A/N: I don't own anything. This idea came from mae-E and I hope that she likes it. It was supposed to be a one-shot but it was getting way too long so I have split it up. The second part I hope to have up later this week.
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"Really?" Kim screamed as she felt the water turned icy in a matter of minutes. She was supposed to be taking this refreshing hot shower but now she was rushing to shut off the water so that she didn't get frostbite. "The manager was supposed to fix that." She grumbled as she pulled back the shower curtain and reached for a towel. Thankfully she had placed the towel close to the shower.
Wrapping it around her body, she stumbled out of the tub and stubbed her toe. "Crap." She muttered as she rubbed her sore big toe. This day was not starting off right just like every other day this week. Yesterday she had killed her alarm clock by knocking it off her nightstand. Two days ago she had broken her favorite mirror. Apparently you did get seven years bad luck for breaking a mirror.
She finally got dressed before walking into her kitchen to grab her breakfast and coffee. Grabbing her breakfast bar, she filled the coffee filter and poured in the water before turning away. The coffee pot started making a weird noise but she wasn't sure why. The pot was only a year old so nothing should be wrong with it. Turning around, she watched as the burner caught fire on the paper towels that she had place too close to the pot. "No, no, no." She said as she reached for the towels when the actually pot exploded. She managed to cover her eyes from the glass and hot liquid but the floor and countertops were not as lucky.
"This is just not my week." She groaned as she went in search of the broom so that she could clean up the glass. Thankfully the coffee had put out the fire so she didn't have to worry about that now. She opened the pantry and grabbed the mop and broom. She was going to be late for work but this had to be cleaned up now.
Finally finishing up, she decided just to get some coffee at work because she wouldn't have time to stop anywhere on the way and there was no way that she was making coffee at home until she got a new coffee pot. She grabbed her purse and fished out her keys as walked out the side door. She climbed into her car sighed as it cranked without any problems. The past week, she had being babying her car because it had started acting weird. She didn't have time to take it to the shop right now so it had to make it a little longer.
With the way this day was going, she had been sure that it would be next in the line of stuff that had gone wrong this week. Backing out her driveway, she made her way to work. Hopefully work would be smooth sailing because she needed a break from her life.
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"Uh Kimberly, is that your phone outside the door?" Dave, one of the assistant coaches, said from her doorway.
"What?" Kim asked jumping up from behind her desk stubbing her toe once again. "This is just not my week." She muttered as she made her way over to the front door. She hoped that it wasn't her phone since it was pouring outside. Scratching her neck, she opened the door and almost cried. It was her phone sitting in a puddle of water. It would be the third time that she had to replace her phone. Thankfully she had insurance on it so it would only be another $50 but that was better than paying over $300 for a new phone.
She finally walked outside and grabbed the phone and got drenched in the process. She had a change of clothes in her office so it didn't matter about being wet but she really just wanted this week to be over.
As she made her way back to the office, her right arm was starting to itch. It was like it was burning from the inside out. Looking at her arm, she saw little red bumps. What was going on?
She detoured to the bathroom so that she could see what was wrong. Hopefully it was just an allergic reaction but she didn't know what from. It looked like it was just on her arms but it was still enough to cause her to worry. Heading back to her office, she quickly changed, applied some medicine to her arms and headed back down to the floor. Kids were starting to show up for their class. She had three girls going to Regionals in three weeks and they couldn't afford to lose a day.
The day past rather quickly which was a good thing for Kimberly. After the last one of her girls left she made her way back to her office. She had to check her voicemail on her office phone since her cellphone was out of commission. The first message was from her neighbor telling her that she saw Kim's cat run out this morning when she had gone in to check everything over at lunch. She loved the old woman and was thankful that she went in at lunch to make sure that Kimberly didn't leave anything on. It was an arrangement that they had come up with since Kim's stove had caught on fire a few months ago.
Deleting that message, she hoped that her cat came back tonight because she really did love that crazy cat. The next message sent her to her chair. Tony, her boyfriend of a year, had just broken up with her over the phone. Who does that? It didn't matter that she wanted to break up with him but she was waiting until he came back into to town before she said anything. Tony was just that kind of guy. He had probably been cheating on her while he was in New York. She wouldn't put it past him.
Deleting that message, she sighed as she finished up before setting the phone back in its cradle. Well she didn't have to worry about cleaning up before Tony came in since he wouldn't be back at her house again. She did have to stop by the phone store though since she had to replace her phone again.
She stood up and grabbed her bag of clothes so that she could wash them again when she realized that she had just washed them. Why then had she broke out over them because as soon as she had changed, she had stopped itching? She remembered then that she had gotten some new detergent and had washed in it two nights ago. It was the last time that she bought something called Pure Joy that was on sale for a dollar.
"Take it easy, Kimberly." Dave called out as Kim waved to him. He was helping out some of the boys who would be in Regionals next week. They were doing well and should make it through no problem.
She made her way to the door and saw that it was still raining. Really? It had been raining every day and she was of being soaked after a trip to and from her car. Stepping outside, she made a run for it but she was still soaked. Groaning she cranked her car and made it way to the phone store. This had to be quick because the rain was making her cold.
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"Finally." Kim muttered as she took a sip of her coffee. She was at home and warm in her pjs. It had been a long day and even longer when she had had to have her car towed home from the cellphone store. The guy was very nice when he showed up but even he couldn't get her car to move. He told her that it was probably the transmission. Once she had gotten home, she had called some of the shops in the area and found out that to replace the transmission would be over $3000. It would make more sense to buy a new car instead of fixing the transmission. She needed a new car anyway since she had had that car since she had won Gold at the Pan Global games. It had been a cheap car because she wanted to save all the money she could in case she couldn't find a job after winning. Of course she had gotten a job within a week but she never got a newer car.
Sitting down in front of the TV, Kim just wanted to cry. Everything had gone wrong this week and she couldn't help thinking about what her life would have been like if she would have gone back to Angel Grove after winning. Everyone had wanted her back but so much had happened and she just wanted a fresh start in Florida.
She watched TV for a while before getting up and going to bed. Hopefully tomorrow would be a better day for her.
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"No, you need to get more height on that flip or you will never get in the double twist." Kim instructed from beside the beam. Nicole was having problems getting the height she needed for that move.
"I'm doing everything you said but I can't make myself go any higher." Nicole said as she jumped off the beam next to Kimberly.
"Okay let me show you." She said climbing up on the beam. She was always showing the girls certain moves so that they could see someone else do the move. Taking a breath, Kim walked to the end of the beam and turned around to face the other end. Squaring up, she started her move and hit the center before flipping and doing the double twist before landing on the beam. Unfortunately she had come down way too hard and fell off the beam. She landed on her knee and cried out in pain.
"Coach Hart, are you okay?' Nicole asked as she rushed to Kimberly's side.
"No." Kim cried out as the other coaches rushed over to her.
"Kim, where does it hurt?" Dave asked as he knelt down beside her.
"Knee and ankle." She responded as he placed his hands on her knee. She cried out as soon as she felt his hands on her knee. This hurt more than any other fall. She knew that something was really wrong this time and not just a bruise.
"Kimberly, I'm going to take you to the hospital. I think you have done some serious damage with that fall." Dave stated as Kim groaned. She really hated going to the hospital especially since her friends would freak when they found out. It might be a good idea to wait and tell them after everything is over and she was back at home before she called them.
"Just don't call my friends." Kim moaned as Dave shook his head at her.
"Don't worry; I will let you take care of that." He stated as he carefully scooped Kimberly up in his arms and made his way to the bus that the gym used for meets. Nicole had walked with him so that she could open the door for him and make sure that Kimberly was okay. She was worried about her coach since she felt responsible for Kimberly's pain. Opening the door, she watched as Dave set Kim in the front seat and buckled her up.
"Nicole, go back inside and please don't worry. Kimberly will be fine and this is not your fault. You know that Kimberly doesn't blame you." He stated pacing his hand on her shoulder.
"No, I don't." Kim moaned again as Nicole sighed and shut the door.
"Now go back inside." Dave said again as Nicole nodded and did as he said.
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"Okay Ms. Hart, you have a broken ankle and a badly sprained knee. Now we will place your leg in a cast so that your ankle can heal but you will be released as soon as possible. I will write a prescription for some pain meds so that you will get some rest tonight. By tomorrow, the pain in your leg should ease." The doctor said as Kim nodded.
"How long do I have to wear the cast?" She asked thinking about the girls that she had to train and wondering how she was going to be able to coach them with her leg in a cast.
"I would say at least 8 weeks if not more. You will also need to go through therapy once you get the cast removed but you should retain normal function of your ankle and knee." She stated which caused Kim some worry.
"What do you mean should? It's just a simple break, right?" She asked becoming nervous about the fact that she may never walk right again.
"It is a simple break but you are older so your bones don't heal as fast as someone younger. Most of the patients I see are not yet in their teens." The doctor explained. "But you are still young enough that it should be fine but the therapy will almost ensure that you will." She said as Kim nodded.
"Okay so a cast for 8 weeks, I guess that I can't drive." Kim muttered as the doctor nodded. "I guess that it's more than fine since my car is currently out of commission." She mumbled.
"I'm sure that everything will be fine, now let's get your cast on so that you can go home." The doctor said before leaving the room.
Kim sighed as looked around the room. Apparently the doctor had been right about having younger patients. The posters on the wall were of small animals, toys, and what looked like princesses from those kid movies.
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"Thank you, Dave for bringing me home." She said as she lowered herself on the couch. She had been given crutches when she left the hospital.
"No problem, I'll be by in the morning to take you to work if you are still up for it." He stated setting her purse down on the counter.
"Yea I'll be ready to go. I might need to get up earlier but I have three girls who need to get ready for Regionals." She stated as he nodded.
"Okay, just call if you change your mind." He said before leaving her alone once again.
Kim grabbed the remote and flipped on the TV before grabbing her food. Dave had gotten her some nuggets before bringing her home. She had taken some meds before leaving the hospital and wasn't supposed to take anymore until later tonight. It was a good thing that her leg wasn't hurting or she would have taken some more.
As she ate, she flipped through the channels and found some romance movie on that she had wanted to see while it was in theaters but she hadn't had a chance. Since she was laid up for a while, it was a good time to catch up.
Four hours, two movies, and one pint of ice cream later, she got to thinking about Tommy. It had been a while since she had thought about him. It had probably been when she had learned that he was back in spandex. She couldn't believe that he had taken the mantle again but then again it was Tommy. He had always stepped up when it was needed.
Feeling some pain return to her leg, she checked the time and saw that it was past time to take her medicine. Struggling to get up, she got the bottle out of her purse and took two pills. The pills did work fast because her leg felt better after about 30 minutes. Actually she was really feeling good that she decided to see if that number that Jason gave her for Tommy was still working.
Those movies had got her to thinking that she needed to call Tommy. If she would have been in her right mind, she never would have picked up the phone and dialed that number but the drugs had removed her inhibitors where Tommy was concerned. She closed her eyes as she listen to it ring in her ear. Where was Tommy? Was he with another woman or back in spandex? Would he even answer the phone?
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"What?" Tommy muttered as he rolled over to look at the alarm clock beside his bed. Was that a 2? Who was calling him at 2:15 in the morning? Grabbing his phone, he rubbed his eyes before answering. If this was a prank call, he would pull out his old dragon dagger and see if the Dragonzord was still linked and take out whoever dared to call him at this time of the night.
"Hello." He groaned as he pressed the phone to his ear.
"Tommy." A voice said through the line which woke him up faster than anything ever could.
"Kimberly?" He questioned. He hadn't heard from her in years. The last time was probably after that incident with Divatox. There were so many times that he wanted to call and talk to her to ask her about the letter and a million other questions. Even though he wanted to talk to her that badly, he could never bring himself to call her. Jason had made sure that he had Kimberly's number several times but he had never dialed it.
"I wanted to call and say how sorry I was about that letter. I mean I know that it was years old but I always meant to tell you that. There was no other guy just my own selfishness to start over in a new state." She rambled on as Tommy sat up in bed. He could tell that something was up with Kimberly by the sound of her voice. He didn't know what had bought on this phone call but he wasn't hanging up even though he had a long day at school tomorrow. Two of his classes had tests so he could close his eyes during that time. He didn't even care if anyone cheated as long as they stayed quiet.
An hour into the call, she started crying as she explained how her week had been going and that she had been in the hospital today for falling off the beam. He wanted to teleport down there right now just to make sure that she was really alright and that she was for sure out of the hospital. He never liked seeing her in pain but at least if she here he would know that she was really okay.
Shaking his head, he listened as she told him that she realized that she still loved him and had never stopped. Her voice was beginning to slur and he wondered if she had been drinking which if she was taking any pain meds would spell trouble. Mixing alcohol and pain medicine was bad news and he prayed that Kimberly hadn't done that.
He did smile when she said that none of her relationships had worked out after she broke up with him. It was a sick pleasure but he was sort of happy that she had had terrible luck with her boyfriends since she had just thrown him away.
He looked over at his clock again and saw that it was after 4:30 which meant that they had been on the phone over two hours. Kimberly had been pouring her heart out for over two hours and he could tell that she was slur her words even more which meant that she was getting sleepy.
He was about to tell her that he would call her later so that she could get to sleep and he could catch a few hours of sleep as well. He didn't get a chance though because as he was about to say something, the line went dead.
Flipping on the lamp beside his bed, he opened the drawer in the nightstand. He had placed Kim's number in there. Finally after a few minutes he found the piece of paper that had Kim's number on it and dialed the number back. It went straight to voicemail which meant that her phone had gone dead. It made sense since she had been talking on it over two hours.
Sighing he put the paper back in the drawer and switched the light back off. He still could get a few hours of sleep. He would try her number again after she had time to charge it to really talk to her.
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"What?" Kim asked as she opened her eyes. It sounded liked someone was beating on something.
"Kimberly!" A voice yelled as Kim rubbed her eyes and struggled to stand up when she remembered her leg. Crying out in pain, she reached over and grabbed her crutches so that she could see who was at her door this early in the morning. She made her way over to her front door and opened it.
"Dave, what are you doing here?" She asked.
"Taking you to work, remember." He asked looking at her still in her pjs. "Are you not going in today?" He asked.
"What time is it? My alarm apparently didn't go off this morning, sorry." She stated as he smiled.
"I'm a little early so you have time to change, I mean if you still want to go in." He said.
"Give me ten minutes to get changed and I'm buying us breakfast this morning." She said as his laughter followed her into her room. Normally it would have only taken her five minutes to get ready but she knew that it would be slower because of her leg. While she got ready, she wondered why her alarm didn't go off. She had her phone set to go off the same time every day and she knew that she hadn't of turn it off. Thinking about her phone, she wondered where it was. She didn't see it in her room anywhere and she knew that it wasn't on the coffee table or the couch since that's where she had slept last night.
Coming back out of her room, she threw her purse strap over her head so that it was across her body instead of on one shoulder.
"Okay I'm ready but I can't find my phone. I guess that I can look for it after work." She said not really worrying about the phone at the moment. No one ever really called her so she wouldn't miss it while she was at work.
"We have a few minutes if you want me to help you find it." He offered looking around the room.
Shaking her head no she answered. "No I want breakfast more than finding my phone right now." She said as he nodded and helped her outside and into his car.
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Tommy filled his cup once again with coffee. It was his fourth cup this morning and he still felt like he was in the fog of sleep. He had already tried calling Kimberly twice this morning before he had left for work and once between classes. Every time it went straight to voicemail. He wondered if she had dropped her phone last night and broke it or if she forgot to plug it in before going to sleep herself.
She didn't have a home phone and he didn't know the number to where she worked so he couldn't check on her. He also didn't want to call Jason and have him worrying in case it was just a case of Kim not charging her phone. Jason would panic and want to go down to Florida and make sure that she was alright but Jason couldn't afford the time off. He had just taken a month off to be with Trini and their new baby.
Thinking of Jason and Trini's new baby, he wondered when Kimberly would make an appearance. He knew that she was the godmother so she should have been up here when the baby was born but she had just sent a present. She had claimed that she couldn't get away at the time. It was probably true but it had to be something else as well. Kimberly loved Jason and Trini since they were almost family to her.
Taking a sip of his coffee, he sighed and made his way back to his class. The bell was about to ring so he needed to get back to his room. Thankfully this was one of the classes that had a test. He didn't have to worry about teaching anything this class or the next. His last period was safe as well since it was his planning period.
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"I'm sorry, Kimberly." Dave said as he dropped Kimberly off that afternoon.
"Well I understand since I can't really coach the girls. If anyone needs anything just call, I have nothing better to do other than get better." She stated as Dave nodded before she shut the door.
Kim made her way over to her couch and sat down. It had been a long day at the gym since she couldn't sit down except at lunch. Ralph, the man that owned the gym, told her to go home and heal. She was a risk to the gym since she was in crutches. She did understand his point but she wasn't happy with it.
She was going to go crazy over not getting to go to work for at least 8 weeks. It was probably a good time to fly to Angel Grove but the thought of trying to navigate the airport did not appeal to her. Leaning back against the couch, she wondered once again where her phone was. It had to be around here somewhere. Yawning, she decided that it was a good time to take a nap. She couldn't do anything else but watch TV so she might as well get some sleep since she didn't get too much last night.
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Tommy was getting worried now because it had been two days since Kim's late night phone call and he hadn't been able to get ahold of her since. Something was wrong and he wanted to know what was wrong. Thankfully Jason had given him Kim's address when she had moved so that he had it in case he needed which meant that he didn't have to call Jason to get it. He already had a bag packed so all he needed was to get a plane ticket for tonight. Principal Randall had already okay for him to take the rest of the week off and next week too if he needed it. There was something good about saving your boss from an evil being.
Rushing into his house, he grabbed his bag as he called information for the airport. It took twenty minutes of his drive to the airport to book his flight. He should be there by late afternoon which was perfect. Kim should be at home unless she was out on a date which he hoped not. Forty-five minutes later, he was pulling into long-term parking and making his way to the check-in desk. He just barely had time to pick up his ticket and make his way to the gate before they started calling his name at the gate.
He finally made it onto the plane and found his seat and got comfortable. It was a direct flight which was good since he didn't feel like switching planes anywhere because that meant a layover and he didn't have time for that.
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Kim sat up after another two hour nap. It was all she had done for the past 2 days. She did feel better but she was hungry. Struggling to get up, she slowly made her way to the kitchen. Leaning against the counter, she looked through her cabinets before realizing that she didn't have any food. She was supposed to go shopping the other day but with her cell phone and her car dying she didn't go. What was she going to do now? Sighing, she opened the freezer and grabbed the last container of ice cream and a spoon from the drawer.
She would have to deal with the no food thing later because right now she just wanted to sit down. Her leg was beginning to hurt as she made her way back to the couch. She might need to look into getting a wheelchair to actually get around. The crutches were hard to move in and she couldn't hold anything like her ice cream. She had had to stuff it in her sports bra and her spoon in her mouth.
Once she made it to the couch, she dug out the ice cream and placed it on the table along with her spoon. Looking down at her clothes, she figured it was best to change now that she was up. Ten minutes later, she was back in front of the TV with her ice cream. What did people watch anymore?
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Tommy grabbed the first cab he saw and gave him Kim's address. He should only be a ten minutes away which meant that he was close.
"This your first time in Florida?" The cabbie asked as he turned out of the airport.
"Yea." Tommy replied as he watched them merge into traffic.
"What brings you to this part of Florida? People normally fly into Orlando, you know because of Disney World." The cabbie stated as Tommy looked back at him.
"Probably a little old for Disney but I'm here to see an old friend. She's having some problems and I'm here to help." Tommy explained as he thought about that phone call again. Why had she called and why wasn't she answering her phone now?
"A friend? She must be something special for you to fly in and see her." The cabbie said as Tommy smiled.
"Yea she is something special." He muttered as he watched them pull off the interstate.
"Well you know that we have a Gold Medal winner living here. Kimberly Hart, she is a World-class gymnast maybe if you have time, I would say swing by the gym and see her. I mean she is this town's big claim to fame." He said as he made another turn. Tommy saw all the houses and knew that they were close.
"I actually know Kimberly Hart." Tommy stated wondering what the cabbie would think about that.
"Really? Well I heard she's single so maybe your friend wouldn't mind letting you test those waters." The cabbie said as Tommy laughed.
"I'm sure my friend wouldn't like that but maybe I'll ask her." He said as the cab stopped in front of one of the houses on this street.
"Well here you go." The cabbie said as Tommy handed him some money and climbed out. He heard the cab drive away as he stared at the house. He really couldn't picture Kimberly living here so he hoped that Jason had given him the right address.
"Hey who are you?" A man said as he got out of his car.
Tommy turned and saw that the guy was parked in Kim's driveway. He really hoped that this wasn't her boyfriend. The cabbie had said that she was single but he wasn't sure that he believed that. "I'm not here for trouble." Tommy said holding up his hands. He didn't need to get into a fight with whoever this person is.
"Then why are you here for and who are you?" The man asked as he walked over to Tommy.
"I'm an old friend of Kimberly's. I'm not sure if she told you about her life in California but I'm Tommy." He stated lowering his hands. This guy didn't look that tuff and he knew that with his background that he would be able to take care of himself.
"I'm Dave and I work with Kimberly. I don't know much about her life in California but I have at least seen a picture of you so I guess you're good." The man said as Tommy smiled.
"She has a picture of me?" He asked very interested in that piece of information.
"Well it has you in it along with several other people. Do you know what happened to her?" Dave asked.
"She called me two days ago but she was pretty out of it so I didn't trust everything she told me." Tommy replied as Dave nodded.
"She has broken ankle and sprained knee from showing one of the girls a move on the beam." Dave explained.
"She really fell off the beam?" Tommy asked thinking back to when she was in the hospital for the same thing years old.
"Yea but she is okay, just not able to work." He stated. "I'm here to check on her since she can't drive and she's not answering her cell." He said as Tommy nodded.
"Why can't she drive?" He asked.
"Well her leg is in a cast but besides that the transmission has gone out in her car." Dave informed him as Tommy nodded.
"She has not had a good week." Tommy muttered as Dave nodded. They both walked up to the door. Tommy didn't know really who this guy was but he could tell that Dave was a good guy. He stayed back as Dave knocked on the door. They waited a few minutes but heard nothing.
"She might be asleep. I think those drugs make her sleepy." Dave said as Tommy nodded. "Don't worry I know where she keeps the hide-a-key. Sometimes I have to feed her cat." He explained as Tommy nodded.
Tommy watched Dave kneel down next to the door and pull back a piece of siding to grab the key. Dave then stood back up and unlocked the door. Opening it they saw Kimberly sitting on the couch in her pjs watching TV and eating ice cream.
"Dave, what are you doing here?" She asked until she saw the man standing beside him. "Tommy." She breathed as they walked into the house and shut the door. "What? How? When?" She asked a little stunned that Tommy was standing in her living room next to Dave.
"I was worried about you after your phone call two days ago." Tommy stated as Kim just looked at him.
"Well I'm just here to check on you since you're not answering your phone but I see that you are alive and well so I will leave both of you alone. Call me if you need anything." Dave stated as Kim pulled her eyes away from Tommy to look at him.
"Okay." She said before looking back at Tommy. Dave looked from Kimberly to Tommy and wondered if he needed to stay but he could tell that Tommy wouldn't hurt Kimberly. The man did fly all the way from California because of one phone call two days ago. He also knew that Kimberly had never said anything bad about Tommy. In fact she often looked a little dreamy when she talked about her ex-boyfriend so he knew that she would be safe with Tommy.
"What phone call?" Kim asked as Dave shut the door. She didn't know what Tommy was talking about. She didn't call him, did she?
"You call two days ago very drunk sounding but very informative. It was very early for me so you must have really be out of it." Tommy explained as he walked over to the couch to sit next to her.
Kim stared at him as he sat down. "I haven't been drinking." She stated. "But I have been on pain medicine because of my leg." She muttered thinking back. Two days ago was when this happened so it was possible that she called him even though she didn't remember it.
"Why haven't you answered your phone?" He asked as she set her ice cream on the coffee table.
"I can't find my phone. I'm sure that it's dead since it hasn't been found in two days." She remarked.
"How are you feeling?" Tommy asked looking at her cast.
"Well I've been sleeping a lot because of the pain medicine but if I don't take it then I'm in a lot of pain." She explained to him. "How did you know where I lived?" She asked.
"Jason gave me your address when you first moved here." He replied.
"I should have guessed." She muttered. "Why are you here?" She asked trying to understand why her ex-boyfriend flew 3000 miles to see her.
Tommy sighed and rubbed his hands down his thighs. "I was worried about you. You told me that you have had a bad week to say the least." He replied.
Kim smirked and shook her head. "Horrible week is more like the week that I've been having." She groaned. "I'm surprised that you flew down here because of one phone call."
"Kimberly, you still mean a great deal to me and I couldn't get the image of you in the hospital out of my head even though I knew that you were home." He stated as she nodded. She knew that it had been Tommy's big fear when she had first moved to Florida. She had been lucky to not have been hurt before now but then again she wasn't fighting evil on a daily basis so she could focus on training.
"Thank you." She whispered as he stood up.
"You're welcome, what do you have to eat?" He asked walking into her kitchen.
"Nothing." She replied when she heard him opening and shutting the cabinets.
"Kimberly, when was the last time you went shopping?" He called out.
"Too long." She shouted back to him with a smile when she heard him walking back over to her.
"I bet you haven't eaten anything good in two days." He said looking down at her.
"You would probably be right since I don't really remember the last two days." She muttered as he sighed.
"You're coming back with me." He stated as she looked up at him.
"No, I'm not. This is my house, Tommy." She stated as he sat down beside her again.
"I know that but you can't drive even if your car was working and you can't go to work. What are you going to do? Sit around here feeling sorry for yourself and not eating right?" He asked.
"So you want me to come back to Angel Grove with you where I will just sit around your house while you work?" She asked as he nodded. "Tommy, I can't leave my house." She stated.
"What's keeping you here? I mean you can do your healing in Angel Grove just like you can here and I can drive you around. Also I can actually feed you real food." He pointed out.
Kim saw the set of his jaw and knew that it would be pointless to argue with him. There was also the fact that she needed a change of scenery for the next few weeks. "Okay fine, I'll go but I will pay for whatever I eat. I don't need you to take care of me and pay for my food." She said as he nodded.
"Well let's get you packed then." He said as she sighed and let him help her up. As she stood up, she knocked the couch cushions off. Tommy bent down and fixed them when he noticed her phone. It had been underneath her the entire time. She had probably been on the couch when she had called him that night. Following her, he put the phone in his pocket as she pulled clothes out of her drawers.
"Where is your bag?" He asked looking around the room.
"It's in the closet." She replied without looking at him.
Smiling Tommy opened the closet, found her bag, and began putting her clothes in it. This probably wasn't the best plan that he had but at least he would know that Kimberly was okay and eating. It would ease his worry.
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So what did everyone think? Please let me know. The next part should be up by Friday at the latest. Thanks once again to mae-E for the idea. I hope that you like this first part girl.