By: Morgan
Disclaimer: Saban owns all PR material and characters. I am just borrowing them and writing a fanfic about them because I am bored and I need something to do. I own all characters I make up myself, however. Please, oh, please don't sue me.
Distribution: Anywhere as long as I am informed first.
Rating: R for language, adult situations, and other stuff I decide to throw your way.
Time Line: This story takes place four years after Kim left for Florida. Kim did break up with Tommy and they are dating other people in this fanfic. No one made her write "The Letter" or anything like that. She really did meet someone new. Most of the characters are 22, and some are 23. Okay, that's good enough I guess.
My Notes: Thank you, thank you, thank you to all the people who reviewed this fanfic. I can't say how much I appreciate it. I'm so sorry it took me so long to update this one. After all the stuff happened that made me stop writing for a while happened, more crap happened and I haven't had a lot of time to finish this one. Hopefully, the Month of Hell will come to an end soon and it will not become the Months of Hell, for my sake. Okay, lets get this show on the road. Thanks. ~Morgan~
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Tommy's Apartment
Tuesday, September 24, 2000 12:18 A.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
Tommy stood under the hot, pounding water in the shower gathering his thoughts and trying to think of the best way to approach Kim about this whole thing. She definitely had to know about Trevor and Kat, but he didn't want to be the person to break the bad news to her. To his dismay, Kim had actually seemed to love Trevor, which had brought the old ache from his soul to resurface once more. He didn't know if he had the heart to break her own.
His thoughts were interrupted as he faintly heard someone banging on his front door. He rushed through his shower, rinsing the conditioner our of his hair, and hopped out, hoping the person was still there as he wrapped a little towel around his waste.
"I'm coming. I'm coming," he said as he made his way down the hall and through the living room to answer the door.
'Who would be here at this time of night? No one in their right mind is even up at this hour...' He purposely ignored the fact that he was still awake.
He reached the door and looked into the peep hole to get a look at who was standing on the small porch. Not seeing anyone, he cautiously slipped the door open and stepped outside. Still, nobody was to be seen, so he walked to the edge of the porch and looked down from his two story apartment and saw Kim as she was slowly walking back to her car.
"Kim?"
She spun around on her heels, half grateful that he was home and half scared to death to talk to him. Yeah, they had discussed their breakup and had decided to put it behind them, but somewhere in the back of her mind Kim was afraid that if she told Tommy what had happened with Trevor she would get the "I told you so" look and be back here on the sidewalk, two loves gone from her life.
"Kim, is that you?" Tommy was pretty sure it was her, but one can't be too careful nowadays.
"Yeah, it's me Tommy...Can I come up?" She tried to keep her voice from wavering, but failed miserably as it shook with her fear and sorrow.
By the sound of her voice Tommy knew that Kim had found out about the two cheaters. But the question in Tommy's mind was not if she knew, but if she knew who Trevor had betrayed her with...
"Sure Kim, come on up. We have a lot to talk about. I was just fixing to come talk to you when you showed up."
"Oh? About what," Kim queried as she stepped up the last step and had to keep herself from drooling at Tommy's luscious body that was just barely covered up. She couldn't help but watch as a tiny bead of water dripped down from his hair and over his muscular chest and abs. His legs were almost completely bare and she tried hard not to think about how it would feel if they...
'Stop it Kim! This is not the time to be thinking like that!'
Tommy looked at Kim and couldn't help but notice how great she looked. Well, she wasn't exactly at her best with her red, puffy eyes and wrinkled pajamas, but he would think she looked magnificent in a trash bag for all he was concerned. He loved the way her hair was a little messed up and the way a few wispy locks of light brown hair lined her face after having fallen from her pony tail. She ran her tongue across her lips, moistening them and he had to fight the urge to take her right there. Oh how he wanted to lay her down next to his grill and make passionate love to her until the sun came up.
'Stop it Tommy! This is not the time to be thinking like that!'
"Kim are you all right? You don't look so great." Tommy grabbed her hand and led her into the cozy apartment. "Sorry, I was in the shower when you knocked so I didn't have a lot of time to get dressed...I'll be right back." He then made a hasty retreat to his bedroom to put some clothes on and come up with a game plan as to how he could tell her the news. He hurriedly slipped on some boxer shorts and a T-shirt and decided the best way to bring it up was to just blurt it out. There was no reason to sugar coat the inevitable was there?
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Tanya Sloan's Rent House
Tuesday, September 24, 2000 12:07 A.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
Tanya and Adam laid snuggled close together on a queen sized mattress, tired and finally asleep after a hard day. They didn't hear the insistent knocking on her front door, but after the doorbell had rung out twice, both were wide awake.
"Was that the door? Who would be here at this time of the night for crying out loud," Adam said, more than a little angry that someone had woken him up, as he slipped his jeans back over is boxers and caught himself as he almost tripped over the end table beside Tanya's bed.
"Yeah, but whoever it is, it must be pretty important...I'm never going to get back to sleep at a decent hour now..." She slipped out of bed and donned her fuzzy white bathrobe before exiting the bedroom and making her way down her dark hallway, Adam on her tail. She turned on the light to the living room just as the doorbell sounded again.
"Just a second," Tanya declared as she unlocked the bottom lock, leaving the chain lock in place. She opened the door as far as it would go with the chain still in place and peeked out.
'Kat? What in the...What is she doing here?'
Tanya turned to Adam as she unhitched the chain lock to let her in and mouthed the word Kat in his direction.
'Kat? Why is she here? I don't see why she couldn't have just called and...'
Tanya swung the door open and stepped out on the porch, wrapping her arms around Kat in a comforting hug as the tears escaped Kat's eyes and rolled down her flushed cheeks.
Adam immediately felt sorry about being so hostile for being woken up. That feeling suddenly changed to concern as the pain from his friend exuded from her very person.
"Kat, are you okay Hun? What's going on?" Tanya slowly led her into the house and they made their way over to the couch in the living room.
"I did something horrible Tanya..."
"Oh, Kat, it can't be that bad. What is going on," she demanded again.
Adam knew that the two wanted a little time to themselves as Tanya gave him the look that said 'get lost, this is girl talk time.' With an exaggerated sigh he went back to bed.
"I hurt him Tanya. I swore that I would never hurt him and I did. I said that I would never break his heart like Kim did, but now I just betrayed him even worse...What am I going to do Tanya?"
"Whoa, Kat, slow down. I have no idea what you are talking about, but I'm sure Tommy will forgive you...We are talking about Tommy here right?"
"Yes."
"Kat, Tommy is a very compassionate and forgiving person. Well, it depends on who you are on whether or not he will forgive you...but you don't have anything to worry about. He would never be able to stay mad at you."
"Yes, he would. You don't understand Tanya, I slept with someone else..." Kat ducked her head as she admitted that.
Tanya's eyes went wide with shock. Never in her wildest dreams had she thought that would have been the reason they would be fighting.
"Kat, I...I thought you wanted to wait until you got married to take that step with someone." Tanya was not angry with Kat yet, because she didn't know the whole story.
"I was going to wait, but I met the most wonderful guy the other day..."
"You have been with Tommy for over four years, and you go and sleep with some ran don guy off the streets? Have you completely lost you mind?" Tanya was really starting to heat up now.
'How could she do that to Tommy? He has always been faithful to her. What did he do to deserve to be betrayed by someone he loved?'
"Look, I know your mad at me right now, but you don't know what happened and it's not fair of you to just jump right in on Tommy's side."
"Katherine, you know I would NEVER chose sides between two of my closest friends, but you are in the wrong here, not Tommy. You cheated on him, not the other way around."
"I know, Tanya. Did you actually think that I didn't know that?"
"Who was it?" Tanya crossed her arms and leaned back against the couch, catching Kat way off guard with the question.
Once again Kat had the audacity to look sorry and mumbled something under her breath.
"What? You know I couldn't hear that."
"Trevor okay! I slept with Trevor!"
"Kim's Trevor?"
"Yeah, we went out to dinner tonight and then we slept together. What's it to you anyway? You already chose Tommy's friendship over mine..." Kat got up to leave but Tanya held her back by gently placing her hand on Kat's forearm.
"Kat, wait. I didn't chose Tommy over you, but I do think you are way out of line in what you did. You hurt Tommy and Kim by betraying them in one of the worst ways I can think of. I haven't known Kim for all that long, but I do feel like she is a close friend of mine and I am really angry that you did this to her. And as for Tommy, you know I am pissed. But, I'm going to stay out of this and let you guys figure it out for yourselves. Now, when I say this I'm not trying to be bitchy, but you really need to go because I have to be up at six for work."
"Okay, I'm sorry I woke you guys up, but I just really needed to talk to someone." Kat turned and let herself out. Tanya followed behind her, and after watching to make sure she got safely back into her car and drove away, Tanya shut the door and locked it. When she turned around she was only slightly surprised to see Adam standing at the foot of the hallway, leaning against the wall with his hands crossed over his chest.
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Tommy's Apartment
Tuesday, September 24, 2000 12:21 A.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
"So Tommy, what did you want to talk to me about," Kim queried as she rubbed at her scratchy eyes.
"Kim, I know about Trevor..."
Tommy watched as her eyes shot open in shock and then got narrow in wonder and eventually back to their saddened state.
"How did...I mean, how did you know?"
"Well, when I walked in on him and Kat tonight that was probably my first clue," Tommy shot out bitterly, feeling that to just go ahead and say would be the best way to tell her.
"What? What?! Trevor and Kat? No, she wouldn't do that to me. She knows how much I love him..." Kim got up and paced the floor in front of the coffee table.
"Kim, I know you don't believe it, but it's the truth. Kat and I got in a fight earlier and that's why I didn't go to the club with you guys."
"I didn't go either because I had a terrible headache all day, but...She's supposed to be my friend!"
"I went back to her apartment to apologize for being such an asshole and I walked in on them while they were having sex in Kat's bedroom," Tommy continued on with his story.
Kim stopped suddenly and a sob rose from deep inside her chest. She buried her face in her hands and for the first time since hearing that Kat had betrayed her, she cried.
Tommy couldn't bare to see Kim in pain, so he quickly stood and wrapped his arms around her, trying to block the anguish with his body, heart, and sole from reaching her. He stroked her hair and whispered soothing words in her ear, waited for the storm to die down as he held her and let her vent. He could definitely understand all the emotions she felt stirring within her, struggling to escape. The anger, confusion, heartache, and betrayal were all to familiar to him at the moment, having felt them himself as well.
"Kim, I'm so sorry. That's all I know to say."
"Sh, you don't have to say anything Tommy, and you definitely don't need to apologize to me. You didn't do anything and I'm glad you told me the truth."
"I just didn't want you to think I didn't care if I said nothing. But, I don't even know what to tell myself at this point..."
"I know. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought that something like this would happen to me. When my mother found out my father had been cheating on her before they divorced it nearly killed her. I can still picture the night he left for good in my head clear as day. My brother and I didn't even sleep in our own beds that night. We all, my Mom, Kenny, and I slept together in my parent's bed. At the time it had upset me that my mother hadn't cried in front of us, but I came to realize she was just trying to be strong for the both of us."
Kim rarely talked about her parent's separation. It was one of the mysteries about her Tommy had never been able to solve since he hadn't known her at the time it went on. In all the years they had dated that was one thing they had never really gone into depth with. For Kim, Tommy knew that her greatest fear was rejection and people leaving her like her father did to her and her mother. For Tommy, Kim knew his biggest trepidation was that he would never find that right somebody and have a family of his own. Being adopted, Tommy had, of course, always wondered where he had come from. Getting to know his brother had eased his fears somewhat, but they had never fully gone away.
Kimberly continued baring her soul as she sat close to Tommy on the sofa. "They fought so much that year they separated. I remember that when I would wake up late at night to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water from the kitchen or something I would pass by my mom's room and I could hear her crying herself to sleep. That's when I had promised myself it would never happen to me. I didn't date anyone until you came along. I was scared that I would get too close to them and they would cheat on me and leave me like my dad did. But I could tell you were different."
"Kim, I..."
"No, just wait a second. When we talked about the letter that day I wasn't completely honest with you. The reason I broke up with you wasn't because of what I had said in full. I was afraid that since we were so far apart that the relationship wouldn't work out."
"Kim, I would have waited forever for you to get back. After graduation I was seriously thinking about moving to Florida to be closer to you, but after I read that letter I thought you would be happier without me in your life. I missed you so much when you weren't with me Kim, and I would have never broken things off with you...especially not in a letter."
"Tommy, you know I'm really sorry about that right?" She took his hands in her own and gave them a light squeeze. She hoped he didn't still have hostile feelings for her after all this time.
"I know, Kim. You know I never could stay mad at you..."
"I know. Do you remember that time your parents were out of town and I stayed over?" Kim smiled and laughed a little at the memory.
"Do I? Of course I do. That weekend we had the best sex of my life Kim..." Tommy smirked at her as she gave him a funny look.
"Not that Tommy," she scowled. "I was talking about when I helped you with your laundry and I turned all your underwear pink." She covered her mouth as a giggle escaped.
"That was not funny Kim. They guys made fun of me for weeks after they saw my pink briefs in the locker room. Rocky asked me if they had been a present from you."
"Well, you could say that I guess...Damn, you were so mad! A real ass if you ask me."
"Hey, I sent you three dozen roses that next morning. And the fact that my parents wouldn't buy me new underwear didn't help matters either..."
"You're hopeless Thomas Oliver, you know that?"
"Oh, you know you love me Kimmie!" She lunged at him, knocking them both off the couch and onto the carpeted floor.
"I hate it when people call me that! My brother used to call me that you butt!" She relentlessly attacked him, tickling his underarms with her left hand as her right pinned his arms above his head. She sat across his hips, as she had many times before.
Tommy could easily turn the tables on the petite woman on top of him if he wanted to. Though she was packing a ton of muscle under that soft exterior, he could easily knock her to the side and take control of this little wrestling match. But frankly he was enjoying the way things were going right now too much. After about two minutes of the torture he was starting to feel the results of the bumping and grinding in his lower extremities, so he decided now was the time to take matters into his own hands.
He unbalanced her as he snapped his hips upward, knocking her off and on the floor beside him. He swiftly rolled, making sure she didn't have time to get away. He hovered over her, holding her down the same way she had treated him, careful not to be too rough.
"Stop it Tommy! Sttoooop!" She wiggled around, trying to get away, but he held her tight.
"Turn about's fair play Kimmie." She gasped for air as she laughed, his fingers working magic on her tender sides.
As he tickled her until tears were rolling down her face, she tried to kick at him. On one successful attempt, she flailed out, catching his knee and knocking it out from under him. He fell and landed on top of her, his forehead almost hitting her own. Instead, it landed on her neck, his body flattening her petite one beneath him.
"Oh!" Kim laughed and tried to regain her breath, also trying extremely hard not to notice where every part of his hard body molded with her own.
"Sorry Kim," Tommy mumbled into her neck. He couldn't help but smell the sweet scent lingering over her body from the perfume she had sprits on earlier that morning. It drew him in and he had to have a little taste of the goddess he had missed so much over the years.
Kim's eyes almost fell out of the sockets as Tommy's hot breath, then mouth consumed her. It had been so long since she had felt the heaven that was his touch.
"...Mmmm...Tommy," Kim moaned as his lips moved up to her jaw line, then kissing the lobe of her ear and playing with it a little before moving to her temple.
She grasped his hair lightly, egging him on to make her feel the tremors she used to when they had been so young and in love.
Tommy kissed his way over her cheek and finally to her mouth, where the two met and began mending damaged souls. Their tongues dueled and finally they ran out of precious air and had to come up. Tommy's hands framed her face and stroked her hair as he looked down into her hazy eyes. Kim just held on to the elastic waistband of Tommy's boxer shorts, her heart racing and blood pumping faster than it had in a long, long time.
"Kim, do you want this? Do you want us to be together again?" In his eyes Kim saw the question and nervousness. She also saw the naked desire and want therein as well. She wanted Tommy more than she had ever wanting anything or anyone in her life, but she knew that if they took that step again at this point in their lives it would be a mistake.
"I do want you Tommy..." Kim chewed on her bottom lip like she did when she was either really worried or nervous.
"But..." Tommy knew there was a 'but' in that sentence and impatiently waited for her to continue.
"But right now is not the right time to do this." Kim looked away as hurt crossed Tommy's strong features. "Tommy, I love you more now than when we were teenagers, don't get me wrong...But no more than four hours ago I was engaged to be married and you were still dating Kat. No matter how hard we try we are not going to change what happened earlier tonight. I really loved Trevor and right now sex is the last thing I need."
Tommy slowly rolled off her petite little body and stood to his feet. He helped her up by offering one strong hand.
"I understand Kim, believe me I do. I know that things are kind of crazy right now with this whole thing, but that doesn't make me feel any less for you than I already did. We are going to be together Kim, whether it be tomorrow or in a year. We are soul mates."
"Tommy..."
"We are Kim, and you know it."
"I love you Tommy and I want to have a life with you...but not tonight."
"Okay, no problem." Tommy knew that she didn't want to talk about their relationship anymore tonight. Secretly, Tommy had thought things were going a little fast himself, but how could he resist? "So, do I need to walk you to your car or are you staying here tonight?"
Kim thought for a couple seconds before responding. "Here I guess if you don't mind. Trevor is still at the hotel. I know he probably just got another room there or something."
"Yeah, probably. I wanted to knock the shit out of him when I recognized him..."
"Oh...I did. I think I broke his nose." They both shared a little smile at that thought.
"Good for you baby."
"I hurt my big toe though when I kicked him in the face..." She looked down at her left foot and sure enough her big toe was really red, not black or blue, but kind of swollen.
"Oh, let me take a look at it." Tommy looked her foot in his large hands and examined it. "I don't think it is broken or anything, but you should probably not kick anyone in the face for a while." He smiled at her.
"Well, I haven't seen Kat yet so I can't make any promises..." They chuckled a little and suddenly found themselves in a strong hug.
"I missed you Kim." Tommy rubbed her back through her pajamas.
"I missed you too, Tommy. Thank you for being such a great friend. I don't know hat I would have done of you wouldn't have been here for me."
Kim broke the warm embrace and followed Tommy down the hall. He got a couple blankets from his hall closet and made a nice little bed out of his couch.
"I'll take the couch and you can take my bed Beautiful."
"Okay, thanks. Night Tommy."
"Goodnight, don't let the bed bugs bite."
Kim leaned in and gave Tommy a kiss on the lips shocking Tommy. He didn't say anything as she walked out of the living room and into his bedroom. He just laid down and closed his eyes which were a little itchy and heavy from sleepiness. He was asleep before the glow from under his bedroom door had gone away. The occupant of the room consumed in slumber not long after.
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Wow, that took me a long time to write! Well, not really a long time to write, but I had to rewrite it a couple times. I hope you guys liked it, but I'm sorry to say that the updated will probably be pretty far apart now that school is starting up again. Sorry, I'll try to get them up as soon as I can. Thanks. PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! ~Morgan~