"Tommy!" Kimberly yelled as the three young rangers grabbed her and held her back. They did not want her to do something that would get her killed. They were afraid that they couldn't stand to lose two peopel in one day. "Tommy!"

"Finally, the end of Thomas Oliver," Mesogogg said as Kimberly finally broke free of the younger rangers and charged at Mesogogg, fully intent to kill him. He had killed Tommy and he was going to soon join the man that she loved as soon as she could manage it.

"I wouldn't be so sure," Tommy's voice said as he materialized in front of all of them as Kimberly slapped Mesogogg to the ground, as Elsa just chuckled, before she found herself flying into the nearest wall. The red ranger was ready to kill for whatever they had done to Tommy. "Let's get home, they're not worth it."

"Not worth it?" Kim asked as she started running towards Zeltrax, but Tommy scooped her up as quickly as he could. He did not want for her to do anything that she would regret in the morning. "They tried to come after you…"

"Kim, there will be another day when you can do that," Tommy said as his arms tightened even more and she felt herself being taken away.

"How'd you do that?" Kim asked as they landed in the Command Center and she just stared at him. She thought that only her and Andros were able to will themselves to a place. "No, Tommy, you can't have become one of us."

"Looks like I have, Kim," Tommy said as he pulled down her mask and gently cupped her face. "Please don't run away from me."

"I have to go now," Kim said as she disappeared and Tommy just stared at where she had been.

"She promised!" Jenny shrieked as Tommy picked her up and gave her a hug.

"Stay here, Andros," Tommy said as he tried to calm Jenny down. "Hey, it's okay. I'm going to go talk to her, as soon as I figure out where she is."

"You should be able to find her," Andros said as the other rangers landed and looked around. "I'll take care of them and her. You go find Kim, we're going to be in a world of trouble if you can't do something to get things to change."

"Stay with Andros," Tommy said as Jenny would not let go of him. "Come on, stay with him. I have to go find your mama."

"I thought she promised that she'd be with him if she could just get him back," Conner said as Tommy disappeared in a flash of light.

"She didn't think that it would make him become a ranger, now he's stuck, with us. This is the last thing in the world that she wanted," Andros said as Conner just looked at them. They could not believe what he was saying.

"Stuck, you can become stuck?" Conner asked, almost outraged. He had never heard of anything like this before and if he had known it, he wouldn't have been all right with helping get Dr. O back. He did not want to have this life forever.

"When you've had as many or as strong of powers as the three of us have had. Kim was not always the red crane, she began as the pink crane and as her powers increased the shade became darker, until she became a red ranger," Andros said as Jenny just clung to him, she was scared to death that the two of them were never going to get back together. "You won't have to worry about it, unless you've been doing this for about ten years."

"Okay," Conner said as they looked at Andros in shock.

"Sit, I'll explain it all to you," Andros said as they just did what he said. They did not think it wise to question him at all.

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"Kimberly!" Tommy yelled as he walked around the room, trying to find her. He was thoroughly pissed off right now. "Kimberly Hart!"

"Leave me alone Tommy, I wasn't able to protect you," Kim said as he walked towards her voice and found her crying on her bed.

"I didn't ask you to protect me, come here," Tommy coaxed as Kim just gripped her bed. The last time that he had said something like that to her, she had wound up pregnant.

"The last time I did, I wound up pregnant," Kim said as Tommy looked at her and then walked over and sat down next to her.

"I wouldn't mind if that happened again," Tommy said as he gave her a kiss and she couldn't help but pull away at first. "Kim, please just talk to me. That is all that I ask of you."

"Why won't you just go on about your life without me?" Kim asked as her body shivered as he ran his fingers through her hair and then gently wiped away her tears. "Don't, please, don't."

"Because I can't live without you," Tommy said as she caved and then threw her arms around him as he pulled her close.

"Tommy," Kim cried as she pushed him down on the bed and kissed him, knowing that she had missed too many years with this man.

"Kim…Kim hold on," Tommy said as he managed to pull away from her and looked her in the eyes. "We…we don't need to do this just to do it. We need to actually be…want to be back together."

"I want it Tommy," Kim whispered before pushing him back against the bed and silencing him.

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"Either they are killing each other or…" Andros muttered as the teenagers looked over at him and Jenny gave him a confused look. It had been a couple of hours since Tommy had left and he was still hesitant to return to the space ship. He did not want to chance walking into what was going on.

"I vote for fu…" Conner said as Kira slapped her hand over his mouth and Jenny looked at the two of them.

"Little girl in the room, Conner," Kira said, angrily as Andros smiled at the two of them.

"I have to get going soon, the space station needs someone supervising it at all times," Andros said as Conner gave him a confused look. "We have a program that will auto pilot it for only so long. If that ship were to go into evil hands, I would never be able to get Kim off my backside about it. Jenny, do you want to come with me?"

"No," Jenny said, honestly, as Andros nodded his head that he understood.

"Take her to stay with Hayley, tell her that Kim or Tommy will come get her sometime in the morning," Andros said as Jenny walked over to Kira and grabbed her hand. "I have got to get back to the ship."

"I hope that they're done," Conner said as Andros nodded his head that he agreed. He certainly did not want to have to deal with either type of yelling that could be going on.

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"It's quiet, I guess that's a good thing," Andros said as he landed on the ship and looked around the control room. He had decided that it was best to not go directly to the sleeping quarters. They had decided when they first started working together that they were going to need more space on the ship for operational things and thus gave up individual bedrooms. Now Andros wished that he had not talked her into that idea. "Kim! Tommy!"

"Um…" Kim moaned as she rolled over, having heard her name. "We've got to get up, Tommy."

"Why?" Tommy asked as he looked over at her and smiled. "I don't think that Andros would be stupid enough to come in."

"But Jenny might be and I don't want her to see us like this. She's still too young to understand it," Kim said as Tommy hauled himself out from under her and began walking around, picking up his clothes.

"Do you see my underwear?" Tommy asked as Kim shook her head no and Tommy let out a frustrated sigh. "We had this problem last time, too."

"Except that Jason was beating on the door, demanding that we show our faces so that they would know we didn't kill each other," Kim said as Andros knocked on the door and Kim jumped as she spun around, her eyes wide.

"Hey, are you two all right?" Andros asked through the door as he was not going to walk in unless he was invited.

"We're fine, Andros," Kim said, calmly, as Tommy zipped up her jeans and buttoned them for her, as he was already dressed. "How are they?"

"They're fine, but they're worried about how the two of you just fled," Andros said as he tentatively pushed the door open and saw the two of them jump away from each other. "So, Conner was right on his hunch."

"How long did you wait with them?" Tommy asked, rubbing the back of his neck, worried about what he was going to have to deal with when he went to school the next day.

"About two hours," Andros said as he forced back a smile. "They dealt with it pretty well, considering."

"Please tell me that they don't know," Kim managed to say as Andros burst out laughing. "Andros…"

"I would say that they wouldn't be able to tell for sure, but that hickey on your neck isn't helping you any," Andros said, rubbing a finger over it and Kim automatically jumped away. "I'm not going to say anything to the others though, that's your call, but you need to be careful. Jenny doesn't need to have her hopes brought up, just for the two of you to do something stupid like break up again."

"I promise I will not do that, again," Kim said with a smile as Tommy gave her a hug and she looked up at him and gave him a kiss.

"I'm glad to hear it. If you ever put that child through the hell that she has had to deal with over the last few weeks, you are dead Ms. Hart," Andros said as Kim nodded. She knew that what she had been doing was cruel to Jenny, hell they all knew it, but she had to have some space from Tommy. She was not ready for the re-commitment and probably would not have been for several more weeks if Tommy had not been captured. She had gone into overdrive then, knowing she could lose him without ever making things right. She might have been a royal bitch these last few weeks, but there was not much that she could do about that now. She would just have to make up for it in the best way that she could and if that meant spending more time with Tommy than she had in years, she would, because they needed it and their little girl needed it.