Kim Possible: A Monkey's Tail

Chapter 11: Monkey Got Your Tongue?

Ron panted, spent, hopeful that this was the end of the pain, and glad that it had been him, not Kim, who had to deal with it. He had felt Kim try to pull away from him, and knew that the screams had startled her monkey self. The teen began stroking her hair again, talking to her softly, and she settled down; he looked down into her face, and noticed that her eyes had begun glowing a light green.

Her face slowly shifted, adjusting, as she began the transformation back to human; she started making a chittering, almost frightened noise as the changes began. First her muzzle receded, and her lips and mouth were reshaped. He watched as her features became more natural, more like his best friend, and less like a monkey. Her eyes, once dull and unfocused, slowly lit up, and he nearly shouted out loud as he watched her blink, once, then twice, focusing on his face.

The chittering noise she was making escalated into a near screech. "-iiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee-rooooooooooooooonnnnnnnn." She worked her mouth, twice, then spoke. "Ron...RON!" Kim's face had slowly taken on the look of the first stages of the transformation-orange fur, with highlights on the side, she didn't quite look human, but she was starting to return to her normal form. She clutched him, tightly, finally in control of herself.

She looked at her best friend, and realized that he had tears in his eyes; as she reached up to her own face, she felt her own tears. "Ron, I'm back..." She looked at him, as the changes continued. She watched in surprise as his own face began changing, and blond fur began sprouting on his face, slowly covering him. She pulled back in shock.

"Ron, No!" She pushed back against him, away, doing everything she could to break his grip on her. If she could break the contact, she could stop this, prevent him from changing. She would gladly spend the rest of her life like this, covered in fur, half-monkey, as long as he was still there with her, too. "Darn it, Ron, you've done enough! Let me go!"

"Not...yet...KP." He held on tightly against her struggles, knowing that if he gave her the slightest chance, she would break away. "Not until you're back to normal."

"I'm normal enough!" She started hitting him in the chest with her free hand. "I don't want you to do this!" The fur crept up his face, and met his hair line, until it was impossible to tell where one ended and the other began. "You don't have to do this!"

"Yes I do, KP, you know that. You know I'll do anything to get you back...even if it costs me everything." His face and mouth reformed, until he could no longer speak. As Kim felt the last of the fur leave her face, she watched as Ron's loving chocolate eyes slowly dimmed, until he no longer recognized her. Kim whimpered, pulling Ron close, as the blue glow faded and they both fell to their knees.

"Ron? Ron?" She looked at the figure before her, hoping for some sort of recognition, in the eyes, or a gesture, something that would let her know that Ron was still in there, but she got nothing. The teen reached out, to rub her hands through his fur, and the monkey gave her a quizzical look, wondering what she was doing. Kim whispered softly to the monkey, and placed her hand on the side of his face. Ron reached up to grasp her hand, but Kim knew that he was just reacting to the touch. Her best friend was gone, buried deep within the monkey in front of her.

"Ron, I know that you're in there...I know that you can hear me, just like I could hear you. Everything you said, everything you...you feel, about me, I heard it all, when you thought I couldn't." She felt the monkey under her tense up, and knew that he was reacting to Ron's anxiety. "Shh, no, no, it's okay, I understand, it's nothing to feel bad about. Ron, it was probably the only thing that kept me sane, knowing that you were here, still thinking of me, trying to do anything you could to help me. And I'm going to do the same thing for you, no matter how long it takes, until you're back to normal too."

She sighed, lowering her voice even further. "And Ron, as for the other things that you've discussed, about how you feel about me...well, I've had a lot of time to think..." She gave a small smile, and the monkey seemed to perk up, too. "I...I think that I feel the same way. I've never thought about it before, you've always just been 'Ron' to me-my best friend, the one person I could be totally honest to about anything. But now I find out that you haven't been honest with me." She continued to slowly stroke his fur.

"How long? How long have you looked at me, saw me as your best friend, but always wondered if we could be something more? Ron, you said more than once that I was your best friend, that you had my back, and that you would do anything to help me, just like I would for you...but after you said those things, you starting saying different things, about how you missed my smile, how you wanted to look into my eyes again." She leaned forward, putting her eyes as close to his as she could, giving him the chance.

"Ron, this is all something that you could say about a best friend, but there's more, isn't there? You told Felix you couldn't imagine living without me. But that's not because I'm just your best friend, but because you...you love me, don't you?" She felt him tense up again, and kept talking. "Only...only after the last couple of days have I really noticed it."

She stroked his fur again. "You took me out to movies, to the mall, all out and around Middleton, just like we were going out like normal. You talked to me, just like I was actually there, that I could actually hear you. And I could, Ron, I could hear every word-sometimes even more than you knew. After we left that last movie, Bonnie...she said that you were taking me around, to all these different things...she said that you were dating a monkey. And that got me thinking..."

"Ron, you and I, together all that time, everything that we would do-it was like we were dating, wasn't it? And I enjoyed it so much, and the only thing that could have made it better is if we...if I had just realized what we had. Ron, we've been dating for years! And now, now that I've finally got it figure out, finally realized that I don't care about all those other guys, you go even one step further. You've proven to me that there is no one, anywhere, quite like you-you've shown me that over everything, your heart is always in the right place. And now...now you are..."

Ron's eyes had softened, and his face had turned up towards her, totally captured by her words. "All I know is this, whether you're a monkey forever, or we can change you back, I want you, Ron Stoppable, to be my boyfriend, and my everything." She leaned in to kiss the monkey-to kiss Ron.

Almost unnoticed, her brothers reacted at her actions.

"Oh, man, that's gorchy. She's kissing a monkey." Tim turned his head away from them.

"I know." Jim had covered his face with one hand, and was reaching blindly with the other. "Where's the camera-this is great footage."

Kim reached both hands up to the sides of Ron's face, and to her surprise felt a slight tingling as she touched the fur on his head. She felt the fur under her hands ripple, and she opened her eyes wide in surprise. To her complete and total shock, she watched as Ron's face seemed to shift in her hands, adjusting, transforming, and his eyes solidified to a solid, warm, chocolate brown. His mouth and muzzle flattened, until she realized that she was kissing a normal set of lips. Kim felt Ron's hands, once trailing by his sides, reach up to cup her face, and she felt skin on skin contact. She closed her eyes, letting herself melt into the kiss.

Finally, she broke it off, and opened her eyes almost hesitantly. A blond haired, brown eyed, normal looking Ron grinned back at her. A slowly dieing blue glow surrounded him, but that didn't bother Kim in the least. She threw herself against him, and they both went tumbling to the floor. Kim kissed him again, then pulled back, her green eyes looking inquisitively to his. "Ron? It's really you?"

"Yep, KP, I'm back." He grinned widely, then hesitated. "All that you said..you didn't just say that because you though I would be a monkey forever, did you?"

She leaned in against his chest, hugging him tightly. "Of course I did, silly, but that doesn't mean any of it wasn't true." She brought her head up again, her eyes brimming with tears. "After that, I know that you love me, Ron, and I...I l love you, too." She leaned down and kissed him again, and she felt Ron's arms wrap around her waist this time. She knew that no matter the difficulties they may face in the future, together, they could handle anything.

There! That's it, the end, the show is over. Did you like it? I hope you didn't think that it ended abruptly. You did? Well, I guess I might have a little more to add.

EPILOGUE : A Risk Worth Taking

BEEP.

"Mmmph."

BEEP.

"Hmmmph...Kim."

BEEP.

"Mmm...hmm...mmmph. KP!" Ron brought his hands up and grabbed Kim's arms, slowly pushing her back until she was just at arms reach. She protested, her eyes half closed, enjoying their new past time. Since they had both realized how they felt about each other, they had taken the next logical step into officially dating-and that had led to a number of makeout sessions since their start of their new, extended relationship. They had already been together for almost a week now, and the kissing was still exciting.

Kim frowned at her best friend-now boyfriend!-and grabbed his own hands with hers. "Come on, Ron, why are you stopping?"

BEEP.

Ron grinned sheepishly as Kim's tweaked face turned from him to look just past him. "That's why. I heard something beeping."

With a growl, Kim slid off Ron's lap, and stood up off the couch. They were at her house, just a few minutes after they had gotten out of school for the day. Her parents were still at work, and wouldn't be home for another hour, so the two had felt comfortable doing a little making out. Her twin brothers had gotten home soon after the older teens had, and had gone up to their room, leaving the two in peace. Kim had tossed her Kimmunicator past Ron onto the end table, praying that it wouldn't beep and interrupt them, as it had the last four days.

She picked up the beeping Kimmunicator, gripping it with white knuckles, and hit the button that turned the device's screen on. She frowned as she realized that it wasn't a message from Wade, but rather an email message. As she keyed it to open, she noticed that it had been relayed and sent into every house in Middleton. With growing dread, she watched as a streaming video loaded. The screen started black, then she heard one of her brother's voices narrating.

"Everyone, this is a public service announcement. Be on the lookout for out sister, Kim Possible." An older photo appeared on the screen, showing a slightly younger Kim with a white covered face spewing out toothpaste. "Everyone should know that our sister has cooties, and as an effect of this:" A section of footage began playing; Kim's eyes narrowed.

The footage was taken from a week before, when Ron had been transformed back into a human, by using his Mystical Monkey Power. This video, however, was run in reverse, in such a way that it looked like Kim had kissed Ron, and then he had changed into a monkey. "As you can see, if Kim kisses you, you could be transformed into a monkey! Avoid her kisses at all costs. Again, this has been a public service announcement."

"TWEEBS!" Kim had jumped to her feet, with a fire in her eyes that scared Ron. He reached up and grabbed her hand quickly, and pulled her back down to sit in his lap. She turned her ire to him, and he gulped.

"Come on, KP, amp down." She was still tweaked. "You know that your brothers are always doing things like this. Besides..." He gave her his best lost puppy look. "You don't really want to kiss other guys, do you?"

Kim held her frown as long as she could, before she finally laughed. "No, why would I want to kiss anyone else when I've got you?" She smiled at him, and leaned in half way, to whisper to him, "Are you sure that you want to kiss me, though? You might get turned into a monkey." She ran her hand up under his head, lightly teasing the small monkey tattoo on his neck, the reminder of what had happened.

His grin widened as he leaned in to kiss her. "You know, KP, I think that's a risk I'm willing to take."

A/N Well, there you go, my first finished multi-chapter story. I'm pretty pleased with how things turned out, in both the story itself, and the hit count. Thanks go out to everyone who took the time to read this story, especially those who reviewed as well.

I'll also thank Eddy13 for beta reading for me, putting up with both my weird schedule on posting, and my typing-I like to double space stuff. He's helped me by checking over this story, getting things back to me quick, and helping me to keep on track with my stories, so I appreciate his help.

Lastly I'll just add that I still have plenty of other stories to work on, so I'll just keep rolling stuff out as I get to it. Next up should be a chapter or two of the stories on Kim's Missions, plus a couple of one shots I've got. Until next week then.

-Zorpox