The Oliver House

Tommy and Kim's bedroom

5 days later

"Tommy, It's been five days. We need to do something!" Kim, known to the Dino Thunder Rangers as Mrs. O said as she lay on her husband's chest. She lifted her head to look at him. "We can't let this happen!

Tommy sighed as he gently caressed his wife's bare back. "Kim we discussed this. They have to learn to fix their own problems. They're almost adults now. We can't always be there to hold their hands."

Kim slowly laid her head back on his chest and blew out a breath. "Tommy, I can't bare to see them like this. Not when I see how much like us they are. If we don't step in, they may never get back together."

"Beautiful…" Tommy faltered remembering what they had both gone through because of that blasted note.

His heart had burned with white hot fury when he'd read her handwriting. For weeks he'd brooded and had tried to forget her by focusing on Kat, and his duties as the red ranger and leader of his team.

But soon, it'd become too much to bare. Though he'd kissed Kat, his mind was still on Kimberly, wishing it was her lips that he was kissing and the current pink ranger's.

That same night, he'd gone to Zordon and begged the ancient wizard to let him use the teleported just that once. Stating that he just couldn't and wouldn't be able to function as the leader if he didn't know the truth about his beloved crane.

No I can't let you go

You're a part of me now

Caught by the taste of your kiss

And I don't wanna know

The reason why I

Can't stay forever like this

Now I'm climbing the walls cause I miss you

Surprisingly, Zordon agreed and soon he was standing next to the door to Kim's dorm room. He'd been in shock to hear her moaning his name,

"Tommy, oh god Tommy!

He'd stared at the door in confusion. Then he tried to open the door, but it was locked. His heart beat furiously as he tried to open the door, again and again.

"Tommy, oh god, make it stop!" Then she had screamed…and it sounded so much like a crane that he without thinking had used one huge side kick with all his strength behind it and the door flew open. When his eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, he heard the bed tapping against the wall. Much like his used to…before she'd left for Florida.

"Tommy, please help me! Please! "Came her passioned moan. Like a bat out of hell he flew enraged into the dark room and turned the lights on. There on the bed was Kimberly tied down on the bed, with Craig, the talent scout he'd seen at the gymnastics meet that had been hanging out with Coach Shmitt pounding into her relentlessly.

Without a second thought he wrapped his arms around the guys chest and pulled him off his ex girlfriend and threw the guy to the ground and proceeded to beat the hell out of him, only stopping when the guy quit fighting him back. With the idiot out of commision, he went back to the bed where Kim lay.

He looked at his crane's face and saw tears streaming down her face and her eyes looking dazed and confused, as if she'd been drugged. And most likely she was. He'd carefully untied her and then gently took her in his arms. Rocking her back and forth in his lap.

"Tommy….ohgod…sssorry." She slurred. Then she began to shake. He'd stroked her back and then gently kissed her lips. He knew he'd not get much more out of her until her system was cleared of what ever it was she was drugged with.

Take my hand, take my life

Just don't take forever

And let me feel your pain kept inside

There's gotta be a way

For you and I together now

Yeah it's coming to get me

You're under my skin

He'd wasted no time in packing her a few days worth of clothes in her duffle bag and had carried her out of the room wrapped in her blanket to a motel room. It was all he could afford but it would do. Once he'd laid her down, he'd taken a wash cloth and lovingly sponged her body and then put on some of the clothes he'd taken from her room and put them on her.

The whole time he'd been thinking about what he'd do now, that she was with him again. Those were his only thoughts as he'd tucked her in and then lain on top of the blankets, scared at the thought of what he'd find out when she came out of the stupor she was currently in.

"Tommy?" came his wife's voice interrupting the memory of that night.

"Ok, I'll go talk to him in the morning. Before he's even out of bed, I'll tell him everything he missed after he stormed out."

"I love you Handsome."

"I love you too Beautiful."

As soon as she'd fallen asleep exhausted from their lovemaking, he'd let his thoughts drift back to the morning after, when he'd finally learned everything.

Craig had slipped pills into her water bottle, soon after she'd arrived and began practicing, and had raped her a few hours after. Her shame, coupled with the threat that he'd kill her if she told on him caused her to write the letter, hoping that Tommy would come after her. Hoping that he would figure it out as a call for help.

He'd given her the option of going to the police or coming home with him.

She said she didn't want to ever see the guy again, and just wanted to forget it ever happened, so, he teleported the both of them back to Angel Grove, and soon had married her, she'd cut and colored her hair and wore a pair of non prescription spectacles to hide her identity and from then on had been known as Mrs. Oliver.

Tommy never forgot the events of that night and he had wanted to report the guy but had settled for the brand of justice his fist had dished out in his anger and fury.

He'd then pursued his degree in paleontology and Kim had joined him on his digs more then once and had even been the one to find the dino gems in the first place, she'd also participated in the taming of the dino eggs that formed the raptor cycles.

Even years after their mentor's demise he had never stopped being thankful that he'd gone after Kim, and that Zordon had allowed him to go. He couldn't let her go, she was his better half and he could never have lived without her by his side.

No I can't let you go

You're a part of me now

Caught by the taste of your kiss (ohh)

And I don't wanna know

The reason why I

Can't stay forever like this

Now I'm climbing the walls cause I miss you


On to the third shot!

The song used was 'Climbing The Walls' as sung by The Backstreet boys from their 'Never Gone' album.