Chapter 3
“Oh God…I’m-I’m blind,” she choked out. “I’m blind!!!!!”
Shego was desperate. She tried to close her eyes again and put her hands over her ears; maybe everything was just a bad dream.
“It’s only a dream, it’s only a dream…” she whispered while she rocked her body.
Drakken didn’t know what to do, he was shocked too. When Shego opened her eyes and looked at him, gone was those beautiful dark green eyes. Instead, there was a very light green fog covering them…they didn’t even move.
The scientist stood there for a few minutes just looking and then in a hesitant motion put his hand on his henchwoman’s shoulder; she was trembling. Like a father, Drakken embraced Shego, and tried to sooth her “Shhh, calm down…I-I’m going to help you Shego. I’ll help you…” he whispered. He could be a mad scientist who couldn’t do anything right and seemed to be a spoiled boy but the blue man knew when something was really serious and it was not the time to act like a child; he knew how to be an adult too.
“Please, make it stop…it´s too loud…I...I don’t wanna feel anything…oh god…I-I just wanna see…Please…wake me up…” Shego couldn’t take anymore, the sounds and smell were making her crazy and every time she opened her eyes she could only see black.
Drakken laid Shego gently on the floor and ran to his tools trying to find something to help the villainess. Then he found some anaesthetic hehad there just in case.
Gently he lifted Shego´s arm and applied the liquid and slowly she felt everything fade.
Kim entered her apartment in a hurry and then called Wade.
“Hey, Kim!!!! Nice job with Drakken, it took you only ten minutes to destroy his plans!” the twelve year-old African-American boy praised.
“Yeah…hmmm…Wade I need a big favor…Could you try and trace where Drakken is?” Kim asked. “You know, we stopped his plans, but he escaped….” She added, trying to justify her actions.
“No need to explain yourself Kim. Actually GJ asked me the same thing…they heard that Shego had an accident while you two were fighting. So Dr. Director thought it was better to trace them and capture them when they’re at disadvantage.” Wade explained, while typing furiously.
“WHAT!!!!???” the redhead shouted.
“Huh Kim, why the shocked face?” he asked.
“Oh…hehe…nothing, nothing at all it’s just…just…They’re trying to beat me to them.” she laughed nervously “So, Wade, please let me know before GJ…I...I want to be the one to capture Drakken and Shego.”
“Of course Kim!!!”
“Please and thank you.” she said as she disconnected her Kimmunicator with a panicked look on her face.
“Oh shit…No, no, no…this can’t be happening…” she said as she went over and laid down on her bed while put her hands over her eyes.
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. She would find where Shego was, sneak in, see how the villainess was doing, without her knowing, and then return home. But now things were a little complicated. If GJ got there before her and Shego was really hurt they would use it to their advantage and capture her. Determined, Kim left her bed and sat in front of her computer. She wasn’t a hacker like Wade, but the years of being a hero had taught her a thing or two; maybe she could find where Drakken had taken the green skinned woman.
“Ok…..like I always say…anything’s Possible…for a Possible!”
It had been three weeks since the accident and our hero hadn’t had any luck. Kim was lying on her bed, trying to concentrate on her paper from college, but she was finding it very hard. Her mind was still on Shego and the accident.
“Urgh!!!!!! How could they disappear?? A blue man and a green woman, how hard it is to see them?” Kim embraced her pillow and whispered “Shego…”
But then she heard the sound of her Kimmunicator and she jumped off the bed. “What’s the sitch, Wade?”
“Hey Kim, I finally found where Drakken is, but there was one problem…”
“What problem?” Kim asked worried.
“Well, you asked me to tell you first, but you see… it was actually GJ that found out. Drakken was spotted stealing some chemical product from a laboratory in Middleton and you know he isn’t the most discreet person. He was followed by a GJ agent that reported to Dr. Director where the secret lair is. Then she contacted me to contact you because she thinks you would like to be there when they finally capture Drakken and Shego.” the boy said.
Kim was appalled; GJ would put Shego in jail before she had a chance to know how her green skinned goddess was doing. She had to be faster, find the villainess before GJ did. ‘That’s it, I’m going to tell Dr. Director to leave Shego with me’ Kim thought. Then she said “Wade, tell GJ to meet me outside my house ASAP!”
“OK, Kim! I’ve already told Ron, he’ll meet you there!”
“Please and thank you.”
Shego was sitting on the floor in front of her mirror, that now was broken, around her lots of pieces of glass. At first sight you could guess that the woman was looking at her bloody hands, examining them to see if the cuts were deep or not, but then if you looked closer you could see a white cloth, covered with bloodstains, wrapped around her eyes. But it wasn’t only the mirror that was destroyed; the entire room was a mess. The television was on the floor with a huge hole gaping through it, as if someone had punched it right in the middle and the walls covered in holes and burn marks. The bed, magazines, and the other things were pretty much the same. The only two things that were untouchable were a portrait and her wardrobe.
The cloth and her face were stained with blood and tears. She stood up with some difficultly; her body a little weak because of the loss of blood during the week. Because of the acid that hit her, her immune system which allowed her to heal faster thanks to her comet power, were now slower. She still healed faster then normal people, but not as fast as before after the accident.
Shego flexed her hands and the pieces of glass entered deeper into them, and then walked through the glass with bare feet, but Shego didn’t felt anything; her body was numb. She stopped in front of the broken mirror and the put her hand on it for while. Then she gave a little punch, then another and another. Each punch was faster and stronger than the other and in a few minutes the raven haired woman was punching the mirror and the wall with all the strength she had and screaming angrily.
She hated to fell weak and when she was only a child, Shego had sworn that she would be strong and would never cry but here she was felling useless and crying like a loser. Yeah, she had now super human senses, but the only way she had managed to control them was with the antidote that Drakken had created, but it was only temporary. So with powers or not, now she was just a useless blind woman. You could say she had her plasma and that she knew how to fight, but how can that be useful if you couldn’t see your opponent.
Shego punched the wall with the mirror one more time and then fell onto her knees, scraping them with the broken glass on the floor. She didn’t have much time to do anything else because at that moment she heard the alarm alerting her of intruders within the lair.
“Shit!” she stood up and walked, using the wall for guidance, to the door. She had to get out of there, it was probably GJ and she couldn’t get caught, knowing that if she was it would be impossible for her to escape. If she got to a secret passage, maybe she would be safe.
She heard the sounds of fighting on the center of the lair and she was relieved that her room was far way from that, it would take a while for them to reach that area. Placing her hand on the wall as a guide, Shego began to walk, trying to remember where the secret passage near her room was located, but then she heard a soft voice behind her.
“Shego…”
Shego stopped; she didn’t know what to do. She didn’t want to show her Princess how weak she was now, but she also knew that was impossible, Kim would attack and try to catch her, and that…she couldn’t allow.
“Shego…” Kim said softly one more time; the villainess could swear that was a hint of concern in her voice, but it couldn’t be…Kim was here to put her in jail.
The green skinned woman decided that she couldn’t prevent a fight, so she would try to battle even without her sight.
“Hey, Princess.” she greeted forcing a smirk, as she turned around to face her opponent she was met with a gasp from the redhead.
“Shego…oh god!” Kim was in shock from seeing Shego’s bloody appearance. She was even more shocked when she noticed the cloth around the older woman’s eyes “What… what happened?” she asked her voice filled with concern.
“I don’t need your pity, Pumpkin. You came here to fight, now fight!” Shego said with anger when she heard the tone of Kim’s voice. No, she couldn’t take pity from her Kimmie; she wanted to be her equal, not someone to be pitied on.
“Wait Sheg…” Kim didn’t have much time to say why she was there when a plasma ball was thrown her way. But because Shego didn’t know where Kim was exactly, the plasma ball passed Kim without touching her. “Shego, wait…I didn’t come here to fight!!!!!”
“Then you came here to see what that acid did to me and then gloat that know you can defeat me?” Shego tried to kick Kim, but the hero dodged it quite easily.
“No! Shego stop!” Kim cried out almost pleading when the green woman managed to pin her on the floor. “Shego, please, listen me!” the redhead’s arms were being held by Shego´s hands, but Kim felt that the strength put there was not the usual; Shego’s body was weak. Kim frowned upset at this and her guilt grew when she got a good look at her enemy’s face. Now that she was so close to the other woman, she could see that the villainess was paler than usual, her complex looked tired and there were tears stain on her cheek mixed with blood.
“Shego…” the young hero whispered with pain in her heart, and she finally freed one hand that slowly was coming to held Shego’s face when she heard on the little microphone in her ear, that some GJ agents were coming towards their direction. With just a few minutes to react, Kim silently apologized to Shego, and then changed their position and punched the other woman on her head, making her lost conscious. Kim then dragged her to a nearby room that she found to be Shego’s. When the redhead had just left the room, she came face to face with Ron and some agents.
“KP, did you find Shego????”
“Humm… no…when I arrived, she had already escaped, I tried to follow, but you know how she is cleaver and I lost her. I came back when I heard that you were here. Hummm...did you guys catch them all?” Kim questioned, felling guilty to be lying to her best friend. But now that she knew how badly Shego was hurt, she couldn’t let them catch her.
In two hours Kim came back to the lair and went straight to Shego’s room where she had left the green skinned woman. The older woman was still unconscious at the same place that Kim had laid her on her bed. Kim assumed that she must be extremely tired because the hero hadn’t punched the villainess that hard. The redhead finally got a good look around the room, almost everything was destroyed and burned; it looked like both women had just battled out. Kim felt a pain in the heart knowing that Shego had done this to vent her pain.
Kim approached the bed and kneeled beside it, close to Shego, and put a shaky hand in Shego’s unruly hair. She began to gently stroke the ink black mane that flowed like a river down Shego’s back. Kim allowed her mind to take her back to that night, when Shego had pushed her out of the way of the acid. She thought Shego hated her and wanted to get rid of her, but after that night she knew that wasn't the case.
“Why?” whispered Kim silently to herself. “Why did you go out of your way to save me Shego?”
Kim stroked the other woman’s hair for a few minutes and then upon impulse, she leaned over Shego and kissed her forehead; a hand now caressing the dark-haired woman’s cheek. At that moment she felt the body under her shift and a groan escape from black lips. The redhead jumped up from the side of the bed, stopping at the opposite wall; maybe Shego didn’t hate her like she thought, but that didn’t mean that she would like their close proximity.
Shego woke up when she felt something warm on her face, a really nice something warm, but when she shifted her body screamed in pain. She groaned and then stayed still for a second, then tried to stand up. But because the last three weeks of abusing herself, almost without eating and hurting her body while destroying the room, and her healing system not working at its normal rate, she finally felt her energy drained away completely. As she started to fall forward, soft but strong arms encircled her waist.
“Be careful…” Kim said softly, forgetting her previous thoughts about the proximity; her love needed help.
Shego took a deep breath when she felt those arms around her, and that body so close to her, so warm, so soft. Of course, they had already come this close to each other when they fought, but this was different, it was almost like Kim cared about her. No, this couldn’t be, Kim was just in her help mode; like she would be with anyone else. Shego couldn’t let her hope get the best of her, if Kim knew that she liked her, she would freak out.
“What are you doing here?” the villainess asked with a rude tone and then tried to push away from Kim.
“I’m…I’m here to help you…” Kim said and a blush spread over her face when she tightened her hold on Shego´s waist.
“I don’t need your help! I don’t need your pity, Pumpkin!” Shego said, finally getting out of Kim’s hold, but when she took a step forward, the raven haired woman lost her balance fell onto her knees, her long and black hair hiding her face from Kim’s view. “Look, just arrest me, ok? Isn’t what you’re supposed to do? Not try to help the villain…” she said through her teeth. Being pitied on by the woman she loved hurt more then any kicks that she had received from the same woman. She wanted respect, not pity.
“It’s not like a villain to save the life of her enemy.” Kim said softly and then kneeled behind the green skinned woman. She was going to put her hand on Shego’s shoulder, but stopped in the middle of her action. “Shego, I’m not going to lie…I’m feeling guilty. The…” she choked a little, but she didn’t let the tears fall, no she had to get her point straight. “You didn’t have to save me, and I still don’t understand it…why you did it…” she stopped, biting her lip and closing her eyes, trying to put herself together.
‘Because I couldn’t live with myself if I let you get hurt, I could have lost you if I hadn’t acted’ Shego thought, felling a pain in her heart.
“Shego, I don’t think you are weak, or you can’t fight anymore. You did put up a fight with me earlier when GJ invaded this place, but I also know that because of that damned accident you’re not working 100, and because I respect you so much I just can’t put you in jail. It wouldn’t be fair with you, or with me, because I know you can do so much more, you just have to adapt to a new life style, and I wanna help you. Not because I feel guilt or pity, but because I respect you …” And I love you.
Shego was speechless for the first time in a long time. She thought that Kim would be happy to finally put her in jail; but here she was showing her more respect than she had received in her entire life. She knew that if it was someone else, they would have beaten the hell out of her and just had thrown her in a dark, small cell. But then again, she wouldn’t have put her life in danger for someone else. The villainess gave a little smile and when she made a motion to stand up, Kim was right there beside her.
“Ok, Kimmie, you won. So what are you gonna do?”
“Well, I think that it would be a good idea if you stayed at my apartment. GJ is still after you, they won’t come there. Maybe I can convince Dr. Director to let me guard you, you know until you’re ok. So we could go training in others place, my apartment is kind of small...”
“Oh, you want to bring me to your apartment, sorry but you have to buy me a dinner first.” Shego said smirking evilly; Kim was making her feel like her old self again.
“It’s not that!” Kim blushed, but also felt relieved because Shego was herself again.
“It’s only a joke, Princess. Ok, but first I need to get some stuff.” Shego smirked, even without being able to see she knew that the girl was blushing, she was such a prude. But then she let the smirk slip from her lips and frowned, she would never be able to see her redhead again. See that beautiful red mane that looked so soft to the touch or see those sparks of her big green eyes.
“What’s wrong Shego?” Kim asked a little worried “Do you need help to get your things? Stay there that I get your clothes.” Kim said and sat Shego on her bed.
“Yeah…” the woman lied sadly, well she did need help with it, but she could have managed; but not being able to see Kim was what was going to be hard. Shego sat on her bed turned around, her back facing Kim. Then she placed her hands over her face, rubbing her eyes, trying to stop the tears that wanted to fall. She shifted a little and then her foot hit her night table, dropping a portrait that was there. She felt the floor with her hands, trying to find the portrait, when Shego found it; she held it firmly on her hand and gently caressed the picture that she couldn’t see. She knew that she didn’t have her beautiful eyes anymore; the only thing that made her looks like her mother was gone.
“Hey! I’m finished, ready to go?” Kim said a few minutes later, she was carrying a green bag with probably Shego’s clothes in it.
“Yeah…” Shego replied with the same melancholic tone from before and then she remembered something “Pumpkin, there is a black box on the top of the wardrobe, get it.”
“Ok…” Kim went back to the opposite side of the room, looking with concerning. Shego a while ago was quite fine, but now she was really depressed and what was that portrait on her hand. But Kim said nothing, maybe Shego would open up to her later. Yeah she knew that the accident was the cause of all this sadness, the villainess did have all the right to feel this way, but Kim knew deeply in her heart that there was something more.
“Here Shego, come on…” the redhead said softly, putting her hand gently over her arms, helping the brunette walk through the lair, there was a lot of debris around there and she guided the woman through them.
“Wait… I need just one more thing. At Drakken´s lab there is a case with an antidote… I need them…”
“Antidote…?”
“Yeah, just take that, I’ll explain later…”
When they got to the lair Shego said that Drakken had told her that the liquid was red and was in some syringes. Kim looked suspicious at the ‘antidote’, she didn’t trust Drakken’s creation near Shego, but it looked like Shego really wanted those things. With a hold on the case, the bag and Shego’s arm, she left the lair.
When they got to her car, Kim put Shego’s things on the back seat. Shego was already inside the vehicle. The whole drive was silent, one or two times Kim would glance at Shego, who had her head turned facing the window, like she was appreciating the view, and her heart broke from the sight; because of her Shego was like that. The hero wanted to reach out and comfort her love, but knew that for now it wasn’t the best thing to do.
Shego, with her head still turned away from Kim, thought about her situation. This was not the way that she had dreamed about how to spend the night with Kim. If she believed in God, she would have thought that there was someone with a really bad sense of humor up there and thought that it was fun to screw up her life.
She approached the window, but the only thing she saw was black. How ironic that one of her favorite colors would be the only thing she would be able to see for the rest of her life. And now she knew how someone felt when they were blindfolded and taken to a secret place. The jolt of the car stopping brought her out of her those thoughts. When she felt Kim take her arm she knew that they were at the girl’s apartment.
“We’re here, Shego.” Kim said, as she opened the door allowing them both to enter. “Watch out, there is a little step.”
“I’d say ‘nice place’, but you know, I really can’t get an opinion.” Shego tried to joke and make light of her situation but all she got was a sad and heavy sigh from Kim.
“Come here…let’s look at your wounds.” Kim stated, as she took Shego to her room and sat her on the bed. She went to her bathroom and got her first aid kit. With all the bruises that she had gotten during her many years as a hero, she learned how to treat them.
She went back to her bedroom and watched Shego for a while. She looked so different from the fiery woman that she was used to fight. Now with blood and tear stains on her face and clothes, wounds on her hands and body, a little thinner than before, and with her head down, Shego looked very vulnerable.
“Kimmie? Are you there?” Shego asked, as she lifted her head and ‘looked’ all around her.
“Yes…give me your hands.” Kim said, while she sat besides the woman and gently took her hands; picking the pieces of glass that were still on her green skin. After she had cleaned her hands and feet, Kim took a wet cloth and cleaned the villainess’ face a little. She went to take off the cloth protecting Shego’s eyes, but was stopped by the older woman.
“Don’t…” Shego said a little angry, she didn’t want Kim to see her eyes.
“Sorry…” Kim said, and left the bedroom. When she was out of the door she wanted to scream in frustration. All the time that she was treating Shego, she felt an inner conflict. It was so nice to touch that luscious green skin, it was soft and warm. It was one of the best feelings that she had ever had, but at the same time there was pain. Her heart hurt so much seeing those bloody hands and when she looked at Shego’s face she knew that if she saw the green eyes they would still be showing no emotions.
Trying to compose herself, Kim went to the green bag and took out some black pjs and a…blush…green panties. She grabbed some towels and put everything in the bathroom. When she went back to her room, Shego was still at the same place that she had left her.
“Shego…I put some clothes on the bathroom, go take a shower. I’ll make something to eat, you must be hungry.”
“Ok, lead the way.” Shego said as she got up not soon after she felt Kim’s hand grab hers.
Kim took Shego to the bathroom, and put her hand on the door of the shower. “Here’s the shower, on your left is the soap and to your right you have the shampoo and conditioner. I put your clothes over the sink, and there is a towel here”. Kim put Shego’s hand on the towel located on the wall. Shego then turned her back to the redhead, who got the clue to leave.
Thirty minutes later Shego exited the bathroom. Her hair was wet from the shower as well as the cloth that covered her eyes; apparently she had tried to clean the cloth but it was still wet and had some stains that she had missed.
After she had made some sandwiches, Kim had leaned against the opposite wall across the bathroom and waited the green skinned woman to have finished her shower.
“Shego!” Kim jumped; she was deep in thought and was surprised when the door opened. “Oh! This cloth is wet. I think I have something that you can wear! Stay here!” Kim hurried to her room and soon she was back with a black silk cloth “Here.”
Shego took the offered object and turned, hiding her eyes from Kim’s view. She hurried to cover her eyes with the new cloth, and when she was finished, she turned back and then Kim took the old cloth and threw away.
They went to the kitchen after that and Kim put a plate with two sandwiches in front of Shego and a glass of juice. Shego felt the table to find the glass and Kim soon put the glass on the thief’s hand. The dark-haired girl sighted and then said “Kimmie, you told me that you wanted to help me to be able to kick ass just like before, but you don’t need to do everything for me.” Shego informed her while trying to maintain her calm tone while she talked to Kim; after all she just wanted to be helpful. But Shego wanted to be able to do things for herself, also if Kim touched her one more time she knew she would lose control and kiss the redhead or worse.
“Oh…I’m sorry…” Kim said her voice filled with shame. She felt like she was being inconvenient, but she just wanted to help, but she was just annoying Shego.
“It’s ok Princess, but you have to let me do things. I have to adapt, you said it yourself, next time, just tell me where everything is, that way I’ll be able to learn where everything is, ok?”
“Ok…” Kim answered still felling guilty about it, but she was relieved that the green woman wasn’t mad at her. From now on, she would treat Shego like before, well without the verbal and physical fights, Kim smiled a little and then said “I’ll take a shower. If you want to see some TV…” She said without thinking, but then stopped, her little smile falling. She wanted to kick herself for being so stupid. “Sorry... I…I’ll just shut up and go…” the redhead stuttered and left the kitchen looking sad.
Shego sighed and put her hand over her eyes “This is just getting worse.”
Shego had finished eating, and with nothing to do she decided to see if she could find the living room, at least she could sit more comfortable on the couch. She stood up and guided by the wall started to walk, everything was just fine, if you did not count the three times she failed to find the correct way. When she finally could touch the back of the couch and started to walk around it to sit, Shego knocked a little table, falling on the floor with it and the things that was on top of the furniture.
“Oh fuck!” Shego cursed, not because she was hurt, but because she hated what she had become useless; she could not even walk without help now.
“Shego! Are you ok?” the villainess heard Kim asking from the bathroom.
“Yeah, Pumpkin! I’m fine..., don’t worry.” the black haired woman replied, as she stood up and cleared the mess. Then she laid down on the couch and stayed there “looking” at the ceiling, trying not to think about how much she was screwed.
But then nature called, and thinking that Kim had already finished her shower because she didn’t hear the water running anymore, Shego went to the bathroom, trying to remember the way that she had made with Kim earlier. She put a now bandaged hand, on the wall to guide her. The thief felt a depression on the wall, indicating that there was a door there. ‘I think it was the first door on the hall’ Shego then turned the handle, opened the door and was greeted with a scream.
The raven haired woman heard the sound of the door of the shower close and she knew that if she could see, she would have been able to see a naked Kim. The older woman cursed loudly and ran to the living room, tripping on everything that was on the way; finally falling on the floor in the middle of the room.
Kim heard the commotion on the living room, and letting her shock go, she hurried, putting a big shirt that she used to sleep in, to see if Shego was all right.
“Shego. Are you ok?” Kim found the said woman groaning on the floor, holding her knee; apparently she had hit it on the couch. Kim kneeled beside Shego and helped her sit on the couch.
Seeing that the older woman was all right, Kim remembered what had caused all of this and then blushed and when she talked again, she was stuttering “Humm...I…I’m sorry...I forgot...to lock the door.”
The woman turned her head to the side that she heard Kim’s voice and smirked, trying to light up the mood “Hey, Princess, I swear, I didn’t see anything.” Yeah, she knew that she shouldn’t be playing with something like this, but she knew that mop around would bring her sight back, and she wanted to be her old self around Kim, to not make the girl more guilty than she already felt. It was her decision to save Kim, and she would do it again if necessary.
“Don’t…,” Kim said sadly, she didn’t like when Shego had played about her blindness before and didn’t like it now. “Don’t play like that.”
“Sorry…it was a bad joke, but it’s my way to cope with these things, and anger too, but…” Shego really felt sorry, she knew her Pumpkin was feeling bad about everything.
“I know…just…,” Kim didn’t know what to say anymore. “I…I’m going to sleep ok? You can take my bed.”
“Don’t worry…I’ll be fine here on the couch. Now go, if you’re sleepy.” Shego said.
Kim tried to protest, but Shego was stubborn and in the end, Kim had taken some covers and a pillow, leaving the villainess on the couch.
“Goodnight, Shego.”
“Goodnight, Princess.”
Kim looked one more time to Shego and then turned to go to bed, but the older woman calling her name stopped her.
“Thank you Kim.” Shego said softly, causing Kim to smile gently.
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