much softer one, "It's a girl!" Figuring he should come back later, Ron took the keys to his mom's car that he'd gotten from her before leaving the room and drove over to Wade's house, after making sure he hadn't laid down for that nap yet. As he drove over, he was thinking that is was a good thing that he hadn't done anything stupid like throw all the picture of him and Kim and all the gifts she had given him away. That would have taken more explaining to do than Global Justice had to. As soon as he thought that, a question started forming in the back of his mind that just wouldn't come to the front. The half formed question haunted his mind even after he got to Wade's house. Wade met him at the door and took him back to "his," rooms, those that held all of his equipment and computers. "I've narrowed it down to one access point at Global Justice HQ, but there's a problem. Its source is a wifi router that covers one entire room, but only that room." "I don't understand then Wade. Just find out who's in that room and we're almost done." "It's not that simple Ron. It's a fairly big store room." "A store room? What do they store in there? Their paper clips." "No. All kinds of stuff. Here I printed off the most recent inventory of everything that's in there." Wade said as he handed a copy of the print out to Ron. "It's mostly evidence for cases but the main area of the room is taken up by equipment that they want to try and reverse engineer or study. I think some of it is just things that they don't know what it is and they hope to find out someday. Remember that final warehouse scene from "Raider's of the Lost Ark," where they crated it up and stacked in a vast warehouse of with other crates? That's the kind of store room we're talking about." "Well, what about a password, Wade. They'd need a password to get into the system, wouldn't they?" "The password belongs to an agent named Fenton Crackshell. He's a bean counter in charge of inventory. He probably goes in and uses a PDA to check off what's in there to enter it directly to their computer system. The only problem is, he's been missing for the last month and they haven't located him anywhere." Ron thought about it but couldn't come up with anything till he read the very bottom of the first page. "Wade, if this guy's been missing for the last month, who's taking the inventory?" "No one. They won't reassign his job till they find out what happened. Why?" "Well, according to this, the inventory was updated this morning at three AM." Wade double checked the time stamp on the updates and said "Crap! I am tired! I should have caught that." Wade then started typing like mad saying, "I'll go back in their records before Crackshell went missing and find the last inventory he did, after making sure that it hasn't been rewritten by seeing when it was last modified. We can then compare them and see if anything has been deleted off the list. Boy, do I feel stupid." "Stupid." thought Ron. Wade's, his father's and mother's request from last night jumped to the front part of his brain. "Don't do something stupid." "Wade, can I ask you a question and you have to be honest with me?" "Sure Ron, shoot." he replied as he continued typing and searching for what he wanted. "Last night, when I dropped off this box of stuff and before I went on my car drive, you asked me not to do something stupid. What did you mean by that?" Wade stopped typing and turned to his friend. He'd known Ron alost as long as he had Kim and he considered him a true friend. Hell, Ron had asked him to be the best man at his wedding, so he deserved an honest answer. "Ron." Wade started and tried to be careful about what he said, "There were times in your life when your self esteem wasn't that good. If at one of those times, had Kim broken up with you like she did last night, you might have tried to find a cliff and ah...." He let the sentence trail off knowing that Ron got the idea. Ron thought for a second and agreed with Wade. He might have done that. But when was that time? "Wade. I'm too close to it. When do you think those times might have been?" Wade thought about it and carefully said, "Probably from just before your Junior Prom in high school." remembering Ron's break down that was captured on camera at the Bueno Nacho. "Till you made the football team on your own, without Kim's super suit. Where's this going, Ron? I don't understand why you're bringing this up now." "Wade. if Kim had ..............finished doing what you prevented her from doing last night, both of us would have been crushed, devastated, but once we found out about the drugs in her system and everything else, we would have gone after them and I don't think that anything in the world would have stopped either of us from finding them and then dealing with them. What if they planned that I would have found that cliff you were talking about? That would have eliminated both of us and left you by yourself." A light came on in Wade's head as he then told Ron about the Fire Department having called him around five AM to tell him that house that he and his parents used to live in had just burned to the ground under suspicious circumstances. Wade hadn't told anyone about it since they all had other things on their minds. He had moved out the previous year to share this house with Monique and his parents had moved out shortly after the Lowardian invasion attempt to a condo that Wade had bought for them. "So whoever it was, was going for three kills, instead of one and two totally crushed people? That doesn't make sense Ron. Anyone that knows you or has read the papers would know that you've moved beyond that point in your life, just from what you've done since then." Ron smiled a knowing smile and asked Wade to do an internet search for the name, Ron Stoppable. He did it and was even more confused. Four entries were all he found on Ron. One was to announce his Bar Mitzvah, one each for his graduating from high school and one for college and one for the wedding announcement for him and Kim. When he looked back to Ron for an explanation, Ron told him, "Reporters. For some silly reason they could never get my name right. If you look it up, it was a Ron Stopapple that took care of the Lowardians. Don Stompable or Ron Dumpable was Kim's side kick. More people knew more about you and Rufus than me. On and on, they never got it right. Kim always tried to correct them, but they never listened. She even threatened to cancel all of her interviews unless they started getting it right. Didn't help. But that's not why I was there. I was there for Kim and then you. I later found out that them getting my name right didn't matter to me at all." "Ron. This wedding announcement does have your name right." "Yeah, Kim wrote it up and threatened the paper ten times so they would get it right. I think they got it right since it was going to become her married name." "What I'm getting at Ron, is that it appeared in the newspapers four months ago. This could have been what gave the bastards the idea on how to take us down. What I still don't understand is seven year gap in their knowledge about you. Even with the wrong names in the reports, they should have known better." "More food for thought Wade and we seem to be in an all-you-can-eat buffet. Normally I like that, but not this time. What I really want right now is your opinion on having a meeting with GJ and some other people to brain storm more of the what and how. I was thinking of holding the meeting at Drew Lipsky's." Wade gave him a questioning look and Ron continued. "Up there we should be able disconnect from any outside eavesdroppers. We can shut down his computer feeds entirely. All cell phone can be turned off so everything would be done the old fashioned way, with paper and pencils. The big thing would be that we would need you there too. For real. Monitoring to make sure that no one or nothing interferes or listens in." ''Monique will be home so no worries there. I'll get what I think I'll need and I'll be there. I may have a ton of paper work to lug in, but I'll be there." "Okay. I still have to talk to Drew about it, but I have a pretty good idea where I can find him. I'll call and say that "Rufus has a cold," if Drew okays the meeting." As Ron started to leave, Wade reminded him not to forget the box of things he left last night. Picking up the box of treasured items, gifts that Kim had given him over the years, he wondered briefly again if she had had to pitch the things that he had given her, when she was being controlled. He'd have to make sure that he got her somethings to replace them if she had. Before going back to the hospital, he dropped the box off in his room at his parents' home. He also picked up a small box that he'd been waiting for several months to give Kim, but the time hadn't been right, till now. Before he left, he set the picture of Kim and him back up that he'd laid down on its face last night. Had it only been last night? He also called the vet's office to check up on Rufus. The Vet at first thought that it had been an allergic reaction to the new food he'd been given, but she now thought that there might have been something else in it. Rufus was responding but slower than what they thought he would, but he should be fine come tomorrow. Right now he needed sleep and lots of it. Ron said he would call back tomorrow then. Upon his return to the hospital, he drove his mom's car up to the roof of the parking garage and parked her car next to his and the family's car; where it would be watched over by the agents that finished driving them here. Instead of going directly to Kim's room immediately, he went down to the gift shop and purchased a balloon saying "It's a Girl," flowers for Shego and a light blue teddy bear for the baby. Drew's skin had long ago lost its blue tint so this would just be a little reminder. Ron then went to Kim's room first, having his priorities set right. When he got there, he found a room full of people. Both sets of parents, her brothers, his sister, Doctor Mindwell plus Kim, who was sitting up in bed, now free of her restraints. Looking around, he saw the parents with bags under their eyes big enough to pack a week's worth of Nachos in. Hanna was curled up in the chair Shego had laid in and even the tweebs were yawning. The only one that didn't look exhausted was Dr. Mindwell and Kim. Enough. "Okay." he said to get their attention. "Everyone that is related to Kim or me, visiting hours are now over says old Doc Stoppable. There is nothing more you can do here now. You all look like characters from my Zombie Mayhem game. Go home folks. Get some rest and come back after dinner. Please." Kim backed him up. She had been trying to get them to do the same thing for the last hour. It was almost noon. Slowly they left after kissing her and promising to be back after six. "Man. The things I have to go through to get some quiet time with you." he said to Kim. Then to the Doctor he asked. "She going to be okay Doc? I mean, after we're married, will I need to lock up all the kitchen knives and hide the baseball bats?" "Oh, I can think of a couple of ways I can kill you after we're married Ron." Kim replied to his statement with a sly smile. "And I promise that you'll have a smile on your face that the mortician won't be able to get rid of." The Doctor chuckled and said, "She seems perfectly fine now. Even her kidney and liver functions seem to be undamaged. We need to keep her here overnight for observation, but we should be able to release her tomorrow. I don't know how you did it, but I'd sure like to find out." "Yeah." said Ron as he nervously rubbed the back of his neck and muttered, "You and the Director." More loudly he asked, "Would it be okay is she left the room to see a friend down in maternity? She just gave birth." "I don't see why not. Just let the nurses at the front desk know where you're going. I'll tell them while I finish filing this report. Good evening Miss Possible. Mr. Stoppable." He shook their hands and then he left the room. Once they were alone, Ron said, "With a smile on my face?" She smiled and invited him into a hug. "To bad you had to say "after," we were married." "Oh, I think that part is negotiable." And then after relaxing in his embrace, she said, "Between the rents and Wade, I think I'm up to speed. How's Rufus?" "He's okay. The Vet said he needed sleep, that's one medicine the little guy would take without any problem. I can pick him up tomorrow." "I'm glad." she answered. "There are lapses in my memory so it may have been my fault he got sick. I'm not sure." "I said he is going to be fine Kim. No one is holding you responsible for anything and anymore, I'm not totally sure who the little guy like most. You or me." "I ah." He started to say and stammered a little. "I got you something. Actually I got it for you a couple of months ago but with the way things were going I ah.." Handing her the small box she opened it. Inside was a necklace that had a rustic Star of David with a cross in the center made of silver. "I know it's not much considering all you've been through but I .." Before he could finish, she'd pulled him into a hug that almost had him gasping for air. He managed to stay quiet though as he felt her silently crying. It just felt good to know that she could be happy again. After she collected herself she said, "Put it on me please. I want to go down and see Drew's and Shego's baby and show them what my man gave me. My man that didn't give up on me." After he put it on her, he went to the nurse's station. While he was gone, Kim got out of bed and put on a robe and a pair of slipper that her father had gotten earlier. When Ron came back, she saw what he was pushing. Before she could say anything, he said, "Hey! The nurses said you had to use the wheel chair so if you want to see them and their baby, get in and don't complain." She almost floored him when she walked over, turned around and sat in the wheel chair and meekly said, "Yes Sir. So long as you're the one doing the pushing." And then with laughter in her voice, "And don't get to use to that "Yes Sir," stuff. At least outside of a hospital." When they went into Shego's room, she and Shego squealed like two young teenagers, they were both so happy to see the other. Shego looked tired but happy. Drew was smiling so hard it looked like his face was going to shatter. He never moved further than an arm's length away from her. The flowers and balloon were given and the next question was answered when the nurse brought in a little bundle wrapped in a baby's blanket and placed it in her mother's arms. Kim looked and saw a little perfectly shaped head with very dark hair looking back at her. Shego was trying to undo the snap on her top with one hand when she saw Kim's watering eyes looking at her baby. "Kim, would you like to hold her while I get myself ready?" Kim's eyes grew to the size of saucers with a smile almost as big as Drew's as she reached out and gently took the baby from her and held it. Ron started to ask Shego what she meant by "getting herself ready," when she pulled the snap loose and dropped the flap exposing her left breast. Ron turned and started to bolt out the doorway so fast that he ran into the doorjamb and almost broke his nose. "Ron, after the view you had of me earlier today, this should have been nothing." Shego chuckled as Kim handed the baby back to her so she could breast feed it. Kim turned to Ron and in a voice that sounded like it came from the Spanish Inquisition asked "What view is that Ron?" Thinking quickly Ron said, "Drew, would you step outside the room for a minute and give the ladies some privacy. I really need to talk to you about something." They both walked down the hall to a small waiting area where they could sit and talk. As they moved down the hall, Ron could hear Kim saying, "Ron Stoppable. Don't think I won't find out about this!" Ron spent some time and explained what had happened to Kim and what Wade had been able to trace so far. He then asked him about using the "lair/home" as a meeting place tomorrow and why. Drew agreed immediately and said it made good sense and there would be no problem. He'd just have to explain to Shego that he'd have to leave tomorrow at some point for the meeting. "So far so good." thought Ron. "Now for the big question." "Drew, do you know anything about a "Contingency Plan Nine, Zero, Zero Mark Nine?" Drew started to reply, "No Ronald, I've never heard of...." and then his face went pale as his voice trailed off. "Contingency Plan Nine, Zero, Zero Mark Nine." you say?" he repeated the question looking everywhere but at Ron. "Yeah. That's what Kim said to Shego when she first saw her. "Contingency Plan Nine, Zero, Zero Mark Nine is in effect." If possible Drew's face grew even paler. The surgical scar below his left eye stood out like a road sign now. It was left over from the plastic surgery to remove the big ugly scar that use to be there. Drew didn't want to scare the baby with it. Finally and with great hesitation he said. "I might know a part of it Ronald. I will need to check some paperwork I have back at my old lab to confirm it but I might. I'd rather wait till after that before I say anymore." Ron saw a man that looked like he was afraid of an old ghost that had came out of his past to haunt him. "Okay Drew. That works for me. Will you know by tomorrow's meeting?" "Yes. And maybe a few other things as well." "Then we will wait till tomorrow. Maybe we all will have gotten some sleep by then." Ron said trying to keep the mood light. "Yes." said Drew. "I hope so." Even though he knew that sleep would not be something that would come very easily now. He had a lot of things to do before tomorrow's meeting.
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What secret is Drew hiding from Ron? What are Shego and Kim talking about right now? What's the baby's name? What's your favorite color? Next chapter will answer some of these questions. Except the one about your favorite color. How would I know that?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 22:37:24 GMT -5
Shego and drew have a daughter. I hope to god she takes after her mom....
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Post by levi2000a on Mar 30, 2016 22:56:20 GMT -5
Thank you tennente for your kind words. This will be the last chapter I'll post tonight. I'll add more later. Chapter 10 Intro I know I said I'd reveal the who and how in this chapter but it's already the longest chapter written so far so I split it into two parts, an intro to the chapter and then the main part which I will post tomorrow night. Hopefully, it won't get to long and boring this way.
XXXXXXXXXXXX The meeting was setup for the following day at three in the afternoon. Ron had driven to Global Justice Headquarters and delivered a handwritten message to the Director herself about the where and when the meeting would take place. It also asked her to inform anyone that she wanted to bring along, in the same manner. When she gave him a silent but questioning look, he said, " Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that someone's not out to get Kim or me." When he returned to Kim's room from his errand to Global Justice HQ, Ron found that he wouldn't have to call Wade. He was there with Monique, visiting Kim, having stopped off after picking her up at the airport. They must have just gotten there because Kim had Wade in a big hug telling him how grateful she was for what he did for her last night. Ron slid in besides Monique and said to her with a twinkle in his eye. "You know, I think we're going to have to keep an eye on them. The only reason that Wade was able to save her was because he was peaking in on her when she was home in bed." Monique, quickly catching on, replied, "Oh yeah?" She said raising an eyebrow. "I didn't hear about that part. What do you think we should do about it Ron?" Wade started to blush and said. "Aw guys." "Well Mo, it all depends on several things. How long has he been doing it?" Wade was blushing even harder now as Ron continued with a smile on his face. "Does she know about it and has she been putting on shows for him and has he been recording them for later?" "You know Ron he does have several files under her name that are highly encrypted. He won't even let me see them." Wade was getting more flustered by the moment and said, "Guys. This is not funny! Those file only concern mission data. I would never do that kind of thing! I don't even think about Kim that way!" Kim wanted to say something but she knew if she opened her mouth she would burst out laughing. Monique then asked, "Then why is it that when we are right in the middle of making love, you want me to say, "So what's the sitch?" all the time?" Wade was so flustered by that point that he could no longer breathe let alone talk. And it was at this point that Kim could no longer hold it and she broke out laughing, followed by Ron. Monique slowly walked up to her man and gave him a hug till he calmed down and then kissed him. When she was done, she whispered in his ear, "And maybe I'll even wear that long redhead wig tonight." wanting to get one more taunt in on him. To Wade's credit, he did whisper back to her, "And the cheerleader's outfit?" which sent Monique into a fit of laughter. Ron then pulled Wade into a hug and said, "Seriously, you saved her life last night and this morning. I don't know how any of us can thank you enough." Wade said to Ron as he hugged him back, "Right back attache Nacho boy. You brought her back to us." Monique, standing by Kim's bedside, looked at Kim and said as she watched the two young men, "Girlfriend, should we be worried about them hugging like that?" "I don't think so Mo." Kim said trying to keep a serious face on. "So long as they don't start swapping spit." The rest of their visit went quietly. Monique filled Kim in on everything new at the fashion show and how things were going with her store and Wade. The prep work she was doing to get things ready for the wedding and the bachelorette party. Monique was in charge of the party since she was going to be the bride's maid. Ron filled Wade in on time and place of the meeting tomorrow and what he thinks they saw in Kim's mind so far as who was responsible. Wade said he had already talked to Drew and they had to share some info later after they'd left the hospital, but he didn't know anymore than that. Monique and Wade left just as both sets of parents showed up since it was starting to get crowded in the room. The parents only stayed for a short time since she was starting to show signs of wearing out. It was mostly for them to check up on her and to let her know that they cared. Both sets said they would stop by late tomorrow morning before noon. Dr Mindwell checked on her during this time. Before he left though, Ron asked him about prescribing any medication for Kim during the night. He said he hadn't planned on it and didn't really see any reason for it since she looked tired. Ron also asked and got permission to spend the night in her room. Ron looked at Kim after everybody had left. She had eaten all of her meal, after Ron double checked it. She told him he was being paranoid, but she let him check it anyway. They were both exhausted, neither one having gotten any real sleep the previous night. Ron jokingly said to her that the first night they really had a chance to be alone together in months and they were both too exhausted to do anything. That got a tired chuckle from her. He then suggested to her as he turned out the lights to go ahead and get some sleep. She reminded him that the chair turned into a bed and for him to get some to. She fell into a fitful sleep and sometime later during the night she woke up and found Ron sitting in a straight back chair that he had pulled up next to her bed, he was leaning forward with his head lying next to her hand. She started to run her fingers through his hair and smiled. Finally she softly said "Ron…why are you still up? You should be lying down." He looked at her and said. "Oh sorry KP didn't mean to wake you up." "You didn't wake me. I woke you." Kim replied. "And you didn't answer my question." "I was just ...you know, thinking..." "About what?" Kim asked. Ron shrugged. "Well you know...our wedding..." Her smile turned more serious than she meant. "Starting to get cold feet after our little head talk? Realizing what I meant about how shallow I can be?" He gave her an exasperated look and said, "No.....And I really wish you would forget about those things......I did. A long time ago." "I'm working on it Ron." she said as she continued brushing his hair. "Technically, you called the wedding off last night, and I know that wasn't really you that said it, so I was just thinking maybe I should ask you again, you know, just to re-confirm everything." "So Kimberly, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" he softly asked as he took her hand and kissed it. Her eyes took on a very serious and thoughtful look before she said, "......No....." She quickly moved her hand to cover his lips so she could finish as she stared into his big, brown and hurt eyes. "Ron, I don't think I would be doing you any honor by marrying you, but..... I know in my heart that I can't, and really don't want to live without you. So...... Ronald Adrian Stoppable, would you do me the honor of becoming my husband and the father of our children?" Half smiling and half crying, he took her hand, kissed it again and said. "Kim....It would be my honor; however you want to look at it." "Then," she said as she was also half crying. "I think you should now move up here and give your bide to be, a very much needed, hug and kiss." "It would be my honor." he said as he moved up onto the bed. Thirty minutes later he pulled away from her. She had been able go back to sleep. This time with a smile on her face. She slept comfortably for the rest of the night like that.
XXXXXXXXXXXX The next day Dr Mindwell agreed to release Kim at noon, but he insisted that they have follow-up meetings. At least three times a week for the first three weeks, then twice a week for the next two weeks then once a month for the next six months. He also gave her a few anti depressants/anti stress pills but only enough to last her till her next meeting. Ron asked him to write a prescription and they would fill it elsewhere. When asked about why, Ron said that last night while sat with her, twice he'd caught the nurses coming in to give her a sleeping pill within ten minutes of each other. It happened before and after their shift change. Looking at the computer, it showed that the previous shift had not given Kim the dosage when they had marked it as being having been given. It has been deleted and re-issued. A double dose of what was prescribed on the computer would have killed her. Wade had warned them that it looked like someone else had hacked their way into the hospital's computers before he had. Ron didn't want to take the chance that they had gotten into the pharmacy computers to change anything there. They drove her Sloth to the far West side of town, after picking up Rufus from the vets, to the 3rd Pharmacy they found and filled her prescription there. Then, taking the shortest route they could they headed up Highway 350. Kim let Ron drive because she wanted to test her nerves at a slower speed than they needed to go for this trip and she didn't want to take any medication till she was in a more relaxed setting, like home or Ron's house. They got there just as a Global Justice hover jet landed nearby. Director Betty Barkin and Agent Will Du got out and they met at the base of the hill leading up to Drew's lair/home. Agent Du was loaded down with several brief cases that looked like they were packed full. Betty carried a small attache case. "Need some help with those Agent Duh?" asked Ron. With his normal look of annoyed superiority, Agent Du started to say, "As a matter of fact, there are several more in the jet that need..." "Yeah, well, it sucks to be you." Ron replied and then added, "And Agent Possible here was just released from the hospital this morning so she can't help you, but.....if you ask me nicely I might help you. All you have to do is ask nicely." "I'll get them myself, thank you." was the top agent's reply. Kim held Ron back after the Director and Du started up the hill. "Why do you have to do that Ron? Goad him like that. I know they offered you a position with Global Justice when I was away at college, but ..." "Kim, you know why I turned them down. According to their oath, I would have to place any and all special abilities I have under the command of whoever is in charge of any operation or face possible incarceration for treason. That would include my Mystical Monkey Powers. I've spent a long time working on how and when I should use them with Sensei and he trusts me. I'm not about to put those powers and kinds of decisions in the hands of Dudley Du Wrong or any other person I don't know or trust. Besides, I countered their offer by either hiring us, Team Possible, as freelance operatives or adding a stipulation in the oath about my MMP not being something that they can order me to do and they turned me down on both counts." "Ron, I know all of this and you know I totally agree with you about everything. I just meant," and her face took on a mischievous, pouty look. "Do you have to rub their noses in it?" Ron pretended to think about it and replied, "Just Agent Du, and that's because of the way he treated us the first time we worked together. I find him so irk-able." Kim didn't even pause a second before she said, "Oh well, that's alright then. Come on, We don't want to be late for this meeting." She took his arm in her's and they walked up the hill to the door. Or what was left of the door rather. It had been a two inch steel door but it looked like it had been smashed in with a wrecking ball. Kim started to say something to Ron, but he just looked at her and said "Hanna was in a hurry." Kim gave him a knowing nod as they moved into the main room.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 15:33:17 GMT -5
Keep em coming...
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