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Author's Note: Look! I've finally written the fourth chapter! Yay! Sorry to all of those I have kept waiting. If you want to yell at me, send a review!

CONFUSING HALLOWEEN

Chapter Four

"Hey there, Kimmie." Kim lifted her heavy head from the protection of her arms and gasped when she saw who was casually leaning against a tree and speaking in a soothing voice.

"Shego, what are you doing here?" Kim turned her head away, desperately trying to be discrete about wiping her tears away. If she had known Shego would have been here she would have just gone home. Then again, maybe this was Kim's chance to take back what she said?

"I just wandered over here to get away from the police."

"Oh…" Kim was half hoping that Shego just wanted to make sure she was ok or something. Of course, this is Shego, isn't it? She would never go out of her way to cheer someone up. It just wasn't part of who she was and Kim needed to learn that. "Well, I guess I should get up and stop you from doing whatever you were doing…" Kim groaned as she stretched out and moved as if to get onto her feet. Suddenly Shego was standing in front of her, blocking Kim's ascend. Her arms were crossed and she was eyeing the obviously tired Kim Possible up and down. At last, she sighed and stopped searching Kim so frantically.

"Do you love me or did you just say it?" Her face showed no emotion. It was her poker face, her face used when standing in a police line-up or when lying to a lie detector (and usually succeeding).

"What?" This couldn't be for real. Was Shego actually giving Kim a second chance? More importantly, could Shego spot an obvious lie? "No."

"No what? No you didn't mean it or no you didn't just say it?"

"I didn't mean it." Kim was thankful the moon had been covered up by dark, misty clouds or else Shego might have seen the gleam of Moon light being reflected in the tears that started pouring down Kim's face again. As Kim fixed her gaze behind Shego's head and onto the dull sky that seemed light when compared to the darkness of Shego's hair, she felt as though she had somehow become a cloud. Yes, the mist from those three damn words she had unleashed upon the world just a few hours ago had formed into a weak, poorly built cloud that was now dripping its sorrow and watering the trees.

"Are you sure you didn't mean it, Kim?" Shego had extremely good night vision. Hell, she stole for a living. Night vision helped get her out of so many sticky situations and now it helped her see Kim's true feelings. She watched Kim close her eyes and lean her head back against the rough bark of the tree just as she had watched Kim's eyes overflow when she said she "didn't mean it" through clenched teeth.

"I didn't…" Kim swallowed her words against her will. It seemed as though even her body didn't want her to lie again. Unfortunately, Kim knew she should lie once more if she ever wanted to be held in those strong, graceful arms ever again. As Kim was trying to get herself together and trying to fight off tears and thoughts of Shego's soft, luscious lips, she heard Shego kneel down beside her. She turned and opened her eyes to find Shego's face only inches from hers and suddenly full of emotion. "Shego, I didn't mean…"

"Hush," Shego placed a smooth hand over Kim's trembling mouth and watched the teen close her eyes in emotional pain once more when she heard the beginning of what Shego had to say. "You did mean it. I know you did. No, wait…" she cupped Kim's face and turned it back to her own. Her heart was racing as she stared into Kim's hopeful eyes and tried to muster the strength to admit for the first time in her life that she loved someone; Kim.

"Kim," Shego stopped once more and growled at herself in frustration. Not knowing how else to convey her exact feelings, she guided Kim's lips to meet her own in a yielding, lovable kiss of the kind they had never really shared before. All of the previous kisses they had shared had been only passionate or lusty, most likely because they had been afraid to show true affection for one another. Granted, this kiss was still passionate and lusty but both of the girls who were engaging in it could detect a distinct shift in the way they were bonded although neither could quite tell what it was. It wasn't until they came up for air and looked into each other's open eyes that they could tell what the change was. For the first time, they had let down their guards. Kim was no longer standing on a pedestal of justice, high above everyone else so she could see things clearly. Shego no longer had barbed wire hanging over each one of her words, her eyes had no more daggers to shoot and she wasn't hiding behind a barrier of steely ice.

"Kim…" Shego wasn't sure if she was actually capable of saying the words she was feeling. That is, she wasn't sure until she felt the warmth of Kim's delicate hands running through her hair and caressing her neck.

"Shego…?" Kim leaned in and trailed brief kisses along Shego's jaw line until Shego cupped her chin once more and brought their eyes to the same level.

"I love you." She said those words with so much honesty and determination that all Kim could do was sigh with relief, letting out the breath that was filled with all of her worries and doubts and watch as it disappeared into a sky that had just been lit by the soft glow of the moon.

THE END