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"As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, there is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you." - Karen Clodfelder

I hopped onto my bike right when I saw Kimmie poke her head out the window. I waved at her again with a teasing smirk and drove off with the Cuddle Buddy held securely to me. I all ready had an angry Princess for kidnapping her stuffed animal, and a dirty one would make an enraged one! Not that I didn't mind an angry Kimmie. It was fun fighting an angry one and not to mention she looked good when she was mad.

I furrowed my eyebrows and shook my head. "Hah! What the hell are you thinking, Shego?" I said aloud, and hunched as I kicked up the speed of my bike.

I had purposely left my bike outside the abandoned warehouse so that Kimmie could know where I was. and it didn't take long for her to find me. I smirked when I saw that she was clad in her mission outfit, that outfit that she had planned on giving up wearing forever. But I wasn't going to let that happen.

"Shego! Where is he?"

"Well hello to you too, Pumpkin!"

"Shego," she glared, "where. Is. My. Cuddle. Buddy? If you don't tell me I swear I will kick your butt!"

My smirk widened. Now we're getting somewhere! "Is that a challenge?"

She had replied as she came charging at me with a flying kick that I had easily dodged.

"You're getting out of shape all ready, Princess!"

"Hah! That's not what you said when I kicked your butt earlier!" she retorted as she threw a punch.

I grabbed her fist then her forearm, throwing her over my head. She landed with a thud, causing dust to fly at her impact. She hissed in pain, holding her back as she crawled onto her knees.

"Look whose the one kicking butt now!"

I lit up my hands and flung a plasma ball at her, but she managed to dodge it in time. I threw another, but only ended up scorching the floor.

"No buffoon to help you now! Did he quit too or something?"

"No," she told me, dodging another plasma ball. "He's at his honeymoon."

"Oh, that's right. The buffoon got married last week to that Japanese chick Yogurt...or something like that."

Kimmie laughed. "Yori!"

"Yeah, her," I charged at her, tackling her to the ground, and pinning her arms above her head. "I can't believe a buffoon as stupid as him got married!"

"Ron's not stupid!" she defended.

I gave her an "Really?" look, and she sighed in defeat.

"Okay...Maybe Ron's not that bright but-"

"Exactly my point Princess."

We were driving off the reason why we were really here, and so I led us back on track.

"Do you really want to miss this?" I asked her.

"Miss what?"

I sighed and rolled my eyes. "Fighting each other, doy!"

She turned her head away and looked sad. "I dunno...I guess..."

"What do you mean you guess?!" I shouted, my voice echoing in the warehouse.

She looked at me suddenly. I guessed she was surprised at me raising my voice at her like that out of nowhere, but I didn't care. She deserved it.

"Shego," she started as I got off her and sat down beside her, glaring into the shadows of the warehouse. "Why are you mad at me?"

I scratched my head, frustrated. I don't know why exactly I was, but I just was. I exhaled loudly through my nose and brought my knees up to my chest, resting my elbows on my knees.

"I don't know," I told her honestly. "Maybe it's because you're giving up, and you're known not to give up. Maybe it's because I won't have any competition or that I'll just die of boredom because you weren't there to fight me," I was beginning to sound cheesy so I had to come up with something sarcastic. " I mean seriously! Those G.J agents are a joke!"

We laughed, letting it bounce off the walls before letting it go out into the night. I looked up found that the roof of the warehouse was missing. The moon was directly above us, bright, full, and shining. The stars shined faintly against like glitter in the sky. I snuck a sideways glance at the hero beside me and saw her giving a small smile up at the sky. It made me wonder how such a simple thing as the sky could make anyone smile so easily. Maybe it was just me. Maybe it was because I tend to overlook the small things in life with the money I have. No, it must be this girl beside me. There's just something about her that makes her smile contagious and make my thoughts sound so cheesy...

"Why are you planning to quit?" I asked, looking at her while she stared up at the night sky.

"I told you, I'm tired of the whole hero thing."

I raised an eyebrow and she looked at me at the corner of her eye. She let out a sigh and turned her head to me.

"Okay, maybe it's more than that. I just want to keep my family safe from the dangers I face especially since Ron is starting a family of his own."

"And you now realize how dangerous your hobby is after what? Seven years?"

"Shego," she rolled her eyes, "I'm in college, and I need to find a real job!"

"Then why don't you just stick with this one? Just get money this time!"

"I don't want to stick with something I've been doing since I was fourteen!" she looked sad all of a sudden. "And I'd feel bad for taking people's money after saving them."

"Kimmie, you need to toughen up! Think about yourself for once jeez!"

"I know, but I still can't just do that!"

"Well," I said, "Any job offers?"

She laughed and I looked at her weirdly. "What?"

"It's just that Director Betty had offered me to become one of her agents."

"There! See! You can become one of those G.J agents and still fight me!"

She suddenly sat up and looked at me with a mysterious smirk.

"What?"

"'So I can still fight you'? You either really like fighting me, or you just really like me and you'll miss me when I quit!"

I must have looked shocked because she laughed aloud.

I snarled at her and got up, disappearing for a moment behind the boxes and crates.

"Aw come on Shego!" she said. "It's okay to like me!"

I appeared again with her Cuddle Buddy in my possession and handed it to her, glaring. "Here," before I could stop myself, I said, "and don't you dare quit!"

I mentally berated myself for saying that. That would only give her more ammo to tease me with! Stupid!

She gave one look at her Cuddle Buddy before looking back up at me with a smile. "Thanks Shego!"

To my surprise, she tip toed and kissed me on the cheek. Before I could react she turned and ran out the warehouse without another word. Her scent lingered in the air as I stood there shocked. I lifted one hand to the cheek she kissed and then looked at my fingertips. They were covered in lipstick.