Conner made his way up the stairs and over to the balcony when he finally saw Kim and Tommy sitting there talking to each other. Looking up Kim saw Conner walking over to them and smiled her normal bright smile. Tommy also smiled and shifted to the side a little bit giving Conner some room to sit down and talk.
"So this is the first official Oliver Family meeting," Tommy said with a chuckle, "kind of weird seeing as my son is eighteen."
"So I guess the main question is…what am I going to do?" Conner muttered looking at the ground, "I mean I can't just leave the McKnights, but I also want to get to know my real family also."
Kim sat there thinking over their predicament when a flash of genius went off in her mind and she sat up quickly startling to two men.
"I got it, I know you don't want to leave the McKnights high and dry Conner, but there is a way for you to be with them and for our family to stay together," Kim said smiling again, "you see now that you're eighteen you are legally able to make your own decisions, therefore you can chose which family you want to stay with."
"Yeah but…"
"However there is a way for you to be part of our family and also part of their family," Kim said cutting Conner off, "what you do is you go to the court and tell them that you want to change your last name to your legal birth name, which is Oliver, however you can sign a paper saying that until you graduate then you'll still be part of the McKnight family."
"Well it's not like I want to just drop out of their life," Conner replied looking at Kim.
"Conner we get that and you don't have to," Tommy said placing his hand on his son's shoulder, "all your mom is saying is that you can be a part of both families and you can be a part of the McKnight family for as long as you want."
"You would invite them to stuff like your wedding, your future wife would invite Mrs. McKnight to the baby shower, just stuff like that to keep them involved in your life," Kim continued sitting down next to Conner.
"But where you live after high school is up to you," Tommy said as Conner leaned back against the wall, "Rather you live with them, us, or move out and get your own place."
Conner nodded and pulled out the dragonzord morpher and held out to Tommy who looked at it before pushing it back to his son. Kim smiled at the two as Conner just smirked and placed it back onto his belt before getting a curious look.
"I do have one question though," Conner said running his hand through his hair, "when did you conceive me?"
"Oh well you see it happened one night at a party with the other rangers," Kim said sitting back down.
Kim was walking around just chatting with some of the other rangers when she saw Kat flirting with Jason. Growling Kim stormed over to her and grabbed Kat's wrist pulling her away from a very confused Jason. Turning on the spot Kim slapped Kat hard across the face making the other woman's eyes fill with tears.
"What the hell Kim?"
"Don't you dare call me Kim, Katherine," Kim hissed clenching her fist, "What the hell do you think you're doing flirting with Jason?"
"Um…trying to get him to ask me out which it wasn't working anyway," Kat said a little upset.
"What about Tommy, Kat, what about your boyfriend?"
Kat looked at Kim for a second before taking in everything that Kim said and just shook his head chuckling slightly. This caught Kim off guard which only made the original pink ranger madder and slap Kat again who rubbed her cheek gently. Looking back at Kim, Kat took a hold of Kim's hand and sat the two of them down on the couch.
"Kim, I'm not dating Tommy anymore," Kat said making Kim's eyes widen in shock, "we broke up right before we left for college so that it wouldn't be awkward later."
"Kat I…I didn't…I didn't mean to," Kim stuttered embarrassed to the tenth degree.
"Don't worry about it Kim, I mean you haven't really kept in touch with any of us, which really has hurt all of us we thought we were your friends," Kat said making Kim start to cry.
"I…I figured that you guys would be pretty pissed off at me for the letter I sent Tommy," Kim whispered looking at the ground.
"Well we were more surprised than we were pissed but still I would like to know why you sent that letter to Tommy," Kat said rubbing Kim's back, "I mean I thought you loved him."
"I did…I still do," Kim said wiping his eyes, "I…I just…I didn't know what to do after…after the letter and our adventure to Muranthias."
Kat sat there and listened to Kim's tale as she explained what happened since their adventure at Muranthias. After what they had all went their separate ways she had returned to Florida to continue her gymnastics training. She was doing great and had placed in the top three a few times and managed to rank top five in the rest. She broke up with her boyfriend when she had found him sleeping with one of her teammate, who was kicked off the team the very next day. But the damage was done and she knew that she wouldn't be on the dating scene for a while. Not soon after she had gotten the message from the Space rangers about the party. At first she was hesitant to come out of fear that she wouldn't be welcomed with open arms but decided to go anyway.
"I'm so sorry for slapping you Kat," Kim said as Kat hugged her.
"It's okay…Kim someone wants to talk to you," Kat said making Kim look up.
Kim saw that the one and only Tommy Oliver, ranger of three colors, walking towards them with a determined look. Finally, much to the original pink's fear, he stopped in front of them and nodded his head at Kat. Kat just smiled and stood up excusing herself to get some food and talk to Dana and Jen, with whom she had become good friends with. Tommy sat down and swirled the beer in his glass a little bit before speaking up.
"I thought you had fallen off the face of the Earth seeing as you never answered any of my calls," Tommy muttered not looking at her.
"Can you blame me?" Kim whispered back, "After what I did to you do you really expect me to want to be yelled at and or questioned about it."
Tommy just sat there trying to think of something to say and wasn't at all surprised when nothing came to mind. He really did want to know why Kim had left him via letter instead of coming back and talking to him about it and trying to work things out. He shook his head and watched as Carter and Dana danced along with some of the other ranger couples. Scanning the room he saw Jason now talking to Adam and Billy, while Kat stood in the corner of the room looking mildly upset that Jason didn't get her, not too subtle hints.
"You know how much it hurt me, Kim?" Tommy asked taking a drink of his beer.
"Tommy please don't do this to me," Kim whimpered covering her face.
'Why haven't any of the other pinks come to help me?' Kim thought on the verge of tears.
"Alright then let's talk about why you didn't break up with me in person and instead choose to break up with me over a stupid letter," Tommy challenged clenching the glass in his hand.
Kim took one look at him and could tell right off the bat that Tommy was getting dangerously close to becoming drunk. Reaching over she attempted to grab his glass but instead found his hand around her wrist and his lips on her's in a matter of seconds. At first she tried to fight back but found herself wanting more and more as memories of when they dated started to flood her mind. Breaking the kiss Kim looked Tommy in the eyes and blushed a bright shade of pink before muttering…
"You know even with all the stuff we did when we were dating there's still one thing we never did do."
Tommy got the idea and helped her up leading the two up the stairs and into a more private area for the nighttime adventures to began.
Conner shook his head and laughed a little bit as the two older rangers blushed at the memory that they had just told their son. Sitting down Conner thought that he was going to be pissed off beyond reason for hearing that but at the moment he was just trying not to pee his pants laughing so hard. Kim pouted and smacked Conner on the top of his head for laughing at his parents in such a fashion.
"Conner don't laugh at your parents," Kim said placing her hands on her hips.
This just made Conner laugh even harder making his parents laugh too and soon the Oliver family was sitting down, trying to catch their breath. Kim sat up after awhile and wiped her eyes before taking a deep breath and leaning against Tommy.
"Well since we're stating things that are bothering us there is something I want to ask, well two things actually," Kim said smiling, "First this doesn't bother me more then it confuses me but, how does Conner's green ranger outfit have the metallic armor when yours didn't."
"That's a good question," Conner said sitting up.
"I don't know why he would have the metallic armor when I didn't but I assume it would have to do with the fact that it just went with what he needed the most at the time," Tommy explained as Kim and Conner tilted their heads.
"I guess…that makes sense," Conner muttered trying to understand it completely.
"Don't think about it too much Conner, it comes with the power and being a power ranger there are just things that we don't understand," Kim said rubbing Conner's back, "Now we have guest downstairs and I'm getting hungry so I'm going to the kitchen and start cooking dinner."
Kim stood up, left the balcony and made her way towards the kitchen so that she and the others pinks along with Kira could start dinner. Tommy and Conner followed soon after and sat down with the other male rangers to watch whatever was on the television.
"You know she said that she had two questions but she only asked one," Conner pointed out looking at Tommy.
"Huh she did, didn't she, oh well let's just hope it wasn't important," Tommy replied leaning back in his chair before hearing Kim yell from the kitchen.
"YOU THREE MET WHERE?"
"Oh shit," Conner said standing up and running up the stairs.
"CONNER DAVID OLIVER I AM GOING TO KILL YOU FOR GETTING DETENTION," Kim yelled storming after him.
"Should we help him?" Carter asked looking at the other reds.
Tommy winced when he heard something breaking upstairs and looked back when he heard Conner running down the stairs and into the lab. Kim came soon after and glared at Tommy before following her son down to the lab so that he could get an ear full.
"Nah let him burn from the fury that is the power of the mother pink," Jason said making the others laugh.
Soon enough they heard Conner run up the stairs again and yell at them for not helping him before running outside to dodge Kim's wrath.
"Does he really think that we're going to get involved with an enraged pink?" Wes asked flipping through the channels.
"He's sadly mistaken then," Tommy replied as Conner and Kim walked back inside.
Conner walked back over and sat down next to Ethan and Trent gasping for air while Kim just walked back into the kitchen to cook. After catching his breath Conner glared at the others for not helping him in his escape.
"Hey we're not getting involved when there's an enraged pink," Carter said grinning at the youngest red.
"All I know is," Conner said leaning back, "is with Kim as my mother and Kira as my girlfriend, I have a long but interesting life a head of me."
