Kigo

24) Tangled Up in Green by Poetheather1

Chapter 24: Barkin Crow
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.

Barkin Crow

Shego was in the Teacher's Lounge going over her lesson plans for the next week when the door opened and the huge mass that was Steve Barkin marched in to the room. The look on his face was serious and he appeared very determined. "Miss Go, I've been wondering where you went."

Shego sighed and looked down at her cup of green tea, wishing the light colored liquid held any answers. Of all the people she had to deal with right now, he wasn't even on the list. Hell she would rather deal with Drakken right now than him. Just seeing the large ex-military man reminded her of the simpering Miss Go and how she had not been pleased with her mind being altered like that. It also reminded her of how she had 'liked' Barkin when she had been like that. The thought churned her stomach. "Actually Steve, Miss Go isn't my name anymore. I got married since we last talked."

Steve frowned deeply, obviously not pleased by this development. He had heard that his Miss Go had gotten married but he couldn't believe it. She was his perfect woman and surely that meant they were destined to be together. There was no way that he could simply accept this travesty of destiny. They were supposed to be together forever. "I heard that but I didn't believe it."

Shego waved her hand with the ring, hoping that might get through his thick skull. There had only been one good thing to come of that incident and that had been the relationship with Kimmie that had changed that day. "I'm married. End of story. Doy! Can't you understand that?"

Steve eyed the braided leaf ring warily and then looked at Miss Go. His heart ached to see the platinum band. "I thought we meant something to each other?"

Shego rubbed her temples with one hand and then looked up at Steve with hardened eyes. Kim would have recognized the look in the green eyes instantly and probably would have ducked by instinct. Shego was clearly not pleased and was looking forward to doing something; however, her options had been curtailed by her deal with GJ, which was frustrating. She had to think of some way to get this through the idiots head. "Are you aware that you used the past tense verb there Steve?"

This threw the large man with the buzz cut for a loop. Verb tense? What the hell did that have to do with anything? "Uh...I guess."

"And that the use of a past tense verb indicates action that occurred in the past?" continued the reformed thief, hoping she could lead Barkin by the nose to the fact that there was no way ever that they would be an item. The thought itself made her shiver.

Steve just nodded.

"Now since that verb choice indicates a past state of being rather than a current state of being, do you think that this conversation we are having needs to continue?" The steel grew in her voice as she was wanting nothing more than to set fire to the man's hair, all of it, on his head, on his body, burn it all off in a nice controlled use of plasma. It was difficult to keep her plasma from covering her hands and setting fire to her papers.

Barkin ran that through his brain a few times to make sense of the sentence. She had been talking a bit more technical than he was used to and it had thrown him. He really had no idea what the correct answer was anymore. "Uhm..."

"Listen Steve, because I am only going to tell you this once. My wife would be upset by this conversation and that would displease me greatly. Displeasing me by continuing this line of inquiry will result in a charge of sexual harassment from me against you. Am I making myself clear?" She raised her voice at the end, figuring that addressing him like a private who had screwed up in basic training would get through to him faster than anything else. Sometimes the military mindset was good for something.