"Because I'm dying," Tommy stated as Kim stared at him and saw the seriousness in his eyes. She could not believe that the man that had always been her rock was seriously ill. "She doesn't know."

"What do you mean she doesn't know?" Kim asked as the others stood there in shock, quite frankly Jason was surprised that Kimberly had not passed out on them. She was not known for taking bad news well.

"She doesn't know because I'm not going to tell her, it's a hereditary disease and she doesn't have it. I found out about two years ago that I have it and it had progressed too far for them to be able to do anything. I've already lived longer than they thought I would, but they are giving me six months and I would like to see the two of you get along before I die," Tommy said as Kim roughly sat down in a desk and stared at him. She knew that something was different about him when she saw him today. He looked tired and he was thinner than she had seen him in years. She should have been able to add up the symptoms, but she was too mad at him to do that. "How else do you think I talked her into getting her team to look after you?"

"But she doesn't know," Kim said as Tommy just shook his head.

"She knows I'm sick, she doesn't know that they've only given me six months to live," Tommy said, calmly, as all of the rangers stared at him. "I put the call out in your name today, obviously you are going to have to work on your ranger connections."

"Why would I have to do that?" Kim asked as the others looked at her. Wasn't it obvious? Once Tommy was gone there was going to have to be someone to watch after the rangers until Amy was old enough to do the job.

"The rangers tend to have trouble when there is not an Oliver looking over them," Billy stated as Kim looked over at him. "You kept his name, you didn't divorce him, you're still an Oliver."

"It's only by name, why can't Amy do it?" Kim asked as Tommy glared at her and anyone in the nearby vicinity moved away. They all thought that he could light things on fire if he got mad enough. None of them planned to get in his way if that was his idea.

"You want to place this on our eighteen year old daughter?" Tommy yelled as Kim just shook her head. "At least act like you give a damn about her, because she's the only thing that stands between you and death."

"I can protect myself Tommy," Kim said, calmly, as he just shook his head. She was so damn stubborn and if Amy had it her way, her team would not have a thing to do with this creep, but that was why he had stepped in. He had to protect Kimberly, even if she didn't want it.

"Not without powers, we both know that Kimberly," Tommy said as she stared over at him. Who had taken the kind man that she had loved and replaced him with this?

"I can fight back," Kim said as Jason sat down in the chair next to her and gently nudged her. "What do you want?"

"You aren't going to be able to fight them, Kim, you are going to have to let Amy do this," Jason said as she stared over at him. She could not believe that he was siding with Tommy on this one, he didn't even think that this was that big of a deal this morning.

"You're taking his side!" Kim yelled, in outrage, as Tommy sank into the seat behind his desk and rested his head in his hands. He was tired, he was sick and he only had one wish that his wife and his daughter would come to terms with each other and at least get along.

"There are no sides here Kim, it's just the fact that he's right. You can't fight like you used to and the only people that can protect you are her rangers, plus, don't you want to have a relationship with her?" Jason questioned as she looked around the room and the tears started to flow.

"She hates me," Kim sobbed as Tommy looked up at her and saw her pleading with him. "I know I did the both of you wrong, but even you don't hate me like that."

"Because I still love you," Tommy whispered as she looked over at him and he let out a sigh. "No one ever said that getting over love is easy, it takes some people a lifetime."

"How is my son doing?" Jason asked, changing the subject as Kim was staring at Tommy. Over the years there had been an unwritten rule between the two of them that neither of them would confess their true feelings for the other. It was easier to act as if they hated each other than admit that they were still desperately in love.

"Max is doing fine, Jason and he knows the full truth, so I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he tells Amy," Tommy said as Kim looked over at him.

"Have they?" Jason asked as Tommy shook his head no. "Thank goodness."

"I don't think they'll last much longer Jason, I'm just glad she went on birth control without my forcing the pills down her throat every day," Tommy said as Kim's mouth fell open.

"She's having sex!" Kim yelled as Tommy shook his head no. "Then why is she on birth control?"

"Cramps and the fact that she and Max are pretty serious, I did not want to be the one to get the call saying that she was pregnant without being married," Tommy said as Kim tried to form words but couldn't. "You didn't even know she was dating him, did you?"

"No, I had no clue," Kim muttered as Tommy stood and walked over to her, placing his arm around her. "Where did things go so wrong Tommy?"

"You want the honest answer to that?" Tommy asked as Kim shook her head no and he just nodded. He knew that his wife knew what it was, but she was not going to go out on that limb with him today. "You've got to let them help Kim."

"I know," Kim whispered as she clung to him. It had been so long since she had held him and she had forgotten what he felt like and it made her wonder why in the world she had left him in the first place. But she knew why and she also knew why she had never signed the divorce papers, because she loved him as well.