Kigo

20) Tangled Up in Green by Poetheather1

Chapter 20: Redressing Scars
Tangled Up In Green

Heather O'Malley

Kim Possible is owned by the Disney Corporation and they have no connection to this what so ever. These characters are used without their permission and include a plea not to be sued as I have no money.

Redressing Scars

Shego and Anne talked quietly in the kitchen while Kim slept blissfully on the couch, curled up under a blanket. Anne reached out and rested a hand on Shego's arm, supportingly. "So sweetie, what is the problem between you and your brothers? It's clear that there is something but I just want to help."

Shego nodded and rested her forehead on the dining room table. If only Mrs. Dr. Possible didn't sound so caring, then it would be easier to tell her to fuck off and leave her the hell alone. But she didn't. With a sigh Shego said, "I know Mom, but this still hurts."

"They do say that shared pain is lessened." prodded Anne, figuring that this had to be some old pain that still wore the other girl down and might just help Anne better understand her interesting Daughter-in-law. She was concerned about the woman and wanted to help take care of her, as if she had gained a second daughter.

Shego sat there and thought. Maybe Kim's mom could help? It wasn't like she would be talking to a shrink. Besides, Anne was pretty cool and that impressed Shego. "I...I was abused as a child."

Anne held her breath, not wanting anything to give the woman any reason to stop sharing her troubles now that she started. Shego just continued, growing ever more lost in the past as she spoke. "It all started about a year before the meteor came and changed my life forever. My dad came in to tell me a bedtime story, like he always did, but this time it was different. This time he started...touching me. I knew it was wrong but he said he loved me and it screwed with my head. Every goddamn night he came in and did that. Every night. He told me that was what women were for."

Anne was horrified at those words, knowing that true evil rarely had anything to do with world conquest. The ER's were filled with such casual inhumanities. How Shego felt about it was clear from the clenched hands wreathed in plasma. She held herself back, waiting to see what else Shego had to say.

"After the first time...he did something else...I went and told my mother. And you know what? The bitch thought I was lying, that I was trying to upset our happy home. I was in pain and scared and my mother threw me away as if I were making this whole thing up.

"It only got worse after that, since he knew that my mom wouldn't do anything. I hid all the time and I was hiding in that tree house, hoping against hope that something would save me. There was a spot in the sky growing closer and I stood there watching it draw nearer, growing brighter and brighter. My brothers had been sent to come find me and that's how they got dragged into this.

"When I first came to and was told that my mother and father were dead, I was overjoyed. I had been saved. Surely my brothers had known what had been going on, but all they did was to cry about the loss of those two worthless human beings. It made me sick. They were complicit in what had happened to me and I was able to pretend otherwise for a little while but eventually I had to leave. I just couldn't stand to be around such hypocrites."

Anne slid over and grabbed Shego tightly into a hug. "You are safe here. That...woman may not have loved you but I do. You make my little girl happy and you are a member of my family now, forever, got that?"

Shego nodded weakly, tears falling onto the surface of the table. She hated the past and hated feeling weak. Anne continued, "Now that I made that clear, have you thought about the fact that your brothers may not have known, at all?"