History Fanfic / AloneTogether

* BrickJoke: The [[VictorySex celebration]] of Kim's 30th birthday in the Other World provides both a significant plot driver (when [[HomoeroticDream Shego remembers it]]) and a punch line for the final scene (when [[LuminescentBlush Kim remembers it]]).

* TheBeard: Ron acts as Kim's beard on her insistence to prevent media backlash and give her time to figure things out.

* TheyDo: [[spoiler: Kim and Shego tie the knot to each other in the alternate universe, in the biggest cathedral they could find.]]

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2949422/1/bAlone_b_bTogether_b Alone, Together]]'' by [=Failte200=] is one of the grand masterpieces of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' {{fanfiction}}.[[note]]There's quite a lot of it - over seven thousand entries on Website/FanFictionDotNet, for example - and some of the authors really know their stuff, so that's much better praise [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative than it might sound like.]][[/note]] It is a highly-detailed and realistic (for ''Kim Possible'') account of what it takes to develop an intimate relationship between the [[ActionGirl main character]] and one of her [[DarkActionGirl main]] [[TheDragon opponents]].

The story begins as many do, with Kim and Shego fighting in one of Drakken's lairs. But things soon go awry as they accidentally activate his latest device, a dimensional portal that sends them to an alternate universe that looks normal until [[UnexpectedlyAbandoned they discover that all the people have vanished]]. Over the course of the next twenty-one years, Kim teaches herself math to find a way back home, while Shego studies medicine to keep both of them alive in this strange new world. Over time, they fall in love.

And that's just the first half.

Where the story really gets interesting is when they come back from the alternate universe, [[ResetButton restored to their original ages with no memory of the experience]], to discover that [[NarniaTime they've been gone for thirteen days]]. They seem completely unaffected... until each of them experiences odd little shifts in behavior, skills they didn't know before and don't remember learning, and finally flashback memories of Other World experiences. As they realize the connection to the accident, they seek each other out to compare notes, begin re-establishing a friendship, and ultimately fall in love all over again.

The story is notable for its intelligent and patient handling of the Kim/Shego pairing, taking the time to develop a believable romance between the two of them rather than going the "abandoned snow cabin" route from the get-go. It also features some very entertaining meditation on interdimensional travel that is based so heavily in real world science that it's difficult to tell where the two separate. It's sweet, funny, and absolutely heartrending in certain places, and above all it's a story that begs to be read.

* BrickJoke: The [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex celebration]] of Kim's 30th birthday in the Other World provides both a significant plot driver (when [[HomoeroticDream Shego remembers it]]) and a punch line for the final scene (when [[LuminescentBlush Kim remembers it]]).

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: This is the one area (other than the [[PortmanteauCoupleName Kigo]] relationship) where this fic noticeably diverges from {{canon}}. It treats Team Possible as informal Global Justice auxiliaries rather than as freelancers; as a result, they get sidelined when Dr. Director notices that Kim is behaving oddly. This could be considered an example of PragmaticAdaptation, since the absence of regular missions allows for greater focus on Kim's personal issues.

* WeddingRingRemoval: Shego removes the neck chain where she keeps her ring (so that she won't accidentally destroy it by activating her HandBlast powers) just before [[spoiler:trying to kill herself]], not wanting anything connected with Kim to be part of that.

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Gasoline goes bad after a few months, diesel after a year or so. Even if it had been treated with a stabilizer, it would only be good for about a year (gasoline) or three (diesel). There's no way they could have had working cars and electricity for two decades in the other world.

* BerserkButton: Shego burns down an entire city in response to seeing a magazine cover that displays an oversexualized young girl on the cover. Of course, this is because [[spoiler: her father molested her once when she was a child.]]
** An ''empty'' city in the Other World, mind you.

* SlaveToPR: Kim is initially unwilling to acknowledge her attraction to Shego because she's afraid to face public reaction (if and when they get home) to her being a lesbian, as she's a celebrity crime fighter. Later, [[spoiler:she figures out a way to get home, but can't bring herself to use it until it becomes necessary to save Shego's life after an accident, since she believes she'd have to her relationship with Shego when she returns]]. After they get home, she doesn't know how to deal with the increasingly clear memories that she and Shego were lovers in the Other World, and when all else fails tries to stay in the closet using Ron as TheBeard.

* {{Determinator}}: The only way home is a non-functioning interdimensional portal created by a genius MadScientist, so Kim sits down with a pile of textbooks to learn enough physics to understand it and the skills to repair it, despite knowing the size of the task.

* EmbarrassingFirstName[=/=]EmbarrassingMiddleName: Shego's actual name turns out to be [[spoiler:Kimberly Anne van Gogh. Even after Kim is her friend and lover rather than her ArchEnemy, she is reluctant to reveal that they have the same given names.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Shego, as memories of her relationship with Kim in the other world start surfacing. [[spoiler:Also Drakken, when Shego's mention of the St. Louis earthquake in the Other World gives him an idea that ultimately leads him to prevent the earthquake from happening in the real world, which gets him the recognition for his genius that he always craved.]]

* [[SituationalSexuality Sitch Sexuality]]: As the two start becoming attracted to each other, they tell themselves that it's because there is no one else available. Shego clings to this notion longer; Kim starts to suspect that she was really gay all along. The difference may be that Kim is a virgin while Shego has heterosexual experience with [[spoiler: Señor Senior Junior]].
* [[SlaveToPR Slave To The Food Chain]]: Kim is initially unwilling to acknowledge her attraction to Shego because she's afraid to face public reaction (if and when they get home) to her being a lesbian. Later, [[spoiler:she figures out a way to get home, but can't bring herself to use it until it becomes necessary to save Shego's life after an accident]]. After they get home, she doesn't know how to deal with the increasingly clear memories that she and Shego were lovers in the Other World, and when all else fails tries to stay in the closet using Ron as TheBeard.

* SymbolicMutilation: Each of the two suffers an injury that deprives them of a major character trait -- [[SheFu ultra-athletic]] Kim gets a broken ankle that doesn't properly heal; [[DeadpanSnarker sharp-tongued]] Shego is left mute in the aftermath of [[spoiler:her suicide attempt]]. Like everything else that physically happens to them in the Other World, these are [[ResetButton undone]] when they return home.

* TheyDo: [[spoiler: Kim and Shego tie the knot to each other in the alternate universe.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the few [[PortmanteauCoupleName Kigo]] stories out there that actually leaves Drakken in a better place than he had been in at the beginning. [[spoiler: He manages to prove his genius and Kim even becomes his intern at the end.]]

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: This is the one area (other than the [[PortmanteauCoupleName Kigo]] relationship) where this fic noticeably diverges from {{canon}}. It treats Team Possible as informal Global Justice auxiliaries rather than as freelancers; as a result, they get sidelined when Dr. Director notices that Kim is behaving oddly. This could be considered an example of PragmaticAdaptation, since the absence of missions allows for greater focus on Kim's personal issues.

* PragmaticAdaptation: A independent movie was made of this story, though it took a BroadStrokes approach of being about two women alone in an empty world, obviously stripping out all the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' aspects. Still, that's [[AscendedFanfic a movie based on a work of cartoon fanfiction]].

* WeddingDay: [[spoiler: A beautiful ceremony is held for Shego and Kim ''by'' Shego and Kim, because they're the only ones in that dimension.]]

* BiTheWay: The bartender.

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: After being chased by a pack of wild dogs and finding that she couldn't throw plasma balls fast enough to keep them at bay, Shego decided that they needed to start carrying guns (despite Kim's misgivings).

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2949422/1/bAlone_b_bTogether_b Alone, Together]]'' by [=Failte200=] is one of the grand masterpieces of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' {{fanfiction}}.[[note]]There's quite a lot of it - over seven thousand entries on Website/FanfictionDotNet, for example - and some of the authors really know their stuff, so that's much better praise [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative than it might sound like.]][[/note]] It is a highly-detailed and realistic (for ''Kim Possible'') account of what it takes to develop an intimate relationship between the [[ActionGirl main character]] and one of her [[DarkActionGirl main]] [[TheDragon opponents]].

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2949422/1/bAlone_b_bTogether_b Alone, Together]]'' by [=Failte200=] is one of the grand masterpieces of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' {{fanfiction}}.[[note]]There's quite a lot of it - over seven thousand entries on [[FanfictionDotNet Fanfiction.net]], for example - and some of the authors really know their stuff, so that's much better praise [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative than it might sound like.]][[/note]] It is a highly-detailed and realistic (for ''Kim Possible'') account of what it takes to develop an intimate relationship between the [[ActionGirl main character]] and one of her [[DarkActionGirl main]] [[TheDragon opponents]].

(No relation to Steven A. Gallacci's webcomic [[Webcomic/AloneTogether "Alone Together"]]. And neither are related to the episode of the same name from [[WesternAnimation Steven Universe]].)

(No relation to Steven A. Gallacci's webcomic [[Webcomic/AloneTogether "Alone Together"]]. Of course, neither are related to the episode from [[WesternAnimation Steven Universe]].)

(No relation to Steven A. Gallacci's webcomic [[Webcomic/AloneTogether "Alone Together"]].)