Disclaimer: Disney owns all characters named in this story. Lyrics from the song, "Chasing Cars" from the album OPEN EYES, by Snow Patrol, A&M Records, 2006.
The part of Shego is played by Shego, taken from the story KP All Grown UP! Written by AERO TENDO. Thanks for your help and your insight into Shego's character. Also the names of the children are from his stories.
The only thing I own is the thought behind the story, and the love of my family.
I was sitting here last night, reading all the Deathfics posted. How many ways can Kim and Ron die? Between wiping away tears and chugging a large diet soda, I had to stop and take a quick break. Someone had the radio on and I heard this song from Snow Patrol and the story just hit me.
Originally this was just a 1 page songfic, but started to take on a life of its own as I wrote it.
Enjoy.
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Just forget the World…
Mission:
8 years after the Junior Prom.
The team cautiously crept up to the well-known secret lab. Ninja mode of course, as they were aware of a problem, but not who was the cause of it.
Tim stops and looks around, "Are we missing something?"
Jim also stops and wonders aloud, "Where are the henchmen?"
Ron, at the lead point, squats down and says, "This is too easy, almost trapish."
Jim and Tim speak in unison "That's not a word."
Ron looks at both of them, "Yeah, I remember your sister saying that."
Looking across the small clearing and then up the concrete steps, Ron sees the cause of the alarm.
Francis 'Frugal' Lucre was covering the glass doors with some kind of gray foam from a spray can. After coating them in the thick foam, he opened a paper Smarty Mart bag and pulled out two bottles. He started pouring some liquid from the bottles onto the door locks.
The boys stood up and walked quietly to the edge of the clearing surrounding the lab doors.
"Francis," yelled Ron, "What are you doing? Get away from the doors."
"NO," yelled Frugal, "Do you know how much I have spent on all these items? A few more hours of the acid and I will be through these doors and onto victory."
"But you have already been caught. Give up now." said Ron, slowly walking up to Lucre. "I am sure you can return the unused portions for a refund."
Frugal stomps his foot, "No, the foam is weather sealant from Smarty Mart, clearance priced, sold as is, no refunds, and the acid is just commercial drain cleaners I found in the dumpster."
Jim and Tim, behind Ron, turn back to the plane, and walk away shaking their heads, let Ron handle this one by himself.
Ron walked up with the Global Justice issued handcuffs. "What could you possibly need the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer for? You have never made anything resembling a true weapon?"
Flight Home:
"He was going to sell it to the highest bidder on EBAY." Laughing hard, Tim and Jim sat in the cargo area, with Wade on the Kimunicator propped up on a crate. The true thefts, and the numerous attempted thefts, of the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer are becoming a running gag. Who hasn't stolen or tried to steal the damn thing? Who's next, Mother Lipsky? "OH DREWBIE, look what Mother picked up for you?"
Laughing louder, speaking of running gags, what about Global Justice agent, Will Du, what is his purpose in life? Shows up to the mission late, Lucre is already in custody. Du comes running up with his weapon drawn, and then slips in the window foam, falls down, knocks himself out and has to be evacuated by helo to a medical facility.
"Ron", says Wade, "How are Kim and the twins?"
"Tired, twin babies have been a strain on her. I try to watch them as much as I can, give her some free time. The in-laws help out and we will probably get a nanny, so Kim can go back to her job with the Middleton DA's office."
Ron goes quiet and drifts off to thoughts of his home. You are a lucky man, Ron Stoppable, married to the most beautiful woman in the world, father to beautiful twin girls, and a job that lets you still go on missions, although not as many as when it was just you and Kim.
Tim turns on his mini laptop and puts a memory stick in the reader. Music starts to play, Snow Patrol, from their album EYES OPEN.
We'll do it all,
Everything,
on our own.
If I just lay here,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I know the downtime bothers Kim, she was never one for just sitting around. It is the Blue Fox in her. But we agreed no more missions because of the twins. They need her more than TEAM POSSIBLE needs her and we also agreed, they have become her greatest mission. Still I know she would jump at a chance to go out, one last time.
Still, TEAM POSSIBLE is running strong. Jim and Tim, tweebs no longer, have grown into fine young men of action and intelligence. The introduction of Tara and cousin Joss, after college graduation, spreads the work load better among the team. Yori and Hirotaka now handle missions in the Far East. Even Wade has Olivia to back him up, allowing more time for his research.
I miss her. Can't this plane go any faster?
Home:
Very late at night, the house is quiet. The twins are asleep, at the same time! Kim has crashed on the couch. She wanted to wait up but was just too worn out from the twins.
Sleep my loving wife, dream good dreams and know that I love you.
That song from the cargo plane is in his head…
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would lie with me and just forget the world?
PLOP, goes the left boot, onto the floor. Ouch, that was louder than I wanted. But man that feels good, my feet are killing me. Ron settles back into the recliner and looks back at Kim, hope the noise didn't wake her. Now to remove the right boot, only slower and quieter. Plop, only this time Kim stirs and stretches a little.
He starts to stretch himself, swinging his arms overhead and wriggling his toes at the same time. The house is so quiet right now.
Ron lays his head back, closes his eyes and listens to the music in his head.
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
From Pre-K to Junior Prom at Middleton High, he didn't know how to tell her. Tell her that he was in love from the minute he heard her say, "You're weird, but I like you…Will you be my friend?" She had gorgeous red hair in two ponytails, and emerald green eyes, and a smile that would brighten up any situation. Of course, her saving him from the school yard bullies, after he tried to protect her from them as well, didn't hurt either. All the years together and he never told her that she held is heart in her soft hands. The summer at Camp Wannaweep, missing her so much, makes him feel sad, even now, years later. Then they set up her new website, KIM POSSIBLE, SHE CAN DO ANYTHING, and then the missions started. Sidekick, distraction, and buffoon, whatever she needed, he always played the part of best friend, but always wanting to take the next step.
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
Ron's eyes open slightly and he looked at his wife, I love you Kimberly Anne, but this is more than love, this is a need, a want, a fulfilling of my life. Do you remember the time we were tied up a Bueno Nacho HQ? I know you remember the words I said to you, when you asked if there would ever be someone out there for you to love?
"…Out there, in here…"
I had been dying to tell you how I felt, thru the Josh Mankey infatuation, and then Dr. Drakken fools you with Eric, the damn near perfect synthodrone.
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Kim turns over on the couch, snuggling into the pillows. Ron gets up and walks over to her and covers her with a blanket... Please don't let her wake up, Lord, she really needs her sleep.
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
But rest isn't all she needs, even the occasional 'Ron Night' just isn't the same or enough. Kim Possible-Stoppable, Alpha Female, Blue Fox, former teenage World Saving Hero, is now bored.
Let's waste time
Chasing Cars
Around our heads
Chasing Cars? Hmm, Kim needs a break from her routine, and she needs one now. But can I know which one will be safest, you never know what the next freak you fight will do?
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Ron gets up again and turns to the old piano, humming the tune he hears in his head. He sits down and starts to play the last pieces of the song, singing the ending refrain. Who would have thought that the MMP, Mystical Monkey Power, also gave him MMPP, Mystical Monkey Piano Power?
A sweet, sleepy voice calls out to him, "Oh Ron, honey, you haven't sung to me in years," Kim is now awake and sitting up on the couch. Suddenly the voice takes on a bit of an edge, "But if you wake up the twins, I will kill you!" Kim reaches her soft, delicate hands out to him, her voice soft again. "How was the mission?"
Ron turns to her and takes her small hands into his large ones, helping her to standup. Wrapping her in his arms and staring into those emerald eyes, he says, "No Big, Frugal Lucre, I could have stayed home and sent in the twins."
"Don't even think about it!" hisses Kim. She looks, with love, into his beautiful brown eyes, "Was there any fighting, henchmen, or any new weapons?"
"No, Frugal Lucre remember?" This one she could have handled. Ron starts to twirl Kimberly around in a slow close dance, continuing to hum the music he hears. Kim closes her eyes and nestles her head into her husbands' chest, and Ron hears a soft sigh.
How can I say I support you, KP? How can I call myself your BFSpouse? How can I say I LOVE YOU, and yet not give you everything you need and something you clearly are missing in your life?
A mission, Kim needs a mission. But how to tell which one?
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
Stoppable, you are one lucky dude. You have friends and allies all over the world, favors that are owed TEAM POSSIBLE from years ago. Time to collect!
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would lie with me and just forget the world?
Kim, my love and my life, tomorrow we start OPERATION: CHASING CARS.
Ron stops dancing with Kim, and leads her back to their bedroom, holding her and kissing the top of her head.
He placed her into bed and covers her up, and then steps back to take in the whole vision of his spouse and best friend.
Sleep well my love, the Ron Man has got your back again.
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My first fanfic. Please review and be merciful.
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