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The Cat Came Back

Chapter 2: Corner A Cat, Get Scratched!

Kim gave a growl of protest as she, Ron and Catgirl were pushed into the service elevator. Sheela held Rufus up by a long thread of his rope as she and a few more of Falsetto Jones' goons piled in with them. Appropriately enough, the leopard themed villainess dangled Rufus up and down like a cat's toy. She even poked him a few time with her finger to swing him back and fourth. It turned out to be a mistake, however, when the naked molerat positioned himself to where he could bite the tip of her finger in his next swing towards her.

"Ow!" Sheela cried out as she tried to shake Rufus off her finger.

He eventually let go and landed on the floor of the elevator with a soft "thud" and a loud groan. Shaking off the pain, he worked himself up on his hind legs and tried to make a run for it but was stopped when Sheela's boot slammed down on the length of rope trailing behind him.

"Oh no you don't!" she hissed before bending down to pick him up again and hold him in front of her face. "I'd watch that attitude of yours, cats are known to eat small, annoying pests."

Rufus gasped then curled up into a ball to appear smaller than he already was.

"You wouldn't?!" Ron cried out in horror.

"Well of course I wouldn't," Sheela retorted, sounding offended by the idea. "But I'm sure the cats we're about to feed you to wouldn't mind a little appetizer first."

"I still can't believe you're going to feed us to lions," Kim groaned. "I think your boss his been watching a bit too much of 'Rome'."

The other redhead shrugged. "Maybe, but it's not my place to judge. Besides it really is the best way to get rid of you. Helps dispose of the evidence too. Well except for the bones, but I'm sure we'll find something to do with those."

"Sounds like you got it all planned out."

"Me personally? Not really. But Jones seems to know what he's doing. At least more so than some of the other would be world conquerors out there."

"And you don't want to try to be one?"

"Me?! Hell no! You know how much trouble that would be?! I'll be happy with just a but load of cash and a private island to spend my days on once this is all over."

"You know we actually happen to know some people like that," Ron spoke up.

"Really?"

"Yeah, the Seniors. Ever heard of them?

"I...think so?"

"Well let me tell you, Senior Senior Senior is definitely a good listener. You see, when we first met him..."

As Ron went into detail about his and Kim's first dealings with the Seniors, Catgirl used the distraction to press her back against the far left wall of the elevator so that none of the henchmen would notice her starting to discretely cut through her ropes with her claws. Even with the GJ enhancements, she found it hard to do just based on the angle she had to work with and the strength of the rope. Still she could tell that she was making slow but steady progress and if Ron kept Sheela distracted long enough and the elevator ride went on just a little longer she might be able to free herself before getting caught.

As if on cue, the elevator suddenly lurched to a stop with a loud "ding" as it reached the bottom floor.

Oh of course! Maybe I should start calling myself Black Cat, cause of all my bad luck, Catgirl moaned internally.

She hide the cut section of rope with her hands as she and the others were forced to march forward down another dimly light and horribly unkept hallway.

"Well I gotta admit that set up the Seniors have definitely sounds like what I want in the future," Sheela noted as they walked.

"Yeah and from what I hear Junior is still single. So why don't you let us go and you can go hook up with him so you can live your fantasy life," Ron offered.

"Nice try, but it doesn't work like that. Besides, he's not really 'my type' if you catch my drift."

Kim blinked as she instantly understood what she meant.

"Wait, you mean you're...?" she inquired.

"Playing for your team?" Catgirl spoke up. "Yep. Guess I should have mentioned it sooner."

"That's...surprising."

"Came as a shock to me too. Which, actually is how she managed to get away from me the first time."

"Oh come on, you wear an outfit like that and you expect me not to grab your ass?!" Sheela cried out as she gestured widely to the cat suited girl. She then slowed down a bit and peered behind her rival. "Which, by the way, I have to say is still looking excellent."

"Alright that's enough of that," Catgirl remarked.

"What? Am I making you uncomfortable?" Sheela grinned mischievously as she rubbed her cheek against Catgirl's.

The costumed hero let out a surprised, and slightly disgusted, shriek before jumping away from the all-too-playful redhead. Sheela laughed then walked faster so she could keep pace with Kim again.

"See how she is? Personally I think she's a bit homophobic," she teased.

"I am not!" Catgirl called out in her own defensive. "I just have a problem with being hit on by a thief!"

"Unlike some people," Sheela said pointedly towards Kim.

"What's that suppose to mean?!" Kim exclaimed.

"Oh come on, don't be shy! It's all over the In-Terror-Net that you and Shego sharing a bed."

"They know about that?!"

"Kinda hard not to when one of the best villainesses around suddenly goes back to be being a good guy. Which I hear you're partly to blame for," Sheela spat venomously.

"Yeah I am," Kim said with a satisfied smirk. "Personally I like having her back on the side of the law, but then again I'm a bit biased. Besides, having a baby can really change ones perspectives on the whole 'good/bad' thing."

"Try telling that to my dad," the Leopard Lady muttered.

"Was he...?"

"Who do you think got me into the thieving game? His motto was, 'If you want something just go take it'!"

"Great way to raise a kid," Kim muttered.

Sheela shrugged. "Works for me. Course the thing I wanted the most was to be trained by Shego, but you," she jabbed a finger in Kim's face, "took that away from me! But I suppose it doesn't matter now since you're about to become cat food. Looks like I get to have my revenge and don't even have to dirty my hands. Gotta love it!"

Kim's come back was cut short by the blinding lights that suddenly filled her vision as the group walked through an archway at the end of the hall. When she could finally see clearly again she noticed that they had been led into what use to be the main loading dock for the factory. Now it had been converted into a small stadium with high sets of bleachers forming a circle centered around a large cage. The cage itself seemed to be made out of solid steel bars and had to be a least fifteen feet high and twenty-five feet across on all sides. There where was a door on the right side and one of the left that were no doubt the entrances the cats were pushed through. The door on the right just also happened to be the one the three heroes were being prodded towards right now.

They tried to resist, but the strength of the large henchmen and their bonds made it rather difficult to do so. Particularly when the henchmen picked them up and tossed them inside the cage. Thankfully the loosely packed dirt inside cushioned their fall a bit. As they struggled to their feet, Sheela tossed Rufus in behind them before giving them all one last sadistic smirk then slamming the door shut with a loud, echoing "clang". Rufus scampered over to Ron for protection right as the squeal of a loud speak drew the attention of the surprisingly large crowd.

"Ladies and Gentlemen," Falsetto Jones' unmistakable voice announced from the speaker, "I want to welcome you all to a very special night of cat fighting."

"He actually calls it cat fighting?" Kim deadpaned.

"What else would you call it?" Ron asked.

"Something more creative than that."

"Tonight we will harken back to the days of ancient Rome when we get to see a couple of hunger lions fight it out with our helpless captives; Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable and Catgirl!"

Kim was surprised and disgusted at the large ovation the statement drew.

"I can't believe they want to see this!" she cried out.

"People are sick," Catgirl remarked, still working on her ropes. "And not all of the sickos want to take over the world. Some of them just want to watch people and animals get hurt."

Kim shook her head. "Unbelievable. Just unbelievable."

"Ha! Got it!" Catgirl suddenly shouted, drawing Kim out of her reprieve.

Both she and Ron watched as the superhero threw her arms up to shed off the new frayed ended ropes that just moments ago were holding her hands behind her back. She threw them to the ground then turned towards the other two.

"You couldn't have done that a little sooner?" Kim asked.

"Hey give me a break! You know how hard it was to do that at that angle?! Not to mention having to keep it secret from all the goons around us."

"Okay, fine, I'm sorry. But can you please get us out of here?"

"Right."

"Wait! Untie Rufus first cause then he can help us both get out at the same time," Ron suggested.

"That's a good idea Ron," Kim encouraged.

"Thanks. I was due for one."

"Alright so the naked mouse first," Catgirl muttered as she picked up Rufus.

He shivered nervously a bit as she brought a sharp claw down on the ropes wrapped around most of his body.

"Careful!" he squeaked.

"I know what I'm doing. It's a lot easier this way."

"Can you work a little faster?" Kim stressed.

"I could if someone would stop bugging me."

"It's just that our time's run a bit short."

Catgirl cocked an eyebrow at her then noticed that the redhead was nodded behind her. Slowly she turned around to find that both of the side doors were open want two angry and hungry looking male lions where being forced into the cage. Once the doors were shut and they were done roaring and clawing at their captors, their attentions turned to the three humans and one naked mole rat in the center of the cage. They licked their chops as they slowly started to stalk their helpless prey.

"Oh boy," Catgirl breathed.

She started to cut the ropes around Rufus even faster while keeping her eyes fixed on the approaching lions. When she was about halfway through the ropes she brought him up to her eye level.

"Think you can get out of the rest yourself?" she asked.

"Uh huh, uh huh!" he squeaked while nodded enthusiastically.

"Good. Then when you get lose you can free the others," she instructed as she carefully set him down, keeping her eyes on the lions at all times.

"What are you doing?" Kim asked.

"Really hoping this crazy plan of mine is gonna work," she replied as she started to timidly walk forward.

"You can't!"

"Shhh!" Catgirl practically hissed back at her. "Just sit there and stay low."

"Not like we have much of a choice," Kim muttered.

If Catgirl heard the snarky remark she didn't let it show and instead focused on the two large cats in front of her. They growled at the annoying crowd and each other a few times, but kept their focus mostly on her, licking their chops lightly as she stepped closer. For her part, Catgirl tried to keep her heartbeat slow and appear calm as she held out her hands in a nonthreatening manner.

"Easy big fellas. I'm not going to hurt you," she said softly as the gap between them continued to grow smaller. "I know at lot of other twisted humans have tortured you in the past but I'm not one of them. I'm not going to hurt you and I don't think you want to hurt me, right?"

To help emphasize her point she turned her hands around to the lions and presented them palms up. Each of the feral cats sniffed a hand and there was a tense moment as they paused and seemed to think about their next action. The crowd then let out a jubilant cheer as the two lions jumped her and knocked her to the ground, causing Catgirl to let out a surprised scream. Kim and Ron both turned their heads away and closed their eyes, trying to force out the sounds of anguish they knew they're going to hear next.

They, along with anyone else in the arena, were taken by surprise when they sounds they heard weren't the anguished screams of someone being eaten alive but rather...laughter? Kim forced one eye open and found that the lions where still on top of Catgirl, but they were playfully licking her face as she tried to push them away.

"Hey come on, stop it! That tickles!" she cried out between laughs.

Eventually they backed off and allowed her to stand. They trailed behind her as she walked back over to the still bound Kim and Ron and pressed themselves against her hands until she started petting them like someone would a normal, docile house cat.

"How did you do that?" Kim asked, amazed.

Catgirl shrugged. "It's a cat thing."

"Riiiight. Well anyway, think you can help Rufus get us out of these ropes?"

"Actually KP, I don't think she'll have time for that," Ron spoke up, nodding in the direction of the right side door.

Kim and Catgirl both looked to find a few of Jones' henchmen entering the cage carrying long, cattle prod like devices.

"Yeah that could be a problem," Catgirl muttered. "Excuse me a second."

With that she raced towards the pack of goons, jumping into the air at the halfway point and landing a drop kick on the leader's chest. She stood up right as another one tried to hit her with the prod, but she twisted to avoid it, then grabbed the pole and spun him around so that he zapped a third henchman standing behind him. She then punched the one holding the prod out before swinging it like a bat to knock out the last of their group. She let out a slight breath as she threw the prod to the ground.

"Wow. She can really kick butt," Ron admired.

"No kidding," Kim agreed.

Their banter was interrupted when the door on the left side of the cage opened and another bunch of henchmen filed inside to help out their comrades. Unfortunately, in their haste they forgot to bring there own prods and came face-to-face with to very angry, and still hungry, lions. They each let out a fierce roars upon recognizing their captors then charged them as quickly as their four legs would carry them. The well suited goons let out a series of girlish shrieks before turning tail and running through the door. Again their haste caused them to forget one very important fact; namely forgetting to close the cage door. Their terror was quickly shared with the members of the audience as the lions went for the bleachers. The crowd of corrupt men and women trampled over each other as they tried to run for their lives.

"Well I think these tournaments just closed," Kim quipped.

"And not a moment too soon," Catgirl remarked as she started to walk back over to the duo.

"Oh no you don't!" a familiar voice called out from behind her.

She turned just in time to see Sheela as the other girl slammed into her and sent them both crashing the ground. They rolled in the loose dirt, each trying to gain dominance while growling and clawing at each other. Catgirl grabbed a handful of Sheela's hair and gave it a hard yank that caused the girl's head to snap back as she let out a pained scream. Sheela clawed at Catgirl's mask in return, trying to pull it off so she could either return the favor or scratch out her eyes. All the while the girls continued to let out a noises that sounded almost exactly like to cats growling at each other.

"Hey look, cat-hmpf!" Ron started but was stopped when Kim's newly freed hand clamped over her mouth.

"Don't. Just don't," she warned.

Ron nodded around her hand just as Rufus freed his own. He rubbed his sore wrists as he stood up, still watching the two cat themed girls rolling around in the dirt.

"Shouldn't we help her?" he asked.

"Why? I thought you'd want to just stand here and watch," Kim replied snarkily.

"KP!" Ron cried out, almost horrified. "You've definitely been spending too much time around Shego. I mean, honestly, that's a very Shego response."

"Maybe, but admit it, that's exactly what you're thinking."

He stared at her for a second. "I plead the fifth."

She smirked. "That's what I thought."

"Please don't tell Bonnie."

"Only if you agree to help me round up these lions before they hurt someone."

"Let's see...face ferocious, man eating lions that are mad at humanity in general, or an angry Bonnie when she finds out what I was thinking about..." again he paused as he weighed his options. "Yeah let's go get those lions."

Kim smirked wider before leading him out of the cage in trail of the lions, which seemed to have found their way out of the arena and into the other parts of the building. As they went off in search of the large cats, Catgirl and Sheela continued their struggle, the position of power switch every few seconds. Eventually, Catgirl was able to bring her feet up in between them and kicked Sheela away from her. Unfortunately for the redhead, she was still holding onto her hair and the force of the kick ripped a small chunk of it out. She let out a pained and irritated scream as she saw Catgirl stand up and unceremoniously drop the red strands to the ground.

"You bitch!" Sheela spat out.

"Sorry wrong species," Catgirl grinned.

"Oh you're gonna pay for that."

"Yeah you keep telling yourself that. But think about this. You couldn't even beat me before when I was on my own and now I'd have Global Justice style training in combat. So you really want to tangle with me?"

Sheela seemed to think that over for a second and took a fighting stance. Catgirl shrugged before going into one of her own. The bitter rivals stared at each other, each trying to find a chink in the other's armor. They silently dared the other to attack first, knowing it would be the start of a heated battle between the two. All it took was one little move. Catgirl's muscles tensed as she noticed Sheela's foot start to move over the dirt filled floor. This was it, she was ready for anything.

Anything except seeing Sheela suddenly spin around on her heel and bolt for the exit on the other side of the cage.

"What?!" she cried out in confused. "Hey get back here dammit!"

"Screw you!" Sheela called out over her shoulder.

Catgirl growled and took off after her. Her pursuit came to a dead stop though when Sheela slammed the cage door closed on her. She grabbed the bars and pulled on them with an angry growl as Sheela stuck her tongue out at her before running off down one of the corridors. The masked hero gave the cage one last frustrated smack before heading towards the other exit and circling around in hopes of not losing the trail on her prey.

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Elsewhere in the building, Falsetto Jones was busy piling money from the safe in his office inside into a large duffle bag.

"I knew I should have gone with more computer transactions," muttered to himself. "Just had to give a little leeway to your friends, didn't you?"

His head shot up nervously as the door to his office flew open but he let out a sigh of relief when he saw it was only his personal bodyguard.

"Don't you know how to knock Bruno?!" he admonished the much larger man.

"Sorry sir," Bruno apologized with a nod. "But we have a situation."

"I know that! Why do you think I'm piling all this money inside this bag?!"

"I-I see. Sorry sir it's just-"

"Never mind," Falsetto remarked as he slung he bag over his shoulder. "Is the car ready to go?"

"Yes sir, waiting and ready."

"Good. Then let's get out of here before any of those do gooders find their way up here."

"What about Sheela sir?"

"What about her?" he asked in a cold voice.

Bruno nodded again, understanding the menace of the statement despite the humorously high pitched tone it was delivered in. He held the door open for his boss then quickly jump in front of them as they made their way down one of the forgotten hallways that took them directly to the back of the building to Falsetto's awaiting getaway car. He let out a slight sigh as he slipped inside the car.

"Well it was fun while it lasted," he mused. "And I did make quite a bit of profit off this little venture. Maybe I should try again in a few months with a different type of animal."

"I hear monkey fighting's pretty entertaining," Bruno suggested.

"Hmm...maybe, but it might be a little messy too."

"Uh boss? We got company," the driver announced as he looked through the rear mirror.

Both Falsetto and Bruno turned to look out the rear window to see Sheela running towards the car and waving frantically.

"Go," Falsetto order.

"But-" the driver started to protest.

"I said 'GO'!"

Startled by the sudden high pitched shriek, the drive slammed on the gas and the car took off with the screech of spinning tires. Sheela tried to catch up to it but she knew it was no use. Instead she just stopped and shook her fist at the fading car.

"Hey! Come back you jerk!" she screamed.

She then picked up a medium sized rock and threw it at the car in a fit of anger, but it merely bounced harmlessly off the vehicle's reenforced bumper. She knew it wouldn't have done any damage but at least it made her feel better. Still she was left with one very big problem.

"I gotta get out of here," she muttered as she looked around for an escape route.

She looked around the alleyway in the back of the building for something useful then smirked when she noticed a parked car a few feet away. She had no doubt there was some sort of security system hooked up to the windows and doors but past experience taught her that the manufactures usually overlook a sensor for the trunk.

"And that oversight is my ticket out of here," she muttered to herself as she walked over to the car.

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After capturing the two escaped lions, Kim and Ron met up with Catgirl again and an exhaustive search of the building later turned up only the holding pins for the other cats and their missing gear. Everyone else involved in this barbaric sport from spectators to promoters seemed to have vanished. Reluctantly, Kim gave up trying to find them and instead called for people from the Bronx Zoo to come pick up the animals. It took a bit of convincing to get a crew out there so late at night, but eventually they did show up to take all the lions, tigers, and panthers to the zoo for safe keeping until they could be returned to their original zoos. As they oversaw the removal, Kim couldn't help but let out a disappointed sigh.

"What's wrong KP?" Ron asked.

"I'm just upset that the bad guys got away," she confessed.

"Yeah that does tank."

"Especially since it seems to be the theme for our lives lately."

"I thought you said we didn't need a theme?" he asked with a smirk.

She tried to glare at him, but the amused smile gave her way.

"You know what I mean," she stated.

"Yeah I know. But we'll get 'em next time."

"Hopefully."

"Hey, if nothing else we at least saved the cats," Catgirl spoke up. "That's gotta count for something."

"Yeah that's true," Kim remarked. "At least they won't be treated so horribly now."

"Yep worse they'll get now is kids making goofy faces and throwing popcorn at 'em," Ron joked.

"Well I guess that's not as bad," Catgirl mused then shook the thought off and focused on Kim again. "Anyway thanks for the help. Don't think I could have done it without you."

"It's no big," Kim replied happily. "But you know you already have your own team to help you out."

"Yeah I know. Just didn't want to drag them into my business. Guess I should have though cause then we could have gotten this done sooner and probably caught these creeps. Oh well, live and learn I guess," she mumbled with a shrug then turned her attention to Ron. "In any case it was definitely a pleasure working with you."

"Um...uh...thanks," Ron replied nervously taking a step back. "But like I said earlier..."

"Yeah I know, girlfriend," Catgirl replied before opening up her right arm gauntlet and taking out a pen and paper. "But if that doesn't work out..." she paused to write something down then hand it to him, "here's my cell phone number. Feel free to call me."

"All right," he said blankly as he took the piece of paper and quickly tucked it into his pocket.

She sighed a bit at his response but tried to ignore it. "Well it's been a blast, but I really should be getting back to my team. Nice working with you guys and hopefully we'll get to do it again soon."

"Hopefully," Kim said as she shook Catgirl's hand.

Catgirl returned the handshake then shook Ron's hand before turning and starting to walk away. She only got about three feet before stopping as a devious idea formed in her head.

"I know I shouldn't but...oh well the hell I'll probably never to get the chance again," she said to herself.

She then quickly spun back around and closed the distance between her and Ron in about a second so she could plant a wet, hot kiss right on his lips. Her hands grabbed the back of his head to hold him there as his eyes went wide in surprise. Ron knew he should have pulled away from her, and his mind was screaming for him to do just that, but it seemed like no part of his body wanted to listen to him. Especially when Catgirl pressed her body up against his and he could feel just how tightly that costume clung to her. After what felt like an eternity, she finally pulled back and gave him a quick wink before turning and walking off again with an extra sway to her hips. Ron continued to stand there dumbfounded until Kim smacked him in the back of the head.

"Ow! What was that for?!" he screamed.

"You know what that was for!" she insisted. "How could you let her kiss you like that?!"

"It's not like I had much of a choice!"

"Oh really? You didn't think you could, oh I don't know, pull away?!"

"I tried! It's just...no part of my body was listening."

"Oh I think some part of your body was listening," she retorted as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Okay, okay, I screwed up, I'm sorry. Just please, don't tell Bonnie."

"Why shouldn't I? After all Bonnie's a friend now and you more than anyone should know how protective I am of my friends."

"I do, I do. And that's why you shouldn't tell her. Cause it would hurt her to find out and then she'd...probably hurt me too. So in a way you'd be hurting two of your friends," Ron insisted.

Kim tried to think of a comeback, but she knew that in his own twisted way he was actually right. She dropped her arms and let out a slightly irritated sigh.

"Fine. Just make sure something like that doesn't happen again," she requested.

"Kim, how many times do you think I'm going to be kissed by a hot girl in a skin tight suit? I mean honestly that just doesn't happen everyday! You know, unless I could convince Bonnie to put something like that on," he said jokingly but then started to think of how he could actually make that happen.

"O-kay I don't even want to know where your mind is heading on that one," Kim remarked as she started to walk away.

"Yeah, yeah you probably don't. But I think we should go now so I can get home and give this some proper, in depth...thought."

"TMI Ron, TMI."

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A bit later that night, Catgirl returned to the mansion that served as the Justice Squad's headquarters. Her rather speedy, and silent, return was due to the GJ flying motorcycle she had "borrowed" from the mansion's garage. She had converted it back to ground mode right as she got up to the mansion and carefully wheeled it into the garage. She then snuck as quietly as she could back into the mansion, putting all stealth the skills she had learned on her own and through training too good use. She had gotten halfway through the living room that connected to the hallway leading to their rooms when the lights suddenly clicked on. Like any good cat, she stopped dead in her tracks and stood as still a statue.

Crap! I was almost home free! she screamed internally.

"So where exactly have you been?" the stern voice of White Knight asked.

She took a more normal stance before slowly turning around to come face-to-mask with the leader of the Squad. Though his white masked cover most of his face, it left his blue eyes exposed and right now they were filled with annoyance and disappointed in her as he stood before her with his arms crossed and head titled down a bit. Oddly enough it actually reminded her of her father when he was upset with her. Unfortunately, that just made her feel worse.

"I...um...I was out," she said, wringing her hands together nervously.

"I know that. Found that out when we got called to help some people in Peru and you were missing."

Catgirl's head snapped up with a surprised gasp.

"I didn't mean...was anyone hurt?!"

White Knight held out a hand to motion for her to calm down.

"Everything turned out fine," he reassured her. "Except for the part where we were all worried about you of course."

"You were?"

"Of course. You're part of this team. And teams, like family, get worried when one of their own goes missing. So I'll ask you again, where were you?"

"I...I..." she started as she dug her toe into the carpet. "I was out on my own mission. It was something I was working on before I joined the Squad and I didn't feel right pulling you guys into my business."

White Knight sighed then took a step forward and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"I can appreciate that thought, Catgirl, but once you became part of this team your problems became our problems. Any business you had before automatically becomes our business. That goes for everyone on the Squad. Do you understand."

"Yeah I think so. I'm sorry I made you guys worry. I guess I was just being stupid," she apologized.

"Yes you were."

"Hey!"

He chuckled. "But you admit it now so I won't hold it against you."

"Unfortunately, I will," a new voice spoke up.

They both looked to the left to find the owner of the voice was their Global Justice liaison, Will Du, walking in from the other room.

"What are you doing here?" Catgirl growled.

"I called him," White Knight revealed.

"Yes, because some people around here like to follow protocol," Will remarked, staring pointedly at Catgirl.

"Alright, I get it, I broke the rules, I'm sorry! Can we please just move on now?!"

"Unfortunately, your apology isn't good enough. Although you're not officially a Global Justice agent you're still affiliated with us and still have to follow the rules. And when you break those rules means you have to face the punishment. Especially when those charges are as serious as insubordination and stealing."

"'Insubordination and stealing'?!" she cried out.

"You under took a mission on your own and neglected to tell anyone about it. Under GJ classification that counts as insubordination. As does taking one for the motorcycles without anyone's knowledge."

"I was borrowing it!"

"Without telling anyone."

"I brought it back! Without a scratch!"

"Regardless you failed to follow proper procedure and that calls for a reprimand."

"So what are you gonna do?" she asked in an underlining threatening tone.

"You're confined to your room until further notice."

She sputtered a bit in shock. "You're grounding me?!"

"If you want to think of it that way, yes. I'll also be reviewing this little incident with Dr. Director and if anything like this happens again you'll be thrown off the team."

Catgirl sputtered again as tried to think of something to say to this pompous jerk. When nothing came to mind she finally let out a loud hiss reminiscent of her namesakes then spun on her heel and march down the hallway to her room where the door shut with a loud "bang". White Knight and Will stared down the hallway before the white glad super hero turned to the young agent, his mask hiding his lop sided smile.

"I think she understands," he remarked.

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Shego stared sleepily at the computer screen. It was late and she knew she should already be a sleep but she didn't want to go to bed until Kim came back. It was a nightly routine they had somehow developed where neither of them would go to bed without the other. Whether it was putting Shin down for the night or returning from a mission, they would wait for the other to get done. Of course this night it seemed like Kimmie was taking her sweet time getting back so Shego wasn't sure if she could continue the tradition tonight.

She was trying though. After she rocked Shin to sleep she stayed up to watch a few cheesy late night movies with Bonnie for awhile. During the movies, the two had gossiped a bit out their day and what each of their respective lovers liked to do in the bedroom. Course all she really learned was that Bonnie and Ron hadn't gotten too far into the intimate part of their relationship but apparently the buffoon seemed to know what to do with those large hands of his.

Shego wasn't really sure how to feel about that.

Eventually though, Bonnie got too tired and had to go to sleep. Shego reluctantly let her go and tried to finish the movies by herself but with no one there to talk to or help her make fun of them, they were just stupid. So she checked on Shin one last time before going into her shared room with Kim. Being that it was late already she went ahead and slipped into her sleeping garb of a green T-shirt and black panties before sitting down at the computer in the corner of their room.

She browsed through her favorite celebrity gossip sites to find out the latest dirt on everyone. Apparently Camille Leon was disinherited from her family because of all her rowdy partying ways and Brittina's publicists were still trying to pick up the pieces after her break down a few months ago. Heather and Quinn were slated to be in yet another movie together and Jimmy Blamhammer was trying to get funding for "Bricks of Fury VI: The Brick Returns".

The most interesting things she found though were all the rumors about herself and Kim. Since they avoided the paparazzi like the plague, people seemed to take much fun in trying to guess what their home life was like. Particularly their bedroom life. Some of things made her laugh, other disgusted her and some disturbed her at how close it was the truth. She had half a mind to log onto these boards to straighten them all out, but she knew how Kimmie felt about her talking about their private life. Besides, she was never really one to care what other people thought about her. So as far as she was considered they could talk all they want cause at the end of the day all they had were their fantasies while she actually had Kimmie. That was good enough for her.

Course it'd be even better if Princess would get her butt home here soon, she thought grumpily.

No sooner had she finished the thought than she heard the door to the bedroom open and close. She spun around in the chair to find a rather tired looking Kim stumble over to the closet and pull it open.

"Well finally!" Shego exclaimed. "I was about to pass out in front of the computer here."

"Yeah sorry about that," Kim said as she hung up her belt and tossed her gloves into the hamper. "I just ended up having the weirdest night."

"So then it was more than just a simple missing tiger?"

"Oooh yeah," the redhead muttered as she pulled off her shirt.

"Well you know it could have gone a lot smoother if you had someone else to help you," Shego said in a "admit I'm write" kind of tone.

"Look can you please not start with that? I'm just not in the mood."

The pale green woman blinked. "Sorry, didn't know it was that bad."

"It wasn't I just..." Kim paused as she slipped off her pants and tossed them in the hamper as well. "I'll tell you in the morning. Right now I just want to get some sleep."

She crossed over to the dresser and started to pull open the top drawer where she kept her sleeping clothes when Shego's hand suddenly appeared behind her and closed it. She looked up at the slight taller woman in surprise as Shego's eyes trailed up and down her body.

"Shego what are-" she started to ask.

"I like you in that," she remarked, gesturing to Kim's pink bra and panties.

"I'm sure you do but it's pretty cool tonight so..."

Before Kim could reach for the dresser again, Shego pulled her into a surprise hug.

"I'll keep you warm," she whispered into younger woman's ear.

Kim stood still for a moment and could already feel the heat from Shego's body begin to warm her up. She wrapped her arms around her lover's back as she rested her head on her shoulder.

"Well I definitely like that idea," she whispered into Shego's ear.

"Knew you would. And as much fun as this is..."

Shego left the sentence unfinished as she pulled back as suddenly as she had embraced Kim then quickly scooped the redhead into her arms. Kim let out a surprised giggled then wrapped her arms around Shego's shoulders.

"Well good to know you can pick me up like this. That'll come in handy on our wedding night," Kim joked.

Shego stopped dead in her tracks and stared at her with wide eyes.

"W-wedding?!" she nearly shrieked.

"Shego, it was a joke."

"Oh. Right. Yeah. Silly me."

"Good to know what you think of the idea though," Kim replied in annoyance.

"Come on Kimmie don't be like that," Shego pleaded holding her closer. "You just caught me off guard is all."

"So you would like to marry me then?"

"Eventually. Once we're both in a more stable place and, you know, it's legal."

"Since when have you ever worried about the law."

"Since a certain little redhead got me back into being one of the good guys."

"But I thought you liked being the bad girl?" Kim asked with a smirk.

"Only for you Princess, only for you," Shego smirked back before bringing her head forward to give Kim a quick kiss.

She then walked them both over to the bed, gently laying Kim down before crawling over her to get to her side and giving the redhead a nice view of her butt in the process. When she finally settled in, Kim quickly rolled over onto her right side and snuggled up against her. Shego smiled happily as she wrapped one arm around Kim's waist and laid a hand on top of the one resting on her stomach.

"Night Shego," Kim said sleepily.

"'Good night Wesley. Good job today. Most likely kill you in the morning'," Shego quipped.

"What?!" Kim asked, holding herself up with one arm to stare down at Shego in surprise.

"Oh come on, you can't tell me that you never saw that movie!"

"'The Princess Bride'? Of course I saw it. Just surprised that you have. Or that you'd say that right now."

"Hey I can appreciate a good movie. As for the quote," she shrugged, "just seemed like the thing to say at the time."

Kim smiled and shook her head. "You know you can be really weird sometimes."

"Hey!"

"Shhh," she whispered, placing a finger over Shego's lips. "I like weird.

She then leaned down and gave her lover a light kiss before settling down for the night once again.

"Love you," she said before going to sleep.

"Love you too," Shego replied before joining her in slumber land.

The End

Author's Notes: Hey how about that? Got this chapter done a week after the last one. Guess these small fics are good for me after all. Anyway, that concludes this filler story and next I'll be doing a bunch of "Spotlight" chapters and then back to the lengthy, six chapter angst fests that are becoming the "MI" norm. Well that or "That Other Girl" can't decide yet. Either way something good is coming around the corner.

Oh and yes I know it's odd that Sheela's a lesbian and I might be putting too many of them into this universe, but there is a reason for that. I think some of you will be able to pick up on that hint from her dialogue earlier in the chapter. If not then just wait and see. Like the song says, "Trust me I've got a plan when the light go up you'll understand."

See ya around folks!