She is Mine -- Ch. 2


Fic info and Update

Once more, I give credit for the idea to KS4U, a fantastic artist! I’ve stated before and I’ll state again, these characters are not mind; they are creations of their respected owners, Disney. For a quick update, I will try to get more of this story uploaded as soon as I can, but because of my work load at the moment, I don’t think I will be able to get installments as quickly as some may prefer. lol Also, keep in mind that I write this on my iPod, so if there are errors, that’s why.


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The breeze had begun to pick up throughout the day; wind rustled the leaves in the trees and birds tweeted happily as they flew around the park. Few people walked around Middleton Park in the late afternoon, as they were at home eating dinner with their families. One person, however, jogged along the concrete path of the park, alone.

Shego.

The thief jogged slowly, one foot after the other at an even pace. Her hair was tied up in a tight ponytail with a green scruchie. She wore a black running jacket and pants that made a gentle sound as wind brushed against the material. It was quiet.

Too quiet for Shego.

Her mind had the opportunity to go over her neglected thoughts; ones that she had pushed to the far regions of her mind where she had hoped not dwell on them again. They had nothing to do with possessions, Drakken, family; none of that. "Hopes and wishes don't come true..." She muttered.

No. It wasn't anything or anyone from her day to day life that she was thinking of. None of the normal problems that one would worry about in their life, such as nourishment, hygiene or even relationships-- or was it? It was nothing anyone could do anything about, except for one person.

Kimmie.

Why Shego continued to think of Kim now, even as she began her fifth lap around the park, running past a tree shaded with various hues of red and yellow, was an enigma. Shego picked up we speed, as if to run from her unwanted thoughts. It was a feeble attempt. Kim's face was plastered in her mind. Shego furrowed her brow in anger.

'Alright, fine!' Her mind yelled. She took a deep breath. 'I admit that I'm a little bored without Kim around... But what am I suppose to do about that? Nothing, that's what! All I can do is just find something else to occupy my time.'

As Shego rounded the tree once more, she slowed to catch a quick breath. She looked around her and a small, unknown smile crept onto her lips as a pair of birds flew next to each other. The robins seemed as though they were dancing with each other, delicate movements that create a beautiful motion in the space that surrounded them. Shego sighed as she looked away.

'And the green skinned thief with the power to shoot fire from her hands wins the loner of the year award.' Shego chuckle low to herself. 'Pathetic, aren't I?' She looked ahead of her; someone else had started to jog as well. 'Two more laps and that's it.' She thought to herself.

Shego picked up her feet and began the same slow jog she had started before. She watched as the other jogger came closer, running in the opposite direction. The features that Shego could make out were those of bright hair tied up as tightly as hers was and the gentle sway if feminine hips. She couldn't help but watch as the other person drew closer.

'Wait--'

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Kim got out of her car and looked at the scene before her; it was quiet and peaceful, the leaves on the trees were turning their various colors. This was exactly what she needed to clear her head before the test, not to mention a perfect way to think of something other than Ron. She took a deep breath of the fresh air just as a light breeze washed over her.

"Beautiful." Kim said quietly. She reached into the pocket of her blue running pants and pulled out a hair tie. She reached back to grab the collection of hair and she lifted it from her back, feeding it through the tie.

Kim looked around, seeing only one other runner on the path. With that, she took her first few steps of a relaxing run as she began to admire the scenery. 'Autumn... Seriously, it has to be the best season!' She continued to look around, but her eyes managed to fall back onto the other runner. It was difficult to make out the features of the woman's--as it so obviously was a woman by the way she moved--face but Kim rather admired the way that the dark hair also tied in a ponytail, trailed behind the figure. Kim swore that she could see a faded green aura surrounding the woman, but she passed it off as some sort of reflection of colors.

It was at this time when she began to run with no thought; her mind was blank and she just enjoyed the cool fresh air that waved passed. She would subtly look back at the woman who was only about twenty feet away now. Kim could see features on this woman's face and for a moment, she admired them, silently to herself.

It took a minute for the features to register in her mind as she felt the small wind created by the other runner pass by.

"Shego!!" Kim yelled in complete surprise, stopping dead in her tracks and falling into a defensive crouch. Shego looked up stopping as well, hearing the harsh tone in the voice behind her.

Shego turned around to face Kim, putting her hands in front of her in defense to keep Kim from attacking. "Fancy meeting you here. It's been a while, Princess..." The nickname rolled off of Shego's tongue like a gentle fluid.

Kim's cheeks flushed the slightest shade of pink at hearing the old pet na-- nickname. "You here to ruin my personal life, Shego?" Kim asked with a little malice in her voice.

Shego smirked at Kim as she took a step forward. "Now what would give you that idea, Pumpkin? The fact that I'm out in the open, not even bothering to hide my apperance?" Shego's grin grew at the look of embarrassment on Kim's face. 'Classic...' She thought.

Kim mimicked Shego's step forward, separating them by only a foot. "Then why are you here?" She demanded.

Shego scoffed at what seemed like a stupid question. "I can't get a little exercise once in a while?" Once more Kim flushed from embarrassment at her own idiocy. She furrowed her brow in irritation. "How cute; Kimmie's getting angry." Shego taunted the young woman with another devilish smile.

Kim snarled and she leapt at Shego, ready to punch her in the chest. Shego quickly reacted by grabbing Kim's wrist and throwing her in the other direction. In an old reflex from the past, she then lunged at the girl and pinned her to the cement path, holding her by the wrists.

Kim was panting, irritated and tired from exertion. She looked up into Shego's eyes which looked back at her, more in a state of admiration than in the usual mischievous way. Her heart rate began to increase; she could feel it. What was this feeling in the pit of her stomach that had plagued her since she realized that the woman was Shego?

Shego was panting as well, poised scant a few inches away from Kimmie. Her knee pressed in-between Kim's thighs. She was as confused as Kim. Shego did her best to mask this feeling with her signature smirk.

It wasn't working.

Silence filled the air for what seemed to be a good twenty minutes, though it was exponentially shorter. It was because of this silence that Kim felt the need to speak. "So you never really explained why you're here..." She didn't care if she seemed ridiculous at this point; she thought that the silence would kill her.

Shego was shaken out of her daze by the soft tone of Kim's voice. That was when she realized the position the two were in. She growled low in the back of her throat as she moved her hands to release Kim and slowly stood. "Like I said, I needed the exercise. Haven't had a decent workout since Drakken's last absurd plan." Kim sat up and had a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. She stood and Shego seemed a little dumbfounded.

"What?" Kim asked, still smiling.

"You're smiling... And talking with me." Shego looked at her as if she were nuts.

Kim just smiled again. "Haven't had a civil conversation with you since the Ms. Go incident... I guess I missed it." She paused as she thought on Shego's answer and then said, "That still doesn't explain why you're in Middleton Park, though."

Shego crossed her arms and shifted her weight, not amused. "You expect me to tell you all about my personal life?" The truth was that she didn't really know why; Drakken's place was closer to Upperton than Middleton. There was no reason for her to be here.

"No, of course not but--" Shego cut Kim off rather abruptly.

"Whatever, Kimmie." Shego let a chuckle escape her lips as she smirked and turned to jog back to her black Subaru Legacy; not a fancy car, but one she loved, nonetheless. For a moment she paused and looked back at Kim. "Who knows. Maybe I'll be here tomorrow evening..." With a seductive smile, the raven haired woman raised her arm into the arm as a casual wave good-bye before she took off on a steady jog and slid into the diver seat of her car.

Kim still stood in the middle of the path.  She watched as Shego drove off. Those last words echoed in her mind. 'Tomorrow evening...' Kim thought. 'Should I...?'

Her watch began to beep loudly and she jerked her head away from the distance where Shego's car had disappeared.

"Crap! I'm going to be late!" Kim yelled as she began to run back to her car.  

Even though she should have been focusing on the test, Kim couldn't help but keep smiling. She had missed the old conversations with Ms. Go.

'Who knows...' She thought wondering what she even meant by her own thoughts.

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" 'Maybe I'll be here tomorrow evening!?' God damn it! What the hell is wrong with me!?" Shego screamed as drove down a barren highway on her way back to the lair. "Do I really miss Kimm--" She stopped. The speed of her car dropped dramatically as she began to think on her words.

"What is wrong with me...?" She restated. "I don't miss Kimmie...” Shego mused on this in the silence of her car. The engine hummed softly in the background of her thoughts and she just drove, thinking on what she said. There was a trail being left by her thoughts; first of Kim, then of what the redhead had said earlier:

" 'I haven't had a civil conversation with you since the Ms. Go incident... I guess I missed it...' "

The tone of her voice had been soft. No anger, no frustration, taunting, sarcasm... Shego began to think of her relationship with Kim that had evolved from the run-in with Electronique. It was normal. Nothing special as it seemed to be just to friends getting together after school or a student wanting to talk with a teacher after school for extra help. Even so, Shego remembered how strange it had been. They never fought. They never quarreled. They never once brought up scars of the past until the time came to save her brothers.

Shego pulled up to a parking spot in the basement parking lot of the large lair disguised as a corporate building in the middle of Upperton City. She walked into the elevator, not bothering to acknowledge the presence of anyone else in the small room. She walked past everyone in a daze, her face contorted in confusion.

She remembered something she had said just before she was hit with the attitudinator:

" 'Yeah, Kimmie, I couldn't tell you this when I was evil, but--' And searing pain ripped through the woman's mind. The agony was such that she threw her head forward and held her head with her claws. 'Shego?' Kim asked. Shego looked up at Kim and growled angrily...' "

Shego stood in front of her door, now, holding her hand a few centimeters above the palm reading device. Identity Confirmed-- Welcome back, Shego. The computerized voice echoed around her. The door opened horizontally with its usual hiss and the woman entered.

She still thought of those last words as she sunk into her arm chair, relaxing and watching as the sun began to set behind the large city before her and the vast mountains and valleys which lay far beyond. It bothered that she had spoken those words.

" 'I couldn't tell you this when I was evil, but--' "

What was she going to tell Kim? Why couldn't she, for the life of her, remember? She sighed in her frustration. "And I thought fighting her was hard..." Her words were pained. "There's got to be something that would jog my memor--" Shego stopped; there was. Quickly she reached into her back pocket and pulled out her wallet. She opened it rather quickly causing loose cards to fly from their places. She dug through her images, scanning the various pictures that were protected by plastic covers. She was rather surprised to find that there actually were a large number of photos, though most of them were old clippings of her when she first became a villain.

Even so, memory lane did not distract Shego from finding what she needed. Gently, she removed the picture from its sheath, he burnt corner telling much about her, but the picture itself speaking so much more; it was the last image of her and Kim from the photo booth back when she was Ms. Go. Shego was still, quiet, immobile... She yearned to know why she had felt the need to rescue the picture from being burnt to nothing but cinders. She needed to know what it meant. She knew everything was connected; her thoughts, her desires, her emotions.

But she knew all along.

"Oh god... Jesus Christ, NO!" Shego yelled and her hand shook slightly as realization hit her like a metric ton of bricks. She shook her head, snarling to try and keep herself composed, though she still shook. "I would never have said that to Kim! EVER!" She yelled again, denial striking her and becoming a weakness in her shield. Shego raised her arm, ready to light her hand and burn the picture to throw it across the room. She fought so hard, she struggled with everything she had, but she could not bring herself to burn the photo.

"What is wrong with me...?" She muttered quietly. She lowerd her head and buried it in her hands. Her fingers still clutched the picture tightly. "No fucking way..."

Two birds sat outside the window, quietly and at least a foot away from each other. The sun was so close to the horizon that made everything glow with a heavenly orange.

"What the hell… is wrong with me...?"

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To be continued in Ch. 3