Code name Ariadne:Saving Kim. A Saving Shego story

Chapter 5

Cassie sat in her  living room trying  to  read a book and failing miserably. Sheera's disappearance had everyone on edge. She had stopped the interrogations of Alexander because the look Shego had given her father and Alex's comment to Morgan had her questioning Shego's claims about not knowing Sellece. Was this another one of those things she wouldn't understand or did her sister simply refuse to talk about it? Either way Cassie needed answers. Her sister was going to have to realize she wasn't some little girl anymore. She understood her sister keeping things like this from her when she was younger but now it was jeopardizing the safety of others. Sellece needed to be stopped before she found the new guardian of water and of the north  and started another war and got it right this time.  She was certain if Sellece caught Thalia it wouldn't be some dark cell the littlest of the Reyes sisters would be headed too. Sellece would most certainly kill her. She would not risk Thalia breaking out again and taking what she believed was hers, even if the younger girl ruled over Water and its sub elements. Was it more than a little wrong of her to want to see them battle it out though? Yeah, it was probably a little morbid considering one would most certainly meet her death in that duel. The sound of the front door opening caught her attention. Crap, it was Shego. Cassie quickly hid the book she was reading. It was her sister's dream journal.

Ok ok she new it was an invasion of privacy. And immature. But she had needed answers Shego had simply been unwilling to give. Damn it. She was dead. She could see the fury in her sister's eyes. So much for proving to Shego she was an adult. "Cass, do you want to explain to me what you were doing with this?"
She held up the book. Apparently, Cassie hadn't hid it quick enough. Theodore, sensing the anger and barely controlled rage in Shego's voice and eyes stepped in front of her. Cassie put a steadying hand on her little brother's shoulder. His dull eyes glowed with pent up power. Shadows swirled around him, mixing with the light to form deadly blades. "Theo." She said gently. "Cassie." Shego said again, and this time the younger boy raised his eyes to her. Cassie pulled him to her side as plasma glowed at the tips of their sister's fingers. "Explain. Now."
Cassie flashed back to the dreams she had been having. About frozen soldiers on a blood soaked battle field. A young girl being ripped from her mother's arms by an older sibling. Screams of the dying.  Raging winds and haunting cries of war Griffens. And something else. A couple fighting on a mountain top overlooking the Reys home. A young ice wolf pack running through a dark and  desolate landscape. One of the people on the mountain being her sister. Shego stepped towards her. A growl from a nearby corner stopped her as a young achiever, a son of The pack she ruled, came to her side. Cassie sent him and Theodore to the other room. She needed to do this alone. "I'm sorry," she began. "But I've been seeing things in my dreams. I needed to know if, if you 2 knew each other." She sounded lame, the words  died on her tongue and she lowered her head under her sister's gaze. Then she remembered those they had just lost, the senseless violence Sheera,  Sellece's student, had been capable of.   And the thoughts of those they could lose if a civil war became a world war. If Sellece succeeded in what ever her plans were. She lifted her head. "I know it was wrong of me Diana." She said softly. "But I am their leader. They are my family and I will not stand to lose anymore of them."
She knew, in a way, in some dark corner of her mind, that this was a part of the job they didn't want to think about. The dying part. They risked their lives for earth and Arraisia. But the slaughter of those barely in training and of those  too old to fight had been too much. And she wouldn't let that happen again if she could help it. Her sister seemed surprise by the use of her birth name. The book  dropped from her hands as she studied her younger sister's face. "You wanna know how I knew her?" She said quietly. "Fine, Cass. We were lovers, once. I helped her enslave an entire kingdom and a little girl too young to understand why her innocence drove her sister mad. And while they are your family, you are mine. And I refuse to let her strip you of what little innocence you have left the way she  did Thalia."
Shego turned to walk away. Cassie didn't know what saddened her more. The fear and disappointment in Shego's eyes or the resigned tone of her voice. "Shego?" She said softly. The older girl turned around. "Yeah?"
"You are my family too. And I think I have seen what she has planned for you. I won't let her tear us apart. I can't lose you."
Shego crossed to her and pulled her close. Her older sister's haunted eyes met hers. "She isn't going to take me away from you Cass."
But the memory of Shego's screams as the sun hung like fire in the sky was too vivid for Cassie, even if it had only been a dream.