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It was nearly dark when Jason got home. The only sound was ticking of the old grandfather clock his mother had given him right after they'd bought the house. Slipping his shoes off, so as not to disturb anyone, he walked silently up the stairs. Stopping first at the nursery, he quietly walked over to the crib. The late day sun's rays were casting shadows on the far wall of the room.
At first, Jason had wanted the crib in the bedroom where one of them could get up in the middle of the night to check on her regularly. However calmer heads had prevailed and he finally realized that little Trini Ann would be better off not sleeping in the same room as her parents. It had been pointed out to him that she had to learn to become what the pediatrician had called a "self-soothing baby". Looking down at her, he realized just how right the decision had been. She wasn't asleep but was very quietly and very stubbornly trying to stuff her entire foot into her mouth. Seeing her father enter the room, she smiled and cooed loudly, her midnight eyes suddenly bright with the joy of recognition. His heart melted at the sight of her, and the day's unpleasant business was banished. Reaching down he gently picked his daughter up- his daughter, that in itself was such a miracle. His family didn't have the best of luck when it came to reproductive health, his mother's own condition prevented her from having a second child. That combined with other aspects of his life topped off what had happened to him after he lost the power of the Gold Ranger, left Jason where he never really expected to have children of his own. But where there was a will there was a way, and Jason very quickly found out that there were some wills even stronger than his own. Not the least of which was his mother's and her rather strenuous insistence on grandchildren- no matter what the circumstances. Not that Jason minded. He always wanted children, and when this was suggested to him, it took very little to twist his arm.
Now looking over at the angelic face staring up at him from behind the strands of blonde hair, he knew himself to blessed beyond any right to be. "Hi there, little one," he cooed softly to her.
"Is the world safe again?"
He nodded and looked up, his heart felt like it was going to burst from the love he felt for the figure standing there at the door, combined with what he felt for their daughter. "As safe as it's going to be until the next baddie decides to attack." Smiling down at the small bundle of energy in his arms again, he thought about the miracle that brought her into being. "She's got your hair," he softly muttered as Trini grabbed his finger. "You do good work."
A soft chuckle was his answer, "And your eyes," he felt a smaller set of arms wrap around both him and their daughter. "She's as much you as she is me. That's the beauty of it. She comes from both of us." He could feel a gradual tensing in those arms, "Did you see Tommy?"
Jason nodded, ashamed to admit that he'd failed to relay the message. "I saw him."
"Did you invite them to Trini's and Zack's for the weekend?"
Jason felt himself blush with shame. "No," he muttered softly. "I didn't get a chance to. He left before we could talk."
"Jason Lee Scott, you're impossible," was the exasperated reply. He felt a brief hint of fear as those arms unwrapped themselves from around him and their daughter. "It looks like I'm going to have to make some phone calls myself. Somebody has to talk some sense into you and Tommy, and I think I know just the person."
Kimberly Oliver was irritable as a badger with a sore paw. She was hot, she was fat, and the baby had started tap dancing on her bladder. She was also the happiest she'd been since she won the gold at the Pan Global Games. Looking up she checked the time on the digital clock on the wall. Where was Tommy? He should have been back by now. Just how long did it take to save the world?
Then just how ludicrous that thought sounded hit her and she burst out giggling, as the front door opened and the former Green, White, and sometimes Red Ranger came through the front door. The scowl on his face drained the joy right out of her mood. "What's wrong?" She suddenly had images of the mission to the moon going much worse than she expected it to.
"Jason is what's wrong," Tommy growled.
"You knew he might not show up when you called him," Kim tried to sooth her husband's mood.
Tossing the keys to the jeep on the table, he growled, "Oh, he showed up all right- LATE," he spat out the word, "Then he proceeded to act like General Patton on review."
Kimberly put her hands on her widening hips, "Tommy Oliver, you of all people have no right to complain about other people being late."
Kim could see the anger begin to drain from his face as he suddenly came back to the reality of their home. Sighing, he enfolded her into a gentle embrace and kissed the top of her head, "I'm sorry. I guess, he still irritates me."
Pulling back from the embrace, Kimberly looked up into his deep chocolate eyes, "There was a time when you two didn't fight like this."
Tommy sighed, "Yeah, but that was before what happened with Bill." She could see the frustration grow in his eyes again. "Damn it Kim! I had a lot on my mind. I didn't realize what I was doing. God knows I'd never hurt Bill on purpose." Kimberly could hear the old pain, and self- recrimination in his voice as he threw himself down in a recliner.
Kim went over to her husband and gently sat in his lap, "God knows, Tommy. I know, and even Bill knows." She kissed him on the forehead and told him, "and deep down, I think Jase knows too."
"Then why won't he let it go?" Tommy asked.
"Did Jason say something about it to you?" Kimberly would be surprised if he had.
Tommy shook his head, "No, but I could see it in his eyes. I could hear it in his tone." She could see the frustration in his eyes, "I wanted to ask how Bill was, but was afraid if I did it would set off another fight, and right then we didn't need to air all my mistakes in front of the other Red Rangers." Kimberly wondered how much Tommy was reading into it as an excuse for beating himself up.
With a great deal of effort she pulled her growing frame off her husband and sat in the floor next to him, wrapping her harms around his shoulders. "Did you really want to know, or were you just thinking of asking to be polite?"
"I want to know. I care about him too, Kim." Tommy told her, and her heart broke at the sight of his pleading with his eyes. "I never meant for him to get hurt."
Kim pulled her husband to her and held him. She knew what had happened after Billy lost his powers. How Billy became tech support for the team, and damn good at it at that. She'd talked to Kat about it on more than one occasion, and had slowly pieced together the whole story.
With the Machine Empire pushing harder and harder, the demands on the young engineer had grown. But, being quiet and unassuming nobody had noticed until it was almost too late just how much Bill had been pushing himself. Without the Ranger stamina, Bill just couldn't keep up with the job of maintaining and upgrading six 'zords by himself. When he fell from Tommy's 'zord because he'd passed out from exhaustion, the ex-Blue Ranger had almost died. Tommy blamed himself for not seeing that Billy needed help. Tommy was that way- he was the original Mister Guilt- but so had Jason. The two had fought, and some very angry words had been exchanged, and one of the closest friendships the team had ever known had been pushed to the breaking point. At one point, Tommy had even told Jase, that if he was so concerned about Billy then why didn't he stick around and help, or better yet just marry him. That way he could always be there to take care of him, shoving into Jason's face the fact that he had always protected the Blue Ranger, even when Tommy thought it was too much. That of course set off a whole new fight between the two. Finally, Jason took Billy back to LA with him to recuperate, and Jason and Tommy had barely been civil with each other since. Jason had even missed hers and Tommy's wedding. She'd later had a long talk with Billy about it over dinner one night. Billy didn't blame Tommy. If anything, he blamed himself for not asking for help, and trying to do everything himself. So when it came down to it, everybody blamed themselves, and Tommy got a double load of guilt from Jase.
"If he didn't say anything about it, how do you know." she was interrupted by the phone. Reaching out, she pulled the receiver from the table next to the chair. "Hello, Oliver residence,"
The voice on the phone was the last she'd expected to hear at this time, "Kim, it's Bill." She could hear something else in his voice, a worry and a strain she hadn't heard before. "Is Tom there?"
"Yes," she answered warily.
"Look could I talk to him?" Billy asked.
"Sure," she covered there mouthpiece with her hand, and indicated the phone, "It's Billy. He wants to talk to you."
She could see worry in her husband's eyes. "What does he want?"
"He didn't say. He just asked to speak with you," she handed him the phone and listened to her husband.
"Uh, hi Bill." Then he was quite for a few minutes.
"Yeah, I saw him," Kimberly guessed they were talking about Jason.
"No, I'm not mad at him. At least not like that," Again her husband listened to the voice a the other end of the line.
Tommy gave a wry smile, "No Bill, it's not like that. I thought."
"You're kidding!" her husband sounded surprised. Finally after another long silence, "I thought he was mad at me, you know, about what happened with your accident."
Kimberly watched as a look of surprise, chagrin, and just a little amusement flashed across her husband's face as he pulled the phone away from his hear. Kimberly could hear Billy's voice get louder. "Finally, they both heard, "Put Kim on!"
Tommy handed Kimberly the phone and she put it to her ear carefully. She'd been on the receiving end of a few of Billy's rants in the past when he thought she was acting particularly air-headed. "It's me Billy," she said carefully into the phone.
"Do you think that if we kill Tommy and Jason, Trini and Zack would help us hide the bodies?" her oldest friend in the world asked.
"I don't know. Maybe," she grinned up at her husband who looked amused.
She almost sense Billy thinking on the other end of the line. Finally, he said, "Look, Jason didn't mean anything by anything he might have said to Tommy. He's been really worried lately, and that call came at a really bad time," the ex-Blue Ranger explained. "Well not a bad time, just a difficult time, or maybe a hard time, I don't know how to explain it."
"Billy you're babbling," Kim told him. She'd never heard Billy at a loss for words before.
She heard him sigh deeply. "Okay. Look, Jason isn't angry with Tommy anymore. He was SUPPOSED," she heard Billy stress the word, "to ask you guys to come down to Zack and Trini's for a visit this weekend but couldn't figure out how. He's got something important he wants to share, but those two lunkheads have been acting angry with each other so long that they've forgotten how to talk. So it looks like it's up to you and me to get them together."
"Billy, I don't know. I mean If those two are going to fight.," Kim really did want to see Jason and Billy again, but she didn't want anymore stress on their friendships.
"Why do you think we're meeting at Zack and Trini's? Those two need a referee, six of us!" Billy asked. His voice dropped to something serious, "Look Kim. This is important. Whether it's Jase or not, I," he stressed the word, "want to see you. Both of you." His voice was almost begging, "Please. I promise you won't be sorry."
"Okay, I think we can make it." She looked up at the scowl on her husband's face and decided that Billy was right. If they had to lock those two in a room, they were going to get them to talk it out. "Zack and Trini's, right? What time?"
"I knew I could talk you into it," she could almost see Billy grin. His voice suddenly got serious, "Adam is supposed to be there, so is Kat. Is that going to be a problem?" Billy teased her about Tommy's reputation for going through Pink Rangers.
"Only if it's a problem for her," Kim hoped she didn't sound bitter about her former rival. Actually, she and Kat had long ago had made their peace about Tommy- right after both girls had gotten married.
"I don't think so," she could almost see Billy smile on the other end of the telephone.
"Billy?" she asked.
"Yeah, Kim?"
"What's this all about?" Suddenly Kim felt that there was a whole lot more her oldest friend wasn't telling her about.
"Jason wants you to meet someone." Billy replied.
"Really?" Kim asked. "He's finally met somebody?"
She heard Billy chuckle, "You could say that. Actually he met somebody a long time ago, but let's just say it has finally come to fruition."
"He's not getting married is he?" Kim asked.
She heard a long silence, and understood that Billy knew more than he was telling, but was trying to decide what he could say and couldn't. Finally, he sighed and answered, "From what I understand- and this stays between you and me, no telling Tommy yet- Jase feels that he would never had asked this person out if it weren't for Tommy. He wants to bury the hatchet." She could hear another hesitation in his voice, "And I'm going to get killed for this, so you'd better realize just how much of my life I'm taking into my own hands here, he wants to ask you and Tommy to be godparents."
"What?!" Kim could barely control her outburst, "That's fantastic!" She looked up at the questioning look from her husband. Holding up her hand to stay off any of Tommy's questions, she told him. "We'll be there." Some small part of her was just a little hurt that she'd not been invited to the wedding.
She quietly took down the information on where and when and hung up. Tommy gave her a strange look, and finally asked with a tone of trepidation in his voice, "What did Bill want?"
She smiled at him, but made sure she put enough steel in her voice to let him know she'd brook no argument from him. "Tommy, this Saturday, we are driving over to Trini's and Zack's for a small and very private party. Billy, Adam, and Kat are going to be there, as well as Jason and somebody he wants us to meet." She locked eyes with him, "You will go, you will be nice, and you will enjoy yourself. I have it on very good authority that Jason is trying to bury the hatchet with you, and if you don't at least try, I'm going to beat you to death with a shovel."
She could see the surprise in his eyes, "Why a shovel,"
Kim vapidly looked down at her fingernails, "So I'll have something to bury your body with." Unfortunately, the effect was spoiled when she grabbed her stomach as the baby kicked her. *********************************************
Kim and Tommy were sitting chatting with Trini, Zack, Adam and Kat that weekend. So far, everything was quiet and peaceful and Kim thought that things were going to go pretty well. She wondered where Billy was, and when Jason would arrive with his bride. She looked over at Trini and asked, "Okay, has anyone met this mysterious woman Jason's bringing to the party?"
Trini and Zack exchanged a quick glance of surprise, "Uh. no," Trini told her. Then she asked with a puzzled expression, "Exactly what did Jason tell you?"
Kimberly smiled, "Jason didn't tell us anything. Billy called and invited us down to meet Jason's new girlfriend or wife or something." Remembering her promise to the ex-Blue Ranger. "From what Billy said, it was definitely serious." She smiled, "I got the impression that there were bassinettes in the future." She reached down and gently rubbed her own growing stomach.
Before either could reply there was a quiet knock a the front door as it opened. Jason entered carrying a diaper bag and a small bundle. Behind him, Billy closed the door. "Hiya everybody." She saw the former Red Ranger glance over at her husband. "Hello Tommy."
Tommy nodded back and replied, "Jason."
"Jason!" Kimberly jumped up and ran over to him. Looking around, "Now where is this woman you wanted me to meet."
Jason looked back over his shoulder at Billy and gave him a strange look. Billy just shrugged and replied, "All I said is that you wanted them to be godparents."
"You are so dead Cranston," Jason kidded his old friend.
"Don't blame me if she jumps to the wrong conclusions." Billy smiled.
Jason held up the small bundle in his arms to reveal a tiny baby with blonde curls and deep midnight eyes. "This is who I wanted you to meet," Jason said. "This is Trini Ann Scott-Cranston."
Billy came up next to Jason and put an arm around him, "Our daughter."
It was nearly dark when Jason got home. The only sound was ticking of the old grandfather clock his mother had given him right after they'd bought the house. Slipping his shoes off, so as not to disturb anyone, he walked silently up the stairs. Stopping first at the nursery, he quietly walked over to the crib. The late day sun's rays were casting shadows on the far wall of the room.
At first, Jason had wanted the crib in the bedroom where one of them could get up in the middle of the night to check on her regularly. However calmer heads had prevailed and he finally realized that little Trini Ann would be better off not sleeping in the same room as her parents. It had been pointed out to him that she had to learn to become what the pediatrician had called a "self-soothing baby". Looking down at her, he realized just how right the decision had been. She wasn't asleep but was very quietly and very stubbornly trying to stuff her entire foot into her mouth. Seeing her father enter the room, she smiled and cooed loudly, her midnight eyes suddenly bright with the joy of recognition. His heart melted at the sight of her, and the day's unpleasant business was banished. Reaching down he gently picked his daughter up- his daughter, that in itself was such a miracle. His family didn't have the best of luck when it came to reproductive health, his mother's own condition prevented her from having a second child. That combined with other aspects of his life topped off what had happened to him after he lost the power of the Gold Ranger, left Jason where he never really expected to have children of his own. But where there was a will there was a way, and Jason very quickly found out that there were some wills even stronger than his own. Not the least of which was his mother's and her rather strenuous insistence on grandchildren- no matter what the circumstances. Not that Jason minded. He always wanted children, and when this was suggested to him, it took very little to twist his arm.
Now looking over at the angelic face staring up at him from behind the strands of blonde hair, he knew himself to blessed beyond any right to be. "Hi there, little one," he cooed softly to her.
"Is the world safe again?"
He nodded and looked up, his heart felt like it was going to burst from the love he felt for the figure standing there at the door, combined with what he felt for their daughter. "As safe as it's going to be until the next baddie decides to attack." Smiling down at the small bundle of energy in his arms again, he thought about the miracle that brought her into being. "She's got your hair," he softly muttered as Trini grabbed his finger. "You do good work."
A soft chuckle was his answer, "And your eyes," he felt a smaller set of arms wrap around both him and their daughter. "She's as much you as she is me. That's the beauty of it. She comes from both of us." He could feel a gradual tensing in those arms, "Did you see Tommy?"
Jason nodded, ashamed to admit that he'd failed to relay the message. "I saw him."
"Did you invite them to Trini's and Zack's for the weekend?"
Jason felt himself blush with shame. "No," he muttered softly. "I didn't get a chance to. He left before we could talk."
"Jason Lee Scott, you're impossible," was the exasperated reply. He felt a brief hint of fear as those arms unwrapped themselves from around him and their daughter. "It looks like I'm going to have to make some phone calls myself. Somebody has to talk some sense into you and Tommy, and I think I know just the person."
Kimberly Oliver was irritable as a badger with a sore paw. She was hot, she was fat, and the baby had started tap dancing on her bladder. She was also the happiest she'd been since she won the gold at the Pan Global Games. Looking up she checked the time on the digital clock on the wall. Where was Tommy? He should have been back by now. Just how long did it take to save the world?
Then just how ludicrous that thought sounded hit her and she burst out giggling, as the front door opened and the former Green, White, and sometimes Red Ranger came through the front door. The scowl on his face drained the joy right out of her mood. "What's wrong?" She suddenly had images of the mission to the moon going much worse than she expected it to.
"Jason is what's wrong," Tommy growled.
"You knew he might not show up when you called him," Kim tried to sooth her husband's mood.
Tossing the keys to the jeep on the table, he growled, "Oh, he showed up all right- LATE," he spat out the word, "Then he proceeded to act like General Patton on review."
Kimberly put her hands on her widening hips, "Tommy Oliver, you of all people have no right to complain about other people being late."
Kim could see the anger begin to drain from his face as he suddenly came back to the reality of their home. Sighing, he enfolded her into a gentle embrace and kissed the top of her head, "I'm sorry. I guess, he still irritates me."
Pulling back from the embrace, Kimberly looked up into his deep chocolate eyes, "There was a time when you two didn't fight like this."
Tommy sighed, "Yeah, but that was before what happened with Bill." She could see the frustration grow in his eyes again. "Damn it Kim! I had a lot on my mind. I didn't realize what I was doing. God knows I'd never hurt Bill on purpose." Kimberly could hear the old pain, and self- recrimination in his voice as he threw himself down in a recliner.
Kim went over to her husband and gently sat in his lap, "God knows, Tommy. I know, and even Bill knows." She kissed him on the forehead and told him, "and deep down, I think Jase knows too."
"Then why won't he let it go?" Tommy asked.
"Did Jason say something about it to you?" Kimberly would be surprised if he had.
Tommy shook his head, "No, but I could see it in his eyes. I could hear it in his tone." She could see the frustration in his eyes, "I wanted to ask how Bill was, but was afraid if I did it would set off another fight, and right then we didn't need to air all my mistakes in front of the other Red Rangers." Kimberly wondered how much Tommy was reading into it as an excuse for beating himself up.
With a great deal of effort she pulled her growing frame off her husband and sat in the floor next to him, wrapping her harms around his shoulders. "Did you really want to know, or were you just thinking of asking to be polite?"
"I want to know. I care about him too, Kim." Tommy told her, and her heart broke at the sight of his pleading with his eyes. "I never meant for him to get hurt."
Kim pulled her husband to her and held him. She knew what had happened after Billy lost his powers. How Billy became tech support for the team, and damn good at it at that. She'd talked to Kat about it on more than one occasion, and had slowly pieced together the whole story.
With the Machine Empire pushing harder and harder, the demands on the young engineer had grown. But, being quiet and unassuming nobody had noticed until it was almost too late just how much Bill had been pushing himself. Without the Ranger stamina, Bill just couldn't keep up with the job of maintaining and upgrading six 'zords by himself. When he fell from Tommy's 'zord because he'd passed out from exhaustion, the ex-Blue Ranger had almost died. Tommy blamed himself for not seeing that Billy needed help. Tommy was that way- he was the original Mister Guilt- but so had Jason. The two had fought, and some very angry words had been exchanged, and one of the closest friendships the team had ever known had been pushed to the breaking point. At one point, Tommy had even told Jase, that if he was so concerned about Billy then why didn't he stick around and help, or better yet just marry him. That way he could always be there to take care of him, shoving into Jason's face the fact that he had always protected the Blue Ranger, even when Tommy thought it was too much. That of course set off a whole new fight between the two. Finally, Jason took Billy back to LA with him to recuperate, and Jason and Tommy had barely been civil with each other since. Jason had even missed hers and Tommy's wedding. She'd later had a long talk with Billy about it over dinner one night. Billy didn't blame Tommy. If anything, he blamed himself for not asking for help, and trying to do everything himself. So when it came down to it, everybody blamed themselves, and Tommy got a double load of guilt from Jase.
"If he didn't say anything about it, how do you know." she was interrupted by the phone. Reaching out, she pulled the receiver from the table next to the chair. "Hello, Oliver residence,"
The voice on the phone was the last she'd expected to hear at this time, "Kim, it's Bill." She could hear something else in his voice, a worry and a strain she hadn't heard before. "Is Tom there?"
"Yes," she answered warily.
"Look could I talk to him?" Billy asked.
"Sure," she covered there mouthpiece with her hand, and indicated the phone, "It's Billy. He wants to talk to you."
She could see worry in her husband's eyes. "What does he want?"
"He didn't say. He just asked to speak with you," she handed him the phone and listened to her husband.
"Uh, hi Bill." Then he was quite for a few minutes.
"Yeah, I saw him," Kimberly guessed they were talking about Jason.
"No, I'm not mad at him. At least not like that," Again her husband listened to the voice a the other end of the line.
Tommy gave a wry smile, "No Bill, it's not like that. I thought."
"You're kidding!" her husband sounded surprised. Finally after another long silence, "I thought he was mad at me, you know, about what happened with your accident."
Kimberly watched as a look of surprise, chagrin, and just a little amusement flashed across her husband's face as he pulled the phone away from his hear. Kimberly could hear Billy's voice get louder. "Finally, they both heard, "Put Kim on!"
Tommy handed Kimberly the phone and she put it to her ear carefully. She'd been on the receiving end of a few of Billy's rants in the past when he thought she was acting particularly air-headed. "It's me Billy," she said carefully into the phone.
"Do you think that if we kill Tommy and Jason, Trini and Zack would help us hide the bodies?" her oldest friend in the world asked.
"I don't know. Maybe," she grinned up at her husband who looked amused.
She almost sense Billy thinking on the other end of the line. Finally, he said, "Look, Jason didn't mean anything by anything he might have said to Tommy. He's been really worried lately, and that call came at a really bad time," the ex-Blue Ranger explained. "Well not a bad time, just a difficult time, or maybe a hard time, I don't know how to explain it."
"Billy you're babbling," Kim told him. She'd never heard Billy at a loss for words before.
She heard him sigh deeply. "Okay. Look, Jason isn't angry with Tommy anymore. He was SUPPOSED," she heard Billy stress the word, "to ask you guys to come down to Zack and Trini's for a visit this weekend but couldn't figure out how. He's got something important he wants to share, but those two lunkheads have been acting angry with each other so long that they've forgotten how to talk. So it looks like it's up to you and me to get them together."
"Billy, I don't know. I mean If those two are going to fight.," Kim really did want to see Jason and Billy again, but she didn't want anymore stress on their friendships.
"Why do you think we're meeting at Zack and Trini's? Those two need a referee, six of us!" Billy asked. His voice dropped to something serious, "Look Kim. This is important. Whether it's Jase or not, I," he stressed the word, "want to see you. Both of you." His voice was almost begging, "Please. I promise you won't be sorry."
"Okay, I think we can make it." She looked up at the scowl on her husband's face and decided that Billy was right. If they had to lock those two in a room, they were going to get them to talk it out. "Zack and Trini's, right? What time?"
"I knew I could talk you into it," she could almost see Billy grin. His voice suddenly got serious, "Adam is supposed to be there, so is Kat. Is that going to be a problem?" Billy teased her about Tommy's reputation for going through Pink Rangers.
"Only if it's a problem for her," Kim hoped she didn't sound bitter about her former rival. Actually, she and Kat had long ago had made their peace about Tommy- right after both girls had gotten married.
"I don't think so," she could almost see Billy smile on the other end of the telephone.
"Billy?" she asked.
"Yeah, Kim?"
"What's this all about?" Suddenly Kim felt that there was a whole lot more her oldest friend wasn't telling her about.
"Jason wants you to meet someone." Billy replied.
"Really?" Kim asked. "He's finally met somebody?"
She heard Billy chuckle, "You could say that. Actually he met somebody a long time ago, but let's just say it has finally come to fruition."
"He's not getting married is he?" Kim asked.
She heard a long silence, and understood that Billy knew more than he was telling, but was trying to decide what he could say and couldn't. Finally, he sighed and answered, "From what I understand- and this stays between you and me, no telling Tommy yet- Jase feels that he would never had asked this person out if it weren't for Tommy. He wants to bury the hatchet." She could hear another hesitation in his voice, "And I'm going to get killed for this, so you'd better realize just how much of my life I'm taking into my own hands here, he wants to ask you and Tommy to be godparents."
"What?!" Kim could barely control her outburst, "That's fantastic!" She looked up at the questioning look from her husband. Holding up her hand to stay off any of Tommy's questions, she told him. "We'll be there." Some small part of her was just a little hurt that she'd not been invited to the wedding.
She quietly took down the information on where and when and hung up. Tommy gave her a strange look, and finally asked with a tone of trepidation in his voice, "What did Bill want?"
She smiled at him, but made sure she put enough steel in her voice to let him know she'd brook no argument from him. "Tommy, this Saturday, we are driving over to Trini's and Zack's for a small and very private party. Billy, Adam, and Kat are going to be there, as well as Jason and somebody he wants us to meet." She locked eyes with him, "You will go, you will be nice, and you will enjoy yourself. I have it on very good authority that Jason is trying to bury the hatchet with you, and if you don't at least try, I'm going to beat you to death with a shovel."
She could see the surprise in his eyes, "Why a shovel,"
Kim vapidly looked down at her fingernails, "So I'll have something to bury your body with." Unfortunately, the effect was spoiled when she grabbed her stomach as the baby kicked her. *********************************************
Kim and Tommy were sitting chatting with Trini, Zack, Adam and Kat that weekend. So far, everything was quiet and peaceful and Kim thought that things were going to go pretty well. She wondered where Billy was, and when Jason would arrive with his bride. She looked over at Trini and asked, "Okay, has anyone met this mysterious woman Jason's bringing to the party?"
Trini and Zack exchanged a quick glance of surprise, "Uh. no," Trini told her. Then she asked with a puzzled expression, "Exactly what did Jason tell you?"
Kimberly smiled, "Jason didn't tell us anything. Billy called and invited us down to meet Jason's new girlfriend or wife or something." Remembering her promise to the ex-Blue Ranger. "From what Billy said, it was definitely serious." She smiled, "I got the impression that there were bassinettes in the future." She reached down and gently rubbed her own growing stomach.
Before either could reply there was a quiet knock a the front door as it opened. Jason entered carrying a diaper bag and a small bundle. Behind him, Billy closed the door. "Hiya everybody." She saw the former Red Ranger glance over at her husband. "Hello Tommy."
Tommy nodded back and replied, "Jason."
"Jason!" Kimberly jumped up and ran over to him. Looking around, "Now where is this woman you wanted me to meet."
Jason looked back over his shoulder at Billy and gave him a strange look. Billy just shrugged and replied, "All I said is that you wanted them to be godparents."
"You are so dead Cranston," Jason kidded his old friend.
"Don't blame me if she jumps to the wrong conclusions." Billy smiled.
Jason held up the small bundle in his arms to reveal a tiny baby with blonde curls and deep midnight eyes. "This is who I wanted you to meet," Jason said. "This is Trini Ann Scott-Cranston."
Billy came up next to Jason and put an arm around him, "Our daughter."